Linux-Misc Digest #722, Volume #21 Wed, 8 Sep 99 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Current Linux Users (Richard Steiner)
Samba Problem - Passwords for Everything HELP! (BJW7TOAEM)
Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions. (David Cooley)
garbage collection (Aaron)
2 questions 'bout Mandrake 6! ("Duy D.")
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution ("Robert M. Cosby")
Re: Linux viruses? (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Sound troubles ("Noah Roberts (jik-)")
Vancouver BC Linux Programmers (NetNation)
HELP FTP won't UnShut! ("Christopher R. Thompson")
Re: problems with spaces in directory names (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Help with CD drives. (Mircea)
Re: Linux viruses? ("Scott Simpson")
Re: [Q] Editing large (~GB) files ? vi ? ("Scott Simpson")
Re: firewall ("Scott Simpson")
Re: Netscape 4.6 + JAVA -> freezes ("Daniel P. Gelinske")
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Jim Richardson)
LiL- ("aaa")
Re: Running Windows NT Apps under Linux (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Re: Solaris partitions, mounting as writable ("Duy D.")
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (John Thompson)
Re: Mouse problem in RH6 ("Duy D.")
Re: Converting to ASCII (William Burrow)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Current Linux Users
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 21:53:20 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>At the risk of starting a rather large thread, I have a few questions
>about the Linux user community. Does anyone know what the current
>number of Linux users is?
Not only is is difficult to estimate the number of people using Linux
(because so many people can download it or get copies from friends),
but I'm uncertain how you would determine the number of users even if
you knew.
For example, I have Linux in some form installed on three (soon to be
four) different boxes here. Does that make me one user, or four?
And what about the 10-12 CD-ROM distributions of Linux I have here that
I am no longer using?
>I heard recently that there was something in the neighborhood of 10
>million according to RedHat. Anyone know where I can find firm figures
>on this?
Nope, but you can obtain sales figures from some Linux vendors (I know
that Red Hat has released figures, and others such as SuSE or Slackware
might as well).
>Just trying to run some figures past my boss in support of getting
>Linux more prevalent in the office.
It's interesting that so many folks in management seem interested in
usage (popularity) numbers rather than pertinent questions like:
* Will the software do what I want?
* Is the software something I can afford to use?
* Can I get acceptable levels of support for it?
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
Ah'm Bubba o' Boahg. Y'all fixin' t' be assim'lated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BJW7TOAEM)
Subject: Samba Problem - Passwords for Everything HELP!
Date: 08 Sep 1999 02:58:01 GMT
I am just trying to set up a simple network between the computer in my
room and the family computer in the living room. The computer in my room is
Red Hat Linux 6.0 with Samba 2.0.3. The family computer is running windows 98
and I login as Family with a password as family. I can browse the Linux box
and I can browse and see the list of shares that i have availible but when I go
to click on one of them it asks for a password and I type in family. But it
comes back as invalid password. I set up a user on the Linux box: Family with
a password as family but it still does not help at all. I don't know what is
wrong or what I am doing wrong or anything like that. Please help! Thanks in
advance for your help and if you need more information just e-mail me. Here is
my smb.conf file:
[global]
workgroup = HOME
browseable = yes
server string = Samba %v
hosts allow = 123.123.123.123
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
printing = bsd
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
security = share
password level = 4
username level = 4
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
writable = yes
available = yes
hosts allow = 123.123.123.123
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
hosts allow = 123.123.123.123
printable = yes
[C]
comment = DOS PARTITION ON MY COMPUTER
available = yes
path = /mnt/c
writable = yes
browseable = yes
hosts allow = 123.123.123.123
John H.
Twinkling Of An Eye Ministries Web Site
http://members.aol.com/BJW7TOAEM/index.html
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From: David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions.
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 23:35:12 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Good ol' RPM... Yeah, I just ordered a copy of "Maximum RPM" so
> I can figure out how to make the RPM database happy when I install
> my own kernel, tar.gz files, etc. Hopefully the book will be as
> good as others have said it is.
>
> Have you gotten brave and tried the --nodeps flag to get the RPM
> to install anyway?
>
Hadn't gotten that far yet... Gonna do a tape backup of the system
tomorrow, and save my SMB config and raid config files to another
computer for later re-installation (fought too long and hard to lose
them!) then try and install from a true RH 6.0 CD the whole system...
UltraPenguin 1.1.9 is nice, but it seems to be slightly skewed from
mainline RH 5.2 for Sparc... And it seems no one has anything
specifically for the UltraPenguin build as far as apps go, whereas the
RH 6 has plenty of source to compile and plenty of rpm's.
>
> Man, with that much hardware there wouldn't be enough time to
> go hang out by the water cooler! ;-)
>
> We've got Ultra1's on the desktops (1 CPU, 256MB) and Ultra2's
> in the server pool (2 CPUs, 2GB). We use all of the resources
> the servers have available for big chip layout jobs. And we
> want more! :-O
Our desktops are Ultra 10's with 512M ram, 2 9G internal drives and an
external 9G disk pak.
They run DOME MD2PCX video and run 2 2K res mono monitors on all but 3
stations, and run 4 of the monitors on the last 3... These are in a
hospital and we are turning the X-ray department filmless... The doctors
actually read the patients X-Rays, CT and MR scans off the high bright
2K monitors, and it's better than film... they can change bright and
contrast on the images, zoom in etc. Hospital has spent over $10
million thru my company so far, and has several more phases negotiated
and ready to roll for about another $5 million.
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From: Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: garbage collection
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 13:24:34 +1000
I notice thru xosview that my 128Mb worth of RAM gets eaten up pretty
fast, esp when Netscape Communicator is running. but shutting down
netscape components & many other progs dun seem to release the mem back
to the original state when I 1st startx (& I keep it running for days).
more than half is being used for buffering & caching. I'm very sure
Linux has better mem management than Windows, so how can I free up those
areas?.
thanx for the tips
Aaron
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From: "Duy D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 questions 'bout Mandrake 6!
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 03:04:59 +0000
Hi,
I have a few problems with mandrake 6, and hope somebody can help me
out. Running netscape + x11amp for a while always make my X server
reboots. Then running dmesg, there're two errors: out of memory for
update and out of memory for init. I have 96mb RAM, 72 MB swap, K6-2
333MHZ. And my questions are:
Since when did linux become such a memory sucking beast?
Why do I get broken pipe whenI 'su' to run linuxconf?
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From: "Robert M. Cosby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 19:05:40 -0700
<snip>
> Finding a better way to relate to nontechnical users was. for me,
> much like discovering structured top down programming after being
> buried in my own spaghetti code; it made so much sense that I *had*
> to change my ways. You really need this book. Double your money
> back if you don't agree!
This is an area where I have done much work. The use of everyday
analogies to describe what's happening inside the box has been my quest
for the Grail. I get a big kick out of discovering a useful one. Some
that go way back to explaining why a 32-bit bus is faster than a 16 bit
bus using the lanes in a highway as an example, or explaining what a
disk repair program does with a bad sector by using an open manhole
having cones placed around it as the analogy.
My customers are always grateful for clarity as they have no intentions
of getting CS degrees they just want to use the damned thing. When I
write manuals it is assumed the user has had the system for only about a
month and knows just about enough to turn it on. I detest the usual
Foggy Bottom manual or Help wizard.
Coz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.virus
Subject: Re: Linux viruses?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 01:45:30 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>>On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Jonathan Penalber wrote:
>>>I haven't come across any antivirus programs for Linux. Are viruses not a
>>>problem on this platform?
>
>In general no. Viruses are not a problem with Linux simply because of the
>permission setup of the file system. To run a virus on your system you would
>have to give it the proper permissions to do so. Plus you have the differing
>library requirements and all that other stuff that ./configure takes care of
>when you build a program file for your computer. To me it would be just to
>big a pain in the ass to build a virus for Linux. Why bother when you have
>all those big corporations out there using windows that you can screw with.
Well, considering that people like to break into systems, a
virus might be a way for them to do it (perhaps more effective than
manually installing a Trojan on each of many systems to be cracked).
Anyway, a couple of Linux viruses are known to exist -- I think they
are described on http://www.avpve.com (AVP Virus Encyclopedia). As
non-Microsoft operating systems become more common and a greater
fraction of the at least semi-literate public knows about them, this
will become a greater potential problem for each such operating
system.
Another thing to consider is that for MBR and/or boot sector
viruses, operating system is irrelevant. Your computer will be
assimilated. These viruses do at least part of their dirty work
before an operating system has even gotten into RAM. If the virus is
unaware of how to interact with the operating system in ways other
than denial of service (the case right now, but a big "If" for the
future -- see above and below), its ability to spread under the non-
Microsoft operating system will be crippled, but it will still be able
to prevent it from booting or even damage the contents of the hard
disk. Such things have been known to happen in the past with Windows
NT and PC Unix systems (not sure if this has been reported for Linux
or *BSD in particular, but it would seem that the same principles --
or actually lack thereof -- would hold).
Finally, although I haven't done much testing of any Unix user
permissions and file system security myself, I still have to ask on
general principle: can you really trust this completely? Security
holes have been found in the past that let non-root users become root
(such as the infamous sendmail bug of the late 1980's), and presumably
if a new one is found, a virus could make use of it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stearns25) wrote:
>I am looking for quality (or better, commercial) anti-virus software and
>firewall for my Linux (RH 6 and TurboLinux) servers. Can anyone name a few?
I can't help you with respect to firewalls, but with respect
to anti-virus software, AVP (http://www.kasperskylab.ru) has a linux
beta version (currently available at no cost; presumably becoming
fully commercial once it gets out of beta); they also have an early
beta for *BSD. Both (from what I understood from the web page) the
AVP and F-PROT anti-virus engines are commercially available in a
linux version of F-Secure Anti-Virus from DataFellows (I think the web
site is http://www.datafellows.fi, but my internet connection is not
available to check it as I type this, and I seem to have misplaced the
bookmark). I have not tried either product for Linux yet, but I have
been looking into this as I both continue to evaluate anti-virus
products for DOS/Windows and consider making a start on Linux (and
need to make sure beforehand that I can find all the tools that I
need). The DOS version of F-PROT has been excellent; I am just
starting to evaluate AVP, but so far AVPlite 3.0 (build 131) for DOS
seems to be of excellent thoroughness and able to handle most error
conditions gracefully, but is very slow (oddly enough, it gets
noticeably faster when run in a DOS window under Windows NT 4.0).
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Subject: Sound troubles
From: "Noah Roberts (jik-)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 Sep 1999 20:35:43 -0700
I used to be able to get sound, now I am having troubles getting it
going. I have a "SoundBlaster compatable" which is at io 220, irq 5,
and dma 1 or 0....I've tried both and more. The soundcard gets
detected, but the driver does not install. I could really use some
input if anyone has any. Using isapnp to initialise the device, same
as it was when it worked....can't really put that down at this point
because it requires a reboot to try again and I have it set up to try
something different.
Here is output of /dev/sndstat:
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux Ill-Logic 2.2.6 #95 Tue Apr 27 19:10:37 CDT 1999 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Card config:
Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster Pro (8 BIT ONLY) (3.01)
Synth devices:
Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
And the output of modprobe from the logs....this is what I have always
gotten and it worked before just fine.
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 3.01 detected OK (220)
SB DSP version is just 3.01 which means that your card is
several years old (8 bit only device) or alternatively the sound driver
is incorrectly configured.
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From: NetNation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: bc.jobs
Subject: Vancouver BC Linux Programmers
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 02:02:30 GMT
We are a Linux start-up, our recent exhibition at the Linux World Trade
Show in San Jose drew rave reviews. If you relish the excitement and
potential rewards of a start-up and you are willing to put in the
effort, we need you.
Software Developers
Requirments: C, BASH scripting, the ability to install and configure a
Linux server and its services (Apache, sendmail, etc).
This individual will be required to help in the design, brainstorming,
and creation of applications under Linux
--
Human Resources
Stormix Technologies Inc.
http://www.stormix.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Christopher R. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: HELP FTP won't UnShut!
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 19:02:15 -0700
Help! I ftpshut my sever and now I can't get it started again. What do I
do?
I tried running ftpd, in.ftpd with various options... as root but
nothing happens.
There is no ftpstart command that I can find on my system. It is
apparently started automatically via connetion to inetd port.
/etc/inetd.conf =
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -dvlLio -a
/etc/services =
ftp 21/tcp
I tried stop and starting /etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd stop/start but no luck.
ftp TfJC.Com
Connected to TfJC.
500 Sally FTP server shut down -- please try again later.
How the heck do I get it restarted again?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: problems with spaces in directory names
Date: 8 Sep 1999 01:57:44 GMT
bruce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: tar cf <tarball> `find -newer /touchfile -print`
: This fails on dirs w/ spaces in the name. For example, instead of
: tarring /home/user1/App Data/file1.txt, it logs 2 errors: Could not find
: /home/user1/App & Could not find Data/file1.txt.
I don't know...double quotes, perhaps? If you can script the dam thang...
--
Andy Purugganan
annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
apurugganan AT amadeuslink DOT com
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with CD drives.
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 20:39:19 -0400
AngryMob wrote:
>
> I have two cd rom drives in my SuSe system, the first one is a generic
> 40x IDE device which is attached to the primary slave channel. and my
> second one is a Acer 2x6x CD-Writer, it also works on an IDE interface
> and is attatched to my secondary master channel.(..)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...and, therefore. it is /dev/hdc. To mount it, make a directory such as
/mnt/cdwriter, and mount the CD that you put in this drive with:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdwriter
You can even add a line in /etc/fstab.
For the recording part, see the CD-Writing-HOWTO, it's one of the most
explicit piece of documentation for Linux.
MST
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From: "Scott Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.virus
Subject: Re: Linux viruses?
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:11:12 -0700
A dummies guide to why Linux doesn't have virus programs is at
http://home.earthlink.net/~simpson3.
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From: "Scott Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Q] Editing large (~GB) files ? vi ?
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:05:58 -0700
Andrei A. Dergatchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'll try to learn how to do it in awk. I don't have python
> and sed installed I think.
Everybody has sed installed. I've never seen a Unix system without it. It's
/bin/sed. To delete the first 500,000 lines:
sed -e '1,500000d' < input > output
Rocket science, eh?
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From: "Scott Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: firewall
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:08:55 -0700
V.Yavuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7r3rer$7s1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I want to use Linux (Redhat 6.0) as Firewall Server.For this reason i'll
> ipfwadm program .I'll be connected to internet with eth1 ethernet over
RedHat 6.0 uses ipchains, not ipfwadm. If you want to set up a firewall
using ipfwadm, see http://home.earthlink.net/~simpson3.
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From: "Daniel P. Gelinske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,netscape.public.mozilla.java
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.6 + JAVA -> freezes
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 20:52:07 -0700
Bev wrote:
> Nils Bluethgen wrote:
> >
> > Hello out there,
> >
> > I have a question about NETSCAPE 4.6 / 4.61 and JAVA. On some (not on
> > all!) of our computers (we run linux-RH6.0) Netscape freezes when I open
> > the URL
> >
> > http://www.stadtplandienst.de/query;ORT=b;LL=13.420389x52.54105
> >
> > with JAVA enabled. Without JAVA there's no problem,
> >
> > I read about the wrong fontpath-settings, but this does
> > not seem to be the problem, since chkfontpath --list prints:
> >
> > Current directories in font path:
> > 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> > 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled
> > 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled
> > 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
> > 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
> > 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
> > 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
> > 8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
> > 9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mytype1
> > 10: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts
> > 11: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
> >
> > I also upgraded to Netscape 4.61, which gave the same result. Has someone
> > an idea?
>
> No, but FWIW the page loads OK with the NS 4.51+java+javascript that
> installed along with SuSE 6.1. MY problem is that the stupid
> spellchecker freezes it! Oh yeah, other random things freeze it too.
>
> Nicer looking map than mapquest...
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Bev
> oxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
> Is there any way I can help without
> you know, really getting involved?
> -- Jennifer, WKRP
Seems to work fine in Red Hat 5.2 with NS 4.61 with java/javascript enabled.
Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:09:38 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:52:45 -0700,
K. Bjarnason, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>[snips]
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>> > I haven't worked with RPM (been a while since last I ran Linux, although I
>> > have Mandrake sitting here waiting for my new CD to get put in before I fire
>> > it up.) Is it smart enough that - like a typical Windows install - you can
>> > have the entire app installed and running in perhaps a half-dozen mouse
>> > clicks, without even really having to know how your system is configured?
>> > Could be; as I said, I haven't worked with it.
>>
>> Yep. rpm itself provides a command line interface. But there are GUI
>> interfaces for rpm that come with both Gnome and KDE to allow point and click.
>> You can even ask it to provide a description of the package and list the files
>> it will install
>
>Nice to know Linux is, in fact, becoming more end-user friendly. I'd
>actually quite like to see some serious competition to NT/2K/9x. Does
>Linux, in whatever flavour, also now offer GUI-based network
>configuration, user configuration and security management tools, as
>well? If so, I think I might fire it up on my spare box next weekend.
>:)
RH offers printtool, a nice printer config tool. Click on your printer, and
it sets up the config for you. There are several network configure tools, RH's
is callet netcfg IIRC, again, pointy-clicky. There are several management tools,
depending on what distro you get, redhat has a nice array of them, suse has
yast, (which needs work IMHO) and there are other third party ones, some of
which come with the KDE and Gnome desktop environments.
>
>> But the command line interface does come in handy.
>
>I know; I live for the command line. Well, not really, but I do use it
>fairly frequently to do things I find very tedious to do via a GUI.
>
Yeah, there is a need for both.
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: "aaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LiL-
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 07:43:17 +0400
I recompiled my kernel an now when I boot up I get lil- and no lilo. My
linux partition is on the first partition of my second hard disk. How can I
wipe this clean and re-install lilo? I tried after booting with a floppy to
run lilo but the result was the same after rebooting. Is it possible to run
fdisk /mbr from my win partition somehow aiming it at my second hard disk?
thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Running Windows NT Apps under Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 01:45:33 GMT
Mario Frasca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lee, Joey wrote:
>> Do you know any software will allow Windows NT apps run under RedHat Linux
>> 6.0? Any instruction is highly appreciated.
>
>did you already try Wine?
>NT programs are just Win32 programs, so there's no difference with
>W95/98. or do you know something which I don't know?
Not all Windows 95/98 programs work on Windows NT, nor vice
versa. For instance, National Instruments LabView and associated
drivers comes in separate Windows 95/98 and Windows NT versions --
LabView run-time executables built under one may start under the
other, but they won't work quite right. (This isn't the best example,
because an actual LabView for Linux exists now -- but unfortunately no
non-serial data acquisition drivers.) One would have to consider
whether Wine emulates Windows 95/98 or Windows NT more closely, or
whether it would even emulate any of them closely enough for programs
like this to work right.
I haven't tried Wine yet myself, but just looking through the
software compatibility list on the Wine web site a few months ago
suggests that a large proportion of tested programs don't work
correctly (or even at all), and that those which do seem to work do
not necessarily work consistently. Things may have changed since I
last looked at it, but Wine seems to be (judging from its own web
site) in an "alpha" stage of development. (Sorry, I can't connect to
the internet as of the time I am writing this to check on their
reports of progress since I last looked at it.)
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From: "Duy D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Solaris partitions, mounting as writable
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 03:41:06 +0000
Ray O'Leary wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone tell me how (or even if) I can mount Solaris/X86 partitions
> on my Linux box as writable? I have a Redhat 6.0 system that also has
> Win98 and Solaris 7 installed. I can mount the partitions as readable
> (using the UFS filesystem) but all attempts to mount them as writable
> have failed.
>
You need to enable that option in the kernel. It still in experimental
stage as of kernel 2.2.9. I haven't tried it myself, but if you get it
to work, let me know, because I also have solaris7 installed.
>
> Thanks,
> Ray
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 14:01:28 -0600
Reinier Post wrote:
> As a trn user looking for features I may be missing, I have to respond.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lizard) wrote:
>
> >e)Have windows for different newsserves (I use 3 on a regular basis) open
> >concurrently, with newsgroups from each displayed.
>
> This is a feature I'd really like to see in trn.
I just feed my local newserver from several remote servers
when I dial in. Then my newsreader program gets all the
groups I read from that single server running on my home
LAN. The software also sorts out the new articles and
uploads them to the proper remote server when I connect the
next time. All transparent to the user on the LAN, who need
neither know nor care that a particular group was downloaded
from a particular server. But if they're really interested
it's all there in the article's PATH: header line. And it
works with any nntp client software you want. You could
even hook up your Windows or Mac box to the LAN and enjoy it
that way if that's your preference.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Duy D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse problem in RH6
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 03:42:41 +0000
Have you try to recofigure it with XF86Setup?
Jouni Axelsson wrote:
> Hmmm ... panic ..
>
> I've tried to install RedHat 5.0, 5.2 and 6.0. I've never gotten the mouse
> to work. I have a IBM PII 400MHz with a PS/2 mouse. I've even tried a
> serial mouse with no luck.
>
> When I installed RH6.0 the system was checked at the end of the
> installation (X was started). There the mouse worked perfectly. When I
> restarted the system after the installation and tried to startx, I got the
> usual "Mouse could not be opened (no such device).
>
> Can anyone help me????
>
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> Jouni Axelsson Datalogi-programmet M�lardalens-h�gskola @
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Converting to ASCII
Date: 8 Sep 1999 03:44:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:21:05 GMT,
Tapio Riikonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have large html and rtf files which I need to convert to ASCII. I
>need to strip hyphenation, keep the line length to about 65 characters
>per line using hard returns, and the paragraphs should be separated by
>an empty line with no indentation.
>
>What Linux tools/programs would you recommend for this arduous task
>which should be made easy by computer automation?
I would suggest using apropos. As in:
apropos html
apropos rtf
apropos text
If these bring up nothing on your system, start visiting some web sites,
such as freshmeat.net, linuxapps.com and so on. To get you started,
here is something that does what I think you want done with HTML files:
lynx -dump -width=65 <file>.html|perl -p -e 's/([a-zA-Z])-([a-zA-Z])/$1$2/;'
Substitute the file you are interested in for <file>.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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