Linux-Misc Digest #725, Volume #21 Wed, 8 Sep 99 09:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: i deleted /boot/boot.b ("Paul Hampson")
Re: Linux viruses? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
glibc and netscape (Steve)
Re: why not C++? (david parsons)
Re: A simple way to upload multiple files per ftp (Herb Stein)
Re: ZIP parallel port mounting kernel 2.2 (Sitaram Chamarty)
Netscape, strange behavior right mouse click (Arnold Kaars)
Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0 (NGUYEN-DAI Quy)
Yggdrassil (was Re: Made my own "live CD" at last! Works great, too :-) (Sitaram
Chamarty)
RH Linux crashes when using mount (Tony S�derudd)
Re: My Linux crashes more often than M$ (Computer)
Re: HELP FTP won't UnShut! (M. Buchenrieder)
COSA serial board (Jacopo Silva)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (JFW)
Re: Converting to ASCII (Tapio Riikonen)
Re: i deleted /boot/boot.b (Phil Adamson)
Re: moving directories to new partition (Bob Tennent)
How to set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] on same server? ("Janus Booysen")
Re: Help with ATAPI CD-R drive (Larry Ozarow)
Re: True Type Font files? ("Jo.Oswald")
linux install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI 3D 128 Support (Steven)
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From: "Paul Hampson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: i deleted /boot/boot.b
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:13:08 +0100
Not helping , but asking the same question. I managed to delete this file as
part of an upgrade.
Paul Hampson.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.virus
Subject: Re: Linux viruses?
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 10:04:13 GMT
In article <01befa1c$80346be0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Nick FitzGerald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scott Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > A dummies guide to why Linux doesn't have virus programs is at
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~simpson3.
>
> A real "dummies guide", it appears:
>
> File Not Found (Error 404)
>
> Sorry, the web page or file that you requested was not found on
> this server. Please check that you typed the URL correctly. If
> you are following a link, then you may wish to notify the web
> page's author that it is invalid.
The link worked fine for me.
-rune-
>
> --
> Nick FitzGerald
>
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From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: glibc and netscape
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 10:17:58 GMT
There are two options when download the 128bit version of Netscape for
Linux. One is listed as a Linux version and the other is Linux(glibc).
What are the differences and what does the glibc option do for me?
These options are from the Netscape download site. Thanks
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From: o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s (david parsons)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: why not C++?
Date: 7 Sep 1999 16:47:12 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My point was that he's added even more pointless and obscure things to C++
>such as reference variables. What the hells the point of those when you
>already have pointers? Also overloading the << and >> to produce a less
>powerfull (for most things) I/O system than *printf and *scanf
I suspect the confusing part was trying to make a syntax UNLIKE
what libc uses, so people wouldn't try to mix and match the two.
It's a real bummer that iostreams (``I'll cut your fingers off
if you use iostreams'' -- me, to employees) were designed after
a session in an apl parlour, and a FILE*-type interface wasn't
chosen instead.
____
david parsons \bi/ FILE foo; foo += W"hello, world\n";
\/
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Crossposted-To: redhat.servers.general,redhat.general
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herb Stein)
Subject: Re: A simple way to upload multiple files per ftp
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 02:38:32 GMT
Read the man page for ncftp. It does what you want. Even does directories.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>Alex wrote:
>>
>> Can somebody tell me a simple way to upload a filesystem tree with multiple
>> files. I have to do it periodically, so I wan't to do it with the help
>> of cron.
>>
>> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
>> http://www.searchlinux.com
>
>You should try Midnight Commander. cd'ing into
>ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] you can select multiple files or
>directories and copy, move, delete like in an ordinary file-system on
>your system!
>
>And this ftp-client can serve as a great file-manager as well :)
>
>Greetings,
>
>Vic
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: ZIP parallel port mounting kernel 2.2
Date: 8 Sep 1999 04:58:30 -0700
On 7 Sep 1999 03:15:29 GMT, Robert Kiesling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If your Zip drive cable says "AutoDetect" on one end, that means you
>have a Zip Plus with the Iomega Matchmaker circuitry instead of the
Wish that were true. I have a ZIP 100 parallel port drive, with a
cable that says "AutoDetect". Tried the imm module every which
way - failed. In desparation, I tried ppa - worked like a charm.
After all that, I noticed a small piece of paper in the box that
the drive came in. I don't remember what it said precisely, but
I remember thinking that it could be interpreted as "ignore the
word \"AutoDetect\" on the cable that came with this box".
(Threw away the box and all long ago - wish I could check the
excta wording!)
So you see it's not just the cable :-)
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 19:13:41 +0800
From: Arnold Kaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Netscape, strange behavior right mouse click
Hello,
my netscape does not bring up a popup box when I click with the right
mouse button. It takes me back to wherever I was previously. Is there
an option somewhere I missed. It was working ok till I downloaded a
later version a couple of month ago.
Thanks
Arnold Kaars
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From: NGUYEN-DAI Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 13:08:58 +0200
Jim Ross wrote:
>
> Roch Plamondon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:rUjB3.18204$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Pls help me
> >
> > i just tried adding true type fonts on my machine to improve readability
> in
> > Netscape
> >
> > i stopped the xfs server
> > copied ttf files in a new directory
> > moved to that dir and issued the following commands
> > ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
> > mkfontdir
> > i added the new directory path to the file /etc/xfs/conf
> >
> > the result:
> >
> > Now Netscape dont run with many web pages and is simply inoperable
> >
> > thank you
> >
> >
> > --
> > Roch Plamondon
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> I don't know enought about this to know where you went wrong, but
> I do use these commands with success to install TTF in RH 6.0 for Netscape
> which
> really does need them.
>
> mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttfonts
> cp /mnt/c/windows/fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttfonts
> cd /usr/share/fonts/ttfonts
> ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir
> chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/ttfonts
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart
>
> I mount my c drive as /mnt/c and there is a space
> before /usr/share/fonts/ttfonts but if might be hard to read from line 2.
> Jim
Not need a TTF server ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Yggdrassil (was Re: Made my own "live CD" at last! Works great, too :-)
Date: 8 Sep 1999 04:58:22 -0700
On 7 Sep 1999 10:00:51 +0800, Terry Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I guess Yggdrassil, should really be the "Redhat" of Linux ?
>
>I often get twinges of nostalgia, and want to re run my old Yggdrasil cd, but
>then this pc, never gets rebooted.
Whatever happened to them? I started with Slackware in early 95,
but I had heard of them even then...
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From: Tony S�derudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH Linux crashes when using mount
Date: 8 Sep 1999 10:37:39 GMT
I have the following problem.
My Linux has worked fine until a few weeks ago I started to
have some problems.
When I mounted my cd-rom, the system froze. Keyboard didn't
work, mouse didn't work, I tried to connect from another
machine to mine, but the my computer didn't respond at all.
I had to switch the power off.
Ok I swithed the power on again and the system made some
filesystem checks and after that worked again.
After a week when mounting floppy, the same happened again..
The system froze.
Is it just a coincidence that in both times the system froze
when mounting a device or could there some other explanation?
In both times I had X-windows system running.
There were no messages in logfiles concerning those crashes..
My computer is a 400Mhz PII 64Mb, Redhat 6 2.2.5-15, no upgrades done
after installation. Ati 3D Rage Pro 8Mb.
If someone has an idea what happened, plese tell me.
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Computer)
Subject: Re: My Linux crashes more often than M$
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:34:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>I too have been having Linux troubles as of late....it freezes
>>completely at seemingly random intervals. I have reinstalled from
>>scratch now and it hasn't happened again...yet...its only been 3 days.
>
>Me too. I am using Mandrake 6.0, which is suppose to be very similar to
>RedHat 6.0.
>
>It does freeze very randomly, without reason. Sometimes when I am using vi,
>sometimes using less, sometimes when I am scrolling through Netscape. And
>when it freezes I have to reboot the machine.
I HAD this problem also. My initial setting for the vid was 1024x768.
I changed this to 800x600, and have yet to have the freeze up
problem.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: HELP FTP won't UnShut!
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 07:03:07 GMT
"Christopher R. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Help! I ftpshut my sever and now I can't get it started again. What do I
>do?
[...]
RTFM. "man ftpshut" will tell you.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacopo Silva)
Subject: COSA serial board
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 10:33:28 GMT
The COSA board is a synchronous serial card, to connect the box to a
WAN. It is fully supported by the kernel, and it is exactly what I
have been looking for months.
But, I CAN'T BUY IT. No one knows where to find, no web site, no
distributors, nothing at all...
If anyone has ever seen a COSA serial synchronous board and knows
where I can buy one, please let me know...
Thanks,
Jacopo Silva
P.S.: you can see little documentation making the kernel, with make
menuconfig -> Networking adapters -> Wan adapters There is also an
e-mail address for more info, but i can't get answers from that
email...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JFW)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:03:51 GMT
On 07 Sep 1999 09:33:00 +0200, kaih=7ORqPM$[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai
Henningsen) wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E. Bell) wrote on 06.09.99 in
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>Actually, no. The directory structure *is* the user interface; that's all
>the reason it exists at all.
>
>Computers don't *need* directories. And in fact, early computers didn't
>use them.
>
>Directories exist *only* so humans can find files.
Um, you're very wrong, and here's why:
1. Limiting information scope
There is a reason that databases (of which filesystems are just a
subset) use tree designs vs flat designs. It has to do with the
information scanning cost to find and make alterations. I'll deal
with alterations in the next, let's confine this to finding.
The problem with a single flat filesystem, as Mac and many other
before (I ref Mac cause it's the most recent popular case) found out
is that it forces ALL filesystem operations (as opposed to file
content operations) into a linear mode where their actions are
constrained by the total number of files.
Directory-based filesystem structures allow filesystems to operate on
a much smaller locality-of-reference base (the current directory of
files) which leads to much faster searching, scanning, and
modification of filesystem metadata resources.
This is basic set theory. It's almost (almost referring to corner
cases in unpopulated environments) always more efficient to do set
operations on a pre-selected valid subset than on the entire set.
Think about how you a find a file in a given directory in a filesystem
where there is no hierarchy.
>>>and many reasons why you might want to
>> > organize the human interface differently. Look at what we are doing
>> > right now. This discussion is presented to me as newsgroups which
>> > contain articles. the directory structure and whether all the posts
>> > are seperate files or entries in a relational database.
>
>But by your above argument, we should not show newsgroups to users. I
>guess that's no longer true, then?
I won't even pretend to understand how that analogy fits into the
discussion. USENET newsgroups are hierarchial, and in efficient
handling models are handled with the "." acting as subset identifier.
What precisely are you proposing here?
>> > Nor do they have to. There was a time when you needed to understand
>> > spark advance to operate an automobile. Now it is quite possible
>> > to operate one without ever learning how to open the hood or to add
>> > gasoline to the tank.
>
>Maybe, but extremely few people would think that is a sensible way to go
>about it.
Extremely few people grasp the advantages of subset pre-validation in
set theory too. That doesn't make it invalid. Extremely few people
grasped Calculus at it's invention but that doesn't make it's
simplification of certain things less valid.
The reality is that if most people understood how to do advanced
database optimizations, there'd be no point or value to it. They do
not, and there is. The fact that they do not does not remove it's
value. USENET, like filesystems, is just a specific case of a more
general (set theory) environment to apply certain optimizations.
JFW
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tapio Riikonen)
Subject: Re: Converting to ASCII
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:29:42 GMT
Works like magic, thank you ever so much! One minor question at the
end of this message, though.
On 8 Sep 1999 03:44:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
wrote:
>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/;'
I add >newfile.txt and get a nicely formatted text file with three
empty spaces at the beginning of each line. I can use -width=75 and
get about 65 characters per line. Voila!
How should I modify the command line for the text to start at the
beginning of each line without the three spaces?
Your kind and instructive answer has saved me a lot of time and energy
already. What a wonderful thing Linux is!
Tapio
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From: Phil Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: i deleted /boot/boot.b
Date: 8 Sep 1999 11:20:41 GMT
In uk.comp.os.linux Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not helping , but asking the same question. I managed to delete this file as
> part of an upgrade.
$ rpm -qf /boot/boot.b
lilo-0.21-6
I imagine that all distributions will package it with lilo.
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: moving directories to new partition
Date: 8 Sep 1999 11:40:38 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On 8 Sep 1999 01:34:54 GMT, Justin B Willoughby wrote:
>
>Bob Tennent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
>> On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 23:31:11 GMT, Ted wrote:
>> >I just cleared a partition from my hard drive, so now I have two ext2
>> >partitions, and I want to move the /home and /misc to the new partition.
>> >How should I go about doing that?
>> >
>> I've seen reports that cp -a /home/* /newhome will work, but I use
>>
>> cd /home; tar cvpf - * | ( cd /newhome; tar xvpf - )
>
>Does this copy the .* (dot) files?
You're right. You have to
tar cvpf - /home | (cd /somewhere; tar xvpf - )
to put a copy of /home under /somewhere.
Bob T.
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From: "Janus Booysen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] on same server?
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 13:47:35 +0200
Reply-To: "Janus Booysen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
How do I set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the same server?
Janus Booysen
Infotech-online
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Larry Ozarow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Help with ATAPI CD-R drive
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:38:53 GMT
Chris
Remove the ide-cdrom module, it's incompatible with the scsi emulation.
Larry
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From: "Jo.Oswald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: True Type Font files?
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:57:36 GMT
A good place to get the neccesary info:
http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html#truetype
Dan Nguyen wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.setup Jack Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Could anyone tell me where I can download the necessary ttf files so
> : that my X-window looks like MS enviormrnt?
>
> Download? Don't you have them from windows? You'll need to use
> something like xfstt
>
> : Be honest, without true type fonts, MS still looks better than X-window.
>
> --
> Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -Maxime De La Rochefoucauld
> 25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1B 9F F1 E0 E9 10 4C 16
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Linux User # 134818 :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linux install
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:25:04 GMT
Please help:
While trying to install readhat linux 5.1, I got the following error:
VFS : cannot open root device 08:21
Kernel Punic : VFS : unable to mount root fs on 08:21
All I did was to run autoboot.bat from dosutil on the cd.
I've got win98, fat32 on the same h.d., could that be the problem?
Thanks in advance, Ronen Gottlieb.
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From: Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI 3D 128 Support
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:31:19 GMT
Guy Rodnay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of a solution for using ATI 3D 128 under XFree86? I
don't
> care about speed. Just make it work in any mode.
>
> Thanks,
> Guy.
>
Look at http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.htm
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