Linux-Misc Digest #928, Volume #23 Wed, 22 Mar 00 22:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: I Broke It (Raquel Rice)
Re: /proc/config patch for kernel 2.2.13 (update) ("D. Stussy")
Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS (L J Bayuk)
Is Linux getting commercialized? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: -*=HELP*=- pc vid card for SUN monitor?????? (Grant Edwards)
C++ Debug on Mandrake7.0 -- Cannot resolve any overloaded instances (Chih-Wei Chang)
Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS (L J Bayuk)
Re: Installation NE2000 ISA PnP (L J Bayuk)
Re: mail client (Grant Edwards)
Re: staroffice running slowly (Brian Moore)
Re: Linux ISP ("Dana E. Williams")
Re: Linux ISP ("Dana E. Williams")
Re: Installation NE2000 ISA PnP (Robert Lynch)
Bridge + shaper (Timothy J. Lee)
Re: I Broke It (Raquel Rice)
Re: Error in Messages Log File (Jeff Grossman)
Re: Can't ping out from RH 6.1 (Carter Braxton)
Re: Is Linux getting commercialized? (Christopher Browne)
Re: looking for 'simple' proxy for unix (David Efflandt)
Server information ("Jonathan")
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From: Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I Broke It
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:18:04 -0800
Yan Seiner wrote:
> Oops - I did not mean to say that you should not have asked; rather,
> there may be some other solutions available if you search dejanews.
>
> OK, time for some other tricks:
>
> # lpc
>
> and type ? to see what you can do.
>
> Try
> lpc> abort lp0
>
> and you should see
>
> printing disabled
> no daemon to abort
>
> Now type
> lpc> up lp0
>
> and you should see
> printing enabled
> daemon started
>
> lpc>
>
> If you see anything else let us know.
>
> Do a man lpc and lpd to see what they do.
>
> What's your printcap look like?
>
> # cat /etc/printcap and post it.
>
> This printer is connected to the parallel port, right?
> What version of linux are you running? Also post the results of
> # lsmod
>
> (man that too to see what it does.)
>
> (Yes the learning curve is steep....)
>
> --Yan
>
Okay, I haven't "played with" everything yet, but I did find something
interesting. First,
The contents of my /etc/printcap are:
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
:ms#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter:
Then I did some playing around with lpc. Below is the result of my playing
around. Of particular interest (at least to me) is the second # lpc status lp
# lpc abort lp did just what you said
printing disabled
no daemon to abort
# lpc status lp
queuing is enabled
printing is disabled
3 entries in spool area
no daemon present
# lpc up lp
printing enabled
daemon started
# lpc enable lp
queuing enabled
# lpc status lp
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
3 entries in spool area
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
# lpc abort lp
printing disabled
daemon (pid 4157) killed
# lpc disable lp
queuing disabled
The printer is turned on and will run it's own test. I have not touched the
printer (except the on/off button) or the cables since the printer was working
yesterday
--
Raquel
=============================================================
It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60
million for something you're not.
-- Albert Brooks
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From: "D. Stussy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: /proc/config patch for kernel 2.2.13 (update)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:25:28 GMT
Considering that is not the latest kernel that has been released (2.2.14 came
out in January), is this something that is really needed, or did 2.2.14 fix it?
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> Listing kernel compile-time configuration via /proc/config
> ==========================================================
> /proc/config patch (update) for kernel 2.2.*
>
> Proconfig 0.8.2 (2.2.13)
> Changes
> 0.8.2 - added on/off switch via echo -n "0" >/proc/config
> (security and saves about 1K temporarily while off).
> integrated CONFIG_* search with kernel mkdep.c
>
> 0.8.1 - minor cosmetic buglet fixed.
> replaced shell scripts by C programs.
> unified 2.3.44 and 2.2.13 config.c code
> issued initial patch (0.9) for 2.3.44
>
> Download: ftp://oboe.it.uc3m.es/pub/Programs/proconfig-0.8.2.tgz
> Homepage: http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/proconfig/
>
> I'll update the 2.3.44 patch shortly: 0.9.2 won't be announced as
> people here aren't following 2.3.*.
>
> Repeat of original announcement: ...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS
Date: 23 Mar 2000 01:39:51 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Yup.. tried all the lpX's
>
>> have you tried /dev/lp1 instead? Most documentation says that a
>> DOS/Windows port of LPT1 corresponds to /dev/lp0, but this is not
>always
>> true. (I once saw an explanation, but it escapes me at the moment)
On recent kernels (2.2.x?), the first parallel port is always
/dev/lp0, no matter what its IRQ or base address are.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Is Linux getting commercialized?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:28:00 GMT
Hi,
I've been meeting commercial UNIX types who're all gung-ho about Linux.
Unfortunately their plan seems to be to sell closed, proprietary code
running on top of a base Linux distro. I've written a short column
about this phenom at
http://www.ciol.com/content/opinion/lastword/00032201.asp and would
welcome comments from folks at this forum. Am I wrong? I hope so or
else it may be hard times for Linux.
Cheers
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: grant@nowhere. (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: -*=HELP*=- pc vid card for SUN monitor??????
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:45:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Kauffman wrote:
>i have a great sun mon, two actually. i need to put on to use on a pc.
>do you know of any pc vid cards that support sun monitor refresh rates??
>i already have a vid cable.
I'm pretty sure than any PCI or AGP video board made within the
last few years will support the video freq used by Sun monitors.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I know th'MAMBO!! I
at have a TWO-TONE CHEMISTRY
visi.com SET!!
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From: Chih-Wei Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: C++ Debug on Mandrake7.0 -- Cannot resolve any overloaded instances
Date: 23 Mar 2000 01:34:37 GMT
Hi,
I am using Mandrake7.0 and developing C++ program. When using gdb
for debugging, say, when I try to execute a member function like:
(gdb) p MyInstance->member_func()
gdb complains:
Cannot resolve method MyInstance::member_func to any overloaded instance
Is this a problem of the compiler (g++) ?
Thanks a lot!
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS
Date: 23 Mar 2000 01:45:57 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>...
>Hey, thanks for the response. When I said that it wasn't responding, I
>meant that when I did "cat file.txt > /dev/lp0" nothing happened. It
>went through, didn't hang, but the printer didn't even budge.. no
>lights, nothing.
>
>I'm pretty sure the cable and printer are working, I'll double check
>though.
>
>So you're saying that "normally" I should have to do anything to get
>parallel ports working? I should be able to plug it in and do "cat x >
>/dev/lp0"?
Yes. I have an even older printer: original Deskjet (10 years) - which
works fine on /dev/lp0. Only odd thing is in the system log:
kernel: lp0: the printing could be optimized using the TRUST_IRQ flag,
see the top of linux/drivers/char/lp.c
But if I try that (TRUST_IRQ), printing goes berserk. So I leave it
alone.
While checking your system log (/var/log/messages) for lp errors,
also look for the detection messages, which should be something like:
kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP,PS2]
kernel: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
although it may say "(polling)" instead of "(interrupt-driven)". It
should work either way.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: Installation NE2000 ISA PnP
Date: 23 Mar 2000 01:48:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Tell me please, which module I must to load, for working a network card
>NE2000 ISA PnP. Beforehand I speak, not I know, on which chipset it is
>made.
>Thank! Dima.
The module is "ne", but if you can't lock your card down to
a specific I/O address (disable PnP?), you will have to mess
around with the isapnp tools.
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From: grant@nowhere. (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: mail client
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:49:24 GMT
In article <8bbd89$pr0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Dude wrote:
>I need you to recomand me a good mail client, and pls not kmail not
>Netscape.
mutt
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Does someone from
at PEORIA have a SHORTER
visi.com ATTENTION span than me?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Moore)
Subject: Re: staroffice running slowly
Date: 22 Mar 2000 20:50:14 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <L9BY9tzSDwrQ-pn2-ySYrOdLUbrvi@localhost>,
Karel Jansens <jansens_at_ibm_dot_net> wrote:
>
>X will run smoothly in as little as 16 MB RAM or even below. In fact,
>when properly set up, KDE runs without hickups on 24 MB of RAM
>(version 1.0). I know, because I've done this (even worse, I've done
>it on a Pentium 60!).
>
>Granted, StarOffice is not modest in its memory requirements, but 48
>MB should be sufficient to make it workable. And it is by no means a
>"Java based app"! Sheesh!
>
I agree. I recently inherited a 133 MHz laptop with 16 MB RAM. I'm
running Gnome/enlightenment and sometimes StarOffice. X was OK
at 16 MB, but StarOffice was annoyingly slow. I upgraded to 32 MB
(I am cash poor ...) and StarOffice is still a bit slow to start but
really no problem after that.
--
Brian G. Moore, School of Science, Penn State Erie--The Behrend College
[EMAIL PROTECTED] , (814)-898-6334
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From: "Dana E. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux ISP
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:33:14 GMT
I don't know where you live.. but in the greater Seattle area you can
use 'no-charge'
www.nocharge.com
as it says there is no charge for use and everyone logs in as guest with
password of password.
E. Robert Tisdale wrote:
>
> rhat wrote:
>
> > How do I get a list of ISP's that cater to Linux OS?
>
> Very few ISPs "cater" to Linux
> even if they run their server under Linux.
> I don't know of any that distribute a browser
> that will run under Linux for example.
>
> I had to drop GTE because I couldn't post news articles
> using Netscape Communicator.
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From: "Dana E. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux ISP
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:32:57 GMT
I don't know where you live.. but in the greater Seattle area you can
use 'no-charge'
www.nocharge.com
as it says there is no charge for use and everyone logs in as guest with
password of password.
E. Robert Tisdale wrote:
>
> rhat wrote:
>
> > How do I get a list of ISP's that cater to Linux OS?
>
> Very few ISPs "cater" to Linux
> even if they run their server under Linux.
> I don't know of any that distribute a browser
> that will run under Linux for example.
>
> I had to drop GTE because I couldn't post news articles
> using Netscape Communicator.
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:59:06 -0800
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation NE2000 ISA PnP
Pliev wrote:
>
> Tell me please, which module I must to load, for working a network card
> NE2000 ISA PnP. Beforehand I speak, not I know, on which chipset it is
> made.
> Thank! Dima.
For me it's 8390.o and ne.o. You may need to use the isapnp utilities
to configure yours, I dunno because mine's not PnP.
Some PnP cards (3COM 509 I think) can have PnP turned off, and the card
configured to a certain fixed port and IRQ using the mfgr.'s diskette.
Then you can add some lines to /etc/modules.conf, for auto-loading, like
for me:
# network card
alias eth0 ne
options ne io=0x280 irq=5
Hope this helps.
Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Bridge + shaper
Date: 23 Mar 2000 02:16:22 GMT
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
Can a Linux computer acting as a bridge (CONFIG_BRIDGE in the kernel)
use the traffic shaper (CONFIG_SHAPER in the kernel)?
Also, shadow.cabi.net, where the bridge and shaper tools are supposed
to be, does not exist. Where are those tools now?
--
========================================================================
Timothy J. Lee timlee@
Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. netcom.com
No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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From: Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I Broke It
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:29:18 -0800
Yan Seiner wrote:
> Also post the results of
> # lsmod
>
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ppp 20012 2 (autoclean)
slhc 4328 1 (autoclean) [ppp]
parport_probe 2980 0 (autoclean) (unused)
lp 4476 0 (autoclean)
(unused)
parport 7124 0 (autoclean)
[parport_probe lp]
nls_cp437 3548 5 (autoclean)
msdos 5276 5 (autoclean)
fat 30464 5 (autoclean) [msdos]
--
Raquel
=============================================================
It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million
for something you're not.
-- Albert Brooks
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From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Error in Messages Log File
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:23:33 -0800
Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I just started getting the following line in my Messages Log file this
>> past week. I am running Redhat 6.1.
>>
>> Mar 19 03:50:03 apple modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-10
>Did you just recompile your kernel? Did you "make modules; make
>modules_install"?
>
>/A
Nope, I have never compiled a kernel yet. That's not it. Any other
suggestions?
Jeff
---
Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carter Braxton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Can't ping out from RH 6.1
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 02:49:38 GMT
On 22 Mar 2000 20:24:50 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>because you have done something wrong. It's anyone's guess what you
>have done wrong. Any thing at all could produce "cannot ping network".
True, though there are probably some mistakes that are commonly
made by beginners.
>For example you may have messed up your DNS so that name to IP
>translation may not work. You may not have set a route to your net.
I'll check those things, thanks for the pointers.
>You may not even have a working card. Have you tried listening on the
The card (SMC Ultra) works under Windows, so I don't think that's the
problem.
>rest of the world means and that your windows boxes are not set up for
>tcp/ip. So they won't reply. Or you may not have a working card yet.
Our entire office network runs on TCP/IP, so internal nodes should
be reachable. I'll play around with it more when I have time, using
your suggestions as a guide. (When I find the problem it will probably
be "D'oh! I don't believe I did that!") Thanks!
==============================================================================
Carter Braxton (Remove "NOSPAM" for e-mail)
US CENSUS 2000: What response is required? Learn the facts! See:
http://www.save-a-patriot.org/census/census.html
==============================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Is Linux getting commercialized?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 02:55:41 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when [EMAIL PROTECTED]
would say:
>I've been meeting commercial UNIX types who're all gung-ho about Linux.
>Unfortunately their plan seems to be to sell closed, proprietary code
>running on top of a base Linux distro. I've written a short column
>about this phenom at
>http://www.ciol.com/content/opinion/lastword/00032201.asp and would
>welcome comments from folks at this forum. Am I wrong? I hope so or
>else it may be hard times for Linux.
There's a lot of effort and benefit available from non-closed projects
as well; I rather think that you can find evidence of whichever
approach to things that you *want* to see, regardless of whether or
not that is a fair perspective.
--
Rules of the Evil Overlord #14. "I will not waste time making my
enemy's death look like an accident -- I'm not accountable to anyone
and my other enemies wouldn't believe it."
<http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: looking for 'simple' proxy for unix
Date: 23 Mar 2000 02:58:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23 Mar 2000 00:55:14 GMT, Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking for a 'simple' proxy for unix.
>It should
> * NOT cache
> * Be highly reliable software
> (no need for dumb hacks like an auto-restarting loop)
> * Have minimal security like "only allow connections from 1.2.x.x"
> * Handle http, and SSL-tunneling proxies
> * Have an active, or at least interested, developer
> * Be free, and run under UNIX.
>
>IDEALLY, it should also handle browser-ftp proxying.
>
>The above criteria rule out squid, and the TIS "firewall toolkit".
>
>Any other suggestions?
If you don't want to cache, why do you even need a proxy? Have you looked
at ipchains (or ip masquerade on older distros)? It is included with any
Linux.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: "Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Server information
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 03:08:46 GMT
Hi,
We need a new powerful server for our website. I need some sugestion
for hardwar vendor. My company is considering using Cubix. Any one have
been use it? Thanks in advance. The following is my company's requirement:
System we need:
1. Load balancing
2. High availability
3. Fault tolerant
4. Fail over
5. Cluster
Software:
1. Turbo Linux cluster server 4.0 (6.0?)
2. Front end using Apache web server and PHP script language
3. Back end using MySQL
Hardware:
1. 2 load balancing server(Celeron)
2. 2 Pentium III single processor board (running Apache and PHP)
3. 2 Dual Pentium III board(running MySQL)
Questions:
1. If to use RAID, does all systems(boards) share the same RAID or each
computer has its own RAID?
2. How can we configure second IP under fail over situation? For example,
one from a dedicated line and other using DSL. How about DNS?
3. What is the capacity of such system?
4. How can we upgrade if needed?
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