Linux-Misc Digest #889, Volume #23 Sun, 19 Mar 00 06:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Red Hat Linux 6.2 & XFree86 4.0? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Salary? (Action)
Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.2: How to set the KDE resolution/colors??? (Tony Aicardi)
quake installation error (Bergeron Bernard)
Linux Trade Journals (OhioJoneses)
Re: Apache source versus RPMs (Luke Vogel)
best way to copy a hd? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I want to learn UNIX. I'd like to know what product of Linux I could ("David
..")
Re: Help: installed AWE64 isa, now 3c900b won;t work ("Andreas Meile")
Re: FTP client can't see server ("Andreas Meile")
Re: Help needed. Trying to use a WIN98 as gateway of a Linux in a LAN. (Tony)
Re: Help needed. Trying to use a WIN98 as gateway of a Linux in a LAN. ("Andreas
Meile")
Re: A new version of my rc.firewall script. (Hal Goldfarb)
Re: quake installation error (Andreas Kahari)
Large File support of Linux? (Hong Shen)
zip drive, graphics card,alias (RB)
Re: quake installation error (Andreas Kahari)
Re: zip drive, graphics card,alias ("Peter T. Breuer")
Partition Magic (Alan Wehmann)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 6.2 & XFree86 4.0?
Date: 19 Mar 2000 01:14:44 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:04:34 -0900, Peter <<8b1933$ajb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>Is the next release of Red Hat Linux going to have XFree86 4.0 integrated?
Doubtful. 3.3.6 will probably continue to be the "stable" version for the
next month or 2, while 4.0 is in beta. SuSE 6.4 will include Xfree86 4.0
as an option, but 3.3.6 will be the reccommended install. If you really
want to use Xfree 4.0 now, it's not that hard to compile and install
it--the 80 or so megs of download is a PITA, though.
Also, 4.0 broke the pre-alpha 3D-support on my TNT2 card. *shrug* I
didn't care for Quake3 that much anyway. And now that nVidia are being
evil bastards about releasing specs for their hardware, I just might sell
this card to some Win-luser and pick up a Voodoo3....
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Action)
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 06:38:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan
Rebbechi) wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:09:01 GMT, Stewart Honsberger wrote:
>>On 18 Mar 2000 17:57:31 GMT, Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
>>How very tactfully put.
>
>I'm sure I'm not the first to call him a jerk.
>
>>>You would have been wiser not to cite him.
>>
>>Why, because you don't agree with him?
>
>No, because he is not an authority on the subject at hand. He is just an
>obnoxious jackass. Citing him simply shows that your sources are not terribly
>credible. You may as well cite Homer Simpson.
>
>>>I will assume that you are merely faithfully conveying Mr Stern's ignorance.
>>
>>You mean you disagree? You believe that advantages should be given to
>>a person merely because of their skin colour?
>
>In terms of scholarships, I believe that it can be beneficial to help the
>minority communities. Giving these people scholarships has the end result
>that there are more scholars in that community, and their communities will
>hopefully become better educated as a whole as a result.
>
>I object to your claim that it's just about skin color. It has more to do
>with the environment that these communities have lived in. How many white
>Americans are descendents of slaves ?
Lurking through this thread, I thought it'd be wise to make a point here..
how many Americans (white, black, latino, etc..) can claim their descendants
WEREN'T slaves??
Only since the industrial revolution 150 years ago, has the practice of taking
the losers of a war as slaves, regardless of color, lose a following...
I'm as sure my descendants were at some point slaves as Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr was sure of his descendants when he was with us.
a better agruement could be used here..
>
>>When did I say that poor white people are the only ones who should be
>>helped? I was merely stating that assistance should be given to those
>>in need, rather than those with a particular skin colour.
>
>I say there's also a good argument for purely needs based scholarships.
>Of course, the ideal situation would be one where there were enough funds
>to help everyone with both the needs and the ability.
>
>>Racism, just as sexism, are both two way streets. It is my belief that
>>we as a society are over-compensating for years of injustice. I say the
>
>Well I don't see white males suffering too much as a result. I don't
>naively asume that AA always works, but for scholarship funds, I believe
>it has some merits.
>
>>playing field should be leveled -
>
>That's all well and good, but if you dispossess one group, *then* level the
>playing field, it's not really helpful, and it's not really sufficient enough
>to get the dispossessed group back on track.
>
>And your "level playing field" theory totally ignores the fact that
>institutionalised racism does exist, and conveniently avoids questions
>as to how to address this.
>
I believe the race card is too generously tossed about, by all sides of the
racial spectrum... after all, how would KKK members or Louis Farakhan (sp?)
have a job if everyone were living happily ever after? in my experience, a
claim of racism is a very self-fulfilling prophecy.. thats my two cents.
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From: Tony Aicardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup;
Subject: Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.2: How to set the KDE resolution/colors???
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 00:37:37 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Song WS) wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have just installed the Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 and the KDE's
>resolution is set to 800x600 @ 256colors? How do I change the
>resolution?????
>
>Pls help me if you can.
>
>Thank you.
>
>
>SONG
You have to be in console mode.
Go to shut down- then console mode.
switch user command to root: =20
su
password
the run lizardx
lizardx
you can then make the changes you need.
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From: Bergeron Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: quake installation error
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:02:03 +0100
what does that mean...?
zermelo@lapinot:~$ sh ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
thanks for any help
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From: OhioJoneses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Trade Journals
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 02:19:11 -0500
Hi folks,
I'm trying to find out who is
publishing linux journals worth subscribing to
(& the cost &/or free to qualified co's/individuals).
Thanks much!
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From: Luke Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Apache source versus RPMs
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 17:30:54 +1100
I doubt that I have done this exactly as per the book, but I just stuck
the following lines in my /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.local file.
# Start the Apache Server with SSL enabled.
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl startssl
As I said, this is probably not a perefect solution, but it does work.
;)
I know there is a shell script that runs the daemon originally, but I
seem to have lost that. Anyone want to upload the script?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: best way to copy a hd?
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 07:48:12 GMT
hello folks,
I've got a linux system on a 5GB partition on /dev/hda1 and I want to
move it to a brand new 20GB disk /dev/hdb1.. i've got a empty, formatted
fs on it, but I am not sure the best way to move my system over intact..
searching the web and dejanews, I have found some suggestions:
tar -cvpf - / | (cd /mnt/newdisk; tar -xvpf - )
Will this work? how will it handle special files (/dev, /proc)? and what
will it do when it hits /mnt/newdisk?? I am suspicious of this..
dd -if=/dev/hda1 -of=/dev/hdb1
This looks promising, but will it still work since hdb1 is a much larger
partition with different geometry? I read somewhere that the source and
destination need to be the same size to use dd, is this true?
cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/hdb1
it can't be this easy...
Thanks for any help!
joel
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I want to learn UNIX. I'd like to know what product of Linux I could
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 03:01:37 -0600
Or download it, Read some of the documentation online, and install it.
It can be done for FREE.
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From: "Andreas Meile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: installed AWE64 isa, now 3c900b won;t work
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:28:34 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb in Nachricht <38d44fb1.235549@news>...
>
>According to the Windoze settings, there are no conflicts, yet eth0
>fails on boot as soon as the AWE64 isa was installed
I've ab Linux box, too with 3Com 3C900 network card as well as an Creative
Labs Soundblaster 64 AWE (ISA) card. Both work absolutely fine without
issues. My mainboard: Gigabyte GA586TX3 with Intel Pentium 166 MHz and 64 MB
RAM. There are also other operating systems (DOS 6.22, Win 98 and Solaris
7), and they also work without such problems.
What kind of mainboard do you have? Perhaps a noname one? If so, try
http://www.fonline.de/home/fo0155/driver/biosid.htm
http://computertech.server101.com/awdbios.htm
http://personal.bna.bellsouth.net/bna/r/p/rposton/award.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~matrix/ami_05.html
http://www.bdn.odessa.ua/manu/bios/numbers.html
http://www.kd-net.de/bios/spezadr.htm
http://www.ami.com/amibios/support/bios.strings.html
to identify the manufacturer of your mainboard. Go to its homepage and look
for a BIOS update. This often helps :-), but sometimes not.
An experience from myself about that: Another box in my network was a so a
typically *bad quality* PC from Vobis with no name board. First, Windows 98
did not regognize the hard drive controller (the famous "MS-DOS
compatibility mode"), so I have to flash the BIOS. With help of one of the
addresses above, I identified it as a FIC PA-2000 board. A newer BIOS was
also available, so I flashed it. This update solved the harddisk controller
problem successfully but the other problem that Quicktime 4 extension and
McAffee virus scanner always crash with the default settings as well as the
whole system freezes suddently still occured. On the same machine, I also
installed S.u.S.E. Linux 6.0. It works but when someone wants work
interactively on the local desktop, sometimes the system suddently crashed.
The same when working from a telnet login from outside: When there was
intensive network traffic and other hard system usage (let's compiling your
kernel and copying a large data volume from a Windows box using Samba at the
same time), then one kernel crash of the other one occured.
My only solution, which fully satisfied me, was to exchange this mainboard
with a *high qulity* brand-mark board from Asus. Since that, each installed
operating system works without issues and Linux works also very reliablely.
:-)) I never had crashes since that.
My advice to you: If you have also such a cheap noname mainboard, do not
longer waste your time with fixing on the BIOS settings! Better buy a good
brandmark board from Asus or Gigabyte... :-)
Andreas
>
>Any ideas to solve this problem?
>
>thanks
>
>
>
>Wade Segade
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the obvious)
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From: "Andreas Meile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: FTP client can't see server
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:47:58 +0200
Jim McIntyre schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>When users ftp into the linux server, they can get directory listing
>using ls.
>Using a windows based client like wsftp, the users are unable to see any
>directories on the server.
>I configured the client for passive FTP, but still no luck.
>Any suggestions
On your Linux box, type "netstat -a|more" to make sure that the FTP service
is listening on TCP/IP port 21. On your Windows box, open a MS-DOS prompt
and try a "ping" command to your linux box. Note that I recommend setting up
a "named" DNS server on the linux box which can be set on every Windows
client as well as in /etc/resolv.conf of the Linux box itself. This allows
you to work with names such as "ananas.mydomain.com", "pear.mydomain.com"
instead of blank IP addresses.
When "ping" works correctly (you must get answers "64 bytes from ..." or
similar), the try "ftp hostname.of.your.linuxbox.com" to get a FTP
connection with the Microsoft supplied FTP client. If "connection refused"
appears, check /etc/inetd.conf about a line calling "in.ftpd" or "wu.ftpd".
When the Microsoft supplied FTP client inside the MS-DOS prompt works, then
your FTP client above also should be able to work. Important note: FTP
normally does *not* knows a broadcast service as like X-Windows knows that,
where a X11 server like Hummingbird's Exceed sends a XDMCP broadcast "Hello!
Who offers xdm login?" and every system which has running a "xdm" daemon for
remote desktop login answers so the Exceed using PC user gets a menu.
Andreas
>
>TIA
>Jim
>
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From: Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help needed. Trying to use a WIN98 as gateway of a Linux in a LAN.
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 09:30:34 GMT
Hi, Reverendo.
I have my LAN connected to the web via Wingate on a Windows 98 box. I also
have a 100MHz 80486 DX4 for a Linux file and print server.
Wingate is a great piece of software, and provides http, ftp, SOCKS,
telnet, nntp etc proxies. Wingate is available for free from
www.wingate.com, although the free license only allows you to connect one
other computer at a time, and does not impliment a DHCP server. The
registered version does just about everything.
setting it all up was pretty simple, although I have to wonder why you are
even bothering to set your LAN up this way. I will eventually get around
to setting up an internet gateway on my Linux box. This will allow me to
have a firewall as well. Check out the Linux Router Project.
Tony
Reverendo wrote:
>
>
> Hi out there.
>
> I have this setting.
> Two PCs in a TCP/IP Ethernet LAN.
> One of them a Pentium 90 with Linux and #IP 192.168.100.100.
> The second with Win98, CProxy, an ADSL netcard that is permanent
> conected to internet with a permanent #IP. And of course an ethernet
netcard
> with #IP 192.168.100.101.
>
> I try to use the Win98 as a gateway for the Linux or use the ping
> command with internet #IPs and the DNS of my ISP but I haven't managed to
> work it out.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Reverendo. From Spain.
>
>
>
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From: "Andreas Meile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help needed. Trying to use a WIN98 as gateway of a Linux in a LAN.
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:11:49 +0200
Reverendo schrieb in Nachricht ...
>Hi out there.
>
> I try to use the Win98 as a gateway for the Linux or use the ping
>command with internet #IPs and the DNS of my ISP but I haven't managed to
>work it out.
Oops! Why are you using such a *weak* operating system like Windows 98 for
your network gateway?!? Beware that with Linux you have one of the most
*powerful* platform for such network tasks (I'm using a 486 Linux box too as
NAT router with IP masquerading through a ISDN card to my ISP). Windows 98
is good for interactive desktop working (starting a Microsoft Word for
writing a letter [why not set up a Samba server on your Linux box? :-)] or
processing photographs in Corel Photopaint or using C:\WINDOWS\TELNET.EXE to
log in in the Linux server itself an so on...) but completely unsuitable to
run service daemons. So why do you believe why Microsoft does sell Windows
NT Server for its enterprise customers who want running services?!?
So I *strongly* recommend to *swap* the roles and functions of your both
systems as described. :-) And as Raymond says in his answer: Use IP
masquerading so you don't have any SOCKS lib hassles, because NAT works
completely *invisible* for the client PCs behind. In my private network,
there are many different operating system running such as Digital ULTRIX,
WfW 3.11, some DOS applications using Waterloo TCP, a Commodore Amiga, a
older Macintosh, other Linuxes and Win 98 itself. All these boxes can access
to the Internet without any problems. :-))
Andreas
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Reverendo. From Spain.
>
>
>
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From: Hal Goldfarb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: A new version of my rc.firewall script.
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 02:22:35 -0800
Jean-Sebastien Morisset wrote:
>
> I've released a new version of my rc.firewall script. As always, you can get
> it from <http://www.jsmoriss.dyndns.org/linux/rc.firewall>. This version
> enables outgoing (active) FTP data transfers. I found this problem when
> trying to FTP between two firewalls. :-)
Uh-huh. So did I and your cute little script saved me. Thanks.
>
> I've also put up a mailing list to discuss the script, and let everyone know
> when new versions are available. You can subscribe by sending an e-mail to
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with "subscribe firewall" as the BODY of your
> message.
I have done just that, thanks again.
-Hal
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: quake installation error
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:24:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bergeron Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what does that mean...?
>
> zermelo@lapinot:~$ sh ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
>
> thanks for any help
>
I'm afraid it means that you posted this to the wrong forum... ;-)
It also means that the C library doesn't like your locale setting. It
doesn't look like a fatal error though, it just says "Warning".
/A
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From: Hong Shen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Large File support of Linux?
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:30:03 GMT
Hi, everyone,
I'd like to know the status of large file(>2G) support of Linux. I am
dealing with MPEG files, they are usually more than 2G large.
Thanks in advance!!
Best Regards
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From: RB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: zip drive, graphics card,alias
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:30:04 GMT
1. I cannot get mandrake 6.0 to recognize a zip100. I have used modprobe
ppa, insmod parport, insmod ppa, and various replies like "no ppa devices
axvailable", "device or resource busy".
2. How do I reconfigure a new graphics card?
3. I used the alias command in bash, but I want it to remain when I logout
or power down.
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: quake installation error
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:31:12 GMT
Oh, I'm really sorry about that. My mind was still in
comp.lang.perl.misc...
Did the file actually unpack or was it in fact a fatal error? What
locale settings do you have? ("echo $LC_LANG")
/A
In article <8b29s7$a3c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Bergeron Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > what does that mean...?
> >
> > zermelo@lapinot:~$ sh ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
> > Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> >
> > thanks for any help
> >
>
> I'm afraid it means that you posted this to the wrong forum... ;-)
> It also means that the C library doesn't like your locale setting. It
> doesn't look like a fatal error though, it just says "Warning".
>
> /A
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: zip drive, graphics card,alias
Date: 19 Mar 2000 10:55:56 GMT
RB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 1. I cannot get mandrake 6.0 to recognize a zip100. I have used modprobe
: ppa, insmod parport, insmod ppa, and various replies like "no ppa devices
: axvailable", "device or resource busy".
Read the ZIP-HOWTO
: 2. How do I reconfigure a new graphics card?
edit your XF86Config or use any of the fine setup tools that do it for
you. Read the X*-HOWTO.
: 3. I used the alias command in bash, but I want it to remain when I logout
: or power down.
man bash. Edit the appropriate dotfile. Probably .bash_profile.
Peter
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From: Alan Wehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Partition Magic
Date: 19 Mar 2000 05:02:27 -0600
My apologies if this has already been covered. What is the difference
between Partition Magic purchased separately and Partition Magic
included with some of the Linux distributions? The price seems higher
for the former, so I would guess it has some extra functionality.
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