Linux-Misc Digest #732, Volume #21 Wed, 8 Sep 99 23:13:09 EDT
Contents:
What to buy for kick-ass system upgrade ? ("Gabriel L. Somlo")
Re: garbage collection (Jason Stokes)
Can't make Perl script work locally! (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Installing GNUCash (Mohd H Misnan)
Re: WordPerfect 8 Printer Drivers (Joseph Crowe)
Re: XGA w/ OS/2 and Linux on laptop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
DHCP Configuration ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Converting to ASCII (William Burrow)
Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0 (Hal Burgiss)
Re: garbage collection (Aaron)
Re: Walking Man hack from Amiga on Linux? (William Burrow)
Re: firewall (Leon Garde)
Re: garbage collection (Jason Stokes)
Re: What to do when you've been hacked (Leon Garde)
Re: Which Office Suite (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: amount of modems in linux... (Paul Hustava)
Detecting modem via event? (Suprijadi)
Re: Q? - best combo of linux distrib and apps for 3rd world (Mark Robinson)
signal 11 (Ryan Richard)
Re: Shutdown Problem (Peter Samuelson)
Re: Activemovie <-> RIFF player (Jeremy Crabtree)
Re: HTML editor for Linux ("Morton, Andrew [WOLL:4009-M:EXCH]")
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: What to buy for kick-ass system upgrade ?
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 16:52:32 -0600
Hi, folks...
Guess it's time for me to upgrade my computer, and I could use all the
hints
and advice I can get...
First of all, the bits and pieces I can/want to salvage from the old
system:
- BusLogic BT958 SCSI controller (PCI), with all the SCSI stuff hangig
off
of it :)
- LinkSys 10/100 Ethernet PCI card (sweet thing, Linux is even
mentioned on
the box :) )
- Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard
- ISA modem (old fashioned, with jumpers, slow but good for what I
need it
for... :) )
I think I need to get the following:
- Dual CPU motherboard + 2 processors. Here is where I need your help:
I
remember reading somewhere a while ago about an ASUS board that was
capable
of taking two 300 Celerons (or something like that) and allowed you
to use
them both, and to overclock them directly from the bios without
jumpers.
Could you please tell me what I'm REALLY looking for (i.e. how to
get a
sales droid at your average mail-order joint to send me the stuff I
really
want :) :) :)
- A new video card. If the mobo has AGP, should I go for an
AGP-enabled
videocard, and which one ? This is the area I'm most terribly out of
date
at... I want to play the Linux version of Quake 3 when it comes out,
and I
want it to kick ass. So go ahead -- I'm taking votes... :)
- I want a full-tower 300W-powered ATX (I guess that's what the
motherboard
will be, right? ) case. It should be nice, whith sliding panels and
stuff,
and plenty of room to keep my lard-ass old-fashioned full-height
SCSI drive
from catching fire :) I've looked at cases, and they can cost
anywhere
from $50 to $500 :) My range would be from $70 to $90 :) :) :)
There's
got to be a case in that price range that's not just a 6-faced box,
and
actually has some thought put in its design about how the air will
flow
on the inside... :)
Any other suggestions or reasons why the above wishlist is smart/stupid
are
welcome.
Thanks,
Gabriel
PS. Faked my email to ward off spam. In case you want to email me
personally,
please remove all UPPERCASE chars from my email address...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Stokes)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: garbage collection
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 01:13:23 GMT
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 13:24:34 +1000, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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?.
You can't, and you shouldn't worry about it. Since around the 2.0 kernel
and later, Linux has a very aggressive caching algorithm. Nearly all the
spare RAM in the system is devoted to caching data. At the beginning, the
system hasn't anything to cache. As the system runs, more and more stuff is
accessed, and it starts to cache it all. But this cache is dynamic. When
more RAM is needed by a process, the kernel simply removes a block of RAM
from its cache, and gives it to the process. The overhead for this is very
low, so don't worry about it.
--
Jason Stokes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Can't make Perl script work locally!
Date: 8 Sep 1999 22:58:39 GMT
chmod, chgrp using 0755 wwwgroup respectively. Put it in
/home/httpd/cgi-bin and my Apache is configured to allow (ExecCGI) cgi
scripts to run as long as they're there. Heck I even tried hardcoding the
actual CGI location in <...METHOD=POST ACTION=/home/ yadda yadda> If all
this makes sense to you so far (and you've made it this far) maybe you
can help me.
After I change the httpd.conf and srm.conf and access.conf I even reboot
my lone PC so that it fires up httpd correctly (I think). 2 httpd jobs
actually start, one by root and the other by wwwuser.
I even tried this simple script in cgi-bin:
echo "Content-type: text/plain"
echo
echo "Hello there"
Three blasted lines after the shebang line. And all my netscape browser
does is display the entire script. No I don't even go to the internet; I
just fire up the old browser and point it to /home/httpd/html. I get the
same script staring at me everytime. Been combing Apache until I've
decided what am I doing? I am trying to learn perl not Apache. I've
decide to take a night off of this. But I could sure use some finger
pointin in the right direction.
--
Andy Purugganan
annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
apurugganan AT amadeuslink DOT com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Installing GNUCash
Date: 8 Sep 1999 06:57:16 GMT
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 09:48:49 -0600, Kerry J. Cox wrote:
>Hello, I posted the exact same message here a few days ago. So far no
>replies. I sent an email to the developers since the page was also down
>but haven't heard anything.
>I have, however, been successful in getting moneydance up and running
>and it looks great. Now to get my wife to move to Linux.
>If you need instructions on getting moneydance to work, just email me.
>KJ
>
>"R�mi FACKEURE" wrote:
>>
>> Hello !
>>
>> I'm quite new with Linux and i'd like to install gnucash 1.2.3 to manage my
>> money :)
>>
>> I run a redhat 6.0 with the 2.2.10 kernel and i'm unable to compile/install
>> gnucash :(
>>
>> I do not have motif, so i tried to install lesstif, i installed the
>> 0.87.0-1.rpm and the devel package but bad luck, those don't work with
>> gnucash, i do not find the 0.88.1 in rpm package :(
>>
>> could somebody help me finding and installing the various packages needed
>> by gnucash ?
>>
>> thanks a lot in advance
I've succesfully running gnucash 1.2.3 on my Linux, you need few things
including the nana, swig, xmhtml, and lesstif 0.88.1. I've gotten the lesstif
from the main site where I downloaded gnucash.
The following sites are listed in the .lsm file:
Primary-site: http://gnucash.org/
Alternate-site: http://linas.org/linux/xacc
1070KB gnucash-1.2.pre0.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/financial/accounting/
885KB gnucash-1.1.22.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp.x.org /contrib/applications
--
|Mohd Hamid Misnan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
|iMac/233RevB/MacOS 8.6 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
|AMDK6-2/300/Linux2.2.12 | http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3319/ |
-Floppy disk: Serious curvature of the spine.
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From: Joseph Crowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 Printer Drivers
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:37:08 -0500
Hi folks,
On 4 Sep 1999, Paul Seelig wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BJW7TOAEM) writes:
>
> > I have the Downloaded Personal Edition of WordPerfect 8, I can not find my
> > printer in the list of printer drivers that it gives me I have a BJC-600e.
> >
> This can actually be considered an FAQ. Here's the answer: If you
> have already configured printing using GhostScript via magicfilter or
> apsfilter you'd be better off to use the generic "Passthru PostScript
> Driver" of WP8. This simply passes the PostScript code it generates
> to the usual printing routine of your Linux system. On *nix systems
> there is mostly no need to reinvent the wheel. Works perfectly here
> and at work.
>
Alternately, the original poster could go to Corel's website, find the
proper driver along with the instructions in the FAQ for Linux, download it
and install it as per the instructions.
Cheers, P. *8^)
> --
> --------- Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------
Joseph Crowe
http://www.io.com/~jcrowe
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,alt.comp.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: XGA w/ OS/2 and Linux on laptop
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 11:57:22 -0400
In <7r39r8$q0n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/07/99
at 03:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein) said:
>>From what I've heard ATI are definitely Linux-unfriendly.
>>Not only they don't make drivers, they won't let others do it :-(
>xfree86 3.3.5 has ATI Rage support. If this is unsatisfactory there is
>the commercial Xinside (www.xig.com) server. I have no experience with
>ATI drivers, but have been researching the issue as I'm contemplating a
>laptop with the Rage Pro chipset (other chipsets such as NeoMagic are
>even worse from an OS2/Linux perspective). I've seen some reports that
>the GRADD drivers work, although slowly.
Working my way backwards in this thread - I saw a site (Lindsay Computer
Systems) which preloads Linux. They use the ATI Rage so that's
encouraging.
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Union College / Schenectady, NY
- insert standard doxastic disclaimers -
OS/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
===========================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: DHCP Configuration
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:20:25 GMT
I am running Redhat Linux 5.2 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. I have been
trying to configure DHCP on this machine. I seem to be having all sorts
of problems, trying to get any common commands in the IP stack to
execute. For example, ping is not recognized. Do I need to rebuild the
kernel or is there something I can configure ?
Please let me know if somebody has successfully installed DHCP services
and what I may be doing wrong ?
Thankyou,
Ashish Consul
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Converting to ASCII
Date: 9 Sep 1999 02:05:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:29:42 GMT,
Tapio Riikonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Works like magic, thank you ever so much! One minor question at the
>end of this message, though.
The magic is explained in the manual pages.
>>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?
You can read through the many perl man pages. Perl is an incredibly
powerful text processing language, and the s/// command is one of the
useful commands. See man perlops and man perlre for more details. To
that end:
lynx -dump -width=65 <file>.html| \
perl -p -e 's/([a-zA-Z])-([a-zA-Z])/$1$2/; s/^ //;'
(The \ character allows you to enter the commands on two separate lines,
remove it if you join the two lines into one.)
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 Sep 1999 21:32:38 -0500
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 13:08:58 +0200, NGUYEN-DAI Quy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jim Ross wrote:
>>
>> >
>> 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
>
The above may work for Jim, but I can't get it going, despite doing the
above exactly and with minor variations, eg font.scale in lieu of
font.dir. I notice also that ttmkfontdir produces an identical file to
the old mkfontdir. So what's the point with ttmkfontdir anyway???
>Not need a TTF server ?
Good question, but supposedly xfs as shipped by RH supports this,
according to white paper at redhat.com/support (partial quote):
'Please note that at this time, xfs still requires the fonts.scale
file describing the characteristics of each font to be present in a
font directory. The FreeType package has been shipped with a utility
called ttmkfdir which generates output suitable for including in
fonts.scale for the specified TrueType fonts. Distributors and
individuals making font RPMs are encouraged to use this utility or
something similar beforehand and include the file in the RPM, so that
the end user is not burdened with the chore.'
http://www.redhat.com/knowledgebase/newfontsystem/index.html
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Linux helps those who help themselves
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From: Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: garbage collection
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 12:11:53 +1000
Everybody emailing me has been telling me the same thing as well.
but the thing is, things don't get faster but slower after running for a
long time, even if I close everything except kppp & aterm.
then again, the performance is rather unpredictable - sometimes fast
sometimes slow.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Walking Man hack from Amiga on Linux?
Date: 9 Sep 1999 02:11:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 8 Sep 1999 20:24:27 GMT,
Charles E. Taylor IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Basically, it puts N number of tiny little stickmen who walk around on
>> the screen on a certain color, they can climb, jump, parachute, sit down
...
>
>What someone needs to do is combine this with xroach and/or xsnow.
>Have the little men whip out cans of Raid when they see a roach and
>have them build snow forts and have snowball fights.
I think some people are thinking of having too much time on their hands.
:)
Then again, the purpose of xmaze as a game eludes me, so maybe I'm
missing something.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: firewall
Date: 9 Sep 1999 10:27:18 -0800
V.Yavuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 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
> router and to LAN with eth0 ethernet.My qeustion is if it's necessary to
> make ip forwading between these ethernet (eth1 and eth0)cards.If I do
since you plan to use ipfwadm (which with kernel 2.2 ,and therefore redhat 6
is replaced with ipchains )
there are two ways to allow traffic through a firewall, and ipfwadm can help for both.
you can use application .. a proxy server eg squid for www,
and relay programs (eg redir ) for general tcp and udp traffic, or
the socks5 proxy program for icq and any other socks5 capable client ..
but you might still use the ipfwadm/ipchains to block access to your firewall...
in this case you will not need ip forwarding., but u can block
forwarding with ipfwadm anyway, so its not imperative you turn it off...
or you can use packet level firewalling only.
eg masquerading
in this case you do need ip forwarding..
it is imperative you turn it on !
check with
'cat /proc/sys/net/ip_fowarding' and check that is '1'.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Stokes)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: garbage collection
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:40:13 GMT
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 12:11:53 +1000, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Everybody emailing me has been telling me the same thing as well.
>but the thing is, things don't get faster but slower after running for a
>long time, even if I close everything except kppp & aterm.
You may be leaving some orphaned processes around as you go along that are
chewing up resources. Also, the X server can become slow and require
restarting on occasion.
--
Jason Stokes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What to do when you've been hacked
Date: 9 Sep 1999 10:06:49 -0800
William T. Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Help needed. My Linux box (RedHat 6.0) was hacked
> over the labor day weekend. Someone accessed my
> machine as root, downloaded and installed some software.
> Below I list an extract from .bash_history file for root.
> My question is what do I have to do to clean up. Changing
> all passwords is a start, but what else. Is a total reinstall
> necessary? Responses here as well as by email appreciated.
no but it would be safer.
See, they have replaced your inetd and syslog
and psosbily added back-door's.
you cant just assume they only added one back door.
they add 5 or 6.
you cant just assume they only added 5 or 6.
you cant assume the .bash_history contains a record of all they did.
they may have added a new version of many other programs.
how about you install red hat 6 and all the updates and
ALWAYS keep up to date.
actually Redhat dont post security patches properly.
but then, we dont pay them to.
> Tom Trotter
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cd /tmp
> ps aux
> locate sshd
> rcp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:q3.tar.gz ./
> rcp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:*.rpm ./
> cd /tmp
> ls -al
> rcp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:get am-utils-6.0.1s11-1.6.0.i386.rpm ./
> rm -rf *rpm
> rcp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:get am-utils-6.0.1s11-1.6.0.i386.rpm ./
> exit
> cd /tmp
> am-utils-6.0.1s11-1.6.0.i386.rpm
> rcp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:am-utils-6.0.1s11-1.6.0.i386.rpm ./
> tar -xzvf q3.tar.gz
> cd lrk4
> make install
> chmod +x ssh
> killall -9 /usr/sbin/syslogd
> make install
> kill -9 /usr/sbin/inetd
> killall -9 /usr/sbin/inetd
> make install
> /usr/sbin/inetd
> ps aux
> w
> exit
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: Which Office Suite
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 00:10:49 GMT
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 09:33:02 +1000, Student - Labs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to decide whick office suite I should buy. Has anyone tried
>any of the packages below? If so which do you think is the best and why?
>Thank you.
>
>StarOffice 5.1 OR Applixware 4.4.2
>
Both are available as downloads and on really cheap cdroms
(but Applixware is a demo in 'free' form). So you can try them
yourself and see which YOU like better.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hustava)
Subject: Re: amount of modems in linux...
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 99 01:53:00 GMT
In article <ewezCVl9#GA.247@cpmsnbbsa03>, "Ruairi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I posted an earlier message (below) regarding probs with external modem. I
>think I've cured it. Even though the modem was external I still had the
>original win modem inside the PC, I could only get a response from the
>external modem by taking out the internal modem. This was even after trying
>all combinations of com settings etc. I cannot set the com port in the
>intenral modem as it's plug and play.
When you say you tried all settings, does that include changing the com 'B' IO
address and IRQ from the CMOS setup? I'm certain that would've helped you.
Plug-Unt-Play Winmodems will still sit on an IRQ and IO (Com) port when it is
not being used. I'm guessing your Winmodem is hogging COM2 (IO 02f8) when no
driver is loaded.
If you get into CMOS setup and set com 'B' to COM3 and (unused IRQ) then you
can keep both modems attached to your system. You just need to be sure to tell
Linux that the modem is on /dev/ttyS2 instead of /dev/ttyS1. Do this from
setup or you can also simply point the symbolic link name /dev/modem:
( cd /dev ; rm modem ; ln -s ttyS2 modem [enter] )
>Can there only be one modem on a Redhat 5.2 Linux system? Both modems sat
>side by side ok in Windows 95/98 and NT.
Ther can be more than one. I don't know how easy it would be to support
multiple TCP/IP connections, but I know linux will handle just about as many
serial ports as you can throw at it. The built in support (2.2* kernels) stops
at 32 serial ports.
OB Linux in the workplace:
Right now I'm setting up a slackware 4.0 box to act as a terminal server for a
number of PLCs at a beverage manufacturer (BIG Thanks to Joe Croft, the author
of Termpkg 3.0). I will start with simple one-way stuff like grabbing fill
weights, encapsulating the 8bit-clean serial data into a telnet session and
dumping the data to a delimited text file for import into a Database or
spreadsheet.
--
Paul Hustava
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suprijadi)
Subject: Detecting modem via event?
Date: 8 Sep 1999 21:53:14 GMT
Hi all,
I would like to write an application to detect
if modem is connecting or not. Is there anyway
via such event like windows? If not how can
i realize it?
TIA
Eko
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From: Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Q? - best combo of linux distrib and apps for 3rd world
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:34:52 GMT
<snip>
I suggest an old version of Debian/Slack or maybe even a GPL RedHat.
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From: Ryan Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,be.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: signal 11
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 22:26:21 -0400
I am trying to install Red Hat 6.0
Every time I get to the screen where it asks me if I would like to
create a boot disk, the install crashes. Regardless of if I choose yes
or no, I get an "signal 11, the install exited abnormally error"
message.
I have taken this to two different machines. One is a rather new Dell
P233 and the other a P166 clone. I have been told by Red Hat that this
is a Hardware error. I am starting to be a little suspicious of that
response. Is it possible that the media might be defective? Any one
have ideas how I can proceed?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Samuelson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Shutdown Problem
Date: 8 Sep 1999 21:11:36 -0500
Reply-To: Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Graffiti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> I've been considering chmod'ing /tmp to 0 and seeing what breaks, but
> the amount of time that'll take is daunting. Hopefully, people will
> get around to doing that before I do and start submitting
> patches... *hint,hint* :-)
Just use `strings' to search through /usr/bin for "/tmp" and "TMPDIR".
Shouldn't be hard. Hmmmm.... /usr/bin on my Debian box seems to refer
to "/tmp" in:
Mail Pnews a2ps any2pnm asciiview autoupdate bash bison bug c2ph
calendar cancel cdtool ci co compose cpp crontab cvs debian-mirrors
dialog diffstat dig dnsquery elvis-tiny fax2ps fixnt fixps floppyd
ftp gcc glibcbug gnuclient grops gs gview gvim gzexe hdfed host inews
ispell joe lorder lp lpq lpr lprm lpstat lynx mail mailto mailx make
make-ssh-known-hosts make_printerdef make_smbcodepage mbadblocks
mtools mirror mkmanifest mpack mpage mpartition mread munpack mutt
mzip newsetup nmblookup nslookup nvi objdump patch pdiff perlbug
perlcc perldoc pftp pgp pnmindex print procmail protoize ps2epsi
psmandup psset pstruct rcs rcsclean rcsdiff rcsmerge rdist rdistd
refer rgview rgvim rwall s2p see showaudio showexternal showpartial
showpicture slogin smbclient smbmnt smbmount smbpasswd smbstatus
smbtorture smbumount sort splitmail ssh ssh-add ssh-agent ssh-keygen
syslinux sz tac testparm testprns texindex trn unprotoize unshar
update-menus vim vimtutor wall xemacs20 zcmp zdiff znew zsh
I didn't test for TMPDIR. Probably some of these are correctly only
using /tmp as a fallback.
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Crabtree)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Activemovie <-> RIFF player
Date: 9 Sep 1999 02:30:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alessandro Magni allegedly wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>I have this couple of files, that - although defined as *.dat - play
>well under the Windows player, that recognizes them as ActiveMovie format.
>Under Linux, where I want to see them, the command "files" recognizes
>them as Microsoft RIFF. Xanim is unable to play them, it doesnt recognize
>their format.
>
>Any idea for a good player (and which is their format, anyway...) ???
Umm...are these audio-only, audio/video, video-only...what are they?
(RIFF is a LOT of formats in Windows land...)
--
"Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself
the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts
that are not hard" --Silvanus P. Thompson, from "Calculus Made Easy."
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From: "Morton, Andrew [WOLL:4009-M:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: HTML editor for Linux
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:44:13 +0000
Rene Grothmann wrote:
>
> I am looking for an HTML editor for Linux. Should do the following
> (those are personal preferences, please no flames):
>
> - WYSIWYG (I already have a good source editor)
> - Frames
> - CSS support
> - comfortable publish function
I can think of five WYSIWYG HTML editors for Linux:
CoffeeCup
Commercial, 30 day demo http://www.coffeecup.com
Amaya
Formidable, academic.
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/AByName.html
Communicator
What can I say?
ApplixWare
Commercial. Does the job
StarOffice
Does frames, some support for CSS.
http://www.sun.com/staroffice
I think StarOffice is the best fit.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 09 Sep 1999 02:10:13 GMT
In comp.os.qnx K. C. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aram Iskenderian wrote:
>>
>> Sorry this is incorrect, you have to enable active desktop, and it
>> works.
> Nope. I have Win 95 OSR2 WITHOUT IE4 or 5. The left-shift RMB still
> works on my setup.
> Why the heck that this is not the default thing ???
>> Aram Iskenderian.
> K. C. Lee
I realize this is probably a total waste of bandwidth, but can any of
you explain what the above has to do with Linux, QNX, or Amiga? This
conversation is very far off track.
mph
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