Linux-Misc Digest #115, Volume #24 Tue, 11 Apr 00 23:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: free or not to free... (Robert Heller)
DVD RAM (Jason Bacon)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Mats Olsson)
Re: mounting problem ("David ..")
Re: mounting problem (Kevin Vandersloot)
Re: Minimal installation on small harddisk? ("David ..")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Harlan Grove)
Re: read and sockets (Tim Hockin)
Re: help with 'make' (Paul Kimoto)
Re: DHCP woes ("Stefan Gasteiger")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Robert Wiegand)
Re: Minimal installation on small harddisk? (Robert Wiegand)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Harlan Grove)
Re: Where is ttfmkfdir (Steve)
Re: mounting problem (Steve)
Kernel fh_verify message ("C")
restricted user login (Paul Yee Loo)
Re: some newbie questions (Brad)
kppp says pppd not set right (G. R. Gaudreau)
Re: Probs with password (Otavio Exel)
Linux hangs (Rafael)
Re: Cheap/Free alternatives to Hummingbird eXceed (Janet)
/dev/dsp problem? (Rafael)
Re: Could somebody help me with a little script? (Otavio Exel)
Re: Linux structure - linux 101 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Suse 6.4? (NTK)
log users (jasbo)
Re: Minimal installation on small harddisk? (Grant Edwards)
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: free or not to free...
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 18:45:05 GMT
Mark Cubberley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:10:43 -0500, wrote :
MC> I'm not sure if I'M in the right forum for these types of questions,
MC> so feel free to point (shove) me in the right direction if I'm not...
MC>
MC>
MC> For the most part, when initially entering into a linux-based OS, do
MC> most people download the software or buy the packages, with the CDs,
MC> manuals, additional software, etc? I understand that the software can
MC> be gotten for free, however, between partitioning the hard drive and
MC> other such installation tasks, is it just worth the $50 to get the CDs
MC> that now come "idiot-proof" with regard to getting linux as an option
MC> when booting up your computer? If it's worth the cash, where's the
MC> cheapest place to buy the software? Are the deluxe packages the way to
MC> go...as opposed to just buying the OS CD which I think you can get for a
MC> couple of bucks?
MC>
MC> Thanks for any help anyone can offer,
MC> Mark
It depends on your level of expertise and how fast your internet
connection is.
If you are at a university or business with a fast internet connection
(or have a cable modem or a DSL connection) AND have a CDR AND are
reasonably knowable about UNIX and Linux, the way to go is to just
download an iso image and burn your own image.
If you have a slow internet connection, but are reasonably knowledgeable
about UNIX and Linux, then getting a $2.00 GPL CD is a reasonable way to
go. Saves *hours* of connect time.
If you are not very knowledgeable about UNIX and Linux, you might be best
off spending the $50-$100 for the 'box'. These packages often include
extra stuff, a *printed* install manual, a boot floppy, AND a postcard
you can send in to get technical support (someone you can call and give
you help over the phone).
Note: the downloaded ISO images and the $2.00 CDs are the same as the
CD's in the $50-$100 boxes. Same 'ease of installation' (for a given
distro/release). The box only has the extras: *printed* install
manual, a boot floppy, AND a postcard. Sometimes there is some
software which is commercial or otherwise not available off the 'net.
The *boxed* deluxe version of RH 6.1 contains the US 128-bit secure
version of Netscape, which is NOT on the download-able or $2.00 CDs --
the download and GPL CDs contain the 48-bit Netscape. Also the *deluxe
server* box of RH 6.1 includes the SSL web server, which is not on the
download-able or $2.00 CDs. It is possible to download the US 128-bit
secure version of Netscape and SSL web server is available separately.
The Corel Linux box has a more complete version of WordPerfect (extra
fonts and clip art, etc.). The Corel Linux box also includes Partition
Magic.
MC>
MC>
MC>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Bacon)
Subject: DVD RAM
Date: 11 Apr 2000 18:40:20 GMT
Is anyone out there using a DVD RAM under Linux? If so, any problems
worth reporting?
TIA,
-Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mats Olsson)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: 11 Apr 2000 18:51:22 GMT
In article <uSi9P89o$GA.229@cpmsnbbsa03>, Ermine Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Optical mouse using a grid pad have existed for a long time. Creating a
>mouse that DOESN'T need a pad and works by sensing the changing appearance
>of ANY surface is new.
Yea... but don't connect them to an old 486 - the computer can get a
serious case of inferiority complex, as the mouse will have several times
the computing capacity[1] of the computer its connected do.
/Mats
[1] A custom DSP + an 18 MIPS CPU.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting problem
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:48:21 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I can mount floppy and cdrom in linux 6.0, but when reboot it fail to
> mount again. i got the message at the boottime is "fd0 invalid block
> device"
> my fstab is : /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat defaults 00
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults 00
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
> I have two hard drives with win98 and rh6.0. I can mount win98 drives
> successfully, but not cdrom and floppy. Please help.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
fd0 is the floppy drive.
Check /etc/fstab and see if the /dev/fd0 line has two 0's at the end of
it as shown below.
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
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ID # 123538
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From: Kevin Vandersloot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting problem
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:52:04 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I can mount floppy and cdrom in linux 6.0, but when reboot it fail to
> mount again. i got the message at the boottime is "fd0 invalid block
> device"
> my fstab is : /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat defaults 00
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults 00
>
These lines indicate the the kernel should try to mount the devices when
you boot up. This is not good if you dont have a floppy or cdrom inserted
when you do boot. You will then get the error message you mentioned. You
need to add an option to not mount at boot time. Do man fstab I believe
its noauto.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Minimal installation on small harddisk?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:51:40 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi, we have some old Sun IPCs with small 200Mb harddisks. We'd like to use
> these machines as X terminals. We've tried installing Redhat but even with
> minimal packages chosen we can't seem to meet the 160Mb (40 Mb swap)
> available. Any suggestions, or should we try something else, i.e. *BSD?
>
> Thanks.
Maybe Slackware.
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ID # 123538
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:44:09 -0700
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ws.net>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, David Steuber wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>> ' and since Microsoft has not been able to kill
> linux, nor mandate it's
>> ' pricing, it follows that they do not have a
> monopoly.
>>
>> No, it doesn't. The monopoly is having such a huge
>> share of the desktop OS market. Microsoft does indeed
>> have a monopoly.
>
> uh...no. Having a "huge" share is not a monopoly. A
> monopoly is having 100% share. Citing various legal
> ruling doesn't change the basic definitions of words.
There are dictionary meanings, practical meanings, and
terms of art (in this case, statutory definitions and
usage). The meaning of 'monopoly' in terms of the Sherman
Antitrust Act in the US is a company predominant in one or
more markets that engages in various business practices
that tend to reduce competition and harm other economic
actors. The goal of that act it to _prevent_ firms from
becoming actual, exclusive sellers in those markets.
Waiting to act until Microsoft actually achieves 100% share
in some markets would be way too late.
Standard Oil wasn't the only petroleum refiner/reseller in
the US when it was deemed a monopoly and broken up into
several companies. The same will (hopefully) be true of
Microsoft and the markets on which it preys.
>> It is not the monopoly that is bad. It is the fact that
> Microsoft
>> leverages their monopoly power to gain a monopoly in
> other product
>> categories. They do this by denying entry of
> competitive products, or
>> makeing the cost of entry much higher than it should be.
> That is
>> restraint of trade.
>
>So, in which product catagory does Microsoft have a
>monopoly? . . . Help me out here. Tell me which product
>catagory has been monopolized by Microsoft.
Well, if you insist on using the dictionary definition
of 'monopoly', Microsoft may not have a monopoly in any
market currently. And you and Bill can keep shouting this
to the world until well past the time Microsoft is broken
up into several different companies. You can be right in
you own mind, and the world at large won't care.
The fact is that Microsoft has engaged in discriminatory
pricing of Windows etc., selling these products at lower
prices to OEMs that make their buyers pay for Windows (and
possibly other Microsoft products) whether or not the user
wants Windows on their PC, and selling at higher prices to
OEMs that don't collect a Windows license fee from their
customers who opt for other OS's. This is one charge of
many that has now been established in a court of law
(though pending appeal).
So, no, good ol' Microsoft hasn't made anyone pay more for
Windows _directly_, they've just done their damnedest to
make hardware OEMs do that for them _indirectly_. And that
is a sign of monopolistic business practice, a term that
must be taken as a three-word whole describing activity
that doesn't require 100% market share.
Are we arguing mere semantics? Sure. And as long as you
hide behind dictionary definitions, that seems to be all
you're interested in. One last time: Microsoft has been
found to be a 'monopoly' acording to the precise definition
of that term in the US's Sherman Antitrust Act. Laws often
use terms in different ways than their standard dictionary
meanings, but laws include explicit, precise definitions
for these terms. Does that little bit of reality hurt your
argument?
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: read and sockets
Date: 11 Apr 2000 18:52:16 GMT
Bonny Gijzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is there a possibility to use a ReadLN (or some sort of) function when
: using sockets???
man fdopen
--
Tim Hockin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: help with 'make'
Date: 11 Apr 2000 14:42:32 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to compile some libraries using the 'make' command. I do not
> have or cannot find this command.
> I downloaded the make-3.78.1 utility but this requires eithet an
> existing make command or use of a shell:
> ' sh ./build.sh' command. when I run this command or another
> './configure' I get 'aclocal..missing
> automake...missing autoheader...missing errors also cannot guess host
> type.
>
> Does anybody know where I can download a copy of make with some good
> documentation?
Red Hat should provide a package called "make". Install that.
The GNU make documentation is in the form of "info" pages. The Red
Hat package may install them, or you can see find in the tar file
that you already have.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Stefan Gasteiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: DHCP woes
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:03:44 +0200
Chuko Liang schrieb in Nachricht <8cvg8j$77p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>I've set up a Linux DHCP server on a network with many VLANs. I've got
>a helper address pointing to the DHCP server, and I've forwarded udp 67
>and 68.
Which version of dhcpd are you running?
>The problem I'm having though, is that the DHCP server is on the 10.0.1.*
>subnet, and the machine in question is on the 10.0.41.* subnet. DHCP
>serves out fine to machines on the 10.0.1.* subnet, but it acts wierd on
>the 10.0.41.* subnet. There, a 10.0.41.* address is handed out, and then
>superseded by one from the 10.0.1.* subnet. This happens with a Win98
>laptop and an OpenBSD box, so the problem is not specific to Windows.
>The dhcp server gets two DHCPDISCOVER requests: one comes via 10.0.41.1,
>and one comes from eth0, both within milliseconds of the other.
>
>Does dhcp think its getting two requests, or is it actually getting two
>requests. I've been working on this (with help from others) on and
>off for the better part of a week, and gotten no where.
Could you post an excerpt from your log file?
You may also run a tcpdump port bootps
>
>Anyone have any ideas? The dhcpd.conf follows, along with an excerpted
>show running config (and show ip interface for the specific interface)
>from the Cisco router.
Perhaps you could post the complete config of your cisco?
--
Stefan Gasteiger
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:49:29 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> uh...no. Having a "huge" share is not a monopoly. A monopoly is having
> 100% share. Citing various legal ruling doesn't change the basic
> definitions of words.
I don't thik so.
By that definition monopolies don't exist because no one ever has
100% of any market.
Show me some place (besides your post) that defines monopoly as 100%
of a market. I have never head such a definition.
--
Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Minimal installation on small harddisk?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:53:13 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi, we have some old Sun IPCs with small 200Mb harddisks. We'd like to use
> these machines as X terminals. We've tried installing Redhat but even with
> minimal packages chosen we can't seem to meet the 160Mb (40 Mb swap)
> available. Any suggestions, or should we try something else, i.e. *BSD?
>
> Thanks.
RedHat is probably not the best choice for a small system.
I have installed a Debian system (including X) on a 100M Zip disk.
--
Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:18:34 -0700
In article <uVpmpO#o$GA.225@cpmsnbbsa03>, "Ermine Todd"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/R407/V31site/
>"Harlan Grove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
..
>>While Red Hat (and other distributions) charge for updates
>>on CDs, they offer _free_ downloads of updates? What's the
>>url for Microsoft's free W2K update?
Guess I should have been more explicit: what't the url for
Microsoft's free Windows 2000 product 'upgrade'?
I knew Microsoft has an _update_ site. I've downloaded a
few NT service packs from it. Yes, it's nice that Microsoft
provides packaged bug-fixes for free. And, yes it's nice
that I can get the Muppets in Space theme pack for free.
But how about Windows 2000 itself?
Which raises another point: Linux kernels and distributions
are relatively honest in showing version numbers, and yes
the minor version numbers and patch levels can increment
frequently. Microsoft on the other hand has resorted to
subterfuge. NT 3 had several minor version numbers, but NT
4 is just NT 4 - except for the service packs. Guess if
it's a service pack the OS doesn't need to be given minor
version numbers or patch levels.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Where is ttfmkfdir
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Apr 2000 20:37:39 GMT
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:30:27 GMT, scott thomason wrote:
>I think I've hosed up my xfs server. I'm trying to install some new
>truetype fonts on RedHat 6.2. In the past, I've used the utility
>"ttfmkfdir" to generate the fonts.scale file for xfs (actually, it's
>xfsft). The RedHat /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs file references it, too, but I
>can't find it on my new system anywhere. I've scoured the net, I've
>searched rpmfind.net, and I still can't find it. Can somebody tell me
>where it is? If you are root on your system, you can do a:
>
> rpm -qif `which ttfmkdir`
>
>to tell you what package contains your binary.
I've had a look around over here on RH6.0 and can't find it, not on the
CD either.
I've also checked the CDs of two other distros but nothing.
--
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
7:19pm up 7 days, 21:53, 5 users, load average: 1.07, 1.02, 1.01
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: mounting problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Apr 2000 20:37:39 GMT
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:19:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>I can mount floppy and cdrom in linux 6.0, but when reboot it fail to
>mount again. i got the message at the boottime is "fd0 invalid block
>device"
>my fstab is : /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat defaults 00
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults 00
>
>mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
>I have two hard drives with win98 and rh6.0. I can mount win98 drives
>successfully, but not cdrom and floppy. Please help.
>
>
You need a floppy in the floppy drive and a data (not music) CD in the
CDrom drive in order for them to mount.
--
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
7:19pm up 7 days, 21:53, 5 users, load average: 1.07, 1.02, 1.01
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From: "C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Kernel fh_verify message
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:42:23 -0500
I get this kernel error message
Apr 10 13:06:43 amd kernel: fh_verify: file://<someuser> permission
failure,acc=1, error=13
I'm running NIS,NFS and kernel ver. 2.2.5-22 (Redhat)
This comes on the NFS server whenever a client logs in.
Any help / pointers would be appreciated.
C.
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From: Paul Yee Loo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: restricted user login
Date: 11 Apr 2000 19:47:53 GMT
How to restrict a user to a particular directory during rlogin or telnet?
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From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: some newbie questions
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:46:01 +1000
The reason the program wont run when you are in the directory is because
that directory is not in the 'path'. Linux does not work like DOS in this
regard. In DOS, when you type a program name, it looks first in the current
directory (the one you are in) and then in all the directories in the page.
eg...
path=c:\windows;c:\windows\command;c:\windows\command\etc etc etc
Linux only look in the path and not at all in your current folder
The simple solution to this is to type ./ in front of the file name. eg...
./adom
I am a bit of newbie myself so i can't tell you were to set the path, read
the path, or anything else about the path. sorry.
Brad
"Joe M." wrote:
> hi i installed Slackware linux the other week and have come across a few
> things i wanted to know.
>
> i noticed that i could not run programs in there directories ie
>
> #cd usr/games/adom
> #adom
>
> would not work, however entering:
>
> #/usr/games/adom/adom
> would work?? why is this so?
>
> also i was wondering if there was a doc on the directory structure and
> what each directory has in it. for example what is usr or home meant to
> have in it and where i should put things.
>
> Also is there a doc on system files, each one and what its uses are
> including what files linux runs on startup and stuff
>
> one more thing i noticed when looking through my directories the info
> and man pages were still compressed do i have to decompress them to be
> able to use them? if so why didn't it decompress them when it installed?
>
> these thinks may even be in the man pages but i thought it would be
> easier to ask people who already knew where i should look than hunt my
> self sorry.
>
> TIA
> Joe
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From: G. R. Gaudreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kppp says pppd not set right
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:13:04 -0400
Hi all,
This is weird. I just updated the kdenetwork package and now kppp tells me that
pppd is not properly installed, something about SUID. I'm not sure what
that means. Can someone please help?
--
G. R. Gaudreau
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.xoom.com/grgaud/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otavio Exel)
Subject: Re: Probs with password
Date: 11 Apr 2000 20:18:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bernd Driesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have used SuSE Linux 5.2 as internetrouter. On this machine is a
> backup-agent from Cheyenne (uagent version 4.0c for linux) installed.
> I had no problems backing up this machine from our novell server until
> I made an update to SuSE Linux 6.1. Now, when I want to access to the
> linux machine via the backup-agent, the agent tells me, that the
> password is wrong. Does anybody know, why linux tells the agent the
> wrong password?
what kind of access? smb thru samba? in case it is samba there is a
chance that your new version of samba uses encrypted passwords;
see man smbpasswd
beers,
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Otavio Exel /<\oo/>\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Linux hangs
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:21:44 -0400
My RedHat (6.1 and 6.2) Linux hangs, both in text mode and XWindow. It
hangs in very unusual way, to restart computer I have to turn power off,
reseting button did'nt restart, it just turn of display.
Please help me?
I have Epox motherbord, AMD K3 III 400Mhz procesor, 128 Mb RAM, 27GB IBM UATA 66
HardDisk.
how to correct this problem?
Rafael
P.S Please send answer also to my e-mail . Thanks
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From: Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Cheap/Free alternatives to Hummingbird eXceed
Date: 11 Apr 2000 13:11:51 -0700
"F. Michael Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do you have a URL to get it from? I looked on AT&T's site, but couldn't
> find any software links.
VNC is at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
It is indeed rather slow compared to just an X server, but if you're on a
LAN or a fast connection, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
There is also an X server from Microimages which works pretty well also
(and is faster than VNC):
http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/index.htm
It used to be free, but the windows version isn't any more (*sniff*). The
Mac version is still free though.
Janet
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: /dev/dsp problem?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:22:51 -0400
/dev/dsp
I can't play midi files in KMidi application, both in Gnome and KDE
, but I can play the same midi file in KDE Karaoke application. What the
problem could be. I debug this application and there seems be problem in
/dev/dsp device, how to correct this problem?
Rafael
P.S Please send answer also to my e-mail . Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otavio Exel)
Subject: Re: Could somebody help me with a little script?
Date: 11 Apr 2000 20:30:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Buijsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think I've got a problem that can be solved with a short script.
>
> The situation ... my 486 is not Y2K. Everytime I reboot the system the
> clock jumps back a couple of years. Date and time remain correct.
>
> I figure I can solve this with a little script that takes the date
> from the system, and writes back the date to the system but with the
> year changed to the year 2000.
date --set "$(date|sed s'/1980/2000/')"
warnings:
- this is ** UNTESTED **
- this is not Y2K+1 compliant
- replace 1980 with your favo.. er.. your 486's favorite year
beers,
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Subject: Re: Linux structure - linux 101
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:35:43 GMT
"Andre Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Hello All !!!!!
> Can somebody point me to a Linux 101 sessions. I have just install Corel
> Linux and I want to know more.
> 1- I want to know the meaning of all directories and what they do.
man hier
> 2- Is it possible to install Netscape Messenger for Corel Linux
What's Netscape Messanger? Is that an AOL Instant Messanger thing?
(I think there are AOL IM clones out there. Try freshmeat.net)
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From: NTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suse 6.4?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:30:07 GMT
Has anyone got Suse6.4 and how does it look?
I am running Mandrake7, but I would like to try Suse6.4 out.
Where can I download ISO image of Suse6.4?
thanks.
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From: jasbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: log users
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:49:03 -0400
does anyone know if there is a way that you can see everything that a
users type besides using lastcomm or acctcom??
There has to be a way that root can log everything that user types
thanks
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From: grant@nowhere. (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Minimal installation on small harddisk?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:44:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Wiegand wrote:
>> Hi, we have some old Sun IPCs with small 200Mb harddisks. We'd like to use
>> these machines as X terminals. We've tried installing Redhat but even with
>> minimal packages chosen we can't seem to meet the 160Mb (40 Mb swap)
>> available. Any suggestions, or should we try something else, i.e. *BSD?
>
>RedHat is probably not the best choice for a small system.
>
>I have installed a Debian system (including X) on a 100M Zip disk.
You used to be able to pick and choose individual packages
under RH. I did an install of RH 4.something on an 80M disk.
That included X and gcc. If you can't get a RH 6.x
installation in 160M, then things sure have bloated up in the
last couple years...
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