Linux-Misc Digest #70, Volume #25 Sat, 8 Jul 00 01:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Good linux printer (Grant Taylor)
Re: print filter to select tray (Grant Taylor)
Re: passwd- shadow- (ljb)
Re: named no starting on boot? (Ben Walker)
Config on dual intel etherexpress cards (Marc Nesheim)
Re: why make clean before making kernel? ("Lonni J. Friedman")
magicdev - what is it? ("David Wall")
gnome question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
gnome question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Pine - how to automatically BCC myself? ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: Config on dual intel etherexpress cards (Akira Yamanita)
Re: REPOST: Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that?
("Doug Holtz")
Re: print filter to select tray (Matthew Fleming)
Re: Anybody using a DFE-530TX+ Ethernet card?! (Craig Hogan)
CD Burner woes ("Hiawatha Bray")
Re: Config on dual intel etherexpress cards (Rob Kroll)
Re: console problems when switching while in X (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: magicdev - what is it? (Robert Lynch)
DSL connection (riski)
Re: DSL connection (Hal Burgiss)
Re: named no starting on boot? ("David ..")
Re: Linux Command. (Bev)
Re: DSL connection (riski)
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good linux printer
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 00:27:06 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin E Cosgrove) writes:
> Do any of these Epson's do near the photo-quality work in Linux
> that they do in Win9X?
Yes. Use the stp driver:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=stp
--
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: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: print filter to select tray
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 00:33:28 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Fleming) writes:
> I have a Linux box which prints to an HP 4050TN over a network. The
> default tray for this printer is tray #3, but the jobs sent from the
> Linux box have to use tray #2. The PCL command for switching to tray
> #2 should be esc&l1H, according to the HP manual.
I would probably do this with a PJL command instead; it's easier to
make this appear in the proper place.
You'd do something like
cat foo.pcl | (echo -e '\033-12345X@PJL SET DUPLEX=ON' ; cat) > /dev/lp0
Except, of course, you'd go look up the proper pjl commands to make
your printer select the right media source. I'm afraid I don't know
offhand...
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb)
Subject: Re: passwd- shadow-
Date: 8 Jul 2000 00:36:26 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On 7 Jul 2000 09:37:44 GMT, Christoph Kukulies
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>RH 6.1:
>>What are the file passwd-, and shadow- for?
>>(trailing '-' sign)
>
>on my system (RH 5.2) the file /etc/passwd is
>owned by "setup" but /etc/passwd- is not
>owned by any package. Maybe when you change
>your password, setup doesn't overwrite the
>old file but copies it to passwd- ? Just
>a guess.
Just about right, I think. It saves the old file (passwd or shadow)
to file- when it makes changes. Changing your password will not
update passwd, only shadow, but that's the general idea.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Walker)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: named no starting on boot?
Date: 7 Jul 2000 18:18:49 -0600
In article <%yt95.12102$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Devon Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I get named to start on boot up on RHL62?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Devon
>
>
/sbin/chkconfig named on
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From: Marc Nesheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linus.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Config on dual intel etherexpress cards
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:46:41 -0500
I have an old 486 running redhat 6.2. The box contains two Intel
etherexpress Lan Adapater 8/16TP. I use the module called eexpress.o to
config the cards with. They work fine if only one card is in the system
at a time. However when I put both of them in and try to use both of
them eth1 never comes up. The message displayed to the console is
"Delaying eth1 initialization." The setup in my /etc/conf.modules is as
follows:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 eexpress
options eexpress io=0X300 irq=5
alias eth1 eexpress
options eexpress io=0X240 irq=10
I manualy set each card accordingly to those settings. If anyone can
help me out here that would be greatly appericated.
marc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why make clean before making kernel?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:45:47 -0400
Eric Potter wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Lonni J. Friedman"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Its not standard procedure. Wherever did you read that you should use
> > make clean? You *should* be using 'make mrproper' before 'make xconfig'
> > which servers a similar purpose, only it clears out additional stuff.
> >
>
> Do not follow this advice. If you "make mrproper" you will lose your
> .config file, which you will want as a starting point when you configure
> the kernel again.
Sorry, but you're wrong. I've built many kernels and not lost any
config files in the process of running 'make mrproper'.
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Lonni J Friedman
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TSC - ECR - Pittsburgh
5-232-6850
United Parcel Service
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
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Reply-To: "David Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "David Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: magicdev - what is it?
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:19:38 -0700
Does anybody know what /usr/bin/magicdev is? I see it running under a user
account, and it uses quite a bit of CPU time, but I have no idea what it is.
Anybody know out there?
David
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: gnome question
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 01:42:05 GMT
Hi all,
I'm using gnome with enlightment and I would like to lauch the programs
from my desktop with only one mouse click (just as in KDE). Does anyone
know how (if) can I do that?
Thanks,
Alexandre
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: gnome question
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 01:44:21 GMT
Hi all,
I'm using gnome with enlightment and I would like to lauch the programs
from my desktop with only one mouse click (just as in KDE). Does anyone
know how (if) can I do that?
Thanks,
Alexandre
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Before you buy.
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pine - how to automatically BCC myself?
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 02:16:59 GMT
How do I configure Pine to automatically BCC me?
Thanks,
Chip.
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Config on dual intel etherexpress cards
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 02:18:53 GMT
Marc Nesheim wrote:
>
> I have an old 486 running redhat 6.2. The box contains two Intel
> etherexpress Lan Adapater 8/16TP. I use the module called eexpress.o to
> config the cards with. They work fine if only one card is in the system
> at a time. However when I put both of them in and try to use both of
> them eth1 never comes up. The message displayed to the console is
> "Delaying eth1 initialization." The setup in my /etc/conf.modules is as
> follows:
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias eth0 eexpress
> options eexpress io=0X300 irq=5
> alias eth1 eexpress
> options eexpress io=0X240 irq=10
>
> I manualy set each card accordingly to those settings. If anyone can
> help me out here that would be greatly appericated.
>
> marc
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Taken out of comp.os.linus.setup since there's no such group.
Followup set to comp.os.linux.help.
Try this:
alias eth0 eexpress
options eexpress io=0X240 irq=10
alias eth1 eexpress
options eexpress io=0X300 irq=5
Alternatively, try swapping the order of the two cards on
the system bus.
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From: "Doug Holtz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: REPOST: Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that?
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:00:12 -0500
Bert;
You need assistance. Linux is not a clustering solution. A RAID 5
controller manages a set of 3 disks or more, not 2 servers. I'd suggest
finding a local reputable network consulting service.
Doug
Bert [reposted because of HipClone cancel] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:0$-_%%_%_$---$_%[email protected]...
> Hi!
>
> I need to set up a mail /web server at where I'm working, and after
> thinking about it for a while, I thought it better to have a fault
> tolerant set up. I sort of managed to determine what bits & pieces I'd
> required... but putting it together is entirely another matter!!
>
> I'd appreciate any help, pointers, advice, resources anyone could point
> me towards.
>
> The basic stuff are:
> 2 linux boxes, built-in dual channel SCSI RAID
> 1 load balancer
> 1 external RAID
> RH Linux 6.2
> (Mix well....ugghh)
>
> What i need to do is to have the 2 Linux boxes to be identical, these 2
> boxes access 1 set of data on the external raid. ie, there should be
> only 1 set of mail app, mailboxes etc.
>
> So these 2 boxes need to have their own OS? Can they share data?
>
> A load balancer will determine which box gets the job etc. for a fault
> tolerant setup.
>
> How can I put everything together? Are there any extra special bits that
> I require?
>
> Is there a better way of doing this? ie, sharing data on 1 RAID
> subsystem is a no-no?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!!
>
>
>
> Bert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Fleming)
Subject: Re: print filter to select tray
Date: 8 Jul 2000 03:08:43 GMT
Grant Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Fleming) writes:
: > I have a Linux box which prints to an HP 4050TN over a network. The
: > default tray for this printer is tray #3, but the jobs sent from the
: > Linux box have to use tray #2. The PCL command for switching to tray
: > #2 should be esc&l1H, according to the HP manual.
: I would probably do this with a PJL command instead; it's easier to
: make this appear in the proper place.
: You'd do something like
: cat foo.pcl | (echo -e '\033-12345X@PJL SET DUPLEX=ON' ; cat) > /dev/lp0
Actually I don't think I can cat anything because its a network
printer, not connected to the parallel port.
: Except, of course, you'd go look up the proper pjl commands to make
: your printer select the right media source. I'm afraid I don't know
: offhand...
: --
: 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: Craig Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anybody using a DFE-530TX+ Ethernet card?!
Date: 8 Jul 2000 03:13:41 GMT
Disregard... I moved the card to a different PCI
slot and everthing went smoothly, no problems. Doh!
Craig
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From: "Hiawatha Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD Burner woes
Date: 07 Jul 2000 23:22:01 EDT
I've just installed a Ricoh MP 6200A CD burner in my Red Hat 6.0 box, and
tried to recompile the kernel to make it work. The idea was to remove ATAPI
CD-ROM support from the kernel and replace it with SCSI. But my cdrecord
software still says it can't see a SCSI device on the computer. That's
especially weird, because the burner now shows up as a SCSI device on
bootup. I checked dmesg and sure enough, there it was, listed 9 times.
Another thing: since recompiling the kernel, my network card no longer
works. When booting, the computer says it can't find it. I saved my
previous kernel, so this isn't exactly a disaster, but I can't figure out
what is going wrong. Anybody got a clue? Thanks!
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linus.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Config on dual intel etherexpress cards
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Kroll)
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 03:24:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Nesheim) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I have an old 486 running redhat 6.2. The box contains two Intel
>etherexpress Lan Adapater 8/16TP. I use the module called eexpress.o to
>config the cards with. They work fine if only one card is in the system
>at a time. However when I put both of them in and try to use both of
>them eth1 never comes up. The message displayed to the console is
>"Delaying eth1 initialization." The setup in my /etc/conf.modules is as
>follows:
>
>alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>alias eth0 eexpress
>options eexpress io=0X300 irq=5
>alias eth1 eexpress
>options eexpress io=0X240 irq=10
>
>I manualy set each card accordingly to those settings. If anyone can
>help me out here that would be greatly appericated.
>
>marc
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
**BTW, you seem to have crossposted to a heck of a lot of newsgroups. I
filtered the ones that aren't really pertinent in this reply. To
compensate, I am forwarding the reply to you via e-mail.**
Your problem is caused by having two options lines. The second one will
override the first one, and the second card will not be seen. This will
invariably cause a "Delaying eth1 initialization" message at bootup.
To fix it, rewrite your /etc/conf.modules to look like this:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 eexpress
alias eth1 eexpress
options eexpress io=0x300,0x240 irq=5,10
and it should fix your problem.
HTH
-RK
rkroll(at)ottawa(dot)com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: console problems when switching while in X
Date: 8 Jul 2000 03:11:05 GMT
Jeremy C. Reed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ Usually while in X (under Linux), I can change to a different console by
[ pressing CTRL-ALT-F1. Then I am given a login prompt.
[ On my Debian Potato system with kernel 2.2.13, running XFree86 3.3.6 and
[ wdm (display/login manager) 1.19, when I switch consoles, I see on the
[ screen my previous X screen shown four times (each 25% smaller and
[ unreadable). I have to press CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back.
[ (This problem occurs with these window managers: blackbox, fvwm95, and
[ qvwm. I do not want to use a window manager feature to create a new
are you sure it is indeed aproblem or you haven't seen the pager feature
before? this is common to those window managers you mentioned
Four times means you have four desktops (one for work, and three for play
e.g. xmms, realplayer, ;-)
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Registered linux user no. 164098
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: magicdev - what is it?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:04:45 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Wall wrote:
>
> Does anybody know what /usr/bin/magicdev is? I see it running under a user
> account, and it uses quite a bit of CPU time, but I have no idea what it is.
> Anybody know out there?
>
> David
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Magicdev is a daemon that runs within the GNOME environment and
detects when a CD is removed or inserted. Magicdev handles running
autorun programs on the CD, updating the File Manager and playing
audio CDs."
Description of "magicdev-0.2.7-1 RPM for i386".
HTH. Bob L.
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Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: DSL connection
From: riski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:03:07 -0700
I have a DSL connection that is shared over a home network. I
just installed Linux 7.1 and to tell you the truth I know
nothing about it. My first impressions of Linux is great, but I
need some step by step instructions on how to connect to the
internet. My current network is auto configured, so as you can
see I have little knowledge of networking. Any information
would be deeply appreciated.
Riski
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: DSL connection
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 04:14:46 GMT
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:03:07 -0700, riski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a DSL connection that is shared over a home network. I
>just installed Linux 7.1 and to tell you the truth I know
>nothing about it. My first impressions of Linux is great, but I
>need some step by step instructions on how to connect to the
>internet. My current network is auto configured, so as you can
>see I have little knowledge of networking. Any information
>would be deeply appreciated.
One step at a time. Autoconfigured? Wot dot? Will the Linux box be
accessing via a proxy on your LAN? Or do you want to give it the DSL
connection? Your are going to have to know _something_ about your
network. OS, version, etc?
--
Hal B
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: named no starting on boot?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 23:53:58 -0500
Devon Harding wrote:
>
> How can I get named to start on boot up on RHL62?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Devon
As root use "/usr/sbin/setup" choose "system services" place an asterisk
next to the service you want to start at boot time.
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ID # 123538
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Command.
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 22:06:25 -0700
-- "John D. Goulden" wrote:
>
> Alas, piping ls through 'more' or 'less' costs you the pretty colors that
> some linuxes use to differentiate file types...could be frustrating to a new
> user. Like me.
No, just requires a few more characters. And as a bonus you can also sort
the files in various ways; I normally want to see the newest files at the
top. Here are various aliases to play with:
alias dir='ls -al --color=yes |less -r'
alias dird='ls -altF --color=yes |less -r'
alias dirdd='ls -altF --color=yes'
(this one lets you input a filespec, as in dirdd *.gz)
alias dirs='ls -altS --color=yes |less -r'
alias dirt='ls -l --color=yes | sort -r |less -r'
(can't remember what this IS, but it's weird!)
Your syntax may vary...
Cheers, Bev
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(On going to war over religion:) "You're basically killing each other
to see who's got the better imaginary friend." -- Rich Jeni
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Subject: Re: DSL connection
From: riski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 22:04:08 -0700
I just want to enable a DSL connection. Sorry for the confusion.
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