Linux-Misc Digest #556, Volume #24 Mon, 22 May 00 09:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Linux emulator ("Javier Intriago")
Re: Tired of spam! (Mark Wilden)
Re: Do you know how to setup a nameserver on linux? (Indraneel Majumdar)
Re: Help connect to Internet ^^ ("Jackie")
Re: less core puts BASH in command mode?? (Dries van Oosten)
Re: Problem with kernel modules (Dries van Oosten)
Re: Linux emulator (Andrew Williams)
Re: PDF files (Andrew Williams)
Re: assigning IRQs? (Dries van Oosten)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Maciej Golebiewski)
Problem using scsi DAT (scanx)
Re: serial mice & cheap motherboards ? (M. Buchenrieder)
fasttrak66 vs redhat6.2 ("Martin")
how to enter a bug report against linux? (steve@howdy)
surface scanning a hard disk loaded with Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Compiling from source... Which compiler do I need? (Bob Martin)
Re: Netscape Newsgroups (Malcolm)
Re: Opinions: An Adequate Starter System? (Doug Alcorn)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Someone)
Re: serial mice & cheap motherboards ? (DB)
Slackware7 and XFree4 (DB)
Re: How to find path to a shared module ("Guillaume LAFAGE")
Slackware7 and XFree4 (DB)
Re: Printing problems (Leonard Evens)
Help with Finger information ("Dave Glover")
Re: Linux emulator (DeAnn Iwan)
Question about LILO ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux emulator ("Thomas Hartmann")
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Robie Basak)
Re: Help!: Root password messed up (Robie Basak)
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From: "Javier Intriago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux emulator
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 07:23:39 GMT
There is a way to run Linux on Windows 98?, like VMware and win4lin does to
run Windows on Linux.
I have to do work on Windows 98 but I would like to run Linux at the same
time.
Regards,
J.I.
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From: Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tired of spam!
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 08:25:46 +0100
John McKown wrote:
>
> It's that sort of "it depends?". I don't know, but it is possible that people
> here use Internet Explorer + Outlook. There may be some sort of script that
> could be run at the Web site to capture that information. I'm not really sure.
I'm sure. :) If Microsoft rigged things so that Web pages could grab
people's emails automatically, it would be front page news (so to
speak). There are a lot of Web site owners who would love this
capability, but they have to ask you explicitly for your email.
The user's email is simply not part of the information that HTTP knows
about. That's not only a privacy issue, but a technical one. How could a
Web browser, in general, even know what a user's email is?
HTTP does know the domain from which a request is being made, though.
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From: Indraneel Majumdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Do you know how to setup a nameserver on linux?
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 02:52:29 +0530
"Andre - Nospam Wanted!!!" wrote:
>
> Do you know how to setup a nameserver on linux?
>
Read up the DNS-HOWTO . Also try the O'Reilly book "TCP-IP Network
Administration" by Craig Hunt and the book "DNS and BIND" by Albitz and
Liu.
Setting up a DNS server increases in complexity with complexity of the
network. However a cacheing only name server should run out of the box.
You need /etc/named.conf
other files in /var/named
man ndc
man named
Hope that helps you get started
best wishes,
Indraneel
> Can you help?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andre'
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From: "Jackie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Help connect to Internet ^^
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:26:20 +0800
Yeah...problem solved! Thanks for all the input ^^ - Jackie
> Edit the file /etc/resolv.conf and make sure the file looks like this:
>
> search
> nameserver xxx.yyy.zzz.www (IP address of your ISP's nameserver)
> nameserver xxx.yyy.zzz.www (IP address of your ISP's 2nd nameserver)
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From: Dries van Oosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: less core puts BASH in command mode??
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:35:58 +0200
On 19 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm used to looking at files in dos, .EXE whatever, just to get an idea of
> what they are before I run them. So when I try the same thing in linux I find
> that oftentimes bash is put into a command mode:
>
> (I have other reasons for doing this too, so please don't tell me I'm stupid
> for trying...)
>
> cat bmp.bmp (as you might guess a windows .bmp file) lots of junk then
> sttuvvwwxyyzz{{|}^[[?1;2c^[[?1;2c^[[?1;2c^[[?1;2c^[[?1;2c^[[?1;2c^[[?1;2c^[[?1;
> 2c[john@lucy john]$ 1;2c1
> bash: 2c1: command not found
>
> cat core turns all the characters into ascii drawing characters (smiley faces,
> lines), exiting rxvt and restarting anew fixes it.
this means your character map is fucked up. You can fix it by
typing: reset
This reloads the standard character map for the terminal.
Groeten,
Dries
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From: Dries van Oosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with kernel modules
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:41:54 +0200
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Tuomas Launiainen wrote:
> After compiling the kernel (2.2.14 on a RH6.2) as follows:
> make xconfig, make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make modules, make
> modules_install, make install
>
> depmod -a prints out error messages such as these:
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/emu10k1.o
>
> I had removed /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0 (previous modules) before compiling.
why? You should always back them up somewhere!
> The complete list of the unresolved symbols follows:
> best_memcpy
> best_memset
> remap_page_range
> __wake_up
> kmalloc
> boot_cpu_data
> interruptible_sleep_on
> __pollwait
> kfree
> __verify_write
> best_copy_to_user
> best_copy_from_user
> mem_map
> printk
>
> What is this stuff? Any ideas what to poke to correct this?
"This stuff" are the single most essential functions the kernel exports.
Most likely, your System.map is not where it's supposed to be. If it is,
another option is that you haven't enabled loadable module support in your
kernel.
Groeten,
Dries
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux emulator
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:42:14 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think VMware has a product that goes the other way as well.
Javier Intriago wrote:
> There is a way to run Linux on Windows 98?, like VMware and win4lin does to
> run Windows on Linux.
>
> I have to do work on Windows 98 but I would like to run Linux at the same
> time.
>
> Regards,
>
> J.I.
--
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http://home.germany.net/101-69082/samba.html
Simple Samba Solutions web page. ICQ 1722461
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PDF files
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:45:22 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adobe Acrobat runs under Linux as well and is free. It reads them. Not
sure what you would use to update them though, presumably something from
Adobe that costs money.
Golan Derazon wrote:
> Hi.
>
> With which application can I read & edit .PDF files ?
--
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http://home.germany.net/101-69082/samba.html
Simple Samba Solutions web page. ICQ 1722461
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From: Dries van Oosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: assigning IRQs?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:51:13 +0200
On 21 May 2000, Janet wrote:
> That doesn't seem to do anything. Or rather, I assigned IRQ 11 (the one
> they were sharing) to be legacy ISA, and they both jumped to IRQ 10
> instead. One thing I have noticed is that when I boot up, the video card
> does not seem to have an IRQ assigned (it doesn't appear in
> /proc/interrupts). However, after I start the X server, then it gets one
> (which is unfortunately the one that the ethernet card is using). The
> ethernet card is a Kingston KNE110TX, and the video card is an nvidia
> GeForce.
There's a difference between the interrupt your hardware is set to give
and the interrupt you register with the kernel for that device. A kernel
only comes in /proc/interrupts when the interrupt is registered and the
interrupt is only registered when it is going to be used. X is the one
that needs the interrupt, so the interrupt will only be in
/proc/interrupts when you're using X.
Groeten,
Dries
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From: Maciej Golebiewski <[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: Mon, 22 May 2000 11:11:01 +0200
"Anthony W. Youngman" wrote:
> And as a result of SuSE predating RedHat, SuSE rpms are incompatible
> with RedHat ones :-( I wish they'd switch to dpkg, but I bet there would
Since when? I always install RedHat as the base system (SuSe's layout of init
scripts etc. gives me a headache) and then install application rpms from SuSe.
Everything is working seamlessly (mostly).
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From: scanx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem using scsi DAT
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:34:20 GMT
Hi to all,
I ve got a problem using a DAT HPC1537A scsi with a sym53c810-a card. On
boot, I got the follonwing messages :
sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 15, function 0
sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...(fix-up)
sym53c8xx: 53c810a detected with Symbios NVRAM
sym53c810a-0: rev=0x23, base=0xe8001000, io_port=0xe800, irq=5
sym53c810a-0: Symbios format NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
sym53c810a-0: initial SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex)
00/00/00/00/00/00
sym53c810a-0: final SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex)
03/ce/a0/00/08/00
sym53c810a-0: resetting, command processing suspended for 2 seconds
sym53c810a-0: restart (scsi reset).
scsi0 : sym53c8xx - version 1.3g
scsi : 1 host.
sym53c810a-0: command processing resumed
Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L708
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape total.
st: Buffer size 32768 bytes, write threshold 30720 bytes.
st: Allocated tape buffer 0 (32768 bytes, 1 segments, dma: 1, a:
c03a8000).
st: segment sizes: first 32768, last 32768 bytes.
st: Allocated tape buffer 1 (32768 bytes, 1 segments, dma: 1, a:
c0090000).
st: segment sizes: first 32768, last 32768 bytes.
But when I am tring mt -f /dev/st0 status, I got :
May 22 09:48:51 tlon kernel: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
May 22 09:48:51 tlon kernel: sym53c810a-0: SCSI parity error detected:
SCR1=1 DB
C=19000004 SBCL=ae
May 22 10:03:51 tlon kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 17, sc
si0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Mode Sense 00 00 00 0c 00
May 22 10:03:51 tlon kernel: sym53c8xx_abort: pid=17 serial_number=25
serial_num
ber_at_timeout=25
May 22 10:03:51 tlon kernel: sym53c810a-0: abort ccb=c7f8a000 (cancel)
May 22 10:03:53 tlon kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 17) timed out -
resetting
May 22 10:03:53 tlon kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel
0.
May 22 10:03:53 tlon kernel: sym53c8xx_reset: pid=17 reset_flags=2
serial_number
=25 serial_number_at_timeout=25
May 22 10:03:53 tlon kernel: sym53c810a-0: resetting, command processing
suspend
ed for 2 seconds
May 22 10:03:53 tlon kernel: sym53c810a-0: restart (scsi reset).
May 22 10:03:53 tlon kernel: sym53c810a-0: command processing resumed
May 22 10:03:53 tlon kernel: sym53c810a-0-<6,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s
(100 ns,
offset 8)
I think my cabling is right (although I am not sure of it) .
If anybody as an idea of the cause of my troubles...
Arnaud Bailly
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: serial mice & cheap motherboards ?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 06:15:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Keiser) writes:
[...]
>turns out that it was the wrong connectors after all; changed
>those over, and the mouse configured itself.
I've seen that one quite often. It's a common mistake.
>thanks for the help
Pleasure :)
Michael
--
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: fasttrak66 vs redhat6.2
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:57:31 +0200
any news on getting it to work ?
I can make it detect one of the disks .. but hey .. thats wont make it work
=)
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From: steve@howdy
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: 22 May 2000 03:26:53 -0700
any one can give a link or have information on how can one
enter a bug report if they find a problem in the linux OS?
Is there an official site setup so one can do that? if not,
how does one report a bug in linux? is it distro specific?
I see rhat have a bug report page
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
But if one has a bug in kernel, is that the place to
report it? btw, I did not see such a thing on Suse web site.
looking at http://www.kernel.org I did not see a place
to report a bug.
I think there should be one place to report bugs for linux. The
way it is now seem confusing. How do people enter bug reports
against other OS's such as windows? (not a window user so I do
not know).
regards,
steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: surface scanning a hard disk loaded with Linux
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 11:16:35 GMT
Hi!
I have been using Linux for quite some time now but I still don't have
a satisfactory answer to this question: What utility can I use to
reliably surface scan a hard disk loaded with Linux? I've tried the
TuffTestLite diagnostic utility and it seems to be one of the answers.
But are there others?
Oh, and I'd like some tips on how to get Linux CDs cheaply. I live in
the Philippines and sometimes I want to order in the internet(I ordered
my first Linux CD set from the internet :) ).
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiling from source... Which compiler do I need?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 06:30:37 -0500
David Bell wrote:
>
> Well, it seems I have another error when compiling WINE. Here it is:
>
> make[2]: lex: Command not found
> make[2]: *** [lex.yy.c] Error 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/wine/wine/wine-20000430/tools/wrc'
> make[1]: *** [../../tools/wrc/wrc] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/wine/wine/wine-20000430/dlls/display'
> make: *** [dlls/display/display.o] Error 2
>
Still missing some of the development tools. It looks the wine package
is trying to use lex ( or flex ), which is a lexical analyzer.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Newsgroups
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 07:46:52 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 21 May 2000 07:10:15 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Malcolm
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I am running Red Hat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.12-20 and Netscape Navigator
>> 4.71. My problem occurs after I open the communicator and download the
>> newsgroups and subscribe to the ones I want. After I close NS and
>> disconnect, the next time I log on there are no newsgroups listed. I
>> must download all groups again and subscribe to selected groups again.
>> Naturally I have reread the entire group again. This happens every
>> time I close and reopen NS. I can find nothing in the preferences or
>> help about this problem. Any ideas???
>
>
>Sounds like permission problems (like I had similaraly once before).
>
>As root:
>
> chown -R <username>.<username> ~<username>/.netscape
>
>That will change ownership of all files to <username> for the entire
>netscape directory he supposedly already owns. Substitute the
>proper name of the user's login, of course.
>
>It happens that on ocassion some of the files end up with root
>ownership or that of an account that doesn't exist.
Thanks,
Malcolm
To reply by E-Mail remove "zzz" from E-Mail address
Malcolm
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Opinions: An Adequate Starter System?
From: Doug Alcorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:08:51 GMT
"Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I really would recommend Mandrake and would advise you to install
> the whole darn package (no matter what distro you use) It is a bit
> hard to tell in advance exactly which packages you will need and
> which you won't.
This is really good advice. I see questions here all the time about
getting started with Linux. I think the point it to just get it all
installed and then see what it's about. After you get your feet wet
you can then make decisions about what not to use.
--
(__) Doug Alcorn (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lathi.net)
oo / Win a 66GB capacity tape drive. Help me win too!
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From: Someone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 08:18:25 -0400
Good technologies:
Hammer, grab handle and beat things with the heavy end.
Shovel, Pointy end down, step on flat part, pry on long handle - move
dirt.
Computers. Sit in front, look at monitor, type and click -
Bad Technologies:
Linux, Spend 6 months installing. Ask for advice, get told you are an
idiot and to read a phone book. Go to school get computer science
degree to decipher phone book. Re-compile packages to work with last
months libs, find missing packages, re-compile, wait for downloads and
re-compile, fatal errors after an hour of compiling for wrong lib
version, buy latest release, get new phone book. Find the problem isn't
with program with the phone book but some net admin set the defaults to
Ultra Secure (read no useful functions unless you read another phone
book and recompile with proper switches). Buy new phone book, Why
doesn't the library carry these things? Find actually allow to work
switch, re-comple- oops now new fonts lib required, download
compile,,,,, ./configure usefull=yess secure=no hardware=unknown
vesion=several, make, oops, make linux , make
install,,,,,,,,,,Reboot... What the!!!! IT LIVES!!!!!! IT LOOKS JUST
LIKE WIN95!!!!!!! Look to see what apps I have! A bad word processor (
I have Office for that) and a bunch of configuration utilities. Now
what can I do? Do what I do. Shut it off, wait six months and install
again. Don't get me wrong its a great hobby! By the way, anybody know
how to get diald functions for Road Runner?
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From: DB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: serial mice & cheap motherboards ?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 08:19:32 -0400
For AT style boards, there are 2 different wiring standards for the
serial backplane connectors. Be sure you have the right one for your
board.
DB
Mike Keiser wrote:
>
> a while ago, I bought a board w/out ps2 support (sigh), and
> strangely enough have been unable to get any mouse to work
> through my serial port. this applies to both x and the general
> console - apparently my box isn't detecting the thing at all.
>
> I've tried all the basic solutions, read countless howto's, and
> gotten various friends to help me mess around with some
> interesting serial hacks, but all to no avail. any ideas?
>
> - mike keiser
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From: DB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Slackware7 and XFree4
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 08:26:57 -0400
On my Slack 7 box I had to install XFree4 because it has better support
for my video card. But I don;t seem to be able to compile programs. I
installed almost all of the components of XFree4. I XFree4 seem to use a
different directory stucture that previous versions. When I try to
compile things I get errors such as:
Xlib.h: no such file or directory (this is indeed nowhere on my hard
drive)
and
Can't find X includes
Maybe I just need to create a few symlinks? Can anyone help? I've read
docs and searched dejanews to no avail.
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From: "Guillaume LAFAGE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,linux.dev.c-programming
Subject: Re: How to find path to a shared module
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:37:30 +0100
Jeff Ostrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm working on a project building a shared module. When distributed, I of
> course don't know the path to the install directory, but I need to know
the
> path inside my module.
>
> Is there a system call I can make inside my module to get the path to my
> module?
>
> Thanks
> Jeff
>
is "getcwd" what you're looking at ??
Guillaume.
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From: DB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Slackware7 and XFree4
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 08:27:18 -0400
On my Slack 7 box I had to install XFree4 because it has better support
for my video card. But I don;t seem to be able to compile programs. I
installed almost all of the components of XFree4. I XFree4 seem to use a
different directory stucture that previous versions. When I try to
compile things I get errors such as:
Xlib.h: no such file or directory (this is indeed nowhere on my hard
drive)
and
Can't find X includes
Maybe I just need to create a few symlinks? Can anyone help? I've read
docs and searched dejanews to no avail.
Any clues?
DB
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing problems
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 07:28:47 -0500
ajohnno wrote:
>
> Help! I'm new to the whole Linux thing and so far, I have enjoyed the
> experience. However, I am having real difficulties with printing. I am using
> Redhat 6.1 and have set up my HP 5p Laserjet using printtool. I can print
> directly to port using printtool and I can also print postscript. I can also
> print from netscape using the command lpr -plp1. however, I cannot print
> from anwhere else. I have the feeling that I am missing something obvious
> but I don't know what. Anyone got any suggestions?
> Andrew
Under RH6.1, the printer port is normally /dev/lp0. So you may have
something set up in a non-standard way. Can you show us your
/etc/printcap file?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Dave Glover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with Finger information
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:43:59 GMT
How do I change the plan under finger. It has been a long time since I did
this. How would I change the plan so when someone fingers me it gives them
a message instead of 'no plan'
Thanks
Dave
ps, please email direct if you want
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux emulator
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 08:45:41 -0400
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Also, you can install linux using UMSDOS (unix in microsoft DOS)
mode--meaning using FAT16 (and maybe FAT32?) to install linux. If you
do this, you do not have to repartition your drive (linux works in a DOS
partition without interfering with DOS stuff there). The downside is it
is less efficient than when using its own file system. But if you just
want to have linux around occasionally, this can work fine. Slackware
has an option to install in this mode...and I'm sure some of the other
major vendors do, too. Note, you still have to boot into linux if you
do this; you cannot run Linux in a "window" in Win98 with this method.
Andrew Williams wrote:
>
> I think VMware has a product that goes the other way as well.
>
> Javier Intriago wrote:
>
> > There is a way to run Linux on Windows 98?, like VMware and win4lin does to
> > run Windows on Linux.
> >
> > I have to do work on Windows 98 but I would like to run Linux at the same
> > time.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > J.I.
>
> --
> Mielipiteet omiani - Opinions personal, facts suspect, especially on my
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Question about LILO
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:41:18 GMT
Hi all,
In my lilo.conf file there are a few lines I don't understand...
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
These lines are in the section that codes for the windows drive on my
machine. I was just wondering what they represented and especially
what those numbers mean. Thanks.
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From: "Thomas Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux emulator
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:50:34 +0200
Thats right, but VMWare for Windoze is only available for Windoze NT
"Andrew Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I think VMware has a product that goes the other way as well.
>
>
> Javier Intriago wrote:
>
> > There is a way to run Linux on Windows 98?, like VMware and win4lin does
to
> > run Windows on Linux.
> >
> > I have to do work on Windows 98 but I would like to run Linux at the
same
> > time.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > J.I.
>
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> http://home.germany.net/101-69082/samba.html
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>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
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
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 May 2000 22:59:17 GMT
On Wed, 17 May 2000 16:52:41 GMT, eyez said:
>quoting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>[snip]
>>Mongoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>[snip]
>>can put my programming hours where my mouth is. (Reason I'm not using
>>it now? The fucking Aureal Vortex 2 drivers are (a) non-free; and (b)
>>unusably poor.)
Do you mean non-free as in beer non-free or RMS non-free? If
you mean the former, check out http://linux.aureal.com
They're not brilliant, but the sound in Quake 3 works, and mp3s play
fine :-)
Robie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Help!: Root password messed up
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 May 2000 11:14:25 GMT
On 17 May 2000 16:43:19 GMT, David Bell said:
>Hello, I'm unable to login as root, here's how this happened: I was trying to
>get a better X resolution with Xconfigurator, and when it tested the settings,
>the screen went black and didn't return. So I rebooted, but of course the
>graphical login wasn't working now... I rebooted again, this time typing Linux
>1 at the Lilo prompt to get into single user mode. I used su to gain root
>access, and ran Xconfiguator to get back to my old settings, but it didn't
>work, and gave me an error message. Then I edited /etc/inittab to login at the
>console and rebooted.
>
>The real problem (that last part was just some background I thought *might* be
>helpful*):
>
>Now, I can't login as root from the console, but I can su from a normal user
>account. After I'm in using su, I tried changing to root password and it
>looked like everything worked... I exit back to the login and try root: Still
>doesn't work! So I logged in as a normal user and used su, it worked. Without
>thinking, I cleared the root password entry in /etc/passwd -- Maybe I thought
>it'd reset the password? Now I'm stuck... I can still use single user mode I
>guess. I've got another machine running RH 6.1, could I copy the /etc/passwd
>on to the other machine? I'm out of ideas. Please help! TIA
Check that the home directory and shell specified in /etc/passwd exist,
and that the shell is marked executable. Check that all the fields make
sense and are in the correct format. My /etc/passwd looks like:
root:2LgCkiJ3moqsd:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
If it still doesn't work, su to root and check /var/log/messages for PAM
errors and the like, then tell us about them.
Robie.
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