Linux-Misc Digest #526, Volume #24 Fri, 19 May 00 15:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: CDROM problem (James Stevenson)
Re: sendmail daemon start slow after changing hostname (Bob Tennent)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Backup PSX cd in Linux? (brian moore)
Re: sendmail daemon start slow after changing hostname (Prasanth Kumar)
Help w/ install on HP5500 ("Daniel Nell")
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (brian moore)
Re: PPTP Help: Winnt pptp through a Linux Firewall (Yan Seiner)
Re: clock skew problem (Yan Seiner)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (brian moore)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (brian moore)
Re: add a second root-account (alex k)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Tim Hockin)
Re: Just a Black screen in Gnome-terminal? ("Kevin Vandersloot")
Booting hangs up on 'PCMCIA Card Service' (Damir Cosic)
Re: /opt verus /usr/local (JEDIDIAH)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (JEDIDIAH)
Re: WordPerfect (JEDIDIAH)
Re: WYSIWYG web page generator (JEDIDIAH)
CRON fails to run job (Jay Hall)
Re: Maximum Linux (Paul Grayson)
Cannot assign scancode to keycode (Anthony Clark)
Suspend/hibernate problem with Thinkpad 560 (Xinhua Zhao)
Re: Calendar? ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Stevenson)
Subject: Re: CDROM problem
Date: 19 May 2000 14:01:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
are you sure linux is hanging have you tried a different
console because it should not hang.
what are you using to mount the cdrom drive ?
where is the cdrom drive ?? /dev/h??
i am not sure about SuSe 6.3 holding information
cya
James
On Fri, 19 May 2000 11:09:43 +0200, Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all
>
> A few days ago I noticed my CDROM drive was not working properly
>because some discs that could be read in other drives, did hang my
>computer (using Linux and aldo with windows).
> I bought a new CDROM drive and I could read the before mentioned discs
>with Windows, but Linux did still hang. The weird thing is that if I
>boot my Linux box with the boot CD (I use SUSE 6.3)and start the
>installed Linux I get no problems, but if a boot directly with the HD I
>can not mount ANY CDs and Linux hangs
>
> Does anybody know what's happening ?? Does Linux store some information
>about the instaled drives and it did no get updated ??
>
> Thank you
>
>
> Miguel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: sendmail daemon start slow after changing hostname
Date: 19 May 2000 17:08:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 19 May 2000 23:33:05 +0800, kaming wrote:
>
> 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...
>
/etc/hosts
/etc/sysconfig/network
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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 12:04:29 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Hauck <hauck[at]codem{dot}com> wrote:
>>>Oh yes you can! Try FTE. It does exactly all what you requested :-)
>>>http://fte.sourceforge.net/
>
>0.49.13 comes with a slang version called "sfte". It isn't compiled by
>default, you have to edit the TARGETS line in ~/src/fte-unix.mak. Seems
>to work ok on the console, with the PuTTY telnet client for Windows, and
>in a kvt (with the exception of c-pgup and c-pgdn not working) but the
>keybindings get funky in an xterm (hint: alt -> esc).
This is pretty nice - it seems to be mostly functional in a
kconsole window except for selecting with the shift-motion
keys. And it doesn't replace selected text when you type
on top of it.
>I'm still playing around with it (downloaded when I saw the previous post)
>so don't yet have a good feel for how well it will hold up over the long
>term. But it is in fact pretty easy to get started with for DOS/Win
>converts due to the CUA-style default key bindings and menus, so it'll
>probably end up staying on my system for that reason alone.
I think it would be nice to have as close as possible to a dos
EDIT clone for people's first encounter with Linux and for when
you have to talk someone through fixing a config file. A tiny
version for use on rescue floppies would be especially good.
Sfte looks pretty close for the user interface, but it is
pretty big with all the syntax parsing stuff.
But, back to the question of a university project: how about a
real overlay filesystem where you could mount something else
transparently over an existing directory. The main use would
be to make a 'master' tree on a CD or network that you could
mount read-only and overlay your custom files for the specific
machine. Or overlay a ramdisk on top of a source tree for
fast compile/link/install times.
An interesting variation would be to do something similar at the
block device level. Build a log of block-writes where the contents
are different than the matching device block (a gdbm file might
work) and satisfy reads from the log if the block exists.
You would also need some tools to start and stop the logging
with an option to merge the changes back.
Les Mikesell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Backup PSX cd in Linux?
Date: 19 May 2000 17:22:00 GMT
On Thu, 18 May 2000 23:21:47 -0400,
Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> I wonder if I can make Playstation backup cd in Linux... I think I have
> tried to mount the playstation CDs but those CDs could not be mounted.
No. See http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/faq03.html#[3-4] for why.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: Prasanth Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sendmail daemon start slow after changing hostname
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 17:24:03 GMT
Bob Tennent wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 May 2000 23:33:05 +0800, kaming wrote:
> >
> > 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...
> >
> /etc/hosts
> /etc/sysconfig/network
Enter a *fully qualified* hostname into the /etc/hosts file.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Daniel Nell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help w/ install on HP5500
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:42:53 -0700
I have an HP 5500 Laptop and when I install either Redhat 6.2 or Mandrake
6.5 the install hangs when it says "Probing found some type of mouse on
PS2AUX" for Mandrake and for Redhat it hangs after install all of the
packages.
Can anyone help!!!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
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 17:49:31 GMT
On 19 May 2000 09:56:27 -0500,
Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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...
No, we don't have enough detail and vendors that are anal about
following the rules.
> 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.
Why would you local -and- shared copies of the same thing?
You may want to look at /usr/share, which is precisely for things that
can be shared across platforms. (Man pages, docs, pixmaps,
soundfiles, dictionaries, all sorts of things should be living in
/usr/share -- I've got a couple hundred meg worth of stuff there)
See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPTP Help: Winnt pptp through a Linux Firewall
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:14:51 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Look in the pptpd mail archives. This has been rehashed so many times
(most recently a few days ago).
http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/pptp.html#mailinglist
--Yan
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote:
>
> Michael Bernardo wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to setup a Linux firewall to allow a Windows NT client from the
> > Internet to connect to our internal network. The firewall (RH6.1) is already
> > setup with ipchains, ipmasqadm, ppp, and pptpd. The Windows NT client
> > outside seems to get authenticated fine by the firewall, but then, NT
> > complains that it fails to negotiate. What I want to do is to be able to
> > map Windows NT drives through pptp over the Internet. Has anyone been able
> > to do this? Can anyone lead me to a more specific HOW-TO about my problem?
> > Thanks.
>
> Look for the "VPN masquerade" HOWTO at Tucows.com
>
> --
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> | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com |
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: clock skew problem
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:10:24 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
man tickadj
- but -
this sounds like broken hardware somewhere.
I have had an ISA parallel port board cause exactly this type of
problem.
ntp daeomon cannot adjust out this kind of error - it can only handle
about 30 seconds per day.
--Yan
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jinning He
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]I have my redhat linux 6.1 coexisting with winNT. The clock is ok with NT
> ]but in linux, it's always slow, about 6 minutes slow every hour. Each time
> ]I reboot the machine, the time will be adjusted to the correct time but
> ]then after a couple of days, it will be several hours behind. I have to
> ]use 'date' command to manually adjust it when I have clock skew sensitive
> ]applications. Is there a way to fix the clock permanently ?
>
> ]By the way, I installed the same release on several machines and only one
> ]of them has the problem . Thanks.
>
> No idea of why, but get and install chrony, and ntp daemon which will
> keep your system in sync with atomic clocks (assuming you are connected
> to the net)
>
> ] -- Jinning
--
Think different
ride a recumbent
use Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
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 17:53:10 GMT
On 19 May 2000 07:00:33 GMT,
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.development Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> :>I use /usr/local for things that weren't in my original system and
> :>aren't likely to be in it for the foreseeable future. Netscape would
> :>be an example, though I can't think of any good ones.
>
> : 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. 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?
Hrrm? Netscape is in the 'non-free' portion of debian and comes with
most (all?) other (non-tiny) distributions as well.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
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 17:56:28 GMT
On 19 May 2000 01:07:29 -0500,
Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Never, never, never let user who doesn't understand things tweak the
> >> config files. For such users remote sysadmin service via SSH should be
> >> provided.
> >
> >Huh?
> >
> >Are you suggesting we start up a Centralized Linux Administration
> >Bureau or something? And remember that not all computers are on a
> >network, and very few of them are on one all the time.
>
> I've suggested something similar on the freebsd newsgroup before
> because they need it even worse, but they seem to think everyone
> should learn to be an expert.
>
> I think what we really need is some number of well-maintained
> 'master' system images (somewhere between 10 and 100 would
> suffice, but the number doesn't matter) and some tools
> to sync up your system to the master without breaking things
> due to hardware differences. Good system administrators
> would each maintain their own 'ideal' system as the master
> copy, tuned for whatever purpose they want. They would
> document the philosophy of the configuration (i.e. the
> purpose, not the details) and keep everything up to date,
> adding new things as they become available. This is work
> every system administrator does anyway - we just need the
> tools to share it easily. Then, instead of everyone having
> to configure and tune their own system, they would just pick
> a setup already built that matches their needs and periodically
> sync up any updates. There would still be a small amount of
> local setup to do, but the bulk of the work could be done.
That sounds like Debian.
Debian makes the sysadmin's job trivial.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: alex k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: add a second root-account
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 20:03:12 +0000
Matt wrote:
>
> 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
practicing knowledge (or epistemology?) could put me in serious trouble?
like in 1984 you mean? :)
> > 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?
lol, yes it's turning out to look that way...
> > 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.
uptight?
i would think it's people here who are pretty uptight with me asking
about creating an additional rootaccount.
> > 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).
did i say i am doing this -instead- of reading books?
i read and i try. read and try. and then sometimes i get an idea which
isn't mentioned in the books... then what do i do?
i try it.
do you mind?
> Matt.
/ alex
--
.
.
... ak42 at kurir dot net ...
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 18:02:57 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: How about an easy-to-use text editor ? (console, not GUI please :) ?
vi is very easy to use. People are so afraid of vi. learn how to hit
<esc>. The only things you REALLY need are:
i
u
d
:w
:q
!
/
then you'll want
y
o
a
G
gg
:<num>
:g
:r
--
Tim Hockin
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This program has been brought to you by the language C and the number F.
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From: "Kevin Vandersloot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Just a Black screen in Gnome-terminal?
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:08:29 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have problem with gnome-terminal, I just have a Black Screen and with
> no Prompt, so no command can be types!
>
> Does any one know why? it worked before! but now only the KDE terminal
> work!
>
> Thank for your help! and Look forward seeing your reply!
>
> Kevin
>
Here is a possibility. Gnome-terminal gives
you the ability to change the color of the
text and background. Perhaps they both
got set to black so all you see is a black screen
even though the text is actually there. Try typing
netscape and pressing return to see if the terminal
is working. If worst comes to worst you can
always delete the Terminal file in you .gnome directory
which will restore the default configuration of the
gnome-terminal.
Hope that helps
Kevin
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From: Damir Cosic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Booting hangs up on 'PCMCIA Card Service'
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 12:17:38 -0600
I installed Caldera's Open Linux 2.3 on a Laptop
computer with D-Link DFE-650 PCMCI network card.
Installation process was smooth and the card was
detected. After first reboot network was fully
functional.
Then machine got frozen. I couldn't relate this
freezing with any particular action.
When I restarted machine and booting process
reached 'PCMCIA Card Services', it hung up there
and there was nothing I could do. The same thing
happened on all subsequent reboots.
I really don't even have any idea where to start,
so any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Damir Cosic
Fat Pipe Networks
p: 801-281-3434 x: 236
f: 801-281-0317
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Subject: Re: /opt verus /usr/local
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:20:12 GMT
On 18 May 2000 22:23:39 -0700, Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Are you all unaware of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard?
>(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-toc.html)
>Or are you disagreeing about what it says?
>
What's to disagree with?
That doc says that /usr/local is an iteration of /usr reserved for
'local use' and /opt conforms to the /opt/<atomic package> format.
This is not significantly different than how both have been used
for 5+ years now on Linux and Solaris.
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In what language does 'open' mean 'execute the evil contents of' |||
a document? --Les Mikesell / | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:22:20 GMT
On 19 May 2000 04:57:13 GMT, David Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I am attempting to start a college project and have two of my
>>ideas already being worked on. So I wanted to know what other people
>>had for suggestions for linux projects? I was thinking of something
>>along the lines of a project that would help promote the use of linux.
>>What is something that most people could use? Something that could
>>make a good 1 year R&D project?
>>
>
>Howabout better printer support? To someone switching from windoze, the
>printer setup can be rather difficult. Better yet, why not just write a driver
>for the Xerox p8? ;) hehe...
Better yet... good colospace conversion for RGB -> CMYK...
--
In what language does 'open' mean 'execute the evil contents of' |||
a document? --Les Mikesell / | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:22:59 GMT
On 19 May 2000 02:22:26 GMT, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 18 May 2000 22:56:30 GMT JEDIDIAH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How does it compare to SO5 in terms of responsiveness?
>
>Dramatically slower and buggier, on my system and in my experience.
That is SCARY.
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In what language does 'open' mean 'execute the evil contents of' |||
a document? --Les Mikesell / | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG web page generator
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:24:50 GMT
On Thu, 18 May 2000 22:30:04 -0700, Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>"JEDIDIAH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>> On Thu, 18 May 2000 20:57:19 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Mark Wilden writes:
>
>> >> To those of us who write commercial sites, the look can be _more_
>important
>> >> than the content.
>
>> >Io those of us who read commercial sites the look almost always gets in
>the
>> >way of the content. The overwhelming majority of commercial sites are
>> >ugly, overcomplicated, full of spurious graphics, and hard to use.
>
>> This can even be viewed as a drag by the upper management of
>> those very same companies...
>
>The trouble with most commercial sites is that there is no content, a fact
>that companies try to disguise by distracting readers with graphics.
That wasn't the case in this instance. Even 'content' can be
obscured by too much fluff.
--
In what language does 'open' mean 'execute the evil contents of' |||
a document? --Les Mikesell / | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: Jay Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CRON fails to run job
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:30:12 GMT
I have created a script to download virus definition updates nightly. The
script runs fine using at or if I simply type
in /Data/VirusUpdate/update. However, if the job is scheduled with
crontab, I get no output into my mail and the job does not appear to run.
Following is the script
ftp -in ftp.nai.com << SCRIPT
user anonymous XXXXXXXXXX
cd /pub/antivirus/datfiles/4.x
lcd XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
mget *.upd
mget *.zip
mget *.INI
bye
SCRIPT
My crontab entry is as follows
04 13 * * * /Data/VirusUpdate/update
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in adavnce.
Jay
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From: Paul Grayson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Maximum Linux
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 23:06:31 +0100
Garry Knight wrote:
>
> Does anybody know of a retail outlet in or near London that sells the US
> magazine Maximum Linux?
>
Borders on Oxford Street, perhaps.
--
Paul Grayson - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft should not be split up - they should be shut down!
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From: Anthony Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cannot assign scancode to keycode
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:52:52 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to get my MS Natural Keyboard pro's extra keys working under
the Console or X. I thought I would walk before I ran so...
I run showkey -s and hit the "back" key (it's at the top left above the
escape key) and I get "0xe0 0x6a" on key down and "0xe0 0xea" on key up.
"man setkeycodes" tells me that I can use the key down code "e06a" in
the command "setkeycodes e06a 120" to set my back key to keycode 120.
However, If I now press the back key, messages tells me "kernel:
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 6a"
Can anyone tell me what is going on?
This is before trying my luck with loadkeys to get the back key to
actually do anything...
Anthony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Xinhua Zhao)
Subject: Suspend/hibernate problem with Thinkpad 560
Date: 19 May 2000 11:56:07 -0700
I have a weird problem with my Thinkpad 560. I can suspend and then
resume it just *once* after rebooting it. But all subsequent suspend
requests will result in failures: "unable to enter requested state".
I'm running 2.2.14 kernel, apmd version 3.0final, PCMCIA package 3.1.13.
I've played with APM options in compiling kernels with no luck. Has
anyone else seen this problem before? I would appreciate any suggestion
you might have.
Thanks,
Xinhua
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Calendar?
Date: 19 May 2000 18:46:18 GMT
FyreFiend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Thank you for replying.
: I was looking for something like the BSD program "calendar" which looks
: for the file ~/calendar. In that file are dates and comments. So if my
Standard unix utility. Download and compile. I think it's on debian at
least.
Peter
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