Linux-Misc Digest #231, Volume #24 Sat, 22 Apr 00 07:13:02 EDT
Contents:
alsa modprobe? ("12stcentury")
Re: bash_profile setting (David Efflandt)
Re: KDE and GONE (Tomalak)
Re: filesystem error (Marc Andre Selig)
Console window/font size ("Rak A. San")
Re: Daylight Savings time, system time, hardware time.... (David Efflandt)
Re: Email for linux console (David Efflandt)
Re: Expect and auto ftping ?? (David Efflandt)
Re: xmms problem (Robert Hampf)
Re: Monitor going blank - power settings? (David Efflandt)
Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU? (Arjan Drieman)
Re: Trouble with the Korn Shell (Floyd Davidson)
Re: bash_profile setting (Floyd Davidson)
Re: IPChains (Amit Muthu)
Console window/font size ("L. Marshall")
Re: IP Masquerade (Martin Vonwald)
Re: the / just keeps growing (Peter T. Breuer)
Dual Boot and X windows Problem (rayteng)
Re: Have dialup ISP: will Coyote Linux work? (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Acrobat PDF files (Richard Brisbourne)
Re: problem using /bin/login ("Yanie")
Re: DHCP woes (Chuko Liang)
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From: "12stcentury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: alsa modprobe?
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 02:47:35 -0500
hi, I have a trident 4dwave DX and I am trying to install the alsa driver
for the PCI card. I am running redhat 6.2. I have compiled the driver fine
into all of the modules and a "lspci" shows that linux knows that the card
is there. the problem is that when I try to "modprobe snd-card-trident" I
get a "can't locate module snd-card-trident" and I know that there is one
because I have found it. I get the error with every other module also. I
don't know what to tinker with to get it to work, any help would be great!
thanks
Ryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: bash_profile setting
Date: 22 Apr 2000 07:54:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Buck Turgidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Sorry. Forgot the actual command parameter. It is:
>
>export PS1="[\u $PWD] $"
I don't seem to have PWD in my env, what do you suppose sets that?
You might try:
export PS1="[\u \W]"
Or a more colorful prompt:
export PS1="\[\033[01;31m\][\u \W]\$ \[\033[0m\]"
>Buck Turgidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:J56M4.27046$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I have the following defined in .bash_profile to set my prompt. It works
>> great, except it doesn't change as I cd around the box, so it is obviously
>> useless. I used the same parameter on my RH5.2 box, and on an AIX (korn
>> shell) at work with no problem. But it doesn't work with RH 6.1. Any
>> ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomalak)
Subject: Re: KDE and GONE
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 07:51:00 GMT
Both KDEand GNOME window managers are simply extended graphical
environments to the X11R6 window system. As such, determining which of
the two is "better" depends mostly on how comfortable you are working
within either GUI. Personally, I prefer KDE to GNOME, and some of the
other WMs (especially Enlightenment) as KDE seems to be more mature.
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:30:05 GMT, billy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
asked:
:hi:
: Can anybody tell me which one of these two better? KDE or GONE desktop?
:Why?
:
: thank you
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: filesystem error
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 21 Apr 2000 21:47:41 +0200
Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I try to install a new RPM (which, actually, is lpr (mdk)), it
> tells me that it needs 4 kb on the var filesystem. I installed this
> package before and it worked fine. Then I got an error when printing
> from a joeuser telling me that it can't write the temporary file when
> printing (related to the var problem?). So I decided to remove the
> packages and reinstall them, but now I get this error.
> I tried to copy a 1mb file on /var/ and it worked fine...
Even though you could copy a file to /var, this still looks like you
are running out of disk space. What does `df -k' report?
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From: "Rak A. San" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Console window/font size
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:53:25 -0700
I am using RH 6.1 with the kernel 2.2.14. Whenever I boot up with this
kernel my "vga=5" option in my lilo.conf somehow doesn't execute the vga
option, my screen flickers for 2 second and uses the default vga option
instead. When I boot up using the original 2.2.12 kernel with the
"vga=5" option it executes the "vga=5" option. My kerel was compiled
with CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE = Y. I cannot figure out what is going on, is
this a bug? There is also a penguin image on the top left corner of the
kernel 2.2.14 when I boot up to it. Maybe that is causing it or is there
a patch? Suggestions please.
L. Marshall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings time, system time, hardware time....
Date: 22 Apr 2000 08:05:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am sure that this has been rehashed a bunch of times, but I can't seem
>to get it through my thick skull...
>
>I have a RedHat 6.0 system, 2.2.13 kernel. I need to configure the darn
>thing to keep the right time. I can't seem to correctly configure the
>hardware clock so that it correctly deals with DST.
>
>I tried setting it to UTC using RedHat's tools, but it had no effect.
>The time zone information must be correct, since the calendar displays
>EDT, but the hardware clock and the system clock are now exactly
>backwards..... The hardware clock is one hour ahead of the system
>clock.
>
>[root@aphrodite /root]# date; hwclock
>Wed Apr 19 13:48:25 EDT 2000
>Wed Apr 19 14:48:26 2000 -0.940635 seconds
>
>What files do I need to change (by hand, not through possibly broken GUI
>tools) to make this right?
Once you get your timezone and system time right (ntpdate from the xntp
package can do that) use 'setclock' in RedHat (or possibly clock -w in
other distros) to set the CMOS clock to match system time. Although, my
CMOS clock is localtime, since I (rarely) dual boot.
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Email for linux console
Date: 22 Apr 2000 08:09:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:22:58 +0000, Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 17 Apr 2000 09:34:52 +1200, <Bryan Hoyt> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Any advice on what program I should use to download and send email from the linux
>console?
>>I want something relatively powerful, like Netscape Messenger, but for the console.
>Thanks
>
>mutt, pine ?
Along with fetchmail to bring any external pop3 mail into your local
system, if you have local smtp working.
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Expect and auto ftping ??
Date: 22 Apr 2000 08:13:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:49:58 -0400, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>i have a problem with the /usr/bin/ftp program.
>
>I wanted it to log in to various servers and download files in the wee hours
>of the morning, when most people are asleep. To this end i tried to use
>expect . After messing around with it a little bit, I wrote a script that
>expect the "ogin" and "assword" and all that.
>Now when I run the script , it just sits there, after connecting to the
>site.
>It looked like it was not finding any of the matches.
>So, I tried another approach: JAVA.
>Usually, you can launch ( fork & exec ) a process and grab it's in- and
>out- put streams , and control it just like from the keyboard.
>Not this time!!
>I got the streams alright, but there was nothing coming through!! As a
>result, I couldn't read any of the responses, nor could I send it any
>commands!!
>
>
>My question is : What am I not doing right?
I have not used expect or JAVA, but I have successfully used the Net::FTP
Perl module. It is available on CPAN in the libnet package of modules.
After you install it, for instructions type: perldoc Net::FTP
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hampf)
Subject: Re: xmms problem
Date: 22 Apr 2000 11:39:08 +0200
Chetan Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> h�lt �essu fram:
:
: I've not been having an easy time with xmms at all. The earlier
: version I had ( .95-1) was hanging in the middle of playing mp3's
: inexplicably. Now I have a newer version. 1.01-1 ( using the rpm from
: the xmms.org site). The problem now is that xmms suddenly starts "fast
: forwarding" the song in the middle of playing an mp3.
When I upgraded to xmms-1.0.1 all my mp3's played fast. Deleting
the old ~/.xmms helped.
rh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Monitor going blank - power settings?
Date: 22 Apr 2000 08:35:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:47:06 GMT, John Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all
>
>my redhat 6.1 system came set up to power down the monitor at a regular
>interval. It goes black and you have to move the mouse to get the display
>up again. Does anyone know where this configuration is stored?
Not sure, but you could alway use /usr/bin/setterm it /etc/rc.d/rc.local
to set it how you want it. See 'man setterm'. You can set it to just
blank or use several different power saving modes. For example I use:
# Set screen powersave
/usr/bin/setterm -powersave powerdown -powerdown 15
Power saving is X is separate (something in XF86Config I think).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arjan Drieman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU?
Date: 22 Apr 2000 09:10:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:24:44 GMT, Tandem Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So, how do you pronounce GNU?
Sorry, can't tell you... you wouldn't understand ;) I pronounce it as
the characters gnu are pronounced seperately, but in dutch. But that
pronounciation of 'g' is unknown in English.
Arjan
--
Why corporate software sucks.
http://www.shift.com/shiftstd/html/onlineTOC/1999/7.6/html/bombsquad.html
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Trouble with the Korn Shell
Date: 22 Apr 2000 00:00:37 -0800
"G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dave Brown wrote:
>> Yns wrote:
>> >Tandem Guy wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello. I'm new to linux and have recently installed RedHat 6.0. I want
>> >> to use the Korn shell rather than Bash. I made the appropriate change
>> >> in the X-Windows Control Panel, and now I boot into Korn shell but I'm
>> >> having a problem. When I start an xterm session while I'm in X-Windows
>> >> my BACKSPACE and ARROW keys aren't working. When I hit BACKSPACE for
>> >> instance I see 'CTRL-H'. This only happens if I'm in an xterm window.
>> >> ...
>> >
>> >Your backspace problem can be solved by the following
>> >command in the xterm:
>> >
>> > stty erase ^H
>> >
>> >where ^H is the result of the backspace key press (CTRL-H)
>> >
>> >Modify the .profile to include the command.
>> >
>>
>> This may not be a solution. Unfortunately the text console uses
>> "^?" for its "erase" key. So if you don't check to see if
>> you're running an xterm, you may not be able to use the backspace
>> key in the text mode. Likewise, if you put this in your .profile,
>> it may only be in effect for your login shell. I'm not sure if it
>> gets propagated to "child shells" i.e., other windows. So .kshrc
>> may be a better place to put in instead of .profile. Then you may
>> want to test the TERM variable to decide if you want to run stty.
>
>In addition to all Dave said, man tset and use this to setup
>your terminal environment.
But put these into ~/.profile, not ~/.kshrc. And this is a
definite case where you want to invoke your xterms with the
-ls option so each will be a login shell.
The point is that you do *not* want to reset the terminal, a
relatively slow process, each and every time a subshell is
invoked.
Floyd
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Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bash_profile setting
Date: 22 Apr 2000 00:09:10 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>Buck Turgidson wrote:
>>Sorry. Forgot the actual command parameter. It is:
>>
>>export PS1="[\u $PWD] $"
>>
>>
>>Buck Turgidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:J56M4.27046$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>> I have the following defined in .bash_profile to set my prompt. It works
>>> great, except it doesn't change as I cd around the box, so it is obviously
>>> useless. I used the same parameter on my RH5.2 box, and on an AIX (korn
>>> shell) at work with no problem. But it doesn't work with RH 6.1. Any
>>> ideas?
>
>export PS1='[\u $PWD] $'
No no no.
export PS1="[\u \w] $"
For more information read the "PROMPTING" section of the bash
man page. In particular, look at the \W escape code too.
If you want color, you want to look at using \[ ... \], such
as this:
export PS1='\[\033[36m\]\h:\u \w >\[\033[m\]'
Floyd
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Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: Amit Muthu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IPChains
Date: 22 Apr 2000 09:34:04 GMT
In comp.os.linux.security John Riehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> he meant more that just controlling telnet/ftp access on the end system. I
> would assume that "firewall" also means traffic passing through the system,
> which tcpwrappers wont touch.
Except where "passing through" means "using proxy servers compiled to use
tcpwrappers".
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From: "L. Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Console window/font size
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 02:26:46 -0700
I am using RH 6.1 with the kernel 2.2.14. Whenever I boot up with this
kernel my "vga=5" option in my lilo.conf somehow doesn't
execute the vga option, my screen flickers for 2 second and uses the
default vga option instead. When I boot up using the
original 2.2.12 kernel with the "vga=5" option it executes the "vga=5"
option. My kerel was compiled with
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE = Y. I cannot figure out what is going on, is this a
bug? There is also a penguin image on the top left
corner of the kernel 2.2.14 when I boot up to it. Maybe that is causing
it or is there a patch? Suggestions please.
L. Marshall
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From: Martin Vonwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP Masquerade
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:50:15 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am wondering if TCPDUMP can be used to check whether the IP masquerade is
> working or not. What will be the destination of the packets?
>
> If you happen to know the answer please let me know. Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
IP masquerading uses ports above 61000.
If you start "tcpdump -i yourExtDev" you will see something like:
11:38:31.943420 MYIP.61750 > DESTIP.telnet: S ......
The source port is above 61000; that is a good hint for masquerading. But
there is a much better way to see this: ipchains -M -L This will give you
the following output:
earth:~ # ipchains -M -L
IP masquerading entries
prot expire source destination ports
TCP 00:06.44 MYIP DESTIP 1260 (61750) -> telnet
It shows you a masqueraded telnet session from MYIP to DESTIP. The original
source port was 1260 and the masqueraded port ist 61750.
Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Subject: Re: the / just keeps growing
Date: 22 Apr 2000 12:22:53 +0100
Alexander K ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: soon i'll reformat and reinstall the whole thing, and add FreeBSD.
: i wonder: where do i find some good tips on how to partition my hdd?
The PArtition-HOWTO, of course. You HAVE looked, no?
: which directories should have their own partitions and why, and so on.
/ /boot /var /usr /usr/local /usr/X11R6 /opt /home swap (that about
covers most of the possibilities, though you could make a good case for
/usr/share as well). As to the why, read the howto.
Peter
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From: rayteng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Dual Boot and X windows Problem
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 18:42:18 +0800
I'm using windows 2000 in my first harddisk , C drive-Primary Harddisk.
And i'm istalling red hat 6.0 in my second hard disk (e drive)
During installation, i install LILO in root partition. The problem is
the LILO won't appear when i boot , and it also didn't appear in NT
Loader.
How can i boot Linux from Windows 2000 Loader page?
Secondly, my X windows screen setting is so big, i can't see all the
files because the icon and word is too big. How can i change it to
smaller like 800x600 setting.
Thank you
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: Have dialup ISP: will Coyote Linux work?
Date: 22 Apr 2000 10:34:08 GMT
Followed more links on their site and it said to wait for coyote 2.0
which will support dialup ISP style connection
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I have a 56k modem on my 233Mhz Pentium PC, equipped with what my
: Mandrake 6.0 Linux detected as a RealTek ethernet card on such-n-such
: a port with so-n-so IRQ.
<snip>
--
jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
Registered linux user no. 164098
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: Richard Brisbourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Acrobat PDF files
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 13:31:55 +0100
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Charles Blackburn wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Is it possible to create an Acrobat PDF file in linux?
>
>I am asking this as I was wondering whether I need to buy Acrobat 4.0 for
><shudder> windopes to create them?
>
>I would be writing documents in staroffice most probably, but I will be burning
>the doc onto a CD for reading under linux and <shudder> windopes.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
The usual way of handling printing (other than raw text) in Linux apps is by
outputting postscript which then pipes through Ghostview which uses its own
print driver for the specific printer.
Anything with a print-to- file option (eg: Star Office) will produce postscript
files with a minimum of hassle. Failing that, I guess you could set up a
"postscript printer" with output redirected direct to a file (not that I've
ever done it).
Having got your postscript file, there's a neat little utility called "ps2pdf"
which converts them to pdf. You may have a copy already in your distro.
--
Richard Brisbourne
Soar the big sky
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From: "Yanie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: problem using /bin/login
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 18:50:30 +0800
Reply-To: "Yanie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You may need to boot in single-user mode to see the problem. See if anything
is not right.
me wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>here's the problem: when i try to login to my machine, it prompts for
>and accepts the
>username, and then, without even asking for a password, it says: "Login
>Incorrect" eg.
>
>localhost login: root
>
>
>
>Login Incorrect
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chuko Liang)
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: DHCP woes
Date: 22 Apr 2000 11:00:39 GMT
After long talks with Cisco, we figured out what was going on here:
there was a problem with NVRAM. Cisco replaced it, and things are working
fine.
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