Linux-Misc Digest #744, Volume #21 Thu, 9 Sep 99 22:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Re: I've got a PCI Winmodem... (AngryMob)
Re: Disabling control-alt-delete from a program (Fred Christiansen)
Re: REAL PLAYER Install Problems. (Eric Y. Chang)
Re: screen capture (Spike!)
Re: Different types of linux (Spike!)
Re: Sweep several files into one text file? (Spike!)
Re: AZTECH MDP3858-W 56K Modem (Niann Shiang)
Re: YALNQ: yet another linux noobee question (John Girash)
Re: Win98 PC confused by computer name!!?? (Adrian Hands)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Spike!)
Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0 ("Roch Plamondon")
Re: XF86Config problems (trying to set monitor resolutions) (lou)
Why dows Netscape say "no DNS for mail/news" ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: AngryMob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I've got a PCI Winmodem...
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:41:33 -0700
Michel Catudal wrote:
> Bill Guenthner wrote:
> >
> > You can buy Quake for Linux and CivII for Linux at CompUSA. And keep in
> > mind: Would a intelligent and highly motivated person be working as a sales
> > clerk at Best Buy (or CompUSA)? I don't think so.
> >
>
> There are a couple of them at the CompUSA in Grand Rapids. Unfortunately there
> are more morons. When SuSE 6.2 came out my wife called CompUSA to confirm that
> there were arrived. She repeated a few times "Are you sure it's SuSE 6.2 and was
> told yes. So we drove to Grand Rapids that Friday night. We found out that it
> was SuSE 6.1 that they had and not SuSE 6.2. I was pissed! Grand Rapids is about
> 75 miles from here and we were back home way past midnight. To make things more
> interesting, the exit ramp to North US 131 was closed for reasons of construction.
> With darkness and poor visibility missing a turn in an unknown area is an easy
> thing and after a couple circles of 10-15 miles + detour one becomes somewhat
> irritated. Luckily I missed the deers ... I wasn't in the mood for deer hunting with
> the car that night.
when calling for merchandise inquiries, I've made it a habit to ask the sales person
who
I'm talking to their name. after I started doing that, I've gotten better luck on
getting correct answers concerning whether something is in stock and/or if it is the
right type I want.
am
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From: Fred Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Disabling control-alt-delete from a program
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:59:11 -0600
Steve Houseman wrote:
> Dont know how to disable ctl-alt-del but but two connected items
> are sysctl and /proc/sys/kernel/ctrl-alt-del
RedHat 6.0 has a program, ctrlaltdel, that will diddle /proc/sys/kernel/ctrl-alt-del
for you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Y. Chang)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: REAL PLAYER Install Problems.
Date: 10 Sep 1999 00:10:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow. This sounds like exactly what the problem is. Unfortunately, I
don't know how to use dd to clear out the NONBLOCK error. Actually, I
do not see such an error. Also, is the rpopen patch part of Linux or
RealPlayer? I am using RedHat 5.1 (2.0.34).
Thanks, Eric
A Guy Called Tyketto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Did you use dd to clear out the NONBLOCK error from realplayer,
: or apply the rpopen patch for it? one or the other should work, as it
: has on my box, and has been working without any problems, and I'm up to
: 2.2.12 and 2.3.17 with my kernel. only thing that it is now complaining
: about, are the codecs for video, in which only G2 could solve (if Real
: gets off their arses, and upgrades the libc they're using).
: BL.
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From: Spike! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: screen capture
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:38:18 +0100
And verily, didst Paul Gigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
> Within X I know of nothing.
> However Gimp has a screenshot facility.
As does xv.
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From: Spike! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Different types of linux
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:13:53 +0100
And verily, didst Big Daddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
> SuSE is pretty good, from what I've heard. Again, don't buy it, if you
> can help it. ;-) that's half the beauty of linux. Try
> www.cheapbytes.com for s'more good prices.
SuSE doesn't come on a cheapbytes CD.
(YaST isn't GNU)
However, as he's a first timer, buying SuSE is well worth it.
(The book itself is worth the price)
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From: Spike! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sweep several files into one text file?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:34:54 +0100
And verily, didst HPK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
> Hi!
> Is ot possible to sweep several text files into one textfile? ... like
> textfile1.txt, textfile2.txt & textfile3.txt is sweeped into maintext.txt
> .... ?
cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt
Or, in fact cat text*.txt.
(although files numbered above 9 will lose their order more)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niann Shiang)
Subject: Re: AZTECH MDP3858-W 56K Modem
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:02:36 GMT
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:10:33 +0500, "Faisal Nasim"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is it supported in Linux?
>
>It is PCI with _no_ COM and IRQ settings on board.
>
>
I think Dell uses this kind modem for Optiplex machine. It works under
both win95 and NT. So, I assume it is not winmodem and should work
under linux. However, I don't have time to make it work. The error
message I got last time is "modem is busy" when I checked modem
status.
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From: John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.sci.seti
Subject: Re: YALNQ: yet another linux noobee question
Date: 9 Sep 1999 20:35:03 -0500
In comp.os.linux.misc the billionth typing monkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm running RH5.2 on an old 486 just because and am wondering how do I
: determine which of the three distributions of SETI@Home to run? What is
: the difference between
: setiathome-1_3_i386-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2_1.tar
This one requires libc6.1 (aka glibc 2.1) to be installed on your system.
RH5.2 predates glibc2.1 afaik.
: setiathome-1_3_i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1.tar
This one expects libc5 (which is almost never referred to as glibc1).
RH5.2 probably had libc6.0 as the default, but may support libc5 as well.
: setiathome-1_3_i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1-static.tar
This one has libc5 (aka glibc1) statically linked inside the binary. Go with
this one for easiest compatibility (e.g. if you only have libc6.0 or libc4.x).
: My guess is these are versions dependant on different shared C libraries
: but how do I go about finding out what lib(s) I have on my system?
"ls -l /lib/libc*" should give you a good idea.
<flamebait>
You should realise that seti@home is already well oversubscribed, i.e. they
can reduce data faster than they can accumulate it. (The stats page has
enough info to show this). The turnover point was at around 300k active
clients (or at ~750k total clients given an average active ratio of 40%),
using the average speed of client machines at the time. Now that they've
got well over 1M clients and the average speed has increased, they're closing
in on 2-1 redundancy, i.e. every work unit will be sent to two machines.
This is a huge huge huge waste of resources and doesn't even consider how
inefficient their client software is, how optimised it could be but isn't.
Save some electricity, don't make your old 486 turn fossil fuel into heat
chugging through calculations that someone else is already doing anyway.
As someone who does astronomy for a living, I'm a big fan of the seti@home
concept. But they fact is, they're swamped already and should have disallowed
further client downloads (and data uploads from new clients) long ago, pending
if and when they get a second data set to reduce. It's just common courtesy.
My apologies to the seti@home folk if I've missed a subtlety here that implies
they're not causing most client cpus to spin their wheels, but they certainly
haven't done a good job at clarifying the situation against these criticisms.
</flamebait>
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Win98 PC confused by computer name!!??
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 19:32:47 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jack Zhu wrote:
>
> The name of my RedHat 6.0 machine is "jacklinux.jackdomain.com", ip is
> 192.168.0.1, alias is "jacklinux",
>
> The name of Win98 machine is "winpc.jackdomain.com", ip is 192.168.0.2,
> alias is "winpc".
>
> TCP/IP communication between the two PCs have no problem at all. I can
> ping each other by using ip address. Since I setup 'Samba' in the linux
> PC, I also can access linux pc from win98 pc side.
>
> The very strange thing is:
>
> 1. From win98 PC, I do 'ping jacklinux', it should ping the linux pc,
> but it ping the win98 pc itself instead.
>
> 2. But also from win98 pc side, I can do 'net use z: \\jacklinux\test'
> to access some resource of linux pc. This time, win98 pc recognize
> 'jacklinux' as correct machine.
>
> 3. From win98 pc, I can never do 'telnet jacklinux' and 'ftp jacklinux',
> only can do 'telnet 192.168.0.1' and 'ftp 192.168.0.1'. This time the
> win98 pc is confused by names again.
>
> 4. From linux pc side, everything related to the win98 pc name is fine,
> such as 'telnet', 'ftp'.
>
> I also check out the '/etc/hosts' file of linux pc and
> '\windows\lmhosts',\windows\hosts' of win98 pc, they're absolutely
> correct.
>
> Could anyone give me some idea?
>
> Thanks a lot!!! Please also email me a copy.
>
> Jack
I'd install and configure bind on linux, disable WINS on the win98 box,
set the linux box's IP address as the DNS server on the windows box.
I believe smb is using netbios-ns (port 137), not DNS. That's why its
possible that smb can resolve jacklinux while telnet/ftp/ping can't.
I don't know why configuringing the hosts file on win98 doesn't solve
the problem - did you try re-booting windows ? ms-win frequently
doesn't recognize any changes until you reboot.
If you install bind on linux and tell the windows box to use the linux
box as a nameserver you won't have to worry about the hosts file on
windows.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:47:27 GMT
K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>In article <46r1r7.nt1.ln@localhost>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> Sometimes they are easy to decipher and other times not, but a quick
>> question in a newsgroup usually gets the answer real fast.
>> As my education improves my pilot error will decrease.
>Newsgroups? Whatever for? If an install has failed, call the vendor
>back, demand a working version. If he can't provide it, post the fact
>that he's an incompetent to those newsgroups. Why you should have to
>fix *his* problems, I don't know.
Have you ever actually *tried* this with MS? I recently had another Win98
box that wouldn't see anything on the network --- after having done so before.
Oh well, the solution turned out to be moving the PCI network card from
one PCI slot to another, which caused Win98 to find "new hardware" (sic!),
and reinstall the driver (which was "working normally" before...). Suddenly
the network appeared. I wonder how long it will last this time. But hey,
at least this machine can handle the PCI NE2000 without dropping half of
all incoming packets --- unlike the other machine I recently had to deal
with, which could only be fixed by downgrading to an ISA NE2000.
Do you really think calling up MS demanding a "working version" of Win98
would do me any good? And the packet loss problem is not all that uncommon,
it seems, if one is to believe Deja. Quite a few people report similar problems
with PCI NE2000 cards, yet I wasn't able to find a solution there.
Bernie
--
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind
Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister 1940-45, 51-55
At Harvard, 6 September 1943
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From: Spike! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 23:38:38 +0100
And verily, didst teknite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
> On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:02:58 GMT, Anthony Ord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>Ooh! That sounds hard! All I have to do is run dselect and hit "+" next to
>>stuff I want. It automatically takes lets me know about dependencies, so I can
>>see that it requires a 40Mb browser before I even think of downloading it. The
>>I hit install and it even downloads it for me, It then installs and configures
>>and I don't even have to think. Wouldn't it be nice if M$ Windows had
>>something as easy to use as that? You would think it would, especially as they
>>say "ease of use so often".
> What is dselect?
> Sounds like something I would be interested in.
Isn't it the Debian package manager?
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| |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |in the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you|
| |can't move, with no hope of rescue. |
| Andrew Halliwell BSc |Consider how lucky you are that life has been |
| in |good to you so far... |
| Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
==============================================================================
|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: "Roch Plamondon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 01:30:11 GMT
Is it possible that the only problem is the order in which directories
appear in xfsconf file ?
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Roch Plamondon
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From: lou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XF86Config problems (trying to set monitor resolutions)
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 01:40:09 +0000
Soltzer,
You need to change id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: in /etc/inittab.
Lou
Soltzer wrote:
> I'm a new linux user (as of this morning). I'm running Redhat 6.0 on a
> P2-333 Dell XPS w/ a Dell D1025HTX 17" monitor and a Diamond FireGL 1000 PRO
> OEM video card w/ 8 megs of memory (using the permedia chipset)
>
> I have both GNOME and KDE installed (both are latest versions)
>
> Browsing through the ng messages I thought I had found an answer as to how
> to change screen resolution through the use of XF86Config ... i ran through
> that, selecting default resolution settings, video card, etc., and, now,
> after a reboot, instead of linux booting back into KDE which i had been
> using, it sits at a "dos-like" screen with a prompt for localhost login:
> before i had mucked about with the xf86config it had gone straight past this
> and into gnome or kde depending which i was using. now however it just sits
> there and the following appears:
>
> "According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (599) but seems to
> have been murdered mysteriously" ... sometimes the message would appear w/ a
> different # in parentheses.
>
> So basically I guess the question is what is it I've done wrong? set
> resolutions, refresh rates, etc that my monitor can't handle? in windows 98
> my monitor (described at top) could run at 1280x1024 w/ 32-bit color
> beautifully so I know it's capable of that...I believe somewhere in the
> course of xf86config i set a default of 1024x780 800x600 640x480 24bit in
> that order...
>
> As you can see I'm quite clueless here, anyone who has experienced a similar
> problem or can contribute any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks very
> much in advance.
>
> --
> Glen McWhorter
> =================================
> I'm so close to Hell I can almost see Vegas!
> =================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Why dows Netscape say "no DNS for mail/news" ?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:51:49 GMT
Netscape claims it can't find my news and mail servers.
It was working for news until I added a new user. Never worked for mail.
It claims "invalid server" or "can't fine server news" (can't remember the exact
wording). It says there is no DNS entry for these but nothing has changed
except the addition of a user and mail has always had this problem.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Wade Segade
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