Linux-Misc Digest #398, Volume #24 Mon, 8 May 00 04:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: configuration for iomega zip 100M parallel port drive (Alex)
Re: Linux Windows Managers (Michael Powe)
accidently disabled my dhcp, can't seem to restore (MrJack)
Re: what changed my /tmp's write permissions? (Robert Nichols)
create Boot CD Question ("Eddy")
diskcopy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - write_g1?!?!?!? (Nick
Brok)
Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - write_g1?!?!?!?
("Brian")
Re: How do you mount a second CDROM (CDRW) drive? (Joachim Feise)
Re: sony memorystick download under linux (Glitch)
Re: Help on inittab file ... (Peter Buijsman)
Re: computer viruses on LINUX (Mark Wilden)
Re: Need to find my IP address (Mark Wilden)
finding out what distribution you have (Greg Matheson)
Re: RPM problem (Nobody in peculiar...)
Re: Red Hat linux 6.1 :need help stopping Xserver (Nobody in peculiar...)
Re: Red Hat linux 6.1 :need help stopping Xserver (Nobody in peculiar...)
Re: Knews
Re: microsoft word on linux (Nobody in peculiar...)
Re: Red Hat linux 6.1 :need help stopping Xserver ("Michael Westerman")
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configuration for iomega zip 100M parallel port drive
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 01:16:36 -0400
kwl wrote:
> Thanks for the info
>
> However, I have checked my disk and I couldn't locate the file/
> folder 'faq' or 'ZIP - HOWTO' under the directory /usr/doc.
>
How about check out this web site?
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html
Good luck
Alex.
>
> Is there anywhere else where I can locate and open this file?
>
> Many thanks!
> In article <8f4tuh$h9a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter T. Breuer"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >kwl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >: I wonder if someone can help and advise how to configure the
> >: Iomega Zip 100M parallel port drive. Is there any file/driver
> >: to be installed? Many thanks!
> >
> >Read the ZIP-HOWTO. It's on your disk, under /usr/doc/faq,
> probably.
> >
> >Peter
> >
> >
>
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Windows Managers
Date: 07 May 2000 21:26:49 -0700
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>>>>> "George" == George Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
George> Also any comments on favorite windows mangagers would
George> be interesting.
Try XFCE. http://www.xfce.org.
Small, very easy to configure -- you don't need to read a damned
manual to get the thing up and working. It's what a WM should be:
unobtrusive.
mp
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From: MrJack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: accidently disabled my dhcp, can't seem to restore
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 05:23:43 GMT
Hi,
I had dhcp running nicely in my dual boot machine-.
Then I had problems with my W98 install, related to
network settings (never knew exactly what). I removed an
extra isa LAN card not being used.
I am not running dhcp in W09 just fine, via my Realtek PCI LANcard.
However, Linux now has lost its dhcp access and i don;t know why.
I have reinstalled dhcp client a couple of times, without effect.
During Linux boot, I get the message that eth0 setup has been
"delayed" and that the dhcpc setup via the dhcpcd-eth0.info has
failed.
What the heck??!
Thanks you for any bit of help
James
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Nichols)
Subject: Re: what changed my /tmp's write permissions?
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 00:49:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
:There must be a redhat script that somehow chmods the permissions of
:/tmp under certain (still unknown to me) circumstances. I am sure that
:some of you have had this happen to you as well. Can anyone explain this
:strange phenomenon? I suspect it has something to do with cron.
It's likely that you are doing it yourself by extracting a tar archive
into /tmp. If the archive contains an entry for "." then those
permissions will get applied to the /tmp directory.
Solution: Create a subdirectory of /tmp and extract your archive there.
--
Bob Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP public key 1024/9A9C7955
Key fingerprint = 2F E5 82 F8 5D 06 A2 59 20 65 44 68 87 EC A7 D7
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From: "Eddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: create Boot CD Question
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 13:29:41 +0800
Is it possible to create a CD with boot partition in it ? If so, is cdrecord
enough to do it ? Thanks
Eddy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: diskcopy
Date: 8 May 2000 13:46:58 +0800
I have a small linux distribution in a floppy disk.
I want to create a disk image from this floppy disk, and then reproduce the linux
distribution to other floppy disk.
How can I do that ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Brok)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - write_g1?!?!?!?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 05:46:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Buelow wrote:
>This kind of looks like a buffer overrun problem (more data hitting the
>CD-R than it is capable of digesting). So, we need some details on the
>system. What is on the SCSI bus, what is the usage of any of the SCSI
>devices whilst you are recording. Hard to say, but it seems like this is
>the problem. Anyone else? A fix would be difficult and could simply be
>driver related which puts it out of my domain. Also, what SCSI card is it?
>
I have the same problem with the newest development kernel (2.3.99.pre6)
The card is a symbios ncr SCSI adaptor. I get also bufferoverruns so something
is wrong with the driver...
I use the matsushita cdr.... and the other SCSI devices are not used while bur-
ning cdr's.
--
Greetings,
Nick Brok
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - write_g1?!?!?!?
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 22:58:23 -0700
Hi Nick:
Nick Brok wrote in message ...
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Buelow wrote:
>I have the same problem with the newest development kernel (2.3.99.pre6)
>The card is a symbios ncr SCSI adaptor. I get also bufferoverruns so
>something is wrong with the driver...
>I use the matsushita cdr.... and the other SCSI devices are not used
>while burning cdr's.
Try rebuilding cdrecord from the latest source tree - cdrecord-1.8.1
Best regards,
Brian
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From: Joachim Feise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How do you mount a second CDROM (CDRW) drive?
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 23:28:49 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Megnin wrote:
>
> I've just installed a SCSI CDRW drive and can't figure out how to mount it.
>
> It's a Yamaha 8424 on an Adaptec AHA 2940UW controller. The drive ID
> is 3. I already have an ATAPI CD-ROM mounted as /mnt/cdrom.
>
> I've tried adding a second line to the /etc/fstab file like:
> /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
> just a guess more than anything else.
Should be about right.
Can you mount the drive manually?
I have the same setup, and I usually do 'mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2'
without any problems.
-Joe
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 02:54:54 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: sony memorystick download under linux
complain to sony then
Jon Stahl wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Anyone know of a way to download images from the sony
> handycam serial port adapter (msac-sr1) under linux.
>
> You plug a memory stick into the adapter and run
> "picturegear" software under win95/98 normally.
> This is the last thing in the world that I boot
> win98 for, and I'd like to stop doing it ...
>
> Thanks,
> Jon Stahl
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From: Peter Buijsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help on inittab file ...
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 08:53:01 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 8 May 2000 01:37:45 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb) wrote:
>>I noticed they appear in my 'ps -aux' list like this (line might be
>>truncated):
>>root 429 0.0 1.2 1060 380 tty1 S May07 0:00
>>/sbin/mingetty tty1
>>
>>What is the purpose of all this? Why are there 6 of these started, and
>>what is their task??
>
>They run to let you log in on the virtual consoles (tty1-tty6) which
>are accessed via alt-F1 through alt-F6.
Is it safe to only start 1 or 2 of them? I hardly ever log in on the
console, and when I do I'm not using more than two logins at the same
time using virtual consoles.
It will not limit in any way my ability to login over a network
connection?
--
Peter
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From: Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: computer viruses on LINUX
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 07:59:35 +0100
It's 'viruses' (or 'viri' if you really must). There's no such word as
'virii'.
Pet peeve. Carry on.
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From: Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need to find my IP address
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 08:02:44 +0100
Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>
> Many programmers, like me, maintain code that is poorly documented, if at all.
> Yet it doesn't bother them.
By this logic, of course, commenting is also unnecessary.
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From: Greg Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: finding out what distribution you have
Date: 8 May 2000 10:14:00 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am a user on two mail servers running under Linux at our
college. How can I tell the distribution from which Linux was
installed? Lynx as installed on one machine has a homepage with
information about a Chinese Language Environment for Redhat and the
other has in /usr/doc/faq/faq/SLAKWARE.FAQ.gz, a FAQ from
Slackware, so I assume they are Red Hat and Slackware
respectively, but is there any more direct way?
uname -a gives:
Linux ms 2.0.35 #5 Wed Apr 28 09:16:21 CST 1999 i686 unknown
Linux ms1 2.2.14 #3 Sat Apr 8 17:45:57 CST 2000 i686 unknown
--
Greg Matheson Learn a third language
Chinmin College, Taiwan and be born again again
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nobody in peculiar...)
Subject: Re: RPM problem
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 07:15:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Polman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Beno�t Smith wrote:
>
>> Dave Brown wrote:
>> >
>> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Beno�t Smith wrote:
>> > >I recently tried to install some RPM packages, but I only received the
>> > >irritating "failed dependancies" message followed by a list of
>> > >supposedly missing libraries. Then I was surprised by seeing that most
>> > >of the concerned libraries ARE present in my system (in the directories:
>> > >/lib, /usr/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib) !!!
>> > >Could someone give me an explanation for this ? I am using the Slackware
>> > >7.0. distro.
>> >
>> > RPM only knows what's in the rpm database, not what's really installed.
>> > Since Slackware 7.0 doesn't use rpm for initial installation, there is
>> > no database for rpm to reference. (Which makes me wonder what good
>> > using rpm does on a "non-rpm" system...)
>> >
>> > Using "rpm -i --nodeps" will cause the software to be dumped out of
>> > the package onto the system, but no guarantees that anything will
>> > work. Dependent components may be on the system, but not where the
>> > packaged software expects them. And components of the packaged
>> > software may be installed in places where the "non-rpm" system
>> > can't find them.
>> >
>> > I've usually used "rpm2tgz" to get the components into a tarball so that
>> > I can see what's going to be put where.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Dave Brown Austin, TX
>>
>> Thanks for all answers - especially this above. It's really too bad, I
>> tried the "--nodeps": not only the app didn't work, but I couldn' remove
>> it, because it was "not installed" !!! Now I have only to look for
>> "rpm2tgz"...
>> --
>>
>> Beno�t Smith
>> Just A Rhyme Without A Reason
>
> If you installed it with rpm you should be able to uninstall with rpm. It won't
> matter that you used nodeps or force. Just make sure you use the proper format.
> If you installed a package "foo-1.2-3.rpm" you would use "rpm -e foo-1.2.3".
> Notice the ".rpm" is not included when you remove the package.
> It's probably better to tarred and gzipped files when you can, if that's what
> your system is built around. Make's things a little neater.
rpm -e foo would take it out as well. FWIE, rpm doesn't care if you give
it the version or not.
Keven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nobody in peculiar...)
Subject: Re: Red Hat linux 6.1 :need help stopping Xserver
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 07:22:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 24-Apr-100 Red Hat linux 6.1
>:need hel.. by "Marco Mapelli"@usa.net
>> I currently use Red Hat Linux 6.1. I configured it
>> to login thru the graphical interface.
>> I tried to use the combination of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
>> but I find myself thrown back to graphical login.
>> Can anyone suggest me how to return to console
>> mode.
>
> *sigh*
>
> Another FAQ...
>
> Quick primer:
>
> - RH, and Linux in general, uses the concept of 'runlevels'.
> Most commonly, one 'runlevel' corresponds to shutdown, one
> to single-user mode, sometimes one to multiuser w/o NFS,
> one to multiuser w/ NFS... and fairly frequently, one to
> a graphical login.
>
> Graphical login tends to be run level 6.
> Multi-user modes (w/ text login) tend to be run level 2 and 3.
> With a very high probability (i.e. basically 1) Red Hat
> maintained its habit of commenting /etc/inittab to explain
> which is which.
Runlevel 6 is reboot. Graphical login with RedHat is runlevel 5, with
SuSE, it was 3. And yeah, as late as RH 6.0, RedHat was commenting about
what runlevel ment which in /etc/inittab.
> - /etc/inittab specifies the behavior of each runlevel, such as
> what programs are run for each. In addition, it specifies
> which is the default runlevel for when the system boots.
>
> See 'man init' for details.
>
> - Basically, you'll want to (as root) edit /etc/inittab. Find
> the line that specifies the initdefault (id:). It likely
> specifies 6, which should correspond to graphical login.
> Change it to a more standard multi-user text-login mode, such
> as (probably) 3. This should take effect next boot.
>
> It won't change your current session, however. For that,
> 'init 3' (or subst. appropriate runlevel) should help...
Other than the mistake of runlevel 6, the rest of your post is correct.
Keven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nobody in peculiar...)
Subject: Re: Red Hat linux 6.1 :need help stopping Xserver
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 07:24:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marco Mapelli wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I currently use Red Hat Linux 6.1. I configured it
>> to login thru the graphical interface.
>> I tried to use the combination of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
>> but I find myself thrown back to graphical login.
>> Can anyone suggest me how to return to console
>> mode.
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Marco Mapelli
>
> At the command line of an xterm enter:
>
> telinit 3 [enter]
>
> This will take you to a text console without rebooting.
> If you wish to go back into X then you would simply enter:
>
> telinit 5 [enter]
>
> If you want it to always boot to a text console:
>
> vi /etc/inittab
> And change this line:
>
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> To: id:3:initdefault:
Or, if you just wanna log in to a text console once in awhile when you
boot up, type 'linux 3' at the LILO: prompt.
Keven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Knews
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 07:28:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have just installed Knews, and I am trying to launch it: the window
>> appears, but I only get the message "Connected to server; reading active
>> file..." (.newsrc-<myNewsServer> ?). And it never ends up with it !
>> Please could someone give me an explanation for this ? Thanks in advance
>> for any answer.
>
> It's downloading the entire group list. After a very long time, it will give
> you the opportunity to subscribe/unsubscribe for groups.
>
> It will do this every time you run it unless you set a setting in the
> newsrc-<host.domain> file (can't recall the option name, don't have
> it installed any more, something like read active file).
>From my ~/.knews/config-news<hostname> file:
! Automatically generated knews config file. Rows beginning
! with ! are comments. Below are some commented-out defaults.
! Change and uncomment some of them if you wish.
!
! The environment variables below are only for illustrative
! purposes; they won't work here since there is no shell to
! expand them. On the other hand, knews will expand ~ file
! names in most cases, but not in #include's, since it's Xlib
! that handles those.
! newsrcFile: ~/.newsrc-%s
! oldNewsrcFile: ~/.oldnewsrc-%s
! killFile: ~/.kill-%s
readActiveFile: False
retrieveDescriptions: False
fillNewsrcFile: True
! tryListActive: True
! checkForNewGroups: True
! rescanTimeout: 60
! askHowMany: False
! postingAgent:
! threadAheadGroups: white space separated list of groups
! cacheDir: ~/.knews/cache-%s
descriptionsFile: ~/.knews/cache-%s/descriptions
! saveThreadInfo: False
! groupNameColumns: 42
<much deleted. you get the idea...>
Keven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nobody in peculiar...)
Subject: Re: microsoft word on linux
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 07:52:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Eugenio Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>> Is there a program that allows me to view (not necessarily edit)
>> a microsoft word document under Linux?
>
> Word Perfect for Linux, I believe, can open and view Word documents.
> I read today in a trade publication that it can actually save documents
> as .doc. Of course, WP does cost money. If you are looking for
> free software that does this then I am not sure what to suggest.
I hadda take some old Word 2.0 files over to a buddy who had M$ Orifice
installed to convert them to RTF files. Star Office 5.1 didn't wanna deal
with them at all, & WP for Linux 8.0 barfed on them as well. Word 2.0's a
pretty old format, which is why it isn't supported as well as current
versions, I guess...
Keven
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat linux 6.1 :need help stopping Xserver
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 17:58:15 +1000
or at graphical login press alt + ctrl + f1 to get to a regular consol.
alt + f7 or F8 get you back to a graphical login.
Nobody in peculiar... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:NYtR4.375$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Marco Mapelli wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I currently use Red Hat Linux 6.1. I configured it
> >> to login thru the graphical interface.
> >> I tried to use the combination of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
> >> but I find myself thrown back to graphical login.
> >> Can anyone suggest me how to return to console
> >> mode.
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> Marco Mapelli
> >
> > At the command line of an xterm enter:
> >
> > telinit 3 [enter]
> >
> > This will take you to a text console without rebooting.
> > If you wish to go back into X then you would simply enter:
> >
> > telinit 5 [enter]
> >
> > If you want it to always boot to a text console:
> >
> > vi /etc/inittab
> > And change this line:
> >
> > id:5:initdefault:
> >
> > To: id:3:initdefault:
>
>
> Or, if you just wanna log in to a text console once in awhile when you
> boot up, type 'linux 3' at the LILO: prompt.
>
> Keven
>
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