Linux-Misc Digest #525, Volume #24 Fri, 19 May 00 13:13:02 EDT
Contents:
VGA text mode problem, notebook / ATI ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: database application ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Add new Font problem? (Rafael Przybyszewski)
StarImpress 5.1 use question (Amanda Baker)
Re: Announce: Motif release to Open Source Community leads to Open Motif
Everywhere (Rod Smith)
Re: hosts.deny fills up redundantly (Praedor Tempus)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux (Timothy Murphy)
How do I install sofware, must I use yast2 ?? ("Rick")
Re: add a second root-account (Matt)
Re: tar question (juan angel uribe)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Leslie Mikesell)
REAL3D Startfighter Video ("Sukumar Thirunarayanan")
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Memory unrecognized (not the >64M problem!) (Jochen Reitzig)
Re: /opt verus /usr/local (Dave Brown)
sendmail daemon start slow after changing hostname (kaming)
Re: NIS group issues (greg tomczyk)
Re: NIS group issues (greg tomczyk)
Re: How can I read the volume id of a CDROM? (fred smith)
Re: swap-free error message??? what is this? ("Ad Koster")
sendmail question ("Kirk R. Wythers")
Re: Add new Font problem? (Steve)
Re: sendmail daemon start slow after changing hostname (Steve)
Re: How do I install sofware, must I use yast2 ?? (Steve)
Re: printer filters - NEWBIE HELP PLEASE (Steve)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: VGA text mode problem, notebook / ATI
Date: 19 May 2000 14:15:05 GMT
I have a notebook with a card that appears to be something like an ATI
Mach64 (at least X runs OK with the Mach64 driver). I usually prefer VGA
text modes much over graphic screens, but on this machine I can't get
them working properly (I'm runing SuSE 6.4).
1. Whatever I try - SVGATextMode or atyfb frame bufer modes -, there
won't be more than 80 characters on a line. Is that normal behaviour
of notebook cards (screens)?
2. With atyfb, the cursor is always white (instead of inverting), which
makes it invisible on a white background. Any way to change this?
Regards,
Bernd
--
Bernd Eggink
Regionales Rechenzentrum der Uni Hamburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/eggink/BEggink.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: database application
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:09:50 GMT
On Thu, 18 May 2000 12:35:13 -0400, Parminder Lehal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>try postgres and perl
>or postgres/java combination.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> i need to write a personnel info system/payroll application for my
>> friend whose soho (30 staff) is migrating from windows to linux. i
>> have no web programming experience (java,perl,etc.), but i did some
>> application in ms-access and sap abap/4. what software(s) should i
>> use? thanks very much.
Go to one of the OpenSource archive sites for software (freshmeat,
AppWatch, ...) and see what sorts of things are already out there.
Spend a day or 2 doing this. When you have a list of what's available
and what capabilities all of this stuff has (and what languages they
are written in, packages they use, ...), figure out what it is you
need (maybe you have done this all ready). If none of the packages
that are available suit your needs, find the one(s) that are closest
and accessible (written in languages you best understand). Then
modify that program to suit your needs. Consider rewriting it in the
most general way you can and re-releasing your modifications either
back to the author(s) or to the OpenSource community.
Gord
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From: Rafael Przybyszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Add new Font problem?
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:27:46 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One day I added fonts and everythink worked okey. Today I forgot how to
do it. I copied new Type1 fonts but can not create fonts.dir file using
mkfontdir. Where is the trick to do this.
Rafael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Amanda Baker)
Subject: StarImpress 5.1 use question
Date: 19 May 2000 14:32:13 GMT
Greetings,
(Apologies if this is the wrong newsgroup).
I need to crop an image in a StarImpress slide. The function
supposed to be Format-Picture... Crop _but_ there is no 'Picture' option
on the Format drop-down menu, and therefore, I cannot access the Crop
tab! Is there a keyboard shortcut?
Many thanks,
Amanda Baker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Dr Amanda Baker
--
N2.03 x 5121 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.astro.cf.ac.uk/pub/Amanda.Baker
Dept. Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, PO Box 913, Wales CF24 3YB
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Announce: Motif release to Open Source Community leads to Open Motif
Everywhere
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:32:01 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <6A1V4.97220$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) writes:
>
> And if most newer apps are deployed using GTK (which is getting fairly
> common; witness ApplixWare)
Has this changed with 5.0? The 4.x releases relied upon their own
proprietary GUI toolkit, which people have mistaken for all sorts of
things.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hosts.deny fills up redundantly
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:55:53 -0600
David Turley wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 May 2000 10:20:31 -0600, Praedor Tempus apparently wrote:
> > I am running portsentry on my system. I find that every day entries to
> > my hosts.deny increases, which would be fine if the new entries WERE
> > always new. Instead, I get a couple new/unique entries added to
> > hosts.deny but, by far, the majority of entries are redundant. I end
> > up with a file loaded with repeated entries of the same IP address.
>
> why use the hosts.deny feature? All you need in /etc/host.deny is
>
> ALL: ALL
>
[...]
Well, that's nice and clean but it wont prevent my hosts.deny from
filling
up automatically. This would simply change the hosts.deny cleanup
script
to periodically take hosts.deny and delete everything except ALL: ALL.
In any case, I rather like having a list of addresses that have tried
doing something that portsentry thought was naughty...so I can check out
the addresses personally to determine if they are innocuous or not (I
often run scans on those that do it to me, for instance, to try to get
a feel for their possible intentions).
I am not yet learned on writing scripts on linux but I take it that your
second example,
"ALL: ALL : spawn (echo Attempt from %h %a to %d at `date` | tee -a
/var/log/tcp.deny.log | mail root )",
would do the same thing and send root mail with a list of those ip
addresses
that set off the alarms? As it is I have logcheck running and get mail
to root periodically with that information contained within it, plus any
other unusual/notable log entries.
praedor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux
Date: 19 May 2000 15:46:07 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) writes:
>Unix is a registered trademark of Bell Labs, and as such, only OSes that
>contain code from there and/or have been vetted/approved by Bell Labs can
>legally call themselves Unix.
Surely Bell Labs sold Unix years ago ?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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From: "Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I install sofware, must I use yast2 ??
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:46:06 +0200
Ho on earth can someone install software on a linux machine.....Do I have to
use yast2..if yes, then how ? I use SuSE 6.4 the manual does not mention a
word about it...The HOW TO's wich can be found on the internet only show
installation procedures of linux itself.
The manuals also show what you have to type on a command line........well
where is that command line ?
Am I missing something ??
With kind regards, Rick
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: add a second root-account
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 15:57:57 +0100
>
> and personally i am not payed at all. i am not in charge of a network of
> any kind. actually i am majoring in philosophy. epistemology (theory of
> knowledge), and messing around with my puter for fun.
>
Stick to philosphy. And it was probably a wise move studying the theory of
knowledge - as practice of the subject could put you in serious trouble
>
> one prominent feature of the human mind is that even the most periferal
> piece of knowledge can show itself useful via analogical implementation.
>
Maybe you are posting in the wrong group?
>
> and when i feel i am done with my experimenting i will have more
> experience than the books can give me.
> that will provide a pretty good ground for forming 'good habits' upon,
> don't you agree.
>
I think you shouldn't be so uptight with people trying to help you.
> perhaps i will have a better sense of how things are connected, what
> causes what and what might happen when i do this or that (than if i
> would have read a book on 'good sysadmining habits').
>
I suggest you *should* purchase a book. You may think you can learn
everything on your own, and posting questions here, but books usually
offer insights to problems you would not think to ask questions about.
(but then a philosophy student should know this).
Matt.
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From: juan angel uribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar question
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 07:56:15 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks that definitely worked.
-juan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: 19 May 2000 09:56:27 -0500
In article <8g31si$6ri$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>/opt is for independent packages. But there is a new fsstd coming up.
Oh good - we didn't have quite enough standard layouts already...
Are they finally going to abstract it out to a centralized
local configuration setting that controls where things land
when installed or do we have to look forward to another decade
of revisions whenever some committee feels like meeting?
>: feeling that his choice is more "logical." However, the benefits for
>: having a common directory structure would be large. In particular, people
>
>There is one.
More like 20 - and they still don't correctly address issues of
having local copies AND (perhaps multiple) network-mounted directories
of the same thing, or things where the config files should be
network-shared but not the binaries or vice-versa.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Sukumar Thirunarayanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: REAL3D Startfighter Video
Date: 19 May 2000 15:01:03 GMT
I installed i740 Driver and the XF86Config that came along with it. The
readme file says that this driver was tested for REAL3D Startfighter Video
Card. When I execute XF86Config it doesn't list REAL3D Startfighter Video
Card. Please let me of any suggestions or direct me to the right message
board/ News group. No response when I sent an email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank You
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: 19 May 2000 10:05:39 -0500
In article <8g2oqh$4ij$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: On an stock rpm-installed Redhat - and Mandrake:
>: /usr/bin/netscape
>: /usr/bin/netscape-communicator
>: /usr/bin/netscape-navigator
>
>:-). Well, that's wrong then. Netscape is not part of a distribution
>in any sense I can think of and its the single thing that's most likely
>not to have come from the original distro o my system.
RedHat seems to take the approach that if they are allowed to
include it on the CD, it is part of the distribution and belongs
in /usr/bin.
>Surely it should
>go in /opt! I.e. "large package put together by someone else". Or has
>someone finally understood a sufficient fraction of the source to
>actually be able to compile it meaningfully?
You can go to extremes either way - from any Linux packager's perspective
almost everything is ultimately done by someone else but the object
is to simplify the system as installed. I kind of like the /opt
configuration as a means to have a potential mount point there, but
I'd really rather have more thought put into what should be network
mounts, or a decent overlay filesystems to completely hide the
cruft. For the moment I'm willing to throw a 3 gig partition at
a combined / and /user and just not worry about it. It's hard to
buy a drive less than 8 gigs these days anyway.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jochen Reitzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Memory unrecognized (not the >64M problem!)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:59:40 +0200
"Sam E. Trenholme" wrote:
>
> >I don't think I have any such thing. I was wondering if I have to set any
> >jumpers or something like that to make it recognize more memory.
>
> Certain combinations of memory sizes do not work with those old 486
> motherboards.
>
> - Sam
>
> --
> Please post, and not email, questions you have about my answers
> Go to http://samiam.org/cgi-bin/mailme to get my email address
Try to append the Kernelparameter mem=whatever
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: /opt verus /usr/local
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 May 2000 09:56:55 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Bob Tennent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
>> I suggest using /opt for packages that insist on being kept together
>> under a directory. This is usually the case for commercial packages
>> such as WordPerfect. Use /usr/local for packages that distribute
>> themselves into standard sub-directories such as bin, lib, man, etc, src,
>> include, and so on. But "whole" packages can go under /usr/local as well.
>
>Another thing to consider is the size of the package. Things that're
>huge, like KDE, Gnome, WP, etc also tend to go into /opt.
Since I have 2 Linux partitions on each of my machines, Slackware and RedHat,
(Note 1), and share /home, /opt, and /var/spool/mail between them, I
use /opt for applications such as WP and Acrobat that are not part of either
distribution, but needed in both. I can also network mount /opt to machines
that don't have such installed. I use /usr/local for software that's
part of one distro but not part of the other, (and for look-see's at stuff
that I might want to try out).
There's just as big a discrepancy (FHS notwithstanding) to apps that
want to install in /usr/lib. And occasionally /var/lib. And where to
put source code that you download? --/usr/local/src, /usr/src, etc.?
(Note 1: used Slackware for years, but have to support RH customers.
Note also that to share /home and /var/spool/mail, you have to keep
UIDs and GIDs in sync between the two.)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: kaming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sendmail daemon start slow after changing hostname
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 23:33:05 +0800
Hello all,
For RedHat Linux 6.2, I have changed the host name by "hostname
newhostname". After reboot, the sendmail daemon start very slow (hang
about for several minutes). Do any one know how to solved this? what
file should I edit...
Thanx a lots!
Henry Chui
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From: greg tomczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: NIS group issues
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:50:02 -0700
Thorsten,
Thanks for the response, but forgiver me as I am not understanding your
comment. I have read the Makefile. Are you saying the make file needs to be
tweaked the AWK statement, for the group map? Right now it is an if statement
that lets you either merge with the gshadow or not. We are choosing not to
merge with the gshadow.
or are you saying that I do not know enough about linux such that Linux just
does not like group id's lower than 999? My apologies for being slow on this
one.
Greg
Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In comp.os.linux.networking greg tomczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello gang, I hope all is well. I have come to seek the advice of the
> > NIS gods again.
>
> > This is my last little problem. I have two Redhat 6.2 machines serving
> > as NIS master and slave to Solaris and linux clients. Everything is
> > working tip top except the group file. When I do a ypcat group the only
> > information I get back are groups with a gid greater than 999. Any
> > groups defined with a gid less than 999 are not pushed out. I further
> > tested this by creating 2 new groups, one with a GID 500 and the other
> > GID of 10000 and thn ran my make. The group file was updated and pushed
> > and only the group with the GID of 10000 appeared in the NIS database.
>
> > Is there a problem with Linux version of YP and the group file. My
> > production environment has about 20 or so groups defined with GIDs
> > under 999. For example I have the group testdev::111: and webdev::222:
> > etc... and none of them show up when I do a ypcat.
>
> > Does anyone know what is happening?
>
> Yes, before you install a NIS server, you should configure it.
> Look at /var/yp/Makefile.
>
> Thorsten
>
> --
> Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg
> Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
> cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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From: greg tomczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: NIS group issues
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 09:16:13 -0700
Thorsten...
never mind.. I found out what you were referring to the MINGID variable
every now and then the mouse in my head stops
Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In comp.os.linux.networking greg tomczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello gang, I hope all is well. I have come to seek the advice of the
> > NIS gods again.
>
> > This is my last little problem. I have two Redhat 6.2 machines serving
> > as NIS master and slave to Solaris and linux clients. Everything is
> > working tip top except the group file. When I do a ypcat group the only
> > information I get back are groups with a gid greater than 999. Any
> > groups defined with a gid less than 999 are not pushed out. I further
> > tested this by creating 2 new groups, one with a GID 500 and the other
> > GID of 10000 and thn ran my make. The group file was updated and pushed
> > and only the group with the GID of 10000 appeared in the NIS database.
>
> > Is there a problem with Linux version of YP and the group file. My
> > production environment has about 20 or so groups defined with GIDs
> > under 999. For example I have the group testdev::111: and webdev::222:
> > etc... and none of them show up when I do a ypcat.
>
> > Does anyone know what is happening?
>
> Yes, before you install a NIS server, you should configure it.
> Look at /var/yp/Makefile.
>
> Thorsten
>
> --
> Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg
> Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
> cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I read the volume id of a CDROM?
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:01:35 GMT
rgb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm a refugee from the WinDoze world. I've tried obvious names,
: apropos, etc. and for the life of me I can't seem to find a Linux
: command that will return the volume ID of a mounted CDROM. I can't
: imagine there isn't such a command, I must just be looking in the
: wrong places. Can someone point me in the right direction?
: Thanks,
: Dick
Here's an ugly hack I put together a few years ago to do exactly what
you ask. I'm sure there must be a better way to do it, but this one does
work, so in my ignorance I use it.
Take the source code below (I call it getvn.c), compile it:
cc getvn.c -o getvn
insert your CD into the drive, DO NOT MOUNT IT, then run:
getvn /dev/<xxx>
where <xxx> is the cdrom.
Fred
================================================================================
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main (int argc, char ** argv)
{
int fd;
char buf[12];
if (argc != 2)
{
printf ("Usage: %s <cdrom devicename>\n", argv[0]);
exit (0);
}
fd = open (argv[1], O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0)
{
printf ("oops! Error opening device %s\n", argv[1]);
exit (1);
}
if (lseek (fd, (long) 0x8028, SEEK_SET) != (long) 0x8028)
{
printf ("oops! Error seeking device %s\n", argv[1]);
exit (1);
}
if (read (fd, buf, 11) != 11)
{
printf ("oops! Error reading device %s\n", argv[1]);
exit (1);
}
close (fd);
printf ("Volume name in device %s: %s\n", argv[1], buf);
return (0);
}
================================================================================
--
---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of
heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
============================== Matthew 7:21 (niv) =============================
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From: "Ad Koster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: swap-free error message??? what is this?
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:25:36 +0100
In article <20773247197ED211B6590060080C464878FB65@CBS_SERVER>, David
Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Came in in the morning and found this on the linux server: swap-free:
> swap-space map bad entry... this was followed by what I presume to be
> sector references which were just constantly scrolled up the screen as
> they changed. What exactly does this mean?? is there a way in linux to
> perform a physical scan of the swap-space partition?????
>
Recently I had the same problems with Linux and sof far I have not been
able to solve them.
One of the tips I received told me that this message could point to bad
internal memory.
Greetings
Ad koster [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 45956122
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From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail question
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:40:08 -0500
How do I "safely quit out of the sendmail prompt (>) after running
sendmail -bt?
Thanks,
Kirk
--
Kirk R. Wythers University of Minnesota
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Forest Resources
Tel: 612.625.22611530 Cleveland Ave. N.
Fax: 612 625.5212 Saint Paul, MN 55108
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Add new Font problem?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 May 2000 17:43:02 GMT
On Fri, 19 May 2000 16:27:46 +0200, Rafael Przybyszewski wrote:
>One day I added fonts and everythink worked okey. Today I forgot how to
>do it. I copied new Type1 fonts but can not create fonts.dir file using
>mkfontdir. Where is the trick to do this.
>
>Rafael
>
Try man mkfontdir there's lots of information in there.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
4:40pm up 2 days, 44 min, 4 users, load average: 1.29, 1.11, 1.03
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: sendmail daemon start slow after changing hostname
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 May 2000 17:43:01 GMT
On Fri, 19 May 2000 23:33:05 +0800, kaming wrote:
>Hello all,
>
> For RedHat Linux 6.2, I have changed the host name by "hostname
>newhostname". After reboot, the sendmail daemon start very slow (hang
>about for several minutes). Do any one know how to solved this? what
>file should I edit...
It was probably regenerating some of the sendmail databases tha it takes
it's configuration from or something.
Don't keep rebooting just because you've changed something, this aint
windows:
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart
That should do the trick. I only ever reboot go get my internal modem
back, but may never have to again as some kind soul emailed me with a
possible work around for this.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
4:40pm up 2 days, 44 min, 4 users, load average: 1.29, 1.11, 1.03
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: How do I install sofware, must I use yast2 ??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 May 2000 17:43:01 GMT
On Fri, 19 May 2000 16:46:06 +0200, Rick wrote:
>Ho on earth can someone install software on a linux machine.....Do I have to
>use yast2..if yes, then how ? I use SuSE 6.4 the manual does not mention a
>word about it...The HOW TO's wich can be found on the internet only show
>installation procedures of linux itself.
>The manuals also show what you have to type on a command line........well
>where is that command line ?
>Am I missing something ??
Well you're in a graphical desktop environment, open up an xterm or some other
terminal window, these should be available from your menus, you can set xterms
and rxvts or kterms or whatever up as icons, or in gnome you can ritht click
with the mouse on some blank space on the desktop and from the context menu
select the gnome terminal option. Alternitively you can exit X and use
teh console or even CTRL-ALT-Fkey (Fkey is one of the F keys 123456), to
a console.
If you d/l an RPM file then read "man rpm" I don't know if your distro supports
rpm or not. You can access the man pages by doing:
$ man command
Type this in a termina window or at the prompt in a console session, command
would be replaced by any command that you're interested in eg "man rpm".
If you've d/l'd a tar.gz file then do:
$ tar -xzvf some_file_ive_downloaded.tar.gz
This will usually create a new directory and unpack all of these new files into
it. Enter that new directory (you'll see it doing this when you execute the tar
command as shown above), read the README, README.TXT, READMR.1ST, INSTALL or
INSTALL.TXT files which are in that directory and they will tell you how to
install that particular package.
To learn more about Yast and what it can do for you try typing man yast or
man yast2 at the prompt, man pages tend to be case sensetive so you might
have to try something like man YAST. I don't know anything about Yast but
there are questions posted here on the NG regularly, it might be worth
scroling back and reading some of the previous threads.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: printer filters - NEWBIE HELP PLEASE
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 May 2000 17:43:02 GMT
On Fri, 19 May 2000 15:43:04 +0200, Alessandro Magni wrote:
>can somebody tell me where,
>on a RH6.1 system,
>are the printer filters? I know I can choose them with printtool,
>but I'd like to browse their directory.
>
Try something like /var/spool/lpd/ljet4/filter and also have a look
at /etc/printcap (I think this is a file containing filters not
a directory) and check the man page for printcap.
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