Linux-Misc Digest #866, Volume #21 Sun, 19 Sep 99 05:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: problem with .forward (John Doe)
databases on linux? (Son Trung Nguyen)
Re: Linux autoprobe doesn't detect my SCSI card... (Dave Brown)
Re: WordPerfect 8 - some problems. (Bill Unruh)
Re: Help! No KDE desktop after upgrading to XFree86-3.3.5 (rob)
Re: chmod setuid and permissions (Wayne Power)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Dowe Keller)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Dowe Keller)
Diamond Stealth 64 ("Leroux")
am I doomed? (Dan the kernel trap)
Diald troubles under 2.2.11 (Ken Williams)
Internet Connection (David Coleman)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Joe Cosby)
How can I comunicate with those that use Netmeeting? (Klord)
Re: Domain name for private subnet (Ed Blackman)
Re: Absurd Linux mentality ! (Lew Pitcher)
Newbie needs help-DOSEMU (John Murray)
cheap datalogging w/ linux? (LT)
Re: File permissions when mounting vfat or msdos partition ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
how base 2 works (binary) (Utilisateur Red Hat Linux)
WZCE--The best UNIX/X86 console Chinese environment (Roger)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe)
Subject: Re: problem with .forward
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 Sep 1999 00:48:43 -0500
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:40:09 +0000, David Bowler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Matt Spong wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> After 2 days of pulling my hair out trying to get procmail working on my
>> RedHat 6 system, it turns out there's something wrong with the way my
>> system is handling .forward files... I tried putting this in my .forward
>> file:
>>
>> "|cat > /home/spong/test.out"
>>
>> And then emailing myself, but test.out never materializes (and the email
>> falls off the face of the earth)! It turns out my mailer was never
>> invoking procmail for some reason. This is a RedHat 6 system, as I said,
>> and while I've upgraded a lot of stuff, nothing should have broken this.
>>
>> If anybody has any ideas why this is not working correctly, please email
>> me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Thank you for your time
>> Matt Spong
>>
>> ---------------=====< 1999: The Year of the Penguin >=====---------------
>>
>> Matt Spong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> UM Linux Users' Group Secretary <http://www.umlug.umd.edu/>
>>
>> "Y'arr... sometimes I wonder why I plunder at all..."
>>
>> Finger for public key, or see http://www.wam.umd.edu/~spong/crypto.html
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>make sure you have the correct permissions on your .forward file and home
>directory for sendmail to access it
>
I have no need for .forward file even though procmail man pages
may say so.
Here is roughly what I do. Create a /etc/smrsh directory and
put a sym link to /usr/bin/procmail there.
Then .procmailrc of every user should take care of everything.
I am assuming you use sendmail.
I have idea on the security ramification of this setup; I really
don't care about security on my system which is connected via phone
line.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Son Trung Nguyen)
Subject: databases on linux?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 04:29:48 GMT
Anyone got much experience with the big guys database eg Oracle,
Informix, DB2, Sybase on Linux? I am really thinking of using
one but wonder which is a good effient one that will run relatively
good with 64MB of RAM? I heard oracle is good but it's a RAM guzzler.
How are Informix and DB2 ?? I would love to hear from folks who
is running them and how you think of it.?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Linux autoprobe doesn't detect my SCSI card...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 Sep 99 05:25:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kenny A. Chaffin wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> Hi
>>
>> I've got a SCSI card which Windows recognises as an Adaptec
>> AHA-150x/1510/152x/AIC-6x60 SCSI Host Adapter. When I installed Linux,
>> I tried
>> to get it to dect the card by selecting the Adaptec 152x adapter from
>> the list.
>> When the autoprobe didn't work for that, I tried all of the other
>> Adaptec
>> cards on the list, but none could be autoprobed.
>>
>> Any ideas on how I can fix this up? Thanks.... :)
Tim,
You have to provide parameters for the aha142x module, i.e.,
insmod aha152x aha152x=0x140,9
where 0x140 is the port address in hex and 9 is the IRQ setting.
(You might look at your Windows Device manager and see what
i/o port and IRQ your card is set for. (0x140 is a popular default
for that adapter, although I've seen 0x340 also. The IRQ could be
almost anything.)
Once you figure it out, put an entry in /etc/conf.modules. Then
you could simply modprobe aha152x.
(I'm assuming you don't need this for booting. Then you'd pass
the parameters with lilo.)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 - some problems.
Date: 19 Sep 1999 05:42:26 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jacek Sierpinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>And, is it possible to get additional font styles?
If you buy WP8, then yes. Otherwise no.
(The free version has some limitations.)
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From: rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: Help! No KDE desktop after upgrading to XFree86-3.3.5
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:30:07 -0600
put 'startkde' at the end of ~/.xinitrc
rob.
Kaushik Mallick wrote:
<snip>
> Can somebody please tell me what can I do to automatically log into KDE
> desktop after login?
<snip>
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From: Wayne Power <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: chmod setuid and permissions
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 01:44:05 -0400
"Severin B. Swensen" wrote:
> When setting an executible file to rwsrwsr-x with an owner and group of uucp why
> is it that when I run this under a normal user acct the files created by the
> program have my id instead of uucp?
Each process has a real uid and an effective uid. They're normally the
same. The setuid permission bit changes only the effective uid of the
process, not the real uid. Same for gid. See the man pages for setreuid
and setregid for more info.
--wmp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dowe Keller)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: 19 Sep 1999 05:36:01 GMT
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 03:03:36 GMT, Jeffrey C. Dege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 23:10:20 GMT, Aram Iskenderian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Nobody but an idiot enables active desktop.
Pardon me for saying, but....
Nobody but an idiot should use Windows.
There's just too many OS that are superior to it. :-)
I for one like Linux.
By the way, who started all this crosposted stuff?
Dowe Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=======
No sig for you today!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dowe Keller)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: 19 Sep 1999 05:57:56 GMT
On 08 Sep 1999 18:38:35 PDT, Guy Macon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E. Bell) wrote:
>
>>I have also gotten fed up with Windows' "help" system. Everything I
>>have looked up in it has either been missing, or had just the briefest
>>of answers which does not relate to the information I am looking for. I
>>have only gotten one, barely useable answer from Windows' Help. Such is
>>the life of a Microsoft slave. Oh may I be freed by the AmigaNG.
>
>You will be "happy" to know that Microsoft has figured out how to make
>the awful Windows help system ... *Even Worse*!!! MS Office now has
>these cute little animated paper clips.. they are TERRIBLE!. And they
>are coming to a Windows 2000 system near you soon.
>
Yet another very good reason to tell Uncle Billy no thanks and switch to\
a REAL OS ;)
As a Linux user I find this whole Windoze topic drift thing rather revolting.
I can't speak for the Amiga and QNX guys/gals, but I imagine they like thier
newsgroups being used for Windows support hints and tips about as much as me.
So, In the future can we keep our Windows related issues in the windows
newsgroups... MmmKay?
Dowe Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Windows is bad, Don't do Windows... MmmKay?
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From: "Leroux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond Stealth 64
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:57:21 -0500
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Hi,
I have a Diamond Stealth 64 with 2 megs of ram, s3 vision 968 with TI
video 3026 and DAC. My mointor is a Mag Innovision 720v2. I can't get X
windows to work. I only get a gray screen.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Leroux
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From: dsquibb9@*spamkiller*gte.net (Dan the kernel trap)
Subject: am I doomed?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 06:11:29 GMT
Get this:
My linux box/masq firewall crashed- hard lock-up, no keyboard response
and all that. So, I restart and when it gets to fsck it gives me this:
Oops: 0000
CPU: 12
EIP: 0010:[<c0111782>]
EFLAGS: 00010013
.
.
.
Stack dump, call traces and codes...
.
.
.
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task
In interrupt handler- not syncing
This is a dual P-pro 200 system on a pr440-fx motherboard.
The computer is about a week old, and I'm a little worried it might be
a hardware problem. The disk is 2.5 yrs old.
There is probably a way to boot such that I can get around the fsck
core dump problem, right?
thanks,
Dan 'get a rope' Squibb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: Diald troubles under 2.2.11
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 06:06:26 GMT
I'm using diald .99.1 on 2.2.11 and I can't get it too work.
My /etc/diald.conf looks like:
mode ppp
debug 255
connect 'chat -v -f /etc/chat.scp'
device /dev/modem
speed 57600
modem
lock
crtscts
local 209.5.6.170
remote 209.5.6.171
dynamic
defaultroute
include /apps/diald/etc/standard.filter
PPP normall works fine. I run Diald, it runs fine too. I try to bring the
link up with lynx or something and it dials but at the end I get crazy stuff.
Sep 18 23:40:39 gateway diald[465]: Proxy device established on interface sl0
Sep 18 23:40:39 gateway diald[465]: start sl0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not
supported
Sep 18 23:40:39 gateway diald[465]: Diald initial setup completed.
Sep 18 23:42:06 gateway diald[465]: Trigger: udp 209.5.6.170/1024
209.58.16.3/53
Sep 18 23:42:06 gateway diald[465]: Calling site 209.5.6.171
Sep 18 23:42:07 gateway chat[475]: timeout set to 3 seconds
Sep 18 23:42:07 gateway chat[475]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Sep 18 23:42:36 gateway chat[475]: expect (ogin:)
Sep 18 23:42:36 gateway chat[475]: 49333/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS^M
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway chat[475]: ^M
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway chat[475]: ^M
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway chat[475]: login:
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway chat[475]: -- got it
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway chat[475]: send (name^M)
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway chat[475]: expect (word:)
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway chat[475]: ^M
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway chat[475]: login: name^M
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway chat[475]: Password:
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway chat[475]: -- got it
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway chat[475]: send (password^M)
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway diald[465]: Connected to site 209.5.1.171
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway diald[465]: Running pppd (pid = 500).
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway pppd[500]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway pppd[500]: Device modem is locked by pid 465
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway pppd[500]: Exit.
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway diald[465]: start sl0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not
supported
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway diald[465]: start sl0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway diald[465]: start sl0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway diald[465]: start sl0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not
supported
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway diald[465]: start sl0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway diald[465]: start sl0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
Sep 18 23:42:38 gateway diald[465]: Closing /dev/modem
Sep 18 23:42:39 gateway diald[465]: Delaying 30 seconds before clear to dial.
Slip is compiled in. Anyone get this before?
Thanks.
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From: David Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Internet Connection
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:53:58 -0500
>On 18 Sep 1999 20:42:07 GMT, Andrew Purugganan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>So my fetchmail starts up when I boot my standalone PC. No, I'm not
>>online yet. Er, how is this fetchmail thing supposed to work? Let's say then
>>that I now connect to the net courtesy of my ISP, using PPP & diald
>>to do the dirty work. WHat is supposed to happen then? DO I issue commands
>>like, go get my mail?? WHat's your setup like, because I haven't a clue.
>
I just installed SuSE 6.2 and everything went fine. Everything works great
(well, except the sound card, but I haven't really worked on it, yet) including
the GUI, kppp will connect to my ISP, but then nothing will see this connection.
Netscape, mail clients, ect just give me "Server Not Found". Anyone have any
clues where to start on this?
David Coleman
Coleman's Computer Services
Caldwell, TX
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Cosby)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: 19 Sep 1999 06:26:42 GMT
** To reply in e-mail, remove "famqyj." from address **
Dowe Keller hunched over his computer, typing feverishly;
thunder crashed, Dowe Keller laughed madly, then wrote:
> >
>
> By the way, who started all this crosposted stuff?
>
Buzz Olin. Evidently, it is his life.
> No sig for you today!!!
What a gyp.
--
Joe Cosby
Amiga Fanatic
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Klord)
Subject: How can I comunicate with those that use Netmeeting?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 06:39:51 GMT
Is there a Linux equivalent of Netmeeting? I would like to communicate
with my Windows friends and they all use Netmeeting on the internet.
Klord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Blackman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Domain name for private subnet
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 06:31:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:47:05 +0100, Matthew King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Richard Townsend wrote:
>>
>> How should I get around the problem? I can see a couple of possible
>> solutions:
>>
>> 1) Don't run sendmail :)
>> 2) Choose a ficticious domain name, hoping it won't ever be actually
>> registered
>>
>
>I personally chose (2), using a domain .ltd (limited) which is
>fictitiuos. Perhaps something which is likely to always be fictitious
>would have been a better idea (like twne, this-will-never-exist) or even
>add some random numbers. It certainly works.
>
>Suddenly it comes to me that you could probably use localhost
>(machine1.localhost and machine2.localhost for example). I know this is
>a default somewhere.
We use .farmgate, Farmgate being the name of the street I and my
roommates live on. Yeah, I'm really creative :) So my machines are
foo.farmgate, bar.farmgate, etc.
I figured that .farmgate, or something else that long, would have a
much lower chance of getting used as a top level domain than a two,
three, or four letter domain, like some of the suggestions in this
thread (.ltd, .lan, .twne).
Ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Absurd Linux mentality !
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:00:17 GMT
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:37:04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim Carter) wrote:
[huge snip]
>At least the crypticity of unix commands is reasonably understandable
>'once you know' - pip anyone (CPM)
Which was derived from DEC's OS syntax (I can't remember if it was RSTS/E
or TOPS-10), as was DDT and TECO.
>KC
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: John Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie needs help-DOSEMU
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:14:38 +1000
I have some old DOS apps that I like to use sometimes,and it would be
handy to run them under OpenDos in dosemu. I have read mountains of
docs. and how-tos but can't find the info I need (at least not in a way
that I can understand) Dosemu works perfectly but the virtual C:\ drive
is too small to be of any use. Can anyone explain in simple terms (cos
I'm simple myself!) how to either increase the size of the virtual C:\
or access a DOS partition from DosEmu?
Any advice gratefully received!
Cheers,
Johnno.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LT)
Subject: cheap datalogging w/ linux?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 06:24:19 GMT
Got a couple of 486's laying around. Dawns on me they could be used
for controllers and dataloggers. Are there any <cheap> ISA
datalogging boards for linux and 486's?
thx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: File permissions when mounting vfat or msdos partition
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 07:21:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (BJW7TOAEM) wrote:
> I am running Red Hat 6 on my system. I have Linux on one partition
and another
> partition I use for Windows. I mount the windows partition to /mnt/c
but only
> root can write to it and I would like to make it so other users can
write to
> it. How do I change the permissions, so that other users can write to
the
> windows partition when it is mounted in Linux? Thanks in advance for
your
> answers!
>
You can pass options like uid=500,gid=500,mode=0777 to your mount
commond, telling assigning an onwer, group and permissions to all the
files:
mount -t vfat -o uid=500,gid=500,mode=0777 /dev/hda1 /mnt/c
or put a line in your fstab like
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat uid=500,gid=500 0 0
Where, of course /dev/hda1 is changed to your actual partition and uid
and gid are your actual user and group number.
Perry
> John H.
> Twinkling Of An Eye Ministries Web Site
> http://members.aol.com/BJW7TOAEM/index.html
>
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From: Utilisateur Red Hat Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how base 2 works (binary)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:50:08 +0200
Hello,
I am trying to figure out how to write any number in binary base.
I know the basic principle: 1001 = 1 + 2^3 ...
But i have heard of parity bits and of course sign bits. (so that one
know if the number is positive or negative).
Else, i dunno what are strong or week bits ...
Thank you for helping.
Benjamin.
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.sco.misc,alt.chinese.text,alt.chinese.computing,tw.bbs.comp.unix,hk.comp.os.unix,tw.bbs.comp.linux,hk.comp.os.linux
Subject: WZCE--The best UNIX/X86 console Chinese environment
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:42:08 +0800
WZCE--Wei Zhong Chinese Environment, has versions for SCO OpenServer5,
UnixWare2.1 and Linux/X86.
A special version for personal and non-commercial use is downloadable
for Linux/X86.
A commercial demo version is freely downloadable for SCO OS5.
For more information, please check
http://members.tripod.com/~wzce
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