Linux-Misc Digest #797, Volume #23 Thu, 9 Mar 00 13:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Best HTML tool for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Boot Partition Too Big ("Let")
Re: Linux NICs ("David S. DeWitt")
Re: Memory tuning...anyone? ("David ..")
Re: sound (Jason Berkan)
Re: LIL- (LILO boot error) (Leonard Evens)
ATAPI and precompiled kernels (Andre-John Mas)
Converting documents (William Clifford)
Re: web-page design (Anders �quist)
Re: Mandrake 7 and NT4 (Duy Duong)
Re: mt eod buggy? (Leonard Evens)
gcc and binutils (mblum)
Controlling audio CD changer from Linux? (Hemant Shah)
building and modifying libraries (Ramin Sina)
Building and modifying libraries (Ramin Sina)
Re: apache and case sensativity (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Bizzare X question (Vilmos Soti)
Re: How to repair disk error (Vilmos Soti)
automatic virusscan update ("jmr")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Best HTML tool for Linux
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:56:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bernd Gliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> one reason for not using an html-editor is version control! If
> html-files are kept under version control (as might be company policy)
> a slight change in the file (thru the tool) will generate an abundance
> of change notices when comparing the changed file to the original one.
>
> I use emacs in html-mode. Bernd Gliss
>
This is going to be an issue for me because my company requires version
control. i've been using home site, and eventually we'll have to do to
do version control on an apache server. i had a question though about
emacs. i've read a little about it and i know it's versatile. What
is "emacs in html-mode"? Can you explain?
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From: "Let" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot Partition Too Big
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 00:03:40 +0800
I'm running Windows 98(SE) on a 20.5GB hard disk with a primary and an ext.
partition (C: and D:). I tried installing Red Hat 6.1 and I had this "boot
partition too big " problem while attempting to add a mount point for /, but
no problems for /usr...etc.
If anyone knows what I'm talking about (cause I don't know if I make any
sense) I'd gladly hear from you.
Thanks a million.
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From: "David S. DeWitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux NICs
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:32:28 -0600
Have some fun and go to your local computer show, and find the cheapest card
around. Then the real fun starts. I happened to pick up a couple 10/100
cards for $7.50 each. Work fine in win 98 but with Linux was a little more
difficult. The tulip.o driver should haved worked, but I had to step back
to it predecessor DEC2x45 ( or something like that) since then everything
flies.
Good luck
David
"Andy9701" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8a6von$iej$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What would you recommend for a PCI NIC that always works for Linux?
> I'm looking at the $20-30 price range here, so that kinda rules out
> 3Com. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> In article <8a6tsl$88j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome wrote:
> > Andy9701 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > |I'm in the market for a new NIC for my Linux box. The card I'm
> > |currently looking at is the Netgear FA310TX, and I'm wondering how
> well
> > |it works with Linux. After I setup my ip, gateway, etc., does it
> > |always work without a hitch? Or does it "work" with Linux, only
> after
> > |days of playing around with it?
> > |
> > |As a side note, if it does work well with Linux, which module does it
> > |use?
> >
> > It is a Lite-On PNIC based card. The tulip driver supports it.
> > However, I have seen it not work in some Linux computers (but work
> > in others).
> >
> > The old ones with the DEC 21140 chip on them always work on Linux
> > (with the tulip driver) in my experience.
> >
> > --
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > Timothy J. Lee
> timlee@
> > Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome.
> netcom.com
> > No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
> >
>
>
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory tuning...anyone?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:44:33 -0600
I use echo "256 512 768" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
echo "2 10 60" > /proc/sys/vm/buffermem
echo "2 15 75" > /proc/sys/vm/pagecache
kswap not used.
With 256M physical memory.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Berkan)
Subject: Re: sound
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:57:16 GMT
>On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:01:23 -0500, constants <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I installed linux mandrake 7 and got the sound working. Now it won't work
>>under windows 98. Has anybody had this problem and if yes what can I do to
>>fix it?
As sound not working in Windows is not a Linux problem, I would
recommend asking for help in one of the Windows newsgroups.
My quick guess is that you changed the PnP OS setting in your BIOS and
now Windows is looking in the wrong place for the sound card.
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 11:52:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>Billy sux as you can see. Anyway I have no dual boot, just a plain, vanilla
>Linux so i can't help you. I am sorry.
Then why bother to reply? What would happen if I chose to reply "I
don't know" to every post here?
Cheers,
Jason Berkan
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: LIL- (LILO boot error)
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:43:01 -0600
jianhong wrote:
>
> HI Everyone,
>
> Can anyone help me please?
>
> I was playing with ethernet card over last weekend and somehow
> got things screwed up and now when I turn on the computer it
> would stop at LIL-.
>
> I was playing with a file under /etc/rc.d/rc3.d.
> Could this be the cause?
>
> This computer has RedHat Linux 5.2, Win95 and NT4.
> NT OS loader is used to load LILO.
> Win95 and NT4 work fine.
> But it would stop after printing out "LIL-" when linux was selected
> from NT OS loader.
>
> Thanks a lot.
> Jianhong
>From the Lilo User's Guide.
LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused
by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running
the map installer.
You might try removing the lilo package and then reinstalling
it.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Andre-John Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATAPI and precompiled kernels
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:02:13 GMT
Can anyone tell me why most Linuc distributions aren't preocompiled
so that the ATAPI support is automatically built in, rather than
getting most people to play around with kernel configurations?
The number of people wanting to use ATAPI for their IDE HDs and
their CD drives is hardly a minority anymore.
I am sure there is some good reason, but it doesn't seem to make
itself apparent at the moment.
Andre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Clifford)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Converting documents
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:18:57 GMT
Hopefully this is less clueless that is typical of the Linux newbie.
I have a ton of word 6.0 and word 98 documents. I would like to
convert them to plain ascii texts and then format them to have line
breaks every 72 columns. Is it too much to ask that there be a program
that will do this without having me open them all up in word and
resave them?
Thanks in advance.
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From: Anders �quist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: web-page design
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:14:30 GMT
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 19:12:22 +0100, Norbert Zawodsky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote something like:
>mitja wrote:
>>
>
>> Webmaker
>> Webdesigner
>
>Where can I get them?
>
>Norbert
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From: Duy Duong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7 and NT4
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 11:17:06 -0600
Kurt cobain wrote:
> hello
> i have windown NT4 and all my partitions are on NTSF
> the linux partation on normal FAT
> when im trying to install the mandrake 7 its ok
> but after the RESTART i cant get the lilo
> and im getting "01" all over the screen
> what to do?
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/F
Reinstall.
Why do you have linux on a fat parition? Put linux on its own partition
ext2.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: mt eod buggy?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:51:39 -0600
Michael Stammberger wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> For a simple backup I want to write multiple files on a HP streamer
> (DDS2).
> At the beginning of the tape I write a full backup of the whole system
> using "tar". That works correctly.
> The next 6 days I'll do only differential backups which should be
> written on the same tape behind the full backup. (Not appended to the
> first backup, but as a separate file!)
> To position the tape at the end of the other backups I use "mt eod".
> But here is the problem:
> "mt eod" does not find the end of the data.
> Only I have done a shorter backup (or a differential) "mt eod" will find
> the end. I tried to write some EOF after the end of the first long
> (full) backup. No effect!
>
> I use the device /dev/nst0 (not rewinding) to access the streamer.
> The tapes were erased before doing the full backup.
> I tried this with two different streamers so I don't think it's a
> hardware problem.
>
> It seems to me that the "mt eod" command is buggy.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Michael
> --
> People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees
> results.
> - Albert Einstein
I've found that many mt commands don't work as expected with
the tape drives I've used under Linux. For example, if
you create successive tar archives using /dev/nst0 you find
that fsf won't work. They all seem to be part of file 0.
The only solution I've found, which seems to work is to
use mt -f /dev/nst0 weof after each tar archive is written.
Then I can use mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf N where N has to be twice
the number of archives to skip. If you keep track of
the number, then you should be able to place the tape after the
last archive. But you should try some experiments.
Since there are obviously deficiencies in mt, these problems
may be resolved in later relases.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: mblum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gcc and binutils
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:26:06 +0000
When trying to install gcc on my Linux mandrake 6.0 I'm told that I
need to have binutils in a path that gcc can find. I've installed
binutils but I can't find it anywhere on my HD. RPM program says it's in
an area called "Tools" and so is on the HD.
My question is: How do I find it in order to put it in a path that gcc
recognizes? Or is there something else that needs to be done so gcc can
find it? I'm new to Linux, so please keep it simple. Thank you very
much.
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From: Hemant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Controlling audio CD changer from Linux?
Date: 9 Mar 2000 17:26:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Folks,
Last weekend I was visiting the local Audio/Video store and was
intrigued by a new device they had. I forgot the name of the company,
but the device can control Audio CD changer (200+ CDs in one player).
You can catalog and search/play each CD by title,movie,singer etc
and even program the sequence in which you want to play the songs. It
was able to connect to internet via built-in modem so that you can
download the icons for the Album cover, while you are bworsing your
collection it can show you the album cover. The video/output was sent
to the TV. it had a wireless keyboard with built in track ball. It
had 9-pin serial port in the back and a special cable that plugged
into the serial port of the device and the controller input of the CD
changer. I was ready to buy it until I asked for the price ($3000.00
for audio and $5000 for DVD).
I am sure it can be easily written in C, Tcl/Tk or perl/Tk on linux
for lot less money.
Is there a standard command set for the CD changers? Apparently this
device can control CD changer from any manufacturer.
I am thinking of using my old PC (90Mhz Pentium) with a cheap video
card that can be connected to the TV, and writing a software to
control the CD and DVD changer.
Has anybody looked into this and point me in right direction?
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
Subject: building and modifying libraries
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 12:26:58 -0500
Hi all,
I am trying to add an object file (.o) to a .so library. Here is the
error I get
[sina@iss]$ ar -q ATICCdf.o libaticcdf.so
ar: ATICCdf.o: File format not recognized
[sina@iss]$
I have used g++ with -Wall option (On this same Red Hat 6.0 machine) to
make the objectfile but ATICCdf.o
What am I doing wrong here?
Also another thing I couldn't find in the man pages: If a linking gives
error that there are
undefined refernces to an abject file foo.o, how can I search all the
libraries on my machine to find out
which one contains this object file and therefore should have been
included in the makefile.
Thanks,
Ramin Sina
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Building and modifying libraries
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 12:30:32 -0500
Hi all,
I am trying to add an object file (.o) to a .so library. Here is the
error I get
[sina@iss]$ ar -q ATICCdf.o libaticcdf.so
ar: ATICCdf.o: File format not recognized
[sina@iss]$
I have used g++ with -Wall option (On this same Red Hat 6.1 machine) to
make the objectfile ATICCdf.o
What am I doing wrong here?
Also another thing I couldn't find in the man pages: If a linking gives
error that there are undefined refernces to an abject file foo.o, how
can I search all the libraries on my machine to find out which one
contains this missing object file?
Thanks,
Ramin Sina
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Subject: Re: apache and case sensativity
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:54:04 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse) writes:
> >It is not an Apache problem. It is a Windows one since that's
> >filesystem is case insensitive. The Unix filesystems are case
> >sensitive. I don't think there is much you can do about it but who knows.
> >
> >Vilmos
>
> What about these options from smb.conf?
That is Samba. Since Samba is a tool to interact with Windows machines, it
has to have a way to work around the Windows' annoyances.
Apache has nothing to do with Windows, so there is no need to do
it. If you have just moved your pages from a Windows box, and the
links don't correspond to the actual filenames, then it is not
Apache's fault. It is either the fault of the filesystem of the
Windows machine (case insensitiveness), or the coder who didn't
take care of it.
Vilmos
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Subject: Re: Bizzare X question
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:59:40 GMT
2:1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can I
>
> a) run 2 Xs on different virtual terminals
This was already answered.
> 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?
It is not clear for me what you want to do here. Do you want to run
X within a window of another X? If so, then Xnest is your friend.
Vilmos
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Subject: Re: How to repair disk error
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 18:01:23 GMT
zung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
When I had these messages, my disk was dying. You might better backup
your vital data and move it to another disk.
Vilmos
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From: "jmr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: automatic virusscan update
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 19:04:07 +0100
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Hi!
I was trying to implement an automatic update for my mcafee virus =
scanner.
Unfortunately the cron job only outputs this:
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log in.
Login failed.
/usr/local/uvscan/upd-dat.sh: [: integer expression expected after -ge
tar: dat-*.tar: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: dat-*.tar: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/usr/local/uvscan/upd-dat.sh: [: integer expression expected after -eq
As the manual describes, I used the .netrc file to automate the ftp =
login etc.
Any idea what could be going wrong?
Regards!=20
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