Linux-Misc Digest #744, Volume #23 Sat, 4 Mar 00 01:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Tar Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to combine several .a files into one? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader (Twenty1stCenturion once removed)
Re: Microsoft reinvents the wheel!!! (Jan Schaumann)
Re: Problems with XCDRoast (Henricus)
permission question about redhat6.1 ("samba")
Re: LINUX GAME: Circus Linux! initial release (v 0.0.0) (Twenty1stCenturion once
removed)
Re: WordPerfect RPMs? (Rick)
Re: Please: somebody shoot me! or I give up...unless someone has ideas (small
rant) (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Red Hat 6.1 ("Farhan Ahmad")
Re: EXTREME newbie question. =) (Christopher Browne)
How to customise my Kernel & the steps please ( not updating the kernel )???
("Benson Lei")
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Rod Smith)
How to mount 2 RAID harddisk to a mount point ??? ("Benson Lei")
Re: Tar Question (Leslie Mikesell)
Where can I find fonts for Linux (BJW7TOAEM)
lilo failed? (Peter Lee)
Re: Do you hate vi? ("Mike")
Re: Named Log Messages (Jeff Grossman)
Re: Tar Question (Jeff Grossman)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Tar Question
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 03:25:53 GMT
Or you could fix your tar command so that the warning no longer prints.
By defulat tar crates its archive realtive to the current directory. You probably
are saying something like: tar -cvf xxx.tar /directory. Lose the /directory. Tar
will know what to do without it.
In article <89ppd0$dh6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a cron job set up to back up my mail files using Tar. Every
>> morning, I have an e-mail from cron with the subject of:
>>
>> /bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from archive names
>>
>> How can I make it so it does not notify me of that anymore? I only
>> want cron to tell me if there is an error. I don't consider that
>> message an error.
>>
>
> Put a 1>/dev/null at the end of your cron job. STDERR will still email
> to you. So if there is a problem, you should see an email about it.
>
> --Aaron
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how to combine several .a files into one?
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 03:30:55 GMT
Its not clear what you want to do with your combined file, but I suggest you use tar.
It craetes an single-file archive that consists of one or more files. You can even
compress the tar file it creates. See "man tar" for details, but the commands:
cd /somepath
tar cvf mytarfile.tar
will create a tar file containing all the files in the /somepath directory.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(test) wrote:
> I tried
> ar lib.a lib1.a lib2.a lib3.a
> to put the three lib?.a into lib.a.
>
> But "nm lib.a" says that the file format is not recognized.
>
> What to do?
>
> --
> siemel b naran
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From: Twenty1stCenturion once removed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 03:33:19 GMT
There's got to be a better operating system; this is ridiculous.
If I hook up a postscript printer to my computer, can I just plug it in
and print; or is there going to be a lot of horsecrapping around again?
I think I'll quit computing until they come out with something that
works.
The whole world has been conned with todays computers, os's and
software.
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft reinvents the wheel!!!
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 22:36:23 -0500
Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Schaumann) wrote in
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >Plus, if it works as they saey, namelly automatically, then it will
> >delete files of the same name on your harddrive and turn them into
> >links.
> >Not every file that has the same name, is identical.
>
> Uhm, no, read the story again. They will check the file against a hash
> and if several things, including a checksum of some sort, matches, it'll
> assume it is the same file and link.
>
> The problem is, IIRC, when the user wants to make an explicite copy of a
> file they cannot since all copies would be turned into links again.
>
Agreed. I was a little too fast with my criticism.
But your point is right - what if I make a backup-copy of a file, say
foo.conf and I copy it to foo.conf.bak - I assume the M$'s linking
system would delete my backup file, right?
if so, then this is *really* ridiculous!
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann
http://jschauma-0.dsl.speakeasy.net/
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From: Henricus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with XCDRoast
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 03:56:58 GMT
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Thomas Zajic wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>On Fri, 03 Mar 2000 04:20:49 GMT, Henricus wrote:
<p>> If you don't care about using a GUI, I can tell you how I do it.
<p>Is it just me, or is your solution a bit clumsy? Let's see ...
<p>> First, I use a ripper (Grip) to put the CD tracks onto my hard drive
as
<br>> wav files.
<br>> Second, I rename the files to track##.wav, where ## is the track
number.
<p>Why not tell grip to use "track%t.wav" as a rip file format string?
<br>Can be set from the GUI, or via "ripfileformat" in ~/.grip. No file
<br>renaming needed at all. See 'man grip' for details on the formatting
<br>strings.
<p>> Third, depending on the number of tracks I run the following commands
at
<br>> the same time in a terminal. This converts them back to cdr
format.
<p>First, this isn't necessary at all. Cdrecord knows how to handle .wav
<br>files, no need to convert them. Second, if, for some reason, you really
<br>need to convert them, you'd probably be better off with one single
line:
<p> for file in track*.wav ; do sox $file `basename $file .wav`.cdr
; done
<p>Note that I'm using backticks (`) here, the key left of "1" on a US
<br>keyboard (and the key right of "ß" on a German one).
<p>> Fourth, I burn them onto a CD using the following commands.
Again I run
<br>> these commands at the same time.
<br>> [ ... ]
<p>What about 'cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -audio track*.cdr' instead
<br>(or 'track*.wav' if you skip the unnecessary conversion)?
<p>> That is it. It sounds like a lot of trouble, but it isn't.
I keep the
<br>> commands in a text file that I cut and paste when I am ready to use
<br>> them.
<p>This sure _is_ a lot of trouble. You could save yourself a lot of copying
<br>and pasting that way. ;-)
<p>HTH,
<br>Thomas
<br>--
<br>=-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
<br>- Thomas "ZlatkO" Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux-2.0.38/slrn-0.9.6.2 -
<br>- "It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw."
(M. C.) -
<br>=-------------------------------------------------------------------------=</blockquote>
Thanks, you are right I will follow your advise. Now it will be even
easier!
<br>
<pre>--
I am Henricus.</pre>
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From: "samba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: permission question about redhat6.1
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 12:27:07 +0800
Hi! everybody:
I have a problem which is when I login my server,
and this user name is not belong to "root " group then
I will get a message "login: no shell: Permission denied."
However, I check the shells permission is ok! and I also
check the the shells that had been write on my shell file.
I don't know how to slove this problem! Because I forgot to
what kinds of part I have been changed. I installed my redhat
is everything ok, I just want to change the FTP server permission.
After I changed, normal user can't use "ls -l" when they login on FTP
site, and when they telnet also get the error message...
samba...:) need your help...
My Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Twenty1stCenturion once removed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
rec.games.video.atari,rec.games.video.classic,alt.games.video.classic,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: LINUX GAME: Circus Linux! initial release (v 0.0.0)
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 04:34:36 GMT
William Kendrick wrote:
>
> In alt.games.video.classic ndg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : That's right; I've never seen anyone complain about linux.
>
> Hey! I complain about Linux all the time! Usually it's the software
> (like Netscape), but the software base is growing so hugely blah blah
> preach preach preach.
>
> At least my machine remains RUNNING and I never lose any DATA, unlike my
> experience with Win95.
>
> -bill!
I compain about them both.
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From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WordPerfect RPMs?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 23:39:26 -0500
"Gero H. Marten" wrote:
>
> > Rick wrote:
> >
> > Are there any RPMs for WordPerfect 8 ?
> > --
> > To reply by email remove NOSPAM from my address.
>
> SuSE 6.3 includes a rpm of WP8.
>
> --
> Gero H. Marten
> <http://www.provi.de/gmarten/>
> --
Do you think it might be available from SuSE ?
--
To reply by email remove NOSPAM from my address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: Please: somebody shoot me! or I give up...unless someone has ideas
(small rant)
Date: 4 Mar 2000 04:30:05 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Then again, as I type this in Windoze, I remember why I wanted Linux
: in the first place.
: Never mind.
: I'll try again.
Was able to run WM+KDE in Mandrake 6.0. Followed these tips which I
chanced upon following some rather obscure looking loinks in windowmaker.org:
Eliminated the line in .xinitrc (or startkde script) that said, exec kdm
(KDE's desktop manager for lack of a wm)
Ran a script that attempted to 'meld' KDE's menu to WM, i think it was
kde2wm (from freshmeat, but rather old). I still hand-edited the
resulting menu
the last line in .xinitrc was exec wm BUT the line preceding that should
be kfm (this puts the KDE desktop icons on your desktop)
One of the links from windowmaker.org will eventaully lead you to those
ppl who've put together a 'Tips n Tricks' page. They are a big help.
--
jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
Registered linux user no. 164098-88940
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: "Farhan Ahmad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.1
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 09:53:01 +0500
So we now know that 6.0 and 6.1 have no support for SiS620, but what other
versions of Linux have the support? (Red hat or any other).
Crush2.
Rajiv Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> Does Red Hat linux 6.1 support SiS620 video card?
> -Rajiv
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: EXTREME newbie question. =)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 04:58:01 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when thomas park would say:
>Jordan Erickson wrote:
>> With that subject in place, it makes me feel better. =)
>>
>> Is there any way to switch between programs (Command shell=Bash) without
>> having to log into another session (via alt+ctrl+F2,F3, etc)? I guess
>> an easy way to explain it would be something like DesqView for DOS (I
>> know, I know, blech!), so you can basically log into one session and
>> control many fullscreen programs (say Pine, a commandline, vi, etc) and
>> be able to switch between them, possibly with some sort of common menu
>> to switch between them?
>>
>perhaps i'm misunderstanding your question.
>
>you could use the multi-tasking build into UNIX, which allows you to
>"suspend" programs, or run them in the background. Processes are
>suspended by typing ^Z. (control + z) - this should bring you back to
>bash, whereupon you can run other commands. you can type 'fg' to get
>your original program back (put it back in the "foreground"). if you
>have more than one program suspended, you can type 'jobs' to get a list
>of suspended processes, and then use 'fg %n' to bring the n-th process
>into the foreground (ie, fg %2 will bring process #2 into the
>foreground).
>
>it's also possible to run programs in the background; you probably want
>to get comfortable with job control before messing around with this,
>though.
I suspect you're misunderstanding the question.
Methinks that Jordan Erickson is asking if there's a reasonable way of
not bothering to log in to each console when he uses multiple
consoles.
The answer to that is that it's probably more trouble than it's worth.
I typically have 3-4 virtual consoles active at any given time:
- Usually one logged in as root, where I more likely than not have
dselect running,
- One with an Emacs session
- One in whatever source code area I'm most interested in messing
with. (Of late, /usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/report/)
- One available to run slrn or mh
I'll log in to all of them, and likely not log out for a week at a
time. The most likely reason to close a session is that I'm rebooting
to make use of a new patchlevel of ReiserFS.
There are utilities like Screen
<http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/screen.html> (which is quite
challenging to locate on a search engine) that allow you to have
"virtual-console-like" capabilities on a single console; that is not
generally as convenient as simply switching consoles.
It will prove effectively necessary to log in on each console. On the
one hand, it is somewhat unfortunate that you can't readily say, "I've
logged on on one console, and thus should expect to open *ALL* VCs as
myself." On the other hand, it means you can readily have different
IDs on different VCs.
That's The Way It Is...
--
"You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a real computer" - Dilbert.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: "Benson Lei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to customise my Kernel & the steps please ( not updating the kernel )???
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:08:21 +0800
I want to know how to custmize my Kernel:
for example, I need the kernel can run CPU Pentium, ....
How to compile, and then ....
Thanks
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 05:18:33 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) writes:
> Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> You don't need PM to create the initial system, but it is extremely
>> helpful if you want to resize disk partitions without doing a
>> dump/load. My PM has more than paid for itself for that one feature.
>
> Can the current version (5.0) resize an ext2fs partition?
Yes.
> The last time I looked, PM could only move ext2fs partitions, but
> couldn't resize them. If this feature has been added, I'm quite
> interested.
Your recollection is faulty. There was never a version of Partition Magic
that could move but not resize ext2fs partitions. (Except maybe internally
to PowerQuest.) Version 3.0 could recognize ext2fs partitions, but that's
it. Version 4.0 added the ability to move, resize, copy, and create ext2fs
partitions. Version 5.0 hasn't really added anything to that set of
operations, AFAIK.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: "Benson Lei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to mount 2 RAID harddisk to a mount point ???
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:14:43 +0800
Hi,
I want to know:
1) My system has 2 Hardware RAID Hard disks.
2) need to mount them together into a directory ( mount point ) "/data".
I know how to mount 1 RAID, but I do not know if 2 RAID Harddisks
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Tar Question
Date: 3 Mar 2000 23:18:44 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a cron job set up to back up my mail files using Tar. Every
>morning, I have an e-mail from cron with the subject of:
>
>/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from archive names
>
>How can I make it so it does not notify me of that anymore? I only
>want cron to tell me if there is an error. I don't consider that
>message an error.
Make the command cd to the directory first and use relative
names ('.' if you are doing the whole directory).
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BJW7TOAEM)
Subject: Where can I find fonts for Linux
Date: 04 Mar 2000 05:36:26 GMT
I am looking for free or not free type 1 fonts that I can use under Linux
in WordPerfect 8 and StarOffice. The one thing that I lack is being able to
make my documents look good with some nice fonts. I would really apprechate
any help, and here is your chance all the people that want to sell their type 1
fonts, I would say I am willing to pay $20 or less (I would like free but hey
when you want something good sometimes you can't get it for free but Linux
defies that.) Thanks for your help.
John H.
Twinkling Of An Eye Ministries Web Site
http://members.aol.com/BJW7TOAEM/index.html
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From: Peter Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo failed?
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 00:35:03 -0500
Hi,
I was trying to install Redhat 6.1's lilo to boot linux and win98.
However, i couldn't make lilo work because it complained about the
amount of cylinders on my HD (13GB) are too large. Therefore I can only
boot linux through boot disk now. I used to install lilo on my another
PC with 3GB HD without problem. Can anyone tell me how to solve this
problem?
thanks!
Pete
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From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 05:51:18 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8817fe$9j7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Lots of discussion here.
> It supports what I said in another thread:
> if you learned on vi, you love it.
> else, you hate it.
Just as with all other blanket statements, this one is wrong. And stupid.
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From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Named Log Messages
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 21:54:26 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am running Redhat 6.1, and named puts a lot of log information into
>> the messages files. I would like to find out how I can stop this.
>> How do I tell syslog or named not to log everything, only errors?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>
>You'll have to edit /etc/syslog.conf. You could send the named
>messages to /dev/null or to a different log.
>
>Thanks, Aaron Newsome
Yes, I am aware of that. But, what do I put for the named messages?
I mean, I know that mail is mail, and news is news. But, what is
named? Is there a facility for named messages?
Jeff
---
Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Tar Question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 21:57:47 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Or you could fix your tar command so that the warning no longer prints.
>
>By defulat tar crates its archive realtive to the current directory. You probably
>are saying something like: tar -cvf xxx.tar /directory. Lose the /directory. Tar
>will know what to do without it.
Here is the command:
/bin/tar --gzip -cpf /home/backup/jeff.tar.gz /home/jeff/INBOX
/home/jeff/mail
Thanks,
Jeff
---
Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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