Linux-Misc Digest #235, Volume #24 Sat, 22 Apr 00 21:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: xmms problem (Chetan Ahuja)
please (Michael Mitchell)
Re: nested loops in bash (Michael Powe)
Re: redhat graphic login
Re: man page headers, footers (Peter T. Breuer)
Can't start Apache 1.3.9 with PHP3.0.16 on RedHat 6.1 (Peter Eddy)
Re: Corel Linux (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: software installation (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: please ("Tom Hoffmann")
Re: Carp! (David Castrodale)
setuid? ("Rescue9")
Re: the / just keeps growing (Alexander K)
Re: Kernel Compile problem ("Yanie")
Re: Those distributions are stupid (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Those distributions are stupid (Bill Unruh)
Caldera 1.3 vs Caldera 2.3 (Shahram Mehdian)
Corel Linux Select config problems... (X)
Re: Web mail? (Dennis)
Re: Caldera 1.3 vs Caldera 2.3 (Matt Friedman)
Re: man page headers, footers (Floyd Davidson)
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From: Chetan Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xmms problem
Date: 22 Apr 2000 22:19:21 GMT
Reid Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
> XMMS is fine. Sharing IRQs between your sound card and SCSI card is a
> dangerous game. Best thing to do is move one or the other to another IRQ.
> See what happens.
Well...Maybe you're right. I tried freeamp and still getting the
same problems. Since my soundchip is on the motherboard, and no way
in the BIOS to change it's configuration, I'm not
sure if there's a way for me to remove the IRQ conflict short of
opening the computer and changing the PCI slot of the card?? If
anybody knows of another, better way... please let me know...
Chetan
> Chetan Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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From: Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: please
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 22:25:28 GMT
my problem can't be that hard, if you can help please do, this is
frustrating
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: nested loops in bash
Date: 22 Apr 2000 14:39:04 -0700
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>>>>> "test" == test <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
test> Why do nested loops not work in bash? I tried this
#!/bin/bash
acount=0
bcount=0
while [ $acount -le 9 ] ; do
while [ $bcount -le 9 ] ; do
echo mv b$acount$bcount.t a$acount$bcount.t
bcount=$[$bcount+1]
done
acount=$[$acount+1]
done
test> bcount goes from 0 to 9. that's it. no loop on acount.
test> What's the deal?
Well, part of the deal is that you didn't do any debugging. If you
had, you would probably have found your problem.
If you break your loop action down, you should see the problem. The
inner loop completes in its entirety the first time you enter it --
the first time you enter the outer loop. Then the outer loop
completes. The inner loop is never reentered because after the first
pass, it tests false every time. The loops work exactly as expected
for the way you set them up.
Add `echo "acount is $acount" ' at the end of your outer loop and you
will see this in action.
mp
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Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat graphic login
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 22:30:03 GMT
edit the /etc/inittab file and change the line saying id:5:initdefault:
to id:3:initdefault. This allows you to easily change it bacl.
Alternitively you could re-run Xconfigurator and say no to starting X at
startup.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Subject: Re: man page headers, footers
Date: 23 Apr 2000 00:58:08 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I'm trying to print man pages. First I have to get the man page to standard
: output. If I type in man something, less throws the output to the screen as a
: simple stream. Fair enough. If I use for example
: man -P cat something | less
You want something like
zcat /usr/man/man1/foo.1.gz | nroff -man -Tansi | col -b | enscript
Or you can print to PS directly. I think its -Tps. I don't have an
nroff manpage so can't tell you.
Peter
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From: Peter Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't start Apache 1.3.9 with PHP3.0.16 on RedHat 6.1
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:02:57 -0400
This is driving me crazy. I've built PHP 3.0.16 from source and I'm
trying to get it to work with Apache 1.3.9 (as delivered in the
apache-1.3.9-8.rpm). I've followed the instructions in the PHP
documentation, including the must-read RedHat instructions (which don't
seem to apply in my case since I'm not using RPMs for PHP) and it simply
does not work (apache won't start.)
I've built PHP as a DSO and I have:
LoadModule php3_module libexec/libphp3.so
AddModule mod_php3.c
in my /etc/http/http.conf file.
When I try to start apache I get, "httpd: httpd startup succeeded" on
the console but it does not in fact start (there is no httpd process.)
If I remove:
AddModule mod_php3.c
Then I at least get, "[error] Cannot remove module mod_php3.c: not found
in module list" and Apache won't start. If I remove, "LoadModule
php3_module..." then apache starts
I did have PHP4, beta1 installed but have since removed it from any
configuration file and from the apache modules directory. PHP4
installed and ran with no problem. I thought perhaps that something
from PHP4 was still lying around causing my problem, but I haven't been
able to find anyting.
httpd -l reports:
Compiled-in modules:
http_core.c
mod_so.c
Someone please beat me with a cluestick.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: Corel Linux
Date: 22 Apr 2000 22:16:25 GMT
Christopher Browne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Koen Van Baelen would say:
: >Hi everybody,
: >
: >is Corel Linux any good?
the distro is aimed at ppl transitioning from Windows (well, maybe not
your average desktop user), and even has a file manager resembling explorer
looking at it another way, it could be a good starting point :-)
--
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
--- OUT THERE??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: software installation
Date: 22 Apr 2000 22:22:12 GMT
if you do an 'ls' IN the directory that was created when you untarred
and you see db2setup there, don't forget to put the dot-slash before
db2setup, since the new directory is not in your PATH
Go first to that dir:
cd <insert dir-name here>
then ./db2setup
I may not have DB2 but most packages outside of RPMs are like this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: newbie trying to install DB2. successfully
: downloaded from ibm and untarred. supposed to run
: db2setup but have no idea how. tried 'install -g
: db2setup' at Xterm $ but got too few arguments
: response. went to 'man install' which totally
: confused me, but tried many options but always got
: 'too few arguments in response'. anyone know how i
: can install db2 or in general what i'm doing
: wrong?
--
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
--- OUT THERE??
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From: "Tom Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: please
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 23:19:23 GMT
And your problem would be ...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Mitchell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my problem can't be that hard, if you can help please do, this is
> frustrating
>
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From: David Castrodale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.non.sequitur,alt.how,alt.conspiracy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Carp!
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 23:41:38 GMT
hoKEy wOLf wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Castrodale
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Axel wrote:
> > >
> > > David Castrodale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> enjoys the great taste of beef:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >hoKEy wOLf wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> In article <MPG.136a85f359845955989690@news>, Maynard
> > > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > then The Queen of Cans and Jars said:
> > > >> > > Nealworm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:49:39 GMT, David Castrodale
> > > >> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >> > > > spake thusly:
> > > >> > > >
> > > >> > > > >
> > > >> > > > >
> > > >> > > > >Maynard wrote:
> > > >> > > > >>
> > > >> > > > >> then Axel, the Half-naked College Student said:
> > > >> > > > >> > the portable jim carleton
> > > >> > > > >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >> > > > >> > enjoys the great taste of beef:
> > > >> > > > >> >
> > > >> > > > >> > >This, from Axel, the Half-naked College Student:
> > > >> > > > >> > >
> > > >> > > > >> > >>the portable jim carleton
> > > >> > > > >> > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >> > > > >> > >>enjoys the great taste of beef:
> > > >> > > > >> > >>
> > > >> > > > >> > >>>alt.home.repair is alive and doing well! oh well, i
> > > >> > > > >> > >>>guess i
> > > >> > > > >> > >>>hace to
> > > >> > > > >> > >>>cnacel its adotpion.
> > > >> > > > >> > >>
> > > >> > > > >> > >>You cannot undo what has been done.
> > > >> > > > >> > >
> > > >> > > > >> > >ok, i guess i'll hace to persent mieself to tehm as
> > > >> > > > >> > >theyre god.
> > > >> > > > >> >
> > > >> > > > >> > Shouldn't be too difficult to convince them.
> > > >> > > > >>
> > > >> > > > >> just brandish your grout trowel a lot.
> > > >> > > > >
> > > >> > > > >write them a "novel"
> > > >> > > >
> > > >> > > > a bowl of cherries in hell
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > give me some water, the only thing that i want
> > > >> >
> > > >> > it's not just for dousing fires anymore
> > > >>
> > > >> bill gates can fire anyone he wants, thanks
> > > >
> > > >DAER MICRSOTF: HI I JSUT BUOGHT TEH WINDOWS 89 ADN I DNOT NKOW BUT I
> > > >TIHNK TAHT IT ISS BROKEDED BECAUES WHEN I PUHS S BUOTTN OAN TEH
> > > >CMPUTRE
> > > >IT JSUT BEEEPS ADN MAEKS SORTT OF LIEK A HUMMUNG NOIES ADN TEHN A
> > > >LIHGT
> > > >COEMS ON ADN EVRYTHNIG GETS REALYL HOTT, BUT MYABE ITS BECAUES I
> > > >TIHNK
> > > >TAH T MAYBE MY COMPUTRE IS JSUT A MICROWAEV, I DNOT KNWO CAN YUO HLEP
> > > >ME?????/??
> > >
> > > Dear valued Microsoft Peon^H^H^H^HCustomer,
> > >
> > > Thank you for "choosing" Microsoft Windows 98. We ask that you direct
> > > all technical questions to your computer system vendor. Microsoft is
> > > not responsible for any of the features of the OS that you
> > > unexpectedly may encounter.
> > >
> > > We appreciate your mone^H^H^H^Hbusiness.
> > >
> >
> > DAER MIRCOSFT: OK I DNOT UDNERSTND BECAUES I DID NIT BYU TEH COMPUTRE
> > FRMO TEH VNEDOR I BOUHGT IT FRMO TEH APPILANEC STOER ADN NWO WEHN I TRRY
> > TO LOOK AT TEH INTRENET ALL TAHT HAPPENSE IS TAHT ALL TEHSE SPARKS STRAT
> > GOIGN INSIED TEH SCREEN ADN I TIHNK ITS GOIGN TO CATHC ON
> > FIER!!!!!1!!!1!!!@! I TIEHNK TAHT MABYE IT HAS A COOMPUTRE
> > VIRSU!!!!!1!!!2!! ASLO, TEH INSIED OF TEH SCREEEN WEHN I OPEN TEH DOOR,
> > IT IS VREY HOT. BILL CAN YUO PLEAES HLEP ME IT IS IMPRONTATN!!!!1!!1!!!!
> > OK TAHNK YUO!!
>
> Myabe yuo shuold tyr "Ucnle Biil." HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAa
DAER UCNLE BIIL: OK NWO IT IS VEYR BAD BECAUES NOW THEER IS TEH FIER
COMIGN OTU OF TEH CMPUTRE AND IT IS BRUNIGN DWON MY HUOSE CUOLD YUO CALL
991 B ECAUES TEH COMPTRE VIRUSS IS CACTHIGN EVRYTHNG ON FIER ADN NWO I
CANOT OOOK AT TEH INTRENET!!!!!1!!1! TAKHN YUO MOCROSOFT!!!!!!!!2!!!1!!
--
David
"this human form where i was born, i now repent."
-pixies
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From: "Rescue9" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setuid?
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 18:48:42 -0500
When I try to start a program as root it says "don't run as setuid root,
change to a user" but when I change to a user it says I don't have the
permissions.... how can I solve this problem?
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From: Alexander K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: the / just keeps growing
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 23:37:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer) wrote:
> The PArtition-HOWTO, of course. You HAVE looked, no?
yupp, but only in my puter:)
and sure, when i went to LDP it was there. ty.
--
.
.
... ak42 at kurir dot net ...
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Before you buy.
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From: "Yanie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Compile problem
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 07:49:14 +0800
Reply-To: "Yanie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Assuming that '/dev/hda1' is the root disk used by the existing kernel, that
was exactly what I did.
It looks like kernel won't run if it's mounting a root disk which
doesn't belong to it. Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it ?
>>So, I altered /etc/lilo.conf manually, ran lilo -C, lilo accepted my new
>>lilo.conf. When I boot, I came to a point that a message saying "Kernel
>
>Edit /etc/lilo.conf, add the option:
> root=/dev/hda1
>changing hda1 to whatever it is in your case (/etc/fstab should tell you).
>
>Robie.
>--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To:
ch.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Those distributions are stupid
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 23:57:00 GMT
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 00:02:52 +0200, charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Posting HTML on usenet is also stupid. Let's all go back to text.
>--------------A9C12E18443EF73E284F8D9C
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>They are not even able to follow a single Linuxbasesystem to make it
>developers
>possible to develop programms for more than one distribution or to have
>lots of
>configuration files. REALLY STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>Let's swap then all to FreeBSD or even back to windoze.
>
>
>--------------A9C12E18443EF73E284F8D9C
>Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
><HTML>
><FONT SIZE=+1>They are not even able to follow a single Linuxbasesystem
>to make it developers</FONT>
><BR><FONT SIZE=+1>possible to develop programms for more than one distribution
>or to have lots of</FONT>
><BR><FONT SIZE=+1>configuration files.
>REALLY STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</FONT>
><BR><FONT SIZE=+1>Let's swap then all to FreeBSD or even back to windoze.</FONT>
><BR><FONT SIZE=+1></FONT> </HTML>
>
>--------------A9C12E18443EF73E284F8D9C--
>
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To:
ch.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Those distributions are stupid
Date: 23 Apr 2000 00:03:08 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>They are not even able to follow a single Linuxbasesystem to make it
>developers
>possible to develop programms for more than one distribution or to have
>lots of
>configuration files. REALLY STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>Let's swap then all to FreeBSD or even back to windoze.
??? What is your complaint? All Linux distros use the same kernel. They
differ primarily in their startup scripts. In the past there has also
been some divergence in glibc as some made the transition befor others,
but all did and would have to make that transition. So unless you have
specifics...
PS. Do not post html code with your post.
That is REALLY STUPID.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shahram Mehdian)
Subject: Caldera 1.3 vs Caldera 2.3
Date: 23 Apr 2000 00:07:16 GMT
I was thinking of installing Caldera 1.3 on my system. Is Caldera 2.3 a major
upgrade worth considering or not?
Also how difficult is the installation of Caldera1.3 for a double boot system?
My system is a very generic pentium200 and I don't know much about Linux
(actually I dont know anything about Linux).
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From: X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corel Linux Select config problems...
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 00:30:04 GMT
I have an Intel CC820 MB, and I'm using a Guillemot 3D Prophet GeForce 256
video card. My first problem is that I can't figure out what driver to
use to get it out of 640x480x16 colors. My second, and most important
question is that my Microsoft Internet keyboard won't work. I used my
mouse in KDM to go to XF86Setup and configured my keyboard as a Std. 104-
key keyboard and it didn't work. I even tried an Acer Peripherals
keyboard and it didn't work either. How do I get my keyboard to work??
It works fine it text-only mode, but not in XFree. I'm stumped...and
quite frankly I'm think of switching to SuSE 6.4...
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From: Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web mail?
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 20:35:22 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vasan Chakravarthy wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to retrieve email via a URL?
>
> Mail servers running MS Exchange do this. I was wondering if this is
> possible on a Linux mail server.
>
> Any input is appreciated.
>
> Vasan
Vasan,
There is a product called WebMail that ISP's use to let you get your
e-mail via web browser, which is OS independent. Check with your ISP to
see if they support WebMail - most do. In fact, many ISP's will have a
link on their web site home page called WebMail. Simply click on it,
enter your ID and password, and your e-mail appears. Hope this helps.
Dennis,
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From: Matt Friedman <"mwf"@total.net(remove-to-reply)>
Subject: Re: Caldera 1.3 vs Caldera 2.3
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 20:44:47 -0400
Shahram Mehdian wrote:
> I was thinking of installing Caldera 1.3 on my system. Is Caldera 2.3 a major
> upgrade worth considering or not?
> Also how difficult is the installation of Caldera1.3 for a double boot system?
> My system is a very generic pentium200 and I don't know much about Linux
> (actually I dont know anything about Linux).
It's a amjor upgrade. The biggest thing is that COL 1.3 is built on the 2.0.35
kernel and COL 2.3 is based on the 2.2.10 kernel. The 2.2.x kernel supports a
wider range of hardware, including PCI sound cards, USB and quite a bit more.
There are a whole lot of other improvements at various levels... too many to
list. COL 2.3 also has a much simpler, graphical installation routine -- a plus
for a first-time installation, and if you buy the commercial package, it comes
with a lot more additional software.
Now, there are people out there who'll use COL 1.3 and just upgrade the kernel,
but you don't want to do this if you have no experience with Linux. Go with COL
2.3. You'll be happier, and you'll be more likely to become a concert from that
other OS.
MF
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: man page headers, footers
Date: 22 Apr 2000 16:15:22 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm trying to print man pages. First I have to get the man page
>to standard output. If I type in man something, less throws the
>output to the screen as a simple stream. Fair enough. If I use
>for example
>
>man -P cat something | less
>
>I get a different result: the output contains headers and
>footers which don't align right after throwing this stream to
>enscript. If I send the above output to a file, the
>headers/footers are still in there, so less isn't the problem.
>If I cat a text file, I see no headers or footers.
>
>How do I get rid of the headers/footers? What's putting them in
>there and why does it keep trying to outwit my calling
>arguments?
The page size, and hence the location of headers and footers, is
embedded in the macros package used by nroff to generate man
pages.
There are two ways to print a man page.
First there is the really nice way, "man -t name | lpr", which
will generate a PostScript version of the man page and pipe it
to the print spooler. This will have headers and footers, and
they will be perfectly aligned on every page.
The second way is also occasionally useful. If you want to edit
the man page, or have an editable copy of it, this method
produces an ASCII version (minus any special fonts and effects
though). "man name | col -xb > name.man" puts such a copy of
the man page into file name.man.
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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