Linux-Misc Digest #40, Volume #24 Tue, 4 Apr 00 12:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Logging stopped on RH 5.2 (no output to "messages" log) ("Heinz Wittenbecher")
Re: Word documents viewer? (Michael Hofmann)
Printer Drivers ("Russell")
Re: DVD-Player and Linux ? (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: I need help getting AWE64 working (Philipp Maier)
Re: Word documents viewer? (Philipp Maier)
Re: Boost from MS Anti-trust Ruling? (Leonard Evens)
LINUX USERS: CHICAGO ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions? ("Rob Tolman")
Re: Any web based free e-mail system run on Linux?? (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Printer Drivers (Robert Heller)
Re: sed and substitute newline--how? (Ron)
Re: partiton (Leonard Evens)
Re: finger (Arjan Drieman)
Re: RedHat ISO Images (Rod Smith)
test (Glitch)
Sychronise the content of two web site? ("Calvin")
Re: snpmd randomly stops ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Capturing AVI/MPEG in linux (Christoph Kukulies)
Re: saving newgroup (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: WHAT DOES FOO MEAN???? ("Jeff Susanj")
Re: Dial Up Problem (Patricia)
DCE/RPCD and Redhat 6 ideas (EmilVelez)
Multiple CPU (chris)
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From: "Heinz Wittenbecher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Logging stopped on RH 5.2 (no output to "messages" log)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 07:18:02 -0700
All of a sudden all output to /var/log/messages has stopped.
The file is zero length so it may have happened on a "rotate", but I don't
know where. It would be a rotate that got installed way back when as part of
the initial install, which was a long time ago. It's been behaving real good
(many years).
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
TIA - Heinz
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From: Michael Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Word documents viewer?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:14:17 +0200
Alexei Gromov wrote:
>
> Hi, All!
>
> Are there any viewers for MS Word documents for Linux?
> And I do not mind StarOfiice or starting Word in Wine (and
> variations...) :)
Well then, why don't you just start StarOffice....
You might also try mswordview.
Have fun,
Michael
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From: "Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer Drivers
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:32:05 +1000
where could i find some printer drivers for linux. what i'm looking for is,
Epson LQ - 1070+, and Lexmark 1100, or is there another way to print without
using drivers, just simple text will do, i don't mind getting instruction to
configure any files needed to get linux to print. I've tryed printtool and
it wont detect anything located on my parallel port.
what can i do to get linux to print
thanx in advanced
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: DVD-Player and Linux ?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:36:49 GMT
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:14:44 GMT, Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 11:13:53 +0200, Erik Mortensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Joey Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> when you receive any informations, please email me, I m not thinking
>>> that I will check back here.
>>
>>According to DVDCCA a licensed player is in the works. I wonder if that
>>is true.
>
>I think so. I saw the announcement from the company doing it in several
>places (forget the name right now).
Both the DVDCCA and the manufacturer are FUDding. This particular
driver (IIRC, AFAIK, and all that :-) requires you to buy their
specific video card. Yes - video card.
The analogy would be, for instance, if someone made an MP3 player
that required you to use their sound card. Even in the Windows
world I doubt that this would sell very much - I may be wrong!
As far as I am concerned there isn't one, unless you count decss.
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From: Philipp Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I need help getting AWE64 working
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:35:42 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Steuber wrote:
>
> I am having a heck of a time getting my AWE 64 soundcard to work. I
> have the SuSE 6.2 distribution.
[snip]
Take a look at my homepage (section Linux --> Sound), I've described in
some detail what you have to do...
PM
--
Sylt, SuSE Linux, Maerklin mini-club, Psion Serie 5mx Pro & GPS:
http://www.philipp-maier.de
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From: Philipp Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Word documents viewer?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:37:48 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alexei Gromov wrote:
>
> Are there any viewers for MS Word documents for Linux?
If you don't want to use StarOffice then try the new Beta of Applixware.
You can download it at
http://www.smartbeak.com/SmartBeak.ent?ENT_COMMAND=ENT_HTFILE&HTFILE=ax_milestone.hti
PM
--
Sylt, SuSE Linux, Maerklin mini-club, Psion Serie 5mx Pro & GPS:
http://www.philipp-maier.de
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boost from MS Anti-trust Ruling?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 10:29:51 -0500
Pylon wrote:
>
> Will Linux enjoy wider distribution as a result of MicroSofts'
> anti-trust ruling?
It is too early to count our chickens. Microsoft is relying
on conservative (i.e., not interested in anti-trust) appelate
judges and a Bush victory---he is on record against aggressive
anti trust enforcement---to win in the end. In other words
the fix is already in.
Microsoft's threat to Linux is not the same as its threat to
other would be monopolists in the computer industry. What we
have to fear is that Microsoft will take over supposedly
open standards and tie them to hooks in their operating
systems. Already there are web sites that can't be accessed
under Linux because they cater only to users of IE explorer.
They have tried the same thing with Java. Companies like
IBM and Sun can and will cut their deals with MS when it
suits them, but by its very nature, the open software community
can't.
>
> * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network *
> The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LINUX USERS: CHICAGO
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:30:32 GMT
Any Linux users/hobbyists that live in Chicago want to supply their
knowledge to another hobbyist? Just getting into this whole thing and
get really confused easily (in general..haha)...I know I will be
popping lots of questions up with this OS
Let me know....dinner on me!
Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Rob Tolman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions?
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:49:37 -0400
Thanks for the suggestions guys, this will at least cut down my chase a bit.
So far looks as if I'm going to look at w3m, opera, arena, chimera, MMM,
qtMozilla, and maybe a couple more I saw on freshmeat.
And the oh so popular lynx, that I'm already using ;-)
thanks
Rob
Rob Tolman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:uA2G4.2862$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Any suggestions/ recommendations for light weight web browser?
> Netscape is too much for my machine. Running Slackware 7.
>
>
>
> Rob
>
>
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Subject: Re: Any web based free e-mail system run on Linux??
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 15:01:38 GMT
"Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It is because my boss want the web site to provide free mail service to
> members. We are going to move to out own new server which using linux. And i
> don't wanna implement it myself if there are already cool one on the net.
>
> Best regards
> Calvin
>
> Steve ���g��峹 ...
> >On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:27:50 +0800, Calvin wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >> I want to find a web based free e-mail system that running on Linux???
> >>is there any one?? Or i need to write one myself?
Check out http://www.horde.org/imp
Vilmos
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer Drivers
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 15:05:40 GMT
"Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:32:05 +1000, wrote :
"> where could i find some printer drivers for linux. what i'm looking for is,
"> Epson LQ - 1070+, and Lexmark 1100, or is there another way to print without
"> using drivers, just simple text will do, i don't mind getting instruction to
"> configure any files needed to get linux to print. I've tryed printtool and
"> it wont detect anything located on my parallel port.
Let me guess -- you did a fresh install of RedHat Linux 6.1? There is a
*small* bug in the installer for RedHat Linux 6.1. You need to add a
line to /etc/conf.modules:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
And restart kerneld:
killall kerneld; /sbin/kerneld&
">
"> what can i do to get linux to print
For the Epson LQ, you can use the epson driver in with resolution set to
360x180. Once you 'fix' /etc/conf.modules and restart kerneld,
printtool will see your printer port and you can click on the 'select'
button next to 'Input Filter' and select Epson Dot Matrix, 24 pin.
You'll want to restart lpd if this is the *first* printer you've added,
and send a PostScript test page.
I don't know about the Lexmark printer.
">
"> thanx in advanced
">
">
">
--
\/
Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sed and substitute newline--how?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 10:54:20 -0400
Didn't know about ctl-V. It will be quite helpful--thanks! However,
for dos to linux, I find the following to work just fine, and is easy
to read:
tr -d "\r" <dos.format.file >linux.format.file
I know it will not always be an accurate translation, but it's quick and
usually adequate.
Ron
Michael Kelly wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:05:24 -0500, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the many replies! I got my code working with the following:
> >
> >sed 's/this/\
> >/g' <input.txt >output.txt
>
> Sorry for coming into this thread in the middle, but one thing I
> found useful for the pesky \r\n<=>\n Win/Dos <=> Linux is
> at the bash prompt, a control-V(^V) tells it to accept the next
> char literally, so then you can enter ^M for a \r, for instance
> when using tr to delete them. This saves having to put stuff
> in a script file.
>
> If it's already been mentioned.. nevermind. But I found that
> ^V so useful I thought I'd mention it.
>
> Mike
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partiton
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 10:45:20 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> just like thousands of other people i'm aslo wishing to install LINUX
> in my PC.but i don't know how to make partiton in my PC, so as i can
> have both win & linux on same system.....
> i've Plll-450,64MB,8GB,WIN98SE.it's COMPAQ presario 100p serias
> machine. i don't want complete replacement of windows. please help.
> i've corel linux cd which i wish to installed. aslo last manth in
> CHIPcd corel linux was given is for the limited time[ trialware] i
> couldn't checked out as i have win.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
First, don't feel you are tied to using the Corel product.
You can get the standard RedHat (or Suse or ...) CD from
Cheapbytes or Linuxmall for $2 plus shipping. Or you can
buy the standard CD with some hard copy documentation for
about $30 through many sources including stores. (The documentation
is also on the CD in most cases.)
You probably have Windows on one partition filling your entire
disk. (That is the most common situation.) If so, you first
need to reduce the size of the Windows partition. The Linux
distribution should include a DOS program called fips2, which
can be used to resize the Windows partition. But in some cases,
the vendor makes this difficult or impossible by placing files
at the end of the partition which can't be moved with dfrag.
(fips will only work on a defragged partition.) In that case,
you have to get a commercial product like Partition Magic.
If you use PM, I would recommend not installing it on the
disk, but using the installation wizard to make an emergency
floppy for PM and then using that to do the resizing.
I think there may also be other free resizing utilities
available on the web.
Once you have resized your Windows partition, the Linux release
will probably be able to do everything else that is necessary
for installing Linux, including creating the needed Linux
partitions. I've done this many times.
One potential problem with some large disks is that current
releases of Linux use a program called lilo to boot Linux
(and Windows) from the hard drive. But because of
obsolescent BIOS restrictions on many computers, lilo must
find what it needs for booting below cylinder 1024. If
your windows partition extends beyond cylinder 1024, you
probably won't be able to boot Linux from your hard disk.
However, you can set up in that case to boot Windows from
the hard disk and to boot Linux from a floppy. Sometimes
doing that requires a bit of fiddling, so if you get stuck,
seek advice. It is not really very hard. However, with
an 8 GB disk, there is a good chance you won't encounter
this problem if you you split it in half for Windows and
Linux. Partition Magic will warn you if you are not below
the 1024 cylinder limit. If you use fips2, just make sure
you allow about 10 or 20 MB free above the upper limit for
the Windows partition and below cylinder 1024. That will
be enough for lilo to work.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arjan Drieman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,be.comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: finger
Date: 4 Apr 2000 15:13:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:00:04 +0200, winpic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>How do I keep track of people who are fingering me?
You can use ipchains to log all connection attempts to the finger port:
ipchains -A input -p tcp -d 0/0 79 -y -l -j ACCEPT
Or you can install a logger like ippl, get it at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/daemons/
Arjan
--
Why is American beer served cold?
So you can tell it from urine.
-- David Moulton
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: RedHat ISO Images
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 15:15:44 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <Tm6G4.10366$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Dheera Venkatraman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> Does anyone know what the difference is between the 'zoot-i386.iso' and
> 'redhat-6.2-i386.iso' cd-rom images?
All the zoot images I've seen have dates on the FTP servers from close to
a month ago (3/9, IIRC). Therefore, my guess is they're beta versions of
6.2. When I checked two days ago, the redhat-6.2-i386.iso images were
almost impossible to find -- I only found it one place, and it had
permissions set so it couldn't be downloaded. :-(
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 11:22:17 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
test
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From: "Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sychronise the content of two web site?
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:25:46 +0800
Hi,
I am going to move my web site to my own linux server. SO i think i have
to let the new server and old server to run parallel for few days, and wait
for the DNS record to change. And the content of the web site in the new &
old server should be sychronise in this few days. (The old server use UNIX
also).
Is there any way i can do this in a efficient way??
Best regards
Calvin
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: snpmd randomly stops
Date: 4 Apr 2000 15:26:47 GMT
Michael Segulja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: We run a couple of NT Servers and one Linux server and use HP TopTools
: to monitor the servers so we know when one goes down. It monitors
: whether the server can be pinged, and whether or not snmp is running.
: The Linux server continually stops running snmp, but the server is
: staying up. It's usually in the morning when I get here. If I
: run /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd start, then it starts up okay and will run
: for awhile. There is nothing in the syslog that shows it stopping.
: Anybody know what the problem could be? This is Redhat Linux 6.0 with
: kernel 2.2.5-15.
Probably the random oom killer. Don't worry about it. Run your service
out of init or inetd.
Peter
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Capturing AVI/MPEG in linux
Date: 4 Apr 2000 15:38:35 GMT
JS Willans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi,
: I need to capture the dynamics of a window to an avi/mpeg file so that it
: can be displayed in a presentation. How might I do this in Linux?
: cheers,
: James
You may take a look at www.qarbon.com
'LeeLou' is their X11 capture tool.
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: saving newgroup
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:55:20 GMT
[Non-existant newsgroups col.help and col.questions removed]
[If your server does list groups with that name, contact your
newsadmin. The server is misconfigured. And if he/she doesn't
care, switch providers. These groups have ceased to exist more than
3 years ago.]
Sven Bovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[Netscape and saving newsgroups]
>I _seem_ to be doing about the same right now. I've opened
>this newsgroup yesterday but could not read all messages.
>Then today, I opened it again, and the messages did not have
>to be d/l'ed (except for the new ones). They _seem_ to be
>locally stored on disk somewhere (probably consuming huge
>amounts of space somewhere in my /home-directory).
Cache.
[...]
On the other hand, why not simply running a newsserver of your own,
as most people are doing it, and read news from your own spool ?
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "Jeff Susanj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES FOO MEAN????
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:15:38 GMT
Also, in the early text adventure game "Adventure" by Willie Crowther et al.
when you wanted the golden eggs to return to the nest room you would say
"fee, fie, foe, foo". Of course everyone would say "fee, fie, foe, fum" and
the game would tell you you had to start over with the little chant.
Jeff S.
Charles Sullivan wrote in message <8cbu39$ck6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Whoever started using foo as an example really fu'd.
>
>It was used in some 8088 assembler manuals and newbies
>couldn't tell whether it was supposed to be the text string
>"FOO" or the hexadecimal 0xf00.
>
>Dave Brown wrote in message ...
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CG wrote:
>>>I sort of gather that it's a made up word, but sometimes I see
>>>instructions or commands in documentation such as
>>>
>>>.../foo/something
>>>
>>>is foo used here like some kind of variable?
>>
>>It's an ancient programming example name, usually paired with
>>"bar", as in /foo/bar or foo.bar, etc. According to "Saving
>>Private Ryan", "fubar" was a standard GI epithet, "f*****up
>>beyond all recognition"
>>
>>--
>>Dave Brown Austin, TX
>
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dial Up Problem
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:49:16 +0200
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Mr. Wing Kai, Ho wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I am a beginner of Linux user. I just installed REDHAT 6.0 into my
>computer but I come across a dial up problem. There are two way to
>connect to the internet via modem. One is using "DIP" and the other is
>"MINICOM" but both require to specify "/dev/modem" for port setup. When
>I install the Linux, I have not be asked for any questions about the
>modem setup. I don't know how to set it up and connect to internet. Once
>dial up procedure is completed, can I just invoke a browser then I can
>connect into internet? Are there any more user friendly means to setup
>dial up networking in Linux? Thanks in advance.
>
>Nelson
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>�@
Hi
As root type modemtool.
If KDE or Gnome are installed, you can use Kppp to connect to the web.
For more details, and a step to step guide,take a look at my homepage.
Good Luck
--
HTH :)
Patricia
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Kernel 2.2.5-15
4:52pm up 2:27, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.12, 0.14
Tue Apr 4 16:52:53 CEST 2000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (EmilVelez)
Subject: DCE/RPCD and Redhat 6 ideas
Date: 04 Apr 2000 16:03:59 GMT
I am working with a application that uses the dce libraries and rpcd.
with Redhat 5.2 it works great. With 6.0 and 6.1 I get a segmentation
violation
Any ideas and pointers would be appeciated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Multiple CPU
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:05:24 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Does Redhat 6.1 support multiple cpu? What's the maximum no. of CPU
supported? How's the stability of such configuration? Thanks!
Chris
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