Linux-Misc Digest #42, Volume #24 Tue, 4 Apr 00 16:13:03 EDT
Contents:
cgi returning UTC for LOCALTIME ! (Paul Rubin)
ANNOUNCE: KDE Alpha 20000404 Binaries available ("Christopher Molnar")
Cooler Xterm title? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux systems sale ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: networking question DHCP + local? (MrJack of LuLuland)
Re: I need help getting AWE64 working (Silviu Minut)
Re: Cleaning up my ext2 partition (Sourcer)
Playing Wav @ boot (Lance Hoffmeyer)
More samba printing woes (Patrick O'Neil)
Re: Word documents viewer? (Robert Heller)
Vim and Vi (Pete Holsberg)
Re: Vim and Vi (brian moore)
Re: Any web based free e-mail system run on Linux?? (Jens Grivolla)
netscape problem ("Estela")
Web Based Call Logging System ("Pangolin Software")
Sendmail and Web based email client (Linus)
csound woes (Rob)
Re: Vim and Vi (Pete Holsberg)
Re: Reinstall (Joe Schottman)
Re: Foulup (Joe Schottman)
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From: Paul Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cgi returning UTC for LOCALTIME !
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:58:27 GMT
Hello all,
I'm running into a problem with a particular cgi program that returns
time in UTC instead of localtime ! I'm moving to a new dedicated
server, and I've never seen this behavior before. I have several other
perl scripts on this server that properly return localtime. Also, I
have the problem program running on another server that properly
returns localtime.
Does anyone know of any server configuration issues that might be
causing this strange behavior?
Check out this link:
209.164.8.161/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/timetest.html
and compare this to:
equilter.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/timetest.html
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Paul Rubin
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http://www.equilter.com
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From: "Christopher Molnar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: KDE Alpha 20000404 Binaries available
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:13:02 GMT
As most of you know or have heard KDELIBS have been frozen, so I
have just made available a new version of KDE2 Alpha binaries in RPM
and -bin.tar.gz format. Also available are the sources that worked to
compile
these packages.
Most likely there will not be another release of the Alpha binaries until
the end of April. If I update any packages it will be the package itself
and not the whole distribution.
Please read the README file in the directory, this tells you most of what
you need to know to install and update.
These files are available via ftp from:
ftp://ftp.nebsllc.com/kde2/current
or via http at:
http://www.nebsllc.com (follow links for kde2 Alpha
binaries)
You will also be able to find these at (after a few days):
http://www.htw-dresden.de/~s2697
If you want to try koffice from kde 1.x without updating the rest of kde
you may want to try the RPMS from David Faure ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at (these
were packaged for Mandrake but should work on other RPM based distros):
ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/RPMS/
These binaries are built from CVS as of 03 April
2000 at 11:30pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time (-0500).
Please bring all install questions to the un-official
kde-alpha list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The installs have been tested by me on a RedHat 6.1
and Mandrake 7.0 machine. They have also been reported to work on all
other distributions.
You will need to do a --force and a --nodeps on the rpm
installs.
If you are running prior Alpha's I highly recommend you
update. There are a lot of fixes and some structural
changes in the packages.
You will also find Source tar.gz's in the same
directory.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cooler Xterm title?
Date: 4 Apr 2000 13:47:46 -0400
I'm looking to get a nicer title for the xterms. I've checked the
Xterm-title mini HOWTO which is nice, but I'd like the title up say what
program is running, for example Gnuplot/pico/telnet.
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${PWD} : ${_}\007"'
I've added the display of "_" to show what program has run, BUT! PROMPT_COMMAND
gets updated BEFORE the prompt returns so the Xterm's title doesn't reflect that
I'm running gnuplot/pico/whatever until I've already exited.
I use bash and I haven't found any way to update something BEFORE
anything is run, is this possible? I get a little lost when I have a lot of
windows and one falls to the back and I have to move all the others 'cause I
can't figure out which one it is in the windowlist (fvwm2).
Thanks for any suggestions! (ps. yes I posted this in comp.os.linux.x a
couple months ago, but it still bugs me.)
-John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux systems sale
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:11:17 GMT
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All this week (3-7 April,2000) we're offering a 5% discount from the listed
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From: MrJack of LuLuland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: networking question DHCP + local?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:18:45 GMT
To the person who suggested i use aliasing to go between two machines
already networked via RR and a hub,
I have been trying it, but have been derailed by Xserver problems. I will
keep at it. There _were_ somet signs it was working or trying to, FWIW
(very little I guess)!
Thanks for the advice. Application delayed but not forgotten.
James
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I need help getting AWE64 working
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:27:24 -0400
> There are 2 types of AWE64: PCI or ISA. The procedure depends on what type you have.
>What you did
> was the procedure for an ISA card, and as far as I can tell, it was all correct. If
>you have a PCI
> card, however, you need to have either es1370 or es1371 compiled, which you
>obviously didn't do.
> See below.
> Relevent portion of /usr/src/linux/.config:
>
> #
> # Sound
> #
> CONFIG_SOUND=y
> # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set
> # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set
> # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set
> # CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO is not set
To tell whether you have a PCI card or an ISA card look inside your computer. There
should be 4 or 5
shorter slots, and 1 or 2 longer slots. The shorter ones are PCI slots and the long
ones are ISA. See
which one your sound card is.
If it's PCI, compile the "es" module for your card. I'm assuming you know how to
recompile the
kernel. Don't forget to put the new kernel (bzImage) and the System.map in /boot. Also
make a new
stanza for the new kernel in /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo. Reboot. If you get
unresolved sybmols
do a depmod -a 2.2.14.
I was surprised that you got so many unresolved symbols when loading the sb module.
What happens is
that the following: if you look in /lib/modules/2.2.14.misc you will see soundcore.o
sound.o sb.o
awe_wave.o opl3.o among many other things. These are the modules you need to install
for your card
(if it's ISA). Now soundcore.o and sound.o must be installed prior to sb.o and the
others. If
installing sound.o fails (and it did) then the rest of the modules can't be installed
either. For
instance, if you do
nm -o sound.o | grep midi | more
you will see that what was reported as
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol midi_synth_send_sysex_Rfddcbfb3
it is actually a symbol in sound.o. So it is unresolved in sb.o because sound.o could
not be loaded.
sound.o can't be loaded because modprobe was confused by the alias. Apparently it's
trying to pass
sound.o an invalid parameter (parm_io) which I bet it's perfectly valid for sb.o. You
should install
sound.o prior to installing sb.o.
You can install the above modules by hand, in the order soundcore.o sound.o sb.o
(don't bother about
the midi stuff yet) and see if it works. If it does, then you need something like
preinstall sb insmod sound
in your /etc/conf.modules.
All this, of course, if your card is ISA.
I'm at school right now, and I don't remember exactly what I have in my
/etc/conf.modules, but if you
think this is what's going on, then let me know, and I'll post the sound part from my
/etc/conf.modules.
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From: Sourcer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up my ext2 partition
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:30:18 GMT
Richard Beri wrote:
>
> I had an error installing the game Myth2 and I had to reboot, and I had
> to run e2fsck to fix things up so I could mount it properly and boot.
> Now I have the directory /usr/local/games/myth2 that I cannot delete,
> even in the shell I cannot delete this directory, the system just stalls
> and I have to close the window. How can I delete this offending
> directory? Do I have to use the e2fsck utility? What switches do I use
> and how can I log into the system without mounting my drive (/dev/sda5).
> My boot dir is on the /sda0 partition. Thanks
In Linux, the system buffers write operations. This means that the rm
command may be trying to delete a lot of files in the directory, but the
operations are put in the write buffers.
Try using the verbose switch to the rm command, and see if it is deleting
files.
If you have a CPU load monitor, try watching it when you typed the
command, if it goes up a lot just after, you can be resonably sure that
somthing is being done.
BTW Could you describe this hangup more closely?
If the computer completely hangs up, something is wrong, but if it is just
the shell that is stalled, it is probably just the rm command.
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From: Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Playing Wav @ boot
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:26:10 GMT
Anyone know of an easy way to play a wav file during the boot process?
I sound drivers are loaded relatively early in the boot process and it
takes about another 30 seconds to boot. I was wanting to play a wav
file during that time. I tried putting a file in rc.boot that says:
wavp audio.wav
but I get an error. I would like to play the wav as soon after loading
the sound drivers as possible.
Lance
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: More samba printing woes
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:40:37 -0600
I removed lpr and installed LPRng instead, hoping to get
around my samba printing problems. Didn't work.
I am using Mandrake 7.0. I first tried to use Drakeconf
and setup the samba printer there. I tried printing the
test pages and nothing happened. No printout, but there
is disk activity. I fiddled with this for a while and
gave up. I then started printtool and saw the printer
setup there properly. I tried printing the test pages
from printtool and the result is this error message:
Error printing testpage to queue lp
Error reason: Status information:
Sending job 'root@Draken+145' to lp@localhost
Connecting to localhost, attempt 1
Connected to localhost
Requesting printer lp@localhost
Error 'LINK_TRANSFER_FAIL' sending file to lp@localhost
job root@Draken+744 transfer to lp@localhost failed
WTF?! I setup a samba printer (AND IT IS CORRECT - I can
connect to the damn thing from a terminal using the exact
same settings) and it just wont work. What is broken here?
Samba? LPRng?
Please help
patrick
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Word documents viewer?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:43:56 GMT
"Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:28:21 -0700, wrote :
"O> "Leonard Evens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
"O> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
"O>
"O> > > Are there any viewers for MS Word documents for Linux?
"O> > > And I do not mind StarOfiice or starting Word in Wine (and
"O> > > variations...) :)
"O>
"O> > The main problem is that Word by default stores files in an
"O> > internal format that is not easily read by other programs
"O> > including other versions of Word. It can be told to store
"O> > things in a format such as rtf which can be read by other
"O> > things.
"O>
"O> > I've had good but not universal luck reading MS Word files
"O> > with an earlier version of Applix, and I think Star Office
"O> > may be even better.
"O>
"O> This reminds me of several years ago, when I first started using Windows.
"O> People were sending me Postscript files, and there was no way to open them
"O> without spending big bucks for an Adobe program. One of the things I loved
"O> about Linux at first was free Postscript support!
Ghostscript (the *same* Ghostscript that comes with Linux) has been
available for MS-Windows and MacOS for many years.
"O>
"O> In my experience, there's always a risk you won't be able to open a file
"O> with another program, even with supposedly "universal" formats like *.rtf.
"O> However, I do find that the simpler the formatting, the more reliable the
"O> files are. Staroffice works at least as well as anything else. I have it
"O> on my hard drive just for that purpose, which is overkill if I ever saw it.
"O> Perhaps Sun will treat us to a Word viewer, which they could use as a hook
"O> to get people to try Staroffice.
"O>
"O> If you can, you should discourage use of non-universal file formats, and
"O> especially those lazy-ass Word attatchments. I get Word attatchments all
"O> the time when a simple text file would have been fine. People open Word to
"O> write little notes and memos, which is realy stupid.
Esp. since NotePad is there.
"O>
"O> Matt O.
"O>
"O>
"O>
"O>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Vim and Vi
Date: 4 Apr 2000 18:48:17 GMT
Is vi in RedHat really vim? Is there no true vi in RedHat?
Thanks,
pete
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MCCC
Trenton, NJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Vim and Vi
Date: 4 Apr 2000 19:01:40 GMT
On 4 Apr 2000 18:48:17 GMT,
Pete Holsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is vi in RedHat really vim? Is there no true vi in RedHat?
'true vi' is owned by AT&T and no source is available.
'nvi' is -close- to 'true' vi. There should be rpms available for it.
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Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any web based free e-mail system run on Linux??
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 20:14:45 +0200
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:27:50 +0800, "Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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?
Look for imho. It's a plugin for the roxen webserver and _very_ easy
to setup. Configuration is possible through the web interface
provided by roxen.
ciao,
Jens
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From: "Estela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: netscape problem
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 19:03:27 GMT
sorry for my newbie question:
I'm trying to connect to internet from linux. I've got it, but I hadn't
a navigator, so I installed netscape 4.61, but when I try to run it I get
the folow :
can't load libXt.so.6
But I have those libraries.
Do you know what the problem is?.
And...do you know the difference between mozilla and netscape?. Is
someone better than the other one?
Thank you.
(please, if you can , send your answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too. Thanks)
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From: "Pangolin Software" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.unix,alt.unix.wizards,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.unix.misc
Subject: Web Based Call Logging System
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:03:08 +0100
Reply-To: "Pangolin Software" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If anybody is interested in a totally web-based call logging system, please
check out:
http://www.pango.co.uk/webhd.html
It's free to download and test for 30 days! There is also a Java version and
one that runs using the free MYSQL database.
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From: Linus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail and Web based email client
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 19:28:58 GMT
Can Sendmail and a Web based email client handle 100,000 concurrent
users? If not, does anyone have any suggestions?
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From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: csound woes
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:50:37 -0500
Hello -
I work at the techstaff department at the University of Chicago and we're looking
to support sound on our linux machines here. We've got a kernel built that supports
the sound cards we're using, and I personally am in charge of building and testing a
piece of software called "csound."
Now, this may just be an opinion and it may be wrong, but I think the csound
documentation is absolutely terrible. There's nothing in there to help me with the
compile process. I have been trying to build it on a debian-esque system for about a
day now and it refuses to cooperate. At first there was a problem with the Makefile's
INCLUDE variable that I tracked down, and now there's an error during linking that
says there's an undefined variable. I think this is due to poor coding. If anyone has
a linux system and has compiled csound or would like to try :P please mail me. Thanks
much.
Rob Walsh
Techstaff
U of C
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Re: Vim and Vi
Date: 4 Apr 2000 20:01:43 GMT
brian moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: On 4 Apr 2000 18:48:17 GMT,
: Pete Holsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > Is vi in RedHat really vim? Is there no true vi in RedHat?
:
: 'true vi' is owned by AT&T and no source is available.
Good point! But RedHat names their program vi! Does
everyone?
: 'nvi' is -close- to 'true' vi. There should be rpms
: available for it.
Thanks,
Pete
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From: Joe Schottman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reinstall
Date: 4 Apr 2000 14:38:41 -0500
Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what would happen if I reinstalled version 6.0 over my
> existing version 6.0? Would
> everything revert to the default settings? Would I lose anything?
If you have /home set up on its own partition, you could reinstall without
loosing your home files, and given space, you could back up the configuration
files from /etc (or wherever) to that partition. Reinstallation would put you
back at the default configuration, though if you want to try to perserve your
files, upgrading to 6.1 or 6.2 might solve your problem without destroying
everything else. Whatever route you go, back up anything important before
hand, just in case.
Joe Schottman
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From: Joe Schottman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Foulup
Date: 4 Apr 2000 14:43:31 -0500
Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was trying to set up Netscape for my Email and now, when I use UserNet, I
> connect to the Internet, but then I just sit there. When I start Netscape I
> get this message:
<snip>
Are you saying that Netscape had worked before you tried to set it up for
e-mail and has stopped working since then, or has it never worked?
Do other net applications (telnet, ping, traceroute, lynx) work once you
connect, or do none of those work?
Joe Schottman
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