Linux-Misc Digest #201, Volume #24 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sharing swap space. ("axioun")
Re: Server doesn't know its own host name (Dances With Crows)
Re: Server doesn't know its own host name (Dances With Crows)
Re: Isn't there a browser which DOES work? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Thanks (Will Joyner)
Re: Urgent: Am I attacked, all logs are empty (Bill Unruh)
Re: Help Please!! (Leonard Evens)
Re: kernel source & Compiling - Redhat vs SuSE ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Login Failure in Console and via Telnet! (Dominik)
Re: Autorun ???? (sandrews)
Re: Server doesn't know its own host name (Wil Rhys)
Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix) (Paul Eggert)
Re: Debian ISO (John Hasler)
Re: Netscape font size ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Bell Sympatico HSE ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Server doesn't know its own host name (Dances With Crows)
PGP for linux gives undefined symbol? (Ken Williams)
redhat boot question ("wokness")
Re: Any tool similar to "truss" and "snoop" for linux? (Ken Corbin)
Re: Best printer for linux box? (Scott Alfter)
books on linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: writing to Dos partition (Jim Chase)
Re: Problem with Red Hat 6.1 install booting... (Ken Corbin)
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From: "axioun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing swap space.
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:11:32 GMT
Muchas gracias.
> http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/mini/Linux+FreeBSD-3.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Server doesn't know its own host name
Date: 18 Apr 2000 19:13:17 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:11:08 GMT, Wil Rhys
<<8dimhf$kq1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I'm relatively new to Linux, so this may be an extremely stupid
>question. However, I am trying to set-up a system as a server. The
>network connection works well enough -- I can ping, telnet and ftp --
>but I can't seem to get any other networking working. In fact, when I
>startx, I get an "unkown host" message. Now, I assigned the system a
>name (cymru.localhost.net) in Linuxconf (I'm using Red Hat 6.2), but
>that doesn't seem to do any good. Is there a file I can edit that will
>allow the server to know its name, and thus get on with the business of
>networking?
/etc/hosts. Mine is like so:
127.0.0.1 localhost
xxx.xxx.111.33 router.nullhouse.org router
xxx.xxx.111.35 dangeroustoys.nullhouse.org dangeroustoys
xxx.xxx.111.36 slowpoke.nullhouse.org slowpoke
xxx.xxx.111.37 fleabag.nullhouse.org fleabag
xxx.xxx.111.38 drifter.nullhouse.org drifter
The format is "IP-Address Full_hostname Short_hostname"
/etc/host.conf should probably say
order hosts bind
multi on
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Server doesn't know its own host name
Date: 18 Apr 2000 19:13:32 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:11:08 GMT, Wil Rhys
<<8dimhf$kq1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I'm relatively new to Linux, so this may be an extremely stupid
>question. However, I am trying to set-up a system as a server. The
>network connection works well enough -- I can ping, telnet and ftp --
>but I can't seem to get any other networking working. In fact, when I
>startx, I get an "unkown host" message. Now, I assigned the system a
>name (cymru.localhost.net) in Linuxconf (I'm using Red Hat 6.2), but
>that doesn't seem to do any good. Is there a file I can edit that will
>allow the server to know its name, and thus get on with the business of
>networking?
/etc/hosts. Mine is like so:
127.0.0.1 localhost
xxx.xxx.111.33 router.nullhouse.org router
xxx.xxx.111.35 dangeroustoys.nullhouse.org dangeroustoys
xxx.xxx.111.36 slowpoke.nullhouse.org slowpoke
xxx.xxx.111.37 fleabag.nullhouse.org fleabag
xxx.xxx.111.38 drifter.nullhouse.org drifter
The format is "IP-Address Full_hostname Short_hostname"
/etc/host.conf should probably say
order hosts bind
multi on
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Isn't there a browser which DOES work?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:09:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Penpal International <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Isn't there a browser for linux which DOES work? I work with
> > netscape...
> > > Just like windows, keeps crashing all the time!
> > >...
> > A few things that may help with netscape...
> >
> > 1. UPGRADE
> > I don't know about other distros, but redhat 6.1 still ships
something
> > like netscape 4.5. You can get RPMs for at least netscape 4.7, and
can
> > get tarballs of netscape 4.72 with 128 bit encryption from the
netscape
> > site. This should help your stability a lot.
> >
> > 2. Turn off JAVA and JAVA script ...{snip}
> > 3. Planned restarts
> > ...{snip}
> >
> > Still not rock solid, but netscape now stays up for at least several
> > days at a time for me now. Better then netscape or ie under windows
by
> > far!
> > Eric
>
> I've been using 4.71 or 4.72 for some time, with relatively few
> netscape-hangs. I agree with the upgrade idea, but have no
> enthusiasm for either of suggestions 2 and 3.
Well, I very rarely use #2, but for an example of a page that hangs
netscape 4.72 if you leave all the java stuff enabled go to
www.comsys.com (click on the "skip intro" link to get to the real home
page). WARNING: This site consistently HANGS netscape under Linux on
two different systems that I use. Proceed at your own RISK!
I don't find #3 very painful. But since upgrading, I rarely do this
either. Again, it's not ideal. I do find it much more stable then ie
or netscape under windows which I use @ work.
>
> Another person seemed to be saying that netscape would hang by
> itself with only a few windows open, and run ok with about 10
> open. My own experience is that most of my netscape hangs
> have occurred when I had lots of netscape windows open, say
> 25 or 30 sets of search results, to maximize loss in accord
> with various laws of nature.
Wow, that's alot of windows! I don't think I have enough memory on my
system to attempt that.
I generally have 5-7 navigator & communicator windows open at a time.
Sometimes maybe twice that. I haven't noticed any correlation between #
of windows open and crash frequency. But then my crashes are so
infrequent that it would be tough to judge...:-)
Eric
>
> Anyhow, also see newsgroup netscape.communicator.unix
> which you can read on news server secnews.netscape.com
> if you don't have it locally.
>
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Before you buy.
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From: Will Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Thanks
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:24:31 -0400
Well guys,
Thanks for all that replied to my posts giving me advice on how to fix
my computer. I did what you suggested and after tweakign with some
settings I got the best performance that I can hope for...for now.
There is hardly any static noticible when i play my mp3s, and now my
computer can shut down without locking up.
I am a newbie so I may be asking more questions in the future. So
thanks ahead of time
Will Joyner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Urgent: Am I attacked, all logs are empty
Date: 18 Apr 2000 23:20:28 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
]I am running Red Hat 6.0.
]I just find out most of the log files in /var/log are empty since 3
]days ago, these files are boot.log, messages, netconf.log,secure,
]xferlog.
]I also find there are two mysterious files in /root, which are named
]as 1, la.pid. If I remove these two files, they will be recreated by
]some process 3 minutes later.
]Has anyone seen this before?
Yes it looks like you are attacked and root comprimised.
Disconnect the machine from the internet.
ifconfig eth0 down
would be a start. Then start searching.
Do rpm -Va|grep '^..5'>/tmp/verify
and look for altered files. Some have to be ( configuration files) but
login, telnet, ps, find ,.. should not be. If they are it is further
evidence.
Look for /dev/...
install a valid find and do
find -perm +6000 -uid 0 -ls
and see if the files turned up are files which should be suid root.
Look in
ps aux
(with a good version of ps, not the bad one installed by the cracker)
and look for "strange" files ( http on a system not running http,
rpc.cron, ....) Look for extra entries in /etc/passwd.
etc, etc.
Finally erase everything and reinstall and then do an suid search
through your various home directories.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Please!!
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 19:10:33 -0500
Don wrote:
>
> My Red Hat 6.0 has been working fine using Gnome. All of a sudden I now
> cannot access Compuserve - I can dial up and after the log on nothing
> happens - It was working. When I start Netscape, I get a message that it
> cannot find:
> home.netscape.com
> home6.netscape.com
> internic.net
> "This means that some or all hosts will be unreachable."
>
> Also my printer stopped working. When I try to print nothing happens. When
> I run printer tests from the printtool only "Print ASCII directly to port"
> works. When I try print ASCII test page and print postscript test page I get
> the message:
> error printing to queue lp error reason :
> lpr : connect : connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> Has my Gnome gone crazy or is it me? What could I have done to have caused
> this? Any help would be appreaciated.
>
> Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just a thought. Do you have a file called /etc/conf.modules?
If so what is in it and what does ls -l show for its permissions?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: kernel source & Compiling - Redhat vs SuSE
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:34:47 GMT
I don't know much about SuSE but I think a kernel compiled for RH will run on a
SuSE because there isn't much different about the distros in the core (not just
the kernel, but like binutils and libc)
ION wrote:
> Hello! This may be a dumb question, but here it goes anyway!
>
> If I have source code for a driver that I want to add to my kernel, I can
> easily compile it using my RedHat system and kernel, etc.
>
> However, what I was wondering was if I could compile a kernel for a SuSE Linux
> system on a Red Hat system?
>
> I'm assuming not, because of needing the source tree for the SuSE distrib, but
> how about if I would have it... could I use my RedHat system to compile it?
>
> Also, how much different is a RedHat kernel from a SuSE kernel? In other
> words, is it just the core components that differ, or would a network card
> source file (just for an example) have to be specific for SuSE?
>
> Sorry for all the questions! Thx in adv.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Login Failure in Console and via Telnet!
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:30:06 GMT
I'm running RH6.0 and I tried to login via telnet with root and regular
users and it gives me "login failure". The same goes for console logins
aswell. I reset the machine and still the same situation. It almost seems
as though it spits out the error too quickly.
HERE'S THE OTHER HALF: I can login fine with POP-3, SMTP, and FTP with
regular users but not with ROOT or OPERATOR.
This is a bizzare situationa and I would appreciate any help or
suggestions on this matter.
Thank you ahead.
Dominik
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 19:39:34 -0400
From: sandrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Autorun ????
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 02:16:27 GMT, P. Lee
> <<%zPK4.26569$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> > where would I find some information on setting up some autorun files on
> >a CD .... I'm trying to do a catalog on a CD and would like autorun ...
>
> Under Linux, this is dependent on whether or not the end-user has the
> window manager/desktop environment set up to do the following things:
>
> the default file to execute. (autorun under LoseXX annoyed me quite a
> bit; automount can be annoying on a Linux box--don't expect your users
> to appreciate what you're doing here.) HTH,
Amem, hang the guy by his nuts that started all this autorun crap!
--
Hiroshima '45, Tschernobyl '86, Windows '98
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From: Wil Rhys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Server doesn't know its own host name
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:54:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> /etc/hosts. Mine is like so:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> xxx.xxx.111.33 router.nullhouse.org router
> xxx.xxx.111.35 dangeroustoys.nullhouse.org dangeroustoys
> xxx.xxx.111.36 slowpoke.nullhouse.org slowpoke
> xxx.xxx.111.37 fleabag.nullhouse.org fleabag
> xxx.xxx.111.38 drifter.nullhouse.org drifter
>
> The format is "IP-Address Full_hostname Short_hostname"
>
> /etc/host.conf should probably say
> order hosts bind
> multi on
Thanks for your post, Matt...
Let me see if I have this straight. I have a network with three systems
-- ddraig, glyndwr and the server, cymru. Cymru's "hosts" file should
read...
127.0.0.1 localhost
xxx.xxx.xxx.2 ddraig.localhost.net ddraig
xxx.xxx.xxx.3 glyndwr.localhost.net glyndwr
ddraig's "hosts" file should read...
127.0.0.1 localhost
xxx.xxx.xxx.1 cymru.localhost.net cymru
xxx.xxx.xxx.3 glyndwr.localhost.net glyndwr
etc...
I assume that, when the localhost looks at 127.0.0.1, it'll look at its
own hostname file to find out who he is.
And I SHOULD use the bogus localhost.net domain name (or something like
it) for my internal network, no?
Wil
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Before you buy.
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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: 18 Apr 2000 17:16:01 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
>Ironically, this agreement was rejected by the judge overseeing the
>case as it did nothing to address the public concerns but it was ruled
>that he didn't have the authority to reject an agreement between the
>two parties. The judge was Thomas Penfield Jackson
No, it was Judge Stanley Sporkin.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Debian ISO
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:17:48 GMT
Andreas Kahari writes:
> There's a Debian NG: linux.debian.user
Better to try the Debian user mailing list. Go to www.debian.org to subscribe.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netscape font size
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:40:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hawk82 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all!
> I have Mandrake 7.02 and Netscape Communicator 4.7.
>
> I need to know how to increase the font size in Netscape so it is more
> readable.
>
> I have my resolution at 1024 x 768 w/ 32 bit color.
> When I put the resolution down to 800 x 600, it does not help too
much.
>
> The font increase setting in Netscape is greyed out (can't use) under
the
> View command.
>
> Please help.
>
> Hawk82
REVGR
Hi Hawk82,
I had this problem and some kind Linux user gave me this tip, which
worked beautifully. Edit your ~/.Xdefaults file and add these three
lines exactly as they're written (You can also do the the same to
/root/.Xdefaults, though I don't recommend getting online as root):
Netscape*documentFonts.xResolution*iso-8859-1: 100
Netscape*documentFonts.yResolution*iso-8859-1: 100
Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 5
You may have to adjust your font size and make it slightly smaller - I
did - but it worked out great for me.
GR Gaudreau
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bell Sympatico HSE
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:45:55 GMT
I'm getting the Bell Sympatico High Speed Edition (1Meg modem) soon and
I've heard it's a nightmare setting this up on Linux. I'm going to be
setting it up on Windows 98 first, to get on the 'Net, but I'd really
appreciate it if someone pointed me to a website that deals with this
and can help me set it up.
GR Gaudreau
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Server doesn't know its own host name
Date: 18 Apr 2000 21:13:53 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:54:38 GMT, Wil Rhys
<<8disjo$rma$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Let me see if I have this straight. I have a network with three systems
>-- ddraig, glyndwr and the server, cymru. Cymru's "hosts" file should
>read...
>
>127.0.0.1 localhost
>xxx.xxx.xxx.2 ddraig.localhost.net ddraig
>xxx.xxx.xxx.3 glyndwr.localhost.net glyndwr
>
>I assume that, when the localhost looks at 127.0.0.1, it'll look at its
>own hostname file to find out who he is.
Remember that old saying about assuming things? It's probably better to
have the IP explicitly spelled out in /etc/hosts. I left out the 111.34
machine in my previous post because it's NT--hence it isn't always up,
you can't telnet/ftp to it, etc ;-)
Go ahead and put "xxx.xxx.xxx.1 cymru.localhost.net cymru" in all the
/etc/hosts files. It might be easier if all your boxes have the same
/etc/hosts, anyway...
>And I SHOULD use the bogus localhost.net domain name (or something like
>it) for my internal network, no?
If this is a 192.168.x.x internal network, it shouldn't matter what domain
name you use. Actually, nullhouse.org isn't the official name for my
machine; it's officially $BIG_HAIRY_STRING.mi.dsl.cnc.net ... the domain
names don't get propagated unless you're running BIND, which no one here
has taken the time to set up correctly yet. localhost.net will certainly
work if it has been working before....
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: PGP for linux gives undefined symbol?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:07:21 GMT
Under stampede linux with kernel 2.2.14 I get
# pgp
pgp: error in loading shared libraries: pgp: undefined symbol: __eh_pc
Any idea?
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From: "wokness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: redhat boot question
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:24:38 GMT
When I boot Red Hat 6.1 it start's X and sends me to this GUI letting me
decide if I want to go into KDE or GNOME. The thing is that I don't want to
go to eather one, I want to go into a console. I don't want X running. How
do I set it up so it just boots directally into console without
re-installing the OS.
Thanks,
Wokness
PS- The box is a Sparc 2 that had Red Hat 6.1 pre-installed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Corbin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Any tool similar to "truss" and "snoop" for linux?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:20:40 GMT
In article <8dhr7p$kkr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi:
>
> I wonder if Linux has the tools similar to Solaris's "truss" (for
> finding out what syscalls a process is making) and "snoop" (for
> monitoring network traffic).
>
> I know "tcpdump", but tcpdump does not print out the packet in
> string, making it hard to see what is int he packet. I am already
> running version 3.4 of tcpdump, which I believe is the latest version.
> Anyone modified tcpdump to do it?
I looked into it once, but eventually decided it was going to be a lot
easier to run strings against the the log file that tcpdump generates.
Actually I created a modified version that treated an escape character as
ascii text, but that was a darn site easier the figureing out how tcpdump
works.
Oh yea, you have to use the -s option to tell tcpdump to log the complete
packet. Otherwise it just logs the tcp headers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Best printer for linux box?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:20:20 GMT
In article <FIYK4.12$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
The Wogster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Hong wrote in message <8dgh50$9ap$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> Easy...just get the cheapest postscript printer available.
>>Lately, it appears to be the Lexmark Optra 40.
>
>Are there Linux drivers for the Optra-40? Lexmark is notorious for it's
>worship of the great god Micro$oft and Bill Gates, the prophet.
None are necessary. As the original poster implied, the Lexmark Optra Color
40 groks PostScript (and PCL, too). Stick a 16- or 32-meg SIMM in it and
it's a pretty sweet printer. (For that matter, most (all?) of the rest of
the Optra line speaks PostScript too. I have an Optra Color 40 at home and
have access to an Optra S 2420 and an Optra R+ at work, and they all speak
PostScript.)
It is true that most of Lexmark's other printers are somewhat brain-damaged
out of the box, but there's a growing level of support for many of them in
Ghostscript. Use that to drive the printer and you'll be able to send
PostScript jobs to it. The only downside is that you'll have your computer
doing the rendering instead of being able to offload page rendering to the
printer. (Setting up an old 486 as a print server/Ghostscript renderer can
solve that problem.)
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (salfter at (yo no quiero spam) delphi dot com)
\_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: books on linux
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:34:44 GMT
Hi,
I am selling my book "The Linux Database" by Fred Butzen and Dorothy
Forbes with CD includes Slackware 3.3. The book is in excellent
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at:
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regards,
Hanson
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:37:15 -0700
From: Jim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: writing to Dos partition
I tried a lot of Fstab editing suggestions but none worked or caused
freezing problems when accessed.
I finally tried Linuxconf and it worked. As root open Drakconf-
Linuxconf-File systems-Access local drive-click on the partition you want
to change permission on-Dos options for vfat partition-at default user id
set to the preferred user with drop down list-default permissions 0-accept
and in process of exiting click apply changes-reboot.
I'm not too sure about the "default permissions", originally I entered
Write access, when I rechecked it later it was changed to 0.
Hope it works for you, Jim C.
Tyler Cottenie wrote:
> I have a Windows Fat32 partition on my computer along with Linux
> Mandrake 7.0. I am only able to write to this partition as root. Since I
> am not usually working as root, I cannot delete add or modify any files
> to this partition without issuing super-user command. I have tried doing
> 'chmod g+x DOS_hda1' because my normal user is part of the group 'root'
> which /mnt/DOS_hda1 belongs to. It says the permission was successfully
> changed but when I do 'ls -l' it is still "drwxr-xr-x" instead of
> "drwxrwxr-x". I have tried chmod with 775 or whatever it is and it also
> says it has changed successfully when it hasn't. I have tried with the
> partition mounted and with it not mounted with the same results. 'chown'
> does not work either; it says something about cannot perform operation
> Help!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Corbin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Problem with Red Hat 6.1 install booting...
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:24:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Bishop writes:
> I'm having a bit of a problem, and I was hoping someone could help me.
>
> I've got a machine with a P-120 CPU, 24 MB of RAM, a 2 GB hard drive,
> and no CD-ROM drive. I want to install Red Hat 6.1 onto it using NFS.
> When I boot the machine using a boot disk (tried this with boot.img and
> bootnet.img, and their updated counterparts from updates.redhat.com), it
> gets up to "Uncompressing Linux...", and then halts with the error "crc
> error -- System halted." Does anyone know off the top of their heads
> what could be causing this problem? I'd really like to get RH going on
> this machine... might be the first step into getting the entire office
> away from Microsoft.
I'm having the same problem, except that in my case it boots fine off the
floppy but won't boot from the hard disk. I wonder if it is something
about older CPU's, I'm trying to install to a 486/90.
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