Linux-Misc Digest #534, Volume #24 Sat, 20 May 00 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: DOSemu Help (Carl Fink)
Login prompt without hostname (Volker Englisch)
I'm new to Linux, and am having trouble installing.... (Jeff)
module dependencies ("NetRanger")
Re: Kernel 2.2.14 and Sound problems (Jerry McBride)
Re: netscape cache (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Tweaking NT: clear-text passwords (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Anyone find VMware kernel version hassles? (Michael Kelly)
Re: Tekram DC315U/Adaptec AVA-2904 support? (Markus Kossmann)
Re: VIRUS ALERT- Linux/*BSD honour virus found (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Copying Harddisk (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Matthias Warkus)
Re: I'm new to Linux, and am having trouble installing.... (Mark Bratcher)
Re: chmod problem (Mark Bratcher)
Console font corruption (Vadim)
Re: Which Dist? (HTML) ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E. Larson))
Re: you ll love this!!!!! ("Jeffrey Lacy")
Linux as a firewall/blocking proxy? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Leslie Mikesell)
Problems w/ US Robotics Sportster 56K Fax/Data Serial Modem ("Ken Liu")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: DOSemu Help
Date: 20 May 2000 15:25:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20 May 2000 03:50:22 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have dosemu running fine, but when I load a DOS program like
>WordStar 7.0, I have no cursor in the program. There is a flashing
>underline off to the side.
Please keep your lines under 80 characters.
I get the same thing with all DOS programs running in an X window,
but switching to a VT (Alt-Ctrl-F1) and running them there works
fine.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I-Con's Science and Technology Programming
<http://www.iconsf.org/>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Englisch)
Subject: Login prompt without hostname
Date: 20 May 2000 11:32:23 GMT
Is there any way to get rid of the hostname in the login prompt without
editing and recompiling the kernel?
OS is Debian Linux kernel 2.0.34. As mentioned in some documentation,
the (a)getty ignores a /etc/gettydefs file. Also none of the unix books
lying around here give any other advice.
Any idea?
Volker
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From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I'm new to Linux, and am having trouble installing....
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 16:30:05 GMT
I know that must sound like a dumb question, but I don't know how to
compile the source code that you can get from downloading. For example, I
download a program and unzip it, then I have a lot of source code but no
actual program. Any help?? Thanks a bunch.
Jeff
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "NetRanger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: module dependencies
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 00:53:26 +0800
I'm having troubles with module dependencies once I recompile my new kernel
and modules. I'm running RedHat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.14-5.0).Once I boot into my
new kernel (2.2.14-5.0new) and it reaches the module dependency check, it
says that it can't open "/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0new /modules.dep" for
writing. I've tried doing "depmod -a 2.2.14-5.0new", which creates a
modules.dep in /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0new but that doesn't seem to work as
it displays the same message error message once rebooted. I've tried other
things but I seem to get nowhere. Yes, I have read ALL the texts, HOWTOS
regarding modules but the information seems to be outdated and very
inadequate. Any suggestions would be helpful.
--
NetRanger - public keys available at http://home.cyberarmy.com/potato
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever
enough to take indecent advantage of them."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry McBride)
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.14 and Sound problems
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 11:26:40 -0400
In article <8fjr66$s5d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just downloaded and compiled the 2.2.14 kernel. I have a few
>problems, i would appreciate help on:
>
> First off, I am running Red Hat 6.1 on a Compaq 5150, 128RAM, AMD-K6
>at 350 MHz.
>
> 1. Now, when I reboot my machine, I get two messages that I did not
>get before:
> a) etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq: no such file or
>directory.
> b) at some point when the machine is loading all it has to load I
>get numerous messages saying that the kernel version in my System.map
>file doesn't correspond to the actual kernel version.
>
> At first glance there is nothing wrong with my machine, it works fine
>with the new kernel, I just want to know what I should do to fix that. I
>have compiled the proc fs into the kernel.
>
> 2. I have compiled quite a few things as modules, one of which is
>modules. I was wondering if there is anything else I have to do, except
>make modules and make modules_install. I notice that in my /boot there
>is a file called module-info-2.2.12.20 (which is my old kernel and came
>precompiled from Red Hat 6.1). I was wondering if I have to create a new
>file for module info, or whether I should edit that one.
>
> 3. Finally, I am having problem with my sound card. I compiled sound
>into the kernel. When I was making xconfig and read the help associated
>with the sound card, it said that I should know the IRQ, I/O and DMA for
>my card, because it will ask me later. Well, it never did. And I still
>don't have sound compiled. Would that be a problem with my card, or... I
>read several times all the HOWTOs on Sound and compiling sound and they
>all said that config (or xconfig, or menuconfig) should ask me at the
>end questions about my card. Well, it doesn't. The sound cards on the
>Compaqs are integrated and mine is ESS1869.
>
> Help will be greatly appreciated.
>
Did you run lilo after the compile was all done?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: netscape cache
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 17:12:54 GMT
On 13 May 2000 15:26:36 -0500, Dave Brown wrote:
>I'd been running short of disk space, and to quickly gain some
>space, I decided to wipe out my netscape cache. In "Preferences",
>I had the cache set at 5000K, and when I punched the "Clear Cache"
>button, sure enough, I recovered 5 MB. Then, to my amazement, I
>went to .netscape/cache, and found it full of stuff! A "du" command
>showed that I 95 MB of cache! I did a "rm -r" in the cache
>directory, and am now rattling around all the unused diskspace.
>
>But, what's the deal? Why didn't netscape "clear the cache"?
I think Netscape has inherrant problems dealing with its own cache under
Linux. I use a cacheing proxy (Squid) to handle all my network cacheing,
and have the Netscape disk cache set to 0. The only cache I use in Netscape
is the memory cache, which I have set to about 4M.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Tweaking NT: clear-text passwords
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 17:14:20 GMT
On 14 May 2000 20:38:28 GMT, Ken Yasuda wrote:
>In one of the samba help files that came with my distribution (WinNT.txt),
>they suggest the following in order to have NT support clear-text passwords:
I have no idea what you're talking about. Linux doesn't have such a registry.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone find VMware kernel version hassles?
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 13:22:05 -0400
On Sat, 20 May 2000 13:57:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>And? Set the link /usr/src/linux to point to your sources which you've
>used to compile your kernel with. Works for me since 2.2.4., now
>running 2.2.15.
Hmmmmmm, I think I may have unpacked the source again due to
some other problems so I guess the thing to try would be to rebuild
the kernel again and see if it quits complaining.
Thanks for the feedback.
I just wanted to make sure this thing works before ripping my
hair out. All the posts I've seen about it so far have been positive
so that's why I'm up for trying it. :)
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tekram DC315U/Adaptec AVA-2904 support?
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 18:44:14 +0200
Jan Morgenstern wrote:
>
> Does anyone know whether the Tekram DC315U and Adaptec AVA2904 controllers
> are supported by the SCSI subsystem? I didn't find any information about
> those cards in any Linux hardware base. If anyone has experience with one of
> those controllers, I'd really appreciate some comments.
>
For DC315 support you have run a kernel with the patches from
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc395/ . Some distributions ( i.e SuSE)
may have allready applied this patch to the kernel coming with the
distribution .
The AVA-2904 uses AFAIK a variant of the AIC7xxx SCSI chips and should
run with the aic7xxx driver.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: VIRUS ALERT- Linux/*BSD honour virus found
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 17:26:43 GMT
On Tue, 16 May 2000 01:54:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT NOT SO ALERT
ROTFL!
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Copying Harddisk
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 17:33:42 GMT
On Wed, 17 May 2000 09:34:48 +0200, Thomas Hommel wrote:
>Increasing the block size with the option bs=8192 for a size of 8k
>should help. You can play around and see if other values make the copy
>faster (likely, 8k are still quite small).
I'm soon to get a 6G HDD to replace my 4G HDD, and thus the 4G will replace
my 2G.
My questions are thus;
My 4G has 3 partitions. A 24M /boot, a 500M /home, and a 3.7G / partition.
What will dd do with my partitions? Will I end up with 2G of unused space
at the end of the drive? Would it work if I were to create my partitions
on the 6G HDD and dd the partitions over?
Secondly, the 2G. It's got a 500M FAT partition on it (first primary). Will
this be moved over if I use dd to transfer the 2G's contents to the 4G?
Thanks in advance.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
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: Sat, 20 May 2000 02:27:41 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Fri, 19 May 2000 03:41:59 GMT...
...and [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > : 4. A GUI interface to the most common configuration files.
>
> > 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.
Eazel are constructing a framework to do exactly this kind of remote
administration for regular dialup machines.
> > : 3. A DirectX-like platform for hardware-accelerated devices, not
> > : necessarily at the kernel level;
>
> > Whats wrong with OpenGL?
>
> The fact that it's not hardware-accelerated?
Of course it is hardware accelerated. The entire idea of OpenGL is
wrapping hardware acceleration. Everything in the OpenGL API is
centred around making effective hardware accelerated implementations
possible.
> > No, if apache is not killer app, you'll have to invent totally new way
> > of using computers.
>
> Apache isn't a killer app. The reason is that only webmasters use web
> servers.
Help systems use Web servers. Webmin uses a Web server. Heck, even
SIAG Office serves Web pages.
> A killer app is something that most computer users will find
> useful.
Of course Apache is a killer app.
mawa
--
Der Speicherplatz in unseren Gehirnen ist begrenzt.
Mechanisches und tabellarisches Wissen hat in einem Gehirn m�glichst
wenig zu suchen. Je mehr des Raumes f�r Wissen ausgenutzt wird, das
uns zu besseren Menschen machen kann, desto besser. -- mawa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
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: Sat, 20 May 2000 02:23:45 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Fri, 19 May 2000 07:00:00 GMT...
...and David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't consider GTK-- to be a class library. It is just a wrapper
> for GTK. Not the same thing really now, is it? Not that GTK is a bad
> thing. After all, there is a port of GIMP for Windows.
Have you used GTK-- or even only read the description? Of course it
wraps GTK+ in its core. But it's got everything you can expect from a
C++ class library: namespaces, inheritance, easy construction of new
widgets, stuff like that, and a real neat wrapper around GTK+ signals
that's supposed to be conceptually clean without requiring a kluge
such as MOC.
mawa
--
Radlertrinker!
Binnensegler!
Blasenteetrinker!
Blockfl�tenlehrer!
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I'm new to Linux, and am having trouble installing....
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 13:31:21 -0400
Jeff wrote:
>
> I know that must sound like a dumb question, but I don't know how to
> compile the source code that you can get from downloading. For example, I
> download a program and unzip it, then I have a lot of source code but no
> actual program. Any help?? Thanks a bunch.
> Jeff
>
Jeff,
First, lay out the source code in a sensible place. Commonly, you can
put it under a subdirectory in /usr/local. You can pick other places,
too, as long as you don't mix it with other stuff. Alot of packages
assume /usr/local as the default. Some assume /opt.
Once that's done, check the top directoy that you unzipped and tar'ed to
(I assume after unzipping you had a single 'tar' format file that you do
a 'tar xvf' upon to get your directory of source stuff). At the top
directory of the source directory, there should be either a README or
INSTALL text file. You want to read those. If they don't exist, then you
lost them somehow, or the people who packaged the source didn't do a
good job.
HTH
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: chmod problem
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 13:28:00 -0400
marge schott wrote:
>
> I have tried this, but i get an 'operation not permitted' error.
>
> thanks.
>
> >
> >
> >marge schott wrote:
> >>
> >> I installed linux and ran this crazy bastille program and it created a
> >> .rhosts file in my root directory with access perms -r-- --- ---. I
> >> now cannot modify this file. Does anyone know how I can get rid of it?
Did you try logging in as root, and then 'rm -f .rhosts' in the directoy
the file is in?
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: Vadim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Console font corruption
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 17:37:16 GMT
I am am using SuSE 6.0 (Kernel 2.2.36). Since I am russian, I want to
have russian characters in text mode. I ran yast and selected a font. It
was configured as default, and everything was fine. However, after
working for three or four minutes, the font suddenly became corrupt. All
the text with any color except white is completely unreadable. For an
example, all the symbolic links and directories shown by ls cannot be
read. If I run yast and chose the same font is starts working fine, but
soon it becames corrupt again. I tried several fonts and always got the
same results. What the heck is happening and how can I fix it?
Also, where can I download the newest SuSE kernel sources? Now I don't
have time to search the net.
--
Vadim
www.geocities.com/wadimt (creatures site, not finished yet)
ICQ 71242087
"Wisdom begins in wonder" (Socrates)
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From: whistler<blahblah>@twcny.rr.com (Paul E. Larson)
Subject: Re: Which Dist? (HTML)
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 17:43:57 GMT
In article <veyV4.73959$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Other
This is my favorite release, the 1.6 distribution was very easy to install.
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From: "Jeffrey Lacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: Re: you ll love this!!!!!
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 17:48:51 GMT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Linux as a firewall/blocking proxy?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 17:58:48 GMT
I currently co-administer a school network, and we're having problems with
people using the web for non-school related things, not to mention many
questionable and/or outright illegal activities.
We have a cacheing proxy setup right now that blocks access to certain sites,
but people have already figured out how to get around the proxy to access the
web freely.
We've been toying with the idea of setting up a Linux box that would sit
between our router and our network and block access to certain sites, but
only for IPs in the range of 172.23.42.110 - 172.23.43.254. Everything
below that is administrative, and we'll need unrestricted access.
In the process of doing this, we'd also like to configure it to act as a
firewall and block virtually all incoming connections, and close off any
of the more questionable outgoing ports (Napster and ICQ are two that come
immediately to mind); also only for the above specified range.
Could somebody send me a whole waft of reference URL's, HOWTO's, etc? We're
dealing with school/school board administration here who know nothing about
these magical boxes, and would wonder what's wrong with the NT box we
currently use as a proxy.
Thanks in advance, all!
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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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: 20 May 2000 12:59:01 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Full Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>: 1. A streamlined, easy install process;
>>
>>Disagree. System should be installed by competent techinicans in
>>computer shops. Windows is not any more easy to install than say
>>Mandrake 7.0, only user do it much more frequently, so get used to it.
>>
>
>What can someone say to such a stupid statement.
Try it and see. On hardware that it can auto-detect (most PCI
stuff), Mandrake is just about full-auto. If you have a DCHP
server on the network you don't even need to know network
addresses.
Les Mikesell
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From: "Ken Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems w/ US Robotics Sportster 56K Fax/Data Serial Modem
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 14:00:41 -0400
I just got an above mentioned modem, and tried to get it to work. In
Windows, it connects at a maximum of 31,200, which is abnormal, since I used
a winmodem before and I mostly got 56k. I know it is not the isps fault.
Also, in Linux, it doesn't work at all! It can dial, but when it tries to
log on to the network, it returns error type 15. There are jumpers in the
back, which I assume are causing the problem. I don't know what jumper
configuration I need to fix my problem. Does anyone know what is wrong?
Ken Liu
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