Linux-Misc Digest #561, Volume #24 Mon, 22 May 00 17:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: vim startup (Dances With Crows)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (steve@howdy)
Re: Slackware or Debian ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: can't run X as root (Dances With Crows)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: vim startup ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: How to query Linux version info from C/C++? ("Peter Antypas")
Re: HP DeskJet 930C PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi (D G)
Re: Problems w/ US Robotics Sportster 56K Fax/Data Serial Modem ("Ken Liu")
Re: Problems w/ US Robotics Sportster 56K Fax/Data Serial Modem ("Ken Liu")
Photo-Quality printer? [was: HP DeskJet 930C PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi] (Kevin E
Cosgrove)
Re: How to query Linux version info from C/C++? ("Gregory G. Woodbury")
Re: Polskie TrueType (Rafael)
Re: Compiling from source... Which compiler do I need? (David Bell)
Re: getting started with Apache? (Neil)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (D G)
Sending cookies to /dev/zero ("M. Leo Cooper")
Re: vim startup (Bob Tennent)
Linux printer problems
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: vim startup
Date: 22 May 2000 15:10:01 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 22 May 2000 17:36:32 +0200, Hans-Joachim Drescher
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Hello to everybody
>
>does someone know why the startup of vim is so slow, especially for long
>distance telnet ?
? If you're running vim on a remote machine, vim's speed should be
limited by the speed of the remote machine. Since vim isn't an X
application, it's just shoveling text and escape codes over the wire, and
it should be very usable even over a 28.8 connection.
>And possibly how to avoid this ?
>I tried switches like -n (no swap file) but it didn,t help. I don't have
>any rc-files.
What are the specs of the remote machine? vim startup on my main machine
(k6-2 400, 96M) is virtually instantaneous whether local or remote. vim
startup on my laptop (P-150, 32M) is almost as quick whether local or
remote. There might be a noticable delay on startup if the machine is
less than a P-75, has less than 16M, or is heavily loaded... and there's
not much you can do about that except get a faster remote machine or use
ed! :-)
Are you sure you're starting vim and not gvim? gvim is an X application,
and as such it's a total network hog, which would account for a slow
startup.
The other thing I can think of that might be causing problems is the TERM
environment variable. vim wants to see something sane there, like
"vt100", "vt220", "xterm-color", or "linux". vt100 should work with any
client program, even the most boneheaded ones. vt220 and xterm-color will
provide additional features like color syntax highlighting. Set TERM to
something like that if your client sets it to something like "ansi". It
could be that a bad TERM variable is forcing vim to parse the whole
/etc/termcap file upon startup to find a match, which could take a few
seconds... Bonne Chance...
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: steve@howdy
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: 22 May 2000 11:18:23 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jhair says...
>
>Use the source, Luke.
>
huh?
To enter a bug against linux, you use the source? what does
that mean?
Have you ever heared of a bug tracking system?
sending email messages to Linus is not what I call a software
engineering way of reporting bugs.
A bug tracking system allows others to examin it to see if
such a bug has allready been reported, to examin the state
of the bug, and other such activites.
Check the Apache project for example, they have a bug tracking
system. This is the kind of thing I was looking for for the
linux kernel.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slackware or Debian
Date: 22 May 2000 19:23:44 GMT
Scott Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Ruben Haugan wrote:
:> So... I need some help on this one. Can someone who uses Debian or Slackware
:> tell me a little about the benefits and the problems - simply pros and
:> cons - of these distributions?
: Well, you've heard from the Debian side, and they've given you a very
: good argument for Debian, so as a long-time Slackware user I'll just add
I use both. My personal system is slackware 3.0, and I usually set up
debian machines to run.
: in my two cents. :) Slackware does force you to learn to do
: configuration by hand, though there ARE some utilities to help you in
: that regard (pppsetup, whatever the network config is, etc). However,
: this is better, IMHO, because that way you're not tempted to use the
: nice graphical utilities as a crutch, and are a little less helpless
: when those utilities fail you for some reason or another. :) I've TRIED
: Debian, but I could never get into it. The two reasons are twofold:
: one, Debian, like a lot of distros, goes for an
: "everything-but-the-kitchen-sink" approach to what software they include
Well, that's not really so, since everything is available, but you
don't need to install any of it! I have a minimum debian install of 40MB
sitting on my disk just in case, and a cut down version of 8MB.
: with the distro. Slackware is a lot slimmer, by comparison. Second,
Yes, but then I don't know what's mine and what was slackwares by now!
: neither Slackware's nor Debian's installation system is particularly
: pretty, but Debian's had me tearing my hair out. I just found it
Possibly. I can't imagine anyone but a masochist using it. Slackwares
never ever gave me the least trouble (but the last time I used it in
earnest was several years ago, and since then I've usually just
untarred the tars and run the install scripts, or built my own).
: extremely arcane and unwieldly. That alone convinced me not to use
: Debian anymore.
To install debian for the first time, I actually reverse engineered
the package format, installed the basic contents by hand for a day or
so, and by the end of the second day had figured out enough of where
groff and the man pages were to be able to read the instructions. After
that things went easier.
Use apt-get or dpkg, not dselect.
: Anyway, that's just my $.02. My best recommendation, though, would be
: to go to LinuxMall or Cheapbytes and buy $2 CD's of each, and try them
: both out. Decide what YOU like best. :)
Of course. Debian is undeniably an excellent distro. Most important
from my point of view, is that every package has a maintainer, and they
respond immediately to bug reports. I maintain a continuous dialog
and am able to pass back changes to them so that I don't need to
maintain local software copies.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: can't run X as root
Date: 22 May 2000 15:31:12 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 22 May 2000 18:55:42 GMT, Peter Bismuti
<<8gbvre$8cn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Why can't I run graphics from root? I get the message:
>Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
>Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
>cannot open displaychild process failed to start guiXlib:
>connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
>
>whey I try to run gvim as root.
>
>The $DISPLAY variable seems to be the same for root as it is for my
>personal account.
X has a security model or two, which is supposed to ensure that only the
user who logged in to the X session can display stuff on the X screen or
read the keystrokes coming from the X keyboard. There are a couple of
ways to circumvent this security, the easiest being:
$ xhost +localhost
$ su -
# export DISPLAY=0:0
# gvim
...but that's a bit of a security hole, as then anyone who's logged into
your machine can start 300 copies of xeyes on your display. xauth is a
more secure method for the most part:
# cp ~me/.Xauthority ~/.Xauthority
# export DISPLAY=0:0
# gvim
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: 22 May 2000 19:37:01 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc steve@howdy wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jhair says...
: Check the Apache project for example, they have a bug tracking
: system. This is the kind of thing I was looking for for the
: linux kernel.
Tough. Go search elsewhere for such analities. Alan Cox maintains
a list of known bugs and their status for the stable kernel. The
development kernel is well, development.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vim startup
Date: 22 May 2000 19:41:39 GMT
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Mon, 22 May 2000 17:36:32 +0200, Hans-Joachim Drescher
: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
:>does someone know why the startup of vim is so slow, especially for long
:>distance telnet ?
: ? If you're running vim on a remote machine, vim's speed should be
: limited by the speed of the remote machine. Since vim isn't an X
: application, it's just shoveling text and escape codes over the wire, and
: it should be very usable even over a 28.8 connection.
Unfortunately for the premise, vim IS an X application :-). It figures
out whether it should go graphic or not according to the way and place
its started. It understands X mice, for one thing.
Recompile without X support.
:>And possibly how to avoid this ?
Dunno. My nets are fast enough that I can't test. Try disabling mouse
support, recompiling without X, etc.
Peter
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From: "Peter Antypas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to query Linux version info from C/C++?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:54:11 -0600
/etc/issue is used in some cases (Caldera and maybe RedHat)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8fvd1u$fhf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Title says it all, is there any API in C/C++ that allows me to query
> the Linux version string (like Redhat 6.2, kernel 2.14 etc)?
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 930C PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:48:29 -0700
Kevin E Cosgrove wrote:
>
> Could anyone tell me of a printer driver for the HP DeskJet 930C
> which supports full resolution in color mode? HP says best
> resolution is "PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi".
>
> A little net searching makes me believe that the DeskJet 930C
> printer can print color in 600x600 dpi mode using the "vanilla"
> GhostScript cdj550 driver. I also found that Mike Sweet's GIMP
> printer plug-in, http://www.easysw.com/~mike/gimp/print.html,
> supports a number of DeskJet printers in their "highest supported
> resolution". But the 930C (maybe it's new?) is not in the list
> of support DeskJet printers. I also checked out the Common UNIX
> Printing System, www.cups.org, and found that they support
> generic DeskJets in 600x600 dpi mode. Easy Software Products,
> http://www.easysw.com, appears to support the 930C, but doesn't
> mention whether the full printer capabilities are supported.
>
> Any info is appreciated. Thanks...
Nothing better than 600x600 here. Hopefully HP will get their act
together and release drivers for Linux.
I modified the dj550 uniprint driver slightly to change it from 300x300
to 600x600. It's an easy change, but a little complicated to describe.
E-mail me if you want the details.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: "Ken Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems w/ US Robotics Sportster 56K Fax/Data Serial Modem
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:53:24 -0400
I believe the reason I'm getting 31,200 is because the modem doesn't support
V.90. It is rather old, so that might be the problem. Also, the log
returns error type 15. The modem is set at COM1, and it is detected by
Linux. I can dial, but I can't log on. It is set at ttyS0.
Ken Liu
Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ken Liu wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> It's not unusual at all for a 56K modem to connect at 31,200. It can be
> due to many causes, one of them being phone line signal quality.
>
> > 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?
>
> If it works under Windows, it's probably not the jumpers.
> When you say "it returns error type 15", what is "it"? Is it in your
> system log?
> Also, what COM port is it supposed to be, COM1? COM2? Which ever it is,
> check for the correct tty port being recognized by Linux (ttyS00 = COM1,
> ttyS01 = COM2, ...). If Linux doesn't see the tty port, it doesn't see
> the modem.
>
> --
> Mark Bratcher
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "Ken Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems w/ US Robotics Sportster 56K Fax/Data Serial Modem
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:53:46 -0400
It is CHAP, which is what I set the authentication to.
Ken Liu
Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ken Liu wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> As for linux, if it is dialing and connecting, then the modem is
> working. more likely it is your authentication setup. Is your ISP using
> PAP or CHAP ?
>
> Sometimes the max speed you can get is dependent on the telephone
> company setup, the number of analog to didital conversion between you
> and them. take a look at 56k.com, I think there was an article that
> discussed why 33k might be the max you can get.
>
> --
>
> Bob Martin
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Photo-Quality printer? [was: HP DeskJet 930C PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:07:23 GMT
So, Epson & HP both make fairly cheap photo-quality inkjet printers.
Are *ANY* of these (or other makes) supported on Linux at full
resolution?
Thanks...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Nothing better than 600x600 here. Hopefully HP will get their act
> together and release drivers for Linux.
--
kevinc AT doink DOT COM
Change the AT and DOT in my reply-to address to send e-mail.
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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From: "Gregory G. Woodbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to query Linux version info from C/C++?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:56:40 -0400
Peter Antypas wrote:
>
> /etc/issue is used in some cases (Caldera and maybe RedHat)
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8fvd1u$fhf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Title says it all, is there any API in C/C++ that allows me to query
> > the Linux version string (like Redhat 6.2, kernel 2.14 etc)?
There is also the uname system call that returns some of the information.
--
Gregory Woodbury
SysAdmin group OAO NIEHS ITSSC
work phone:919 361 5444 x404
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Polskie TrueType
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 22:13:13 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I ahve done it already. TrueType fonts work fine in X windows, but I
could not get Polish fonts. The fonts are in Unicode but X server (xfs from
RedHat) don't want to read sign bigger that 255., it mean from other table
(only iso8859-1, latin1). To have polish fonts I have to read iso8859-2 ,
latin2.
I
Rafael
Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
> Rafael wrote:
> >
> > Pomocy
> > Troche jestem zly na siebie, ze pokusilem sie uzywac Linuxa jako
> > desktop. Do momentu kiedy uzywalem Linuxa jako serwera caly czas
> > wszystko chwalilem. Teraz zaczyna powoli szlak mnie trafiac. A wszystko
> > przez te cholerne polskie ogonki.
> > Ostatnio chcialem zainstalowac troche truetype fontow. Wszystko gladko
> > poszlo, fonty dzialaja, ale uzyskac Polskich fontow nie mozna za chiny.
> > Nie wiem czy problem nie tkwi w tym , ze xfs zle albo nie potrafi
> > zinterpretowac Unicodu. Jezeli uzywa sie starych truetypow (CE) to
> > takich problemow moze nie byc bo po prostu polskie znaki sa w przedziale
> > 128-256. Ale nie o to chodzi aby sie cofac.
> >
> > Rafal
> Zrozumiec, zrozumialem ale odpowiem po angielsku.
> Transfer TTFonts from MS-Windows system directory. They work.
> Should install TTFonts server and initiate it before calling X-Windows.
> Actually the call is from rc.local.
> Have fun...
> --
> ******* Stanislaw ********
> Monolog - one person talking to himself,
> dialog - two people talking to themselves.
> -Shaike Ofir-
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bell)
Subject: Re: Compiling from source... Which compiler do I need?
Date: 22 May 2000 20:18:48 GMT
>Did you install the development packages for the libraries used by wine
>?
>For example the development package for (g)libc ?
I needed flex, xpm-devel and XFree86-devel... Got 'em now! Still can't get
WINE installed though: At the end of the install I get this message:
--
Installing default Wine registry entries...
fixme:pthread_atfork
Warning: could not find wine.conf [Drive x] entry for current working directory
/home/david/wine/wine/wine-20000430; starting in windows directory.
Warning: /tmp not accessible from a DOS drive
Invalid path '/tmp' for temp directory
Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file.
This is either /usr/local/etc/wine.conf or $HOME/.winerc
or it is determined by the -config option or from
the WINE_INI environment variable.
Wine has used /usr/local/etc/wine.conf as configuration file.
Registry install failed. Perhaps you weren't running X.
--
Here's my wine.conf file as it was at the time of this error (it's rather long,
but I'll post the entire file so I don't miss anything important):
/usr/local/etc/wine.conf (this was created by the tools/wineinstall script)
--
[Drive C]
Path=/windows
Type=hd
[Drive D]
Path=/mnt/cdrom
Type=cdrom
[wine]
windows=C:
system=C:\SYSTEM
path=
temp=/tmp
[DllDefaults]
EXTRA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/wine
DefaultLoadOrder = native, builtin, elfdll, so
[DllOverrides]
kernel32, gdi32, user32 = builtin
krnl386, gdi, user = builtin
toolhelp = builtin
comdlg32, commdlg = elfdll, builtin, native
version, ver = elfdll, builtin, native
shell32, shell = builtin, native
lz32, lzexpand = builtin, native
commctrl, comctl32 = builtin, native
wsock32, winsock = builtin
advapi32, crtdll, ntdll = builtin, native
mpr, winspool.drv = builtin, native
ddraw, dinput, dsound = builtin, native
winmm, mmsystem = builtin
msvideo, msvfw32 = builtin, native
mcicda.drv, mciseq.drv = builtin, native
mciwave.drv = builtin, native
mciavi.drv, mcianim.drv = native, builtin
msacm.drv, midimap.drv = builtin, native
w32skrnl = builtin
wnaspi32, wow32 = builtin
system, display, wprocs = builtin
wineps = builtin
icmp = builtin
[x11drv]
; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
AllocSystemColors = 100
; Use a private color map
PrivateColorMap = N
; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
PerfectGraphics = N
; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
;;ScreenDepth = 16
; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
UseDGA = Y
; Use XShm extension if present
UseXShm = Y
; Enable DirectX mouse grab
DXGrab = N
[fonts]
;Read documentation/fonts before adding aliases
Resolution = 96
Default = -adobe-times-
[serialports]
Com1=/dev/ttyS0
Com2=/dev/ttyS1
Com3=/dev/modem,38400
Com4=/dev/modem
[parallelports]
Lpt1=/dev/lp0
[spooler]
LPT1:=|lpr
LPT2:=|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -
LPT3:=/dev/lp3
[ports]
;read=0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0
;write=0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0
[spy]
Exclude=WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;
[registry]
; Paths must be given in /dir/dir/file.reg format.
; Wine will not understand dos file names here...
;These are all booleans. Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.
;Defaults are read all, write to Home
; Global registries (stored in /etc)
LoadGlobalRegistryFiles=Y
; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/)
LoadHomeRegistryFiles=Y
; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory
LoadWindowsRegistryFiles=Y
; TRY to write all changes to home registries
WritetoHomeRegistryFiles=Y
; Use new file format
UseNewFormat=Y
; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds
; PeriodicSave=600
; Save only modified keys
SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys=Y
[Tweak.Layout]
;; WineLook=xxx (supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98')
WineLook=Win95
[programs]
Default=
Startup=
[Console]
;Drivers=tty
;XtermProg=nxterm
;InitialRows=25
;InitialColumns=80
;TerminalType=nxterm
[Clipboard]
ClearAllSelections=0
PersistentSelection=1
--
I do not have Windoze installed on this machine... I created a 100mb FAT32
partition with partition magic. It's mounted as /windows with a /windows/system
directory (the directory was lowercase, while the listing in wine.conf was
uppercase). I created a blank win.ini file in /windows. After finding the
case difference, I changed system=C:\SYSTEM to system=C:\system. After that I
made a /windows/temp folder with rw permissions for all, and changed the
wine.conf entry from: tmp=/tmp to tmp=C:\temp and removed the empty 'path='
spot. I reran the tools/wineinstall script and got the following error:
--
Compiling regapi...
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Installing default Wine registry entries...
fixme:pthread_atfork
Warning: could not find wine.conf [Drive x] entry for current working directory
/home/david/wine/wine/wine-20000430; starting in windows directory.
err:module:BUILTIN32_dlopen failed to load libx11drv.so:
/usr/local/lib/wine/libx11drv.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
err:module:BUILTIN32_dlopen failed to load libx11drv.so:
/usr/local/lib/wine/libx11drv.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
err:module:BUILTIN32_dlopen failed to load libx11drv.so:
/usr/local/lib/wine/libx11drv.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
Registry install failed. Perhaps you weren't running X.
--
I was running KDE during both install attempts. I've got Mandrake 7.0, and am
still a linux newbie... These problems have got me completely confused, any
help is greatly appreceated! TIA
=========================
David Bell - Otherwise known as DB7654321
Remember to remove nospam, notrash or anything odd looking from my email
address. :)
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: getting started with Apache?
Date: 22 May 2000 13:22:13 PST
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just install the apache RPM that comes with RedHat
> distributions. It runs fine as installed by rpm, but it
> couldn't hurt to review the configuration files to make sure
> you like RH's defaults.
For some reason I assumed that running a Web server would be
way more complex -- but now I realize it won't be that big a deal.
Though, I would imagine, it takes awhile to figure out all the
customizations of the configuration.
--
Neil
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From: D G <[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 13:13:52 -0700
JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 May 2000 13:05:15 GMT, Full Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 18 May 2000 09:50:55 +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Wagner)
> >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.
>
> That you are a moron.
>
> Windows and DOS are where they are today because most people
> don't have to deal with installing them.
Windows and DOS are where they are for entirely different reasons.
Besides, I can go buy a pre-installed linux system and not have to deal
with installing it.
> Any little quirk in
> your setup and any WinDOS, Solaris, BeOS or Linux install can
> quickly become nasty.
>
> This is a side effect of the PC being a random collection of
> spare parts. That adds a level of complexity to the whole
> situation that is very difficult to just 'program around'.
Any OS will give you problems if you're hardware is quirky. The ideal
install program in my mind will give you the option to install only the
basic features of the OS initially. This way, it can install on any
system. Then you reboot, go into the OS and from there you can optimize
as needed (X (or video), sound, modem, network, etc.).
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From: "M. Leo Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sending cookies to /dev/zero
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:33:56 -0700
A simple, but effective way of dealing with cookies is:
rm -f ~/.netscape/cookies
ln -s /dev/null ~/.netscape/cookies
This keeps the cookie jar permanently empty without user intervention, while
at the same time permitting access to sites that require acceptance of
cookies. It of course does nothing to the cookies kept in memory. I will also
mention that those persons, like myself, who use Lynx should take care of the
~/lynx_cookies file.
The question I would ask is what effect it would have to link the cookies file
to /dev/zero, rather than /dev/null, i.e., ln -s /dev/zero ~/.netscape/cookies.
I know that attempts to read /dev/zero generally hang the calling program,
and the only way to do it successfully is with a hex editor. I would
speculate that a web server that tried to read a cookie file linked to
/dev/zero just might have a few problems. I am a bit apprehensive about
trying this, lest I be accused of hacking or outright sabotage.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: vim startup
Date: 22 May 2000 20:18:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 22 May 2000 15:10:01 EDT, Dances With Crows wrote:
>On Mon, 22 May 2000 17:36:32 +0200, Hans-Joachim Drescher
>>
>>does someone know why the startup of vim is so slow, especially for long
>>distance telnet ?
>
>? If you're running vim on a remote machine, vim's speed should be
>limited by the speed of the remote machine. Since vim isn't an X
>application, it's just shoveling text and escape codes over the wire, and
>it should be very usable even over a 28.8 connection.
>
Some configurations of vim do access X authorization data.
If you have a "minimal" configuration available of vim, try that;
it will be /bin/vi on a RedHat machine for example. If that starts up
immediately, check your Xauthority configuration.
Bob T.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux printer problems
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:30:05 GMT
Hello,
I installed linux-mandrake 7.0 and really like it so far. Video, sound,
etc. all work fine except my printer. It is a xerox xjc6, tried to set it
as ascii printer but it will only spit out a line of weird looking
comments. How can I change it to text only printer?
Thanks for your time.
greg
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