Linux-Misc Digest #777, Volume #21 Sun, 12 Sep 99 17:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: New Red Hat - fdisk gone? (Leonard Evens)
xwindows: black text fields ("Drew Rardon")
Re: New Red Hat - fdisk gone? (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Conway Yee)
how2print? Brother hl-720 (Tomasz 'tsca' Sienicki)
Re: fetchmail help... (Troy Carter)
Re: Netscape 4.6 + JAVA -> freezes (Troy Carter)
dd from SGI/SUN -> Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Chris Lee)
Re: YALNQ: yet another linux noobee question (John Girash)
Re: HOW TO SEE A SHARE DRIVE ON A NETWORK ("Jeff Kloek")
Advantech 4825 & LILO stall at LIL ("Ed Patriquin")
Need national ISP (Ken Williams)
Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0 ("R.K.Aa")
Re: Telnet as root (Kenny A. Chaffin)
Re: Help: Linux Netscape can't do DNS lookups using ADSL (Jerry L Kreps)
Getting scripts to execute in a different console? (Mladen Gavrilovic)
Re: Advantech 4825 & LILO stall at LIL (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!! ("William B. Cattell")
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Red Hat - fdisk gone?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:16 -0500
Charles M wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >
> > Are you talking about for just their install process or they do not
> > install it on the system. If the the latter, what's the problem, they
> > can't stop you from putting it on your system, it's part of the
> > utils-linux package so just install that and you have fdisk.
> >
> It (supposedly) is not available during install. Since that's where you
> might really first need to be able to use it (vs Disk Druid), I find this
> news a bit disturbing. Mind you, I do not know if the final version of RH
> 6.1 will leave it out or not, but the fact that it is missing (per LWN)
> in the install of the downloadable version is not a good sign. I am also
> curious if anyone else has downloaded and tried the new version to
> confirm this. That's what I was also asking about in my original post.
>
> CMM
I would be surprised if it had been removed entirely; probably
it is available only in expert mode or something like that.
However, one should not get terribly excited about this sort
of thing. Those of us who are used to using fdisk can certainly
adapt to using disk druid. In fact if you do a workstation
install, which we have been doing recently, the partitioning
is done for you and it works fine.
In the past, disk druid could not be used for large disks.
Perhaps they have fixed this, which would more than compensate
for the `loss' of fdisk.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Drew Rardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xwindows: black text fields
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:25:45 -0700
No matter how many display configurations I try, the Xconfigurator test
always displays black text fields and buttons. I've heard this is a fairly
common problem, but if anybody could present me with possible solutions, it
would be much apreciated.
thanx in advance,
-drew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: New Red Hat - fdisk gone?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 19:10:02 GMT
Charles M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
: > > Does anyone know if Red Hat is really removing this, the only
: > > usable partitoning tool?
: >
: >
: > Jesus, I haven't heard that... but I'm still absolutely steaming
: > from the fact that they took away glint for RPM management with
:
: It was in Linux Weekly News. Check out:
: http://www.lwn.net/1999/0909/dists.phtml
:
: wherein they state:
:
: 'Fdisk is gone - the installation throws the user, willing or not,
: directly into DiskDruid. "Expert mode" might still provide fdisk - we did
: not check. '
Of course, it is entertaining that they declare fdisk to be gone, but admit
that they didn't actually check.
Stu
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From: Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: 12 Sep 1999 15:37:56 -0400
I write:
> They are convenient but are limitted in that when one way doesn't
> work, you are SOL. Personally, I prefer command line options for the
> command itself and then a GUI wrapper for those who want it. Thus all
> needs are satisfied. Each tool does ONE thing well. The command line
> does the work well. The user interface talks to humans well. The
> best of both worlds is achieved.
K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Aside from questions of efficiency, that's not a bad approach; that is,
> the GUI is actually nothing more than a dumping ground for things which,
> when activated, actually spew command-line functions, while conveniently
> hiding the fact from the users. There are some limits and risks to it,
> but it would be a compromise the CLI geeks could live with, I suspect.
I suspect that questions of efficiency are irrelevant. By its very
nature a GUI is VERY inefficient. What is the problem with adding
a fraction more of inefficiency?
I would like to know, however, about the limits and risks. I am not
familiar with these. I have written such a generic wrapper in curses
that works well for my needs. What limitations and risks am I
encountering?
tnx es 73 de Conway Yee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomasz 'tsca' Sienicki)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: how2print? Brother hl-720
Date: 12 Sep 1999 19:29:23 GMT
I have a Brother HL-720 printer. According to Printing HOWTO it should
work under Linux with no problems. So, how do I make it work?
I understand (am I right?), that I need to add an appropriate filter to
/etc/printcap, and then I'll be able to do
$ echo "test"|lpr
To get this filter I have been trying to compile ghostscript 5.50.
Unfortunately, I am getting the following:
# ------------------------------------------------------------
/bin/sh <./obj/ldt.tr
ld: cannot open -lXt: No such file or directory
make: *** [obj/gs] Error 1
# ---------------------------------------------------------
The beginning and the last five lines of ./obj/ltd.tr look like this:
# ---------------------------------------------------
gcc -fno-common -L/usr/X11/lib -o ./obj/gs ./obj/gs.o ./obj/gp_getnv.o \
./obj/gp_nofb.o \
./obj/gp_unix.o \
[...]
./obj/gsnorop.o \
-lXt \
-lXext \
-lX11 \
-lm
# -------------------------------------------------------
What can I do about this?
And, is my idea of getting this printer to work correct at all?
Control panel printtool (RH) says:
# ----------------------------------------------------
Auto detection found the following:
/dev/lp0 : Not detected
/dev/lp1 : Not detected
/dev/lp2 : Not detected
# ------------------------------------------------------
and, of course
$ echo "test" >/dev/lp
does nothing. So, does trying to compile ghostscript make sense at all,
or is there some other problem (what???) that I should solve first?
The printer _does_ work under Win on the same computer.
TIA
[I am setting FUT comp.os.linux.hardware]
--
Tomek Sienicki <tsca at has.dk>
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From: Troy Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail help...
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:00:17 -0400
Use fetchmailconf to setup your .fetchmailrc, this should work fine.
(You should have fetchmailconf on your system if you installed a
fetchmail rpm or compiled it yourself).
Ted Wager wrote:
>
> Hi..
> I wonder if someone could send me the stanza for fetchmail..I have read
> the manpages and
> cribbed ideas from various books but my isp will not accept it...
> If my fetchmail address is pop3.cwcom.net usrname foo passwd bah What do
> I put...
> I have tried all combinations but the isp keeps asking for a username
> and after a while drops out
> with "user unknown".
> I can telnet to pop3.cwcom.net 110 and see I have mail but fetchmail
> will not connect to get it...
--
========================================================
Troy Carter
228A Marshall Av. (609) 430-9158 (H)
Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 243-2941 (O) (PPPL)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.princeton.edu/~tcarter
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From: Troy Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,netscape.public.mozilla.java
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.6 + JAVA -> freezes
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:53:00 -0400
John Soltow wrote:
In addition to the font fix, also make sure you have the following env
variable set (in your bashrc, for instance):
MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape export MOZILLA_HOME
(replace /usr/local/netscape with your path to your netscape
installation)
>
> Howard Pepper wrote:
>
> > Robert,
> >
> > Please share the fix, I've been all over RedHat's errata site and I can't find
> > anything remotely resembeling a fix for the Navigator + Java problem
> >
> > Howard Pepper
> >
> > Robert Bernier wrote:
>
> To see if this is the problem you are facing, try:
>
> chkfontpath --list
>
> You should get output that looks like the following:
>
> Current directories in font path:
> 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
> 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
> 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
> 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
> 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
>
> You should then add the 75dpi scaled font to your path list using the command:
>
> chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
>
> This should fix the problem you are seeing.
--
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Troy Carter
228A Marshall Av. (609) 430-9158 (H)
Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 243-2941 (O) (PPPL)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.princeton.edu/~tcarter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dd from SGI/SUN -> Linux
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 19:07:05 GMT
I have an image on a tape that I need to extract on a Linux box. I used
the following on a SGI to create the tape:
dd if=whatever.tar of=/dev/tape bs=20k conv=sync
I used the following on a SUN to create another tape:
dd if=whatever.tar of=/dev/rmt/0 bs=20k
To verify things were alright with the SGI tape, I took it to a SUN and
issued:
dd if=/dev/rmt/0 of=whatever.tar bs=20k
and the image was extracted from the tape in good shape. I took the
tape to a Linux box running the 2.2.6 kernel. I used the following
command to attempt to extract the image from the tape:
dd if=/dev/st0 of=whatever.tar bs=20k [conv=sync,swab]
...and got the following error:
kernel: st0: Incorrect block size.
Does anyone know of any options I can throw at dd to get the image off
of the tape?? Or, how should I create the tape?? Why can the SUN read
the tape and the Linux box can't?
Thanks in advance for any help!!
Ryan
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: 12 Sep 1999 19:54:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>[snips]
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>> > Easy to use, rock-solid (at least the NT flavours) and fun - the
Windows
>> > experience.
>>
>> Tell that to my friend who seems to have to reinstall Win98 every
>> other month.
>
>Tell your friend to get a real machine. Since installing Win98 on one
>box - a heavily used box - I've had to reinstall it once. It's been
>running now for about 2 years, and has suffered through, among other
>things, two new CD drives, a second HD, a new motherboard, more - and
>less - memory, and three video cards.
Bullshit. I've a friend who installed RedHat 6.0 on a machine Win98 crashes
consistanly on and linux hasn't crashed and burned on him yet. It's *NOT*
the hardware, it's Windows that's the problem 99% of the time in cases like
this and have been so for years
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From: John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.sci.seti
Subject: Re: YALNQ: yet another linux noobee question
Date: 12 Sep 1999 15:12:32 -0500
In comp.os.linux.misc the Billionth Typing Monkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: John Girash wrote:
:> : setiathome-1_3_i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1-static.tar
:> This one has libc5 (aka glibc1) statically linked inside the binary.
: ----------- snipped for brevity -------------
: Wow, thanks John. That's exactly what I was looking for. Next question
: would be, "How did you know?" Specifically, where would one go for the
: aka's?
Just hang around the newsgroups for a while, read the occasional HOWTO, and
you'll pick up more than you might realise :-) I can't point you at any
specific place where I picked up this stuff personally, besides col*.
:> "ls -l /lib/libc*" should give you a good idea.
: I get 6 files listed here of which 3 are links (renames, I suppose).
: The files are
: libc-2.0.6.so
: libcom_err.so.2.0
: libcrypt-2.0.6.so
: So does 2.0.6 mean I'm running ver 2.0.6 libc or is this the ver 6 for
: the 2.0 Linux kernel??
That'd be version 2.0.6 of glibc (could also be called version 6.0.6 of libc).
The others are just other libraries, although I believe libcrypt is closely
tied to libc (e.g. in OpenBSD it's folded right into libc afaik).
On my system I've also got libc.so.5.4.38, so if seti@home offered a
dynamically-linked libc5/glibc1 version of their client I could've run that.
: What about the following?
: Linux glibc2 x86 mt
: Linux glibc2.1 and glibc2 x86 mt
: Linux libc5 x86 mt
: Linux aout x86 non-mt
: Linux libc5 x86 non-mt
: We're past the C libs but what do aout, mt and non-mt mean?
Looks like you've been exploring rc5.distributed.net, eh? Their nomenclature
is similar to seti@home's; in order there, you see:
- libc6 for x86-compatibles, multithreaded (i.e. can use more than one cpu).
- not sure what "glibc2.1 and glibc2" means, but I think glibc2.1 supports
binaries linked against glibc2.0, so this is likely just a glibc2 mt version
- libc5 multithreaded
- version using the old "a.out" binary standard (as opposed to newer "ELF").
Not something you need worry about. Probably linked against the ancient
libc4 (I've still got some libc4 binaries). Not-multithreaded.
- libc5 version that's not multithreaded. (Not sure why this is needed,
given that the mt version works fine on single-cpu boxes, or v2.7106 did).
cheers
jg
--
"don't listen when you're told about the best days in your life Spirit of
a useless old expression, it means passing time until you die." the West
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-- John Girash -- girash @ cfa.harvard.edu - http://skyron.harvard.edu/ --
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From: "Jeff Kloek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: HOW TO SEE A SHARE DRIVE ON A NETWORK
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:03:11 GMT
I have file and printer sharing on my windows 98 pc turned on.
I share each hard drive with the option "depends on password", and I
put in a password for full access. I share the "c:" drive as just "c";
the d: drive is shared as "d" and so on....
Then from Linux, I have a script that mounts all my different PC's hard
drives. Here it is - this should give you the how-to. The only thing you
should have to do is change the PC names and the password.
(NOTE: First on your linux box, make the directory you want to
mount the PC drives to , like towerc and towerd below)
mkdir /towerc
mkdir /towerd, etc....
[root@tower2 /sys]# cat smbmount.sh
smbmount \\\\\tower\\c password -c "mount /towerc"
smbmount \\\\\tower\\d password -c "mount /towerd"
smbmount \\\\\tower\\e password -c "mount /towere"
smbmount \\\\\lynn\\c password -c "mount /lynnc"
smbmount \\\\\lynn\\d password -c "mount /lynnd"
echo All SMB Mounts Performed!!!
[root@tower2 /sys]#
Hope this helps!!!!
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From: "Ed Patriquin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Advantech 4825 & LILO stall at LIL
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 19:31:10 GMT
I am trying to setup at Advantech 4825:
AMD 5x86 @ 133, CT65550 video, 2S 1P, 16 MB EDO memory.
I have tried setting up Linux on the IDE hard disk and the system ALWAYS
stalls with LIL on reboot. This happens with RedHat 5.0 & 5.1, as well as
SuSe 6.1. The original HD is a Seagate ST4310 4GB drive, but I have also
tried on an old Quantum 240MB to eliminate drive geometry issues.
I even get the same error when I create a boot disk during install and when
I dd the vmlinuz to a floppy.
I have tried with linear and non-linear modes. I have tried the ST 4310 in
LBA, Normal, and Large modes.
I have also seen this on other computers, but I can't remember how I got
around it.
Any ideas?????? This has been very frustrating and has sucked up almost 3
days of experimentation.
Ed Patriquin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: Need national ISP
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:41:33 GMT
I need an ISP that simply has one phone number for me to call toll free no
matter where I am in Canada and perferable the US. I don't need unlimited
access, I just want to dial a phone number that doesn't change, log on and
check my mail wether I'm in Montreal or Florida.
Any recommendations?
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 19:57:41 GMT
Hal Burgiss wrote:
> Have you by any chance gotten NS to recognize more than one point size?
> All I get is 12pt with ttfonts, which I suspect it is picking up up from
> the default-point-size as defined in /etc/X11/fs/config. Seems to work OK
> elsewhere ...
I usually run with "allow scaling" and "use document specified fonts
including dynamic fonts". If the fonts somewhere gets too small i
temporarily uncheck "allow scaling". You don't "have" to use a tt font
as default - adobe helvetica is pretty close to arial for instance, and
comes with several size options.
BUT......... i have a feeling that if you dive into ~/.netscape and fool
around a little with preferences.js you could achieve something.
An entry there starts with user_pref("intl.font_spec_list",
The preferences.js options is documented (confusing stuff) at
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/deploymt/jsprefs.htm
the options that deal direct with font-size seems to be MSWindows
options, but there's some more documentation there if you really wanna
dig.
Running with default values at 1024x768 on a 15" monitor things look
pretty good here really, even with arial 12 as default scaled font.
There's also that "trick" out there (if fonts get too small) to swap the
references to xfs fontpaths, so the 100dpi fonts list before the 75dpi
ones etc. Not exactly your problem i guess.
There's also more you can do to enhance tt fonts - check out the xfstt
page for info on how to deal with large font-encodings etc. (I doubt
that's your problem either though..)
Seems to be a netscape quirk. preferances.js is my best bet.
K.
--
Step by step guide to TrueType fonts under RedHat6:
http://home.powertech.no/rkaa/Linux_and_tv.html#ttf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny A. Chaffin)
Subject: Re: Telnet as root
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:07:27 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Kenny A. Chaffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
> >In article <7rfia8$aqb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I have a small Ethernet network setup in my house (three machines) and I
> >> would like to be able to telnet as ROOT from my workstation (dual boot Linux
> >> / Win95) to my Samba server (Redhat 5.2) or Slackware machine. I can telnet
> >> just fine as regular user, what is stopping me from doing so as root. I know
> >> I have read some thing about this before, it is a security concern and is
> >> not allowed by default.
> >>
> >Seriously though, I had the same need. RH 6.0 checks the /etc/securetty
> >file which lists the tty's which allow login as root. I was not able to
> >determine how to modify this to allow root telnet, but by renaming the
> >file (so login doesn't find it) I'm able to telnet in.
> >
>
> AIUI, all you would need to do is telnet in (as a normal user) and do a
> "ps ax". Then find the letters that relate to your login terminal and
> add that to securetty. Eg. On mine you would see something like
>
> 443 pts/0 SW 0:00 [login]
>
> So add the pts bit to securetty.
>
> There really is *no need whatsoever* to do this, though. root telnet is
> a big hole, and it really isn't time consuming to log in as a normal
> user and type "su". Even if the Lan you're using now isn't connected to
> the Internet, it's better to get used to better techniques.
>
> --
> Mist.
>
Umm, I tried that and it didn't work. Specifically I added pts/0 to the
securetty list. What was what the tty command gave as my "tty."
KAC
--
KAC Website Design
Custom Programming, Web Design, and Graphics
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kacweb.com
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From: Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.xdsl,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help: Linux Netscape can't do DNS lookups using ADSL
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:15:09 -0500
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On 11 Sep 1999 19:03:35 -0500, Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:27:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>This is a really strange problem. I've been using a stock RedHat 5.2
> >>system for about a year with no problems. I recently got ADSL service
> >>from BellSouth. It works really well, except for one (really important)
> >>thing: Netscape Navigator can't do DNS lookups properly. Here're the
> >>facts:
<snip>
> >
> >With RH6, NS 4.61 and BS ADSL, I have had no problems. Which doesn't
> >solve your problem, but I would have to think this is not a NS problem
> >per se. Is NS using a proxy by any chance?
> >
>
> Correction to 'no problems at all': just had a bizarre NS lockup, which
> not only took down X, but put my monitor into sleep mode (no screen at
> all), and locked the keyboard. I suspect the Alcatel is involved somehow
> since dhcp kept failing until I powered down/up the Alcatel.
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
> Linux helps those who help themselves
I'm using Netscape 4.61 on an ADSL connection (my modem is a Cisco 675
router) which YaST (SuSE 6.2) setup automatically when I told it to
install a DHCP client and I put in my two DNS quad addresses. SuSE 6.1
also worked ok with Netscape 4.5 (?) and DHCP and DNS, but I had set it
up manually.
Jerry
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From: Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting scripts to execute in a different console?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:18:03 -0400
Hello all,
I was wondering if there's any way to specify which console a script
should run in? For example, say I have X active in VC 7, but I'm
working in VC 1. Is there a way to start a program in VC 7? I'm asking
because once I close up 1, the program gets killed, but I'd like to keep
it running as long as the system is up.
Regards,
Mladen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Advantech 4825 & LILO stall at LIL
Date: 12 Sep 1999 20:18:51 GMT
In article <2cTC3.10714$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ed Patriquin wrote:
>I am trying to setup at Advantech 4825:
>
>AMD 5x86 @ 133, CT65550 video, 2S 1P, 16 MB EDO memory.
>
>I have tried setting up Linux on the IDE hard disk and the system ALWAYS
>stalls with LIL on reboot. This happens with RedHat 5.0 & 5.1, as well as
>SuSe 6.1. The original HD is a Seagate ST4310 4GB drive, but I have also
>tried on an old Quantum 240MB to eliminate drive geometry issues.
A small disk can still have drive geometry issues.
>I even get the same error when [...] I dd the vmlinuz to a floppy.
That's not possible. dd the bzImage to floppy and boot, and
Lilo never gets near it. There is no way to get LIL<hang>
from a raw bootimage floppy. Something else is going on here.
Opem your BIOS menu and write down the disk parameters BIOS sees.
Boot your install disk, get a shell, and run fdisk -l, and
write down the parameters fdisk gets from the kernel.
If the two sets of numbers are not equal, Lilo will not work.
If they are, something else is wrong.
Cameron
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!!
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:23:35 GMT
Lisa Evans wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > James Knott wrote:
> > >
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Pedro RA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > >Sorry to post off topic but this is EXTREMELY important!
> > > >
> > > >FREE EAST TIMOR NOW!
> > > >STOP THE KILLING KNOW!
> > > >
> > > >Please take a look at the nearest
> > > >internacional news broadcast.
> > > >
> > > >Remember KOSOVO, RUANDA,
> > > >BOSNIA, CAMBODJA, KURDISTAN,
> > > >or the HOLOCAUST. Or remember all
> > > >of them. You may as well add
> > > >EAST TIMOR to this list.
> > > >
> > > >DO SOMETHING!
> > > >
> > > >Do what ever you can.
> > > >
> > > >Better even:
> > > >STOP SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED!
> > > >
> > > > FREE EAST TIMOR
> > >
> > > Let's all send them our old Linux CDs!!!
> >
> > That's actually not a bad idea... We can lobby congress and the UN to
> send
> > a Peacekeeping mission over and then train the Timorians(?) on how to
> > sharpen the edge of the used CD we send them. They can then use them
> as
> > weapons and achienve their freedom. Or we could keep the old CDs and
> use
> > them for coasters. ;-)
> >
> > Bill
>
> You people are disgusting. Remind me to make jokes at your expense the
> next time you and your family are shipped to a concentration camp and
> slaughtered, because that's what's happening in East Timor right now.
>
> Lisa Evans
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
If this situation upsets you so (in E.Timor) then take your baggy ass over
there and talk to each bloodthirsty Indo soldier and convince them that
YOUR way is the right way and they should stop hurting those folks. After
you've created peace over there then come on back to the good old US of A
and teach congress and the whitehouse how to end hunger, discrimination and
government corruption. Since you have all the fucking answers go solve the
world's problems. While you're doing that me and some other 'disgusting'
folks will mind our own business and play with our Linux OS based
computers. fuck off bitch.
lovingly yours,
Bill
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