Linux-Misc Digest #49, Volume #25 Wed, 5 Jul 00 16:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Extracting a file from rpm pkg (Vinod Gupta)
Re: tar or cpio? & intranet newsgroups? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
jabber (jserver) no such file? (Harrington B. Laufman)
Re: Good linux printer (Grant Taylor)
Re: Command line???!?!?!?!?!?!?! (Johan Kullstam)
Re: fonts problem in Netscape (James Lee)
Re: fetchmail: needs more features (Brian Ecker)
Re: Mandrake 7.1 Problem (Frank Miller)
Netscape news ("Ronald Hands")
Re: Extracting a file from rpm pkg (Patricia)
Root can't take ownership of file ("Marc Thompson")
Linux fund is giving away Money! (Linux)
Re: Converting script to binary (Robie Basak)
Re: tar or cpio? & intranet newsgroups? (Robie Basak)
Re: Partition Magic & Boot Manager (Rod Smith)
Re: getting tapedrive working (Vilmos Soti)
Re: 2.2.16 eepro100 driver problems (Timothy J. Lee)
Re: Web server + cache (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: Web server + cache (Ben Chausse)
Re: auto shutdown problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Good linux printer (ray)
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From: Vinod Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Extracting a file from rpm pkg
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:11:21 +0200
Is there any way to selectively extract a particular file,
say a readme file out of an rpm package into a tmp dir to
browse the doc before actually installing the package?
This is something one can easily do with a tarball.
Vinod.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tar or cpio? & intranet newsgroups?
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 07:31:49 +0100
David E. Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> What's better - tar or cpio?
Depends what you want to use it for...
Tar is used more for file distribution because tar is available for every
system worth mentioning...
No idea about cpio's good or bad points though.
> Is it possible to set up a newsgroup on a linux intranet machine - how?
You need a newsserver. INN or one of the others...
Read the config instructions and it tells you how to create local
newsgroups... (It does in the INN documentation, anyway).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harrington B. Laufman)
Subject: jabber (jserver) no such file?
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:21:34 GMT
Hello,
Under Redhat 6.2 kernel 2.2.12-20, jabber and its components (jabber-transport-1.0,
libxode-1.0, libetherx-1.0, and libjabber-1.0) makes (compiles), makes check and makes
install
without error. Yet, as root, I get:
[root]# /usr/local/bin/jserver
/usr/local/bin/jserver: error in loading shared libraries: libjabber.so.1: cannot open
shared object
file: No such file or directory
But here it is:
[root]# ls -al /usr/local/lib/libjabber.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44056 Jun 24 14:23 /usr/local/lib/libjabber.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 684 Jun 24 14:23 /usr/local/lib/libjabber.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 24 14:23 /usr/local/lib/libjabber.so ->
libjabber.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 24 14:23 /usr/local/lib/libjabber.so.1 ->
libjabber.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39372 Jun 24
14:23 /usr/local/lib/libjabber.so.1.0.0
And jabber-config says:
[root]# /usr/local/bin/jabber-config --libdir
/usr/local/lib
There is other stuff in the /usr/local/lib tree which works, like MySQL
I'm stumped. This is probably simple, and not jabber related but ...?
Thanks for any insight.
Harry
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good linux printer
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:30:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (alex) writes:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:28:09 GMT, Grant Taylor wrote:
>> Quite. I now recommend printers from the Epson Stylus line; these
>> are quite well supported by the gimp-print project's Ghostscript
>> driver. They aren't "perfect" by my standards, but they're darned
>> close, and can be expected to reach perfection in the near future.
> What about the epson Stylus 740? I've got a 400 and it works great
> but I will need a new printer and the 740 seems perfect. However,
> the compatibility web sites report iffy compatibility. Should I be
> worried? Maybe I should get a 800?
Iffy? Essentially all Epson Styli are currently listed as "Mostly" in
my list. That's not "iffy" so much as slightly imperfect. HP owners
would be so lucky ;)
The Epson Stylus 740 and 800 are equally well supported. Most of the
Photo models are also supported. Use the "stp" driver from the Gimp
print project. See http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Epson
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing HOWTO and Website: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
I offer consulting in most things Unix/Linux/*BSD/Perl/C/C++
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Command line???!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Date: 05 Jul 2000 13:30:17 -0400
"Mark M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey all...
>
> I'm a longtime computer user. Back to pre-Win on the x86 side. I've
> obviously become comfortable with the technology, but I'm up against it
> here, and despite some research on the web, I've yet to find simple,
> satisfactory answers to a really basic question. I figured I'd try here.
>
> I'm running a Raq3 server device. I've seen numerous mentions of command
> line options with regard to CGI, perl and other add-ons for servers, but
> what I have yet to see is how anyone accesses a command line over
> the NET!
ever heard of telnet?
telnet is bad because it sends passwords in cleartext. please use a
secure wrapper like ssh (which despite its name is not a shell) or a
secure telnet like srp-telnet.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: James Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fonts problem in Netscape
Date: 5 Jul 2000 17:51:12 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The fonts in the Netscape browser are messed up. They are either very
> small or don't display the correct fonts. How can I rectify this? If I
> need to install the proper fonts, what are they and how to get them?
You can also modify the netscape.ad file and add it to your .Xdefaults.
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From: Brian Ecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: fetchmail: needs more features
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:46:45 -0400
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, David Steuber wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) writes:
>
> ' On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:33:24 GMT, jason varsoke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ' wrote:
> '
> ' > Does anyone know of a program like fetchmail that has a few more
> ' >features. Specifically I need a fetchmail type program that will delete
> ' >messages on the POP3 server that are N number of days old.
> '
> ' Why not add the feature yourself? The source for fetchmail is GPL, and
> ' available for your use. Contribute your change back to the author and
> ' we all benefit. Of course, you could also just ask the fetchmail
> ' author (IRC, it's ESR hisself) to add the feature.
>
> It's been a while since I looked at the POP3 rfc, but I don't seem to
> recall anything in it to get the age of a message. Sure, you could
> top it and look at the date header.
>
> Personally, I don't like to leave my mail on a POP3 server. That is
> what IMAP4 is for. Different strokes.
>
Agreed, but sometimes you just can't choose your mail server. Anyway,
Jason, if you're planning on adding features to fetchmail, the POP3 RFC
is located at:
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1939.txt
Happy hacking!
-bri
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From: Frank Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 Problem
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:59:36 GMT
Martin Racette wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a problem installing and running any Linux and the last one is
> Mandrake.
>
> The problem is after the install when I try to start it using the boot
> disk that I just created while installing I get this:
>
> LILO
> (the message that tells me to wait or press enter to boot Linux using
> /dev/sdb1)
> boot: (I press ENTER)
> 0x10
> boot: Linux (I press ENTER again)
> 0x10
> boot: Linux (so I added /dev/sdb1)
> 0x10
>
> At that point I use the CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot my computer to OS/2
>
> the setup is :
>
> ALL HDD are SCSI
>
> Disk 1:
> Bootmanager
> C: OS/2 Warp 4
> Windows 98SE
> Extended partition
> D: , E:, F:, G: (HPFS)
>
> Disk 2:
> Linux (mount point /)
> Linux swap
> Extended Partition
> H: (HPFS)
> I: (FAT-16)
> J: ,K: (HPFS)
>
> Disk 3:
> Not seen by Linux during installation is a ZIP100 SCSI
>
> I would like to know how I can install and use Linux with that setup
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Merci a l'avance
>
> Martin
Use OS/2 Boot Manager for booting. Install lilo to the boot partion of
Linux. Create the boot disk at Linux install time and if lilo doesn't
install to the boot partion you can modify linux.conf to install lilo
where you desire, run lilo to re-install lilo. Then add Linux to the
Boot Manager. I use to do it this way but have gone to Boot Magic from
PowerQuest.
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From: "Ronald Hands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape news
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 18:31:02 GMT
I've tried (oh how I've tried!) to read news with Netscape 4.73, but the
newsgroups I select seem to disappear in between sessions.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a Godzilla-sized bug in the
program?
-- Ron
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Extracting a file from rpm pkg
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:49:49 +0200
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Vinod Gupta wrote:
>Is there any way to selectively extract a particular file,
>say a readme file out of an rpm package into a tmp dir to
>browse the doc before actually installing the package?
>This is something one can easily do with a tarball.
>
>Vinod.
vinod
You could use mc
--
Good Luck
Patricia
ICQ 69588792
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
http://beginnerslinux.org
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Kernel 2.2.5-15
8:50pm up 8 days, 22:21, 1 user, load average: 1.13, 1.22, 1.22
Wed Jul 5 20:50:08 CEST 2000
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From: "Marc Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Root can't take ownership of file
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 14:08:19 -0500
Greetings,
All at once, five of my RedHat Linux machines can no longer run 'make
whatis'. The error is 'permission denied.' I, as root, cannot take
ownership of the affected file. It's as if the system doesn't believe I'm
root.
The current file permisions are 644 owned by root, group root.
The only change to the system(s) is that I pointed them to a new NIS server.
Any ideas? Will fsck fix this?
Thanks in advance,
Marc Thompson
--
=======================================
Marc Thompson
BOPS, Inc.
Austin, TX
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From: Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Linux fund is giving away Money!
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:00:35 GMT
Free grants for open source projects at Http://linuxfund.org!
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Converting script to binary
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Jul 2000 19:16:46 GMT
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:44:01 +0800, kana_krishna said:
>I need help on this matter . I have done a script to automate a ftp transfer
>. What I want to do now , is convert this script into binary format ,so that
>other people who have access cannot view the file . Thanks.
If it is a shell script, you can't. Neither GNU nor Linux work that
way. You can, however, mark it as executable by everyone but not
readable by everyone; providing that the file is owned by you, try:
chmod 711 filename
If it is perl script, then yes, you can, but it's a kludge, so don't;
just use the chmod method.
Robie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: tar or cpio? & intranet newsgroups?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Jul 2000 19:19:25 GMT
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 07:31:49 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>David E. Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
>> What's better - tar or cpio?
>
>Depends what you want to use it for...
>Tar is used more for file distribution because tar is available for every
>system worth mentioning...
>
>No idea about cpio's good or bad points though.
What the cpio man page claims - it can do huge archives, where there
is a huge number of inodes. It does CRCs (I don't know if tar does
this or not). It does device nodes, and is thus suitable for backing
up an entire system.
Robie.
>
>> Is it possible to set up a newsgroup on a linux intranet machine - how?
>
>You need a newsserver. INN or one of the others...
>Read the config instructions and it tells you how to create local
>newsgroups... (It does in the INN documentation, anyway).
>--
>______________________________________________________________________________
>| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
>|Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "ARSE! GERLS!! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!!!" |
>| in | "THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER!...FECK!!!! |
>| Computer Science | - Father Jack in "Father Ted" |
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Partition Magic & Boot Manager
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:22:41 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I read some where that using PM is a good idea where you need to re-size
> a Win partition, but don't use the boot loader that comes with it - use
> Lilo instead. I will be running Win98, WinNT, Linux, and maybe Win2000;
> so a boot manager seems like a good idea. Any comments?
Sounds like you heard somebody's opinion. You *DO* need to use LILO to
boot Linux (or use some alternative like LOADLIN on a DOS partition),
but you can use LILO as a secondary boot loader and use BootMagic as the
primary boot loader, if you like. LILO is capable of switching between
those four OSs, however, all by itself. Its main drawback is that it's
not quite as flashy as the likes of System Commander or BootMagic.
FWIW, I cover the boot process and boot loaders in my book, _The
Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook_
(http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/). This book includes the DOS
versions of PartitionMagic and BootMagic 4.0 (5.0 is the latest).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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Subject: Re: getting tapedrive working
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:24:34 GMT
On 5 Jul 2000 11:00:30 GMT, Martijn Brouwer said:
> What do I need to get my QIC80 tape drive working.
> I have a 2.2.14 kernel with the ftape module. I can insmod the ftape
> module, but when I try to do something very simple with tar (tar test
> /dev/nrft0 or something like that) or even mt, it complains that the
> operation is not possible with this device. So what do I need to do?
Do you have the necessary devices in /dev and did you load the drivers?
Vilmos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: 2.2.16 eepro100 driver problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Valid for a limited time)
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:24:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric Lamarque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Timothy J. Lee" wrote:
>>
>> With kernel 2.2.16, compiling the eepro100 into the kernel (not as
>> a module) does not seem to work. The following messages appear in
>> the dmesg:
>>
>> eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
>
>It seems that eepro100 in 2.2.16 driver has a problem:
>
>here, on a very standard configuration, and the driver compiled
>as kernel module, I obtain periodically:
>
>eth0:Printing Rx ring (next to receive into 503127).
> Rx ring entry 0 00000001.
>[...]
> PHY index 1 register 4 is 05e1.
> PHY index 1 register 5 is 0021.
> PHY index 1 register 21 is 0000.
>eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter...
>
>The same machine ran happilly for a long time with a kernel 2.2.13
>and the driver as a module.
>
>Any solution or fixes?
The one that I know of is to copy eepro100.c from 2.2.13. But that
may not work after 2.4.
--
========================================================================
Timothy J. Lee
Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome.
No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 21:26:45 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.unix.admin,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Web server + cache
Ben Chausse wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What will the best between a Xeon 700 with 512 kb of cache and a Xeon
> 700 with 2 MB of cache ?
>
> Does cache help a webserver ??? Does it need more than 512 KB ?
>
> Thankx ...
>
> Ben0i
To add to the other answer:
It will make some more speed IF you run a lot of VERY complex Perl
scripts that manipulate a lot of small data blocks all the time, but as
Jon said, RAM, HD and network are most important (with network the
internet connection is meant).
--
Bartek Kostrzewa -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://technoage.web.lu
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life is only a hoax
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From: Ben Chausse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.unix.admin,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Web server + cache
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:44:16 GMT
Thanks for your answer, but here another question : Will it be better to
put 2 NIC instead of one to boost the speed ???
Ben0i
Bartek Kostrzewa wrote:
> To add to the other answer:
>
> It will make some more speed IF you run a lot of VERY complex Perl
> scripts that manipulate a lot of small data blocks all the time, but as
> Jon said, RAM, HD and network are most important (with network the
> internet connection is meant).
>
> --
> Bartek Kostrzewa -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://technoage.web.lu
> -----------------------
> life is only a hoax
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: auto shutdown problem
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:44:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> #R P JAYASANKA L PIYARATNA# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ' I have a dual celeron 433 on bp6 and I am running redhat 6.2 with
kernel
> ' version 2.2.15. I've compiled the kernel including the apm support,
but
> ' I am not getting the auto shutdown feature working.
>
> I built 2.2.16 for my laptop last night. Naturally I included APM
> support. I think I saw a note about SMP systems not doing shutdown.
> Or maybe that was system idle calls.
>
> david@solo:> pwd
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation
> david@solo:> find . -type f -exec grep -il SMP {} \; | xargs grep -il
APM
> grep: ./kernel-docs.txt: Permission denied
> grep: ./proc.txt: Permission denied
> ./devices.txt
> ./Configure.help
> ./kernel-parameters.txt
>
> Some files to look at.
>
> --
> 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
>
APM and SMP can't work together in that version of the Linux kernel. If
you read the notes on each as you go through the kernel configure you
would see this in there. Remember the way to common phrase RTFM..
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Before you buy.
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good linux printer
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 20:06:23 GMT
alex wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:28:09 GMT, Grant Taylor
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Quite. I now recommend printers from the Epson Stylus line; these are
> >quite well supported by the gimp-print project's Ghostscript driver.
> >They aren't "perfect" by my standards, but they're darned close, and
> >can be expected to reach perfection in the near future.
>
> What about the epson Stylus 740? I've got a 400 and it works great but
> I will need a new printer and the 740 seems perfect. However, the
> compatibility web sites report iffy compatibility. Should I be
> worried? Maybe I should get a 800?
>
> BTW, my Epson 400 is awesome. No problems, no hickups & w/ a fillmore
> inkjet refil kit, I haven't bought a new cartrige for a long time now.
> That kit is awesome -- about 20 bucks for 20 refils.
Yes, as a longtime Epson 740 owner on Linux, I am really happy with
it. A Google search for something like "epson linux" will produce a great
deal of information about tuning and tweaking this printer. There are a
number of drivers written later in the .upp format that can be used. The
flexibility and on the fly tuning afforded results (IMHO) in a better
printer than what I have under win9x, and it does superior color work
under linux, also.
--
Ray R. Jones
Linux 2.4.0-test2
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
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