Linux-Misc Digest #719, Volume #24 Mon, 5 Jun 00 16:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: How to turn off the build-in screenblanker of linux? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: how to start VNC during boot? ("Sascha Kicken")
Re: FTP in GNOME file manager? [gmc 4.5.50, Helix GNOME 1.2.1] (Leonard Evens)
Re: Slrn/Pico and long lines (Phillip Deackes)
Re: Bad Blocks. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SV: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true???? ("Peter Soderholm")
Re: Sound with Inspiron 3800? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Many questions and much dissatisfaction (Marcin Tustin)
Re: GNU Emacs as Default Editor in Helix GNOME 1.2 (Kai
=?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Re: Bastille has rendered my box *too* secure! ("Rev. James Cort")
Re: Having a problem with tar. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Many questions and much dissatisfaction ("Peter T. Breuer")
XFce 3.4.0 released (Olivier Fourdan)
Re: What distribution is most popular? (Chad Lemmen)
Re: Many questions and much dissatisfaction (Grant Edwards)
Re: Yast-Like for RedHat (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: how to start VNC during boot? (David Efflandt)
non-blocking sockets and overlapped i/o in linux (Juergen)
PostScript FAX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Freewwweb slow ? (Paul Oliver)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: How to turn off the build-in screenblanker of linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:54:01 GMT
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:43:38 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [ setterm ]
>
> What so I set so that it does not turn off the screen ?
>
> There is an option to set the timeout . What would indicate to it
> that I want it to leave the screen bloody well alone?
I think I mentioned that in my reply to the OP as well, but here
goes: 'setterm -blank 0'
HTH,
Thomas
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- Thomas "ZlatkO" Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux-2.2.15/slrn-0.9.6.2+ -
- "It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw." (M. C.) -
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From: "Sascha Kicken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: how to start VNC during boot?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 18:00:07 GMT
"Klaus Meier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:8hgl42$2vvje$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
> how can I start VNC during boot - without logging in as root?
> Currently he is started in rc.2. But he raises the error "couldn't find
XAUTH in your path "
>
> Also trying to start him in rc.3 does not solve the problem (and I do not
need X on the server).
Err, VNC for Text-Consoles??? Does this work???
If you want to do remote text-logins 'telnet' would be a great idea...
And if you want to use VNC for X on a remote PC you will still need a
running X on the Server since VNC transfers the contents of the Screen. If
no X-Server shall run on the Linux-server you'll still need a XServer for
the 'client' like KeaX or Exceed (if you are using a Windows machine as
client).
greetings
Sascha
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP in GNOME file manager? [gmc 4.5.50, Helix GNOME 1.2.1]
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:36:57 -0500
"D. D. Brierton" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using:
>
> Linux Mandrake 7.0
> Helix GNOME 1.2.1
>
> The GNOME Users Guide and other GNOME documentation says that gmc, the GNOME
> file manager, can be used for FTP transfers, and for brosing remote directories.
> However, I cannot get this to work. If I type in at the location bar an address,
> say ftp://ftp.redhat.com, and then hit return, the address just reverts back
> instantly to what it was. FTP works otherwise, i.e. from within a terminal,
> Netscape, or with gFTP. Does anyone know what might be the problem?
>
> Best,
>
> Darren
>
> =====================================================================
> D. D. Brierton, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb
> =====================================================================
I was able to connect to ftp://ftp.gnome.org, but it seems to be
hanging on ftp://ftp.redhat.com.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slrn/Pico and long lines
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:18:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Martin wrote:
>
>It works OK with slrnpull. HOWEVER, I wouldn't recommend ordinary pico
>for newsreading, as it has a habit of splitting lines at its line
>buffer size (255 chars, IIRC).
>
>I'd suggest using jpico instead (a mode of joe). That also gets you the
>ability to reflow quotes just by using CTRL-J, without disrupting the
>quote markers.
>
>Put in your .slrnrc file:
>
>set editor_command "jpico -nobackups -wordwrap -rmargin 72 +%d %s"
Cheers, Paul. I downloaded joe and am using jpico now. I don't have any
mouse support though. I'll have a look through the docs and see how to
enable it.
--
Phillip Deackes
Using Storm Linux 2000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bad Blocks.
Date: 5 Jun 2000 18:38:56 GMT
Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:-
> This is where installing on several partitions comes in very handy.
> Then you can
> backup the existing good partitions and junk the bad one, Reinstall
> linux and
> restore what you have. I guess I would boot to single mode and run
> badblocks.
> This should (?) mark the bad blocks and then you can backup whats left.
> IMHO, I
> would do above and then break out the tape backups.
>
Excuse me for butting in. My problem is similar:-
How do I "boot to single mode" ?
I always boot to 'root' (not recomended); will this do ?
I've got (Had) 2 instalations/partitions.
My more valuable one showed:
EXT2-fs error ....bad entry in directory #2 ...
..offset=1024, inode=163...;rec_len=...
at boot.
The other/spare installation runs OK and
fdisk run from the spare partition, shows all the partitions - look OK.
I tried 'fix2efs' ( I think it's called - can't see now since I'm in my
'proper OS =oberon') . This gave masses of info, with prompts for 'yes',
after each prompt. Not being competent nor interested to analyse each
confirmation-prompt, I 'yes-ed' till the end of 'fix2efs'.
When I mounted the 'dud' partition to the good one, (at /mnt/partn2)
It was named found&lost and consisted of a single dir of various files
(which I didn't examine yet).
During the run of 'fix2efs' , there was mention of found&lost, to which I
answered 'yes' as per all prompts.
Have I lost all my valuable data ?
Thanks for desperately needed advice, also emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris Glur.
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From: "Peter Soderholm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: SV: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true????
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:44:11 +0200
> basically a Sparc 10 with different cache, and most Sparc 10's are only
> 30MHz, this one is 50MHz (faster than an Intel Pentium II 450 running
> Windows 95, really, and NO crashes to boot).
This must be a pretty great excaggeration I'm sure. I feel though that my
SS20 (75MHz 1processor) and my Pentium 266 feels pretty similar in speed
when running basic applications, one on Solaris 8 and the other Win98. They
both have 32M RAM. The windows system does run greater color depth than the
Sparc.
There is one thing that I'd like to mention about buying a Sparc system. The
Sparc hardware is a lot nicer to work with installing hardware and the OS as
long as you keep to Solaris. I say this as someone who has worked a lot with
PC systems. They are much better now than they used to be, but they are
still very messy. Especially when installing Linux. Windows usually handles
the myriads of different hardware quite well.
My $0.2 on Sparc versus Intel.
Buy a Sparc if you:
1) Want an OS and a hardware platform that works together and with easy
install of OS and hardware.
(Solaris as easy as Windows, hardware disk systems etc. easier)
2) Want to run Solaris (if you have a Sparc why run Linux (insert flames
here ; - ) )
3) Think Sparcs are cool and sexy and you dont mind paying more for less
performance.
4) If you buy an old system such as Sparc 2, IPX etc. try OpenBSD. It will
probalby run faster. Or try an older version of Solaris.
5) If you want 100 replies post a question on Sparc speed versus intel on
com.sys.sun.hardware : - )
(it never fails).
6) If you want Linux buy an Intel box, the Intel version of Linux is
propably much better and more well tested, less buggy, more users (more
flames...)
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sound with Inspiron 3800?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 18:37:45 GMT
Hi,
I have an Inspiron3800, 700Mhz PIII, 256mb RAM, 12GB hard drive,
etc. I needed
to use both Win98 and Linux RH6.2 and I had the same
problems,
but I fixed them :-)
The solution was to remove LILO from MBR (with "fdisk /mbr" in DOS
at the C:
prompt, read the Lilo-howto and Loadlin-Howto for more info)and to
use Loadlin
to
boot the system.
A very useful web page is: http://www.eskimo.com/~praxis/win98.html
If you make sure that you run the sound card executable before
calling loadlin
(in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file), the sound card (Maestro3i) will work in
linux (use
sndconfig --noprobe) !!!
Also, if you use Loadlin instead of LILO and leave the MBR empty,
the
Save-To-Disk option will also work!! This is because the BIOS of
I3800 (and of
some Latitude CPx laptops) use a separate partition (formatted as
OS/2 hidden)
for the "Save-to-disk" file. This is great because the save-to-disk
file does
not nead to be on the C: drive anymore but, UNFORTUNATELY, the MBR
must be empty
(without LILO). Otherwise, after the first save-to-disk, the BIOS
will load the
info in the MBR and will
start LILO instead of loading the info from the Save-to-disk
partition!!
I realy think that Dell should fix this BIOS problem FAST because
otherwise
the Linux users can not take advantage of the Save-to-Disk feature
without if
they do not have at least one Windows partition on their hard drive
(from which
to boot with Loadlin)!!!!
Good luck,
Nick
PS: I believe that the message of "greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is WRONG!!!
The OS/2 type
partition is for "save-to-disk". Just read the User's Guide for the
I3800!!!
In article <8ftqnf$9gi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthias Saou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've installed RedHat Linux 6.2 on a brand new Dell Inspiron 3800
(P3-500
> 128MB RAM, 6Go), without any major problems.
> Here are the minor ones : ;o)
> - I can't get the sound to work... it's an ESS Maestro 3i sound
chip!
I haven't
> found anything regarding this chip and Linux, I guess it's just too
recent! :(
> - In XFree86 (3.3.6), when I have some large bright windows on the
desktop,
> some strange flicking happens around on the window edges... I had
the
same
> problem on an Armada 1500c and I just had to change one value in
the
> XF86Config file to correct the problem. Has anyone got the proper
refresh
> rates lines for a 14"1 TFT Dell 1024x768 XGA display? (with a
mobile
ATI
> Rage chip with 8MB).
>
> Any help or pointers would be much appreciated :)
>
> Matthias
>
>
In article <8gjseo$ke2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Gerard Milmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a possibility to get sound with the
> Dell Inspiron 3800 Notebook. It features
> a ESS Maestro 3I chipset, which is not yet
> supported by either OSS or ALSA. ESS
> claims it to be Soundblaster compatible but I
> have not yet succeeded in making it work.
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcin Tustin)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.graphics.rendering.renderman,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Many questions and much dissatisfaction
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:58:54 +0100
Using MAndrake 7.0
1)Sound Card: During boot, ISAPNP fine, modprobe stage
returns "/lib/.../ad1816.o - device or resource busy" (Yes, module
exists). Anyone have any idea why?
2)Mops - I've heard it's possible to get mops to work under
Mandrake by "making a link to the c++ libraries". Assuming that
that's to the .a and .so files under /lib/gcc-lib/i586-
mandrake/egcs-2.95.2/, put the link where? Hard or soft? Anyone
tried this (I've tried /usr/lib and /lib)?
3)Mail and news - anyone found a mail/news user agent that
compiles AND doesn't want to make them vomit (can't stand any that
come with mandrake)? Also, any HOWTOs on transport agents
(according to the LDP mail-HOWTO there's no need to cover how I'm
supposed to have the mua's transport the mail - I guess that it's
probably easy, but it'd nice to have some docs).
--
Humanity will not be happy until the day when the
last bureaucrat has been hanged with the guts of
the last capitalist.
Marcin Tustin
PGP Key at http://www.anarchist99.freeserve.co.uk/marcintustin.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]&OATS.com
Marcint@^^refreshmagazine.com.nomail <-- Do not use at this time
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Crossposted-To: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs as Default Editor in Helix GNOME 1.2
Date: 5 Jun 2000 18:56:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. D. Brierton) writes:
> I also downloaded the rpm of gnuserver, but when I tried to install
> it in warned me of conflicts with the installed Xemacs. I don't
> actually use Xemacs, but I didn't force the install just to be on
> the safe side. Did you find that this was perfectly harmless? (Does
> Xemacs still work out of interest, just in case I ever decide to
> change over?)
IIRC, gnuserv/gnuclient comes with XEmacs, just like emacsclient comes
with Emacs.
kai
--
I like BOTH kinds of music.
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From: "Rev. James Cort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bastille has rendered my box *too* secure!
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:12:12 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stone
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rev. James Cort"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I ran Bastille Linux on my RedHat 6 box, and now when I start up it
>> hangs at "Starting Linuxconf". So now my box won't actually boot, I
>> reckon that's as secure as it gets!
>Yeah, sounds pretty secure to me!
It was. Thanks to those who replied, it's now working (had to turn off
linuxconf in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d as well, I don't mind-I never used the
daemon anyway).
>having never done the bastille thing (I tend to do all my stuff by hand) I am
In future I shall settle down with a cup of tea and a book on Linux
security (or the HOWTO's...), and do it all by hand myself - looking at
the logs, Bastille's scripts attempted to execute:
chmod 488 <filename>
on a number of files. The most worrying thing is that in several cases
it appeared to succeed.
One final question: I can't use rxvt or xterm in X anymore! Not even as
root - though xiterm in afterstep works.
I get the error: "no more available ptys"
I've checked, and I've got Unix98 pty support compiled into my kernel
together with /dev/ptyXX support - any other ideas?
--
Some are born bastards, some achieve bastardry, and some have bastardry thrust
upon them like a dead dog chucked into the neighbor's yard for him to worry
about instead.
- Joe Thompson describes becoming a Monk in the Monastery.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Having a problem with tar.
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 19:12:42 GMT
In the tar file all the paths are already relative ones (ie. no leading
/). We're of the impression that it doesn't like the fact we are
untaring relative to /, even though it has no directories to create in
/. We had this working on our development servers, and the only
difference we can find is in the versions of tar being used. Updating
tar is on our list of to do's. In the meantime the work arounds suffice.
Thanks.
In article <8gcbvq$3nj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you looked at the option that removes leading slashes from files?
> Maybe tar is trying to create a directory in / even though from your
> description it sounds like it shouldn't have to.
> chris
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > We thought about that, but a "tar tvf tarfile.tar" showed all files
in
> > the tarball as owned by the correct user. It shouldn't matter who
owns
> > the files inside the tar file, should it? It should really only
matter
> > who owns the tar file, who's trying to untar it and who has
permissions
> > for the directory the files are being extracted to, right? And in
our
> > case, all three are the same user. It just won't create directories
if
> > they don't already exist. If the same user manually creates the
> > directories before extracting the tar file, all is well. Still
searching
> > for the answer...
>
> > Thanks Charles!
>
> > In article <mN4U4.5243$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Is webs = webs ? I.e., if I create user "webs" on machine A, the
> > system
> >> assigns a UID corresponding to "webs". If I create user "webs" on
> > machine
> >> B,
> >> is the UID assigned on B the same as that assigned on A? I don't
> > believe
> >> the header entry for owner stores the character string "webs", only
> > the UID,
> >> which could correspond to a different user (or no user) on a
different
> >> machines.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Charles Sullivan
> >>
> >>
>
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.graphics.rendering.renderman,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Many questions and much dissatisfaction
Date: 5 Jun 2000 19:04:42 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Marcin Tustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Using MAndrake 7.0
: 1)Sound Card: During boot, ISAPNP fine, modprobe stage
: returns "/lib/.../ad1816.o - device or resource busy" (Yes, module
: exists). Anyone have any idea why?
Could be anything. Most probably IRQ conflict or ioport conflict.
Maybe it's not an ad1816 for real? Look at the driver code and activate
some debugging to see if you can get more info, or advertise for info
from ad1816 users (are there any?).
: 2)Mops - I've heard it's possible to get mops to work under
Mops? What's mops?
: 3)Mail and news - anyone found a mail/news user agent that
: compiles AND doesn't want to make them vomit (can't stand any that
The point of using a distro is that they've done the compiling for you.
I use elm and tin. Have worked fine for years.
: come with mandrake)? Also, any HOWTOs on transport agents
You mean sendmail? Read the sendmail book, or ignore it. Try
sendmail.org. This is not a problem.
: (according to the LDP mail-HOWTO there's no need to cover how I'm
: supposed to have the mua's transport the mail - I guess that it's
Indeed.
Peter
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From: Olivier Fourdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XFce 3.4.0 released
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 19:25:56 GMT
XFce 3.4.0 is released and available for download from http://www.xfce.org
XFce is an easy-to-use and easy-to-configure environment for X11 released under
the terms of the GNU/GPL license, based on GTK+, with pulldown menus and color
icons, 3D widgets, etc. XFce features now a set of applications including a
powerful Window Manager xfwm, a toolbar/application launcher, a backdrop
manager, a system sound manager for X11, a user friendly interface for mouse
configuration, a pager providing a miniature view of all XFce desktops, a
clock/calendar and at last but not least a filemanager, all sharing the same
look'n feel.
Please visit http://www.xfce.org for more informations :
* Info : http://www.xfce.org
* Changes : http://www.xfce.org/archive/ChangeLog
* Snapshots : http://www.xfce.org/snapshots.html
* Download : http://www.xfce.org/download.html
Best regards,
Olivier.
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From: Chad Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: What distribution is most popular?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 19:21:12 GMT
In article <393bc879$0$7863@reader3>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 15:23:47 GMT, Rod Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > > I was just curious on which Linux distribution is the most popular
that is
> > > run by most users.
> >
> Who cares? Linux is linux, it is your choice, it is what you like.
Don't care
> what
> others are using, but take a look at all sorts of distributions. Don't
focus at
> one, be open-minded, use what you like.
>
Well put. They are all good its just a matter of personal preference
really. We need to keep Linux united we don't want what happened to
Unix to happen to Linux. They are all compatible just with a few
different features. I haven't used all the distros, but I'm sure they
are all equally good.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.graphics.rendering.renderman,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Many questions and much dissatisfaction
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 19:33:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcin Tustin wrote:
> 1)Sound Card: During boot, ISAPNP fine, modprobe stage
>returns "/lib/.../ad1816.o - device or resource busy" (Yes, module
>exists). Anyone have any idea why?
Probably an IRQ or I/O port conflict with a module that's
already running.
> 3)Mail and news - anyone found a mail/news user agent that
>compiles AND doesn't want to make them vomit (can't stand any that
>come with mandrake)?
I think mutt and slrn are the best. They're included in most
distributions.
>Also, any HOWTOs on transport agents (according to the LDP
>mail-HOWTO there's no need to cover how I'm supposed to have
>the mua's transport the mail - I guess that it's probably easy,
>but it'd nice to have some docs).
Most distributions include sendmail as the default MTA. There
are mini-howtos on a couple sendmail topics, otherwise there
are various books. Personally, I use qmail instead.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Somewhere in Tenafly,
at New Jersey, a chiropractor
visi.com is viewing "Leave it to
Beaver"!
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yast-Like for RedHat
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 15:51:35 -0400
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the problem is that the machine with no operating system yet
installed cannot see across the network to the machine with the NFS
disks. I know enough to know that I need a kernel with NIC support for
the cards in the machine--and older versions of RH provided this. I
started up a machine to use SUSE in the same way, and found that I had
no way to "see" the NFS files. Reading the documentation tells me that
SUSE "does not support" this method of installation. There is a menu
button to use NFS install, but no way to read the NFS volume (that I
could figure out). I would really rather have SUSE....and am willing to
redo the RH machines I have set up so far. I just couldn't figure out
what to do (yes, I know in general I need a kernel with a NIC
module....but I am more or less at the stage where I run the boot disk
and answer questions and make selections and hope I can get everything
working). If anyone can help with this, I'd appreciate it. I have a
full version of Suse 6.1, and the downloadable trial version of 6.4.
Right now, I am stuck with not being able to install a system until I
have a working system on the machine, chicken and egg, problem.
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> : I prefer Suse, too, but am trying to switch to RH. Why? Because I
> : want to move to one version of the OS and I have several machines that
> : must NFS install (no CDROMs). RH makes (used to make?) this
> : easy....Suse does not really support it. Although Suse has an option
>
> WHAAAAT? You have this completely backwards! I have never installed
> SuSE any other way! It's absurdly easy. Just point yast at any SuSE
> site and proceed. Oh .. NFS? You mean FTP, surely? I've never tried it
> via NFS. But NFS would be trivial, as all you have to do is mount the
> NFS dir and point yast at it as a local disk. FTP is the usual method.
>
> : that sounds like it will support it, that option does not set up a
> : network card to allow the machine being installed on to talk to the one
>
> Eh? Yes it does. It's just absolutely as normal. What are you doing?
>
> Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: how to start VNC during boot?
Date: 5 Jun 2000 19:56:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 18:39:41 +0200, Klaus Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>how can I start VNC during boot - without logging in as root?
>Currently he is started in rc.2. But he raises the error "couldn't find
>XAUTH in your path "
>
>Also trying to start him in rc.3 does not solve the problem (and I do not
>need X on the server).
It may not be a visible X server (unless using vncviewer), but it does use
X and therefore requires /usr/X11R6/bin in your PATH. But you should NOT
run vncserver as root (you can always 'su -' as needed). Try this for
/etc/rc.d/rc.vncserver except change it to your username:
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/efflandt
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/efflandt/bin
/bin/su -c /usr/bin/vncserver efflandt
Then from /etc/rc.d/rc3.d I did:
ln -s ../rc.vncserver S99vncserver
And that works great when I boot. I also changed some things in
~/.vnc/xstartup to use enlightenment instead of twm, reverse background
(-r) for xterm and slateblue color instead of grey.
--
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: Juergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: non-blocking sockets and overlapped i/o in linux
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 21:49:39 +0200
hi
I am new here.
I have a question to sockets:
is it possible to implement overlapped non-blocking sockets in linux?
at the moment I use only non-blocking sockets.
in this case I am loosing always a message when receiveng, if I use the
same socket for sending and receiving.
is it possible to build an overlapped socket?
my implementation at the moment:
....
*S = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM,0);
SockAdr.sin_family=AF_INET;
SockAdr.sin_port = htons((u_short)port);
sts = gethostname(hname,MAX_TMP_BUFFER);
H = gethostbyname(hname);
SockAdr.sin_addr.s_addr = *((unsigned long *) H->h_addr);
// set blocking mode
// FIONBIO and arg != 0: set to nonblocking mode
arg = 1;
sts = ioctl(*S, FIONBIO, &arg);
sts = bind(*S,(struct sockaddr *) &SockAdr,sizeof(SockAdr));
if (sts == 0)
sts = listen(*S,SOMAXCONN);
*SAssigned = accept(S,(struct sockaddr *) &SockAdr,NULL);
sts = send(SAssigned, msg, len,0);
...
sts = recv(S, msg, len,0);
...
can anybody understand my problem?
thank you
juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PostScript FAX
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 19:55:10 GMT
Does anyone know of a PostScript FAx package that would work kind of
like this:
cat file.ps > /dev/fax/555-2100
So that this would fax the contents of the postscript file to the phone
number 555-2100.
Thanks
James
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Before you buy.
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From: Paul Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Freewwweb slow ?
Date: 5 Jun 2000 20:00:04 GMT
In alt.os.linux David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 27 May 2000 12:51:30 -0400, Jim Kalb apparently wrote:
>> Also, I'm a Linux newbie and just set up freewwweb with wvdial and
>> Netscape. Two issues:
> You get what you pay for.
Except with Linux... It's free and better than M$!!
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