Linux-Misc Digest #998, Volume #23 Thu, 30 Mar 00 13:13:02 EST
Contents:
*** LINUX SITE RESEARCH ASSISTANCE NEEDED *** ("C Kim Ho Koon")
Re: Using dd to copy copy-protected floppies (Leonard Evens)
Re: About PPP connection & Sendmail (David Turley)
Re: About PPP connection & Sendmail (David Turley)
Problem with one of our serial printers in Linux... (Scott Bishop)
Re: Does anyone know about ESP? (ag)
Re: Problem with one of our serial printers in Linux... (Tim Dixon)
Re: I need gcc-2.7.2 (Paul Kimoto)
How do I save files from Linux to windows? (Chris Stump)
Re: DEFRAG OR NOT? ("D F")
Re: Using dd to copy copy-protected floppies (Jehsom)
Re: Question on a new Red Hat 6.0 Linux install (Andy9701)
iBCS (Scott Bishop)
Re: Is Linux good for Data Centers? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sys. Admin. Guide ("Jeff Susanj")
Re: NOT a Winmodem (John's Linux)
Re: How do I save files from Linux to windows? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Game of Life - I love Vi (BSD Bob)
Re: How do I save files from Linux to windows? (Michael Kelly)
email client configuration (root)
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From: "C Kim Ho Koon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: *** LINUX SITE RESEARCH ASSISTANCE NEEDED ***
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:07:36 GMT
*** LINUX SITE RESEARCH ASSISTANCE NEEDED ***
Your expertise and opinions are needed! We are interested in creating a
website dedicated to providing the linux professional with job searches
specific to their career interests. Wouldn't you like to know when a job in
your preferred area of development is available?
Have you spent time doing job searches that fail to get your interest
because of either too much or too little information?
We'd like to change that. But before we do, we want to hear what you
consider a great job website.
Please take a few minutes to answer the following questions. Additionally,
feel free to add any comments or questions that you feel are pertinent.
Privacy statement: Your privacy is important to us. Any email address or
any other information sent to us will not be sold or distributed to anyone.
Any information submitted will be kept private unless you authorize us to
share it with the community. Thank you for your participation.--Kim
Please email comments/responses to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for your help in advance.
QUESTIONNAIRE:
1. What attracts you to visiting a job website?(e.g. graphics, content,
news, navigation, JOBS...)
2. When searching a jobsite, please rate the order of importance of each of
the following categories: [from highest importance (10) to lowest importance
(0)]
Position Title (0 - 10)
Duties (0 - 10)
Company (0 - 10)
Geography (0 - 10)
Related News articles: (0 - 10)
3. Name and rate any other important factors:
4. What other information do you consider absolutely necessary to a linux
specific recruitment site?
5. What search tools do you consider absolutely necessary to a great
recruitment site? Explain.
Both short and long answers are appreciated.
Regards
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using dd to copy copy-protected floppies
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:20:26 -0600
Duane Evenson wrote:
>
> I have an old DOS game on a copy protected diskette (720 kB). I thought
> dd would allow me to make a backup -- no good. I'm guessing that I need
> to change the floppy dirk parameters using setfdparm. Is this right?
> Does anyone know how to get the needed disk parameters?
> What should I do?
>
> Thanks,
> Duane Evenson
Which device did you copy from? It shouldn't be /dev/fd0.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: About PPP connection & Sendmail
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:23:23 GMT
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:36:51 -0100, Beno�t Smith apparently wrote:
> Moreover, could someone please explain to me how to configure Sendmail ?
Here are some tips for configuring for a dial up connection
http://www.binary.net/dturley/linux/sendmail.html
--
David Turley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: About PPP connection & Sendmail
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:23:24 GMT
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:36:51 -0100, Beno�t Smith apparently wrote:
> Moreover, could someone please explain to me how to configure Sendmail ?
Here are some tips for configuring for a dial up connection
http://www.binary.net/dturley/linux/sendmail.html
--
David Turley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Scott Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Problem with one of our serial printers in Linux...
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:24:08 -0600
I'm hoping someone here can help me, because right now I'd be thankful
for ANY sort of help. We have an (admittedly) ancient serial printer
that's currently unusable because the last couple of lines of every
print are being lost. The printer is connected using a serial cable to
a server running Slackware 4.0 Linux and a Chase PCI-Fast 8 port
multiport serial card. The setserial line for this particular port
reads as follows:
setserial -bv /dev/cuch2 uart 16654 port 0xB410 irq 9 baud_base 460800
If anyone has any ideas on getting this printer to function properly,
I'd greatly appreciate it...
--
--Scott Bishop
WALKER BOLT Manufacturing Co.
(Notice: The opinions stated in this message are not necessarily those
of my employer, nor of any other sane individual for that matter.)
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From: ag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does anyone know about ESP?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:30:08 GMT
Hi
Could someone please e-mail me the DOS drivers for Hayes ESP single port
card please?
Thanks
dave dumolo wrote:
>
> Help!!!! I've got this Hayes ESP single port card. Works OK with
> W......9x. Documentation says it should work with my Linux RH6.0.
>
> I do the following...
>
> # MAKEDEV ESP
>
> /dev/ttyP0 apparently created OK in /dev
>
> Then..
>
> #setserial /dev/ttyP0 ......
>
> Get 'No such device....'
>
> Can anyone help??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave.
>
>
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Dixon)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Problem with one of our serial printers in Linux...
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:34:49 GMT
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:24:08 -0600, Scott Bishop
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm hoping someone here can help me, because right now I'd be thankful
>for ANY sort of help. We have an (admittedly) ancient serial printer
>that's currently unusable because the last couple of lines of every
>print are being lost. The printer is connected using a serial cable to
>a server running Slackware 4.0 Linux and a Chase PCI-Fast 8 port
>multiport serial card. The setserial line for this particular port
>reads as follows:
>
>setserial -bv /dev/cuch2 uart 16654 port 0xB410 irq 9 baud_base 460800
>
>If anyone has any ideas on getting this printer to function properly,
>I'd greatly appreciate it...
>
>
Are you sure you're sending an eoj and/or flushing the serial port at
the end of the job? The last few lines might be stuff that's buffered
but didn't get sent. Just a guess.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: I need gcc-2.7.2
Date: 30 Mar 2000 10:40:03 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Steuber wrote:
> Is anyone using GCC 2.95.2 with success? I obtained a copy from the
> ftp site at ftp.gnu.org. Super cool to watch it build!
I use gcc-2.95.2 to build 2.3.* kernels.
Many people have used gcc-2.95.* to build 2.2.* kernels; some have had
glitches. I don't know the current status. (Some fixes have been applied
to the 2.2.* kernel tree for the sake of gcc-2.95.*.)
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Chris Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I save files from Linux to windows?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:50:43 -0600
I was wondering how I can go about configuring my Red Hat 6.1 system to
write to my windows partition. In other words, I want to be able to
save files (like .jpg, .gif, .mp3) that I created and/or obtained while
in Linux onto a FAT32 filesystem...so that both windows and Linux can
have access to them. Any help with this matter is appreciated.
Thanks!
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From: "D F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DEFRAG OR NOT?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:12:51 -0500
Benoit Goudreault-Emond wrote in message
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris wrote:
>> Am using the Corel Linux but have not seen any defrag or
disk care
>> utilites...are there any?
>
>Disk care: whenever you boot, the system automatically does
a check on the
>disk (sort of like scandisk). You can do one manually, but
that's the kind
>of stuff you do booting from a different disk (like the
CDROM or a diskette)
>and doing the check from there. Under Linux, you really
can't check the
>filesystem while it's in use. You can in Windows, but it's
really a bad
>idea (and notice it starts over whenever you write to the
disk... that's why
>it's a bad idea!)
>
>Defrag: not really needed. ext2fs (the Linux filesystem)
is meant to keep
>fragmentation low. There was a defrag for it a while back,
but it's not
>been maintained anymore, and I can hardly recommend it, as
it hasn't tracked
>the filesystem changes and is likely to corrupt your files
if you use it. :{)
>
>So, don't worry: the system will take care of this for you,
you won't need
>to run those utilities, and they're pretty useless under
Linux anyways. The
>reason they exist under Windows is due to the idiotic
filesystem they use
>(FAT, which should have been extinct since the mid-80's
IMHO)
>
>--
>Benoit Goudreault-Emond
>CoFounder, KMS Group ; Student, B. Comp. Eng, Concordia
University
>``Being too close to a fireball can worry a man --- to
death.''
> -- Zeb Carter in "The Number of the Beast" by
Robert A. Heinlein
>
>Note: the "From:" address is not correct to protect
myself against spam.
> My actual e-mail address is: ``bge AT crosswinds
DOT net''
As I understand it, and this may just be quibbling with
words, it's not the filesystem that causes Windows to
fragment your files, it's the OS. See, when Windows (or DOS,
for that matter) writes a file, it writes it beginning at
the first available unused sector. If the number of
contiguous unused sectors are not sufficient to hold the
entire file, it writes what it can and then jumps to the
next available sector and continues writing there. Linux (or
Unix, for that matter), on the other hand, looks at the file
size that it's wanting to write and looks for the first
available unused area of the partition that is large enough
to house the entire file and writes it there. That's why
ext2 filesystems will fragment severely, almost as badly as
Windows, when there's not much freespace left on the
partition. There is an infrequent and small advantage to the
DOS method over the Unix method, though, in that it tends to
keep "freespace" contiguous, because the "holes" in the
partition are filled first. I suppose this will help if
you're installing new apps because the large number of files
coming into the filesystem all at once will tend to be
written in a contiguous block. For routine use of a
filesystem, though, where disk reads and writes do a lot to
determine performance, the Unix method is far superior
because files being accessed and written will be contiguous,
as individual files, most of the time. Think of it as DOS is
keeping freespace contiguous while Unix keeps individual
files contiguous.
Now, anyone who _really_ understands how this works, tear
this all apart and post how stupid I am, please!!! ;-)
Dave Fluri
North Bay, Ontario Canada
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jehsom)
Subject: Re: Using dd to copy copy-protected floppies
Date: 30 Mar 2000 16:15:01 GMT
Duane Evenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an old DOS game on a copy protected diskette (720 kB). I thought
> dd would allow me to make a backup -- no good. I'm guessing that I need
> to change the floppy dirk parameters using setfdparm. Is this right?
> Does anyone know how to get the needed disk parameters?
One copy-protected program actually used the disk's serial number
to verify that it was genuine. I don't know if dd actually reads &
writes the serial number, but if it doesn't, you need to set it to
the same serial number and it should work.
Also, copy from the 720k floppy device in linux (forgot its name)
Moshe
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From: Andy9701 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question on a new Red Hat 6.0 Linux install
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:11:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave LaPorte) wrote:
> Joe:
>
> Sorry, I should have been more clear. Only the files which I
> have made executible are showing up with the * at the end, which is
> the way it should be, I just want to find out how to turn of the
> alias for ls -F I have looked in my .bashrc file, and still havn't
> found it. This isn't a huge problem, just anoying!
>
> Dave.
You could try looking in /etc/bash_profile, or some other similarily
named file in /etc...I can't remember any names of other possible
files, but I think there are a couple more there that you could try.
You might also want to look at a Bash Howto, that might be able to help
you out.
Hope this helps,
Andy
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Scott Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: iBCS
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:28:32 -0600
Just a quick question... our Slackware 4.0 server is running kernel
version 2.2.6, but I'd like to upgrade it up to 2.2.14. However, we
need to use iBCS, and I know from past experience that attempting to
force a insmod on an earlier version of it doesn't work. Does anyone
know where I might be able to download a version I can recompile for my
kernel?
Thanks in advance...
--
--Scott Bishop
WALKER BOLT Manufacturing Co.
(Notice: The opinions stated in this message are not necessarily those
of my employer, nor of any other sane individual for that matter.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,sg.linux
Subject: Re: Is Linux good for Data Centers?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:27:54 GMT
You mean, as the server? Then it can definately be a problem, but then
again, anyone running a "real" datacenter probably has plenty of cash,
and their program (db, whatever) could be something they had custom
coded, so porting it might not be that much of a problem. But if their
code is running on a million dollar box, then linux isn't likely to be
the os, just because of the way the market still is. If they're buying
some insanely multiprocessored SGI, E10000, or Hp-UX with a EMC
storage..... the suits will just go what whatever os it comes with.
But (cheap) linux boxes, as desktops for data entry clerks makes a lot
of sense. The price factor really makes quite a difference when you're
talking about a datacenter with several hundred clerks, 24-7. Plus,
lots people who do data entry know about windows, but most likely they
wouldn't know much about linux. Granted, nothing is really secure, but
a clerk isn't going to be able to sit there all day trying to hack his
way into root on his local box. Some data entry situations can be quite
security intensive, and I mean physical not technical. If you're over
in the corner sticking boot-disks in the machine and flipping power
switches, some beefy company thug will grab you by the neck real fast.
In article <8bv7s1$saq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Joey Le" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> yes, but these software are hard to find, or should I say "rare"
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8bflkr$ep4
$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > client or server?
> >
> > As clients they kick-ass, small, fast, works on crud hardware,
(anyone
> > with a datacenter has just tons and tons of this crap piled up
> > somewhere) can work with just about any mainframe or terminal type.
No
> > worries about people installing their own wacky software, or
breaking
> > the box by deleting files. Plus all the joys of remote management.
> >
> > As servers, it depends on what programs you're running. You might
have
> > lots of problems trying to get someone to port it over for you,
assuming
> > your vendor will even consider such a thing.
> >
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Anyone out there ever tried using Linux for data centers? Any
advice
> > or
> > > issues?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Damon
> > >
> > > P.S. - please remove DONT_MASS_WITH_ME to correspond.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Jeff Susanj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sys. Admin. Guide
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:07:20 GMT
Get a PC with enough horsepower and install Linux and administer it. Even
with books, tutorials etc. you really learn by doing. I have been amazed
how much I have learned in the last few months since I installed Linux on my
486.
Jeff S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <8btpgk$n5r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I am a CSE softmore student and a Linux user with 6 months.
>Also, I have experiences of C,C++,Bash and Perl and I want to be a
>Professional Linux System Administrator, please guide me
>on which steps i should follow, which books or tutorials
>i should read.
>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: John's Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NOT a Winmodem
Date: 30 Mar 2000 12:23:34 EST
Mike Long wrote:
> I have a 3Com USRobotics 56k Faxmodem. It is NOT a Winmodem, but I can't get
> it to work in Redhat 5.2.
> Do I need a driver?
> Where can I find one?
>
> Mike
Hi:
I have the same U.S. Robotics external modem that you are running. It is on
COM1 (cua0)(first serial port). I think redHat comes with a modem config tool
that will link your modem so it will work ( I am running SuSE so I am going
from memory when I was attempting to use redHat).
Hope this helps,
John Jaynes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How do I save files from Linux to windows?
Date: 30 Mar 2000 12:33:23 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:50:43 -0600, Chris Stump
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I was wondering how I can go about configuring my Red Hat 6.1 system to
>write to my windows partition. In other words, I want to be able to
>save files (like .jpg, .gif, .mp3) that I created and/or obtained while
>in Linux onto a FAT32 filesystem...so that both windows and Linux can
>have access to them. Any help with this matter is appreciated.
This is a FAQ. Why don't you go read the FAQ, and a large assortment of
other useful stuff, at http://www.linuxdoc.org and probably in the paper
manual that came with your distribution? It will spare you a great deal
of pain in the long run if you do this BEFORE you have problems.
That said, just
# mkdir /mnt/win (only do this once)
# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
Your Lose98 "C: drive" will then be accessible under /mnt/win, and it'll
look (sort of) like a Linux filesystem. Read the man pages (man fstab) to
learn more about what you can do with this.
Also do a Google search for "explore2fs", a utility that will allow you
to read and write ext2 filesystems under Lose9x and NT.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: BSD Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Game of Life - I love Vi
Date: 29 Mar 2000 19:15:24 GMT
In comp.unix.misc Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Wow, it was written 15 years ago? It didn't even know that Vi existed
>>> at that time. :-)
> It not only existed - it had been ported to everything else. One of
> the first clones I used was something called Z pr PCZ on MSDOS.
> Apart from a size limitation (32K or 64K or something), it was
> the nicest editor available on DOS.
I still use a ditty called Calvin (used to be FreeVi) for dos.
It is 47K, runs any size file (AFIK), and when combined with TeX
or troff, makes a right fine lookiefeelieunixy text suite.
Although dos is fading, a single boot disk with dos5 and some ditties
like ftp and telnet, vi, tar, gzip, etc., make a fine way to resurrect
heathen windoz boxes and set them up for *nix. Calvin is the absolute
best of the dos vi clones. Z was good, but Calvin much better. Also,
the sources are available, too, if you need to recompile it for dos,
(shouldn't need to though, since it works well out of the box).
Alas, I could never get the thing backported to fit down into a
little CP/M box.....(:+\\... because of CP/M C compiler inefficiencies.
Bob
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I save files from Linux to windows?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:45:07 -0500
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:50:43 -0600, Chris Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I was wondering how I can go about configuring my Red Hat 6.1 system to
>write to my windows partition. In other words, I want to be able to
>save files (like .jpg, .gif, .mp3) that I created and/or obtained while
>in Linux onto a FAT32 filesystem...so that both windows and Linux can
>have access to them. Any help with this matter is appreciated.
>
>Thanks!
man mount
File system type for Windows is vfat
If you get an error then your kernel needs to have at least
module support for vfat(it probably asked you during install
but I don't have RedHat so I dunno'. Anyway, you can always
reconfigure the kernel yourself.)
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: email client configuration
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:58:40 -0500
I am going to use mail as mail client program in rh6.1. What's the
minimum work I havt to do for this?
I have tried to use mailconf, just tell it the mailserver's name (in
basic sendmail configuration). But When i send a mail I got it return,
saying, "sender domain must exist!"
Do you have any clue?
Further, if I want to use this linux box as a mail server, What other
work could i do for this?
thanks.
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