Linux-Misc Digest #765, Volume #23 Mon, 6 Mar 00 11:13:03 EST
Contents:
Easy way 2 upgrade: WS > Server? (Andrew Purugganan)
RH on a laptop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
xmms plays nothing, sound is working ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Computer - Red Hat Linux 6.0 - startx (geniuz)
Re: Linux on IBM Thinkpad 760LD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mozilla anyone? (Aulne)
Re: Salary? ("Joseph T. Adams")
Re: MySQL problems (Neil)
Re: Salary? (Desmond Coughlan)
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Rod Smith)
darwinserver for linux (Yongfeng Luo)
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Rod Smith)
The need for covergence (Andre-John Mas)
Help! can't install XFree86 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SoundBlaster Awe64 PCI? ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Cshell how use the command foreach (Grenel)
Re: Bug in Kernel 2.2.13... ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
XFree86-xfs very slow (Chris Lowth)
40 GB Disk problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mozilla anyone? (JCA)
Loadlin problem (Lars Olsson)
Re: Backup tools / old bru ? (steve)
Re: something like loadkeys for X (Jason Berkan)
"hinted" *.mov file (Yongfeng Luo)
Re: Xircom CBEM56G (steve)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Easy way 2 upgrade: WS > Server?
Date: 6 Mar 2000 11:46:12 GMT
I must have done a full install of Mandrake, Workstation (doh!)
Are there steps I could follow that would make it a server?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH on a laptop
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 12:35:22 -0500
Hello
I can buy a quite cheap laptop, Toshiba Satellite 2100 CDS. Before to
buy it, I'd like to know if it's possible to insall Linux RH on it,
and if there are any limitations. Are all drivers available ?
(soundcard, modem, screen, cdrom and other PCMCIA devices)
Generaly speaking, is it possible to install Linux on most of the
laptops ?
Thank you for your help,
Sacha
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: xmms plays nothing, sound is working
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 12:59:23 GMT
I have xmms-1.0.1-1. I've been upgrading gnome's and many packages
now I found out it stopped working. It launches, and seems it plays
but I hear nothing. It also looks it parses the file too fast.
What could have been ?
gnome-core, gnome-audio ? I've always used rpm to install things so
I don't know what could have been. And going back to the CD packages
will be a pain.
I tried to install latest gnome but I couldn't because it complains
it needs the package windowmanager. That I couldn't find.
Please help me .
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From: geniuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Computer - Red Hat Linux 6.0 - startx
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:30:17 GMT
Hi..... Can anyone help me. I've already installed my red hat linux 6.0 on
my system.
My problem is, when I login and want to startx a error message occur.
The error is..._X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
For your information I'm using graphic card call Creative Graphic Blaster
riva TNT 2 Value (AGP), so how to configure this card.
Can u give me step by step...prosedure. Thank you
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on IBM Thinkpad 760LD
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:34:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Terrio Echavez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I have an IBM Thinkpad 760LD and somewhat successfully installed
> Mandrake 6.1 (I wanted to do Redhat 6.1 but it would not recognize my
> video card and subsequently bombed before the installation even began).
> Anyway Mandrake 6.1 takes a SVGA 680x400 Trident Cyber9320 8-bit fine.
> It fills out the screen, and I'm learning to live with it. Windows 3.11
> uses an IBM supplied Trident Cyber9320 16-bit at 800x 600 fine. Does
> anyone know of another video driver that I can at least 8-bit that would
> go at 800x600 resolution on a Linux system for this Thinkpad?
>
> Also soundblaster works almost fine for the soundcard except it
> interfers with the IRQ of cua1 (com2). When I switch to ESS which also
> works except no wav, at least my modem works. Does anyone know how to
> tweek the soundblaster settings so I can both get sound and use com port
> cua1?
>
I believe mandrake comes with RH's sndconfig. Choose 'manual' setting
instead of 'autodetect'. This comes after 'pretending' you did NOT
hear the sound sample. THen u get to pick DMA, address, etc.
SOmebody might have a better answer but it's worth a shot.
Then it's going to play the sample again.
You could always back out of it if it goes nowhere.
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From: Aulne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mozilla anyone?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:37:26 GMT
Hi all,
I got the latest release of Mozilla as part of a CD-ROM software kit. Is
it worth of installing?
Alain
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From: "Joseph T. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: 6 Mar 2000 13:52:53 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Jose Luis Domingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Here in Spain, if you have just finished your career and ask for a
: salary starting at 7M pesetas ($45K) you will probably end in a mental
: institution.
Even in the U.S., which is one of the highest paying countries in the
world (both in absolute dollars, and as a proportion of the cost of
living), most recent college graduates do not earn $45K per year. But
we have a major shortage of computer professionals in much of the
U.S., and thus salaries, especially in the areas where the shortages
are the worst (the East and West Coasts), are much higher.
: I finished my career in telco's less than a year ago, and what I've been
: told by
: colleagues the same age is that the starting salary is around 3M pesetas
: ($18K). It seems we have to go US or UK to get a decent salary...
This would be barely a living wage for a single person in most of the
U.S., due to the high cost of living. After taxes, it would not be
sufficient to make the mortgage payment on an average home in most
markets, or *any* home in the more expensive parts of the country such
as Silicon Valley or New York City.
Most of the IT people I know earn between $50-$250K per year. The
President of the United States earns only slightly more than that. My
salary is closer to the low end of that range, but I live in an area
with moderate cost of living, so it is reasonably adequate and
comfortable for me.
Joe
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MySQL problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 14:05:25 +0000
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 05:55:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny A. Chaffin) wrote:
>Right, it most likely has to do with the users, databases and hosts files
>that mysql uses to maintain security.
reas the bit in the manual where it explains why you can't have an entry for
localhost and user "*" in the user table....I think you'll find the answer
there.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Desmond Coughlan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: 6 Mar 2000 14:06:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 6 Mar 2000 13:52:53 GMT, Joseph T. Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Here in Spain, if you have just finished your career and ask for a
> : salary starting at 7M pesetas ($45K) you will probably end in a mental
> : institution.
[snip]
> Most of the IT people I know earn between $50-$250K per year. The
> President of the United States earns only slightly more than that. My
> salary is closer to the low end of that range, but I live in an area
> with moderate cost of living, so it is reasonably adequate and
> comfortable for me.
I think it's a myth that wages are higher in the United States, at least
when the high cost of living is taken into account.
I presently earn a tad under 500,000 FFr a year, which I think translates
into about 73,000 US$ per year. That doesn't seem much, but I live in
a relatively large flat, and only pay 4,000 FFr a month (580 US$).
So the wages are lower in Europe, but the cost of living is lower, too.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 14:32:54 GMT
In article <89vaog$j0k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alan Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <J01w4.508$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> It added conversion from primary to logical and vice versa, I think.
Yes, although that's not an ext2fs-specific feature.
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From: Yongfeng Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.mac,alt.macintosh,comp.mac,comp.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: darwinserver for linux
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 09:30:01 -0500
Does anybody here use darwinstreaming server? I get it work for qtime 4.0. But
I do have some problem when using realplayer as client. They both support rstp
in port 7070.
Any idea? or any place maybe helpful for locate the answer?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 14:38:39 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown) writes:
>
> I have PM 4.0, but haven't really been able to play with it. It claims
> my partition table is corrupted. Yet both MS fdisk and Linux fdisk are
> able to work with it. Any suggestions as to how to make my partition
> table acceptable to PM?
PM is *VERY* finicky about the partitions with which it will work. The
single most likely cause of the problem you're seeing is out-of-order
logical partitions. For instance (from Linux fdisk):
/dev/sda5 667 1011 2771181 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 5 666 5317483+ 83 Linux
Note that /dev/sda5 starts AFTER /dev/sda6. PM chokes on this. You CAN fix
this problem by noting the start and end points of the partitions,
deleting ALL logical partitions, and re-creating the partitions with the
EXACT SAME start and end points, in order. If any Linux partitions are
affected, you'll need to change their entries in /etc/fstab, and you may
need to re-run lilo. BE CAREFUL, THOUGH! Sometimes Linux's fdisk can't
create a new partition of the exact correct size. If so, ABORT THE
OPERATION!!! Also, don't try this with any disk partitioning program
except Linux's fdisk; AFAIK, no other program can make the required
changes. (Well, I suppose you could do it with a low-level disk editor,
but I don't know enough about the data structures to say what to change.)
> Also, I've been curious about how PM can resize an ext2 partition, i.e.,
> shrink it. Since ext2fs does not necessarily stuff files in data blocks
> near the beginning of the partition (as I understand it, it looks for a
> data-block-group(s) which have enough contiguous data blocks to store
> the file without fragmentation). But that could mean that cylinders
> toward the end of the partition are being used, even on a lightly
> filled partition. Does PM relocate used data blocks toward the
> beginning of the partition? I don't know of a Linux utility that does.
Yes, PM relocates data blocks as necessary. It does so on all partition
types that it handles (FAT, HPFS, NTFS, ext2fs).
--
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Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: Andre-John Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The need for covergence
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 14:53:54 GMT
Hi,
Being a Linux user and watching the way things are progressing I belive
we have to avoid the Unix syndrome. The unix syndrome being one great
operating system whose distributions have become so incompatible
with each other that it has become a headache to build anything
universal under the platform.
To avoid this problem I believe that once a year the Linux community
needs to identify the elements that are forking into incompatibility
and bring them together to make them work on any Linux distribution.
One of those things that needs addressing, IMHO, is the installer. We
need to come up with an installer that anyone can use and if possible
it should be X based.
Andre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help! can't install XFree86
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:08:40 GMT
Hi,
I downloaded XFree86 3.3.6, package Linux-slibc21.
I did as described in the 00README.FIRST . But when I run the
preinst.sh , I got the message:
"You appear to have an a.out system.
a.out binaries are not available for this release".
What does this mean? I have Debian Linux base install in my Notebook.
Also, when I try to start extract, I got the message:
"bash: extract: command not found".
I already set the downloaded file
extract to executable with "chmod 755 extract".
Can any XFree86 insider give me some hints?
thanks a looooooooooooot for your response.
Ben
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Awe64 PCI?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:33:47 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bo B wrote:
>
> Is there a SB Awe64 PCI version on the market? (ES1371 chip??)
> I found a store selling a SB PCI card, with an ES1371 chip
> with no drivers or docs, pretending to be Awe64, but it's nowhere
> written on the card. The only thing I could find was ES1371 chip.
> I know that Awe64 is usually ISA.
>
> But if it is awe64 PCI, does it work with linux kernel 2.2.14?
> Thanks
> Bo
I don't know if it's an AWE64 or not but if it has an E1371 chip just
configure it as such when you rebuild the kernel. It should work without a
problem.
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From: Grenel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cshell how use the command foreach
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:30:07 GMT
I am working on Sun Solaris system and i m trying to make a script ,but to
make it i must use the foreach command and it does'nt work like i learned
it.
the man exemple for the CShell configuation does'nt work too.
can someone help me ??
thanks
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug in Kernel 2.2.13...
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:41:55 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thierry BUCCO wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there anybody has got this problem ?
>
> 1- I write a session in a cdrom with cdrecord (cdrom still open)
> 2- I mount the cd and i see the session OK
> 3- I umount the cd
> 4- I write another session into cdrom (cdrom still open)
> 5- I mount the cd and i don't see the new session, only the first one...
>
> i must open the tray an close the tray to see the new session.
> I guess the TOC is not refreshed after first session, is there a way to
> see the new session without open the tray ?
>
> With a 2.0.36 kernel it work fine, but now with the new 2.2.13 kernel, i
> have this problem.
>
> my Linux Box contains :
>
> Linux 2.2.13 RedHat 5.2
> Adaptec SCSI Card 2904
> Yamaha 8424 cdrecorder
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> Thierry - FRANCE
>
> What is the person i must contact, when i find a kernel bug ?
I would first mention it to the maintainer of cdrecord to see if someone
has reported it before. If you decide not to do that there is a file in the
kernel source tree that describes how to reoport bugs (I cannot remember
the name right now). Check under /usr/src/linux.
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From: Chris Lowth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XFree86-xfs very slow
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:53:45 +0000
I have a redhat 6.0 box - its an i486/50dx machine - nothing
flash. Running XFree86 and netscape.
I dont expect miracles, but I have found there is a severe speed problem
with XFS. It manifests itself as a 2 minute delay in the start=up of
netscape.
Even "xbanner" takes 90 seconds to run.
Using "ps -A x" I have noted that all the time delay is being mopped up in
"user land" loops in the xfs server.
I have even re-installed redhat 5.2, 6.0, 6.1 and caldera 1.3 - ALL have
the same problem.
Am I missing something here - is this a bug, or do I really have to live
with the auful though that Windows is better than linux on this box - I
think I really couldnt handle that!
Chris.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 40 GB Disk problems
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:38:56 GMT
Hi
I have recently bought a 40 GB Maxtor disk. After upgrading
my motherboard bios, it was recognized all right (4982 cyl, 255,63 in
LBA mode).
However, my RedHat 6.1 seems to have a problem with it. Fdisk
will report 870 cyl (???). I managed to create a large filesystem
(38GB) by changing the number of cylinders manually. When I try to mount
it though, I get a lot of errors. E2fsck also reports several dup inodes
among plenty of other errors.
Does anybody know what is going on? Fdisk does seem to be unable to
handle more than 4k cyl. Is this correct?
Any suggestions appreciated
Thanks
Carlos A Ruggiero
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From: JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mozilla anyone?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 07:43:20 -0800
Aulne wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I got the latest release of Mozilla as part of a CD-ROM software kit. Is
> it worth of installing?
>
I don't know what you have in your CD, but do download M14 from the
network: it's certainly worth the while.
>
> Alain
>
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From: Lars Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Loadlin problem
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:45:41 +0100
I�ve just got loadlin to work
with a nice startmenu and everything...but
Problem:
After starting linux with Loadlin, only half of
my available memory (128 MB) is left for Linux.
Available memory = 64 MB
Solution:
You fill in the blank!
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From: steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backup tools / old bru ?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:51:33 -0700
Donald Arseneau wrote:
> I've been using bru for backups, but after updating libraries it stopped
> working (segfault). I see that my copy is dated from the original Redhat
> 5.1 install, and hasn't been updated. Seems I've been caught in the
> closed-source trap! Without sources I can't recompile.
>
> Is bru really commercial/closed source? Does anyone have experience
> keeping an old version running? I tried installing old libraries
> in parallel, and had to boot from a rescue disk to recover.
>
> How about recommendations for a replacement? Am I stuck with tar
> and dump?
>
> Donald Arseneau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use the same version of bru with my 2.2 kernel system without a
hitch. Programs compiled against glibc 2.0.* _should_ work with glibc
2.1.*, in my case, bru works fine. Sounds like you may have an incomplete
update.
-steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Berkan)
Subject: Re: something like loadkeys for X
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:16:26 GMT
On Sat, 04 Mar 2000 15:09:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Aron Felix Gurski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> > We had a broken keyboard today (broken a key) I tried using the
>> > loadkeys cmd with a modified keymap (changed "caps lock" to "a")
>which
>> > works fine on a plain tty but dosn't work under X. How do you remap
>the
>> > keyboard for X ?
>>
>> Try
>> man xmodmap
>>
>> --
>Yup, that does it; how simple. Not that it matters anymore, (new
>keybord) but out of curiosity, I wonder how you do this in microsoft?
Use ANSI.SYS to remap the keys. (This is for DOS - I have no idea how
to do it in Win9x.)
Cheers,
Jason Berkan
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From: Yongfeng Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: "hinted" *.mov file
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 10:57:50 -0500
I have another problem with the playing *.mov through network using
daringstreaming server/qtime 4.0. I was told the file format is not supported
sometime. And I was told by http://www.apple.com/quicktime/servers/qtssfaq.html
to "hint" the *.mov file. Is that right? how could i do that?
roy
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From: steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xircom CBEM56G
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 09:08:00 -0700
CC wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've installed winlinux 2000 in my Inspiron 3700 a few days ago.
> Similarly, my card is correctly recognised but the modem was installed
> on ttyS0 for some reasons. But i've check that the /dev/modem is
> actually point to ttyS4?! I'm wondering do i have to assign my modem to
> COM5 (which is set in my machine under win98)? If yes, how?
>
> Actualy, i'm a newbie in Linux and this is the first time i've
> installed Linux in my machine. I've read some howtos in order to find
> some help but still don't have a clue of what's going on.
>
> It would be greatly appreciated if any of the experts out there could
> drop me some hints. Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cedric
>
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> Before you buy.
You can use Xircom's utilities to change the COM port to a COM2-4. The
out of box kernel will only set-up ttyS0-ttyS3, because this is the
standard
PC configuration. If you would like to use COM5, then use setserial
/dev/ttyS4
irq=? port=? , you'll have to find out the port and IRQ's assigned to your
modem.
These are set using software, I believe. I use a Xircom 10/100TX+56k
RealPort
with Linux, works great, so yours should work fine. The /dev/modem is just
a link
to the actual tty, you don't need to use it. After you get things working,
if you want
to use /dev/modem, just ln -s /dev/ttyS? /dev/modem to create the link
(you may
have to delete the old one first).
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