Linux-Misc Digest #902, Volume #23 Mon, 20 Mar 00 00:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Problems w/ ICQ & IPMasq (Bob Tennent)
Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader (nldgr)
Vi Lovers Home Page ("Thomer M. Gil")
Diary program to run in Xwindows? (Karl Harris)
Re: Gnome Resolution (Jim McIntyre)
Re: How do I get rid of LILO? (Jim McIntyre)
-hosts.deny- how does it deny? how do IPpackets move internally? (Alexander K)
TrueType Paranoia (Rafael)
Re: Help - can't install gcc (Alexander K)
Netgear Nic for ADSL + Failure ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: lilo won't boot w2k on scsi (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Lookin for printing info (nldgr)
Re: How do I get rid of LILO? ("Jon Davis")
Re: Netgear Nic for ADSL + Failure (Hal Burgiss)
Re: redhat 6.1,geforce and x ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ide hot-swap: is it supported ? (Uwe Bonnes)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Problems w/ ICQ & IPMasq
Date: 20 Mar 2000 03:07:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 19 Mar 2000 20:17:06 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Some one told me that there is a kernel module (similar to the ftp,
>irc, quake modules) that properly supports ICQ. Does anyone know if
>this is true and if so what kernel is it in? I am using 2.2.14 on
>RH6.1
Look for ip_masq_icq at freshmeat. It's a non-official
kernel module. Untar it in /usr/src.
You'll need to have the kernel-source rpm
installed. Then copy the appropriate config file from
/usr/src/linux/configs to /usr/src/linux/.config.
Then fix the Makefile as follows:
S=$(shell egrep ...
include Makefile.arch
S=$(shell egrep ...
include Makefile.arch
Then do make install.
Bob T.
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From: nldgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 03:53:38 GMT
Bob Martin wrote:
> Twenty1stCenturion once removed wrote:
> >
> > There's got to be a better operating system; this is ridiculous.
> >
> > If I hook up a postscript printer to my computer, can I just plug it in
> > and print; or is there going to be a lot of horsecrapping around again?
> >
> > I think I'll quit computing until they come out with something that
> > works.
> > The whole world has been conned with todays computers, os's and
> > software.
>
> If you hook up a postscript printer to the local port it takes about 5
> mouse clicks using the printtool command in RH to have the printer
> working.
> --
>
> Bob Martin
Okay; thank you and other replies.
As you can detect, I got a little, well, I let myself get overly frustrated;
so, I took a break.
What I did was reinstall everything, and Netscape printed okay without me
doing anything.
I did a : cp /usr/bin/lpr /usr/local/Acrobat4/bin and that got Acrobat
going.
I put in WP8 again and that works okay.
I reinstalled StarOffice and did some reading about it, and have to read
again because it said something about putting some commands in to keep the
files from piling up.
For now I will use StarOffice, copy and paste to WordPerfect, and print from
there.
My priority right now will be ipchains. I got that installed and ready to
go.
I had problems upgrading the kernel, in that the new kernel would disable
the network card. So, for now I chose to patch the kernel to get ipchains,
and will research and try to figure what had happened to the network card
when I tried upgrading the whole kernel.
I'm answering in such detail because besides being part of my nature, for
other new people I wanted to relate my expeirences and to say not to try and
rush or skip your reading; like I did. I always try and do things the way
it looks to me like it should be done; it's kind of a backwards way of
learning, but I did learn alot about other Linux stuff while trying to
figure the problem I started with. It actually could be a good way to
learn, but it is very frustrating and time consuming. Having had such a
difficult time, given that I didn't quit, I'm not likely to forget what I've
learned.
As I study Linux, many thoughts come to me of what a great impact this
knowledge could have for me and others. People that don't study computers
will continue to be influenced by computing in ways that they some will
never know about.
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From: "Thomer M. Gil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Vi Lovers Home Page
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 03:50:24 GMT
Hi,
Please visit the Vi Lovers Home Page. Vi is *the* editor under Unix,
but also under MS Windows and many other operating systems.
The Vi Lovers Home Page contains much Vi-related info and links to:
- Many downloadable Vi versions for a large range of operating systems,
- Vi FAQs,
- Tutorials,
- FTP sites,
- jokes and the like,
- and much more.
The Vi Lovers Home Page:
http://www.thomer.com/thomer/vi/vi.html
Thomer M. Gil
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From: Karl Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diary program to run in Xwindows?
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:59:27 -0800
I am looking for a diary program to run on my workstation running Linux.
I would like for the program to be able to search through past entries for
specified text.
I would be very interested in anybody's suggestions.
Karl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnome Resolution
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 03:56:54 GMT
HI Philip
Run XF86Setup as root. From there, select the resolutions you would like to
have available to you in X.
Save the changes to XF86Config. Restart X. You can now select the resolution by
using the ctrl-alt (+-) combination. When you run run XFree86Setup, you should
leave xvidtune alone.
HTH
Jim
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: microsoft.public.win2000.beta.file_system,microsoft.public.win98.fat32
Subject: Re: How do I get rid of LILO?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 04:06:17 GMT
Hi Jon
Lilo might be installed on the other drive where Win 2k is installed.
Run fdisk /mbr on that drive also.
It sounds like MS format did a good format on the drive, but some users have
had to go through the Linux install program, up to the point where they are
prompted to install Linus partitions, then remove all partitions.
The PC is then rebooted without these partitions, and Win 9x is installed.
This is pretty drastic, so it really should be your last resort. Try fdisk /mbr
on the other drive first.
IHTH
Jim
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From: Alexander K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: -hosts.deny- how does it deny? how do IPpackets move internally?
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:32:25 +0100
hello!
as a test i put this line in my hosts.deny file:
ALL : ALL
it's supposed to deny all hosts on all ports, right?
but i can still browse the web, login on a ftp and use my icq.
so some info obviously gets to my computer. the html pages, the
icq-messages and so on.
so how does the deny-thing work?
i guess it's a client/server thing. is it?
i figure that it denys connections to servers on my computer (ie
apache and such), but doesn't care about info sent to clients that I
use on MY computer.
is that right?
i have read the manpage for hosts.access but it didn't explain this.
i want to understand this thoroughly.
first i thought that the computer simply looked at the IPnumbers on
the packets sent to me and immediately dropped them if they weren't
allowed in those files. but that's not the case.
so i wonder, when does my computer take action in dropping those
"denyed" packets? and based on what criteria?
and which daemon handles all this?
is that daemon the first one to take a look at IP packets arriving to
my computer?
btw... how does a IPpacket get handled in a linux system? i mean, how
does it move through the system (which programs/daemons/processes
"route" it) before it reaches it's final destination?
geez. a lot of questions. but i'm really curious about this.
furthermore i wonder this. is it common to log connections via the
hosts.* files? i read i can specify commands to be executed when
criterias are met in those files. this means i could have those
commands append a line of info (remote host/user, time and such) to
some logfile, right? is this possible?
i know (i think:)) most services on my computer already have their own
logging going on, but i still want to know.
would this be a good way?
thanks in adv. / alex
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TrueType Paranoia
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:42:34 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TrueType Paranoia
I trying to have my Windows font in Linux XFree,but with very bad
result.
I am using RedHat 6.2 (Gnome and KDE). I instaled TrueType thus xfs can
see them. I also made Fontmap file, font.dir and font.scale file. I
wonted to use Latin2 (iso8859-2) encoding, I tried also iso 10646
(Unicode). Without good result. Only some of the fonts (5%) I got Latin
characters, with other only 8859-1. WHy????
I used for example Tahoma TrueType font in Windows and I had Latin2
fonts, but not in XFree. I can print this fonts from the ghostscript and
I can see that fonts exist but can't be used. In font.scale file I have
all encodings created by ttfkmdir.
I also addded this fonts to StarOffice (which was the main aim) and
there is the same I can see Latin2 fonts. I was real fun of Linux, but
after one week fighting with TrueType I realy mad at it. Please help me
!
I realy need help.
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From: Alexander K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help - can't install gcc
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 18:37:36 +0100
yo.
i'm only a novice here, not knowing much of anything. but, i am very
surprised you dont have the gnu c/c++ compiler on your computer (put
there by the install).
i mean, isn't the compiler required to be able to use the "make"
script? that's a very common way to install programs on a linux
system.
to me, this sounds a bit fishy.
A Slater wrote:
>
> yes I'v done that, but installation reqiures CC environment variable, I
> have no-where to point this to, since I do nor appear
> to hav any C compiler on my machine,
>
> has linux installation gone wrong ie. should there be some kind of C
> compiler installed initially ?
> am I looking for the wrong thing ?
> do I need to download c-compiler binaries instead, from somewhere?
> or is system generally confused, the install is not able to determine HOST
> or TARGET, I have noticed this when trying to install other s/ware
> mandrake linux does not seem to be one of the standard linux systems ?
>
> help is VERY much appreciated
>
> Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 02:22:51 -0000, A Slater wrote:
> > >I cannot find gcc on my system. I guess mandrake do not provide it in
> > >release.
> > >If I have no exisiting C compiler how can I install a C compiler I need
> C
> > >compiler so that I can install Java servlets.
> >
> > You can d/l it from almost any site that hosts a linux distribution, GCC
> is
> > a C compiler it will also compile C++ and a few other languages aswell I
> > think.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > %HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
> >
> > web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
> >
> > or http://start.at/zero-pps
> >
> > 4:53am up 17:05, 9 users, load average: 1.09, 1.11, 1.09
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Netgear Nic for ADSL + Failure
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 03:56:33 GMT
Good Day,
I am pretty new at Linux, have went through the book and all info I
could find, Card is FA310TX and I know it is supposed to read as tulip,
I get a constant failure to find eth0 everytime I reboot. I have
configured everything and deleted everything. The only time I don't get
a failure is when I delete eth0. I have been on this for 3 days now and
am tired of trying to figure it out. If anyone has any ideas, I would
be most appreciative
ASUS p3b-f
celeron 400
Netgear FA310 TX
Lucent DSL Pipe Modem
RHat 6.1
Thanx in advance
Allnone
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo won't boot w2k on scsi
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 04:54:36 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to build a Linux / Windows 2000 system. I've
> successfully installed W2K (with NTFS) on a SCSI disk (SCSI device 0)
> which boots flawlessly when the bios is configured to boot in the order,
> "SCSI, A, C". I also have an IDE (primary master) with Red Hat Linux
> 6.1 which boots properly when the bios is configured for boot sequence
> "A, C, SCSI". Lilo is installed on this drive and boots Linux. However
> I have not successfully configured duel boot on this system. I would
> like to have the bios boot to the IDE and then use lilo to select either
> Windows or Linux. I modified /etc/lilo.conf to include the windows
> partition /dev/sda1.
AFAIK the first stage of the W2k bootloader can only boot from a
primary partition of the first BIOS disk. When you did install w2k on
the SCSI disk , this was the first BIOS disk. But now ( when you don't
use the "boot SCSI" option of your BIOS) it is the second BIOS disk.
AFAIK there are several options to get that system running:
IIRC lilo offers a option to masquerade a second BIOS disk as first BIOS
disk. Please check the lilo docs ( user.dvi or user.ps(.gz) , should be
somewhere on your disk under /usr/doc) for the exact syntax for that
option . But I'am not sure if that works.
Second option is to install lilo on the MBR of the the SCSI disk and
boot from SCSI. In that case , you have to convince lilo, that the SCSI
disk is the first BIOS disk by adding something like
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
disk =/dev/hda
bios=0x81
to your lilo.conf
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: nldgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lookin for printing info
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 04:16:51 GMT
Jim McIntyre wrote:
> My printer was behaving strangely today. When I tried to print a job, I
> got a lot of scrambled text, followed by one line of text on each of
> several pages. Eventually, I deleted the jobs in the queue and started
> over again. The next time, everything printed OK.
> Any suggestions on what causes this, and what to do when this happens?
>
> Also, where can I get some good information on printing in linux? For
> such an important topic, the Linux books out there, offer very little on
> how to manage networking printing.
>
I'm new to Linux, so I don't know the answer to your question, but have you
heard of "Linux Undercover" or "The Linux Bible"? I have seen "Linux
Undercover" but haven't seen "The Linux Bible". Maybe some of the advanced
users can comment on these.
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From: "Jon Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: microsoft.public.win2000.beta.file_system,microsoft.public.win98.fat32
Subject: Re: How do I get rid of LILO?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 04:22:30 GMT
I did fdisk /mbr on the win98 drive, like I said. I won't (read: can't) do
it to the Win2k drive because it's a dynamic NTFS5 drive.
Jon
"Jim McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi Jon
> Lilo might be installed on the other drive where Win 2k is installed.
> Run fdisk /mbr on that drive also.
> It sounds like MS format did a good format on the drive, but some users
have
> had to go through the Linux install program, up to the point where they
are
> prompted to install Linus partitions, then remove all partitions.
> The PC is then rebooted without these partitions, and Win 9x is installed.
> This is pretty drastic, so it really should be your last resort. Try fdisk
/mbr
> on the other drive first.
>
> IHTH
> Jim
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Netgear Nic for ADSL + Failure
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 04:33:19 GMT
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 03:56:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Good Day,
>I am pretty new at Linux, have went through the book and all info I
>could find, Card is FA310TX and I know it is supposed to read as tulip,
>I get a constant failure to find eth0 everytime I reboot. I have
>configured everything and deleted everything. The only time I don't get
>a failure is when I delete eth0. I have been on this for 3 days now and
>am tired of trying to figure it out. If anyone has any ideas, I would
>be most appreciative
>ASUS p3b-f
>celeron 400
>Netgear FA310 TX
>Lucent DSL Pipe Modem
>RHat 6.1
Is PnP off in BIOS? Try it, if not.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: redhat 6.1,geforce and x
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 04:41:24 GMT
I have a GeForce (Hercules DDR-DVI) and have had it successfully
operating under X
0) During install, select to not have X start at boot. This is a Bad
Thing (for now)
Before running X:
1) Get the XF86-SVGA server package from nVidia's site. This is a
must.
2) Follow their instructions Exactly. This includes renaiming the SVGA
server you already have in /usr/X11/bin
3) I never ran XF86Setup. it never worked on the card. Try
Xconfigurator (RedHat users) or XF86Config
4) While running through, if you don't see your card, do generic.
Sometimes in 3.3.5 the Gefore is listed, someplaces it isn't. Set the
memory for 32M (unless you have a Quatro, I guess).
5) If prompted for what type of server you want to use, do NOT try to
guess an accellerated server. Go with the SVGA server. The secret is
that the nVidia installer you ran previously put in a GeForce
accelerated X server with a SVGA name.
6) Do NOT select a max resolution bigger than the size you want your
desktop to be
7) Boot X. User Ctrl-Alt-KEYPAD '+' to increase resolution if needed.
chainsaw1*hotmail dot com
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From: Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ide hot-swap: is it supported ?
Date: 19 Mar 2000 21:11:50 GMT
Diego Zuccato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hello all.
: I saw a kit to make IDE disks removable like SCSI ones. It supports
: hot-swap under windoze, but (ARGH!) there are no Linux drivers :-( Does
: somebody know if it's supported in Linux ? If yes, what do I need to use
: it ?
Insert the disk on the otherwise free IDE device, spin it on and insert
appended module. Then work with the disk and don't forget to unload the
module when you take the disk out.
Use on your own risk.
Bye
Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
========= Tel. 06151 162516 ======== Fax. 06151 164321 ==========
#include <linux/config.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/hdreg.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/version.h>
static int host;
int init_module(void)
{
host = ide_register(0x170, 0x376, 15);
if (host == -1)
{
printk(KERN_NOTICE "IDE-Register failed on host %d \n", host);
return host;
}
printk(KERN_NOTICE "IDE-Register successfull on host %d \n", host);
return 0;
}
void cleanup_module(void)
{
printk(KERN_NOTICE "Trying to ide_unregister host %d\n", host);
ide_unregister(host);
}
/*
elektron:~/tmp/misc> gcc -O2 -Wall -D__KERNEL__ -DMODVERSIONS -include
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h -I/usr/src/linux/include -DMODULE -DCPU=586 -c -o
ideinsert.o ideinsert.c
Copyright David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Uwe Bonnes
*/
--
Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
========= Tel. 06151 162516 ======== Fax. 06151 164321 ==========
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