Linux-Misc Digest #836, Volume #24 Sat, 17 Jun 00 00:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: trying to record line-in input from soundcard (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Re: GUI hex/scientific calculator anywhere? (Dances With Crows)
Re: can't mount cd-rom ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: Linux erased Windows!!!!!!!!!!!! ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: Linux erased Windows!!!!!!!!!!!! ("Lonni J. Friedman")
REMINDER: GnuCash talk in Davis on June 19th (William Kendrick)
[Help:] Problems with NFS Daemon under 2.2.16 kernel (Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez)
Colorado Backup (1400) (J. Otto Tennant)
Re: RedHat vs Slackware (Christopher Browne)
Re: DOS for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GUI hex/scientific calculator anywhere? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Helix Gnome ("Bill Piety")
Re: Using Linux as a fileserver? (Robie Basak)
Re: GUI hex/scientific calculator anywhere? (Robie Basak)
help! archive with extension .gz.sh (Curtis Vize)
Re: Strange telnet behavior from win98 (Leonard Evens)
Re: using kde panel in gnome ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mounting as NTFS (Rod Smith)
Re: Upgrading from RH 6.0 ---> RH 6.2 (Leonard Evens)
Re: Cable Moden Setup Questions (Leonard Evens)
Re: Helix Gnome ("David ..")
smbfs umask is inverted? (mmnnoo)
Re: Colorado Backup (1400) (Leonard Evens)
kppp? ("RaySeb")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: trying to record line-in input from soundcard
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:27:44 GMT
You should try SoundStudio
http://www.ee.leeds.ac.uk/homes/NJB/Software/studio.shtml
You'll like it....
--
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: GUI hex/scientific calculator anywhere?
Date: 16 Jun 2000 19:55:56 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:42:56 GMT, Timur Tabi
<<8ieahf$e6n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Can someone point me to an RPM for a GUI hex and scientific calculator
>that's compatible with RedHat 6.2? I've searched www.rpmfind.net, but I
>can't find anything (RedHat's ftp servers are always busy, so I can't
>download anything from there).
kcalc, included with the KDE distribution on Redhat 6.2, hex, dec, oct,
bin, sin, cos, tan, log, ln, x^y, inverses of all those, and more besides.
Or use the command-line "infinite precision" program GNU bc. It's in the
"kutils" RPM on one of your CDs if you didn't install KDE. GNOME has
something similar; can't remember what it's called though.
>Frankly, before Linux can qualify as a good desktop OS, it should at
>least have the same applets that every other desktop OS has.
Frankly, you should look around your system--the number of useful pieces
that get installed by default is enormous, particularly on a "kitchen
sink" distro like Redhat. And if there's something you need that isn't
there, http://freshmeat.net/ is your friend.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't mount cd-rom
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:14:16 -0400
Where does /dev/cdrom point?
Tan Chee Sin wrote:
>
> DeAnn Iwan wrote:
>
> > Tan Chee Sin wrote:
> > >
> > > Patricia wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Tan Chee Sin wrote:
> > > > >"Lonni J. Friedman" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> I have no clue what fsconf is, although i'm guessing that its some
> > > > >> distro-specific proprietary piece of software. Why not just mount your
> > > > >> drive manually with:
> > > > >> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Tan Chee Sin wrote:
> > > > >> > I ran fsconf, selected the entry: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
> > > > >> > clicked on the Mount button, then Yes, it reports "Mount successful",
> > > > >> > but the fsconf window doesn't show that it is mounted, and I can't
> > > > >> > access the cd-rom still. What's wrong?
> > > > >
> > > > >Thanks. After I entered the command that you've suggested, I get this
> > > > >message:
> > > > >mount: /dev/cdrom: can't read superblock
> > > > >
> > > > >fsconf is the File System Configurator for Redhat Linux, one of things you
> > > > >could do with it is to mount file systems like floppy and cd-rom.
> > > > >
> > > > >Chee Sin
> > > > Are you mounting a data CD-ROM?
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux erased Windows!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:13:29 -0400
Linux did what YOU told it to do.
fredrik wrote:
>
> Help me please!
>
> When I installed linux it erased windows 98 on my computer.
> What can I do to get it back? I have a recovery disc but i cant use it because I
>dont have c: it's called something else.
> Please help me is there any way I can do to get c: back insteed of /?
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux erased Windows!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:13:03 -0400
Patricia wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Jacek Pop�awski wrote:
> >fredrik wrote:
> >>When I installed linux it erased windows 98 on my computer.
> >
> >cool! :-)
> >
> >>What can I do to get it back?
> >
> >please run fdisk, you will see what is on your disk
> Jacek
> if you installed linux as a server, the whole HD is formatted and assigned to
> Linux
> this is explained in the manuals.
Perhaps in RH but not for all distro's. Please don't assume that the
world uses RedHat.
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From: William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: REMINDER: GnuCash talk in Davis on June 19th
Crossposted-To: ucd.general,sac.announce,sac.general,ucd.life,ucd.cs.club
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:27:32 GMT
Just a reminder... "GnuCash," the Open Source personal finance application
for the Linux operating system, will be demonstrated on Monday, June 19th
at the Linux Users' Group of Davis.
Where:
Z-World
2900 Spafford Street
Davis, CA 95616
When:
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Cost:
Free!
For more information (including maps, bus schedules, info. about the club,
meeting agenda, etc. etc. etc.), visit LUGOD's comprehensive website:
http://www.lugod.org/
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/
-bill!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.lugod.org/
"With prices so low, the blow the stores away!"
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From: Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: [Help:] Problems with NFS Daemon under 2.2.16 kernel
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:58:54 +0200
Hi,
I've just downloaded the latest stable kernel version (a.k.a. 2.2.16)
and proceed to compile on my machine (Intel PII, on Red Hat 6.2).
Everything has run fine (configuration, compilation, installation and
booting), except the NFS server. When booting up the server fails with:
===========
Jun 14 12:21:45 bahia exportfs: condor.decsai.es:/home/ttb: Function not
implemented
Jun 14 12:21:45 bahia nfs: Starting NFS services: succeeded
Jun 14 12:21:46 bahia nfs: rpc.rquotad startup succeeded
Jun 14 12:21:46 bahia nfs: rpc.mountd startup succeeded
Jun 14 12:21:46 bahia rpc.nfsd: nfssvc: Function not implemented
Jun 14 12:21:46 bahia nfs: rpc.nfsd startup failed
===========
The rpc.nfsd process cannot be run. It complains about "nfssvc:
Function not implemented."
I've included NFS file system support in the kernel configuration, but
not the experimental "Kernel NFS Support".
Do you have any clue about this? How can I find out which function is
this? And how to fix it up?
Thanks in advance!!
Grettings!
Jos� Manuel
--
Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial
E.T.S. Ingenieria Informatica
Universidad de Granada Tel. +34 - 958 - 24 61 43
18071 - GRANADA (Spain) Fax: +34 - 958 - 24 33 17
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Subject: Colorado Backup (1400)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Otto Tennant)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 01:45:47 GMT
This is probably a simple question, and the answer is probably "no."
Is there a Unix (or linux) program which can read Colorado backup
tapes? If 'ftape' can do it, I apologize for a silly question.
My father has some backup tapes. For a variety of reasons, he
no longer has a tape drive.
My system which has a tape drive runs only OS/2 and Linux.
The OS/2 system can _see_ the files I want to recover, but it
will not actually recover theml.
Thanks for any help.
--
J.Otto Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: RedHat vs Slackware
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 02:00:18 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Simon Lemieux would say:
>> I'd say go for Debian; better than either of them IMO. (I've used all
>> three.)
>
>Good... I've never considered that option... could you explain in
>better details *why* I should go for Debian?
Because:
a) It has a _very good_ bug-tracking system.
<http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>
Honesty dictates admitting that problems _do_ come up, and that not
_all_ problems get fixed instantly.
However, unlike the "other guys," responsibility for packages on
Debian is _widely_ distributed; there probably are only a tiny
fraction of package maintainers responsible for more than a dozen
or so packages. As a result, error reports do go straight to a
responsible developer, and on those occasions when I've had
problems, I've gotten responses in at worst a couple days time, and
often, that leads to there being a fix that winds up in the central
package repository, thus clearing up the problem for _everyone._
b) It has an extremely powerful package management system.
RPM only helps you install packages; the Debian packaging "suite"
helps you manage the whole lot of packages that you have installed.
For instance, if I don't have any GNOME stuff installed, and type:
# apt-get install gnumeric
The packaging system will look to see what other packages are
needed to satisfy gnumeric's dependancies, and will cascade on to
build up the list of _all_ the stuff that has to be upgraded.
By the way, the gnumeric doesn't need to be on my machine at the
time; "apt" is able to look at local and remote places for
packages, and can "pull" the missing stuff.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/linux.html>
Rules of the Evil Overlord #86. "I will make sure that my doomsday
device is up to code and properly grounded."
<http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DOS for Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Jun 2000 02:20:34 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck) writes:
>On 15 Jun 2000 20:40:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>To switch to Linux, I need some DOS programs to run that do not run
>>under DOSEMU. This is an excellent program, but not perfected enough
>>for my needs.
>
>Any indication why they don't run? I've had excellent results, even
>with dos-extended programs. Have you tried 1.0?
I need them to run in an xwindow (xdos) so I can make reference to them. In
xdos the cursor just flashes in one corner and the program does work but is
minus a flashing box/underline (Kind of hard to edit)
>
>
>>My programs do run under OS/2 DOS emulation.
>
>Which flavor? The regular, the "direct hardware access allowed", or
>the "boot a floppy"? I'm thinking maybe that will give a clue as to
>some adjustment that might be made to dosemu.conf. For example, I have
>a couple of programs that won't run with default settings but if I give
>them 8 MB of DPMI they are happy. Note that they give error message
>that seem unrelated to memory too.
I use Geoworks (now New Deal) which runs under Warp 3 and Warp 4 standard
DOS (full screen)
It will not even start under dosemu. This has been reported by other with
no success thus far. I use it as a part of my work and it does fine under the
OS/2 emulation only in full screen mode.
>
>--
> -| Bob Hauck
> -| Codem Systems, Inc.
> -| http://www.codem.com/
>Have you tried running dosemu with debugging messages routed to a file?
>You may be able to find what the problem is, and change the appropriate
>configuration values to make it run. Do a 'man dos' to find out more
>about how to do this.
I have not tried this because (1) the cursor problem would not raise any "flags"
and the Geoworks program itself reports that IT has a problem so I am
assuming that dosemu thinks "all is well."
I am aware of VMWare, but was looking for a commercial version of something
like dosemu or the OS/2-DOS that is not virtualizing a whole machine.
Thanks for the comments thus far
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: GUI hex/scientific calculator anywhere?
Date: 16 Jun 2000 22:39:00 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8ieahf$e6n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Can someone point me to an RPM for a GUI hex and scientific calculator
> that's compatible with RedHat 6.2?
Have you looked at grpn (http://wilkins.ne.mediaone.net/grpn.html)?
It uses RPN, which is of course the only sane choice.
> Frankly, before Linux can qualify as a good desktop OS, it should at
> least have the same applets that every other desktop OS has.
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: "Bill Piety" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Helix Gnome
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:43:51 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David .."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Will the helix-gnome installer update the gnome that is already
> installed on a system or install a new or second version? Anyone know?
>
At the 1st screen I identified my system as RH rpm. Installer then downloaded
the packages necessary for Helix Gnome. Corresponding rpms are upgraded,
the balance installed. The Helix updater is an unusual tool, from my Linux
experience.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Using Linux as a fileserver?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Jun 2000 02:46:44 GMT
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:52:35 GMT, George Walford said:
>Here at work we are currently using a Novell box as our fileserver. We
>are considering moving over to Linux as most of our servers are Linux
>based now.
>
>We do have a concern however using Linux as a fileserver however:
>Novell gives you the option of recovering a deleted file, if you
>accidentaly destroyed an important file. (It also gives you a "purge"
>option that lets you truly destroy the file.)
>
>How would linux work in this environment? I know Linux can make an
>excellent fileserver, but what happens if a file is deleted? AFAIK the
>ext2fs does not take kindly to the restoration of deleted files. Any
>solutions to this? Would a SAMBA based fileserver have a "undelete"
>option? (all our clients are unfortunatly MS based.)
No, they won't, unless you care to modify Samba so that deletions
instead get moved to another location for quarantine (shouldn't be too
hard to do, you can pay me if you like :-)
Perhaps you should keep frequent backups? Alternatively, if the
clients are Windows clients, like you say, then you may be able to get
the Recycle Bin to work, maybe?
Robie.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: GUI hex/scientific calculator anywhere?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Jun 2000 02:49:57 GMT
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:42:56 GMT, Timur Tabi said:
>Can someone point me to an RPM for a GUI hex and scientific calculator
>that's compatible with RedHat 6.2? I've searched www.rpmfind.net, but I
>can't find anything (RedHat's ftp servers are always busy, so I can't
>download anything from there).
>
>Frankly, before Linux can qualify as a good desktop OS, it should at
>least have the same applets that every other desktop OS has.
Frankly, before you start attacking Linux, maybe you should check to
see if you know your facts. Why doesn't Windows have xeyes? Windows
doesn't qualify as a good desktop OS by your definition, then?
KDE comes with kcalc. You'll find the KDE rpms on your Redhat CD.
Robie.
--
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:54:25 -0700
From: Curtis Vize <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help! archive with extension .gz.sh
I know the .gz means the file is a gzip archive, but I have the quake 3
demo and it has the .sh extension at the end and I'm not sure which
program to use or even what type of archive it is, I don't recognize the
extension and neither does X, can anyone help?
-curt
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange telnet behavior from win98
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:19:55 -0500
Dave Rolfe wrote:
>
> I have a win98 machine and start the version of telnet that comes with
> win98 and connect just fine to a linux machine. But when I try to vi a
> file I get into trouble. Most things seem to be working but when I go
> into insert mode and hit enter to create a new line .... I enter the
> twilight zone. Instead of a new line, I get a sort of truncated copy of
> the current line! Nothing I do lets me create a new line. So what is
> going on? Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks, Dave
You have already got lots of good advice. Let me add the following.
It is probably unrelated to your problem, but it is worth knowing.
The latest forms of vi assume some sort of GUI features, and this
can sometimes lead to problems when remotely logged in. If you
use /bin/vi instead, you get the original vi.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: using kde panel in gnome
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 03:36:23 GMT
"Kent A. Signorini" wrote:
> Is it possible to run a KDE panel in a GNOME session? I have a KDE panel
> app that I want to use, but I don't want to run KDE.
>
> Unless someone knows of a good mailcheck for gnome that does more than one
> account...
>
> Please e-mail responses. Thank you.
>
> Kent A. Signorini
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try starting up a terminal, and type 'kpanel &' that will should start up the
KDE panel.
-Kara
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: mounting as NTFS
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 03:39:18 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Yao Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, all,
>
> I need to rescue an NT SCSI HD and I was wondering about cooking up a
> ram-disk with SCSI and NTFS, mount /dev/sda1 as NTFS and replace a
> corrupted file. However, I noticed from menuconfig that NTFS read/write
> mode is new and DANGEROUS. I am wondering if anyone out there had any
> similar experience? how dangerous are we talking about here?
I wouldn't recommend trying it unless you have a complete image backup
of the partition in question. I've seen some reports of success with the
NTFS read/write drivers over periods of several hours of use, but I've
also seen reports of them trashing the disk almost instantly.
Another option is to use the DOS read/write NTFS driver from
http://www.sysinternals.com/. It'll set you back $149, the last I heard,
but it should be more reliable than the Linux solution because the DOS
driver is actually a "wrapper" around the actual Windows NT NTFS driver,
rather than a re-implementation of NTFS.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Upgrading from RH 6.0 ---> RH 6.2
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:25:29 -0500
Larry wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of upgrading my current RH 6.0 install to RH 6.2. Has anyone
> else done this? How hard is it and is there a HOW-TO describing the steps
> required?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry
I don't remember if I've done that precise upgrade, but I've
frequently upgraded skipping one or more intermediate versions.
The installation media comes with documentation and that describes
how to do the upgrade, but it should be fairly straightforward.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Moden Setup Questions
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:34:52 -0500
Java__Cat wrote:
>
> I have been trying to set up my cable modem on an SuSE Linux system. I have
> gotten as far as to get my LAN card acknowledged but am having troubles
> connecting to my provider. Is there a place to put your logon password, that
> I may be missing. Is there an other info that I need to gather in order to
> accomplish this task.
> Thanks all.
> Java__Cat
You should be more explicit about how your cable provider is
doing things. There are two methods that I know about.
The usual (older) system users a network card connected to
an external cable modem which looks to the network card
like an ethernet. You set up your network to use DHCP
and it connects. If that is your setup you should be
a bit more explicit about what happens and where you think
you are stuck.
Some cable providers give you a single device which you
install in your computer. I'm not sure I understand the
details, but it goes something like this. You have a
permanent ethernet or ethernet like connection but you
are not assigned an IP address. Instead you use a version
of the ppp protocol designed to work over an ethernet.
In sthat case you have to configure your machine to use that
protocol and provide a username and password. Usually
you get the username and password by running a program
which they provide for running under windows. After you
have run that you can use Linux. If this is what you have,
do a search via deja.com. There have been several discussions
of how to do this under Linux.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Helix Gnome
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:44:22 -0500
Thanks for the replies.
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: mmnnoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: smbfs umask is inverted?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:58:55 -0600
I have put a line in my fstab to more easily mount samba filesystems,
such as:
//NTmachine/c$ /NTmountpoint smbfs
uid=0,gid=100,fmask=770,dmask=770,userna
me=auser,password=thepassword
gid 100 is the 'users' group.
originally I used 007 for fmask and dmask, since running smbmount at the
command line says the following:
fmask=<arg> file umask
dmask=<arg> directory umask
However, I find that fmask and dmask work like 'normal' permissions
rather than umask. Using fmask=770,dmask=770, I get
ls -ld /NTmountpoint/dir
drwxrwx--- 1 root users 512 May 29 11:29 /NTmountpoint/dir
whereas fmask & dmask set to 007 give
ls -ld /NTmountpoint/dir
d------rwx 1 root users 512 May 29 11:29 /k6233/mp3
Isn't this backwards?
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Colorado Backup (1400)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:38:54 -0500
"J. Otto Tennant" wrote:
>
> This is probably a simple question, and the answer is probably "no."
>
> Is there a Unix (or linux) program which can read Colorado backup
> tapes? If 'ftape' can do it, I apologize for a silly question.
>
> My father has some backup tapes. For a variety of reasons, he
> no longer has a tape drive.
>
> My system which has a tape drive runs only OS/2 and Linux.
>
> The OS/2 system can _see_ the files I want to recover, but it
> will not actually recover theml.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> --
> J.Otto Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
> Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Just what kind of Colorado Backup drive do you have? Linux
can probably read SCSI drives (although there was some difference
of opinion as to whether or not the Colorado SCSI drives are
really SCSI drives in a recent discussion in this newsgroup).
Linux can also read the Colorado IDE drives.
But if the data was put on the tape by another OS, you may
have difficulty ecoding the data. The usual Linux utilities
probably won't work. You may be able to do a direct byte
by byte copy with dd, but you would then just have a disk
file which you also couldn't decode.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "RaySeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kppp?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:07:03 -0700
Does anyone know how to fix this problem? I am using mandrake 6.0. When I
start kppp on a kde session I get a message that the modem is busy. It use
to dial up the ISP and then start netscape for me. I would appreciate it if
anyone knows how I can get kppp to again dial up my ISP. Thanks Ray.
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sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
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