Linux-Misc Digest #940, Volume #24 Mon, 26 Jun 00 09:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Setting console fonts... (Tuukka Toivonen)
Re: inittab entry for telnet session ?? (David Efflandt)
Re: Unable to print from remote box (David Efflandt)
Re: .mp3's play choppy. (Nicholas Murison)
Re: connecting to ISP with linux (Nicholas Murison)
Re: Netscape proxy problem... I think (Nicholas Murison)
dualboot ("Luke")
Re: Xwindows for DOS? (Jimenez Martinez Angel Luis)
include math.h (Nikodemus Karlsson)
Re: dualboot (Martin Herrman)
Re: include math.h ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: include math.h (Eric)
Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu (Ted)
'Essential' files to backup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Gnutella fans, READ THIS! (Rick)
Re: 'Essential' files to backup (Dances With Crows)
Re: 'Essential' files to backup ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Available RAM (Dances With Crows)
Re: realplayer installation (Eric)
Font Colors in 6.2 won't change ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux, Quake2 and a PS/2 Mouse ("Ross Goodley")
Re: info/texinfo to man pages (John Culleton)
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From: Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Setting console fonts...
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:12:02 +0300
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Hendrix wrote:
> How can I set the font size for my console...!!! I used to do it in DOS
Take a look at the "SVGATextMode" program.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: inittab entry for telnet session ??
Date: 26 Jun 2000 10:18:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm new to the Linux world. Could anyone tell me what the inittab entry
>for a telnet session from my Win98 box would be . I'm running Mandrake
>6.1 and can ping both ways. The only thing that I can see is wrong is
>that there are no entries in inittab for my network connection, so
>there is no getty running and hence no logon prompt. I'm
>using a 10 base T network, which works fine. I get a blank screen then
>the msg 'connection broken' when I try to logon.
>Thanks
>Bob
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
telnet has nothing to do with inittab, that is only if you are going to
log directly onto a serial port with a null modem serial cable and
something like HyperTerminal direct to Com port.
What you should be looking at is /etc/inetd.conf and when using
tcpwrappers should have an entry something like this:
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
Also make sure you have names for local IP's in /etc/hosts, and don't
expect to be able to telnet as root (login as a normal user and 'su -'
when you need to).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Unable to print from remote box
Date: 26 Jun 2000 10:26:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:47:17 -0700, MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I send a print job to my printserver, nothing happens. Jobs are
>sent to the local spool but they are never forwarded to the printserver
>for processing. I can print from the printserver. All other boxes are
>configured to use the remote lpd and queue. Does my printserver need to
>be running NFS server services?
Have you set up /etc/hosts.lpd on the print server, which is simply a list
of hosts allowed to print? This should really be explained in the
Printing-HOWTO, but I never could find docs about hosts.lpd.
--
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: Nicholas Murison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: .mp3's play choppy.
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:41:55 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had similar problems with playing audio before. I fixed this by
downloading a newer driver for my SB Live card. Perhaps this is what is
needed in your case as well.
Also, have you tried the X MultiMedia System (http://www.xmms.org)? It
works very well for both mp3's and many other formats, as well as
offering some of the same visualisation and other extras like Winamp.
--
Nicholas John Murison
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't mess with penguins
Registered Linux User #153895 http://counter.li.org
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From: Nicholas Murison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: connecting to ISP with linux
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:47:04 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
acepea wrote:
>
> hi, i connect to my isp just fine using win95. the server
> assigns me an ip address configures the default gateway and the
> DNS.
And herein lies the problem. The automatic configuration of DNS does
not occur under PPP handshaking under Linux. As far as I can remember
this is because the automatic DNS configuration is a M$ extension of the
PPP protocol. You'll need to get hold of the IP addresses of your ISP's
DNS servers and add them to your /etc/resolv.conf file. For more info
about this, have a look at the PPP HOWTO (located in your
/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs directory).
--
Nicholas John Murison
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't mess with penguins
Registered Linux User #153895 http://counter.li.org
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From: Nicholas Murison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape proxy problem... I think
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:54:31 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your problem is that your machine can't find your ISP's nameservers. It
needs the nameservers to convert domain and host names (such as
www.netscape.com) to an Internet address (IP-address, for ex.
212.54.87.0). Under Windows the IP addresses of the nameservers are
automatically given to your machine while handshaking with the remote
dialup server. This doesn't happen under Linux; as far as I can
remember this is because the automatic transfer is a non-standard
extension of the PPP protocol.
What you need to do is to ask your ISP for the IP addresses of their
nameserver(s) and add them to your /etc/resolv.conf file, one per line
as such:
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the first nameserver and
yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is the IP address of the second nameserver. Have a look
at the PPP HOWTO for more info (/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/PPP-HOWTO).
--
Nicholas John Murison
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't mess with penguins
Registered Linux User #153895 http://counter.li.org
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From: "Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dualboot
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:02:30 GMT
i'm a novice of Linux
i'm tryng to run windows 98 using lilo, but I can't.
I have one ide drive which has a fat partition(600 Mb) and a linux native
partition(2,5GB)
win98 is on a scsi disk.
How can i configure lilo to boot win98?
Thanks for any suggestion.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jimenez Martinez Angel Luis)
Subject: Re: Xwindows for DOS?
Date: 26 Jun 2000 09:13:06 GMT
> Hi,
>
> I want to set up an XWindow client on a DOS machine to connect into my
> Linux server (using lanmanager / tcpip / smb). Are there any favourite
> Xwindow emulators for DOS that might do this?
>
> Peter
--
You could try xappeal, we were using this some years ago. Try altavista,
or www.google.com to find it. I don't know if it's shareware or payware.
Hope it Helps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nikodemus Karlsson)
Subject: include math.h
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:00:22 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I want to include math.h in a c-program,
which library do I have link the prohgram with?
Best,
Nikodemus
*****************************************
Nikodemus Karlsson,
Teacher in mathematics and science
*****************************************
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: Re: dualboot
Date: 26 Jun 2000 11:15:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:02:30 GMT, Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i'm a novice of Linux
>
> i'm tryng to run windows 98 using lilo, but I can't.
> I have one ide drive which has a fat partition(600 Mb) and a linux native
> partition(2,5GB)
> win98 is on a scsi disk.
> How can i configure lilo to boot win98?
> Thanks for any suggestion.
>
What to do:
1. edit /etc/lilo.conf as root
2. run /sbin/lilo executable as root
My /etc/lilo.conf is as follows (dual boot win95 and linux):
boot = /dev/hda
timeout = 100
prompt
default = linux
vga = normal
read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14
label = linux
root = /dev/hda3
other = /dev/hda1
label = windows
I hope this will help you. SCSI disks are numbered with sda1, which stands for
Scsi Disk A, partition 1. The A stands for first controller, master. For more
information read 'man lilo', 'man lilo.conf' and the lilo howto, which you
can find in /usr/doc/HOWTO/lilo*
Martin
--
Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
1:10pm up 13 days, 23:42, 3 users, load average: 1.18, 0.90, 0.58
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: include math.h
Date: 26 Jun 2000 11:21:06 GMT
Nikodemus Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I want to include math.h in a c-program,
Well, fine.
: which library do I have link the prohgram with?
You don't HAVE to link it with any. But I think you are
asking "where are the math functions". They're in the
math library, libm. So compile with -lm.
This is a unix FAQ.
Peter
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: include math.h
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:26:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nikodemus Karlsson wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I want to include math.h in a c-program,
> which library do I have link the prohgram with?
> Best,
> Nikodemus
>
> *****************************************
>
> Nikodemus Karlsson,
> Teacher in mathematics and science
>
> *****************************************
the library you need is libm
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted)
Subject: Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu
Date: 26 Jun 2000 11:33:12 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Turley) uttered in comp.os.linux.misc:
>On 25 Jun 2000 19:30:23 GMT, Ted apparently wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the idea, but this was essentially what I have been doing.
>> I copied your file verbatim but again the computer boots into windows
>> when I choose the Linux option.
>>
>> Ted Schuman
>
>Why don't you post your config.sys file?
>
Here it is:
--- start file --- config.sys ---
[menu]
menuitem=Linux, Boot Linux
menuitem=Win98, Boot Windows 98
menudefault=Linux, 15
[Linux]
shell=c:\linux\loadlin.exe c:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ro mem=128M
[Win98]
DEVICE=c:\windows\setver.exe
--- end file ---
I have also tried it with the Linux line as:
shell=c:\linux\loadlin.exe @c:\linux\bootopts.txt root=hda3 ro mem=128M
where bootopts.txt is an existing file as I previously posted.
Also, to respond to another post in the thread, BootGUI is set to 0.
Thanks,
Ted Schuman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 'Essential' files to backup
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:36:31 GMT
What are the 'essential' Linux configuration files I should backup so
that I can restore Linux (Mandrake 7) to its current configuration if
there is a
catastrophic problem?
I am using the machine as a webserver, so I presume httpd.conf is one of
them.
Thanks.
-Brad
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From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnutella fans, READ THIS!
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:20:36 -0400
Jim Hill wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Kracked Up <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >At last, we have a resouce that's not been commercialized and
> >exploited...yet...
>
> Your protest would be a lot more tolerable if you weren't using a news
> server which pisses into the world's spools with every post by tacking
> an ad onto your own content:
>
> >Got questions? Get answers over the phone at Keen.com.
> >Up to 100 minutes free!
> >http://www.keen.com
>
> Jim
Yeah.. that's at least as bad as redirecting music searches to porn
sites... sheesh. Get a grip.
--
Rick
To reply by email remove the obvious from my address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 'Essential' files to backup
Date: 26 Jun 2000 08:15:08 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:36:31 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<8j7f7u$4vn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>What are the 'essential' Linux configuration files I should backup so
>that I can restore Linux (Mandrake 7) to its current configuration if
>there is a catastrophic problem?
>I am using the machine as a webserver, so I presume httpd.conf is one of
>them.
Back up the whole /etc directory tree, as well as the data on the machine
that isn't stored anywhere else, like /usr/local and wherever you put the
pages you're serving. If users have stuff in /home, you may want to back
that up as well. Almost everything else can be restored from the distro
CDs...
--
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: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'Essential' files to backup
Date: 26 Jun 2000 12:11:21 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: What are the 'essential' Linux configuration files I should backup so
: that I can restore Linux (Mandrake 7) to its current configuration if
: there is a catastrophic problem?
Anything in /etc.
Some things in /var.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Available RAM
Date: 26 Jun 2000 08:21:02 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:09:04 -0500, Nelson Muntz
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Hi,
>I am on a dual-boot machine, and at the power-on self test it reports
>160M (or a little more) of RAM. Under DOS or Windows98 it reports a
>similar amount. When I run 'top' or 'free' under Slackware 7.0, 2.2.13
>kernel, or the KDE task manager, it reports only 64M of RAM. Why isn't
RTFFAQ!! This question gets asked here every other day, and it's
addressed in every manual in every boxed set I've seen, as well as the
LILO documentation, the FAQs available on http://linuxdoc.org/ and
http://linuxnewbie.org/ , and on Deja if you spend 30 seconds searching
this NG.
Set the BIOS to "non-OS/2" and boot your machine with "linux mem=160M" at
the LILO prompt. Replace "160" with the actual amount of memory, of
course. Read the documentation to make this process automatic on every
boot.
--
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: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: realplayer installation
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:32:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nelson Muntz wrote:
>
> I'm running Slackware 7.0, and I have been trying to install RealPlayer
> , unsuccessfully. I downloaded version 7 beta from http://real.com, as a
> self-installing executable. It opened up a window, prompted me for the
> install directory, and a few seconds later said, "Install failed for
> unknown reason." So I went all the way down to version 5.0, (according
> to them, versions 3.0 and above should all work), untarred it, and added
> an "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/rvplayer5.0" line to my profile file,
Perhaps I'm mistaken here, but shouldn't this read
"export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib"
Eric
> as per instructions. At this point, the binary should run (there's
> other stuff to do to get it to work as a netscape plug-in, etc),
> however, all I got was, " rvplayer: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' "
> so then I did a "ldd rvplayer" and it said:
>
> "libXmu.so.6 => not found
> libXt.so.6 => not found
> libXext.so.6 => not found
> libX11.so.6 => not found ..."
>
> so then just to test it I did an "ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xeyes" and it
> returned:
>
> "libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40018000)
> libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4002a000)
> ...
> libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40091000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4009d000) ..."
> ( I omitted some lines from the above output in both cases)
>
> I am somewhat new to Linux and don't really understand the workings of
> the ld.so, but I did read all the man pages, and it seems that if it
> could find the libraries in the second instance, it should be able to
> load them when I try to run RealPlayer. I must be missing something here
> and the installation instructions don't tell me what it is. What else do
> I have to do?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Font Colors in 6.2 won't change
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:32:02 GMT
Hello:
I'm running RH 6.2 with Gnome My problem is this.
when I bring up any terminal and so a ls -la I my
directories are showing up in a blurry blue font.
(Example using gnome terminal)
Even though I can go into settings----colors---
and change the background and foreground colors
of my font (which do change) my directories
still stay blue. How can I go about changing this?
(The easier the better!!)
Thanks
Chris
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Before you buy.
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From: "Ross Goodley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux, Quake2 and a PS/2 Mouse
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:43:04 +0100
I have a similar prob with Q2 and mice with my 3DFx Card, run with svgalib,
or under X... mouse works fine. Run with mesa or glide... no mouse.. zip
nada.... any ideas anyone?
Cheers
R
"David Efflandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Charles Tryon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >--------------DB015330C77465E1BEA3F200
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> What's with all the html posting lately. Please use plain text.
>
> >I've been running the Linux version of Quake2 for a while, using a serial
> >mouse. I just upgraded to another motherboard with a PS/2 mouse. I got
> >Linux and X11 to recognize the new mouse, but Quake freaks out - as if
it's
> >getting a continuous stream of negative coordinates or something. What
do
> >I need to change in the configuration (or drivers) to get Quake to work?
>
> Quake uses svgalib for the mouse, not gpm. In fact I heard that it is
> best to killall gpm before running quake (I used a script to do that, run
> q2 and then restart gpm when quitting).
>
> But the problem is that you need to change your mouse in
> /etc/vga/libvga.config from 'mouse Microsoft' to 'mouse PS2'. As you
> found out, your ammo disappears rather quickly otherwise.
>
> --
> 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: John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: info/texinfo to man pages
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:45:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Culleton writes:
> > I need a program that takes any info formatted file and makes it
into a
> > man page.
>
> You want texi2man. It converts a texinfo file (the source for info
files)
> to a man page.
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
>
That works, though the results are not always beautiful. Thanks for the
info. Perhaps I can hack it to handle straight "info" files which is how
most of my systems's documentation is stored.
John Culleton
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