Linux-Misc Digest #804, Volume #24 Tue, 13 Jun 00 15:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Help: Install new video card ("M. Cao")
Re: httpd.conf error?? (Akira Yamanita)
Re: democracy? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mandrake Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mounting (Wintek)
Zip Drive for Linux (RC Walker)
Re: democracy? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Which Linux is better? (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Java Problem with Netscape 4.51 ("David ..")
Re: Java Problem with Netscape 4.51 ("David ..")
Re: Mandrake Linux ("Philo")
Re: Cannot use large IDE disk w/ fdisk ("David R. Klassen")
Spreadsheet app called from a script / other program (S P Arif Sahari Wibowo)
Delete File With Strange Chars (Henjo)
Problem with LILO and 2 hard drive configuration ("Nelson Vieira")
Re: Change TERM (Robie Basak)
Re: Inkjet printer (Robie Basak)
Re: Installing *.bin files (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Printer device (Robert Heller)
Re: Users and Password from NT (Robie Basak)
Re: Change TERM (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Help Finding and Installing "Make", "GCC" and "Binutils" under RH ("David ..")
printer works but prints an extra message (Daniel)
Re: Users and Password from NT (El_Terrible)
Re: Mandrake Linux (El_Terrible)
Re: Problem with LILO and 2 hard drive configuration (Robert Heller)
Re: ppp auto dialing to internet in regular intervals (Robie Basak)
Re: platform identification ("David ..")
Re: Delete File With Strange Chars ("David ..")
Re: Pop Not Popping ("Ron Black")
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From: "M. Cao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: Install new video card
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:46:32 -0700
Hi,
My linux box running Red Hat 5.2 had bad video card, that I need to
replace. How can I reconfigure this system to recognize the new card ?
Is there anyway for me to save the old configuration ?
Thanks in advance
Tam
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: httpd.conf error??
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:11:07 GMT
Jeff wrote:
>
> I have been setting up a server on RH 6.2. When I try and access a page
> like http://localhost/~blaise I get an error that the page is forbidden.
> And recently I get the error when I access http://localhost, which used to
> work. Any help?
Read the thread "Apache problem?" in this newsgroup.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: democracy?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:18:29 GMT
> > Technically, we in the USA live in a Republic, not a democracy.
>
> In Sid Meier's Civilization, a republic is different from a democracy.
>
> It his however news to me that this has led people to believe that in
> real life, the same is true. A republic is a form of democracy.
People... Guess what form of governance is known today, around the
world, as a "Democratic Republic"... Any guesses?
That is the "modern" term for a communistic system of governance.
Wake up, read up, arm up, they're coming for US next!
(Can we get back on topic now?)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mandrake Linux
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:22:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Koen Van Baelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> is Mandrake Linux any good? I've heard it's very easy to install and
> it's the perfect distribution for newbies.
>
I'm happy with it, being a casual user that likes to tinker once in a while.
Surf the internet, listen to mp3s, and serves as the gateway so my Winbox can
share its internet connection. What do you intend to use it for anyway? BTW,
I found their website www.mandrakeuser.org extremely helpful when I had
problems.
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From: Wintek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:38:17 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:36:16 -0700, Telus News
> <<sRi15.663$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I am having trouble accessing a mounted drive on my linux server with rw
> >access. Heres the setup. I have a NTWS machine which I am trying to connect
> ^^^^
> NTWS? What's that?
>
<SNIP>
I'd guess either MS NT WorkStation or NTFS FileSystem?
Can't help with the problem myself though, I've got enough of my own.
Kris
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From: RC Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zip Drive for Linux
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:39:03 -0700
I need help setting up a zip drive for my Linux box. I have a zip drive
with a parallel port. Help!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: democracy?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:26:22 GMT
In article <8hs6f6$tuu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would personally like to see Billy do twentyfive-to-life for
> racketeering. The DOJ has been far too lenient.
>
> Wonder how long before government witnesses start disappearing or
dying
> off from mysterious causes? Seems a logical next step for
Microsoft....
Now, now. We're talking about Bill Gates, not Bill Clinton!
It's your files that'll start disappearing...
(An given the harm that BillG has wrought, IMO 25 to life is too
lenient!! There, Bill! Go ahead! Take my files if you can get them!)
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Subject: Re: Which Linux is better?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 13 Jun 2000 19:41:43 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Neurocrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari) writes:
>
>> /A (soon moving on to Debian GNU/Hurd)
>
>What are the advantages of Hurd?
>
Several, and it has disadvantages too (the most prominent one being
that it's not stable yet).
You can read more on <URL:http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/> and
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html>.
It's strange... I couldn't find one single newsgroup for the Hurd...
/A
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Java Problem with Netscape 4.51
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:36:17 -0500
Larry wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use a Java applet in Netscape 4.51 under RH 6 and everytime I run the
>applet, the browser closes immediately. The same thing happens when I try to go to
>Communicator->Tools->Java Console.
There is a problem in one of the installation RPMS that is causing many
systems to not have a complete list of fontpath for X to use.
To see if this is the problem you are facing, please use the command
chkfontpath --list
You should get output that looks like the following:
Current directories in font path:
1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
You should then add the 75dpi scaled font to your path list using the
command:
chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
This should fix the problem you are seeing.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Java Problem with Netscape 4.51
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:36:17 -0500
Larry wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use a Java applet in Netscape 4.51 under RH 6 and everytime I run the
>applet, the browser closes immediately. The same thing happens when I try to go to
>Communicator->Tools->Java Console.
There is a problem in one of the installation RPMS that is causing many
systems to not have a complete list of fontpath for X to use.
To see if this is the problem you are facing, please use the command
chkfontpath --list
You should get output that looks like the following:
Current directories in font path:
1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
You should then add the 75dpi scaled font to your path list using the
command:
chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
This should fix the problem you are seeing.
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake Linux
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:48:16 -0500
I had been using Red Hat and liked it but there were a few bugs. Mandrake is
like a better version of Red Hat. NO bugs , an easy installation and a few
nicer features. i would recommend it.
Philo
Koen Van Baelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi guys,
>
> is Mandrake Linux any good? I've heard it's very easy to install and
> it's the perfect distribution for newbies.
>
> --
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://users.pandora.be/koen.van.baelen
> --
>
>
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From: "David R. Klassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot use large IDE disk w/ fdisk
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:52:05 -0400
You can tell Linux the geometry of your disk in your /etc/lilo.conf
file. In the image section add the line:
append="hdd=cyl,head,sector" (put in the actual numbers).
Cyrille Artho wrote:
>
> I added a large (40 GB) IDE disk to the system. I had problems with LILO
> and the BIOS, so I disabled the HD in the BIOS.
>
> Unfortunately, Linux does not discover the correct number of cylinders
> (using Kernel 2.2.12). I tried to override this when partitioning the
> hard disk. However, as soon as I quit fdisk, the system "forgets" the
> physical layout again, and fdisk shows:
>
> Disk /dev/hdd: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 870 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdd1 1 2048 16450528+ 83 Linux
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(2047, 254, 63)
> /dev/hdd2 2049 4982 23567355 83 Linux
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(2048, 0, 1)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(4981, 254, 63)
>
> Even though I could initially format the disk without getting error
> messages, I then found out that Linux uses the physical layout, mapping
> different sectors on the same target! This resulted in some "funny"
> results, including duplicate blocks, corrupt inodes, and a kernel panic
> when trying to umount the file system. Certain corrupted files cannot be
> removed anymore (rm blocks the entire system), and I lost some data
> (since I originally thought the drive could work without using the
> BIOS). I now have copied all the data back, so I can re-partition the
> hard drive.
>
> How do I tell Linux the number of cylinders? How can I use the drive if
> I disable it in the BIOS?
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From: S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Spreadsheet app called from a script / other program
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:16:17 -0500
Hi!
Do you know any spreadsheet app, that beside ran as usual spreadsheet app,
can also run 'faceless': accepting input from and sending output to other
program / script.
It can run either as a batch application - called by a script - or as a
faceless server. Or are there other possibilities?
Obviously the model should still be editable using GUI interface, either
that program itself or other spreadsheet program. Excel compatibility will
be nice.
TIA.
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From: Henjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Delete File With Strange Chars
Date: 13 Jun 2000 17:55:26 GMT
Okay, here's the problem:
Someone uploaded to my ftp server (linux server) a file with very strange
characters (the name) with strongly resemble some binary dump of a file.
The normal 'rm -R AAAA/' does not work. It just doesn't delete it.
I know there is a way to delete it by looking up it's inodenumber and
remove it .. but I don't know how exactly..
Could someone please help me?
Henjo
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From: "Nelson Vieira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problem with LILO and 2 hard drive configuration
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:06:01 -0500
Hi there,
Here's my setup. I have an old 486 motherboard with a BIOS that does not
support large hard drive > 504MB. I have one 504MB drive (hda) with a 500mb
primary extfs2 partition (hda1) that dos NOT cross over the 1024 cylinder. I
also have one 10GB drive (hdb) with one 10GB primary extf2 partition (hdb2).
Booting Linux (Redhat 6.2) off the floppy disk that was created during the
installation of Redhat works fine, albeit very slow. I would like to be able
to boot my Linux system off the 500MB partition (hda1). I tried to install
LILO on the MBR of the 500MB and boot off hda1 but all I get when it tries
to boot off the hard drive is one letter 'L' (I'm guessing its the beginning
on 'LILO') and then the system just hangs there.
Here's my setup:
I have copied the following files to the 500MB partition from the 10GB
(hdb2).
/boot/boot.b
/boot/map
/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
/etc/lilo.conf
This is what the lilo.conf looks like
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hdb2
vga = 1
Can anyone give me any suggestions?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Change TERM
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Jun 2000 18:05:51 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:20:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Hi,
>
>I am running RedHat 6.2. My $TERM is set to xterm. I would like to set
>it to something like vt100, 200, or 300. I tried setting the
>environment in /etc/profile TERM=vt100 and exporting TERM. But nothing.
>Can someone suggest something? Is there a better terminal emulation
>package (free) out there that I can download?
If you're running it in an xterm, then your TERM needs to be set to
xterm for it to work straight (or you may be lucky). Why exactly are
you wanting to change it?
Robie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Inkjet printer
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Jun 2000 18:08:39 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:52:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>I am about to buy an inkjet printer for my Linux system.
>Can some user please comment on the following printers and
>how well they are supported by current Linux/Ghostscript
>versions?
>Epson Stylus Color 670
>Epson Stylus Color 760
The 740 works fine for me, though I've heard others have had problems.
>Canon BJC-3000
>HP Deskjet 610C
>HP Deskjet 840C
>HP Deskjet 930C
Don't know.
Robie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Installing *.bin files
Date: 13 Jun 2000 14:10:43 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8i5nap$52h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a .bin file that contains Macromedia Generator, an extension
> module for Apache. How do I go about installing this .bin file - I
> tried simply executing the file but get a "permission denied" error - I
> did this logged in as both the owner of the file and as root
Does this file have the "executable" bit set? (Use "chmod +x
/path/to/binfile" to change it.)
Is it in a directory in the PATH?
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer device
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:13:01 GMT
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars=2DG=F6ran?= Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:40:14 GMT, wrote :
=A> What about the printer device?
=A> How do you create such device and how do you configure it?
=A>
=A> My problem is that I want to connect to a printer that has it's own NIC.
=A>
=A> I've installed mandrake 6.2 and the tools that follow it doesn't give me
=A> a clue how to configure it. In windows NT there's no problem - working
=A> very good.
Two options:
Does the printer's network interface speak 'LPD'? If so, it is
just like a remote UNIX printer. Use printtool and select remote unix
printer and give the printer's 'hostname' and the queue name on the
remote printer (might be the same as the hostname -- read the docs for
the printer).
If the printer does not speak 'LPD', then you can install Samba
-- this will make your Linux box understand how to speak to Microsoft's
networking, just like your Windows NT box.
=A>
=A> Does anyone around have an idea?
=A>
=A> regards to all from
=A> Lars-G�ran Andersson
=A>
=A>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Users and Password from NT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Jun 2000 18:18:31 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 00:05:18 +0200, Rafael said:
>I am changing Server at our department to Linux. I would like to move
>all accounts with their passwords to Linux. How can I do it? Is there
>any script, program?. I heard that can be done in SAMBA.
>Please help me to move from Microsoft NT to Linux.
Look around for a program called l0phtcrack (IIRC). I _think_ it can
give you a list of all usernames, and crack all the passwords as a
bonus :-) (Although cracking is the only way you'll get the passwords
across transparantely).
Robie.
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Change TERM
Date: 13 Jun 2000 09:26:55 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am running RedHat 6.2. My $TERM is set to xterm. I would like to set
>it to something like vt100, 200, or 300. I tried setting the
>environment in /etc/profile TERM=vt100 and exporting TERM. But nothing.
>Can someone suggest something? Is there a better terminal emulation
>package (free) out there that I can download?
>
>Thanks
>
>Marco
Why do you want to set it to vt100?
First understand that TERM only changes what various programs
are told that your terminal can do. It has no effect on what
the terminal actually is capable of doing. TERM provides a
reference to a database of terminal capabilities, and each
description is intended to describe what a particular terminal
can do and how to get it to do it.
By setting TERM to "xterm" you match the "terminal" provided
under X by the xterm emulator. An xterm can do a lot of things
that a vt100 cannot do, and hence there are control sequences
defined that will be used when TERM is set to "xterm" that will
not be used when TERM is set to "vt100".
You might not want to set TERM to vt100. The times when you
might are if you login via telnet or through a serial port and
your terminal/modem program/telnet session is emulating a vt100.
If you do really want to set the TERM variable, /etc/profile is
definitely NOT the place. That affects *all* logins... or at
least those which do not change it later. The correct place is
in the init files for your login shell. Typically Linux users
default to using bash, and the login shell reads the first of
~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile to be found. Which
ever of those you use should set the TERM variable. Any required
initialization of the terminal (stty commands, etc.) should be
done in that file too, as will be read only at login time and
therefore will happen only once per login.
Note also that on non-login shells those files are not read.
Instead, ~/.bashrc is read for interactive shells, and for
non-interactive shells a file specified by the BASH_ENV variable
is read. Generally there is no point in setting TERM in those
files.
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Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help Finding and Installing "Make", "GCC" and "Binutils" under RH
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:21:31 -0500
Larry wrote:
>
> I need to compile some source that I downloaded but found that I need to install the
>following packages first:
>
> Make
> GCC
> Binutils
>
> Can someone point me to where I can obtain the latest version of these and a brief
>explanation of how to install them on my system?
They are in the RPMS directory and will be named.
binutils
make
egcs
To install just use "rpm -Uvh filename.i386.rpm"
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From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printer works but prints an extra message
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:30:04 GMT
I run Redhat linux 6.1 and recently compiled my own kernel from source to
2.2.16. I then was setting up my printer and got it to work with the bug
fix and everything that red hat told me to do. Yet, after I restarted the
computer I tried to print something and it printed a message before it
printed what I wanted to print in the first place. THe message was made
such that the words were spelled with their own letters and was made real
big out of its own letters like the j was made out of many j's and so on.
the message had my user name in it. it went like this
justierd
stdin
localhost
Job:stdin
Date:Tude Jun 13 12:36:51 2000
And that was the message and I have no idea what to think of it. I've
looked all over and don't know what to do so please help me with it.
Thanks
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From: El_Terrible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Users and Password from NT
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:30:11 GMT
Rafael wrote:
>
> I am changing Server at our department to Linux. I would like to move
> all accounts with their passwords to Linux. How can I do it? Is there
> any script, program?. I heard that can be done in SAMBA.
> Please help me to move from Microsoft NT to Linux.
>
> Great thanks
> Rafael
>
I know Caldera has a similar adduser command line utility to NT and it
probably supports csv files. The other distributions probably also have
this utility so just export the user accounts to a Comma Delimited Value.
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From: El_Terrible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake Linux
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:30:09 GMT
Koen Van Baelen wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> is Mandrake Linux any good? I've heard it's very easy to install and
> it's the perfect distribution for newbies.
>
> --
> Koen Van Baelen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://users.pandora.be/koen.van.baelen
> --
>
>
The Perfect Distribution in my opinion for everybody is Caldera 2.4 but
Mandrake is decent.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with LILO and 2 hard drive configuration
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:30:54 GMT
"Nelson Vieira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:06:01 -0500, wrote :
"V> Hi there,
"V>
"V> Here's my setup. I have an old 486 motherboard with a BIOS that does not
"V> support large hard drive > 504MB. I have one 504MB drive (hda) with a 500mb
"V> primary extfs2 partition (hda1) that dos NOT cross over the 1024 cylinder. I
"V> also have one 10GB drive (hdb) with one 10GB primary extf2 partition (hdb2).
"V> Booting Linux (Redhat 6.2) off the floppy disk that was created during the
"V> installation of Redhat works fine, albeit very slow. I would like to be able
"V> to boot my Linux system off the 500MB partition (hda1). I tried to install
"V> LILO on the MBR of the 500MB and boot off hda1 but all I get when it tries
"V> to boot off the hard drive is one letter 'L' (I'm guessing its the beginning
"V> on 'LILO') and then the system just hangs there.
"V>
"V> Here's my setup:
"V>
"V> I have copied the following files to the 500MB partition from the 10GB
"V> (hdb2).
"V>
"V> /boot/boot.b
"V> /boot/map
"V> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
Presumably the 500meg partition is mounted as '/boot'?
"V>
"V> /etc/lilo.conf
"V>
"V> This is what the lilo.conf looks like
"V>
"V> boot=/dev/hda
"V> map=/boot/map
"V> install=/boot/boot.b
"V> prompt
"V> timeout=50
"V> linear
"V> default=linux
"V> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
"V> label=linux
"V> read-only
"V> root=/dev/hdb2
"V> vga = 1
"V>
"V>
"V> Can anyone give me any suggestions?
After copying the files and mounting /dev/hda1 as /boot, did you run lilo?
"V>
"V> Thanks.
"V>
"V> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"V> --
"V>
"V> - "PGP encryption encouraged and used."
"V>
"V>
"V>
"V>
"V>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: ppp auto dialing to internet in regular intervals
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Jun 2000 18:14:06 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 06:30:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>please help
>
>
>iwant to configure my linux machine to connect to internet in regular
>intervals so that it can dial my isp in every 15 minutes and download mails
>and disconnects itself.
>I am using REDHAT 6.1
Set up a script with the following:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/usernetctl ppp0 up
fetchmail
/usr/sbin/usernetctl ppp0 down
then add it to your crontab (man -a crontab for information)
Robie.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: platform identification
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:30:12 -0500
Prashant wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I wanted to know whether there is anyway to find out the vendor(eg. Dell,
> Compaq) of a particular machine. Is there any field in the CMOS/BIOS which
> could help?
> Thanks for the help,
> Prashant
>From what my Dell system looks like you can't mistake it. It says Dell
on the case, monitor, keyboard, & speakers. Even when booting it says
Dell on the screen when running through the bios & memory test.
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Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Delete File With Strange Chars
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:35:02 -0500
Henjo wrote:
>
> Okay, here's the problem:
> Someone uploaded to my ftp server (linux server) a file with very strange
> characters (the name) with strongly resemble some binary dump of a file.
> The normal 'rm -R AAAA/' does not work. It just doesn't delete it.
Isn't it "rm -f AAAA\/" where \ makes it see the / for what it is.
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Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "Ron Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Pop Not Popping
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:39:29 -0400
Wow - your responses were on the money. I set the nowait to 100 and it works
like a charm. The workers are happy and the boss is less grumpy. Thanks
again
Thanks to
Ron Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:h0c15.1109$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> We are running linux with sendmail. Periodically the pop3 fails. I can
> telnet hostname 110 and fail to get a connection. Then if I reboot the
> machine we get connected. Then after a while it stops connecting. I
> installed qpopper3 which replaced v 2.5 but to no avail. Is their a better
> way to do this - The boss says get an NT server but I dont wanna. Any and
> all help appreciated
>
> Ron Black
>
>
>
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