Linux-Misc Digest #694, Volume #24 Sat, 3 Jun 00 01:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Q: Console-based Organizer/Calendar apps? (Christopher Browne)
Re: mandrake C Compiler (David Efflandt)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (M Sweger)
Re: telnet to RH6.1 (David Efflandt)
Re: problems with fips partitioning (Leonard Evens)
RH6.2 upgrade broke sgmltools (Grant Edwards)
drives ("Windoze Ed")
Re: Gicq only works as root ("Windoze Ed")
Re: REDHAT LINUX6.2 INTEL I810 @$!$@!$$@! (News Reader)
Re: ppp disconnect (John Hasler)
Alcatel Speed Touch Home ADSL modem (Terrio Echavez)
Re: Alcatel Speed Touch Home ADSL modem (Hal Burgiss)
Re: kppp will not dial modem (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Can I delete "core"? (Jim McIntyre)
Can't use HTML mail with netscape (Jim McIntyre)
Re: Zip for Linux (Jim McIntyre)
Where to get Java Compiler (Tandem Guy)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Q: Console-based Organizer/Calendar apps?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 02:11:55 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when [EMAIL PROTECTED] would say:
>This message has been posted by:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Ewart)
>Does anyone have any recommendations for a _console_-based app
>that has various calendar/scheduling facilities?
>
>Under X, I have tried KOrganizer, which is OK, but I want to run
>the app on a system _without_ X ...
There are one or two commercial packages that run in console mode;
look for <http://www.xwind.com/news.htm> for "Synchronize."
There are also several STDIN/STDOUT-based calendar packages, notably:
- David Skoll's REMIND
<http://www.roaringpenguin.com/remind.html>
- The TCL (no Tk) portion of iCal
<http://www.desy.de/products/ical/ical-2.2/doc/interface.html>
- pcal
<http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/5555/PS/index.html>
There are also some "Web Calendar" packages that you could connect to
using Lynx or w3m.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/pims.html>
Why does the word "lisp" have an "s" in it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: mandrake C Compiler
Date: 3 Jun 2000 02:15:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:51:51 GMT, Icon-x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just Installed Mandrake 7 a few weeks ago as the sole operating
>system on a
> 333 Pentium using the recommended install and whenever i try to load
>any package.tar.gz after using tar xzvf to expand it I cd'd into it, did
>./configure and got these messages:
>
>{
> checking for a BSD compatible... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${make}... no
> checking for working aclocal... missing
> checking for working autoconf... missing
> checking for working automake... missing
> checking for working autoheader... missing
> checking for working makeinfo... missing
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> cannot create executables.
> }
>
>I reinstalled all the Gcc`s from the Cd again using 'RPM -Uvh --nodeps
>gcc*.rpm'
I just recently installed Mandrake 7.0 also, and before I could compile
anything, I had to install a bunch of things including development files
needed for header files. I just used the Kpackage tool and installed
whatever the program I was compiling needed and packages required by
those. It sounds like you might be missing make and are definitely
missing automake.
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Sweger)
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: 3 Jun 2000 02:24:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anybody having an accout with this ISP get the NEWS service to work?
I'm using the news reader tin with the following file:
.newsauth
news.smartworld.net username password
where username/pasword are those used for this ISP you mention below.
Thanks for the info. I haven't been able to get to the News server
at all. I get connection timed out even though the environment variable
NNTPSERVER is also set to "news.smartworld.net".
I've even tried "lynx news://news.smartworld.net" and login with
my username/password and all this does is hang forever.
Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: >I also don't see how support by free ISPs is any kind of indicator of
: >the quality of technology. I wouldn't touch those free ISPs with a 20
: >meter, high voltage catle prod.
: Ahemm...
: try www.teledyn.com for a free isp that supports ONLY linux.
--
Mike,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: telnet to RH6.1
Date: 3 Jun 2000 02:25:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 21:11:58 GMT, Spike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I am using a terminal emulator to telnet to RH6.1 and no matter what
>term type I set in the emulator or in linux, using TERM=whatever
>export TERM, I am still faced with a screen that shifts the cursor to
>the right by the last number of spaces occupied. Example: If I have
>
>Login:
>
>And I type "spike" after the colon, then I will see
>
>Login:spike
> Password:
>
>rather than "Password:" re-alligning itself to the left. Of course the
>next string (one given upon entering a correct password) will cause the
>prompt to wrap all the way to another line.
>
>What am I doing wrong? I thought that I had seen good results in the
>past using vt220 emulation - even on my machine, but we had a crash and
>I'm danged if I can remember how to settle this thing down
Looks like your terminal emulator is ignoring carriage returns for some
reason, but is doing linefeeds. If you disabled carriage returns in your
terminal emulator you have to fix that. If it can enulate a 'vt100'
(lower case) that should certainly work, although, 'VT100' in caps will
not.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with fips partitioning
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 21:17:21 -0500
Ted wrote:
>
> I am having problems partitioning my c drive with the fips program off of
> the Debian Linux cd and was hoping someone could help.
>
> I followed the directions and defragmented the drive first. I also
> temporarily renamed config.sys and autoexec.bat to config.fip and
> autoexec.fip, as the O'Reilly book recommended. I have attempted to create
> the partition in a number of places, but at the end when I type 'y' to save
> my changes, I get the following error message:
>
> Memory allocation error
> Cannot load COMMAND, system halted
>
> I then reboot my computer into windows, and discover that microsoft has
> assigned new letters to my drives to accomodate the new partition. For
> example, d: has become e:, and e: has become f:. The latter makes it so
> that windows 98 can not find my cd rom drive.
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can partition my hard drive, hopefully with fips,
> to avoid changing my drive letters? Also, what does the error mean? At
> this point I have tried a few times and have had to use restorrb.exe each
> time to delete the attempted partition. I would rather not go out and buy
> a copy of partition magic.
>
> I am a brand new Linux user, so any comments would be much appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Ted Schuman
The error you report just means that you couldn't reload DOS,
so fips may have completed okay.
fips makes turns the freed up space into a primary DOS partition.
This will certainly confuse Windows. But if you change this to
a Linux partition, Windows should ignore it. In fact, during the
installation of Linux, you should delete this partition and
create create whatever Linux partitions are needed to install
Linux.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.text.sgml
Subject: RH6.2 upgrade broke sgmltools
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 02:41:56 GMT
After upgrading to RH6.2, sgmltools are broken. I've installed the sgml and
docbook update rpms, but things are still broken. Everytime I upgrade my
RedHat installations, something major breaks -- last time it was latex.
Anyway, trying to process a docbook 3.0 file generates hundreds of errors (a
few of which are shown below). Any hints would be welcomed.
/usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:1:59:W: cannot generate system identifier for public tex
t "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN"
/usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:10:0:E: reference to entity "BOOK" for which no system i
dentifier could be generated
/usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:1:0: entity was defined here
/usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:10:0:E: DTD did not contain element declaration for docu
ment type name
/usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:4:0:E: notation "EPS" for entity "markups" undefined
/usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:5:0:E: notation "EPS" for entity "generic" undefined
/usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:7:0:E: notation "GIF" for entity "atilogo" undefined
/usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:11:5:E: element "BOOK" undefined
/usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:12:9:E: element "BOOKINFO" undefined
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Imagine--a WORLD
at without POODLES...
visi.com
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From: "Windoze Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: drives
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 03:31:17 +0100
Does anyone know where i can get a driver for wy Eppson Color Stylus
Printre to rununder linx
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From: "Windoze Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gicq only works as root
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 03:35:51 +0100
Jason B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The title says what my problem is. I know it's kind of a lame
> question, but I can't get it to run as a user other than root. When I
> login as my other user, I open it, then start it --(go online) , and
> it crashes.. Any ideas why anyone? Should I just grab another client?
> I'm running Redhat 6.1 btw.. :)
qrhnyou;loggin as roo chagw thr fillen oerission so otherd=s can use ti#
z
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (News Reader)
Subject: Re: REDHAT LINUX6.2 INTEL I810 @$!$@!$$@!
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 03:18:13 GMT
rpm package can be downloaded from intel.
instruction included.
search on intel.
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 00:30:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I INSTALLED REDHAT LINUX 6.2 3WEEKS AGO,
>BUT I STILL CAN'T STARTX. BECAUSE INTEL810 CHIPSET HAD A PROBLEM......
>PLEASE HELP ME
>
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp disconnect
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 02:10:08 GMT
Bill Unruh writes:
> This is the standard ppp-off program and it is not very good, as the
> /var/run/ppp0 file is readable only by root, and thus a user cannot read
> it and thus cannot kill the ppp program.
Here is the standard Debian poff script. Hack it up to suit your needs.
'killall pppd' usually siffices, though.
#!/bin/sh
# $Id: poff,v 1.8 1999/08/28 16:34:51 phil Exp $
# Written by John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and based on work
# by Phil Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Distributed under the GNU GPL
KILL="/bin/kill"
SIG=TERM
DONE="stopped"
MODE=""
usage ()
{
cat <<!EOF!
usage: $0 [option] [provider]
options:
-r Cause pppd to drop the line and redial.
-d Toggle the state of pppd's debug option.
-c Cause pppd to renegotiate compression.
-a Stop all pppd's. 'provider' will be ignored.
-h Print this help summary and exit.
-v Print version and exit.
none Stop pppd.
Options may not be combined.
If 'provider' is omitted pppd will be stopped or signalled if and only if
there is exactly one running unless the '-a' option was given. If
'provider' is supplied the pppd controlling the connection to that
provider will be stopped or signalled.
!EOF!
}
# Get option. If there are none replace the "?" that getopts puts in
# FLAG on error with "null".
getopts rdcavh FLAG
if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
FLAG="null"
fi
# Check for additional options. Should be none.
getopts :rdcavh DUMMY
if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
echo "$0: Illegal option -- ${OPTARG}."
exit 1
fi
case $FLAG in
"r") SIG=HUP; DONE=signalled; shift ;;
"d") SIG=USR1; DONE=signalled; shift ;;
"c") SIG=USR2; DONE=signalled; shift ;;
"a") MODE="all"; shift ;;
"v") echo "$0$Revision: 1.8 $_TrickToPrint_RCS_Revision"; exit 0 ;;
"h") usage; exit 0 ;;
"?") exit 1;
esac
# Get the PIDs of all the pppds running. Could also get these from
# /var/run, but pppd doesn't create .pid files until ppp is up.
PIDS=`pidof pppd`
# poff is pointless if pppd isn't running.
if test -z "$PIDS"; then
echo "$0: No pppd is running. None ${DONE}."
exit 1
fi
# Find out how many pppd's are running.
N=`echo "$PIDS" | wc -w`
# If there are no arguments we can't do anything if there is more than one
# pppd running.
if test "$#" -eq 0 -a "$N" -gt 1 -a $FLAG != "a" ; then
echo "$0: More than one pppd running and no "-a" option and
no arguments supplied. Nothing ${DONE}."
exit 1
fi
# If either there are no arguments or '-a' was specified kill all the
# pppd's.
if test "$#" -eq 0 -o "$MODE" = "all" ; then
$KILL -$SIG $PIDS || {
echo "$0: $KILL failed. None ${DONE}."
exit 1
}
exit 0
fi
# There is an argument, so kill the pppd started on that provider.
PID=`ps axw | grep "[ /]pppd call $1 *\$" | awk '{print $1}'`
if test -n "$PID" ; then
$KILL -$SIG $PID || {
echo "$0: $KILL failed. None ${DONE}."
exit 1
}
else
echo "$0: I could not find a pppd process for provider '$1'. None ${DONE}."
exit 1
fi
exit 0
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Terrio Echavez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Alcatel Speed Touch Home ADSL modem
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 21:03:05 -0700
Hello,
I have a desktop 300 mhz AMD processor with 256 mb ram 8 gigs hard drive
computer which I nicknamed balay (means home in Bisaya); and I also have
an IBM Thinkpad L760D in a Dock2 docking station 90 mhz Intel Pentium
64 mb ram 3 gigs hard drive which I nicknamed balut (means fertilized
chicken or duck egg popular in the Philippines). I have one Kingston
10/100 PCI Ethernet Card and one SMC 10/100 PCI Ethernet Card which I
named eth0 and eth1 in balay. I have an Ambion 10/100 16-bit Ethernet
PC Card named eth0 in balut. I have an auto-switching auto-sensing
4-port 10/00 Ethernet hub which I wire two straight-through Cat 5 RJ45
cables - one from balut and and one from balay both to the Ethernet
hub. I have Mandrake 7.0 in both balay and balut. After loading the
network on both balay and balut (about 6 linux network commands on the
Unix Shell Prompt), I can ping from balay to balut and ping from balut
to balay both averaging .7 .8 ms return - simultaneously (and of course
press ctrl-C to end the pings). I can telnet from balay to balut (a
remote system terminal program) and from balut to balay -
simultaneously. I have export file systems on both balay and balut as
well as nfs file mounting all taking place on /mnt/balut and /mnt/balay
on balut and /mnt/balay and /mnt/balut on balay where I can play MP3
resident on balay remotely on balut sounding very nice on the IBM
Thinkpad Dock2 speakers. I can transfer files between balut and balay
as well as between balay and balut. I use the Kingston for eth0 to
connect to the static home network which connects to the Ambion PC Card
for eth0 on the Thinkpad. I use the SMC for eth1 to connect to the
Alcatel Speed Touch Home ASDL modem.
Does anyone have experience with the PPP Over Ethernet software that
would work for dynamic IP addresses assigned to the Alcatel Speed Touch
Home ADSL modem by the ISP Pacific Bell?
Any advice will me much appreciated.
Thanks,
Terrio Echavez
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Alcatel Speed Touch Home ADSL modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 04:10:26 GMT
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 21:03:05 -0700, Terrio Echavez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Does anyone have experience with the PPP Over Ethernet software that
>would work for dynamic IP addresses assigned to the Alcatel Speed Touch
>Home ADSL modem by the ISP Pacific Bell?
I have an Alcatel 1000 (predecessor of the SpeedTouch), but not using
PPPoE, thankfully. Actually, the modem does not get an IP assigned to
it. It is just a dumb bridge. The IP will be assigned to the interface.
Or is that really what you are meaning? I hear good things about
roaring penguin PPPoE client: www.roaringpenguin.com. If they gave you
the NTS client, I hear that is buggy.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: kppp will not dial modem
Date: 3 Jun 2000 04:10:50 GMT
Dave Rolfe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have been helping a friend get going on linux and we have installed
: Mandrake 7.0 with no problems. But when we try to connect to an isp with
: an external US Robotics modem kppp says it is initializing the modem and
: them hangs forever. The modem makes no noises. If I go to minicom I can
: dial the phone with no problem and connect to the isp. If I go to the
three things man
put a check mark next to 'log window' so that you'll see all the
transmission going back and forth (or is it debug window) but see what
happens
Another thing: did you set up your chat scripts yet, the one where you
EXPECT things like 'Login' and 'Password' and SEND you user name &
password. This is in setup button of kppp
As root, type in 'tail /var/log/messages' (without the quotes) and see
the entire process (not) work before your very eyes
--
jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
Registered linux user no. 164098
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I delete "core"?
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 04:41:02 GMT
> HI Jackie:
Yes you can safely get rid of core. There only useful for programmers who need
to know exactly why a program crashed. To do a system-wide cleanup of core
files, run the following command:
find / name core -atime +1 -rm{}\;
This command will delete any core files on your system that are more than one
day old. Then run the command:
cat /etc/profile | grep ulimit
You should see something like ulimit 10000. This set a 10 MB limit on core
files. To prevent core files from being created, just set ulimit to 0000. No
more core files.
I hope this helps
Jim McIntyre
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't use HTML mail with netscape
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 04:43:45 GMT
When I insert a link into e-mail with netscape 4.73, th eprogram crashes
as soon as I click OK. I'm using the glibc version. I know the libc5
version worked OK, but I don't think it is available now. Does anybody
know a fix for this.
TIA
Jim McIntyre
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip for Linux
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 04:54:51 GMT
www.pkware.com
Jim
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From: Tandem Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Where to get Java Compiler
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 05:07:56 GMT
Hello. I'm pretty new to linux (redhat 6.0) and am interested in
learning java. Where can I get a free java compiler to run on linux?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.
Tandem Guy
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