Linux-Misc Digest #796, Volume #23 Thu, 9 Mar 00 11:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: printing doesn't work, but it does using Samba (Bob Koss)
Re: my login prompt ran away... (Jayan M)
RedHat Enterprise Edition for 8i ("Buck Turgidson")
Re: Using SecurID under Linux (aflinsch)
Re: My 'alias' doesnt' work in X windows ?? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: StarOffice network installation (Kumar Balachandran)
Re: staroffice (Ian Molton)
Re: Which Distribution is best (Rod Smith)
Re: print error when 'lpq' is run... (John Schuster)
Re: Salary? (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Advice needed on JSP and servlets on Linux ("Marquez Brothers")
Re: Advice needed on JSP and servlets on Linux ("Marquez Brothers")
Re: Salary? ("Martin Knoblauch")
[SLRN] Slrn & slrnpull (Stefano Rivoir)
Redhat 6.2beta install problem (Christoph Kukulies)
Why does portmap crash?
Re: ISDN linux (Tim De Vos)
How to repair disk error (zung)
Re: Bizzare X question (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Datek Online OK with RedHat v6.x Java? ("Steve Snyder")
Characters beyond ASCII 127 under Linux (JCA)
Re: Salary? (Paul Jakma)
Re: Salary? (Paul Jakma)
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Subject: Re: printing doesn't work, but it does using Samba
From: Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 13:36:13 GMT
Opinionated <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bob Koss wrote:
>
> > This is a Redhat 5.1 (2.0.34) system with a HP LaserJet 4000
> > attached. The printer works fine if I boot the compter to windows. It
> > also works fine if I boot into Linux and print through samba from
> > another windows machine.
> >
> > If I try to print a netscape page, or if I try to print a file with
> >
> > lpr filename
> >
> > all that happens is a blank page comes out.
> >
> > I just downloaded and installed magic-filter, but that didn't
> > help. Here's my /etc/printcap:
> >
> > lp:\
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> > :mx#0:\
> > :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> > :if=/usr/local/bin/ljet4-filter:
> >
> > I don't know if that's the right filter or not, but I would think
> > something would be printed.
>
> I don't know how to make the entry in text, but if you were to use the
> printtool from Redhat and check in the filter selections for your
> printer, you might see that the fix stair step option is not checked (in
> other words, the filter is only sending Linefeeds, but no Carriage
> Returns. Therefore your text is off the page after the first line of
> text, and all you get is a blank page). Check the fix stair step option
> and print a test ASCII page. You should now see your output.
When I try to select a filter in Printtool, I get the following error:
Error: can't read "printerdb_descr2entry()": no such eleement in array.
--
Robert Koss, Ph.D. | Object Mentor, Inc. | Tel: (800) 338-6716
Senior Consultant | 14619 N Somerset Cr | Fax: (847) 918-1023
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Green Oaks IL 60048 | www.objectmentor.com
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From: Jayan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: my login prompt ran away...
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 17:02:55 -0600
looks like :
- you have your display remapped to some other
machine - probably set the DISPLAY variable in
/etc/profile or so the display is being redirected to
some IP address where you don't have an x-server running
yet..
- and your machine probably is set to boot to X,
runlevel 5 with RH distros..
running 'set | grep -i display' in a telnet session
should tell you where it's being redirected to..
Jayan
Josh Nichols wrote:
>
> I have an interesting problem... I restarted my linux box [RH6.1] for the
> first time in awhile [almost a week] right before going to bed, and didn't
> look to see if it had actually booted... so I get home from school the next
> day to find that it had booted fine, but there was no login prompt! I tried
> restarting, but that didn't help. The weird thing is that I can still
> telnet into it. I'm not exactly sure what I did, but I haven't done
> anything major except playing around with remote X sessions, but nothing
> else... any suggestions?
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat Enterprise Edition for 8i
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 13:53:09 GMT
Has anyone heard any pricing for the packaged version, HW requirements, etc?
I didn't find much on their website
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using SecurID under Linux
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 08:49:49 -0600
Fred Elbel wrote:
>
> Has anyone been successful using a SecurID under Linux (Redhat 5) to
> connect via ppp dial-up? If so, what mechanism did you use?
i use kppp and set the login options to terminal based, then just
enter my userid & pin/SecurId combo when prompted.
> (The SecurID generates a unique password that changes every 30
> seconds. See< http://www.securid.com/ >).
Every one I have ever had generated a new code every 60 seconds.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: My 'alias' doesnt' work in X windows ??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 13:57:27 GMT
On 09 Mar 2000 02:36:14 -0900, Floyd Davidson wrote:
> [ ... ]
> That works, but is unnecessary and might not even be advisable.
> [ ... ]
I've read your response to the original (?) poster with great interest,
since I've been looking for a clean solution myself for quite a while
now. Although I've already read 'man bash' countless times, I somehow
always managed _not_ to stumble across the section on $ENV/$BASH_ENV.
No surprise, given the sheer amount of information that buries the
unsuspecting user upon invocation of 'man bash'. I usually just pick
out whatever I'm looking for, and then quickly leave. ;-)
Anyway, I'm looking into that right now, thanks for the hint!
> >Yes, "-fg red" on the root xterm looks ugly, but at least it keeps
> >me on my toes. ;-)
>
> Lord! I don't think I'd ever get anything done right as root if
> I did that, but it sure is an alarm clock!
>
> I typically put the user's name in the prompt, and have different
> colors for normal user's prompts (cyan) and a root prompt (white)
> (against a black background with text that is goldenrod1).
[zlatko@sphere]:~$ echo $PS1
[\u@\h]:\w\$
You mean something like this? ;-) I've had that for quite a while now,
the "-fg red" is just an additional safeguard, which is not as easy to
miss. Other than that, I like to keep my xterms plain and simple color-
wise (red on white for root, black on white for all others), no fancy
background or prompt color tricks.
This is mainly because I'm using 'mc' almost exclusively, and any prompt
tricks more complicated than what bash natively offers (via the $PS1
mechansim), ie. things like colored prompts, using $PS1 as a dynamically
changing xterm title, etc., tend to screw up its own prompt, or simply
don't work with 'mc'.
Thomas
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From: Kumar Balachandran <kumar*xspam*@*xspam*rtp.ericsson.se>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: StarOffice network installation
Date: 09 Mar 2000 09:02:01 -0500
Some documents will be as big as 1-2 M in size. Why is 1.8 M in each
users directory too much?
>Hi,
>
>I want to setup StarOffice in my network only once, and than every user
>can start it.
>If I install it using the network installation there are 1.8MB placed in
>every users home directory, that's to much for my box. So I thought
>making a Symlink to the /homr/user/Office51 directory might be a good
>idea, but it doesn't work.
>Anyone knows more?
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From: Ian Molton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: staroffice
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 14:09:55 +0000
Bernd Gliss wrote:
>
> what's more, you can copy templates, the address database, as a matter
> of fact everything except the database files in StarBase format
> between NT and Linux. This works just fine.
>
> I'm not a WNT advocate, but I got a Lexmark Z51 printer (1200 dpi) for
> DM 330 that prints fine under NT and not at all under Linux. So,
> there are reasons for using 'Gateware', at least sometimes.
Stop and think - the printer was probably /designed/ to work with
windows, and probably had linux support utterly ignored.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Which Distribution is best
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 14:20:18 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert S. Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm probably going to start a war here, but I'm gonna ask anyway...
>
> Which distribution of Linux do you guys think is best??
For my thoughts on several distributions, see:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/
I plan to update it with information on Mandrake 7.0 and (hopefully) SuSE
6.3 within a week.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Schuster)
Subject: Re: print error when 'lpq' is run...
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 14:06:46 GMT
I missed the original post but, if this is RH 6.1, I had a similar problem and
it turned out to be a bug in the LPR/LPD programs - use RPM to find the latest
and install it. Cured my problems.
Regards,
In article <89ook1$kua$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jgiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>yes the parallel device support is compiled into the kernel... but
>still "no such device" messages with /dev/lp[012]...
>
>jgiles
>
>
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Make sure parallel printer support is enabled in your kernel. Usually,
>if
>> you get a messages stating that /dev/lp... doesn't exist, it's because
>> it's not loaded into the kernel. Make sure you didn't compile it as a
>> module ( you can check in the /lib/modules directory tree ). If it was
>> compiles as a module, load it using 'insmod <the module>'. Good Luck.
>>
>> -Wally
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
John J. Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:39:41 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 08 Mar 2000 19:43:31 -0500...
...and Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > they have tax-free highways.
>
> They get taxed in plenty of other ways.
>
> > they have 6 weeks vacancies, you have 2.5.
>
> I thought it was 5.
My sister got 30 days of paid vacation per year on her first job, I
think. That's six weeks at five days each.
> > . language: hardly understandable or spoken :-)
>
> True. I never had any trouble finding people who spoke better English
> than I do, when I needed help. :)
Germans tend to be better at English grammar than most Americans
because they've had to learn German grammar first ;)
> The US (again, from what I hear) seems to have a vastly superior
> communications infrastructure, overall. Though some parts of Europe
> are pretty well wired, or linux and cryptography software might not
> be so widespread today. :)
Germany, for one, has pretty much the best ISDN network on this
planet; we've got almost a third of our households hooked up to ISDN
by now.
mawa
--
User: Ich h�tte gern ein paar MByte Speicher.
malloc(): OK. Welche Sicherheiten haben sie?
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From: "Marquez Brothers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps,sg.linux
Subject: Re: Advice needed on JSP and servlets on Linux
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:35:43 +0800
JBuilder Foundation for Linux is a scaled down version.
All the features your looking AFAIK, will be available in the Professional
and Enterprise versions.
Mio Marquez
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From: "Marquez Brothers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps,sg.linux
Subject: Re: Advice needed on JSP and servlets on Linux
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:35:43 +0800
JBuilder Foundation for Linux is a scaled down version.
All the features your looking AFAIK, will be available in the Professional
and Enterprise versions.
Mio Marquez
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From: "Martin Knoblauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:36:13 +0100
"Matthias Warkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> It was the 08 Mar 2000 19:43:31 -0500...
>
> Germany, for one, has pretty much the best ISDN network on this
> planet; we've got almost a third of our households hooked up to ISDN
> by now.
>
But then the question is who else is interested in ISDN anyway (besides
Deutsche Telekom). Japan and France I believe are the only counties who
really take it serious. The US definitely not. Now, if DT would be serious
about DSL .....
Martin
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From: Stefano Rivoir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [SLRN] Slrn & slrnpull
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:01:12 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there a way to have slrnpull download *only* and *all* of the new
messages from the newsgroup? In slrnpull.conf I have to specify a
certain number of msg to download, but it gets them even though they
have already been downloaded.
TIA.
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2beta install problem
Date: 9 Mar 2000 14:42:37 GMT
Maybe I was doing something fundamentally wrong but I never
installed a Redhat linux from the net before:
I grabbed the tree beginning in /pub/linux/redhat/redhat-6.2beta/i386
from ftp.cdrom.com as one big .tar (700MB) (this seems to have moved to
ftp.freesoftware.com since yesterday :-O).
I untar'ed the file and burnt a CD (isofs) from it on my HP machine using
'cdrecord'. (May I have goofed the permissions at this stage?)
So the top level of the CD looks like:
.buildlog RPM-GPG-KEY boot.cat images misc
COPYING RedHat doc ls-lR rr_moved
README autorun dosutils ls-lR.gz
Then I dd'd a floppy from the images/boot.img
Booted the floppy and started to automatic installation. After
a short time I got:
exec: Permission denied
install ended abnormally.
The same happened when I tried in expert mode later.
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why does portmap crash?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 14:30:02 GMT
I recently started automatically monitoring rpc services in an attempt to
keep on top of a frequently crashing portmap daemon.
I'm finding that it dies about 3 times/week, seemingly with no explanation
that I can find in the log files.
Is this typical? Is there somewhere I can look for clues?
--
Carrie Coy
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: Tim De Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN linux
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:55:52 +0100
I don't have to dial a "0" to get a dialtone. And the ATX3 command also
gives an ERROR.
Thanks anyway
Tim De Vos
Thomas Hommel wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> >
> > I also can't dial from my Linux machine within minicom. He always
> > says that the line is busy after the following commands:
> >
> > ATZ
> > OK
> > AT&E648
> > OK
> > AT&B512
> > OK
> > ATD617
> > BUSY
> > ATD648
> > BUSY
> >
>
> I guess your ISDN adapter is waiting for a dialtone which it won�t get.
> (You have to dial "0" to get it, right?) Normally you can solve this
> with "ATX3".
>
> Good luck
> Tom
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From: zung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to repair disk error
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:48:50 -0500
My system encounterred a disk error. The disk error message was in
a loop and could not be interrupted. I had to power down to stop it.
Of course it caused inconsistency on the disk and fsck revealed some
errors. But it never completely fixed them.I got the following
every time I ran a fsck
passs 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
}
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=433520,
sector=135089, end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06 (hda), sector 135089
Error reading block 16886 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
resulted in short read) while reading indirect block of inode 7368.
Ignore error<y>?
I let it go and enterred 'y' when prompted for fix<y>?
I ran this s few times but the error remains. If I do some IO (i.e
creating new files) I will encounter the disk error again.
Is there some utility that will fix this for good like 'scandisk'
under Windows ?
D. Nguyen
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bizzare X question
Date: 9 Mar 2000 15:41:02 GMT
2:1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a) run 2 Xs on different virtual terminals
See 'man startx' and 'man xinit'. To run a second X session on VT 8, e.g.:
startx -- :1
> b) run 1 or more Xs that 'dislay' so a bit of system memory (that has
> nothing
> to do with grahics hardware), and then share that memory?
I have no idea what you mean here.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
From: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Datek Online OK with RedHat v6.x Java?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:46:54 GMT
I'm considering a subscription to the Datek Online brokerage firm. My
reason for considering Datek over their competitors is that the their
application is Java-based, which means it will work on the 3 operating
systems I run.
I am currently running RedHat v6.0 (all RH-released updates applied)
but will update to v6.2 when it is released. I am also using Netscape
Communicator v4.72.
Can anyone tell me how the Datek application works in this
environment?
Thanks.
***** Steve Snyder *****
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From: JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Characters beyond ASCII 127 under Linux
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 07:49:59 -0800
I'm sure this has been asked before, but here it goes anyway: Does
anybody
know how to type characters lying beyond position 127 in the ASCII
table, when
using a US keyboard? More specifically, how can one do this from
Netscape's
email client under Linux?
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From: Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 16:02:36 +0000
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
> You're pretty much right on. The risk of getting assaulted in the US is
> relatively low, but a *lot* of people are robbed, usually at gun point.
scary. i couldn't live in a place like that. Of course Dublin City has a
crime problem, but mainly burglary/theft, ie non-violent.
Outside of dublin things are a lot better.
>
> BTW, the cops here not only carry guns, those NYPD guys use them and boy
> do they have itchy trigger fingers
so i've heard. My dad was in the states a long while ago, and he was
driving down a highway and was lost. He saw a patrol car parked at the
side of the road up ahead, and decided to stop and ask the friendly
policemen for directions.
So he pulls up the behind the cop car, get's out and strolls up to cop
car and just as he got to the drivers door, the cop slammed the door
open and pointed a gun at my dad telling him to get down slowly, etc..
So after being frisked against the side of the cop car my dad managed to
explain that he was just a tourist who needed directions. The cop
apologised but explained that he had been suspicious cause in the US
people just don't stroll up to the cops like that!!
scary country....
> --
> Donovan
good luck!
-paul.
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From: Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 16:03:06 +0000
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
> You're pretty much right on. The risk of getting assaulted in the US is
> relatively low, but a *lot* of people are robbed, usually at gun point.
scary. i couldn't live in a place like that. Of course Dublin City has a
crime problem, but mainly burglary/theft, ie non-violent.
Outside of dublin things are a lot better.
>
> BTW, the cops here not only carry guns, those NYPD guys use them and boy
> do they have itchy trigger fingers
so i've heard. My dad was in the states a long while ago, and he was
driving down a highway and was lost. He saw a patrol car parked at the
side of the road up ahead, and decided to stop and ask the friendly
policemen for directions.
So he pulls up the behind the cop car, get's out and strolls up to cop
car and just as he got to the drivers door, the cop slammed the door
open and pointed a gun at my dad telling him to get down slowly, etc..
So after being frisked against the side of the cop car my dad managed to
explain that he was just a tourist who needed directions. The cop
apologised but explained that he had been suspicious cause in the US
people just don't stroll up to the cops like that!!
scary country....
> --
> Donovan
good luck!
-paul.
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