Linux-Misc Digest #41, Volume #25 Tue, 4 Jul 00 15:13:04 EDT
Contents:
X on Dell Dimension L500? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How-to PATCH ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
trying to compile code under linux.. oops! (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DFran=E7ois?=
Beaumont)
Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true???? ("Mike Spooner")
passwd problem (Jan Mrzyglod)
Dell Latitude CPx (Peter Lucas)
Re: MAKEDEV is different...Hmmm... (Homer Jay)
Re: ppp compression (Fabian Gebhardt)
Re: Apache ("Darren")
Does Staroffice Player v. 5.2 work? (Stephen Cornell)
Re: Can't access my /dev/hda1 partition ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Move my disk from /dev/hda to /dev/hdb (Sak Wathanasin)
Re: What is foobar, or foo bar, or whatever...?? (robert w hall)
Re: NC or Midnight Commander: which came first? (PoD)
Re: Corel PhotoPaint (David Turley)
Re: Corel PhotoPaint & RH 6.2 problems (Dave Brown)
memtestx86 - suitable for athlon ? (Markus Heller)
Re: Netscape and RedHat 6.2 (Chiefy)
Re: Monitoring Modem Speed??? (David Efflandt)
Re: -Patition table damage - (Dave Brown)
new to linux (sylvain hutchison)
Re: Monitoring Modem Speed??? (Harold Bower)
RedHat v6.2 and identd/"noidentd" (Tim)
Re: how do I suspend, ctrl-Z (Scott Anderson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: X on Dell Dimension L500?
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 15:53:34 GMT
I need some help setting up X on my new Dell
Dimension 500. If anyone has an xf86config file
that works with this make and model (i dont care
about resolution/color, i just want something to
work from) could you please email it to me? I
have the Intel 810 video chipset and a Dell E770
monitor.
Thanks in advance.
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How-to PATCH
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 16:03:25 GMT
In article <8js0k4$rjq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello ..
>
> I know this may sound dumb, but I can't seem to apply a patch. I have
> read the man pages, etc.
>
> Basically I do a 'patch < patch.tar.gz'. It gives me a message telling
> me that the patch file contains garbage (or something like that).Is
> this incorrect or is the file corrupt? Do I have to be in the same
> directory as the file I wan't to patch. I think I have also
> tried 'patch -p<n> patch.tar.gz'.
>
> This is probably a real newbie question, but I couldn't seem to find
> any answers (and the man pages are a little vague). Any answers or
> links to resources would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Rax
>
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> Before you buy.
I see always patches with kernel sources, but I never
understand what is it importance?
Running Linux book from Oreilly say that all patches
must be teecharged from kernel x.x.x until that we will use know.
Someone can explain this.
Thanks
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DFran=E7ois?= Beaumont
Subject: trying to compile code under linux.. oops!
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 16:16:59 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to compile srilm package under RedHat 6.2 basic
install. Unfortunatly, there is some things gcc version
egcs-2.91 are very strict about and I got these errors, I
don't know how to correct them:
Vocab.cc: In method `int (* Vocab::compareIndex())(VocabIndex,
VocabIndex) const':
Vocab.cc:473: return to `int (*)(VocabIndex, VocabIndex)' from `int
(*)(const char *const *, const char *const *)'
Vocab.cc: In method `int (* Vocab::compareIndices())(const VocabIndex *,
const VocabIndex *) const':
Vocab.cc:480: return to `int (*)(const VocabIndex *, const VocabIndex
*)' from `int (*)(const char *const *, const char *const *)'
If someone want to take a look, you can download the code at:
http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/download.html
What you have to do to:
1.untar the sources
2.chmod u+w Makefile
3.edit Makefile to change SRILM variable to the unpack dir
4.do "make World"
If you have the same errors than me. Tell me. However, if you
got no problems at all to compile the code. Tell me what is
your configuration and what you did exactly.
Thanks!
JF
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From: "Mike Spooner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true????
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 16:23:28 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article <8jir79$mq0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> The focus on CPU comparison is a bit pointless since a CPU
> is only one component among many. Most applications are much more
> likely to be I/O bound than CPU bound, so memory, buses, hard
> drives, and volume administration are key.
And let's not forget that the performance of an Athlon-1000 with
PC-133 SDRAM and 133MHz FSB is only typically 2% faster than
an Athlon-850 on the same motherboard, for high-energy games and other
supposedly "power" uses... instead of the 12% one would "expect" from
just the CPU-speed numbers.
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From: Jan Mrzyglod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: passwd problem
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 18:15:21 +0200
passwd: User not know to the underlying authentication module
I have power crash while changing password. Now passwd returns something
like this.
Somebody know what it is ?
Thanks Jan.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Lucas)
Subject: Dell Latitude CPx
Date: 4 Jul 2000 16:22:53 GMT
I am considering buying a Dell Latitude CPx notebook, and would like to install
RedHat 6.2 on it. Has anyone tried this successfully?
Peter
--
Peter Lucas
Dept. of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 1224 273829/272296; Fax: +44 1224 273422/487048
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; URL: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~plucas
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From: Homer Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: MAKEDEV is different...Hmmm...
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 16:33:37 GMT
> Hmm...
>
> Why is it that when I use the MAKEDEV script to make a new /dev
> directory I only get 706 files, but when I look in my Red Hat 6.1 /dev
> directory I get over 2300 files... This doesn't mean that I'll need to
> 'mknod' almost 2000 files does it...???*s*
>
> The MAKEDEV options I used are:
>
> MAKEDEV -v generic
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Trevor Penney,
> A+, Network+ Certified
A+? Is that, like, a M$ certification? Go towards the light CarolAnn!
;-) Um, anyhow, I _think_ it's normal to have far more stuff in /dev
than MAKEDEV creates directly. Consider that if, for instance, I do
_not_ compile RTC clock support into my kernel: /dev/rtc will still
be there but `cat /dev/rtc' returns some kind of "no such file"
error, but of course `ls -l /dev/rtc' show the file. As I understand
it, the files in /dev are hooks into functionality of the kernel,
nothing more. I'd say it's not a problem, except for the clutter.
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From: Fabian Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp compression
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 18:55:44 +0200
I've the same thing or a little bit different. --> look in your
/var/log/messages!
In my /var/log/messages (every time I connect and pppd starts):
...
Jul 4 18:48:24 router modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-21
Jul 4 18:48:24 router modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-26
Jul 4 18:48:25 router modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-24
...
It seems that I don't have these modules.
Where can I get them?
--
CU, Fabian Gebhardt
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ#: 77948091
Homepage: http://www.ki.tng.de/~gebhardt
Schul-Seite: http://www.ebg.org
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From: "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:00:30 -0500
All good points. I compiled from source a half dozen times following
different instructions and sometimes repeating the same instructions. Not
because apache is so hard to get working, but because I was trying to
compile in support for php4 and mysql. And, I couldn't get php pages to
process. On the last time I compiled it. I deleted all of the files that I
could find so I was hopefully working with a clean slate. I know that I had
to change the path to apachectl in /etc/rc.d/rc.M (I think is where it was).
There could have been other references to the httpd.conf file in the startup
scripts that I didn't find. I'll try that ln -s idea first.
Thanks,
Darren
"David Efflandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:41:32 -0500, Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I had Apache running the other day. I turned off my computer and when I
> >came back to it today, I couldn't get Apache to load. I tried using the
> >"/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start" script. I don't get any errors,
but
> >when I use "/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl status", it shows that it is
not
> >running (I forget the exact message). What could have changed? I am
using
> >php4 and mysql if that helps or makes a difference. BTW, I also tried
> >executing the httpd file. Again, no errors echo to screen, it just
doesn't
> >run.
>
> Did /var/log/messages or the apache logs tell you anything? Did you have
> another apache package installed (other than the one you compiled
> yourself) that might be starting automatically. Check /etc/inetd.conf to
> make sure it is commented out there. Maybe you changed a conf setting
> last time that broke it, but failed to restart it and didn't realize it.
>
> When I compiled it myself long ago, I know that the conf files that came
> with apache source used to look for some things in /usr/local/httpd. If
> that is still the case, maybe 'ln -s /usr/local/apache /usr/local/httpd'
> would help.
>
> --
> 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: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Staroffice Player v. 5.2 work?
Date: 04 Jul 2000 18:02:04 +0100
[originally posted in the Staroffice Impress NG; reposted here because I
didn't get any responses]
One of the features of Staroffice v. 5.2 is a standalone Player for
Staroffice Impress presentations. I installed it on my Red Hat 6.0
machine, but when I loaded a presentation I found that embedded charts
do not display. The chart displays fine when the presentation is
displayed full-screen with the full Staroffice suite on the same
machine. Anyone have any idea what's wrong?
--
Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/fax +44-1223-336644
University of Cambridge, Zoology Department, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3EJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Can't access my /dev/hda1 partition
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 16:59:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I've been running a intel p3 box with windows and mandrake linux 7.0
> > side by side for a month or two now. It was missing the development
> > tools so I reinserted the CD and did an upgrade. But when that was
done
> > and the computer rebooted, I couldn't find windows in my LILO boot.
So
> > i went into my lilo.conf file and found out that it wasn't listed
there.
> > So i typed in other = /dev/hda1 and all the other junk that goes
along
> > with it. Saved the buffer. Then I typed in lilo and I got this
error:
> > "first sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature".
Then
> > if I click on my disk 0 icon on my desktop (an alias to the windows
> > drive) it says: "WARNING - mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> > superblock on /dev/hda1 or too many mounted file systems". I did an
> > fdisk and the partution shows up under /dev/hda1. Now, when I do
fdisk
> > is: The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3328. There is
> > nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in
> > certain setups cause problems with:
> > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> >
> > Next, I tried using my windows 98 boot disk and when I went into C:>
and
> > did a "dir" it said couldn't read media type on drive c (or
something
> > very similar to that). Did a fdisk /MBR, and restarted and now said
> > "Missing Operating System." So I rebuilt the linux master boot
record
> > and I was at least able to once again go into linux which is what I
am
> > using now. I'm not trying to bombard you with all my problems, but
> > hopefully the more info I give the easier it will be for someone to
help
> > me with this problem. I really need access to my windows partition,
and
> > if anyone can help me once again see my windows files....if even
just to
> > be able to back them up on CD's or Jazz disks or whatever, please
please
> > please lend a helping hand. I apprecaite your time with this
lengthy
> > letter and can't wait to hear from someone;)
>
> If you have a linux & windoz bootdisk you can use the windoz bootdisk
> and do a fdisk /MBR that will repair the MBR. Then after you get it to
> boot windoz again you can use the linux boot disk to boot linux and
then
> run lilo again. That should fix it unless you wiped out windoz.
>
> --
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
>
I actually did try that. But when I did, and rebooted, it said,
"Operating System Missing". Can't imagine that is a good sign;)
Stu:(
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Subject: Re: Move my disk from /dev/hda to /dev/hdb
From: Sak Wathanasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 14:39:07 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerry Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Therefore I plan to switch my current drive to /dev/hdb and put a spare
> drive in as /dev/hda .
Look in your /usr/docs/HOW-TO directory for the "Hard Disk Upgrade Mini
How-To". It tells you exactly what you need to do.
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From: robert w hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux
Subject: Re: What is foobar, or foo bar, or whatever...??
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 17:38:22 +0100
In article <8jprb6$u8r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Main News
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Hi again all Fubarians!
>
>A new expression is starting to gain popularity here in the UK.
>
>CUBAR
>
>Cu*@ed up beyond all recognition!
>
>I think it stems from the Rodger Mellie Profanasuras!
>
>Andy
/attempt at strained English humour
No No No - it's 'CUBA' - and I live there
(one of the Counties Until recently Belonging to Avon)
/end of same
this priceless gem brought you from sunny South Gloucestershire,
using Turnpike 4.02 under WINE under Slack 7.0
Bob
--
robert w hall
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From: PoD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NC or Midnight Commander: which came first?
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 02:51:48 +0930
Jeff Malka wrote:
>
> M-? is new to me. I was used to the Alt menu keys of which Alt F7 is find
> files, etc. You must have had a very old version of NC.
>
That's the default key binding in MC for find-file. You can set your own
key bindings in a config file, so you can have the NC keys if you want.
PoD.
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Corel PhotoPaint
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 16:22:50 GMT
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 02:24:10 GMT, Mike Frisch apparently wrote:
> Now tell me: did you get the application to run? If so, what Linux
> dist? It doesn't seem to run on my relatively stock RH 6.2 setup.
>
Corel is full of shit when it claims this is a Linux app. It's just the
windows version running under wine.
Good enough reason to avoid all Corel apps.
--
David Turley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Corel PhotoPaint & RH 6.2 problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Jul 2000 12:30:32 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Frisch wrote:
>Has anybody running RedHat 6.2 been able to get the recently released
>PhotoPaint to run? When running "/usr/bin/photopaint", the startup
>progress bar gets to 20% and then the console spews the following message
>continuously:
>
>err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr
>(nil)
>
>I am running 2.2.16 with the NFSv3 patches, HelixCode GNOME 1.2 and the
>latest version of Sawfish.
Alas, I have encountered exactly the same experience! When I start
photopaint, it pops up a window "Initializing WINE", then another (I
forget what it said was loading), then "USER32" message at which the
progress bar hangs at 20%, then the sprew of "err:seh:..." as you said.
I'm using whatever came with RH 6.2, but using WindowMaker for the windows
manager.
The install log claims that the install was successful. (...Although I
got no icons on my window manager menus. I have to start from the
command line.) I'm looking for answers as well.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Markus Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: memtestx86 - suitable for athlon ?
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:36:41 +0200
Hi,
I maybe have a problem with an Asus K7V 700MHz , 128 MB RAM System
(Erazor X, Soundblaster Live! 1024) which might be caused by a
bad RAM module. I already tested the ram module using the
programm "ctram" which is available from the german computing
magazine c't (http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp --> ctRAMtst ) and found
some problems when using a prolonged refresh cycle.
To gather more evidence, I would like to use memtestx86 as
well. Is it safe to do this on an athlon based system ????
Markus
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Markus Heller mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Netscape and RedHat 6.2
Date: 4 Jul 2000 17:59:00 GMT
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 07:02:25 GMT, Charles Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have the weird behavior from Netscape. For some strange reason,
>whenever, I'm using Netscape, my Xserver crashes. I'm using the default
>window manager, Gnome, with Redhat 6.2 and have installed the Metro-X
>3.4.5 xserver.
Hello, not sure if this is related,
I experienced problems with Netscape and RedHat 6.0. I had only 20Mb of
memory, and it was pointed out that 32Mb was a minimum for reliable
service, more if used with Gnome.
I never did get the memory, so I'm not sure if that would have solved
things, but it might be worth considering.
Regards
Martin.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Monitoring Modem Speed???
Date: 4 Jul 2000 18:13:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a utility that will determine the modem connection
>speed? I would like a command line one(non-gui)..
See 'man chat' to see how to tell what your connect speed is, but you have
to make sure that your modem displays DCE (modem2modem) speed instead of
DTE (cpu2modem) speed with a modem init string if necessary. However, at
best you will see download speed (not actual connect carrier upload speed)
After you disconnect pppd, you can connect to your modem with 'minicom -o'
and check either at&v1 (Rockwell) or ati11 (Lucent) to see what your
initial and last connect rates were in both directions and possibly how
many times it retrained.
To read AT commands from the command line you might take a look at the
Perl Device::SerialPort module. I have not gotten that to print out the
full at&v1 result, but it prints enough of it to see initial and final
connect rates.
--
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http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: -Patition table damage -
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Jul 2000 13:22:53 -0500
In article <8jshdr$1qmn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arnaud Kok wrote:
>Rick Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>if you have written down the partition-boundaries on paper (which is
>>>a wise thing to do, although hardly anyone ever does this) you can
>>>restore the partitions with the use of fdisk.
>
>Even if you have not written them down, there are ways to retrieve this
>information. I made a (very) shot page about a partition problem i once had
>(deleted the partition table with dd) and how it was fixed.
>See http://www.phys.uu.nl/~akok for more info.
>
>Grt,
>Arnaud.
With regard to "rewriting" partition tables...
I just moved some partition boundaries to give some more room to one, and
use some unused space on another (they were adjacent). I have Partition
Magic 4.0, but it refused to touch this disk, saying the partition table is
corrupted. (PM is fussy; both DOS fdisk and Linux fdisk will work with this
partition table. It was originally "messed" with using a version of EZDRIVE.)
On the other hand, I can't just delete and recreate partitions with Linux
fdisks, because it seems to scramble the device numbers.
But the version of PM that Caldera has built into their installer will let me
change the partition boundaries and rewrite the partition table. Then simply
reboot out of the installer. (I had previously backed up the partitions, and
restored after moving the boundaries. I'm not sure that the version of
PM that's in Caldera can move ext2 partitions.)
But the partition table rewriting capability is a good reason to keep a
copy of Caldera Open Linux around.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new to linux
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 14:26:09 -0700
Hi,
I'm fairly new to linux, and I was wondering if could change something
in the source code itself, but I don't know where to find it??
Can anybody tell where to find it so that I can check it out!!!
Thanks,
Sly.
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From: Harold Bower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitoring Modem Speed???
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 18:44:32 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a utility that will determine the modem connection
> speed? I would like a command line one(non-gui)..
>
> Thanx
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Some of the specifics depend on the specific distro. I use TurboLinux 6
(same for the old 3.6 and 4.0 too) which contain a chat script in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0. I simply modified mine to add
the specific option to the modem init sequence to report the full
connect string, then echo it. This works fine if the connection is made
from a console with '/sbin/ifup ppp0' (and killed with '/sbin/ifdown
ppp0'), but if the connection is from a GUI such as the modemlights
applet in Gnome, there is no output. Here is my chat file:
'REPORT' 'CONNECT'
'ABORT' 'BUSY'
'ABORT' 'ERROR'
'ABORT' 'NO CARRIER'
'ABORT' 'NO DIALTONE'
'ABORT' 'Invalid Login'
'ABORT' 'Login incorrect'
'' 'ATZ'
'OK\r\n' 'ATL2M1W2'
'OK\r\n' ',ATDTxxx-xxx-xxxx'
'CONNECT' ''
The first string echos out the connect string, the line after the 'ATZ'
sets speaker characteristics, but the key is the 'W2' which says to
report long connect strings. It works with a Hayes 33.6 and Motorola
BitSurfr 28.8 at least.
Hal
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,redhat.config
Subject: RedHat v6.2 and identd/"noidentd"
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 18:53:45 GMT
I am running RedHat v6.2:
# uname -r
2.2.16-3
and am unable to get "-N" flag working on the identd:
# /usr/sbin/identd -V
[Pidentd, version 3.0.10 (compiled for Linux 2.2.5-22smp) -
Feb 22 2000 16:14:20]
According to the man page ("man identd")
-N Directs identd to check for a file ".noident" in each
home directory for the user which the daemon is
about to return the user name for. It that file
exists then the daemon will give the error HIDDEN-
USER instead of the normal USERID response.
Well, I stuck that flag when firing up the identd:
# ps auxwww | grep identd
nobody 18748 0.0 0.5 1312 644 ? S 11:38 0:00
identd -e -o -N
nobody 18749 0.0 0.5 1312 644 ? S 11:38 0:00
identd -e -o -N
nobody 18750 0.0 0.5 1312 644 ? S 11:38 0:00
identd -e -o -N
nobody 18751 0.0 0.5 1312 644 ? S 11:38 0:00
identd -e -o -N
nobody 18752 0.0 0.5 1312 644 ? S 11:38 0:00
identd -e -o -N
and I touched a ".noident" file in the home directory of a couple
users who are running daemons and I restarted the identd.
But, their usernames still show up on a nmap scan with one exception,
the user "nobody". If I put a ".noident" file in the "~/nobody"
directory, that username is hidden. With other users, identd doesn't
seem to respect the presence of a ".noident" file in their home
directory.
Can anyone test to see if they can get this "-N" option working on
their RedHat v6.2 system?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Anderson)
Subject: Re: how do I suspend, ctrl-Z
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 19:01:49 GMT
do a 'stty susp ^Z' this will set your suspend character to the
control Z. A stty -a will print out all your settings
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 10:27:24 -0400, John D Prokopek
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am running HR6.2 and I find that ctrl-Z does not suspend a process.
>I thought that linux was supposed to be similar to unix.
>do I need to configure comething for this to work or is there another
>key combination that will do the trick?
>
>appreciate the help
>
>--
>John D. Prokopek
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>"The bus came by
>and I got on
>thats when it all began ...."
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