Linux-Misc Digest #696, Volume #24 Sat, 3 Jun 00 13:13:04 EDT
Contents:
How to set Win2000 advanced Server mulitple boot with linux?
Why poor vedio quality when I play Mpeg-Moive?
Re: Can't use HTML mail with netscape (David Turley)
Re: Slrn/Pico and long lines (Alan Ford)
Programmers man pages (David Kirkpatrick)
info (nauman nafees)
info...... (nauman nafees)
Re: Slrn/Pico and long lines (Alan Ford)
Re: Why poor vedio quality when I play Mpeg-Moive? (Martin Herrman)
at is weird? (News Reader)
Re: New Linux user needs a better browser ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Bad Blocks. (Paul S)
Bad Blocks. (Paul S)
Yast-Like for RedHat ("News")
Re: Bad Blocks. (Coffee)
Re: Can't use HTML mail with netscape (Andreas Kahari)
group/user nobody (Alexander K)
ATAPI device hdd: NOT READY ERROR, please help (Nicola Taibi)
How to paste text in post? (MH)
Re: How to paste text in post? (Mark Wilden)
Re: ppp disconnect (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Bad Blocks. (OldUncleMe)
Re: DSL under linux: No Joy :-< (Paul Lew)
Re: Bad Blocks. (Bastian)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to set Win2000 advanced Server mulitple boot with linux?
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 20:05:28 +0800
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why poor vedio quality when I play Mpeg-Moive?
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 20:03:00 +0800
Hello every linuxer,
I have problems in watching Mpeg-Movie ,that is the quality is
very poor and the movie played so slowly. Can You tell me why? Is is due to
that I haven't installed display card driver?
Where can I get VCD Movie Player which can play movie file
".dat"?
Besides, I have problem when dail-up to internet through 3 Com
Robotics Modem, I can here modem dailing soung-bee bee, and see some special
characters "~#@<>$ " then a message "no carrier". Can you tell me the reason
why I can' connect to modem
thanks,
A new linuxer
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't use HTML mail with netscape
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:20:47 GMT
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 04:43:45 GMT, Jim McIntyre apparently wrote:
> When I insert a link into e-mail with netscape 4.73, th eprogram crashes
> as soon as I click OK.
So? Email contains plain text. Web pages contain html. Only Microsoft thins
otherwise.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Ford)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slrn/Pico and long lines
Date: 3 Jun 2000 12:05:40 GMT
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 08:20:42 GMT, Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Frequently when I try and post a news message using Slrn I get the
>following message:
>
>Your message is not acceptable for the following reason:
>Line contains more than 80 characters. You need to wrap it.
>This message was generated while looking at line 6:
>
>I have to manually delete whole sections of the offending header to get
>Slrn to post the message.
>
>Is there a way to set up Slrn to post the message intact?
That sounds a bit odd -- when that happens to me, I am given an option
to either Edit the posting or Force the posting with the long line.
Secondly, it shouldn't be generated when looking at a header. Are you
running a local newsserver, or something like slrnpull?
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Programmers man pages
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 08:25:43 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where can I get man pages for strtok etc. I have RH 6.1 and have
the Linux domumentation
and generic man pages but nothing for C
david
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From: nauman nafees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: info
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:30:02 GMT
my son wants to take admission in IT ( INFORMATION TECHNALOGY) in canada in any
nominal university not so
expensive..
give me info of the following.
name of the university ...
duration of the course ...
if he studies for 3 years will he be an immigrant.......
please let me know......
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From: nauman nafees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: info......
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:30:03 GMT
i would like to know if we study in canada for a period of 3 years , shall we be an
immigrant ?????/
tell me something about the political asylm in canada........as we are harrassed &
disturbed in our native country.....
and regarding the refugee status will we be given free education(both under & post
graduate)...........
one more question........... my brother wants to resign the pakistan navy ,he has also
done BBA ,what job opportunities can
u provide?????
please give me the info .........
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Ford)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slrn/Pico and long lines
Date: 3 Jun 2000 12:28:15 GMT
On 03 Jun 2000 12:19:57 +0100, Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I haven't used slrn for a while but in your .slrnrc there should be
>this line:
>
>set reject_long_lines 1
>
>I think setting it to 0 will do the trick.
Ah I just found that setting. Changing it to 2 would be better, that's
what gives the warning and option I mentioned in my previous post.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: Re: Why poor vedio quality when I play Mpeg-Moive?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 03 Jun 2000 12:40:17 GMT
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 20:03:00 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello every linuxer,
> I have problems in watching Mpeg-Movie ,that is the quality is
> very poor and the movie played so slowly. Can You tell me why? Is is due to
> that I haven't installed display card driver?
1. What are your system specs?
2. which mpeg player are you using?
3. which Xfree86 version are you using (or: which distribution+version?)
> Where can I get VCD Movie Player which can play movie file
> ".dat"?
search the net, take a look at http://www.freshmeat.net, i don't know, but if
there exist one, you will find it ;-)
> Besides, I have problem when dail-up to internet through 3 Com
> Robotics Modem, I can here modem dailing soung-bee bee, and see some special
> characters "~#@<>$ " then a message "no carrier". Can you tell me the reason
> why I can' connect to modem
4. what does your /var/log/messages tell you? You can easily see that by:
a. open an xterm and use the command 'tail -f /var/log/messages'
b. open another xterm and try to dial in
now on the first xterm some messages will appear: what does it say?
And if you have answered all those questions: we can help you :-)
Martin
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2:30pm up 3 days, 6:17, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (News Reader)
Subject: at is weird?
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 13:39:32 GMT
I need to grep the job number from at command and do this
at -f file now + 1 hour |grep job
and did not work. So I try
at -f file now + 1 hour >> bla
and did not work. So I try putting the line
at -f file now + 1 hour
in the file a and run
bash a >> bla
and did not work. So I try putting the line
~/a
int the file aa and run
bash aa >> bla
and did not work.
I am completely missing something. Can someone help?
I can do
date >> bla
and bla contains the date.
TIA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: New Linux user needs a better browser
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 14:17:58 GMT
Beno?t Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Buck Turgidson wrote:
>> I understand Microsoft has a linux version of IE due out Q3 of this year.
>> Pricing to be announced.
> They're not even able to release it for free...
I can't see many people PAYING for it...
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From: Paul S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bad Blocks.
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 14:28:22 GMT
Hi=20
I've got bad block errors coming up on my=20
console for /dev/hda1.
Is there some program/formater I can run to put these=20
on the bad block heap?
Or do I have to buy a new disk?
Thanks any help appreciated,
please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cheers.
Paul.
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From: Paul S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bad Blocks.
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 14:42:49 GMT
Hi=20
I've got bad block errors coming up on my=20
console for /dev/hda1.
Is there some program/formater I can run to put these=20
on the bad block heap?
Or do I have to buy a new disk?
Thanks any help appreciated,
please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cheers.
Paul.
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From: "News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yast-Like for RedHat
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 16:51:51 +0200
Hi there!
I have been using SuSE for a long time. Now I installed RedHat 6.2 (only to
see how it's like).
I am missing something like Yast in RedHat. Is there any other Config Tool
(other than linuxconf) that doesn't run under X? The documentation shipped
with the Standard Edition is very poor (maybe one of the poorest I've ever
seen) and doesn't point to any post-install tool.
Some comments:
At this time I am very disappointed with RedHat and I wonder why so many
people are using it!? Why does RedHat ship only few packages with the
standard edition? Standard, Deluxe and Professional Edition kind of reminds
me of Microsoft.
Even the Modem and Internet Access Tools didn't work, which is kind of
neccesary to access the online documentation, so that I had to configure it
manually (with SuSE Kppp or wvdial config worked without problems).
For those who haven't decided yet I highly recommend SuSE
Akubi
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From: Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Bad Blocks.
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 09:49:39 -0500
Paul S wrote:
>
> Hi
> I've got bad block errors coming up on my
> console for /dev/hda1.
>
> Is there some program/formater I can run to put these
> on the bad block heap?
>
> Or do I have to buy a new disk?
>
> Thanks any help appreciated,
> please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> cheers.
>
> Paul.
Run the badblocks program and have it mark all the bad blocks so they are not
used. Make sure the the partition is not mounted though. Ive never had to use it
so best to read the man pages on it.
coffee
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RedHat 6.0
linux notes -----> http://www.indy.net/~coffee
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Subject: Re: Can't use HTML mail with netscape
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 3 Jun 2000 17:47:30 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
>
No, don't fix it. E-mail should be in plain text.
It's an educational feature, not a bug.
;-)
/A
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From: Alexander K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: group/user nobody
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 15:40:09 GMT
hello!
i use slackware7. and there there is a group "nobody" (gid 99) and a
user "nobody" (uid 99).
is this default for linux in general?
when i did a search i saw someone write that "nobody" usually had
uid/gid -1.
does anyone know for sure?
or, where do i read about this?
thanks in adv. / alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicola Taibi)
Subject: ATAPI device hdd: NOT READY ERROR, please help
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 08:37:13 GMT
Hi to all!
Well I am running the RedHat v6.2 on a single CPU Pentium III 450Mhz
system with 128MB RAM at 100Mhz with a Creative Labs Riva TNT, and i
got, repeatly, the following error message:
ATAPI device hdd:
ERROR: NOT READY -- (sense key=0x02)
(Reserved Error Code) -- (asc=0x3a ascq=0x01)
The failed "Prevent/Allow medium removal" packet command was:
"1e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00"
I don't know the reason of the above message, the device hdd is a IBM
20GB hard disk and it is not a removeble device...
Any help is greatly appreciated, Nick
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to paste text in post?
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 09:20:52 -0700
Is there a simple way to copy text from a file and paste it into a
newsgroup post? (KDE & Netscape) I've seen people posting pieces of
configuration files to newsgroups, but I don't know of any easy way to
do this since copy/paste operations don't seem to exist between Linux
apps.
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From: Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to paste text in post?
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 17:29:55 +0100
MH wrote:
>
> Is there a simple way to copy text from a file and paste it into a
> newsgroup post? (KDE & Netscape) I've seen people posting pieces of
> configuration files to newsgroups, but I don't know of any easy way to
> do this since copy/paste operations don't seem to exist between Linux
> apps.
You should be able to select the text to copy by dragging the mouse
across it. That puts the text into the clipboard without an additional
keystroke. Then you can paste it with the middle mouse button.
At least it works this way on my system...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: ppp disconnect
Date: 3 Jun 2000 16:24:26 GMT
John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: 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.
i have just recently begun using ka.pl, aperl script obtainable from
freshmeat.net
you can use the process name instead of numbers e.g. ka.pl netscape
The beauty of it is, it can give you a list of same-name processes so you
can select which one to kill, or kill em all, DOOM-style ;-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Bad Blocks.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 16:42:18 GMT
It was: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 09:49:39 -0500 and with STARTLING insight,
"Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
posted "Re: Bad Blocks."
to "linux.redhat.misc" :
-->Paul S wrote:
-->>
-->> Hi
-->> I've got bad block errors coming up on my
-->> console for /dev/hda1.
-->>
-->> Is there some program/formater I can run to put these
-->> on the bad block heap?
-->>
-->> Or do I have to buy a new disk?
-->>
-->> Thanks any help appreciated,
-->> please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-->>
-->> cheers.
-->>
-->> Paul.
-->
-->Run the badblocks program and have it mark all the bad blocks so they are not
-->used. Make sure the the partition is not mounted though. Ive never had to use it
-->so best to read the man pages on it.
-->
-->coffee
Let me add to this that when you start seeing bad blocks hard drive failure
is likely to be imminent or about to happen. I'd look into replacing the
drive ASAP. If you can't do that, then a full backup of important data,
programs and settings is a good alternative. A bad alternative is to be
surprised when it does fail and lose it all.... Good luck, /ts
tenox @ home dot com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: DSL under linux: No Joy :-<
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 16:46:01 GMT
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 , Jim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>"Cameron, Gary [WDLN2:2X82:EXCH]" wrote:
>
>> I can't get my DSL working
>> under Linux. I have successfully set up both Ethernet and dial up
>> networking under Linux before, but am a DSL newbie. I have a 2.2.14
>> kernel
>> (SuSE 6.4) and am running the latest version of the roaring penguin PPOE
>> client, after having no luck with the PPPOE driver suggested by SuSE. I
>> run
>
>I'm confused - why are you still running PPP? Seems like all you should
>need is dhcpcd to talk to the ISP and get you an IP. Your DSL 'modem' is
>already connected to them - it doesn't need to connect (ie dial) right?
>
>good luck.
>Jim
>
PPPOE is the money making way (for the ISP) in providing DSL as it requires
signing in; also have read somewhere it also disconnects one for inactivity.
PPPOE is NOT "always connect", it is like the old dial-up modems at a
faster connection; avoid if possible.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Bad Blocks.
Date: 3 Jun 2000 16:53:28 GMT
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 16:42:18 GMT, OldUncleMe wrote:
>Let me add to this that when you start seeing bad blocks hard drive failure
>is likely to be imminent or about to happen.
Is this a general rule? I ask, because I never had problems with drive
failures when bad blocks showed up. I always thought it's a normal
process (in fact, happening all the time, but the user doesn't notice
it because of the drive using backup sectors automatically).
>I'd look into replacing the
>drive ASAP. If you can't do that, then a full backup of important data,
>programs and settings is a good alternative. A bad alternative is to be
>surprised when it does fail and lose it all.... Good luck, /ts
Of course this is nothing to argue about :)
> tenox @ home dot com
Bastian
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