Linux-Misc Digest #186, Volume #24 Mon, 17 Apr 00 12:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Checking if fs is mounted (Dave Brown)
Re: oracle installation, jre and libXm.so.2 (Rudi Donne)
Re: Copying files (Dave Brown)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Karel Jansens)
Re: Q: Best printer for linux box? (Harry Travis)
Re: User can't access zip disk? (Ken Yasuda)
Re: multifile editor (Michael Kelly)
Windows98 and Samba solution. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
X Server Can't startx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Upgrading a RH 6.0 to 6.2? (Robert Heller)
IPChains (Dinnin)
Kensington VideoCAM PC Camera Support on Linux? (Young4ert)
Re: Athlon and Linux? (Duane)
Re: Software to draw geometric figures? (Bob Tennent)
Re: IPChains (H.Bruijn)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Checking if fs is mounted
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Apr 2000 10:18:49 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Melville wrote:
>#!/bin/sh
>
># look for filesystem in mount table
>mount | grep "fsname" > /tmp/fstest
>
># if temp file is empty, file system has not been mounted
>if [ -z "/tmp/fstest" ]; then
> mount fsname
>else
> echo "already mounted /mnt/fsname"
>fi
>
>rm /tmp/fstest
>
Or:
if mount | grep -q "fsname"
then
echo "fsname already mounted"
else
mount fsname
fi
(...no need to write a file...)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Rudi Donne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: oracle installation, jre and libXm.so.2
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:09:50 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have a problem when I install Oracle 8i for linux. The OUI
> (installation program) need jre 1.1.6 and JRE need the file libXm.so.2
>
> I founded the file and put it in the lib folder but it didn't work. I
> put it in ALL the folders called lib and it still not work. Can somebody
> help me?
>
> Thanks
>
> Allan
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Maybe this will help you, my old friend.
http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/rh61-815.html#rhinstall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Copying files
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Apr 2000 10:24:04 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin wrote:
>I'm having problems copying files in Linux. I am new to Linux and I have
>Redhat Linux 6.2 and am having problems copying. I am trying to copy and
>move files dragging and dropping. I get a "KFM Error, could not write
>file:myfilename perhaps access denied." I changed the file permissions
>after that by right clicking and selecting as much as I could. It still
>didn't work. What do most of you do to get this to work?
You may be encountering permission problems at the directory level.
Drag-and-drop still has to follow the rules of Unix file access
permissions. You have to have "write" permission on the directory
to create a file in that directory. And to "move" a file to
another directory, you must have write permission on both the "from"
and the "to" directories; the permissions on the file itself are "n/a".
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: 17 Apr 2000 16:26:12 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David McKee) wrote:
> David Steuber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Apple failed, to this very day, to ever create a preemptive
> : multitasking operating system.
>
> Not strictly true. In the early ninties, Apple had a product called
> A/UX. If you search the web you can still find some info on it. It
> was a BSD based system that ran Mac OS binaries (System 6 and 7(?)) in
> a compatiblity environment, and was (briefly) touted as a server
> platform with all the advantages of a fully modern OS.
>
I have a manual for Apple A/UX lying around.
And I don't even own a Mac (never have). How weird is _that_, huh?
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
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CIA-bait:
Saddam Hussein Iraq Iran hijack assasinate CIA plutonium
President of the United States thermonuclear device
Windows weapons FBI biohazard Microsoft uranium
submarine kill timer explosives
Have a nice day, guys!
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.periphs.printers
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harry Travis)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:34:30 -0400
Subject: Re: Q: Best printer for linux box?
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/14/00
at 10:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Williams) said:
>On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:16:18 -0400, Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote: >Alexis Bilodeau wrote:
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Can somebody recommend a printer?
>>> >
>>
>>DON'T buy the Lexmark Z-series stuff. They're Windows-only printers.
>>
>also don't buy Lexmark 3200. I have one, and although it's fine for
>Win9x, for Linux, it's useless.
Not all Z series are alike, as those looking for Win2000 drivers will
find out. The 5700 and Z51 have OS/2 drivers available.
The Lexmark Optra Color printers have excellent and enthusiastic support
for and from Linux. Not surprising since they include Postscript
emulation. Go to deja.com and search to find that out.
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harry Travis)
DemostiX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Yasuda)
Subject: Re: User can't access zip disk?
Date: 17 Apr 2000 15:38:16 GMT
>> In /etc/fstab I have the line
>> (for linux-formatted disks)
>> /dev/sda1 /zip ext2 rw,user,noauto,exec
>> (for NTFS-formatted disks)
>> /dev/sda4 /dzip vfat rw,user,noauto,exec,umask=100
>> Also, when I do an "ls" from the root directory I see:
>> drw-rw-rw- 5 kyasuda users 16384 Jan 1 1970 dzip
>> Which means that the users (everybody) should have access to this disk drive!
>
>Is vfat the right type for NTFS? When you 'ls /dzip' as root, do you
>see the disk contents?
1st Q:
Umm, you're right. Vfat isn't the right type....
2nd Q:
Root can see and copy the contents no problem. The part that still puzzles
me is that the users can't change to the directory or do an ls from it, while
root can.
Thanks,
Ken
(Remove "nospam" to send email.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Subject: Re: multifile editor
Date: 17 Apr 2000 15:36:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Charles Esson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know I should be using "vi" "find" and "grep".
>
> I would however like an editor that.
>
> 1) displays the line number.
> 2) allows me to search all file in the directory and sub directory with
> a couple of clicks and a sting entry.
> 3) allow me to have multiple windows open.
>
> Can anyone suggest a nice simple to use option for a ex Visual C++
> editor user.
>
>
Hi Charles. To ease the culture shock coming from Windows you might
try xcoral. It's free and comes on some of the distributions(but if
you don't have it a web search will find it.) The idea is to be as
close to using a Windows editor as XWindows will allow and it has some
nice features. Although, I found that if I keep an emergency list of
common commands for emacs handy, esp. in X, it's not that hairy to
use after a while. Plus you can do so many things out of it, compile
(and there are startup macros that let you double-click the error msg
to go to the source line like Win compiler environments,) compose
and send email, etc.. It's really so integrated into unix type systems
that if you're going to use Linux that you might as well check it out.
Esp. running in X you can use the mouse and menus until you get used to
some of the key combinations. Anyway xcoral lets you have multiple windows
and I think you can have multiple views of the same file and I believe it
does line numbering as well as column cut & paste(which emacs does also.)
The xcoral key combinations are closer to what you'd expect from Windows,
so it's easier to get started.
Enjoy. :)
--
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have *me* as a member!"
-- Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Windows98 and Samba solution.
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:27:49 GMT
>From the SuSE support database:
Symptom:
Samba doesn't work with Windows98
Cause:
Windows98 uses only encoded passwords.
Solution:
Use regedit to enter the following new values into the registry :
Enter a new DWORD "EnablePlainTextPassword" at
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP] and
set this value to 1.
Hope this helps someone. Certainly helped me!
Best regards
--Paul Butterfield.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: X Server Can't startx
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:34:53 GMT
Does anyone know anywhere that there may be a web site that describes a
simple process to track why I can't startx.
There must be somewhere you can go through a step by step process to
check out every possible configuration to make sure you have all the
right settings.
Can someone also tell me where I would find the log file of errors that
are recorded each time I try to startx.
Thanks for you help. We need more people like you.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading a RH 6.0 to 6.2?
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:42:41 GMT
(Posted and mailed)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Strock),
In a message on Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:20:23 GMT, wrote :
MS>
MS>
MS> Newbie question here. Is it possible to upgrade a RH 6.0 install (that is
MS> working perfectly) to a RH 6.2 version without having to do a re-install and
MS> reconfigure? Are there a group of RPMs I can download to do the upgrade, or do
MS> I have to download the ISO image of 6.2, burn it onto CD and then do an upgrade
MS> install that way?
You don't have to burn a CD if you don't want to. If you have a
partition that is not otherwise part of the system tree, such as a /home
partition, you can download the distribution there and upgrade from
'locally mounted filesystem'. You need to create a proper boot floppy.
You will go through a boot / install much like when you installed RH
6.0, but when it asked, select 'Upgrade'. It won't need to ask you much
of anything else. All of your configuration will be retained.
There is a 'group of RPMs' you can download -- this is 90% of what is on
the CD! You could upgrade most of it using rpm on the runing
system, but a few of the upgrades are kind of strange to do on a running
system -- it is best if these things are done from an install boot --
this way you won't be messing up the live system while it is running
It is really bad news if you remove an older shared library, before you
remove the utilities which use it and then need to use the utilities.
Really really bad if the utility in question is rpm or something rpm
uses. The boot / install system is 'self contained' on a RAMDISK loaded
from the boot/install floppy. This is a 'clean' system which the
installer does not mess with.
MS>
MS> Email replies appreciated.
MS>
MS> Thank you.
MS>
MS> Mike Strock
MS> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MS>
MS>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dinnin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: IPChains
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:45:47 GMT
Hey all,
I was just about to send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but
figureded that before I bother him with this question, maybe someone
out there has the same situation.
I want to setup an ipchains based firewall but give a specific
group of IP addresses access to the server that the firewall is on.
IE: I want to deny all except xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx is the
ipaddress I want to give rights to). Furthermore, I want to only
allow that group of IP addresses telnet and ftp service only.
I have been looking and playing with ipchains for a solution
to this problem but cannot find an answer. Anyone out there have any
suggestions?
Jason
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Kensington VideoCAM PC Camera Support on Linux?
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:30:19 -0400
Hi,
I just purchased a VideoCAM PC Camera (USB version) made by Kensington
from the local computer store. Before I will open the box, I will like
to know if this camera is fully supported under Linux. Can anyone
please tell if where to look for the driver for this camera as well as
the software to use it under Linux?
TIA.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS> Remove the "4" from e-mail address to respond.
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Athlon and Linux?
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:35:21 GMT
My configuration is:
Epox EP-7KXA with a 700 MHz Athlon
Using the built-in sound (VIA VT82C686A) rather than a sound card. Rod
Smith's suggestion to use the ALSA sound drivers worked great.
Matrox G400
Actiontec PCI56012-01CW PCI modem
Linksys LNE100TX ethernet
Parallel port printer
As long as your video and audio are both on the PCI bus, that should not
be a problem. PCI devices can share interrupts. My video and modem share
IRQ 10, and my ethernet shares IRQ 11 with all the devices on the VIA
VT82C686A (there is more than just audio). On the other hand, if you are
trying to use an ISA sound card, perhaps take it out for now and see if
that is the problem.
In article <8df4ij$kdp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Interesting,
> What is the rest of your system configuration? I thought I had the
> problem licked, but it popped back up. Suddenly everything locked up
> and I was stuck with nothing, completely out of the blue.
> Perhaps it's my memory...
> OH WAIT! Now I see, but I don't understand.
> IRQ 11 is taken by my video and sound card.
> This could be it, but how do I change it?
>
> *ponder*
> Help?
> Mike
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Junk Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am running RH6.1 on an Epox EP-7KXA with a 700 MHz Athlon and
PC133
> > RAM, and everything is running great; well, the on board sound
doesn't
> > work, but that doesn't really bother me. I made absolutely no
changes
> in
> > BIOS settings from what it came with, and have not done a BIOS
> upgrade.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > The only advice I have to you is to be wary of the Epox EP-7KXA
> > > motherboard. I have an Athlon 700 and everything is extremely
> speedy.
> > > I will be doing some work with my system soon, and I hope to fix
> > > whatever issue I seem to be having, but this motherboard I think
may
> be
> > > causing my system to lock.
> > > I have disabled the onboard sound in the bios, have a dual boot
> > > system, in Windoze I get static out of my SB Live for some reason.
> > > Fixed with the mobo driver disk. When running Linux my system
runs
> fine
> > > for a short time then becomes unresponsive to anything but the
reset
> > > key.
> > > There is a bios upgrade for the board, so perhaps when I flash it
I
> > > will have better luck.
> > > Anyways, do some research. People with the Asus board seems to
> have
> > > no problems at all.
> > >
> > > Good luck
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > A couple of questions...
> > > >
> > > > I am thinking about buying an Athlon 700 and was wondering how
it
> > > worked
> > > > with Linux. Right now I am running RH on an AMD K6-2 233 and it
> runs
> > > > perfect, but a friend of mine said it ran kinda slow with his
> Athlon
> > > > 600, so I wanted to get others' opinions also.
> > > >
> > > > Also, I need to get a new AGP video card to go with that Athlon
> and
> > > was
> > > > wondering which kind works good with Linux and is a good card.
I
> > > don't
> > > > need a 3D accelerator like Voodoo or anything, just something
that
> is
> > > > AGP and has 8Megs of memory and easily does 24-bit color in
> 1600x1200.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Aaron
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > "You smoke your head on strait, then drink your woes away..." -
> Phil
> > > > Anselmo
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > > Before you buy.
> >
> > --
> > My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Software to draw geometric figures?
Date: 17 Apr 2000 15:39:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:50:07 -0500, Igor wrote:
>I need some easy piece of software that would help me create .gif files
>with geometric drawings (triangles, rectangles etc).
Dia is a program designed to be much like the Windows
program 'Visio'. It can be used to draw different kinds of diagrams. In
this first version there is support for UML static structure diagrams
(class diagrams) and Network diagrams. It can currently load and save
diagrams to a custom fileformat and export to postscript.
QCad is a professional CAD System. With QCad you can easily
construct and change drawings with ISO-texts and many other
features and save them as DXF-files. These DXF-files are the
interface to many CAD-systems such as AutoCAD(C) and many others.
Xcircuit is a general-purpose drawing program and also a specific-purpose
CAD program for circuit schematic drawing and schematic capture. Output
is PostScript.
Cycas is a complete 2D+3D CAD package for X11.
Some of its features: Easy to use GTK+ Interface, WYSIWYG display,
printing, plotting, import/export filters, photorealistic rendering,
special methods for architectural design, full HTML documentation,
tutorials, example drawings, fonts and symbols.
Sketch is an interactive X11 drawing program (similar to XFig or tgif).
It is written almost completely in Python, an object oriented
interpreted programming language.
Xfig is an X Window System tool for creating basic vector graphics,
including bezier curves, lines, rulers and more. The resulting
graphics can be saved, printed on PostScript printers or converted to
a variety of other formats (e.g., X11 bitmaps, Encapsulated
PostScript, LaTeX).
Bob T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IPChains
Date: 17 Apr 2000 16:01:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:45:47 GMT, Dinnin allegedly wrote:
>Hey all,
> I was just about to send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but
>figureded that before I bother him with this question, maybe someone
>out there has the same situation.
>
> I want to setup an ipchains based firewall but give a specific
>group of IP addresses access to the server that the firewall is on.
>IE: I want to deny all except xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx is the
>ipaddress I want to give rights to). Furthermore, I want to only
>allow that group of IP addresses telnet and ftp service only.
>
> I have been looking and playing with ipchains for a solution
>to this problem but cannot find an answer. Anyone out there have any
>suggestions?
>
Rather then using ipchains, you could use the the tcp/ip wrappers.
Has the same result, but is easier to use for applications which are
compiled to take use of wrappers. It works by editing the
/etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny files.
Read:
man 5 hosts_access
man tcpd
http://www.securityportal.com/lasg/
--
Herman
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If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
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The Netherlands GnuPG key: http://www.bruyn.org/gpgkey
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