Linux-Misc Digest #53, Volume #24 Wed, 5 Apr 00 19:13:04 EDT
Contents:
pppoe not working (Patrick Millier)
Re: sed and substitute newline--how? (Uwe Malzahn)
Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix) (Timothy J. Lee)
Problem installing Slackware Linux over NFS. (Scott Bishop)
STARTING ISP CABLE MODEM (madman)
Looking for beta testers for a new Linux game ... (Jeff Vogel)
research ("Bill")
Re: Capturing AVI/MPEG in linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix) (Bill Gunshannon)
Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix) (Roger Marquis)
Re: Bash shell ----- Help ??? (Steve)
Re: where is install-menu (Steve)
Re: GNOME terminal and color text? (Steve)
Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix) (Paul Eggert)
Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix) (Drazen Kacar)
Hot Swapping ("Jason Hutt")
Re: Gnome panel segmentation fault crash. ("Michael A. Rees")
Re: Problem installing Slackware Linux over NFS. ("denilson alves de oliveira")
Re: Bootdisks, rdev, and root filesystems...aargh! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Patrick Millier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pppoe not working
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 17:09:16 -0400
I tried to configure my high speed internet connection on my COL 2.4 box ...
This is what I've done ...
1. Upgrade pppd to 2.3.10 with the RPM found on your ftp site ... in
contrib/libc6
2. Installed pppoe fom the site http://www.roaringpenguin.com from the
source
code (tarball file).
3. configure the infos to connect to my ISP.
4. tried to start my connection.
5. Results: I always have the same results ... timeout error
My NIC seems to be ok ... I got an uplink on my modem and when doing a
'ifconfig eth0' it looks fine. It looks like my box is communicating with
the
modem cause I see my modem lights flashing ...
Did somebody ever configure a linux box for high speed internet connection
???
By the way, my ISP is Sympatico (Montreal), I got a 3C509 NIC and the modem
is
a 1 Meg HSA modem (from Nortel) ... and the PC I'm testing is a PII-400 with
128 Meg of memory and two 10 Gig HD.
Thx for the help
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Malzahn)
Subject: Re: sed and substitute newline--how?
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:57:54 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
>
Wouldn't be the good old dos2unix dos.format.file >linux.format.file
more straightforward?
Cheers
Uwe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix)
Date: 5 Apr 2000 21:20:13 GMT
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|As another poster pointed out, we have POSIX for a reason. The gov
|should be required to use POSIX compliant systems.
Doesn't Windows NT have a minimal amount of POSIX to fulfill
such government purchasing rules, even though it isn't very
usable without lots of expensive added stuff?
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From: Scott Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Problem installing Slackware Linux over NFS.
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:17:27 -0500
Hey guys,
I'm having a bit of a problem with installing Slackware Linux 4.0 over
our network using NFS. The server has all the requisite servers running
(portmap, mountd, and nfsd). In the /etc/exports file is the line:
/cdrom 192.168.1.100(ro,insecure,all_squash)
In hosts.deny is the line "ALL: ALL", and in hosts.allow is the line
"portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0". There is a Slackware 4.0 CD-ROM
mounted on the server on /cdrom. On the machine having Linux installed
on it, the machine is booted using the net.i/color.gz boot/root disks.
When it asks for the machine's IP address, I put 192.168.1.100. The
netmask is 255.255.255.0. I do not select a gateway, ebacsue our LAN
does not have one. For the NFS server, I put our NFS server's IP
address. As for the directory on which the disk sets are located, I put
/cdrom/slakware. Then, when it actually tries to connect to the NFS
server and mount the NFS share, it pauses, and finally says:
mount: RPC: Timed out
Now, at this point, I can go to the NFS server (which is running
Slackware 7.0), and ping the other machine, and get a ping reply back.
So, the two machines can talk to each other... it's just that for some
reason a NFS connection is not being made. Any suggestions that you
guys could make would be greatly appreciated.
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: madman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: STARTING ISP CABLE MODEM
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:30:07 GMT
I am interested in starting a Cable modem ISP in my area, and I need help.
I need to know:
1. What kind of server computer will I need?
2. I think that I would need a T1. But is there any thing cheaper?
3. Is there any other info that I should know?
4. Is the servers computer the same as what you would use for a dial-up
ISP?
PS if you know the answer to my question please post them in this fourm. I
almost never check my HOTMAIL
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Vogel)
Subject: Looking for beta testers for a new Linux game ...
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:39:04 -0700
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- Jeff Vogel, Keeper of Avernum, Spiderweb Software, Inc.
Check out Avernum, Nethergate, the award-winning Exile trilogy,
and Blades of Exile, the hit shareware rpgs for Mac and Windows.
Coming soon: Homeland for Windows. http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com
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From: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: research
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:58:43 -0500
I'm doing a debate about whether online schools should have the
certification to award students college degrees. I need 50 responses by
MONDAY. A quick heat-felt yes or no is fine, I just want some answers.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Capturing AVI/MPEG in linux
Date: 5 Apr 2000 15:00:19 -0700
I don't know if they have what you are looking for (or even how well there
stuff works, as I haven't gotten around to trying it yet,) but you may
want to check out:
http://heroine.linuxave.net/
Though they seem more interested in encoding and editing video
streams.
In article <38eac395$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Westerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What tools / programs can be used for viewing mpeg mpeg2
>mjpeg movies, avi so on.
>the mpeg viewer in turbo linux just says broken stream but files work in ms
>media player.
>
>Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:8cd29r$go5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> 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] (Bill Gunshannon)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix)
Date: 5 Apr 2000 22:11:26 GMT
In article <8cg650$16js$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
writes:
|>
|> Does anyone happen to know why posix doesn't specify fork()?
|> And what other posix-compliant system besides NT doesn't
|> have fork() with its expected semantics? (In other words
|> was it left out as a special consideration for someone?)
|>
VMS??
bill
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Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton |
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From: Roger Marquis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 22:13:45 GMT
In comp.unix.solaris Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think it is downright peculiar that back in the days of
>AT&T-owned unix there was quite an effort to enforce open
>specifications and require competitive offers from different
>vendors for software. What happened?
Are you thinking of GOSIP? It was good in concept but the
implementation was unworkable.
>How can it now be reasonable for a government office (or anyone
>else for that matter) to let their user authorization mechanism be
>controlled by a single-vendor, undocumented, closed-source domain
>controller?
It's not reasonable, of course, unless you're a legislator (typically
Republican) whose campaign was largely funded by the companies
making that software.
It wasn't until Regan/Bush appointed a critical mass of laissez-faire
/ anti-consumer / excessively pro-business judges that companies
like Microsoft began thinking they could get away with breaking
anti-trust law. Ironic when you consider that were it not for
these laws, and the DOJ, Microsoft would not even exist and IBM
(with Sperry-Rand) would control 90% of the world's computing
resources.
--
Roger Marquis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Bash shell ----- Help ???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Apr 2000 23:16:09 GMT
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:21:02 -0700, Benson Lei wrote:
>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.
Say we have two directories /home/john/ftp/current and /home/john/ftp/backup
The file would look something like this.
#!/bin/bash
cp /home/john/ftp/current/* /home/john/ftp/backup/
# end of bash script:
cp copies everything in current into backup, but have a look at the man page
for cp (copy), and mv (move), they'll give you details of how to use more
intricate features of the cp and mv comand. Also see man bash for more
advanced features that can be used in bash scripts.
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Cheers
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%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
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or http://start.at/zero-pps
10:18pm up 2 days, 53 min, 6 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: where is install-menu
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Apr 2000 23:16:10 GMT
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 17:22:04 -0600, Patrick O'Neil wrote:
>OK, I downloaded the RPM for XFree86-4.0 for my system but when
>I try to install them, I get a failed dependency for
>/usr/bin/install-menu. Doing an rpmfind for install-menu
>turns up nothing. Where does install-menu come from?
>
>I am using Mandrake 7.0 and downloaded the Mandrake Cooker
>XFree86 rpms.
Do man rpm and it'll tell you what that means and some of
the ways you can go about fixing it. I could tell you what
to type but then you'd do that and still not understand
what was happening.
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Cheers
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or http://start.at/zero-pps
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: GNOME terminal and color text?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Apr 2000 23:16:11 GMT
On 5 Apr 2000 17:08:40 GMT, John H. Chauvin wrote:
>I am running Redhat Linux and have a question regarding the use of
>color and the GNOME terminal. I like the look and feel of the GNOME
>terminal but would like to define terminal options such that any text
>shown as bold (using the tput bold command) will show in color
>(yellow). This is easy to achieve using a xterm but I am not sure this
>can be done with a GNOME terminal.
>
>Is it possible to display text in color using the GNOME ternminal? The
>man page gives no obvious hint.
In the directory /home/yourusername/.gnome there is a file called Terminal.
Copy the file to another name before you start messing with it.
It will have the following two lines, which uses the same notation as
html when it comes to defining the colours, ie R/G/B standinf for
Red, Green and Blue. It's in hex so 0123456789abcdef are all acceptable
characters. which go in groups of four, ffff/ffff/ffff is white and
0000/0000/0000 is black, ffff/0000/0000 is red and so on, as you can
seee the posibilities are endless.
foreground=rgb:c0ff/eec0/ffee ## you can even have c0ffee colour.
background=rgb:2e8b/1eef/0c72
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Cheers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Eggert)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix)
Date: 5 Apr 2000 14:34:05 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>Does anyone happen to know why posix doesn't specify fork()?
No, because POSIX.1 does indeed specify fork().
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drazen Kacar)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix)
Date: 5 Apr 2000 22:20:26 GMT
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <8cg650$16js$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
>writes:
> |>
> |> Does anyone happen to know why posix doesn't specify fork()?
> |> And what other posix-compliant system besides NT doesn't
> |> have fork() with its expected semantics? (In other words
> |> was it left out as a special consideration for someone?)
> |>
>
> VMS??
Methinks fork() is POSIX. POSIX.1 (IEEE Std. 1003.1-1990), XPG4 and SVID3,
to be more precise.
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From: "Jason Hutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hot Swapping
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 22:35:31 GMT
I have a couple of questions regarding Server Configuration of Linux Red Hat
6.1.
1) Does this version of Linux support RAID Arrays? I have found conflicting
information on this topic.
2) Does it support Hot-Swappable bays in a RAID Array?
Thanks,
Jason Hutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.gcscanada.com
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From: "Michael A. Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Gnome panel segmentation fault crash.
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 22:45:02 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm still stumped with this problem. BTW, I forgot to mention that /dev got
blitzed and I had to recreate it with MAKEDEV.
If anyone can give me even a hint, it would be greatly appreciated. I hate
to reformat the drive and reinstall everything over one stupid glitch. Or
give up on Gnome.
Mike.
"Michael A. Rees" wrote:
> I had a hardware breakdown. I think the hard drive in my laptop came
> loose from its socket. Anyway, fetchnews wrote all over blocks across
> several partitions. After rescueing, fscking and various rpm reinstalls,
> I have my Linux partition up again, but with one irritating bug.
>
> I have RedHat 6.0 plus some packages from the 6.1 distribution. My GUI
> is X11R6/Gnome/Enlightenment. Whenever the Gnome panel spawns, it
> crashes about 10 seconds later with a segmentation fault.
>
> Here's an strace:
>
> http://www.lclark.edu/~rees/panel_strace.txt
>
> See my rpm -qa printout here:
>
> http://www.lclark.edu/~rees/rpm_qa.txt
>
> And if you care, rpm -Va:
>
> http://www.lclark.edu/~rees/rpmva.txt
>
> Note that I have a lot of files with the "wrong" mtime, because I cp'ed
> much of my file system over from another disk. (Everything ran fine for
> months after that.)
>
> Let me know if anyone has a clue. I don't. I have reinstalled the gnome
> core and all its dependencies, and after that, upgraded to the gnome
> core, etc., from the RH 6.1 distribution. All to no avail, except that
> now I have a popup window with the segmentation faul message instead of
> just a message in the terminal window.
>
> Mike.
>
> --
> Michael A. Rees
> bl899
> Long Live the Cleveland Freenet
--
Michael A. Rees
bl899
Long Live the Cleveland Freenet
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From: "denilson alves de oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Problem installing Slackware Linux over NFS.
Date: 5 Apr 2000 22:43:16 GMT
Hi Scott,
Scott Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu no artigo
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm having a bit of a problem with installing Slackware Linux 4.0 over
> our network using NFS. The server has all the requisite servers running
> (portmap, mountd, and nfsd). In the /etc/exports file is the line:
>
> /cdrom 192.168.1.100(ro,insecure,all_squash)
>
>.....
> address. As for the directory on which the disk sets are located, I put
> /cdrom/slakware. Then, when it actually tries to connect to the NFS
> server and mount the NFS share, it pauses, and finally says:
>
> mount: RPC: Timed out
Make sure that kernel of client has support to NFS file system. I think
that I have similar problem with Slackware.
>
> ....
> --
> --Scott Bishop
>
ua
Denilson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Bootdisks, rdev, and root filesystems...aargh!
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 22:47:05 GMT
What i have done is used mkinitrd to make my
compressed image file, populated the image
filesystem and used lilo instead of dd'ing the
kernel straight to disk. The disadvantages of
this is that its a ext2 fs (dont accidently
format it in windows) you need at least /dev/fd0
and /dev/ram in the root of the floppy and your
nessecary /boot/boot.p /boot/map files. Im sure
the same thing can be accompilished with loadlin
on a msdos fs floppy and at least that way you
are less likely to format it in windows.
rhost
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