Linux-Misc Digest #975, Volume #24 Wed, 28 Jun 00 14:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Storm Linux 2000 (Dieter Kedrowitsch)
Re: Anyone know these programs/utilities...?? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: How do I find my tape drive (Leonard Evens)
Re: Problem removing LILO (Leonard Evens)
Re: COBOL for Linux (J Bland)
Re: Linux on 386er notebook with 1MB Ram and 60MB HDD (Philipp Poeml)
Re: getting software (John Hasler)
Re: OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD/Linux (Vilmos Soti)
Linux freeze when processing huge files (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DFran=E7ois?= Beaumont)
XHpcd: Where is it? (David Steuber)
Re: Need a small C program ("Sam Hays")
Re: Need a small C program (mike burrell)
Re: Need clarification: what really is 'MBR' and what is 'BOOT SECTOR'? ("Charlie
Root")
Re: OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD/Linux (Martin Herrman)
Re: getting software (Doc Shipley)
Re: Linux Hangs (freeze) HELP. (Ron)
Re: Full System Restore (Dances With Crows)
Re: Storm Linux 2000 (Dieter Kedrowitsch)
Re: getting software (Matthew Matchura)
Re: Anyone know these programs/utilities...?? (Doc Shipley)
Save music on hard disk (Ed Ohsone)
Re: No eth0:0 alias in routing table (Vincent Zweije)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dieter Kedrowitsch)
Subject: Storm Linux 2000
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:09:14 GMT
Hello, I'm trying Storm Linux 2000 on a second machine and much of it's
configuration is quite different then RedHat that I'm used to. I tried
creating a bashrc file that's stored in /etc to contain the lines:
PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
alias ls='ls --color'
It seems that Storm Linux is ignoring bashrc because no matter what I try
in this file, it ignores it.
The other thing that is different is Storm Linux didn't automatically
configure my SoundBlaster Live! card. Red Hat 6.2 set it up automatically
so I'm sort of lost.
Otherwise, Storm Linux seems REALLY cool. I'm happy with it otherwise.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Dieter
--
Dieter Kedrowitsch
NuNet Inc. Engineering
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anyone know these programs/utilities...??
Date: 28 Jun 2000 12:12:01 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hendrix wrote:
> 1. file
> 2. flex
>
> I'd like to have the site of the group/individual who maintains these
> programs...
See
ftp.deshaw.com/pub/file
and
http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html
> Sincerely,
> --
> Trevor Penney,
> A+, Network+ Certified
Oh, boy.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I find my tape drive
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:03:25 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> From: "Jeff Malka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I have TurboLinux 6 workstatrion installed and am just learning to
> use it.
>
> I have a tape drive installed on my machine. How do I find it under
> Linux
> and how would I do a complete backup of Linux to tape?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What kind of tape drive is it? The device that you would use
for backup commands depends on the type of drive.
If your tape drive is on the floppy disk controller, the device
would normally be /dev/ftape.
If it is an ide internal drive, the device is /dev/ht0.
If it is a SCSI drive, the device is probably /dev/st0.
If it is an external drive connected to the parallel port,
you may not be able to use it with Linux. At least this was
once the case, but things may have changed.
How you use it can be a bit complicated to explain, although it
is easy in practice. Let us know the answer to the above question
first.
--
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: Problem removing LILO
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:59:03 -0500
radha wrote:
>
> To remove LILO I used "fdisk /mbr" which was supposed to restore
> the WIN98 MBR. Now when I boot I get the message:
> Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g.
> C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)
> None of the entries I typed at the A> prompt work.
> I tried C:\COMMAND.COM, C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM, A:\COMMAND.COM (with
> a floopy containing COMMAND.COM).
> I can't access WIN98, so I can't find the proper path to COMMAND.COM
>
> How can I get beyond this? I want to boot to WIN98.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> radha
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
Did you run
fdisk/mbr
from a DOS/Windows startup disk?
Can you still boot from that disk?
What happens when you try to boot from the hard drive?
It is possible that booting from a DOS/Windows startup disk
and running
sys c:
will fix your problem, but you should check with a windows
newsgroup and Microsoft. I don't think this has anything to
do with Linux.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: COBOL for Linux
Date: 28 Jun 2000 16:36:57 GMT
On 28 Jun 2000 15:30:54 GMT, Ron TJ HUANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a COBOL compiler for Linux??
Yes, at least 2.
rpcobol, and tiny cobol.
Look on freshmeat.net under cobol. Both seem to be dev versions but they may
work.
Frinky
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From: Philipp Poeml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on 386er notebook with 1MB Ram and 60MB HDD
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:48:45 +0200
Hi everyone,
thanks for your Tips. I think the only solutions are minix or elks. And
I think minix is a bit better, because it has more tools and normal
commands. I think I will try to compile a vi improved on it.
If you could give me some addresses of small linux distributions, I will
be very happpy!
Thanks!
Philipp
--
Philipp Poeml
Institut fuer Mineralogie
Uni Muenster
Corrensstr. 24
48149 Muenster, Germany
phone: +49-251-8333048
fax: +49-251-8338397
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://poemlhq.tsx.org
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: getting software
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:41:28 GMT
Hau Hing writes:
> I believe it's because of the licence term by University of Washington
> prevents distribution of binary or something similar.
The license forbids the distribution of altered sources and of binaries
compiled from altered sources. Pine cannot be made compliant with Debian
policy without some minor changes, so Debian does not distribute pine
binaries. Debian does provide include a pine source package and a diff
package that makes it easy to compile and install pine locally.
But why not just use one of the free alternatives such as mutt?
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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Subject: Re: OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD/Linux
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:51:45 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman) writes:
> i'm using linux for about one year now and i'm asking myself: is there
> something better? Linux is much faster and reliable than Windows Operating
> systems, but now i'm reading about the BSD operating systems i would like
> to have some information about the differences between them (OpenBSD,
> FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux and maybe Solaris (is solaris free?)) at the
> following subjects:
Solaris is not free.
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all are descendant of 386BSD. The main goal
of FreeBSD is to have a very fast and reliable OS for the x86 chipset.
They power some of the biggest sites including cdrom.com (biggest ftp site),
Yahoo, Hotmail (!!!), etc.
NetBSD's goal is to be as platform independent as possible and to run on
as many hardware as possible. They claim (possibly righteously) that NetBSD
is the most ported OS.
OpenBSD splintered from NetBSD and their main selling point is crypto
and security.
> 1. speed
FreeBSD is possibly the fastest since it is tuned to the x86 architecture.
Now they have Alpha and possiblt Sparc port though.
> 2. reliability
All of them are *VERY* reliable.
> 3. networkingspeed
FreeBSD is extremely fast. A single FreeBSD machine (ftp.cdrom.com)
held the busiest ftp site title with over a TB of download a single day.
> 4. hardware support
It depends. If you have some exotic hardware (not for mainstream use)
then NetBSD is your friend. However, Linux has better hardware support
in the Intel world.
> 5. amount of MB needed for installation
Don't know. I installed OpenBSD on a 24MB 486 machine.
> 6. availability of desktop applications (netscape, licq, pine, slrn, xanim and
> so on)
FreeBSD has a pretty big ports tree. Net and OpenBSD also have ports, but they
are smaller. However, you can always get the source and compile it yourself.
> 7. security
Nothing beats OpenBSD. However, you have to understand that usability and
security usually are very far from each other.
> Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
Don't provide info like kernel version. It can help crackers to break
into your system.
Vilmos
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DFran=E7ois?= Beaumont
Subject: Linux freeze when processing huge files
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:52:50 GMT
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Hi,
Since we've installed new PCs on Linux at work, i have a big problem and i don't know
how to solve it. When
i write a big file on my disk with for example "dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/dummy bs=1024k
count=100", the
process is executed fast (least than 2 seconds). But 3 seconds after, kupdate syncs
memory and hard
drive for 10 seconds. As we know, kupdate have a nice factor of -20 and it is not
interruptible when running.
So, i loose control of the linux box for 10 secs (the mouse freeze in X and when it is
on text console, the
keyboard freeze too).
Other thing, when a program is executed, it takes 99% of the cpu (when it is alone)
and when the program
require more than physical memory, swap partion is used and the program slow down to
3% of the cpu time.
I use a P3 733Mhz 512M with a quantum fireball 20.5gigs under RedHat 6.2 clean
install, all ide.
What i want is even if the process i execute have to be slow down, i don't want to
stop working waiting while
my computer is writing on his disk or syncing memory and hard drive.
I hope someone got a hint out there!
Thanks!
JF
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<pre>Hi,
Since we've installed new PCs on Linux at work, i have a big problem and i don't know
how to solve it. When
i write a big file on my disk with for example "dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/dummy bs=1024k
count=100", the
process is executed fast (least than 2 seconds). But 3 seconds after, kupdate syncs
memory and hard
drive for 10 seconds. As we know, kupdate have a nice factor of -20 and it is not
interruptible when running.
So, i loose control of the linux box for 10 secs (the mouse freeze in X and when it is
on text console, the
keyboard freeze too).
Other thing, when a program is executed, it takes 99% of the cpu (when it is alone)
and when the program
require more than physical memory, swap partion is used and the program slow down to
3% of the cpu time.
I use a P3 733Mhz 512M with a quantum fireball 20.5gigs under RedHat 6.2 clean
install, all ide.
What i want is even if the process i execute have to be slow down, i don't want to
stop working waiting while
my computer is writing on his disk or syncing memory and hard drive.
I hope someone got a hint out there!
Thanks!
JF
</pre>
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Subject: XHpcd: Where is it?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:59:58 GMT
The first place I look for something I want is on freshmeat.net. I
went looking for a PhotoCD plug-in for GIMP or stand alone
reader/converter. I found XHpcd which seems like it may be the exact
thing I want. Unfortunatly, the link is dead. Does anyone know where
I can find this?
There is also a package called photocd. Unfortunatly, it does not
support all the picture resolutions on the PhotoCD. I need to be able
to read the high res images.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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From: "Sam Hays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Need a small C program
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:09:10 GMT
there a program called AnalogX portmapper, its freeware www.analogx.com -
you can possibly check that out? but i dunno
-Sam
"Gerald J. Puhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> To any who can help:
>
> I am in need of a C program Windows 95/NT4.0 that will simply open
> socket and connect to another machine on a port number. I am an
> experienced C programmer on Linux, but I am having trouble learning
> Borland C++ (just don't have the time). This app will be executed to
> initiate my Linux server to do some file system tasks via inetd. I can
> fill in the machine name and port number needed. BTW I am using Borland
> 5.02 C/C++. I feel stupid since I can't get a simple program like this
> together, but, I don't have much experience with Windows machines. If
> you can help please email me direct.
>
> Thanx!
>
> Gary P.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: mike burrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need a small C program
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:13:24 GMT
In comp.os.linux.help Gerald J. Puhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am in need of a C program Windows 95/NT4.0 that will simply open
> socket and connect to another machine on a port number.
just a thought: ask in a windows newsgroup?
--
/"\ m i k e b u r r e l l
\ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X AGAINST HTML MAIL,
/ \ AND NEWS TOO, dammit
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From: "Charlie Root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Need clarification: what really is 'MBR' and what is 'BOOT SECTOR'?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:14:59 GMT
Very well, Rod. Thanks. At least I got to my point here. I think it has
benefit playing around with other alternative operations other than just
Microsoft Windozes..
Windows NT folks, please get the book if any more argument about
complicating what is 'boot sector' from Master Boot Record.
Rod Smith wrote in message ...
>In article <D%f65.7711$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Charlie Root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> I don't have hard time explaining MBR and boot sector to newbies but NT
>> folks sez MBR is also boot sector. Can you fellah Linux folks explain to
>> the NT people what is MBR from boot sector? Btw, this is not advocacy
>> group, so no ranting please.
>
>MBR = Master Boot Record. It's an area at the very start of the
>physical hard disk, which contains the very first bit of code that a
>computer runs from the hard disk, as well as the description of the
>layout of the primary and extended partitions (up to four of them).
>
>A boot sector is the first sector of a drive -- normally the first
>sector of a floppy disk or of a PARTITION on a hard disk. In the latter
>case, it contains code that's loaded by the MBR during the booting of
>the computer, assuming the partition is the one being booted.
>
>In some sense, the MBR is a boot sector, but the term "boot sector"
>usually isn't applied to the MBR.
>
>FWIW, I cover these matters in more detail in my book, _The Multi-Boot
>Configuration Handbook_ (http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/).
>
>--
>Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.rodsbooks.com
>Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: Re: OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD/Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28 Jun 2000 17:17:25 GMT
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:51:45 GMT, Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
first of all: thanks for your reply, it helped me much, but i have some
new questions ;-) See below..
> Solaris is not free.
ok, so it won't be this one ;-)
> FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all are descendant of 386BSD. The main goal
> of FreeBSD is to have a very fast and reliable OS for the x86 chipset.
> They power some of the biggest sites including cdrom.com (biggest ftp site),
> Yahoo, Hotmail (!!!), etc.
Now i'm using redhat 6.1, will I notice some speed improvements when I would
run FreeBSD?
> NetBSD's goal is to be as platform independent as possible and to run on
> as many hardware as possible. They claim (possibly righteously) that NetBSD
> is the most ported OS.
i don't care about that at the moment.
> All of them are *VERY* reliable.
Like Debian? Or better than linux (because of a much stable kernel) ?
> > 4. hardware support
>
> It depends. If you have some exotic hardware (not for mainstream use)
> then NetBSD is your friend. However, Linux has better hardware support
> in the Intel world.
I already thought Linux would be best at hardware support. But will there
be any problems with normal systems at home with FreeBSD? I do have a
toshiba 320 cdt with a yamaha sound card and a C&T video card and a Xircom
pcmcia modem/ethernet card. Do you think there will be any problems, or not?
And what about for example the video drivers? Are the drives as fast as the
linux drivers?
> > 6. availability of desktop applications (netscape, licq, pine, slrn, xanim and
> > so on)
>
> FreeBSD has a pretty big ports tree. Net and OpenBSD also have ports, but they
> are smaller. However, you can always get the source and compile it yourself.
Well, because much apps are only tested and written specially for linux I
thought
it could be a problem to use for example licq at a BSD version, even when trying
to compile the source yourself. Is that true?
> > 7. security
>
> Nothing beats OpenBSD. However, you have to understand that usability and
> security usually are very far from each other.
Right. Well, i was just curious, for me security isn't very important at the
moment, i'm not running any services, except telnet for when the system 'hangs'
(read: stops responding, except telnet)
> > Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
>
> Don't provide info like kernel version. It can help crackers to break
> into your system.
I know, i already read that in the security howto ;-) But i'm behind
a firewall at home most of the time, so I don't really care.
thanks again for your reply!
Martin
P.S. anyone knows how to save a posting using slrn news reader?
--
Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
7:00pm up 15 days, 8:25, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.28, 0.49
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: getting software
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:19:02 GMT
H H Chau wrote:
>
> I believe it's because of the licence term by University of
> Washington prevents distribution of binary or something
> similar. In Debian, I need to download the source package,
> compile, and install my own .deb package. If my suspicion
> is right, I guess you need to do the same with Redhat.
>
No, it's just that RH (most distros, actually) installs mutt in
preference over pine. Pine is available as a binary RPM.
--
Doc Shipley
Network Stuff
Austin, Earth
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From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Hangs (freeze) HELP.
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:13:59 -0400
Rafael wrote:
>
> Hej Ron!
> You was a great help to me. Unfortunately I have 3 more power suplies
> but all of them are less (230W) than this I have in Chassi. Do you
> know if I can connect two of them to get more power. Is it save if I
> conect + 12 V from one power suply with the other and connect to
> motherboard?
> From two days I am running linux with no-hlt option and it not hang.
> But this is not solution.
> Lot of thanks for your answers
>
> Rafael
I'd still try switching power supplies. The problem doesn't appear to be
the capacity of the power supply, but the power supply acting erratically
when under a smaller load.
You can't connect two supplies (of this design) in parallel. They can have
voltages differing as much as 5%, which would force a large amount of
current from one supply into the other because of the voltage drop between
the two.
Hope this helps. Let us know when/if you get things working.
Thanks,
Ron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Full System Restore
Date: 28 Jun 2000 13:23:57 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:30:10 GMT, Brian Helm
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I am having a problem with the boot floppy that is created when the
>initial installation is performed. This so-called "boot" floppy does
>nothing more than search for the necessary files/shared libraries off the
>hard drive. When it tries to find them (and it cannot because of the
>incomplete restore) it hacks up another fur ball and freezes the system.
>
>Also, I cannot find any reference to the creation of the "rescue" floppy.
>
>I would love to be able to generate the necessary environment on floppy to
>create the escential utilities enabling me to perform the steps you have
>outlined. Would you go into more detail as the documentation included
>with Linux-Mandrake is extremely vauge.
http://www.toms.net/rb/ (Didn't you see this in my first post?)
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO.html
The first one is a premade rescue disk that is "The Most Linux on one
floppy" which includes bloody well everything you can think of wrt
utilities for rescuing systems. The second link is a guide to making your
own boot/root floppies, and it's not designed for the newbie. HTH,
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dieter Kedrowitsch)
Subject: Re: Storm Linux 2000
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:23:27 GMT
I just wanted to note that I got the bashrc file working. I had to change
the file via chmod. It works good now. :)
It seems that I'm having trouble compiling software. For example, when I
try to compile the latest version of Gkrellm by typing 'make', I get the
errors:
(cd locale && make all)
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dkedrowi/gkrellm/gkrellm-0.10.0/locale'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dkedrowi/gkrellm/gkrellm-0.10.0/locale'
(cd src && make GTOP_LIBS= GTOP_INCLUDE= gkrellm)
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dkedrowi/gkrellm/gkrellm-0.10.0/src'
gcc -Wall -O2 -I.. `gtk-config --cflags gthread` `imlib-config --cflags-
gdk` -c main.c -o main.o
/bin/sh: imlib-config: command not found
In file included from main.c:26:
gkrellm.h:35: gdk_imlib.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dkedrowi/gkrellm/gkrellm-0.10.0/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Also, when I try to make the drivers for my SoundBlaster Live! using
opensource.creative.com's latest "snapshot", this is the error I get:
storm:/home/dkedrowi/sblive/emu10k1# make install
grep: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
Makefile:38: /Makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/Makefile'. Stop.
Any advice?
Thanks all!
Dieter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dieter Kedrowitsch) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Hello, I'm trying Storm Linux 2000 on a second machine and much of it's
>configuration is quite different then RedHat that I'm used to. I tried
>creating a bashrc file that's stored in /etc to contain the lines:
>
>PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
>alias ls='ls --color'
>
>It seems that Storm Linux is ignoring bashrc because no matter what I
>try in this file, it ignores it.
>
>The other thing that is different is Storm Linux didn't automatically
>configure my SoundBlaster Live! card. Red Hat 6.2 set it up
>automatically so I'm sort of lost.
>
>Otherwise, Storm Linux seems REALLY cool. I'm happy with it otherwise.
>
>Thanks in advance for any advice!
>
>Dieter
>
--
Dieter Kedrowitsch
NuNet Inc. Engineering
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From: Matthew Matchura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: getting software
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:25:50 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> How do Linux (RedHat specifically) users usually get software? For
> example, I want Xemacs and Pine. Obviously, I can't search the web with
> altavista and then download rpm's from random sites, as they can be
> trojaned. Is there any standard procedure for getting Linux software
> that I'm not aware of?
>
> Thanks a bunch
>
> Wroot
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I usually do exactly what you state you obviously cannot do. Use a
typical search engine to find the different options available to fill a
particular need on my systems.
Most software projects have a home page that you can acquire the source
and even binaries. There you will also find the current state of the
project and what is being proposed by the authoring parties. If you
have any questions, you may ask the authors to clarify who they are.
There are huge repositories of rpm's on the net hosted worldwide. Here
are a few that I use a lot:
http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/
http://linux.davecentral.com/
This is not even close to a complete list (but it is somewhere to start
with), as there are 100's FTP servers too. There is almost always a
project home page associated with the RPM's. If you are not sure about
the software's authors, then there is almost always an alternative to a
particular package.
Another consideration is compiling the code yourself. If you have the
code, you can customize the application to your system. Having the
source also allows you to examine it yourself before you compile to see
if there is anything contained in it you are not sure of, or that you do
not approve of.
I personally do not worry much about the standard afflictions
associated with other OS's out there. I am not saying that Linux is
immune from the bad things, just that as it is right now, there is not a
lot of malicious code being written to affect Linux. As it's market
share grows, this will most likely change.
To sum it up, I quote a tag line I read sometime ago, "Use the force,
read the source!". This is the greatest strength behind any Open Source
project, be it OS, application, or package. It is hard to hide
something that is not 'kosher' when there are millions of eyes pouring
over the very foundation.
--
Matt M
>^..^<
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anyone know these programs/utilities...??
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:27:48 GMT
Hendrix wrote:
>
file is a utility basic to Linux, and should be installed as part of
even the most stripped-down installation. flex is part of the
development bundle. On my harddrive:
/usr/bin/file
/usr/bin/flex
--
Doc Shipley
Network Stuff
Austin, Earth
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From: Ed Ohsone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Save music on hard disk
Date: 28 Jun 2000 17:28:51 GMT
I would like to keep a collection of music from my CDs to
the hard drives in my PC and listen to them without taking out
lots of CDs.
If you know names and whereabout of the tools needed to
save the sound data on the disks and to play the music
files from the hard drives, please let me know.
I am using Redhat Linux 6.1.
I would greatly appreciate any related info/pointer.
Thanks in advance.
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Ed
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From: Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: No eth0:0 alias in routing table
Date: 28 Jun 2000 19:19:59 +0200
In article <8i9phb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Thomer M. Gil"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|| Kernel IP routing table
|| Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
|| <*snip*> 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
|| <*snip*> 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
|| 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
|| 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
|| 0.0.0.0 <*snip*> 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
|| The eth0 in the 10.0.0.0 should be eth0:0.
So what route command did you use to put it there?
Ciao. Vincent.
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"Xhost should be taken out and shot." Vincent Zweije
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