Linux-Misc Digest #837, Volume #23 Mon, 13 Mar 00 15:13:04 EST
Contents:
Call for Papers (Matthias Grimm)
Re: question on squid (Robie Basak)
Re: Need KPanel to go away; Kppp says PPP not supported by kernel (Robie Basak)
sudden printing problem (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: can't download rpms (Bob Hauck)
Re: how can my scripts know Linux has made a ppp connection? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: How to install new network Ethernet adapter?!! (Lori Holder-Webb)
Re: auto mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
iso image question (Duy Duong)
Re: How To setup users and groups on Linux ("Garen Erdoisa")
Drivers for the soundchip ESS 1978 (Andreas Graef)
ZOOM DualMode 56k ISA Faxmodem Model 2919 (Bill B.)
Re: Help please, boot broblem (Bill B.)
Re: help:Need a good editor... (Cevat Ustun)
Re: Question about multiple tcp/ip host addresses ("J. Cunningham")
Re: Telnet to Unix box (Floyd Davidson)
Re: User password required to reboot (Leonard Evens)
Re: sudden printing problem (Leonard Evens)
Excessive hard drive paging (Doug Bible)
LILO MBR Failure/Virus? (No Spam)
Re: preferences ("Donald E. Stidwell")
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From: Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Call for Papers
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:52:06 +0100
Hi,
Possibly you have heard about it: In May 2000 the 2nd Brunswick
Linux-Days will take place in Brunswick/Germany (Braunschweig).
For this great Linux event we are looking for speakers for any kind
of topic around Linux.
For all information you need regarding the event and the call for
papers please have a look at
http://www.braunschweiger.linuxtage.de/cfp.html
http://www.braunschweiger.linuxtage.de
Regards
Matthias Grimm
member of organizer-team
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: question on squid
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Mar 2000 02:36:59 GMT
Hmmm. I think you're a bit confused as to squid and mail. Squid is a
proxy server which functions for http only, not mail nor DNS. When you
attempt to access something from inside the network via http, the
request goes to the proxy (squid) by way of your browser
configuration. Squid will then do the DNS lookup and pass the request
on (if squid is configured to pass the request on to another proxy, it
doesn't do the lookup, but passes the name on).
This means that DNS lookups are done from your Linux box, which is why
http works.
I assume that your internet connection gives you a single IP, and that
you are using private network addresses for your other computers. If
this is the case, then you need to use IP masquerading for connections
to your mail server.
DNS is another matter - you'll need to set up a caching DNS server on
your Linux box, but you can avoid this if you know your mail and news
servers IP's and don't need to lookup anything else (just enter the
IP's manually where necessary).
Robie.
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 00:18:07 -0600, Paul Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know this is likely OT, but I can't find a suitable group at this
>time.
>
>Would someone either point me to the correct group, or answer what I
>hope is a simple question?
>
>I have squid running on RH6.1 and http works fine all across the
>network. I can't get any configuration to allow for mail. I have looked
>at working squid.conf files and have made all appropriate changes. I
>have checked my /etc/hosts file, and believe there are no problems
>there. I have more than once checked the NS proxy config, and don't
>think there is a problem there. This is obviously either a brain fart or
>a mistaken assumption (aka brain fart as well).
>
>Once I configured my NS5.61 on my linux box to use it, my mail dumped as
>well it would seem, but I get no error message from it.
>
>The other machines can't seem to find the DNS host (ISP DNS server) for
>mail or news, nor will ping and tracert (win98) seem to get through the
>proxy either. However, DNS for HTTP seems to be fine.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>--
>"No matter what you say,
>No matter what you do,
>You are annoying.
>BOFH and proud!!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Need KPanel to go away; Kppp says PPP not supported by kernel
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Mar 2000 02:48:51 GMT
Bob,
kpanel is started from the startkde script - I'm not sure where it is
on Red Hat, do a 'whereis startkde'. BTW a non-root user could just
run it by pressing Alt-F2 or something. I'm not sure about virtual
desktops, but note that Ctrl-Tab by default switches desktops; I'm not
sure if it does this when kpanel isn't running, you might want to
check.
kppp displays that as the kernel has changed since, so it confuses
kppp. You can fix that by either downgrading the kernel (sorry, I'm
not sure which version), or by altering the kppp source slightly.
Robie.
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:14:03 -0500, Bob Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi-
>
> I am running Red Hat Linux 6.1 using KDE.
>
> I am trying to set up a machine for a business purpose
>so a person who doesn't know much about computers can
>only long in and run a shell script on a desktop icon.
>
> The shell script makes use of some KDE components, so
>I want to avoid using anything other than KDE.
>
> I have the following two puzzles left to figure out:
>
>a) Where can I find out how to make the K Panel go away for a
>non-root user? The docs installed with it don't seem to tell me
>how to do this. I've used kmenuedit to make all the menu choices
>disappear,
>but there are still some left. I would just as soon have the panel
>disappear altogether. I'm about to start experiment with giving
>the "kill" command suid access, but I'm hoping there's a better way.
>
> If I can't make the KPanel go away, how can I make the
>number of virtual desktops be 1? The slider bar in the configuration
>menu has a minimum of 2. When I edit the file $HOME/.kde/config/kwmrc
>and change the [NumberofDesktops] line to 1, it gets automatically
>reset to 2 every time I log in.
>
>b) The first time a non-root user starts up kppp, they get a message
>saying the kernel doesn't support ppp. Everything works fine
>after that, but the message is a little annoying. kppp is setup for
>suid and the lock file is disabled. Any ideas how to make the
>dialog box stop happening?
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>-Bob
>
--
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: sudden printing problem
Date: 13 Mar 2000 18:46:57 GMT
Hi,
I am experiencing a strange printing problem:
- ascii files don't print
- postscript files do print but the printing started "before" the actual page
(i.e. it lacks things near top of page) plus the vertical spacing is
completely screwed up (i.e. no vertical spacing, lines touch each other)
This happened after a few months of perfect printing. I am using the
apsfilter package that came with slackware 3.6. It is using the laserjet 4
driver for an HP Laserjet 5MP (this worked for several months).
I do not see anything strange in the logs...
Any hints are appreciated,
Stefano
--
Stefano Ghirlanda, Zoologiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], tel: +46-8-164055, fax: +46-8-167715
the free science campaign: http://ethology.zool.su.se/freescience
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: can't download rpms
Date: 13 Mar 2000 18:50:01 GMT
Reply-To: bobh{at}slc{dot}codem{dot}com
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:51:52 +0000, Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Try software like GetRight that will allow you to resume where you left
>off.
Regular ftp will do that too, with the "reget" command.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how can my scripts know Linux has made a ppp connection?
Date: 13 Mar 2000 08:58:18 -0900
Koos Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Floyd Davidson wrote:
>> Koos Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >* wrote:
>> >>
>> >> pppd will execute the contents of the file /etc/ppp/ip-up
>> >> when it successfully negotiates a ppp connection
>> >
>> >Congrats! Of all options, this is the only *real*
>> >solution. ALL others solutions (netstat, ifconfig, etc) can
>> >NOT be trusted to be working correctly in all
>> >sitiations. This is the only one to have a guaranteed valid
>> >result.
>>
>> How is that more reliable that netstat or ifconfig? What
>> circumstance will it be correct when ifconfig, for example,
>> will not be?
>
>On my system, if I do a "/sbin/isdnctrl hangup ippp0", the
>ifconfig output still shows the ippp0 interface as up. The
>ifconfig output for checking if one has an internet connection
>is probably the worst one. Also reports have been made of
>netstat lagging behind with the actual status of the ISDN
>channels. I don't know if that is reproducible, but then
>again... Alas I don't recall if I learned that through a
>newsgroup or a website or a mailinglist :-(
Hmmm... !!! That is an interesting example. I'm not sure if
that is or is not a bug in isdnctrl. The interface may have to
be up in order to do call setup on the D channel, I'm not sure
(and have no ISDN to check it out).
Thanks for posting it.
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: Lori Holder-Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install new network Ethernet adapter?!!
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:43:52 -0600
Matheus Cunha Torres wrote:
>
> Go to /usr/src/linux and run "make menuconfig". At "Network device
> support" options, you'll find a driver for Realtek. Mark it as a kernel
> built-in (*) or a module (M). If you use it as a module, you'll have
> to insmod it later (probably "insmod rtl8139").
Could be, but the kernel module for *my* Realtek card is ne2k-pci, so
you will need to check to see which one you have to use. To do this,
find out what the chipset is on your ethernet card (all my cards have
this information printed on the chip itself). Then go to this link and
search for your chipset:
http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/intel/61/rh6.1-hcl-i.ld-11.html
When you find the chipset, look at the table that appears just _under_
the line where the name of the chipset is - that should give you all the
info you need, including the name of the correct kernel module and any
other stuff that is required.
Realteks are pretty common, so before you recompile the kernel (and the
directions Matheus gave are pretty good, even if you are a beginner) you
should check to see if you already have access to that module.
Depending on the distribution you are using, it can be really easy to
get the right module to load in at boot time.
Good luck!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: auto mail
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:10:16 GMT
I don't know what you're using it for exactly.
but if you just want to do something specific when getting
a message with a specific subject you should man procmail
if its not on your system it should be.
hope that helps
-S
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
jasbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> does anyone know how i can auto send someone mail when someone make a
> request to my server that saids "subscribe"??
>
> thanks alot
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Duy Duong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: iso image question
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:23:46 -0600
hi,
Is is possible to open a iso image file without burning it to a CD?
I'd like to do a HD install.
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From: "Garen Erdoisa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How To setup users and groups on Linux
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:31:47 -0700
You'll find that setting the sgid bit (set group id) on directories to be
usefull when working with group project directories, as this will tend to
force any file created in such a directory to retain the group membership of
the parent directory when new files are created in that directory instead of
retaining the default group of the member creating the file.
Usually there is no need to do the same on the owner.
Also checkout the following man pages for the commands:
gpasswd (administor the /etc/group file)
groupadd (create a new group)
groupdel (delete a group)
groupmod (modify a group)
grpck (verify integrity of group files)
newgrp (sets your current default group which is otherwise the first
group listed in /etc/group for a given username)
chown (sets the owner and group on a file and directories)
chgrp (sets the group on a files and directories)
chmod (sets the various permissions on files and directories.)
group (shows the format for the /etc/group file)
If you are using shadow passwords, there is also an /etc/gshadow file you
can use to hold the shadow passwords for groups.
If a password is set for a group, then using the newgrp command will prompt
for the password before switching the default.
Wayne Hendricks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8aiq9i$70n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hey All
>
> I am moving from Novell to Linux as my server and am trying to understand
> the concepts used in Linux to define groups, users and rights
(permissions)
> to files and directories.
>
> The only info I managed to find was on the persmissions and how to change
> these and the creation of groups and users.
>
> My problem is this....
>
> If user KEVIN creates a file in a group directory eg ALL and the rights
for
> all members of the direcories is set as full ie the 777 how can another
user
> log in and use and change the same file if they are a member of the group
> without having to run chown all the time.
>
> Is there something I am missing here or a document which explains the
> processe involved as I am lost on this issue.
>
> Thanks a mil
>
> Wayne Hendricks
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:38:04 +0100
From: Andreas Graef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Drivers for the soundchip ESS 1978
Does anyone here in have drivers for this chip???
The others don't function with the built-in chip in my notebook (es1971
etc).
Thanks,
Andreas
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From: Bill B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ZOOM DualMode 56k ISA Faxmodem Model 2919
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:30:17 GMT
basiaclly how do i get the darned thing working? i have Redhat 6.1
Standard and a full installation. any and all help would be greatly
appreciated. thanks in advance.
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From: Bill B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help please, boot broblem
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:30:17 GMT
The easiest thing to do would be to run the linux install all over again
and install LILO in your MBR (MAster Boot Record) hope this helps.
Bill
/Christophe wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Finally, I could have my 2 UDMA HD to work with RedHat (6.2 , because it
> includes support for my video card). But, unfortunatly, I'm still facing
a
> problem:
> 2 Hard disks:
>
> - HD1 (ide3 according to the mother board, ide2 according to Linux;
Master):
> Primary: Win 98
> Primary: Win NT
> Primary: Backup
> Extended: several FAT16 and one FAT32
>
> HD2 (ide4 according to the mother board, ide3 according to Linux;
Master):
> Primary: /
> Extended: /usr; /home; SWAP
> This disk is dedicated to Linux. During the install (Custom), I installed
> LILO on the first partition, not on the MBR.
>
> I'm using Partition Magic to boot (more accuratly, I'm using BootMagic,
> installed on HD1) which works perfectly with 98 and NT. So, I added
Linux.
>
> The problem: I can't boot Linux: when I choose Linux within BootMagic,
> nothing happens :-((. It just displays something like "Launching Linux"
and
> doesn't do
> anything else. If I want to run Linux, I need to boot on a floppy, which
is
> not an acceptable solution.
>
> Did I miss something ? Can this configuration work ?
>
> Many thanks in advance for any clue/solution.
> PS: I would prefer to keep BootMagic instead of Lilo.
>
> /Christophe
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From: Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help:Need a good editor...
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:49:17 GMT
Thanks for the replies guys! I got the job done painlessly.
Cev.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
From: "J. Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question about multiple tcp/ip host addresses
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:19:20 GMT
Thanks for the link. I'll read up on the kppp setup. On the 172.16
addresses: I didn't just grab any old address. According to several
books I've read on tcp/ip, the 172.16 addresses are one of the three
sets of official non-routable addresses used for local area networks
such as mine. You mentioned the other two. So, I assume I will have to
read up on IP masquerading and turn it on as well.
Thank you.
Jeff Cunningham
> However, where did you get those 172.16 addresses from? Youcannont
> simply grab any old address. a) someone else may own it, and b no router
> will know how to get packets to you.
> If you have not been officially assined those addresses, use
> 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x as they have officially been assigned as
> non-routable addresses which can be used for privat networks.
>
> If 172.16 is official, then all you have to do is to get the machine you
> telephone to to know that it must route all such packets to your
> machine.
> Otherwise you must use IP masquarading ( and no youdo not have to
> recompile your kernel. It is already in there. That is one reason modern
> distro kernels are so big-- they have everything in them).
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Telnet to Unix box
Date: 13 Mar 2000 10:06:16 -0900
"G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Floyd Davidson wrote:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herb Stein) wrote:
>> >Now wait a minute Floyd. I do not actually use Linux in the
>> >windowing environment, but my Unix recollection is that an
>> >rlogin or telnet window can easily be VT100 compatible. It has
>> >been a while but it works like that from another non-windows
>> >system.
>>
>> Why would it? It's invoked from a command line, so you
>> necessarily are already using either a terminal or a terminal
>> emulator of some kind. All it does is pass the TERM variable to
>> the environment at the remote host so that it knows what kind of
>> a terminal is being used.
>
>If you have set it. Otherwise ... It is the user's responsibilty
It passes it, period, whether you have set it or not. Whether
it is properly defined is the issue. Setting TERM to "vt220",
for example, only makes sense when the user's terminal is in
fact emulating a vt220. It makes no sense at all when the local
terminal is a linux console, xterm or other non-vt220 terminal.
>to define his environment. Often the sysadmin will provide
>a 'canned' envrinoment for naive users but the user is still
>responsible for ensuring that his environment provides useful
>information to remote systems. So how does a user ensure his
>environment is reasonable? By using one of the methods discussed.
The methods discussed are all reasonable, but setting it to
various *wrong* terminal types is not reasonable. That was the
point.
>> Try setting your TERM variable to some wierdly named vt100 type,
>> say for example a DT80. Telnet to some distant host and see
>> what the TERM variable has been set to! (You might want to
>> leave it set to a DT80, it might be a better description of the
>> terminal attributes than is a vt100 description!)
>>
>
>Telnet does not really care about $TERM. (see telnet(1)) so I don't see
>the point of your arguement. If, on the other hand, we talk about rlogin
See telnet(1):
ENVIRONMENT
Telnet uses at least the HOME, SHELL, DISPLAY, and TERM
environment variables. Other environment variables may
be propagated to the other side via the TELNET ENVIRON
option.
>and family, then we can discuss environment
>definitions such as TERM. Why? Because the rlogin family does
>pass along the user's environment.
See rlogin(1):
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variable is utilized by rlogin:
TERM Determines the user's terminal type.
As regards the TERM variable, rlogin and telnet are *identical*
in that the value of the current environment on the local host
is passed to the remote host and will be set when logging in.
> This might affect use of
>screen-oriented tools like vi if the passed $TERM is not recognized.
It is not a "might affect" situation. It *definitely* will affect.
> The
>solution use tset or other method to synchronize
>definitions so that tools will behave in an expected manner. i.e.
>providing a bad definition is probably a more silly thing to do
>than to let the connection take care of itself.
Ahem... my point was that setting it to a *valid* terminal
rather than aribtrarily selecting among various *invalid*
terminals is indeed the correct solution. Whether it is done
with tset or other means, if the TERM variable at the remote
host is set to vt220 when in fact the terminal is a linux
console, _it_won't_work_properly.
It appears that many people are not fully aware of what the use
of tset is, or what the effect of setting the TERM variable is.
The TERM variable does NOT change the way a terminal responds to
control sequences. It merely tells the various programs _what_
the proper sequences are for a given terminal. It makes no sense
to send vt220 sequences to a linux console... The tset program
will also "initialize" a terminal and the driver attached to it.
Hence it can send customized commands to a terminal to change
modes, for example. But clearly it cannot change a linux
console into a vt220 emulator.
>> Hmmm... if your are really brave, try it from a shell inside GNU
>> Emacs, where "emacs" is the terminal type. Or at least that is
>> what it will be unless the init files for your shell on the
>> distant host reset it.
>
>And in other tools or from the commandline.
Can you expand on that comment, I don't quite understand what you mean
to say there either.
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: User password required to reboot
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:45:00 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> When a normal user is logged in and wants to reboot the machine, Linux
> prompts for the user's password. How do I turn this off? It's very
> annoying.
>
> Thank you.
>
> John Spencer
> Systems Administrator
> Model Technology, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
You may be talking about what happens when one logs out under
gnome (or possibly also KDE). In that case, if one chooses
reboot as the option, one is prompted for a password. However,
in runlevel 5, with the login screen present, one can choose system
and reboot (or halt) without entering a password. If one is
not in runlevel 5 and X is not running, anyone can reboot
with Ctrl-Alt-Del unless /etc/inittab has been changed.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: sudden printing problem
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:48:34 -0600
Stefano Ghirlanda wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am experiencing a strange printing problem:
> - ascii files don't print
> - postscript files do print but the printing started "before" the actual page
> (i.e. it lacks things near top of page) plus the vertical spacing is
> completely screwed up (i.e. no vertical spacing, lines touch each other)
>
> This happened after a few months of perfect printing. I am using the
> apsfilter package that came with slackware 3.6. It is using the laserjet 4
> driver for an HP Laserjet 5MP (this worked for several months).
>
> I do not see anything strange in the logs...
>
> Any hints are appreciated,
> Stefano
Something might have happened to the printer. But I don't
really have a clue as to why it stopped working suddenly.
Usually in these cases, if it is due to software, the user
has made some change he/she didn't think of when the problem
occurred. So you might examine everything you did.
One thing that is not clear to me is why you are using the
laserjet 4 "driver". The 5MP is a postscript printer and
you should specify it as such in your printer setup.
>
> --
> Stefano Ghirlanda, Zoologiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], tel: +46-8-164055, fax: +46-8-167715
> the free science campaign: http://ethology.zool.su.se/freescience
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Doug Bible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Excessive hard drive paging
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:51:24 -0500
I have set up numerous linux systems and have not run across a system
with such excessive hard drive paging. I have installed linux on a Dell
Precision 610. This system is has an Adaptec 7890 controller with a
Seagate drive (model ST39102LW). About every 5-10 seconds I heard the
drive accessing. To see if I have some process running that is trying
to access the drive I went through and shutdown/killed every process
viewable using 'ps'. Having nothing left but those processes necessary
for the system to even run, the drive access persisted. I get the
feeling that it is something on the kernel level that is causing this to
occur. I even recompiled to a newer kernel with no avail.
My main question is this: Is there an application that would allow me
to monitor the processes (even at the kernel level) that are accessing
the hard drive? Any assistance would be appreciated, for this is
driving me nuts having to sit and listen to this machine. If there is
no help for me, my last course of action would be to get extra long
keyboard/mouse/video cables and put the thing in the closet :)
Doug Bible
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From: No Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO MBR Failure/Virus?
Date: 13 Mar 2000 19:56:44 GMT
I have a dual-boot Linux/Win95 system with LILO on the MBR.
One day LILO stops working and all I get is LI. I reboot
using a kernel floppy and reinstall LILO, hit reset, and
still get LI. I put LILO onto a floppy, hit reset and
still get LI. The only way I can get into Linux is with
a kernel floppy, I can't get to Win95 at all. Any ideas
what the problem is?
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: preferences
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:05:29 GMT
Glitch wrote:
> root wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm a recent Linux convert, it's just great.
> > I'm using Netscape V4.6.
> > Can anyone tell me how to have Netscape
> > download message bodies and not just
> > the headers, at the moment I'm having to
> > stay logged on to the internet to read
> > messages cos Netscape is only download
> > the headers, I can't see anywhere where I
> > can change this!!.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Karen
>
> thats b/c Netscape isnt an offline newsreader, only online
> --
>
> Powered by SuSE Linux 6.2, Kernel Version
> 2.2.10
> http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
> For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
> Virii.
You can use leafnode to download all the messages in your subscribed
groups. Then you can read them later offline. I'm not currently running
it since this isn't my main newsreading machine, but I've set it up in
the past and it's very easy to configure.
There are a few other programs such as "suck" which do the same thing,
but I've only used leafnode.
Don
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