Linux-Misc Digest #43, Volume #24 Tue, 4 Apr 00 18:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Q-Mail's Most Recent Download (Gerald Willmann)
linux (kernel 2.3.44) and vfat32 ("N. Doetsch")
Re: Cut 'n paste from KDE app to Netscape (Joe Schottman)
Re: Word documents viewer? (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Word documents viewer? (Alexei Gromov)
NewGuy (Paul Manley)
Re: Vim and Vi (brian moore)
Re: bash prompt (David Steuber)
PNG image format (Patrick O'Neil)
Re: Word documents viewer? (Jan Schaumann)
Re: Firewall stuff (James Campbell Andrew)
Re: Bootdisks, rdev, and root filesystems...aargh! (Neil Koozer)
Re: netscape problem? (jdaspinw)
Re: 5250 Emulator for Linux ("T.E.Dickey")
PCMCIA!!! (EKK)
Re: RedHat ISO Images (Alex Kaufman)
/usr almost full ! What NOW! (Mark Guzzo)
Re: making ppp redial ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI hangs (Tim De Vos)
Re: I need help getting AWE64 working (David Steuber)
Re: Boost from MS Anti-trust Ruling? (Tim Lavoie)
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Q-Mail's Most Recent Download
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:15:37 -0700
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Raul Trujillo wrote:
> Where can I find Q-Mail's most recent download?
why don't you try www.qmail.org ??
Gerald
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From: "N. Doetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux (kernel 2.3.44) and vfat32
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:29:10 +0200
Hello,
sorry if this question has been asked before (newuser here):
I have a strange problem with linux writing to a vfat32-partition
normaly used by windows98. Everything seems to be ok as long as I=B4m
under linux. When I boot w98 and look on that partition still everything
looks fine EXCEPT every File which fits DOS 8.3-convention is in capital
letters. =
Example: Writing the Files "test", "test.test" and "testtest.tst" on a
vfat32-partition with my linux results (from the sight of w98) in the
files "TEST", "test.test" and "TESTTEST.TST". I tried another kernel -
no difference.
Bug? Rtfm (where)? =
Please reply to my email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
only for I=B4m not reading this newsgroup regularily.
-- =
confused :)
Norbert
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From: Joe Schottman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cut 'n paste from KDE app to Netscape
Date: 4 Apr 2000 15:05:59 -0500
Dowe Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [1] if your using a two-button mouse, you will need to press left
> and right mouse buttons simultaniously.
Though you will need to have XF86 configured to emulate a three button mouse
(If by some chance you don't have this turned on, look for the
"Emulate3Buttons" section under pointers in /etc/X11/XF86Config)
Joe Schottman
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Word documents viewer?
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:20:22 -0700
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Alexei Gromov wrote:
> Are there any viewers for MS Word documents for Linux?
> And I do not mind StarOfiice or starting Word in Wine (and
> variations...) :)
the simplest I could find is strings -n1 foo.doc | less
Gerald
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From: Alexei Gromov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Word documents viewer?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:11:33 +0200
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Manley)
Subject: NewGuy
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 20:47:41 GMT
I'm a Windows user (don't sneer) and I want to create a Linux server
for email, www hosting, a mud, file servering. I've dabbled in linux
before but now I want to continue seriously in my education. I don't
piticularly care about a gui. One wouldn't be so bad, but definately
not necessary. What services should I run? What linux distribution
should I install?
Note: I don't mind screwing my computer up over and over again in the
process.
Do you have any suggestions for books or info I need.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Vim and Vi
Date: 4 Apr 2000 20:56:28 GMT
On 4 Apr 2000 20:01:43 GMT,
Pete Holsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
POSIX requires vi. Since real vi isn't possible, various things are
substituted for it (elvis, nvi or vim typically).
--
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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Subject: Re: bash prompt
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 20:59:59 GMT
Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' PS1="\$PWD $";cd # will show the full path of the home directory
' PS1="\W $";cd # will show the basename only, of the full path
' PS1="\w $";cd # will replace the full path with '~' character
'
' Almost without exception the last example is the most desirable.
I don't like the path in the prompt. It takes up too much space. If
I forget where I am, there is always pwd.
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NRA Member | a hoploholic.
http://www.packetphone.org/
Time is an illusion; lunchtime, doubly so.
-- Ford Prefect
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PNG image format
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 15:07:21 -0600
I have netscape 4.7 installed on my Mandrake 7.0 system.
I have plugger as a plugin. If I look at my plugins,
plugger is activated and supports png format images.
When I click on a png image on a website (for a
screenshot image, for instance) I don't get to see it.
Instead, netscape gives me a message that png image
format is unknown or not supported.
What is missing? Why isn't it able to see png format
images if I have support for it activated and running?
I also have a number of image viewers.
patrick
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Word documents viewer?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:09:23 -0400
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...) :)
a very light but very good one would be abiword
http://www.abisource.com/
-Jan
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Jan Schaumann
http://jschauma-0.dsl.speakeasy.net
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Campbell Andrew)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Firewall stuff
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:53:58 +0100
Stephen Marley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It's documented in /usr/doc/packages/firewall (masq stuff too).
>
> > Also, is it possible to log any from the firewall to somewhere other
> > than /var/log/messages? Say, /var/log/firewall?
>
> Probably. See man syslogd, syslog.conf.
Thanks - I should have read a little further that I did.
Jim
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From: Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Bootdisks, rdev, and root filesystems...aargh!
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 13:16:55 -0700
Don Werve wrote:
>
> Ok. After reading the Bootdisk-HOWTO and rdev manpages, I decided to
> start on the path to true geekdom and make my own Linux bootdisk, so
> that I could manually build a Linux system from the ground up on one of
> my many spare computers. I've been using Linux for about two years now,
> but what better way to learn about the guts of the OS than to manually
> build a full system?
>
> Anyways, I made a root filesystem that compressed takes up 900K, and
> have a 460K kernel. I used dd to copy the kernel image to the disk, and
> then used `rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 ; rdev -R /dev/fd0 0` to set the disk
> as it's own root device. How do you tell the kernel where to look for a
> compressed root filesystem, so that it can be uncompressed into a
> ramdisk and booted...?
>
> Ideas? Sorry about the cross-post, but it seemed applicable to each
> newsgroup posted to. Please reply via E-Mail, to hari AT iveleague.org
>
> Thanks in advance! :)
This is in the "Setting the ramdisk word" section of the Bootdisk-HOWTO.
For a 2-disk boot/root pair, you would use
rdev -r /dev/fd0 49152
49152 is 0xc000
For a single boot/root disk you would use 0x4000 + the offset to the
start of the compressed ramdisk image. The offset is the number of 1k
blocks.
Neil
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From: jdaspinw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape problem?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 15:05:00 -0700
Anyone who considers themself an "expert" when it comes to
Linux had better be helping to develope the next kernel or
another distrubution. But I don't think that we come here
to gloat, or make ourselves feel smart. I think we
genuinely want to help people understand Linux, and offer a
little support....
Which reminds me... Why did you come here?
* Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web
Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping. Smart is Beautiful
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 5250 Emulator for Linux
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:36:20 GMT
Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for a 5250 X-emulator that will enable a user to connect to an
> AS/400. I don't need file transfer, just a terminal emulation session.
tn5250, xt5250 (I see a note from 1998 where this was available on SuSE).
-- iirc, I found it in the Debian ftp archives a few months ago (I tested
that briefly, but had no use for it).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: EKK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: PCMCIA!!!
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:23:33 -0700
Does RedHat's site actually serve a purpose?
...
Hello,
does the RH6.1 pcmcia-RHEA-1999:044.img boot image actually work?
it gives me a blank list of drivers to pick from when I boot from
this image on my laptop!
the only other option is to try "linux supp" with
RH6.0 which means I would first have to install RH6.0 and
then upgrade to RH6.1.
This also fails miserably.
The PCMCIA card I have is a 3Com589D, fully supported.
None of the combinations of commands suggested by RH on their site
seems to work.
Please feedback anyone who has gotten this to actually work.
Thanks,
AG
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From: Alex Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat ISO Images
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:38:46 -0400
Dheera Venkatraman wrote:
>
> Does anyone know what the difference is between the 'zoot-i386.iso' and
> 'redhat-6.2-i386.iso' cd-rom images?
They are identical, on Redhat's FTP the redhat is a symbolic link to zoot.iso
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From: Mark Guzzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /usr almost full ! What NOW!
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:52:51 -0500
Help!
I just installed the new RH6.2 and got it up running like a kitten here
at work :-). One thing, I gave /usr and /usr/local about 850M. Well /usr
now has only 14.18M left and the /usr/local has 806M left. How does one
go about resizing the ext2 filesystem in Linux? There is still some
PowerTools for 6.2 that I will like to install.
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: making ppp redial
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:43:05 GMT
I have the opposite problem. On Redhat it always redials. We had it redial
a long distance number every minute or two for a whole day! Tried changing
PERSIST to "no" and making maxconnect 3, but it still happens. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> balky wrote:
> > ...make ppp redial when it gets a busy signal or no answer.
>
> Pass pppd the 'persist' option.
>
> Steve writes:
> > ...somewhere with your modem or net setup there shoudl be an option
> > 'Disconnect on well known errors',...
>
> That may be an option for some particular ppp configuration tool but it is
> not a pppd option.
>
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Tim De Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI hangs
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:59:15 +0200
"Stuart R. Fuller" wrote:
>
> Tim De Vos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Hello,
> :
> : Every time I do some disk-intensive tasks my SCSI bus hangs
> : for about 1 minute. I use Redhat 6.1 with an Adaptec 2940
> : U2W (bios version upgraded to 2.2.20) on an SE440BX-2.
> : Any ideas what could be wrong. It's happening frequently and
> : the system doesn't respond so that's very anoying. All devices
> : are correctly terminated and I have no SCSI problems under Windows.
>
> Look in /var/log/messages for relevant messages, and maybe post a few of them
> here.
>
> As for it not happening in Windows - well, maybe Windows isn't so
> disk-intensive?
>
> Stu
Thanks for the reply. I've got the following error messages in
/var/log/messages
Apr 4 23:49:52 PIII kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 20443, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (6) 00 73 5f 08 00
Apr 4 23:49:52 PIII kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 20444, scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00
Apr 4 23:49:54 PIII kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 20444) timed out -
resetting
Apr 4 23:49:54 PIII kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel
0.
Apr 4 23:49:54 PIII kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Performing Domain validation.
Apr 4 23:49:57 PIII kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0
Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Apr 4 23:49:57 PIII kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) reducing SCSI transfer speed
due to Domain validation failure.
Apr 4 23:49:57 PIII kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 80.0
Mbyte/sec, offset 31.
Apr 4 23:49:59 PIII kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 20446, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 cb 4b
84 00 00 08 00
Apr 4 23:50:02 PIII kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 20.0
Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
I don't know what to try next.
Thanks in advance for replying
Tim De Vos
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Subject: Re: I need help getting AWE64 working
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:00:06 GMT
Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' > 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
I have the ISA card. BTW, oss-install fails. It doesn't like my
kernel. It doesn't like the original 2.2.10 kernel anymore
either. :-(
' do a depmod -a 2.2.14.
root@Interloper% depmod -a
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14/fs/nfsd.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14/fs/lockd.o
Huh? I'll have to check that out later.
' You can install the above modules by hand, in the order soundcore.o sound.o sb.o
(don't bother about
Ok, I did some fiddling about:
root@Interloper% ls
adlib_card.o isdn.o parport_pc.o soundlow.o
af_spx.o joystick.o parport_probe.o sunrpc.o
appletalk.o lapb.o sb.o uart401.o
awe_wave.o lp.o serial.o videodev.o
econet.o opl3.o softoss2.o wanrouter.o
ftape.o paride.o sound.o x25.o
ipx.o parport.o soundcore.o
root@Interloper% insmod soundcore
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/soundcore.o
root@Interloper% insmod soundlow
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/soundlow.o
root@Interloper% insmod sound
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sound.o
root@Interloper% insmod uart401
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/uart401.o
root@Interloper% insmod sb
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sb.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
root@Interloper% insmod awe_wave
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/awe_wave.o
root@Interloper% cat /dev/sndstat
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux Interloper 2.2.14 #10 Tue Apr 4 03:59:09 EDT 2000 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Card config:
Audio devices:
Synth devices:
0: AWE32-0.4.4 (RAM4096k)
Midi devices:
0: AWE Midi Emu
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
root@Interloper%
I'm still not there yet. I had to load the uart401 module because sb
had dependencies on it.
Is /etc/conf.modules used by insmod? Or is it just used by modprobe?
Perhaps that is where my problem lies.
When the modules are removed, this works:
root@Interloper% isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
Board 1 has Identity af 0b b2 d4 e0 9e 00 8c 0e: CTL009e Serial No 196269280
[checksum af]
CTL009e/196269280[0]{Audio }: Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5
--- Enabled OK
CTL009e/196269280[1]{Game }: Port 0x200; --- Enabled OK
CTL009e/196269280[2]{WaveTable }: Ports 0x620 0xA20 0xE20; --- Enabled OK
This leads me to believe that I have the correct configuration for the
soundcard.
If you can post the section in /etc/conf.modules, I would greatly
appreciate it.
Thanks for all the help so far.
PS: More screwing around got sound. I don't know if I can reproduce
it. This line seems to be key:
root@Interloper% insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
Passing the arguments prevents the device/resource busy error msg.
I also did an insmod osssoft2.
root@Interloper% cat /dev/sndstat
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux Interloper 2.2.14 #10 Tue Apr 4 03:59:09 EDT 2000 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Card config:
Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) (DUPLEX)
Synth devices:
0: AWE32-0.4.4 (RAM4096k)
1: SoftOSS
Midi devices:
0: AWE Midi Emu
1: Sound Blaster 16
Timers:
0: System clock
1: SoftOSS
Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
root@Interloper% wavplay /home/david/materialgirl/audio_01.wav
Pathname: /home/david/materialgirl/audio_01.wav
Sampling Rate: 44100 Hz
Mode: Stereo
Samples: 10643976
Bits: 16
It is playing!!!
I just need sound to be set up automatically at boot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Lavoie)
Subject: Re: Boost from MS Anti-trust Ruling?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:01:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leonard Evens wrote:
>Already there are web sites that can't be accessed
>under Linux because they cater only to users of IE explorer.
On the other hand, their own corporate site is inaccessible to old versions
of their own IE browser. I had to to an NT install (don't ask), starting
from the basic NT Server 4.0, and then the multitude of service packs and so
on. It came with an ancient version of IE, which HAD to be updated at one
point in the chain. Problem is, you can't get to their site with the old
browser in order to replace the old browser. I had to fetch with another
machine, and snag it from there to upgrade this one PC. Gaaak.
On the other hand, basic navigation on their site seems OK using a text
browser from Linux, such as lynx or w3m. Go figure.
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