Linux-Misc Digest #856, Volume #23 Wed, 15 Mar 00 12:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: unkillable linux box (Luke)
Re: Linux based software to US government? (Luke)
Re: pdf-files too big (Gerald Willmann)
Re: login incorrect...What now!? (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Which RDBMS would you choose? ("Dennis Edward")
Re: Linux based software to US government? (Steve)
Re: Where is my contribution? (Steve)
Re: Question 3 -- Install program/patch (Steve)
Re: Right mouse (Steve)
Re: Question about multiple tcp/ip host addresses (Steve)
Re: rcp/rsh examples (Gordon Haverland)
Remote Printing (Frank Holt)
upgrade glibc after gcc? (Martijn Brouwer)
Linux
Re: modem speed drop with KPPP when not using root (Bob Hauck)
Re: Need Proxy software for Linux ("GSPatton")
Re: Salary? ("Daniel Kingshott")
Re: Question about multiple tcp/ip host addresses ("J. Cunningham")
Re: login incorrect...What now!? (John Dixon)
Re: Question one -- a friendly editor (Roberto Alsina)
Re: How to make a boot disk for a SCSI system (mike)
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From: Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unkillable linux box
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:06:05 GMT
>
> You aren't listening to me. I've *tried* booting to the floppy. Repeatedly,
Oops, I'm not. It's a little problem of mine--reading newsgroups when I'm in a
hurry! :)
> in fact. It won't, even with the BIOS set to do it. I'll try the first
> guy's password advice, and if it works I'll see if I can get the A: drive
> to mount and read a floppy. If it won't, I'll try swapping out the floppy
> drive.
That's crazy that it won't boot off the floppy. If it didn't even try to read
it, I suppose it may be damaged. Do you have a modernish cd rom drive that you
could stick in there with a bootable redhat distribution CD?
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From: Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux based software to US government?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:08:43 GMT
Well, if you're selling to them, why can't you just ask?
> Hi there!
>
> We are currently evaluating Linux (RTLinux to be more specific) as the
> operating system for our control software. Part of our products are sold to
> the US government. Does they accept products which are 'equipped' with
> Linux? Is there a place where I can find more info on this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pdf-files too big
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:03:05 -0800
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Peter Zak wrote:
> I print a one-page-text document to a file. Then I convert it with ps2pdf, but
> thif pdf-file is too big, about 10 MB! Why? What do I wrong?
do you have the latest version of ghostscipt? Try it at www.ps2pdf.org (or
com) and see if the result is smaller.
Gerald
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: login incorrect...What now!?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:00:27 -0800
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, John Dixon wrote:
> After installing a new version of bash from the "cooker" ftp site I rebooted
> to find that my Linux Mandrake 7.0 installation had forgotten my password.
> I can't login....other than as guest, but then I don't have root access to
> get at the problem. Is there anything to be done short of re-installation?
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
you can login as guest and then su to become root - don't understand why
you say: you can't login. Anyway, as root use 'passwd username' to set
passwords for whoever you want to whatever you want.
Gerald
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From: "Dennis Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Which RDBMS would you choose?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:14:47 GMT
Doesn't look very open-source-like, unless I've missed something.
Larry wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Have you considered IBM's DB2 UDB
(http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/udb)?
>
>Dennis Edward wrote:
>
>> Oracle just p*d me off again with their palm-out attitude, and I'm (not
for
>> the first time) considering replacing our Oracle RDBMS with an
open-source
>> alternative. The two that come to mind are Postgres and Interbase (when
the
>> source comes out). Since this is for a business setting, things like
>> robustness, speed, and transaction/rollback ability are important. Our
data
>> is less than 10 GB, and read-mostly.
>>
>> Anyone done anything similar, and care to share some sooth?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux based software to US government?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Mar 2000 15:25:22 GMT
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:55:59 +0100, John wrote:
>Hi there!
>
>We are currently evaluating Linux (RTLinux to be more specific) as the
>operating system for our control software. Part of our products are sold to
>the US government. Does they accept products which are 'equipped' with
>Linux? Is there a place where I can find more info on this?
Ring them up and ask them, how should we know, they're your customers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Where is my contribution?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Mar 2000 15:25:16 GMT
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:49:36 -0800, jygjyg wrote:
>I posted many questions here but when I click "My watchs" page,
>just one of them is listed. There are so manys notes in this
>forum everyday, how can find out my question easily?
As you say there's a lot of posts here, that means that they're
also purged regularly. Try viewing all messages, I seem to
remember responding to some of your messages, and seeing other
answers there too. If you can't find anything you could check
Dejanews, they keep the messages for about five years.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Question 3 -- Install program/patch
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Mar 2000 15:25:23 GMT
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:06:10 -0800, jygjyg wrote:
>"./configure;make;make install"
>
>There is no "configure" in my linux (RH 6.1) system. And when I
>run make or make install, I always got many error messages such
>as :
You untar the stuff you want to compile:
$ tar -xzvf SomeProgram.tar.gz
It will uncompress into a directory typically called the same as
the base name as the tar file, do ls to check for the new directory
name, then
$ cd SomeProgram
Now in this directory you may see a file called "configure" so do there
will also be a file called 'README' or 'INSTALL' or something similar.
Read the instructions and follow them to the letter, you can't go wron.
>
>Make[1]:gcc:command not found
>Make[1]:xxxxx.0 Error 127
>Make[1]:Leaving directory xxxx
>Make[1]:Entering directory xxx
>
>Actually, after I install the linux, I can not find make as
>well. I use rpm to install make.rpm from the CD manually. Many
>instructions told me to "make menuconfig;make dep clean;make
>zImage..." which does not work at all, did I miss something?
Sounds like you might have really screwed up when installing Linux,
I get these messages when I try to run these commands in the wrong
directory:
[sjlen@zero-pps text]$ ./configure;make;make install
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
make: *** No targets. Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
Your problems sound really ugly, so maybe a reinstall in order. Get
a book (O'Reilly Learning Red Hat Linux) Read lots, take it slowly,
and install the system afresh. If you've got a good stable install
from the start to work with, little glitches can be taken care of
with a bit of poking around ard reading the HOWTOs and FAQs and
sometimes asking questions here and reading books.
Hope this helps or at least points you in the right direction.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Right mouse
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Mar 2000 15:25:24 GMT
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:16:32 -0800, jygjyg wrote:
>Hi,all
>
>I installed xWindow in Linux(RH 6.1) but I was wondering does
>linux support right mouse? I am using a PS/2 mouse and I think I
>choose the right choice when I configure it but the problem is
>the right mouse in xWindow does not make any sense at all, any
>advice?
I have a PS/2 mouse, at install I chose 2 button mouse, and didn't
want to emulate a 3 button mouse, it works just fine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Question about multiple tcp/ip host addresses
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Mar 2000 15:25:28 GMT
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:46:06 +1000, Michael Westerman wrote:
>Is that non routable addresses 192.168.x.x and 10.x.x.x
>the same for windows networks as well ?
TCP/IP is independant of any platform, if a system wants to use
that protocol, they have to comply with the world standards,
a bit like asking that if you invent a car with a different gear
changing mechanism does it have to drive on the same side of the
road as all the other cars.
And the short answer yes.
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From: Gordon Haverland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rcp/rsh examples
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:11:59 -0700
Andy wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> I'm trying to move some files between two RedHat linux boxes (both
> Intel, from 6.0 to 6.1). I want to use rcp to maintain the ownership
> and modes of the files and I also want to copy a large directory
> hierarchy (i.e. I need the -p and -r switches).
>
> I've tried using a variety of rcp command lines but none let me in.
> Reading the docs on both rcp and rsh don't help and wasn't able to
> find anything of much use.
>
> I have full access to both systems.
>
> If anyone can give me example commands, pointers to online resources
> (other than man pages) or general advice, I'd be very grateful!
Most of the examples I've seen of similar things involve
either
cpio or tar.
Something like:
find /path/to/stuff .... | cpio [options] | rsh site cpio
[more_options]
I've never used rcp to do any of this, always a network
"cat" into tar
or cpio running on the remote machine. Of course, using ssh
would be
better.
Gordon Haverland
#include <disclaimer.h>
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:17:48 -0600
From: Frank Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Remote Printing
Greetings,
I am stumped trying to print to a printer on a Windoze NT box via Samba.
>From the Samba printing How-to I have made the following entry in
/etc/printcap:
Tek|Tek740|TT740:\
:cm=Tektronix Phaser 740 on Server:\
:lp=/dev/Tek:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/Tek:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/Tek/err.log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/Tek/acct:\
:if=/usr/bin/smbprint
:mx#0:
and created the various directories.
My problem is that the smbprint script does not seem to get executed. I
know this as I have put various diagnostic messages in smbprint to write
to the error log and none show up. lpstat shows that the printer is
known and ready.
This is all happening on a SuSE 6.2 system,2.2.10 kernel.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.
TIA,
Frank Holt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martijn Brouwer)
Subject: upgrade glibc after gcc?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 00 16:23:29 GMT
Recently I upgraded gcc from 2.7.2.3 to 2.95.2. Is there any reason to upgrade
the c libraries too? I did not yet do it because it costs much time and to me
it seems quite dangerous.
Thanks,
Martijn Brouwer
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:30:17 GMT
What are the file extensions *.bin stand for or what are they use for, or
stand for?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: modem speed drop with KPPP when not using root
Date: 15 Mar 2000 16:39:21 GMT
Reply-To: bobh{at}slc{dot}codem{dot}com
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 05:24:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Whenever I sign in to KPPP as root my connection speed is 44K but when I
>sign as a normal user I connect at 24K.
Look in the kppp modem settings and see what's different for the two
users.
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From: "GSPatton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Need Proxy software for Linux
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:47:07 GMT
If you've got an old 486 laying around, (they seem to breed in office
closets)
You can set up a simple proxy.
try http://www.linuxrouter.org/
or
http://lrp.plain.co.nz/
Did the trick for me.
Jonathan Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm looking for a FREE proxy software for my Redhat Linux 6.1. Basically,
> I have a cable modem and I want to share my internet access between 2
> computers.
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From: "Daniel Kingshott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:48:17 +0100
what does this have to do with linux
"Darren Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:NGhz4.5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "Donovan Rebbechi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On 12 Mar 2000 21:12:09 GMT, Joseph T. Adams wrote:
>
> > >But then, Texans would consider New York to be a small state. :)
> >
> > Well if one goes on population alone, you could even count NYC as a
> > "small country".
>
> Australia has only a population of a little more than 18 Million people in
> total with 90% on the east coast and most of that in the two largest
cities
> of Sydney and Melbourne, but looking at the size of it would you consider
it
> small ;-)
>
> Going back onto a Linux thread though we're still waiting for formalised
> training and exams for the various Linux Quals to become wide-spread and
> that is hindering Linux rolling out in a major way in Australia.
>
> When that happens more corporates will take Linux more seriously and so
> demand and hence salaries will increase....
>
> I'm actually designing a national roll-out for a client with no Windows in
> it at all as every test we performed on scale failed miserably but Linux
> passed most of them (except the 2 Gig file size limitation :-( )
>
> Darren
>
>
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From: "J. Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question about multiple tcp/ip host addresses
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:40:01 GMT
I believe it is a platform independent issue. The 172.16.2.x addresses
are widely used for private lans of Windows machines in labs at Boeing
which coexist with published ip addresses.
Michael Westerman wrote:
>
> Is that non routable addresses 192.168.x.x and 10.x.x.x
> the same for windows networks as well ?
>
> > 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.
> >
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From: John Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: login incorrect...What now!?
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:57:51 -0900
Thanks very much for your reply. I got in as su, and the system
recognized root's password when I did so. I changed root's password
(twice) and attempted to relogin as root. Nope. The password was
rejected again as incorrect. How can I succeed in loging in as su and
yet fail to login as root? Any suggestions?
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From: Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question one -- a friendly editor
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:50:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:14:13 -0800, jygjyg
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>
> >>Question 1: Is there a good/friendly editor whick is like edit
> >>in DOS? I tried VI and XEmacs, but they have absolutely style.
> >>
>
> I don't have a URL handy, but search for FTE, a console-mode editor by
> Marco Macek (spelling?). There's also a KDE version called KFTE. FTE
is
> remarkably configurable, if you don't mind editing configuration files
> to get it there. It's very DOS-like, in the (rather limited) ways DOS
is
> good. It's certainly not subject to DOS limitations, but its text mode
> interface is quite nice. In fact, there are DOS, Win32, *nix and OS/2
> versions of FTE, maybe more. I've not really used it under Linux, but
I
> had it working pretty well under Win95's console. There, it does all
the
> Shift+move=select, home/end, Ctrl+Home, etc., that you mention.
However,
> you'll probably want to tweak the colors and config. I'm not sure how
> much (if any) of this capability is lost under *nix.
Not any, really.
There are three unix versions: vfte, xfte and kfte. vfte and xfte are
part of the official FTE distribution that you can find in the author's
homepage (sorry, I don't have the URL).
KFTE is the KDE port, and you can find it in my homepage
(http://ultra7.unl.edu.ar/kfte).
vfte works in the console, xfte works in X with a spartan interface, and
kfte works on X (you need kdelibs installed) with a more "fancy"
interface.
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to make a boot disk for a SCSI system
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:01:55 -0500
Hi David,
where would I get the gdth-drivers-disk.img?
Thanks
Mike
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