Linux-Misc Digest #871, Volume #23 Fri, 17 Mar 00 07:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: newbie problems with app installs ("David ..")
cron problem with username (Bernhard Damian)
Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch! (Dave Pearson)
Re: tar-verify on tapes (Martijn Brouwer)
Re: >1 linux on the same computer? can it be done? (Usman Muzaffar)
Call Center (=?iso-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3_Kot?=)
getting noticed if user is online (Bert Boone)
Re: telnet, keyboard-mappings, emulations.. (Patrick Erler)
Re: X Windows and Exceed v6.2 (Usman Muzaffar)
Re: Replace Netware with Linux (Usman Muzaffar)
Re: Problems with Win95 and Samba (Usman Muzaffar)
isofs and timezone problem (Usman Muzaffar)
Re: How stable is gnuCash 1.3.5? (John Loukidelis)
console msgs on Root window? (bad_knee)
Voice Data from microphone in linux ("�����")
Re: Copying entire partitions... over the network ? (Bud Rogers)
Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch! (Johan Kullstam)
Re: >1 linux on the same computer? can it be done? (Bit Twister)
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie problems with app installs
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:04:10 -0600
Also cd into the directory of the program you are trying to build.
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From: Bernhard Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: cron problem with username
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:49:04 GMT
Hi out there,
my system has been working fine for about six months. Yesterday I
changed the crontab (not for the first time) and now cron doesn't work
properly anymore.
Suddenly it takes the username of an entry as a command and tries to
execute it. Root gets tons of error mails such as
/bin/sh: root: command not found
Does anyone know what's happened ?
TIA
Bernhard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Pearson)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch!
Date: 17 Mar 2000 09:01:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 16 Mar 2000 23:56:18 GMT, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If Emacs was based on perl instead of Lisp, I'd probably have stuck with
> it, because perl has many other uses for me.
A package for controlling emacs in perl was announced a good two or three
years ago (I forget when). It was still in the CPAN the last time I checked
(also quite some time ago).
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emacs software, including.......| quickurl.el - Recall lists of URLs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martijn Brouwer)
Subject: Re: tar-verify on tapes
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 00 10:17:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(peter pilsl) wrote:
>The screenshot of this server-client GUI-tool (I need
>something like textbased like tar !!) looks like the
>submarine of jules verne.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <38D12C20.276155A6@zhotxmailx
zcomx> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
?? Fri Mar 17 11:17:23 2000
Path: uttnl61
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martijn Brouwer)
Subject: Re: tar-verify on tapes
Organization: University Twente
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 00 10:17:23 GMT
Status: N
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(peter pilsl) wrote:
>The screenshot of this server-client GUI-tool (I need
>something like textbased like tar !!) looks like the
>submarine of jules verne.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <38D12C20.276155A6@zhotxmailx
zcomx> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ool (I need
something like textbased like tar !!) looks like the
submarine of jules verne.
In my opinion a picture of a submarine is not a proper
answer to the question why tar-verify doesnt work on my
system !!
peter
--
pilsl@
goldfisch.atat.at
first creates an archive and then compresses the archive.
Bye,
__________________________________________________
Martijn Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Usman Muzaffar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: >1 linux on the same computer? can it be done?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:29:24 +0000
Alexander K wrote:
>
> hello!
>
> i saw a post on this a while ago in some ng, but never saw any
> answers.
> also tried deja and a few search engines. no luck.
>
> i wonder is if it's problematic to install 2 linux systems on one
> computer?
> i now have mandrake7. also i got some free space and would like to try
> perhaps debian.
>
A column in Linux Journal a couple months back featured
some work by a fellow who managed to get 9 distributions
on one computer, using a very cleverly set up LILO and
extended partitions, etc.
Two can definitely be done.
-usman
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From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3_Kot?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Call Center
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:04:15 +0100
Hi,
Does anybody know whether any Call Center software for Linux exists? If
yes, does anybody has an experience with it?
regards
peKOT
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From: Bert Boone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: getting noticed if user is online
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:07:31 +0100
Hi there,
Is there a command to get noticed automatically if a friend is online or
not.
So that you receive a message when some users you know log in.
Thanx
Bert Boone
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Erler)
Subject: Re: telnet, keyboard-mappings, emulations..
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:12:15 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (T.E.Dickey) wrote in <z1hA4.5897$u%1.38024@iad-
read.news.verio.net>:
>Patrick Erler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (T.E.Dickey) wrote in
>> <zn9A4.4646$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>>Patrick Erler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> so here is what i want to have, maybe someone can tell me in 2 or 3
>>>> words what to do...
>>>I would use CRT with vt220 emulation - close but not quite. There's a
>>>terminfo entry 'crt' in ncurses 5.0
>>>(http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses). The fewer things you
>>>customize, the simpler it is to maintain.
>>>
>> ok, found it. can i just copy the terminfo.src over the terminfo at the
>> linux-box? and then i do en "export TERM=CRT" right?
>
>yes - not just copied: terminfo.src has to be compiled (normally as root):
>
> tic terminfo.src
ok, did this - no success. my system seems to be terrible misconfigured in
this aspect.. before i go and RTFMs and FAQs, do you have a tip where to
start reseting the whole thing? (to be a more specific, right now, the Fxx
keys don't work, the numeric keypad sends w and u and r and stuff instead
of movement control-sequences, instead of lines i have squares (and
sometimes little "3"s...) and iptraf (a menu-driven ip-traffic-monitor) is
black and white instead of color..
mh...
thanks again in advance,
PAT
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From: Usman Muzaffar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X Windows and Exceed v6.2
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:54:31 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have been trying to get XDMCP Broadcast working with Exceed on NT to my
> linux box. I have managed to get it to work by changing my Xaccess file.
> However, I have two problems
>
> 1) I an error message like : NO DPMS Support, what does this mean?
>
I believe DPMS stands for Display Power Management System.
It's the nifty feature that lets the computer actually shut
off the monitor (or move it to a standby mode).
No DPMS support probably just means 1) your monitor on the nt
box doesn't support DPMS or 2) the Exceed X server doesn't
support the protocol. Either way, I wouldn't worry about it.
HTH,
usman
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From: Usman Muzaffar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Replace Netware with Linux
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:55:44 +0000
Ken Long wrote:
>
> I have a single Netware 3.2 server that I want to replace with Linux.
> The Netware server is providing the following services to about 100
> clients:
>
> - Basic File and Print
> - IPX and IP Routing for 4 cable segments
> - Drive Mappings to Netware Volumes and NT Shares via login script
> - Tape backup of the Netware volumes
> - Default route to our internet gateway machine (Linux)
>
> Does anyone know of a paper that describes the overall procedure and
> possible pitfalls of this conversion process? Any thoughts on the
> best distribution to use for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Long
Try www.samba.org, or your local bookstore for samba books
HTH,
-usman
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From: Usman Muzaffar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with Win95 and Samba
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:58:29 +0000
Wayne Hendricks wrote:
>
> Hey All
>
> I am running samba 2.0.5a on rh 6.1 and have it up and running fine. My
> win95 workstations can connect and the drives and printers map beautifully.
> I can run programs I've set up and can write files and directories to the
> server but .....
>
> when I open windows explorer on my computer the files are not displayed. If
> I go into the dos prompt and go to the drive they are there. All the files
> are the standard dos 8.3 format and no funny characters. Am I missing
> something?
>
> My win95 machines are all 95 b.
>
> Any help I can get will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Wayne
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Isn't there something about Browse master for a network for you to
be able to browse systems in the network neighborhood? Or perhaps
its just a permissions problem on your mounted files?
just guessing,
-usman
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From: Usman Muzaffar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: isofs and timezone problem
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:51:01 +0000
Hello -
Problem is vey simple: my CD-R timestamps are off by n hours -
in my case, they all seem to be off by 12 hours. Furthermore,
the same disk in other OSs (win, etc) show correct time.
This has been reported before - and the classic response is
that linux/unix stores dates in UTC, and programs like
ls let libc do the conversion for them based on TZ or
/etc/localtime. This explains why linux timestamps can
be different from dos/win ones, because those systems
ignore timezone info.
However, I believe something else is wrong. Even with
TZ=UTC, a mounted iso image shows wrong times. ISO9660 has
a spot for a timezone, and after an hour or so with the
spec and a hex editor I can see that images created by
mkisofs have the correct timezone entered.
The isofs 2.0.36 kernel module, however, seems to be
either ignoring the tz info on the disk, or using
it twice, or treating the time as GMT, then applying
the iso9660 tz, then treating that result as UTC,
and re-applying the local tz. Either way its messed up.
An older post said the mkisofs source noted that isofs
is behaving out of spec.
Any comments, suggestions, workarounds?
I need the correct times so synch/backups work.
thanks,
usman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Loukidelis)
Subject: Re: How stable is gnuCash 1.3.5?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:27:33 GMT
I fooled around with it (1.3.5) a little. It crashed on me several
times, and I lost my data. I didn't lose much data because I was just
testing it. For the not-so-technically inclined (like me), it's
probably wise to wait a little while for the bugs to get ironed out.
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:35:20 GMT, Rob Knop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know that the 1.2 branch is the stable branch, but if I use 1.3, it
>will save me from having to muck with Motif.
>
>The README file suggests that "soon" the 1.3 branch will be stable
>enough for general use. Has that "soon" happened yet? Or if I use
>1.3.5, do I risk having my account balances calculated wrong, and my
>financial records lost?
>
>-Rob
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From: bad_knee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: console msgs on Root window?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 05:34:19 -0600
I seem to remember seeing a screenshot of someones Xwindows setup,
and they had the console messages writing to the root window
(over the top of the background "wallpaper" shit).
Anyone know how this is done?
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From: "�����" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voice Data from microphone in linux
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:03:24 +0900
Hello~
I implement a simple program which get voice from microphone and
put it out to PC-speaker by using open,read,write command with /dev/audio
(or /dev/dsp). source code is at the bottom of this mail.
But I came to have some questions.
one is the sound quality, another is delay of soundout.
1. The sound quality is very low having noise which is similar to radio's.
According to the man page of audio,
the mu-law encoding corresponds to CCITT G.711 is the standard for
voice data used by telephone companies in the United States, Canada.
How can I get the good quality( mu-law encoding level ) of sound from
microphone. Is there tip to manipulate /dev/audio ?
and......
what is the difference between /dev/audio and /dev/dsp.
2. There is time-gap. After saying something to microphone,
2~3 second later, I can hear the contents of what I'm saying from
speaker.
How can I reduce the time gap for real time communication ?
I wanna expand the range of communication to LAN.
Thank you very much for reading.
Any comments are warmly welcomed.
---- simple c code --
/* Unbuffered I/O */
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define AUDIO_DEV "/dev/audio"
#include <stdlib.h>
#define BUFF_SIZE ( 16 * 1024 )
main()
{
int sound_dscrpt ;
int read_size ;
char buff[BUFF_SIZE] ;
sound_dscrpt = open(AUDIO_DEV, O_RDWR) ;
if (sound_dscrpt < 0) {
(void) printf("Error : Unable to open %s \n",AUDIO_DEV) ;
exit(8) ;
}
while(1){
read_size = read( sound_dscrpt , buff, sizeof(buff) ) ;
if ( read_size == 0 )
break ;
if ( read_size < 0 ) {
(void) fprintf(stderr, "Error:Read error\n");
exit(8) ;
}
(void) write( sound_dscrpt , buff , (unsigned int ) read_size ) ;
}
(void) close(sound_dscrpt) ;
return(0) ;
}
-- end of code
--
Bomshik Kim, M.S. Candidate
Programming Language Lab.
Division of CS, Dept. of EECS, KAIST
http://ropas.kaist.ac.kr/~bskim
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From: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Copying entire partitions... over the network ?
Date: 17 Mar 2000 05:58:00 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack) writes:
> Of course, then you have to deal with all the bugs in tar (cf earlier
> discussion of why tar (*) is not a reliable tool for backups).
>
> (*) At leat GNU tar under Linux - and at least as of when I got bitten by it
> a few times and stopped using it (about a year and a half ago).
>
> To answer the original question - use netcat, netcat is all you need.
> I've done this trick many a time -
You know, you could have passed along the command line you used...
--
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html
Though all my neighbors are barbarians, and you are a thousand miles away,
there are always two cups on my table.
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Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch!
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:04:26 GMT
Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Croughton) writes:
> >
> > > I don't use any version of EscMetaAltCtrlShift at all, it's a memory
> > > and resource hog with no redeeming qualities I've seen...
> >
> > You don't care about configurability then?
> >
> > Curious, for a Unix user.
>
> Emacs isn't so much reconfigurable as reprogrammable. If you like Lisp
> or have other uses for it, then fine, but you have to learn it in quite
> some depth just to get at Emacs' less obvious options. If Emacs was
> based on perl instead of Lisp, I'd probably have stuck with it, because
> perl has many other uses for me. Or if there was a utility that
> generated a .emacs file from a much simpler language dedicated to no
> more or less than configuring a text editor (like vim's) and the
> documentation for these options was easier to use.
to each his own. i rather like lisp but dislike perl. in fact, i
sometimes write emacs-lisp programs where other would have used perl.
my only complaint is that emacs-lisp is such an old and slow lisp.
i'd rather be using common-lisp.
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Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: >1 linux on the same computer? can it be done?
Reply-To: The news group
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:08:16 GMT
I have a three os system. win98, Redhat 6.1, Mandrake 7.0.
Installs were done in the Custom/Expert mode.
What I did was have two /boot partitions and two / partitions
1 swap inside a dos extended partition.
In Mandrake the redhat /boot is called /brh61
In Redhat the mandrake /boot is called /bmd70
Here is a copy of my Mandrake /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=mandrake
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=mandrake
root=/dev/hda9
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="mem=128M"
read-only
image=/brh61/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
label=rh61
initrd=/brh61/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
append="mem=128M"
read-only
root=/dev/hda10
Here is a copy of my Mandrake /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 /win_c vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
/dev/hda6 /win_d vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
/dev/hda5 /brh61 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda9 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda10 /rh61 ext2 defaults 1 2
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:23:44 +0100, Alexander K
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hello!
>
>i saw a post on this a while ago in some ng, but never saw any
>answers.
>also tried deja and a few search engines. no luck.
>
>i wonder is if it's problematic to install 2 linux systems on one
>computer?
>i now have mandrake7. also i got some free space and would like to try
>perhaps debian.
>
>what would happen if i tried another install?
>
>how would my now existing partitions be treated?
>could i use my /home partition on both systems?
>or would i perhaps HAVE too?
>
>is it even possible to have two different / or /boot (or whatever with
>the same name)
>on one single harddrive?
>
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