Linux-Misc Digest #127, Volume #25 Thu, 13 Jul 00 22:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: how to delete files named like "-002210" (Bob Martin)
Re: Changing Prompt Color (Romeyn Prescott)
Linux-Driver for BeFs (Ulrich Brachvogel)
Weired: Halfway ping ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: changing resolution ("Keiichi")
Re: RPM misery... Help please. (Chumkil)
mkraid error ("Scott")
Re: RPM misery... Help please. ("Scott")
RE: NEWBIE: Stupid kernel compile quest: (Slarty Bartfast)
Re: undelete directory? (David Turley)
Re: 1280x1024 Resolution (Martin Brown)
Re: RPM misery... Help please. (Vilmos Soti)
installation of Redhat6.1 on second hard disk ("pc")
Re: WordPerfect 8 for Linux won't install under SuSE 6.4 (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: RPM misery... Help please. ("David ..")
Re: Why isn't [X]Emacs a word processor? (David Steuber)
Re: Consequences of a new kernel (David Steuber)
Re: Consequences of a new kernel (David Steuber)
Re: Microsoft (David Steuber)
Re: Why isn't [X]Emacs a word processor? (David Steuber)
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: how to delete files named like "-002210"
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:12:43 +0000
Biao Wu wrote:
>
> Hi, all
>
> Got a tricky problem. Somehow a file named "-002210" was created in
> a directory. I had no idea how to get rid of it 'cause commands like
> rm, cp, cat all regard everything after "-" as an option. So if I type
>
Just as you would execute a file in the current directory 'rm ./-002210'
--
Bob Martin
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Subject: Re: Changing Prompt Color
From: Romeyn Prescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:16:41 GMT
Kevin,
Check out:
http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html
...ROMeyn
in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
on 7/13/00 5:52 PM:
> How do I change the color of the prompt when using bash or tcsh? Also,
> how do I get it to display the full path instead of just the current
> directory?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: Ulrich Brachvogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux-Driver for BeFs
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:49:09 +0200
Hi,
is there any driver to access BeFS from Linux?
TTFN Ulli
// <( )
// \______//
// \____/ Ulrich Brachvogel
// / \ "Save The Curlew!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Weired: Halfway ping
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:19:50 GMT
I installed RedHat 6.2 on a Pentium 133 machine. The ethernet card is a
16 bit jumpless ISA card and is NE2000 compatible as claimed by the
setup program. It uses a program called LANset.exe 3.05 and it is model
LAN2UX as claimed by the program. It also displayes something like
UMC9003x.
Here is the story, since linux can not detect the card at boot, I use
LanSet to set I/O to 300 and IRQ to 11. Then edited /etc/conf.modules
to add
alias eth0 ne
options ne io=0x300 irq=11
Now it can bring up the card. I can ping this linux machine from a NT
machine on the same lan, but however I can not ping the NT box from
this linux box. No matter how many packets the linux box reports that
it has sent out, it always reports only one packet got received.
Any suggestion?
Alan
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Keiichi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: changing resolution
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:27:42 +0200
D & S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
RCrb5.44210$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi,
>
> I seem to remember someone posting a command here that allowed you to
change
> your screen resolution rather easily. I'm not sure if it was specific to
> Red Hat Linux or not. All I remember is that it was a single command and
> voila the resolution was changed. It didn't require you to modify any
files
> or re-run XConfigurator or XF86setup. Thanks for any ideas.
>
If you just want to change the resolution but not the virtual screen size
use Ctr+Alt+x (where x stands for the '+' or '-' key).
Otherwise, if you want to chnage the resolution and the virtual screen size,
you're using gnome, you could use the 'quickres' (or something like that)
applets...
> - Doug -
>
>
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From: Chumkil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM misery... Help please.
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:09:10 -0700
# rpm -e ssh-1.2.27-7us
error: package ssh-1.2.27-7us is not installed
This is very strange....
Philip Chapman wrote:
> Chumkil wrote:
> >
> > Nicholas Murison wrote:
> >
> > > Chumkil wrote:
> > > >
> > > > [root@myhouse openssh]# rpm -Uvh ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20.i386.rpm
> > > > package ssh-1.2.27-7us is already installed
> > > >
> > > > error: package ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20.i386.rpm is not installed
> > >
> > > ERROR: package name is not the same as package filename:
> > >
> > > [root@myhouse openssh]# rpm -e ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20
> > >
> > > should work better. Otherwise you could try:
> > >
> > > [root@myhouse openssh]# rpm -q -a | grep ssh
> > >
> > > which will give you a list of installed packages that have "ssh" in
> > > their name. Then all you need to do is to home in on the package you
> > > want to get rid of and do the rpm -e stuff using that package name.
> > > --
> > > Nicholas John Murison
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > Don't mess with penguins
> > > Registered Linux User #153895 http://counter.li.org
> >
> > Thanks for the help, but as you can see:
> >
> > [root@myhouse openssh]# rpm -q -a | grep ssh
> > ssh-1.2.27-7us
>
> Here, it is telling you the package name is ssh-1.2.27-7us
>
> >
> > There is only one package. :/
> >
> > # rpm -e ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20
> > error: package ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20 is not installed
> >
> > I have encountered this before once or twice on my home system, but its
> > not a worry there. Here, on a production system
> > that I *NEED* SSH on, this becomes a real pain in the ass.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
>
> rpm -e ssh-1.2.27-7us
>
> --
> Philip A. Chapman
> IT Manager for Alliance TeleSolutions
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From: "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mkraid error
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:09:24 GMT
I get the error "cannot determine md version: No such file or directory"
when I run "mkraid /dev/md0" or even "mkraid -V". I tried on rh kernels
2.2.12 and 2.2.13. I tried unstalling/restalling the raidtools-0.90-3 rpm
file.
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From: "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM misery... Help please.
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:14:40 GMT
What about just installing the .tar.gz for the version you want, then
running ./configure; make; make install? Then specify the exact path when
you use it. I know you'd rather do it cleanly by removing the old version,
but if you have to get this going...
Chumkil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [root@myhouse openssh]# rpm -Uvh ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20.i386.rpm
> package ssh-1.2.27-7us is already installed
> [root@myhouse openssh]# rpm -e ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20.i386.rpm
> error: package ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20.i386.rpm is not installed
> [root@myhouse openssh]#
>
> As you can see I am a little pissed at this RPM....
> I need to strip it out and fully install it so that I can make way for
> SSH2 (I need
> to maintain SSH1 backwards compatibility however...)
>
> How do I "nuke and pave" this RPM set?
>
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From: Slarty Bartfast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: NEWBIE: Stupid kernel compile quest:
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:22:48 -0400
Hi,
I just went through that exact problem.
Everything looks good and exacly what I did, but there was a file in my
/boot
directory called System.map. It was a symbolic link to my old kernel
System.map.
Try this:
ln -sf /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map
After days of frustration this make my boot mssgs all nice and Green-> [OK]
BTW, if that doesn't work symbolically link it back to the
System.map.X.X.X(or
whatever kernel you were using before.
Hop this helps.
Lates,
Slarty Bartfast (Glacier Specialist)
>===== Original Message From Quad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>Hi, just a newbie looking to get a few questions cleared up:
>
>1) If I do a make modules and make modules install and all seems to go
>fine without any errors, why would it be that when I go to load a
>module, or at startup it says that it cant find the modules after a
>compile?
>
>
>2) When you recompile, all the settings that you currently have are
>set by default when answering the questions? (Am I totally wrong on
>this, my guess is that I am). I ask because last night I recompiled,
>all seemed to go great but both my NICs didnt start up. All that I
>changed was I took out etherexpress as I dotn have the intel NIC. My
>guess is I have to explicitly add the ones I have? I thought the
>kernel might load them up off conf.modules or something by itself.
>
>3) I installed ipmasqadm, and portfw is compiled into the kernel, I
>followed a "howto" for the syntax in my firewall script. The script
>runs without ANY errors, but the port forwarding does not work. This
>is on an older kernel RH6.1. I will try at home on the latest kernel
>to see if that makes a diff, but I just wanted to know if any of you
>had any thoughts. Like does it make a difference where it is placed in
>the script? Or can I only have that enabled in the script if I want it
>to work and no other security measures?
>
>Guys thanks SOOOO much for your time here. I really appreciate it. I
>am a newbie to the penguin, but am hitting it with FULL FORCE and
>loving it. Who knows maybe someday Ill be able to help out a newbie in
>need.
>
>Thanks again guys
>
>--
>Quad
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: undelete directory?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:43:55 -0400
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:20:23 +0200, Marcus Bergmann apparently wrote:
> Is there a way to undelete removed directories? If it is so, how can i
> do it?
Yea, copy them from your backups. :-)
--
David Turley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Brown)
Subject: Re: 1280x1024 Resolution
Date: 14 Jul 2000 01:05:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Homer Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 13 Jul 2000 03:21:32 GMT, Martin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>Homer Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>In my experience, if XF86Setup can't automatically set up the resolution
>>>you are left with manually hacking your XF86Config, *including* the
>>>video timings. I found this next-to-impossible given my monitor manufacturer,
>>>MAG, refused to supply me with the sync information for my monitor. If you
>>>really want to do this, read the XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO. Hopefully,
>>>your monitor's manual (or manufacturer) will supply you with the information
>>>you require.
>>
>>Gee, my MAG XJ810 came with the sync info right in the manual, and I had
>>no problem setting it or XFree at 1280x1024 when I installed RH6.1.
>> - Martin J. Brown, Jr. -
>> - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
>
>Gee... mine didn't. Golly gosh darn. Next time, post something useful.
>---no pgp information available at this time Mr. Spock---
I was lightly trying to suggest that a closer inspection of the manual
might have revealed such information. I'm sorry if my humor was lost on
you. I would gladly have supplied such information if the model number of
the MAG monitor in question was in the message I was replying to, and it
was the same model as mine.
--
- Martin J. Brown, Jr. -
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
NEW!! PGP Public Key ID: 0xCED9BD8A Key Server: http://www.keyserver.net/en/
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Subject: Re: RPM misery... Help please.
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 01:14:54 GMT
Chumkil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> # rpm -e ssh-1.2.27-7us
> error: package ssh-1.2.27-7us is not installed
>
> This is very strange....
Try a forced reinstall,
rpm -Uvh --force ssh-1.2.27-7us*
then your rpm database will be less :-) corrupted. After this forced
install, you can (hopefully) cleanly remove the package.
Vilmos
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From: "pc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installation of Redhat6.1 on second hard disk
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:06:58 +0800
Hello
I have two hard disks.
The master hard disk is installed with win98.
Then I intend to install RedHat 6.1 onto slave hard disk.
During the installation process, I choose 'Server' installation
and 'Remove Data' instead of 'Manual partition'.
After installation, the master hard disk is found with RedHat 6.1 only.
How could I install RedHat 6.1 onto slave hard disk ?
Thanks
pc leung
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 for Linux won't install under SuSE 6.4
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 01:22:28 GMT
On 12 Jul 2000 16:39:43 GMT, J Bland wrote:
>>I'd love to capture them, but they fly by so quickly I have no hope in hell
>>of even reading them.
>
>Useful tip; SHIFT-PG[UP|DOWN] in VCs and xterms will move you up and down
>through the history of the terminal.
I'm not a newbie, but thanks anyways :>
The messages are drawn, the screen cleared, and a new message drawn. Process
repeats itself until I ctrl-C it to save my / partition from being mangled.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test2
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM misery... Help please.
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:11:55 -0500
Chumkil wrote:
>
> # rpm -e ssh-1.2.27-7us
> error: package ssh-1.2.27-7us is not installed
>
> This is very strange....
>
> Philip Chapman wrote:
>
> > Chumkil wrote:
> > >
> > > Nicholas Murison wrote:
> > >
> > > > Chumkil wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > [root@myhouse openssh]# rpm -Uvh ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20.i386.rpm
> > > > > package ssh-1.2.27-7us is already installed
> > > > >
> > > > > error: package ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20.i386.rpm is not installed
> > > >
> > > > ERROR: package name is not the same as package filename:
> > > >
> > > > [root@myhouse openssh]# rpm -e ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20
> > > >
> > > > should work better. Otherwise you could try:
> > > >
> > > > [root@myhouse openssh]# rpm -q -a | grep ssh
> > > >
> > > > which will give you a list of installed packages that have "ssh" in
> > > > their name. Then all you need to do is to home in on the package you
> > > > want to get rid of and do the rpm -e stuff using that package name.
> > > > --
> > > > Nicholas John Murison
> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > Don't mess with penguins
> > > > Registered Linux User #153895 http://counter.li.org
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help, but as you can see:
> > >
> > > [root@myhouse openssh]# rpm -q -a | grep ssh
> > > ssh-1.2.27-7us
> >
> > Here, it is telling you the package name is ssh-1.2.27-7us
> >
> > >
> > > There is only one package. :/
> > >
> > > # rpm -e ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20
> > > error: package ssh-1.2.27-7us_glibc20 is not installed
> > >
> > > I have encountered this before once or twice on my home system, but its
> > > not a worry there. Here, on a production system
> > > that I *NEED* SSH on, this becomes a real pain in the ass.
> > >
> > > Any other ideas?
> >
> > rpm -e ssh-1.2.27-7us
> >
> > --
> > Philip A. Chapman
> > IT Manager for Alliance TeleSolutions
rpm -e ssh
or rpm -e --nodeps ssh
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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Subject: Re: Why isn't [X]Emacs a word processor?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 02:00:13 GMT
James Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' Is wordpad a word processor? What about lyx?
Wordpad has limited functonality compared with a full blown text
editor, but you can do TeX or HTML with it if you don't miss those
features. I admit it would be a stretch to call wordpad a word
processor though. I'm not sure where the line should be drawn.
I've not actually used Lyx, so I can't comment on it.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
``This case serves as a dire warning to all burglars. Any citizen is
entitled to use reasonable force. A householder in his own home might
not be reasonable and that can have tragic consequences''
--- Mr Justice Owen at Tony Martin's murder trial as quoted by
http://www.norfolk-now.co.uk/
The ``From'' address is a valid e-mail address.
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Subject: Re: Consequences of a new kernel
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 02:00:21 GMT
"David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' Upgrading the C library, though, can be anywhere from unwise (upgrading
' from one minor release to the next) to darn near impossible (upgrading
' from libc5 to glibc/libc6). Functions from the C library are probably used
' much more frequently than the (comparatively few) kernel functions.
As long as you don't trash the older libc libraries, there shouldn't
be a problem. That said, it is a heck of a lot easier to simply
upgrade your distribution so that everything gets upgraded en mass.
Or better yet, back up your data files, wipe the disk, and start from
scratch.
I know that last one sounds like a Windows upgrade. But it sure is a
good way to get rid of those files that are never used, unless you go
and install new copies in your new Linux distro.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
``This case serves as a dire warning to all burglars. Any citizen is
entitled to use reasonable force. A householder in his own home might
not be reasonable and that can have tragic consequences''
--- Mr Justice Owen at Tony Martin's murder trial as quoted by
http://www.norfolk-now.co.uk/
The ``From'' address is a valid e-mail address.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hoplite&submit=Look+it+up
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Subject: Re: Consequences of a new kernel
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 02:00:21 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow) writes:
' >Unless you are running Debian.
'
' In which case you can upgrade from libc5 to glibc2.0 in place, no
' rebooting, then glibc2.0 to glibc2.1 similarly. And have a working,
' running system after each upgrade.
Really? That is a pretty good system. What do you do to get an
initial Debian release on your computer so that everything upgrades
from there properly?
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
``This case serves as a dire warning to all burglars. Any citizen is
entitled to use reasonable force. A householder in his own home might
not be reasonable and that can have tragic consequences''
--- Mr Justice Owen at Tony Martin's murder trial as quoted by
http://www.norfolk-now.co.uk/
The ``From'' address is a valid e-mail address.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hoplite&submit=Look+it+up
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Subject: Re: Microsoft
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 02:00:22 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
' RealCea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
' > A stagnat meglomothic computer software company
' ^^^^^^^^^^^
' Hmmm... Never heard this one before...
' Is this a software company that spends it's life bashing it's head against a
' giant light bulb?
Either that, or a simple misspelling of the word, ``neolithic,'' which
would be more apppropriate as a description for microsoft. Although,
I would use the word, ``paleolithic.''
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
``This case serves as a dire warning to all burglars. Any citizen is
entitled to use reasonable force. A householder in his own home might
not be reasonable and that can have tragic consequences''
--- Mr Justice Owen at Tony Martin's murder trial as quoted by
http://www.norfolk-now.co.uk/
The ``From'' address is a valid e-mail address.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hoplite&submit=Look+it+up
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Subject: Re: Why isn't [X]Emacs a word processor?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 02:00:18 GMT
Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
So, for a program to be a true word processor by today's standards, it
must offer all the features of a text editor, WYSIWYG display, and any
other features of a document processing system all in one package?
Fair enough.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
``This case serves as a dire warning to all burglars. Any citizen is
entitled to use reasonable force. A householder in his own home might
not be reasonable and that can have tragic consequences''
--- Mr Justice Owen at Tony Martin's murder trial as quoted by
http://www.norfolk-now.co.uk/
The ``From'' address is a valid e-mail address.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hoplite&submit=Look+it+up
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