Linux-Misc Digest #48, Volume #24 Wed, 5 Apr 00 06:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Can I play streaming video with linux? (Cevat Ustun)
Re: (recommendations) linux icq clone (console only) (Frederic L. W. Meunier)
rxvt hangs up?!? (Fabio S.)
Arbitrarily strip binaries? (Walter Francis)
Problem: can't get a traceroute ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Rockwell Riptide = WinSoundcard + WinModem ? (Harris L. Gilliam)
Re: Screen Saver for GNOME Display Manager Login Screen (Harris L. Gilliam)
Re: cron problem with username (Bernhard Damian)
two domain in one linux server ("Douglas")
Re: BOOKS ON LINUX ? (Steve)
Re: (recommendations) linux icq clone (console only) (Faux_Pseudo)
Help: Accessing lost NT Partitons !!! (Stefan)
FTP server configuration? (Markus Wagner)
X server does not start (Diethard Ohrt)
Re: two domain in one linux server ("Nobody")
updating Suse 6.3 ("Robin Becker")
Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions? (Richard Steiner)
Re: Word documents viewer? (Richard Steiner)
Re: Help: Accessing lost NT Partitons !!! (Raffael Herzog)
Re: Linux under Windows NT (Neil)
Re: FTP server configuration? (Nguyen-Dai Quy)
Re: rxvt hangs up?!? (Nguyen-Dai Quy)
Re: Problem with RedHat 6.2 iso file (Nguyen-Dai Quy)
Bash shell ----- Help ??? ("Benson Lei")
Re: (recommendations) linux icq clone (console only) (eyez)
strange Zip 100 problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Arbitrarily strip binaries? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Create batch file and send screen output to a file (Diego Berge)
Re: How do I write man pages? (Diego Berge)
Re: finding files and strings (Diego Berge)
Re: DXF viewer (Diego Berge)
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From: Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can I play streaming video with linux?
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 07:10:45 GMT
I'd like to know if there's any application for linux that
displays streaming video meant for the Microsoft media
player. According to netscape, the application has the
mime type
application/x-mplayer2
Thanks for any replies.
Cevat
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From: Frederic L. W. Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: (recommendations) linux icq clone (console only)
Date: 5 Apr 2000 07:17:54 GMT
I don't use ICQ at all but you have 3 choices.
centericq
micq
zicq
It seems that centericq is the best.
--
Fr�d�ric L. W. Meunier [Tel: +55-21-620-7173 - Niter�i-RJ Brasil]
fredlwm@{olympiquedemarseille.org,{marseille.}nitnet.com.br}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fabio S.)
Subject: rxvt hangs up?!?
Date: 5 Apr 2000 07:28:31 GMT
Hi all,
I have a small problem with rxvt: on my laptop (compaq armada 1530DM) when
I display a file with less and I try to scroll down/up some page, it hangs
up for quite a few seconds.
This is terribly annoying and it forces me to use xterm, but the point is
that I have just 16Mb of ram, so I would to save as ram as possible. Thus
it would be better to use rxvt.
The strange thing, moreover, is that I have the same version of rxvt
(2.6.0) on my desktop and there I don't have the problem.
Any suggestion?
Thanks
Fabio
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arbitrarily strip binaries?
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 03:26:48 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it safe to go into a binary directory (/bin, /usr/bin/, et al) and do
strip * on that directory? I am slowly running out of space on /usr and
don't have any space to relocate any directories to.. :( I'm thinking
stripping all of my binaries might free up a bit of space.
Are there any consequences besides no debugging? It'd suck to have to
recompile a buncha stuff.. :) And obviously I don't have the space to
backup the stuff first. (And here's the best part, I don't even have a
way to back the system up at all!)
I'm not going to do it unless someone says it's fine to do.. I had a
nasty experience with the Rawhide glibc 2.1.3 RPM (*EVERYTHING*
segfaulted.. no init 1, anything..) so I'm not in a hurry to have
another coronary when the system barfs. (btw, the fix wasn't too
difficult, I booted off of the Red hat 6.1 CD in text mode, went to a
console, mounted my root drive as /rewt, /usr, /usr/local, etc.. and
did a rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --root=/rewt glibc... Thankfully that
worked.)
--
Walter Francis
http://wally.hplx.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 6.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem: can't get a traceroute
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 07:19:14 GMT
Colleagues,
I am setting up Linux systems as a demo at my school. I am using a
2.0.x kernel in a system called "Monkey linux". Basically, I have 2
machines side by side on the same piece of cable; they can ping one
another, but traceroute waits indefinately. I suspect the route is
not right. I would appreciate your wise advice ... who what
diagnositics I could run. E-mail repsonse to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
would be best.
I am setting the system up by using the default rc.inet1 file and
changing the IP.
The rc.inet1 comes with the following variables:
IPADDR="192.168.1.9"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
NETWORK="192.168.1.0"
BROADCAST="192.168.1.255"
GATEWAY="192.168.1.250"
For good or ill, I have left all of them alone, except IPADDR.
I have 2 machines side by side, one defined as .8 the other .9
For the .8 machine I have following data:
ifconfig tells me the following:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:84:6F:F1
inet addr:192.168.1.9 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:951 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x320
route by itself gives two lines, and hangs indefinately
route -n shows the following:
Kernel routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window
Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0
3 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0
1 lo
default 192.168.1.250 * UG 1500 0
0 eth0
FYI, the rc.inet1 has the following ifconfig and route statements in
it:
/sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
/sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask
${NETMASK}
/sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK} netmask ${NETMASK}
/sbin/route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
Any suggestions as to why they cannot traceroute?
Thanks,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harris L. Gilliam)
Subject: Re: Rockwell Riptide = WinSoundcard + WinModem ?
Date: 4 Apr 2000 17:58:58 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harris L. Gilliam)
Hi,
Unfortunately the sound card is Windoze (die evil spawn of
HELL) only as well. Fortunately there are a lot of good real sound
cards you can use. I use the SoundBlaster Live PCI512 with absolutely
no problems.
---Harris
--
| Harris L. Gilliam () [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| 174 Pearl St. Somerville, MA 02145 () [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| (617) 625-4891 () [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harris L. Gilliam)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Screen Saver for GNOME Display Manager Login Screen
Date: 4 Apr 2000 17:26:18 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harris L. Gilliam)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jinsong Ouyang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For RedHat 6.1, if you log out and have the GNOME Display Manager login
>screen, that screen will stay there forever. Does anyone know how to
>setup a screen saver or make it blank for this login screen? Thanks in
>advance.
>
Hi,
RedHat uses xscreensaver (a rather old version though) and you
just need to modify the xdm config files to get a login screensaver.
I would strongly suggest you go to the xscreensaver web site
(http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/) and fetch the latest version.
After you compile and install it you can read their documentation
which describes exactly how to acomplish what you want.
---Harris
--
| Harris L. Gilliam () [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| 174 Pearl St. Somerville, MA 02145 () [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| (617) 625-4891 () [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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From: Bernhard Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cron problem with username
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 07:39:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <8asrhv$43k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bernhard Damian
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi out there,
> > my system has been working fine for about six months. Yesterday I
> > changed the crontab (not for the first time) and now cron doesn't
work
> > properly anymore.
> > Suddenly it takes the username of an entry as a command and tries to
> > execute it. Root gets tons of error mails such as
> > /bin/sh: root: command not found
> > Does anyone know what's happened ?
>
> If you have the entries in the system for a user, you shouldn't. If
you are using a user's
> crontab, you shouldn't use the username in the file. It will be
misinterpreted as a command.
... and that was exactly what I was doing wrong. Somehow - I really
can't remember how - I created a cron file for the user 'root' with the
username in it. I think, I played with 'crontab -e' or something. So I
had two identical crontabs, one for root and the other for the system...
took me nearly a decade to find that out !
Sorry for the short error description, I think I was too tired. :-)
Thanks for your help, people
Bernhard
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: two domain in one linux server
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:59:45 +0800
Hi,
I've got 2 domain and I want to use one linux server to handle the mail for
the two domain respectively. Can I do this?
Thank You.
Regards,
Douglas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: BOOKS ON LINUX ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Apr 2000 08:54:45 GMT
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:09:37 +0200, Luca Marchese wrote:
>ALL THE BOOKS ON LINUX IN THE WORLD ARE HERE
>
>SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS GUIDE
>
> http://scientificpublishers.virtualave.net
>
Are they all written in block capitals?
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
1:02am up 1 day, 3:36, 5 users, load average: 1.15, 1.12, 1.09
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Faux_Pseudo)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: (recommendations) linux icq clone (console only)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 07:58:54 GMT
the best consol icq app i have found is BitchX
very configurable and regularly updated and loots of prity colors
--(Once apon a time, in alt.os.linux,)--
--(Darren Wyn Rees said it like only they can.)--
$
$looking for recommendations for an ICQ clone.
$
$console only.
$
$thanks.
$
$darren
$
$[ f/u set to comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux ]
$
$--
$Le biblioteche ci hanno dato il potere,
$poi il lavoro � venuto e ci ha reso liberi.
$Che prezzo ora, per un piccolo assaggio di dignit�...
--
._____. ._____.
|<> <>| If I remember to turn it on UIN=66618055 |<> <>|
| | while(sig_sucks != 0) | |
\ " / printf("Clever sig coming soon."); \ " /
\_/ \_/
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 10:15:23 +0200
From: Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Help: Accessing lost NT Partitons !!!
Hello,
during my Redhat 6.0 installation, i can see with DiskDruid NT
Partitions on my HD.
They are listet as OS/2 HPFS. Is this correct?
After i have mounted them, they are empty, but there should be files.
Story:
On this HD i had a NT 4.0 installation, with a primary and some
extented partitions.
Then some day NT did not boot (Blue Screen), it could not be repaired
and not be reinstalled in this primary partition.
That's why i installed linux in that primary partition. In the hope to
get to these files on the extended partitions.
Now i see the partitions, but no files.
What do i else have to do.
Thanks for every hint.
Regards Stefan
P.S. I'm a linux newbee
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From: Markus Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FTP server configuration?
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 10:17:35 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
how can I configure ftp access on a Linux machine, e. g. configure the
directory tree, startup messages, etc. There seems to be no
configuration file for ftpd.
Why does ftp access work without a "ftpd" in the process list?
Thanks, Markus
------------------------------
From: Diethard Ohrt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X server does not start
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 10:24:32 +0200
First I have to admit I didn't yet check the /root/*Log files ...
But maybe one of you can give me a quick answer:
I installed SuSE 6.2 on an i486/66. I tried to configure XFree86 (using
SaX). When the test starts (or when I try to run startx from the command
line), I get an error saying something like "Fatal error [...] no
screens found".
What does this error mean? And how can I solve the problem?
(As I already stated: I didn't yet check the log files ...)
TIA
Diethard
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Fax: (+43) (0)51707-58652
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From: "Nobody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: two domain in one linux server
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:27:55 +1000
Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've got 2 domain and I want to use one linux server to handle the mail for
> the two domain respectively. Can I do this?
Shortest answer: Yes.
Long answer:
Read about :
www.sendmail.org
www.qmail.org
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From: "Robin Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: updating Suse 6.3
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 09:31:39 +0100
I think that Slackware can be updated automatically using FTP; can this be
done for SuSE 6.3 when 6.4 appears? I guess it must involve checking which
packages are out of date and downloading these.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 03:05:52 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Rob Tolman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>Any suggestions/ recommendations for light weight web browser?
>Netscape is too much for my machine. Running Slackware 7.
How about Links (no, not Lynx):
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/
I use it under both OS/2 and Linux, and it's rather nice for a young
browser. Text-based, but does tables a lot better than Lynx does.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
Dead Puppies aren't much fun...No, no, no...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Word documents viewer?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 03:09:15 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Alexei Gromov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>SGksIEFsbCENCg0KQXJlIHRoZXJlIGFueSB2aWV3ZXJzIGZvciBNUyBXb3JkIGRvY3VtZW50
>cyBmb3IgTGludXg/DQpBbmQgSSBkbyBub3QgbWluZCBTdGFyT2ZpaWNlIG9yIHN0YXJ0aW5n
>IFdvcmQgaW4gV2luZSAoYW5kDQp2YXJpYXRpb25zLi4uKSA6KQ0KDQpCeWUuDQpBbGV4ZWkg
>R3JvbW92DQo=
What?
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
Lose that ugly FAT!: Download a trojan today!
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From: Raffael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help: Accessing lost NT Partitons !!!
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 10:52:43 +0200
> They are listet as OS/2 HPFS. Is this correct?
Yes.
> After i have mounted them, they are empty, but there should be files.
Huh??? How did you mount the partitions? I would do something like
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda? /mnt -o ro,uid=100,gid=100
That means mount /dev/hda? as NTFS partition on /mnt with options
read-only, use user with UID 100 as owner, use group GID 100 as group
(on a standard SuSE installation that's youraccount.users). Do NOT mount
a NTFS partition for writing, the NTFS support of linux is still beta
and trying to write on NTFS file systems may cause data loss.
Hope this helps,
Raffael Herzog
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux under Windows NT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 10:05:22 +0000
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 02:10:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>1> Which on of these will work properly under Windows NT.
none. Linux is an operating system not an application.
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From: Nguyen-Dai Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP server configuration?
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 11:07:32 -0400
Markus Wagner wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> how can I configure ftp access on a Linux machine, e. g. configure the
> directory tree, startup messages, etc. There seems to be no
> configuration file for ftpd.
>
> Why does ftp access work without a "ftpd" in the process list?
>
> Thanks, Markus
try with "proftpd" package !
It works very nice with me :-)
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Rue des Chevreuils, 1, B�t B52, Local 522
B-4000, Li�ge, BELGIQUE
T�l:+32-4-366.9098 Fax:+32-4-366.9311
http://w3.to/quy
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From: Nguyen-Dai Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rxvt hangs up?!?
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 11:09:45 -0400
"Fabio S." wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a small problem with rxvt: on my laptop (compaq armada 1530DM) when
> I display a file with less and I try to scroll down/up some page, it hangs
> up for quite a few seconds.
> This is terribly annoying and it forces me to use xterm, but the point is
> that I have just 16Mb of ram, so I would to save as ram as possible. Thus
> it would be better to use rxvt.
>
> The strange thing, moreover, is that I have the same version of rxvt
> (2.6.0) on my desktop and there I don't have the problem.
Would you like to try version 2.7.x ?
Quy
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From: Nguyen-Dai Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with RedHat 6.2 iso file
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 11:12:07 -0400
"William T. Trotter" wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the file
> zoot-i386.iso from a RedHat
> mirror site. This file is listed
> as having size 671881216 and
> has a file date of 03/28/2000.
> But after I burnt a cd, it won't boot.
> As an alternative, I used dd to make
> a boot.img floppy to acess the cd.
> But at the point where the installation
> program checks out the cd, it
> crashes.
>
> I also tried copying the files from the cd
> to a hard disk partition, but this doesn't
> work either.
>
> So has anybody out there gotten a
> RedHat 6.2 iso image to work? If yes,
> how about give me a pointer or two.
> Thanks in advance.
>
It's better check "md5sum" after downloaded !
I have already written 4CD of RH-6.2 from ISO image without any problem
!
Quy'
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From: "Benson Lei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bash shell ----- Help ???
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:21:02 -0700
I have a problem on FTP Shell script:
I have a client who can upload a directory to my FTP Server( only for
uploading ).
But whenever he uploads the directory, all previous files inside the
directory are overwritten,
however, I need to keep the old files.
So whenever before a new directory is uploaded, the old directory is moved
backed up) to
somewhere. How can I write a bash shell script to achieve this task ???
I am using RH Linux V6.1.
Thank you for your help.
With best regards
Benson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (eyez)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: (recommendations) linux icq clone (console only)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 09:22:37 GMT
The best i've used for ICQ in console is DizzyICQ, but the
maintainers no longer have their domain. If you'd like to
check it out, email me. i might put it on an anon ftp
somewhere.
quoting <Faux_Pseudo>:
>the best consol icq app i have found is BitchX
>very configurable and regularly updated and loots of prity colors
>--(Once apon a time, in alt.os.linux,)--
> --(Darren Wyn Rees said it like only they can.)--
>$
>$looking for recommendations for an ICQ clone.
>$
>$console only.
>$
>$thanks.
>$
>$darren
>$
>$[ f/u set to comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux ]
>$
>$--
>$Le biblioteche ci hanno dato il potere,
>$poi il lavoro � venuto e ci ha reso liberi.
>$Che prezzo ora, per un piccolo assaggio di dignit�...
>
>
>--
> ._____. ._____.
> |<> <>| If I remember to turn it on UIN=66618055 |<> <>|
> | | while(sig_sucks != 0) | |
> \ " / printf("Clever sig coming soon."); \ " /
> \_/ \_/
--
Rando Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<perception is reality>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: strange Zip 100 problem
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 09:23:42 GMT
Hi, I`ve had a look through the previous discussions and can`t find
what I`m looking for.
I have a Zip100 drive mounted on my Linux machine (Dell XPS T700r,
256MB, SuSE 6.3, kernel 2.2.13) under /dev/hdd4
Normally it works without any problems, but occasionally, after I
unmount a disk and mount a different disk, a ls shows the contents of
the previous disk, not the new disk. It then tells me that the disk
has been mounted readonly.
I`ve tried remounting the original disk, but that`s now readonly too.
A mount tells me that the disk is mounted rw, and the only solution
to getting the Zip working properly is to hard reboot the machine.
Obviously not ideal!
Does anyone know if this is a common problem?
I am sharing the Zip drive through Samba, allowing access through Linux
and my VMWare virtual machine. I stop Samba when umounting, but this
doesn`t seem to have any effect.
Cheers.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arbitrarily strip binaries?
Date: 5 Apr 2000 09:53:49 GMT
Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is it safe to go into a binary directory (/bin, /usr/bin/, et al) and do
Yes it's safe. A more usual tactic is to remove or compress /usr/doc/
and /usr/info.
: strip * on that directory? I am slowly running out of space on /usr and
: don't have any space to relocate any directories to.. :( I'm thinking
: stripping all of my binaries might free up a bit of space.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego Berge)
Subject: Re: Create batch file and send screen output to a file
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:25:21 GMT
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 20:09:33 +1000, "Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I want to execute a number of linux commands from a batch file, and have the
>screen output sent to a file. So...
>
>How do I create a batch file (like in dos).
>
>How do I then send the screen output from the programs which are run from
>the batch file to another file.
>
>Thanks for anyone who can help,
You want the UNIX FAQ (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu). You also want 'man
bash' or whatever your shell is.
Quickstart:
====== mybatchfile ======
#!/bin/bash #(sh, ksh, perl, whatever)
myfirstcommand
mysecondcommand
therestofmycommands
====== end of mybatchfile ======
Then make it executable by:
chmod 744 mybatchfile
Then actually execute it by:
./mybatchfile > filewheremyoutputgoes
As I said, get the UNIX FAQ (and the Linux one too while you're at
it, it's just a couple clicks/keystrokes away)
Regards,
Diego Berge.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego Berge)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: How do I write man pages?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:25:11 GMT
On 3 Apr 2000 06:42:35 GMT, "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego Berge) writes:
>:>
>:> this is quite a basic question, but I don't seem to find the info
>:> tonight with Altavista or at the usual linux places. Anyone kind
>:> enough to point me to an appropiate source? TIA
>
>: Find documentation on writing nroff, with the -man macroes. No, I have
>: no idea where it can be found, other than in the 3-ring binder in my
>: office labelled ``The Necronomicon.''
>
>The usual process is to copy and modify an existing man page.
>True acolytes read the "an" macro definitions :-).
OP here -- just to say thanks to all who responded. As usual, I
found the answer less than one minute after my post went out (I didn't
cancel it, however, to see what responses I would get).
The reason I couldn't find anything was that in my searchs I used
the word 'manual' -- when I realized, I tried something like "write
man page" in Altavista, which brought up the Man-Page HOWTO :)
<http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html> which in turn
mentions the authoritative guide to Troff by J.F. Ossanna and B.W.
Kernighan <ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/books/obi/Bell.Labs/cstr/54.gz>
Previously, I had done what Peter describes above, i.e. 'borrow' a
page from the man directories and go from there, so I already knew
'how', but now I wanted to know 'why'
Regards,
Diego Berge.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego Berge)
Subject: Re: finding files and strings
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:25:24 GMT
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:30:11 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Some questions !
>
>1. best command to find files like *.doc from a harddisk and the whole
>path is shown !
man find
>2. best command to find a certain string in a file from a harddisk and the
>whole path is shown !
man grep
>looking forward to get splended solutions !
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/unix-faq/
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/os/linux/
Regards,
Diego Berge.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego Berge)
Subject: Re: DXF viewer
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:25:19 GMT
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 08:06:55 GMT, Richard Hammerl
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>
>I know there was the same posting in 1997. But perhaps things
>changed in the meantime. ;)
>Is there a dxf viewer for linux?
Not that I could find on the net or in my distribution (RH6.0),
where nonetheless gmc recognizes dxf files as graphic files -- it
represents them with a special 'dxf' icon and tries to open them w/
Electric Eyes, but apparently this program (my version anyway) is
unable to recognize them.
What I do is convert them to EPS in AutoCAD -- which gives me the
idea that, since both of those are ASCII-based vector formats, a
converter could be feasible (one of those days when I have the time)
However, if you do find a viewer, I'd appreciate your posting a
link to it.
Regards,
Diego Berge.
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