Linux-Misc Digest #141, Volume #24 Thu, 13 Apr 00 18:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: only root can startx (Anthony)
Re: another LILO problem ("Thanh Le Ly")
Re: Q: migrate OS/2 to Linux ? (Anthony)
texconfig failing on Mandrake 7.0 (D. D. Brierton)
do i need Partition Magic? (brandonkylecarter)
Sharing local texmf tree between MiKTeX and teTeX (D. D. Brierton)
Re: Bloody clock is an hour fast (Johan Kullstam)
Re: linux on a DSP ? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix) (Roger Marquis)
Linux Users' Group of Davis, April 13 - PGP: Pretty Good Privacy, RSA (William
Kendrick)
stopping access denied messages (Kevin)
Get rid of Win 98 (Mark Cubberley)
Re: texconfig failing on Mandrake 7.0 (Marc Andre Selig)
Attaching a loopback device to a file on an smbmounted filesystem ("Austin R.
Graves")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ("Eric Peterson")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony)
Subject: Re: only root can startx
Date: 13 Apr 2000 20:12:07 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You are not being very specific. Have you just installed you distro, or
>did you try to install from scratch? If that was the case make sure that
>you ran the preinstall.sh before extraction and postinstall.sh
>afterward, I think that deals with things like permissions. If you could
>provide some more info on what you have done to get as far as you have
>would be more helpfull.
I am having the same problem just like many many others.
I ran Sherpa which check and set permissions for security purposes,
it f$%^ up some permission in /var and somewhere else, and then
X wont start except root (connection refuse, error 111). X is
3.3.6 and use Xwrapper, squid and qmail took me hours to fix
but X is still broken by some permission problem: removing X
entirely, then re-install wont remove the problem, so the
problem has to be some permission in obscure places had been
changed.
That's why LSB is important, we need a filesystem orgainisation
so that every app would install in a proper place and have
proper permission.
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:53:39 -0400
From: "Thanh Le Ly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: another LILO problem
Remove the line : append="nt"
and add these line in /etc/lilo.conf :
other=/dev/hda1
label=[ your choice ] # ex: WindowsNT
save your work and type lilo at a console .
if it was successfully updated
restart your system and type WindowsNT .
Good luck !
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8d204j$7ku$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> after I successfully installed linux on my machine, linux runs happily.
> but I can't restart NT which was formerly installed in my machine.
>
> I believe sth is wrong with lilo.conf. I paste it below. please tell me
> what's wrong with it. how I could correct it manually?
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda5
> append="nt"
> read-only
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Q: migrate OS/2 to Linux ?
Date: 13 Apr 2000 20:19:22 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>is there a way to migrate a OS/2 System to a Linux System ?
>I.e. to run OS/2 *.exe under linux ?
If you are experienced in OS/2, learning Linux would be
very easy. A lot of Unix apps like emx, info, gcc
already run on OS/2.
The OS/2 exe format is not compatible with Linux.
However, it is possible to port C or C++ code to Linux
without too much trouble if the app was written in emx
and does not use PM.
With Linux you get a MUCH more stable system, even if
you dont do 24/7, you can login in the morning and
logoff at night without crashing, day after day.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. D. Brierton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: texconfig failing on Mandrake 7.0
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:30:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have Linux Mandrake 7.0 (Air). Everytime I try to run texconfig I
get the following startup message:
The interactive texconfig utility will be started now. Make sure your
screen has at least 24 rows and 80 columns. If texconfig crashes now,
you can still set up your teTeX system using the batch mode of
texconfig.
Try 'texconfig help' to get a list of options.
Starting dialog utility...
Then, after a pause of a few seconds I am returned to the prompt. Does
anyone know what might be wrong. I am new to teTeX (but not to
(La)TeX) and texconfig looks like the simplest way for me to get
things configured properly.
Thomas Esser himself responded to a post about this to comp.text.tex
suggesting:
xterm -geometry 80x25 -e texconfig
but that too exits abnormally. I have tried every terminal including
the console, and have tried various options of setting DIALOG_TERM and
DIALOG_TERMINFO (as suggested in /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/README). I
am posting this from Windows so I don't have the docs in fron of me,
but I believe those are the variable names and as I recall the correct
setting for the latter on Mandrake 7.0 is:
DIALOG_TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo
(And yes, I do export the variables after setting them.)
Can anyone offer any help? Thanks in advance ...
Darren
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D. D. Brierton, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb
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From: brandonkylecarter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: do i need Partition Magic?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:30:18 GMT
i have tried to install linux mandrake 7.0 to no avail. but when i was
trying to setup the partition i messed up my windows partition. i
physically have a 20.4 GB hard drive in my PC. now when i click on my
computer to see my drives, it shows two hard disks plus all of the normal
stuff. one of the disks shows 10.5 GB and the other 17.5 GB!! now the
contents of the 10.5 GB is the normal disk, appears as always. the 17.5 GB
disk has funky stuff in it. i want my plain old 20.4 GB ONE DRIVE BY
ITSELF!
would partition magic solve this problem??
thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. D. Brierton)
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Sharing local texmf tree between MiKTeX and teTeX
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:45:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I now have both Window 98 and Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my computer.
MiKTeX has been up and running for quite some time on the Windows 98
partition and I have built up quite a large collection of downloaded
packages from CTAN in c:\localtexmf.
As the Windows 98 VFAT partition is automounted by Linux, is there any
harm in simply making /usr/share/texmf.local (the main texmf tree is
/usr/share/texmf) a symbolic link to c:\localtexmf on the VFAT
partition? The only problems I can foresee are the various CR/LF
differences between ext2 and vfat, and the fact that teTeX has some
packages as standard that MiKTeX doesn't and which I have installed in
c:/localtexmf. Could the fact that, say natbib, will end up in both
/usr/share/texmf and in /usr/share/texmf.local cause any problems?
Thanks in advance,
Darren
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D. D. Brierton, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bloody clock is an hour fast
Date: 13 Apr 2000 16:15:13 -0400
Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This has always been a problem of mine too. Is the way to proceed as
> follows?
>
> 1. use date to set system time and date
> Right now in UK I am on daylight savings time but I guess I should
> subtract one hour? E.g if current time is 10am I should say it is 9am?
> (Because I set clock ahead one hour when moving into daylight savings
> time, "real" time is an hour earlier)
>
> 2. tzset
> Not sure how to do this!
> I don't know when daylight savings starts/ends
> I don't know the name of the daylight savings time zone (I am in
> UK).
you don't need to know when daylight savings starts/ends. there's a
table of daylight savings and offsets from UTC somewhere in the bowels
of the filesystem. just feed it your time code (most are a three
letter acronym) and libc will do the bookkeeping.
> 3. hwclock -utc -systohc
> to keep hwclock on utc time and linux will convert to localtime (which I
> just set using tzset)
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Bill
>
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux on a DSP ?
Date: 13 Apr 2000 16:23:58 -0400
Nicolas Dentant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does Linux run on a DSP?
linux a DSP would suck. DSP are *only* good for issuing a series of
multiple-accumulate operations such as FIR filtering. when you stray
from that, you tend to lose -- and lose hard.
C compilers typically generate *horrible* code for DSP. to get
half-way decent performance you *must* use assembly. no, the opimizer
doesn't work. it's still slow and often broken. this goes double for
the TI line of DSP which are imho in intel class of losing arches.
running *any* general purpose programs on DSP is a severe loser.
using a non-real-time operating system written in C is just plain
insane. what are you trying to accomplish?
for a cheap embedded solution MIPS R3K or R4K series would be *much*
better. whatever speed you lose to the DSP on the FIR filtering would
be completely dwarfed by the wins in general processing of the MIPS.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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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: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:16:29 GMT
In comp.unix.solaris Heiko Recktenwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Selling things is ok as long as it is fair.
That seems to be the issue i.e., Microsoft's interference with
other company's sales. Rudolph J.r. Peritz wrote in today's L.A.
Times
<URL:http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20000407/t000032563.html>
> In fact, as Jackson has found, stifling innovation by competitors
> was central to Microsoft's predatory campaign. As a result, not
> only rivals but also business partners and consumers have been
> harmed because they have no choice but to pay monopoly prices for
> PC operating systems that are less stable and less efficient than
> comparable software in competitive markets.
>
> In this light, both the government plaintiffs and Jackson must
> consider remedies that reflect Microsoft's corporate culture of
> predation, remedies that will establish competitive conditions in
> industries whose research and marketing have been blocked by
> Microsoft's restraints of competition
--
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/
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From: William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Users' Group of Davis, April 13 - PGP: Pretty Good Privacy, RSA
Crossposted-To:
ucd.general,sac.announce,sacramento.internet,sac.general,sac.internet,ucd.life,ucd.cs.club
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:29:15 GMT
MEETING
=======
The meeting will be held on:
Monday, April 17th, 2000
at 6:30pm
The meeting will be held at:
Z-World, Inc.
Room 9 (Meeting room)
2900 Spafford Street
Davis, CA 95616
TOPICS
======
* PGP: Pretty Good Privacy - Drew Parsons
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a popular program used to encrypt and
decrypt e-mail over the Internet. It can also be used to send an
encrypted digital signature that lets the receiver verify the sender's
identity and know that the message was not changed en route.
It can also be used to encrypt files being stored so that they are
unreadable by other users or intruders.
* RSA Encryption Algorithm - Pete Salzman (mini demo)
Pete Salzman will be getting into the nitty-gritty math behind the
RSA algorithm used by PGP.
For details on this meeting, maps, directions, public transportation
schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/
ABOUT LUGOD
===========
LUGOD, the Linux Users' Group of Davis, is a non-profit organization
dedicated to Linux, a free, Unix-like Operating System available for
a number of computer platforms.
Meetings are held on the first Tuesday and third Monday of each month
at the headquarters of Z-World, Inc., at 2900 Spafford Street in Davis.
Please visit our website for details:
http://www.lugod.org/
-bill!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.lugod.org/
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From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: stopping access denied messages
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:30:07 GMT
I am new to linux and am trying to create .htaccess files so I can
password protect my website and also to edit a file so that it automounts
my windows partitions. I created the file in linux and tryed saving it
and I get a access denied error. Linux is on my computer and it is not
hooked up to the internet now, so I would like to get rid of all of these
ridiculus passwords. Also, how can I keep the password thing from poping
up everytime I try to open something in the root directory?
Kevin
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From: Mark Cubberley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Get rid of Win 98
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:00:02 -0500
Hey all-
My PC notebook came with Win 98 and a bunch of pre-installed
software. I installed Win 2000 (clean install) recently and it ended up
in a different partition than Win 98 and all that pre-installed
hardware. Now, I'd like to clear the partition that had Win 98, etc so
that I could put Linux in this partition of the hard drive. I know
that this partition of my hard drive has important "stuff" so I'm not
willing to mess around with it at all.
I contacted Microsoft to get help and they said since I got my copy
of Win 2000 through a university partnership, they couldn't offer me
free warranty help (I could buy help for only $240/hour!!) However,
what I did get was that I need to get rid of the dual boot
somehow....can someone tell me how to clean this partition w/o messing
up my laptop?
Thanks for the help,
Mark
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: texconfig failing on Mandrake 7.0
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 Apr 2000 23:29:31 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. D. Brierton) writes:
[texconfig for teTeX refuses to start]
No, I do not know why the dialog utility won't work for you (you do
have it installed, don't you?). However, as you say you are not new
to TeX/LaTeX: Have you tried using the batch mode? You can set
practically all options on the command line, without using any
dialogs.
Example:
texconfig mode canonbjc
texconfig dvips paper a4
The command
texconfig help
will give you a list of all options and help files available.
Sorry if you already know all about this but cannot use it for some
reason. If so, you did not say. ;)
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From: "Austin R. Graves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Attaching a loopback device to a file on an smbmounted filesystem
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:41:57 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear readers,
I was wondering if what I am trying to do is even possible. There
are two machines involved- I have a RedHat Linux 6.2 system using kernel
2.2.14, and my roommate has a Windows 98SE machine. His hard drive has
much more free space than mine so we've put a share on his system that
I can mount via smbmount. This works without a problem. However, a case
has arisen in which I need to have UNIX filesystem features available in
that share, like symbolic links, permissions and so forth. So I thought,
"okay, I'll use a loopback file on his share and format/mount it as
ext2." So I read through the man page for losetup and it seemed pretty
straightforward to me. I proceeded to do like the following (the smb
share is mounted at /viper_swap/ on my directory tree):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/viper_swap/vdisk bs=1k count=30000
...this works fine
losetup /dev/loop0 /viper_swap/vdisk
...when I do this I get a message "ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid
argument", and the loop device remains unconfigured
had this worked properly, my next steps would have been:
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/loop0 30000
mount -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /mnt
and later:
umount /dev/loop0
losetup -d /dev/loop0
Well after looking through dejanews for a little bit I came up with
only a couple of messages. Someone was attempting the same thing I am,
using the same procedure right out of the losetup manpage. Apparently
this person got a little further, he claims that he was able to bound
the loop device and format the file, but not mount the file. He stated
that formatting a file less than 300k was successful. A respondant
suggested the following procedure:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/viper_swap/vdisk bs=1k count=30000
mke2fs -f /viper_swap/vdisk
mount /viper_swap/vdisk /mnt -o loop
He claimed this worked on a RedHat 5.0 system. Both of these
messages are from March of 1998.
When attempting the above I can get the file formatted with mke2fs
-F /viper_swap/vdisk, but when I try the mount command, I get the same
message "ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument." I've noticed that I can
do all of this successfully on my own hard drive, but I don't need that.
I am going to see about writing the people who produced the two
mentioned messages in dejanews, but I was wondering if anyone else could
help me out. If there is another way I can do this, or otherwise get
UNIX-style filesystem operations on a remote Windows machine, I would
love to know. Maybe there are freeware NFS servers for Windows, would
that work? Thanks a lot for your time.
--
Austin R. Graves
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:3955838 AIM:Augraves
http://augraves.campus.vt.edu
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From: "Eric Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:06:31 GMT
>JTK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
[SNIP]
>
> > All we want
> > is a single example of a Microsoft invention.
> >
>
> The aforementioned mouse.
Sorry, but I saw a similar mouse advertised in the late 80s.
It failed because it was too expensive, but MS did NOT innovate it.
> Squiggly-underline spellchecking.
> Squiggly-underline grammar checking.
So a squiggly line is innovative?
Spell and grammar checkers existed long before MS adopted them.
You are as rabidly pro Microsoft as you accuse others of being anti
Microsoft.
--
Eric F. Peterson
Politically Incorrect and Proud!
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