Linux-Misc Digest #15, Volume #25 Sun, 2 Jul 00 09:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: VMWare question
Re: and the web was silent . . . . . (Jesse Drogin)
Re: and the web was silent . . . . . (Jesse Drogin)
Re: How to uninstall sendmail from booting sequence!! (Villy Kruse)
Re: Where Can I Find Pico Source Code? (J Bland)
remote X session no longer works (Robert Herzog)
Why is my harddisk so slow? (Cliff Pennock)
Copying files to a floppy disk in Linux. (Ukiss)
Re: Copying files to a floppy disk in Linux. (Cliff Pennock)
Re: What is foobar, or foo bar, or whatever...?? (Richard)
Re: Copying files to a floppy disk in Linux. (Robert Herzog)
Re: Cut and Paste in Linux/KDE.... (Richard)
i need a adduser script (jonothan)
Re: How to uninstall sendmail from booting sequence!! (Floyd Davidson)
Re: i need a adduser script (Robert Herzog)
We are selling software (Richard Vanstory)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VMWare question
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 13:32:07 +0700
Yes. Everything look ok.
Does it has any error in using with pure linux application e.g. xwave?
Regards,
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On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Martin Skj=F6ldebrand wrote:
> This is the output of cat /dev/sndstat > sound.txt:
>=20
> Build: 2.2.16-UP
>=20
> Card config:=20
> Aureal Vortex at 0xe8040000 irq 10
> Software mixing (audio)
>=20
> Audio devices:
> 0: Aureal Vortex 2 (AU8830) (QSRC)
> 1: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #0
> 2: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #1
> 3: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #2
> 4: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #3
> 5: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #4
> 6: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #5
> 7: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #6
> 8: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #7
>=20
> Synth devices:
> 0: SoftOSS v1.2
>=20
> Midi devices:
> 0: Aureal Vortex 2
>=20
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
> 1: SoftOSS
>=20
> Mixers:
> 0: Aureal Vortex 2 (=83=84v5/0x83847605)
> 1: SoftOSS
>=20
> To me it looks as if it is initialized OK.
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
> M.
>=20
> --
> Martin Skj=F6ldebrand
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sys admin, web designer, tech writer
> Hungry? Visit http://www.bahnhof.se/~chimbis/tocb
>=20
>=20
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From: Jesse Drogin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,redhat.general,netscape.public.general
Subject: Re: and the web was silent . . . . .
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 01:16:32 -0700
Buck Rogers wrote:
> Maybe you need the netscape plug-in to hear sound from websites.
>
> Jesse Drogin wrote:
>
> > I do not get any web sounds and I need the audio to complete my total
> > web experience that I so desparately long for.
> >
> > I am running RedHat Linux 6.2 with Netscape Navigator 4.7
> > The sound card is installed, and I do indeed hear sounds from desktop
> > events. I have to admit the sound quality is very poor and the volume
> > is extreemly low, but I do hear some sounds. Unfortunately, I do not
> > hear any sounds on the web. Mostly I have been listening for sounds
> > from java applets (like yahoo Chess) with no fullfillment.
> > I am very new to Linux (I just installed the OS 2 days ago) so any idea
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks, Jesse Drogin
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hum, what plug-in would that be?
-Jesse
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From: Jesse Drogin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,redhat.general,netscape.public.general
Subject: Re: and the web was silent . . . . .
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 01:22:07 -0700
Jim Harback wrote:
> Jesse,
>
> You need to follow "in detail" the directions given for your specific
> sound card in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Jim
>
> Jesse Drogin wrote:
>
> > I do not get any web sounds and I need the audio to complete my total
> > web experience that I so desparately long for.
> >
> > I am running RedHat Linux 6.2 with Netscape Navigator 4.7
> > The sound card is installed, and I do indeed hear sounds from desktop
> > events. I have to admit the sound quality is very poor and the volume
> > is extreemly low, but I do hear some sounds. Unfortunately, I do not
> > hear any sounds on the web. Mostly I have been listening for sounds
> > from java applets (like yahoo Chess) with no fullfillment.
> > I am very new to Linux (I just installed the OS 2 days ago) so any idea
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks, Jesse Drogin
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok, so I have now installed the kernel-source package and I have the
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound directory. I followed the very brief
instructions for my sound driver and it appeared to lead me through the same
process that sndconfig does automatically. When I ran the programs it
suggested, they all replied that the files were already in place and that
nothing was changed. I was assuming that sndconfig was the action the put
these files there in the first place. The instructions did not specify
anything other than to execute these commands. Is there some other manual
config I can try?
-Jesse
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: How to uninstall sendmail from booting sequence!!
Date: 2 Jul 2000 08:24:44 GMT
On 01 Jul 2000 12:14:05 -0800, Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Arun Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've installed Linux for the first time and while experimening
>>I think i disturbed some settings and now it stops for a quite
>>long time when it has to start sendmail services at the time of
>>booting. Is there any way of removing this service from the
>>boot?
>
>Better yet would be to fix the problem that makes sendmail take
>forever to start, eh?
>
>Sendmail is trying to do a DNS lookup on whatever the hostname
>is, and the timeout is something like 3-4 minutes. If you
>configure /etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts correctly, it will
>find things quickly.
>
>First, run "hostname" and see what it thinks your host is named.
>If what you see is not what you want, you will have to figure
>out how your particular distribution sets the hostname at boot
>time. Use the "grep" command in /etc/rc.d or /etc/init.d or
>whatever the appropriate directory is to find where that
>happens. One common way is to have a file /etc/HOSTNAME, which
>has one line that is the hostname.
>
>Once that works, make sure that there is an entry in /etc/hosts
>for that name. If you have no ethernet interface you can use
>either a dummy interface or the loopback interface. Then
>be sure that /etc/host.conf looks like this:
>
In most cases the problem is that sendmail can't determine the fully
qualified hostname, and when looking at the syslog for mail you will
see that there is indeed such a problem. Fully qualified hostname
means <hostname>.<domainname>. If you for example install redhat out
of the box it will have the name localhost.localdomain and that would
make sendmail happy until you choose a hostname without domain part.
Then again, if your system does not have an official fully qualified
hostname if should probably not be running sendmail anyway. This fully
qualified hostname is used to build the sender e-mail address, and this
address should be an address that is valid as seen from the internet.
> order hosts bind
> multi on
>
>The significant part is that "hosts" comes before "bind", which
>will cause a DNS query to be satisfied first from the /etc/hosts
>file and only attempt a networked DNS server lookup if it is
>not found in /etc/hosts.
>
On glibc2 system this is obsolete information. glibc2 systems uses
/etc/nsswitch.conf for the same purpose.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Where Can I Find Pico Source Code?
Date: 2 Jul 2000 02:10:53 GMT
>One more question. My computer has Linux and I do know it already has pine.
>Does it mean the source file of pine is already on my computer? or only the
>binary files are on the computer??
If you installed binaries of Pine you will have only the binary of both pine
and pico.
If you compiled it from source you will have the source code to both pine
and pico.
Frinky
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From: Robert Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: remote X session no longer works
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 09:37:47 GMT
Hi,
I have upgraded my server to SuSE 6.4 and I cannot get to the machine
from another PC on the network, using an X-terminal emulator (Xwin32)
anymore.
This worked on earlier configuration (6.2).
X on the machine itself is OK, and I get the KDM login box on it as
usual.
The terminal emulator says "no server is found".
I get the IP address of the PC over DHCP from the server (server is
192.168.0.95 and my client get e.g. 192.168.0.7, as provided by
dhcpd.conf file on server).
When on server, xhost 192.168.0.7 returns: unable to open display ""
while on client, X-emulator is running and IP of server is in Xhost
list.
Can anyone give me an idea about this problem, or how to trace problem ?
Robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Cliff Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 12:12:16 +0200
I've posted this on other newsgroups before, but nobody seems to be able
to answer my question so I'll try in this newsgroup too...
Hardware: Celeron500, 128 Mb Samsung 15.3Gb UDMA mode4 HDD, SiS5513 IDE
controller.
Kernel : 2.2.16, patched with ide-2.2.16.20000630
BIOS : Detects the harddisk as PIO4 and UDMA4
hdparm : 3.9-1, params: -d1 -m16 -c1 -A1 (even tried -X66)
(for some reason, after installing 3.9-1 my hdparm
manpages were gone)
Enabled SiS5513 support in the kernel, including CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO
(yes, and even recompiled and installed the new kernel :) ).
hdparm -t /dev/hda gives me on average 8Mb/s (slow!)
hdparm -T /dev/hda gives me on average 17Mb/s (waaaaaaay to slow!)
I've tried all I can think off (like idebus=66, ide0=0x1f0, hdparm
-X68), but it won't go any faster and stays in UDMA mode 2...
Anyone has any ideas?
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From: Ukiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Copying files to a floppy disk in Linux.
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 10:30:02 GMT
I don't know how to copy a file from linux to a floppy disk.If
anyone know please be kind to let me know.It'd be really grateful!
Thankx.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Cliff Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Copying files to a floppy disk in Linux.
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 12:55:06 +0200
You need to mount your floppy first:
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
If your floppy has been formatted with Windows (and no entry is
available in fstab for your floppy):
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy
Make sure the directory "floppy" exists on your harddisk and that it is
empty.
Next, simply copy your files across:
cp yourfiles /floppy/.
You also want to unmount the floppy afterwards:
umount /floppy
Ukiss wrote:
>
> I don't know how to copy a file from linux to a floppy disk.If
> anyone know please be kind to let me know.It'd be really grateful!
> Thankx.
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
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From: Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux
Subject: Re: What is foobar, or foo bar, or whatever...??
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 12:15:35 GMT
F*&%ed Up Beyond All Recovery - FUBAR
Hendrix wrote:
> Hi foobarians,
>
> I've heard so many linux sites, books, and even email messages that
> contain this phrase...??? What the heck is foo bar...???? The weird
> thing is that it also makes its presence in the movie "Saving Private
> Ryan", but they never define the term... Hmmm..... Ha...
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Trevor Penney,
> A+, Network+ Certified
> ----------------------
> That's alright, I still got my guitar...
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From: Robert Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Copying files to a floppy disk in Linux.
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 12:17:03 GMT
Ukiss wrote:
>
> I don't know how to copy a file from linux to a floppy disk.If
> anyone know please be kind to let me know.It'd be really grateful!
> Thankx.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
One reply to this question gives a way to copy to floppy using UNIX
command.
The alternative is to use the DOS-like commands, known as
"M-commands".Mcommands are part of most distributions.
These commands don't need the floppy to be mounted first, but expect the
floppy to be DOS-formatted.
Use any DOS command with a letter "M" prepended, like
mdir = dir
mcopy = copy
mcd = cd
etc.
So to copy a file from HD to floppy, go to the directory where your file
resides and type:
mcopy myfile a:\
You can obviously use absolute path and go to some subdirectory of the
floppy
Examples:
mcopy /etc/smb.conf a:\linux\etc
mkdir a:\mydir ; mcopy /home/user/myfile a:\mydir
M-commands also work the other way round, as expected:
mcopy a:\*.* /tmp
Robert
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From: Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Cut and Paste in Linux/KDE....
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 12:22:33 GMT
or click both buttons simultaneously - for 2 buttoners ... and it truly is better than
the ctrl a/c/v thingey ... leave it to Bill to screw up a good thing
Bob Martin wrote:
> Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> >
> > "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> > >
> > > The Almighty One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > : there are only 2 buttons - no center button ... for most users ... again - the
> > >
> > > Hit both buttons together.
> > >
> > > : ease of use of M$ global clipboarding ... would be a big thing if Linux GUI's
> > >
> > > You are confused. That ctrl or alt V/C/X thing is unweildy. It's
> > > far easier to swipe and click. It's the classical way. That MS fouled
> > > up by making up a different and more difficult way is their problem.
> > >
> > > Peter
> > Could you please elaborate on "swipe and click"? I take it that this is
> > something that will work for all applications that run in kde?
>
> Not just kde, but X. Just highlight the text, it's automatically copied
> the center button then paste it wherever the pointer is.
> --
>
> Bob Martin
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From: jonothan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i need a adduser script
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 12:30:03 GMT
Hello i am running a server red hat 6.1, i host websites, shell account,
muds, ircd that kinnda stuff i have doing it now for about 2 months and i
am board of adding the user accounts my self know what i mean. I would like
to know where i can get an adduser script i have been to
freshmeat.com
linuxapp.com
linuxsoftware.com and found nothing also i went to rpnfind.net still
nothing can some one please get back to me thnx...
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to uninstall sendmail from booting sequence!!
Date: 02 Jul 2000 03:59:58 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse) wrote:
>Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Arun Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>I've installed Linux for the first time and while experimening
>>>I think i disturbed some settings and now it stops for a quite
>>>long time when it has to start sendmail services at the time of
>>>booting. Is there any way of removing this service from the
>>>boot?
>>
>>Better yet would be to fix the problem that makes sendmail take
>>forever to start, eh?
>>
>>Sendmail is trying to do a DNS lookup on whatever the hostname
[snipped for brevity]
>>Once that works, make sure that there is an entry in /etc/hosts
>>for that name. If you have no ethernet interface you can use
>>either a dummy interface or the loopback interface. Then
>>be sure that /etc/host.conf looks like this:
>
>In most cases the problem is that sendmail can't determine the
>fully qualified hostname, and when looking at the syslog for
>mail you will see that there is indeed such a problem. Fully
>qualified hostname means <hostname>.<domainname>. If you for
>example install redhat out of the box it will have the name
>localhost.localdomain and that would make sendmail happy until
>you choose a hostname without domain part.
I have five linux boxes that do not have a FQDN, and all run
sendmail. The only way that I can get them to hang on sendmail
is to have them go to an Internet DNS first (instead of
/etc/hosts or a local domain name server that knows who they
are) or to have no entry in /etc/hosts that matches whatever
/bin/hostname returns (and that does NOT need to be a FQDN).
>Then again, if your system does not have an official fully
>qualified hostname if should probably not be running sendmail
>anyway.
Not true.
>This fully qualified hostname is used to build the sender
>e-mail address, and this address should be an address that is
>valid as seen from the internet.
Not required if sendmail is configured correctly.
>> order hosts bind
>> multi on
>>
>>The significant part is that "hosts" comes before "bind", which
>>will cause a DNS query to be satisfied first from the /etc/hosts
>>file and only attempt a networked DNS server lookup if it is
>>not found in /etc/hosts.
>
>On glibc2 system this is obsolete information. glibc2 systems uses
>/etc/nsswitch.conf for the same purpose.
Not obsolete, just not useful for systems that use glibc2.
For glibc2 systems (note that the original poster did not
indicate a distribution, which makes these specifics a little
difficult), the nsswitch.conf file should have two entries:
hosts: files dns
networks: files dns
which will accomplish the same effect. In either case, the
name give by /bin/hostname must have a suitable network interface
IP address assigned to it in the /etc/hosts file. For a standalone
system it is reasonable to either install a dummy interface, or
to just use the loopback interface. For example, on one of my
linux boxes, hostname returns "iglu", and in the /etc/hosts file
a line "127.0.0.2 iglu" satisfies sendmail.
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: Robert Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i need a adduser script
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 12:55:54 GMT
jonothan wrote:
>
> Hello i am running a server red hat 6.1, i host websites, shell account,
> muds, ircd that kinnda stuff i have doing it now for about 2 months and i
> am board of adding the user accounts my self know what i mean. I would like
> to know where i can get an adduser script i have been to
> freshmeat.com
> linuxapp.com
> linuxsoftware.com and found nothing also i went to rpnfind.net still
> nothing can some one please get back to me thnx...
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
Try useradd
It is part of the SuSE distribution at least...
here is the usage of the command (sorry... French language, but so close
to English...):
---cut---
Usage : useradd [-u uid [-o]] [-g groupe] [-G groupe,...]
[-d home] [-s shell] [-c commentaire] [-m [-k template]]
[-f inactif] [-e expire ] [-p mot-de-passe] nom
useradd -D [-g groupe] [-b base] [-s shell]
[-f inactif] [-e expire ]
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From: Richard Vanstory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: We are selling software
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 14:39:51 +0200
We are selling software
for lowest price in the world (40$-140$)
Check it out at http://www.cdnow2000.com immediately
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