Linux-Misc Digest #156, Volume #25 Mon, 17 Jul 00 08:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: vnc help Can't connect: errno = 111 (Steffen Kluge)
Monitor ("WantToKnowPlease")
Kernel panic with boot & rescue disk after kernel upgrade ("Billy A.")
NYC LOCAL: Monday 17 July 2000: Big Demonstration for Freedom and Property Rights
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Printing to Jetdirect (Villy Kruse)
Re: Regular Expressions.....HUH...!!! (Villy Kruse)
Re: How to setup dialup account in Corel Linux?? (James E. Paschal, Sr.)
Very slow Corel Linux OS Delux problem ("Boomer")
Deleted /var/spool/mail mailbox?! (Dave Breece)
Re: Deleted /var/spool/mail mailbox?! (Koos Pol)
Re: Telnet and Backspace Problem (Thomas Dickey)
Re: Monitor (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Wine in 256-color mode (Uwe Bonnes)
Re: non-X mpeg-player (Marc D. Williams)
squid configuration ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ACCESS WINDOWS FILES (Sid Thomas)
Re: programming tools and techniques (Dmitri V)
Re: squid configuration (CRAIG E RANSOM)
Re: mpeg capture from video capture card (Steve Martin)
Re: Kernel panic with boot & rescue disk after kernel upgrade (Dances With Crows)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: vnc help Can't connect: errno = 111
Date: 17 Jul 2000 06:18:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Xvnc is in the path.
...but is it in /usr/local/bin? The script you are using
complains that it isn't there, so maybe it's only looking there.
>> > When I run the server I get the following....
>> >
>> > sh: /usr/local/bin/Xvnc: No such file or directory
How do you start the server? Do you use vncserver?
Could the message be:
sh: /usr/local/bin/vncserver: No such file or directory
by any chance? In that case check the first line, the path to
perl may be incorrect.
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
--
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From: "WantToKnowPlease" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Monitor
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:40:39 GMT
Hello there
My monitor resolution is 640x480 and I want to change it to 800x600
or upper level.
xconf didn't work for me, neither editing XF86Config.
when I was installing (RedHat 6.1) I tested all screen resolution that are
greater than
640x480 they didn't work.!
Can anyone tell me what is going on please?
I am running Windows98 on the same machine and it works fine with all
resolutions
Thanks in advance.
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From: "Billy A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel panic with boot & rescue disk after kernel upgrade
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:22:21 +0300
Hi, everyone!
I have Red Hat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5) and I upgraded (compiled) my kernel
to 2.2.12. After that, I made a new boot disk with 'mkbootdisk 2.2.12'.
I type 'rescue' in the Lilo prompt after I boot with my new boot disk
and when it's time to remove the boot disk and insert the rescue disk,
I get the following errors:
request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted
request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: Cannot open root device 02:00
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
Did I forget to include something during the kernel upgrade?
Any help would be appreciated :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: NYC LOCAL: Monday 17 July 2000: Big Demonstration for Freedom and Property
Rights
Date: 17 Jul 2000 03:50:50 -0400
Sachems, grandmothers, and hackers of all ages have obtained a
New York City Official Media Event Permit to peacefully assemble for the
redress of wrongs.
Monday 17 July 2000
10:30 am to 5:00 pm
Court Yard of the Federal Court
500 Pearl Street
Why are we demonstrating?
Because the Motion Picture Association of America claims they have the
right to dictate what software runs on your computer in the privacy of your
own house. Precisely, the Motion Picture Association of America says that
it is illegal to use DeCSS, a free DVD movie player, to watch a movie on
your computer. Even if you bought and paid for all of the following:
1. the computer hardware
2. the computer software
3. the DVD disk
Indeed, the Motion Picture Association of America claims that if you
rendered sand to slightly impure silicon, wrote the program which compiles
to masks for your cpu, made the chip in your own factory, and assembled the
rest of the hardware out of parts which you bought and paid for, and then
wrote your own DVD movie viewer that runs on an OS coded by you, that you
have no right to use your system to view even a single DVD disk that you
own.
This is analogous to book publishers claiming that books can only be read
by light supplied by them, which light you must buy from a tight oligopoly,
at oligopoly prices.
The Free Software Movement and most of the rest of the world will put a
stop to such outrageous harassment of movie lovers. But without quick
action now, it may take us a few years to suppress the would be thugs of
the MPAA. We want the harassment to stop. And we will stop it as fast as
we can.
We need your help.
Come on down!
http://www.nylug.org
http://www.opendvd.org
http://www.2600.com
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/h2o/property/alternatives/nimmer.html
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0018/howe.shtml
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/billrights/billmain.html
http://dadadada.net/~billy
http://www.columbia.edu/~mlc67
Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
This announcement may be freely redistributed as long as it reproduced
without change. Post at will!
<personal>
PS: I've got a movie I want to show you.
</personal>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Printing to Jetdirect
Date: 17 Jul 2000 07:56:31 GMT
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:29:35 +0200, benno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 12 Jul 2000 07:27:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(Villy Kruse) wrote:
>>That would work, I've seen it work. The only problem is that you can't
>>query the print status, as by doing that the software will also query
>>the jetdirect box for its print status. If the box is busy it is not
>>able to respond to any status request on the lpd port. The lpd port
>>is 515/tcp aka. 'printer' according to /etc/services.
>
>That is because the printer can only handle 1 TCP connection at the
>time so if you are printing to the box it can't handle other TCP
>requests to query the status.
>
>I have had succes using LPRng (next generation) with the following
>optins. The jobs are spooled local on the Linux box.
>
># HP4000 Jetdirect printer at IP 192.168.0.101
>hp4000|hp400 jetdirect printer:\
> :lp=192.168.0.101%9100:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp4000:\
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/hp4000/log:\
> :sh:sf:mx#0:
>#
>
>p.s. don't forget to make spooldir /var/spool/lpd/hp4000 user lp:lp
>
>Benno
In the OP post there was a reference to Direct print via port 9100
which is supposed to be available with the redhat printer setup
program. The option is there all right, but the printer backend
I have not been able to find anywhere on the RH6.2 CD, and whithout
the proper backend you can't use port 9100.
Of course LPRng has this backend built in, and it also appears that
LPRng is a much better solution than the bad old lpd package.
The LPRng package is the standard printer daemon on several linux
distributions, so one might expect it will come to redhat somtime
too.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Regular Expressions.....HUH...!!!
Date: 17 Jul 2000 08:03:12 GMT
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:03:39 GMT, GDunne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You'll find a pretty thorough 'guide' in the Perl documentation...
>
>
Go to O'Reilly and look for "Mastering Regular Expressions".
It contains far more than you ever want to know, but it explains
the various flavours of regular expressions.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James E. Paschal, Sr.)
Subject: Re: How to setup dialup account in Corel Linux??
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:05:15 GMT
Yeah, you may be correct...however, coming from the "Old School", if
it's in their (Corel's) product/distro it's their problem too as far
as I'm concerned. If you are going to sell a product aimed at
inducing new users why ham-string them right out of the starting
block!!! It just doesn't make good business sense.
Ernie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 12:13:55 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>James E. Paschal, Sr. writes:
>> If all of Corels releases are like this none of them will work with the
>> first time use of KPPP.
>
>The bug is in kppp, not the options file.
>--
>John Hasler
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Dancing Horse Hill
>Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: "Boomer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Very slow Corel Linux OS Delux problem
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 04:06:27 -0700
I am running Corel Linux OS Delux.
Corel Linux is powered by Debian Linux distribution
and a set of complimentary tools & utilities from GNU.
Corel Linux OS works great, however it is very, very slow.
Is there some way to make Linux OS faster !!!
Is there some system delays that I can get rid off?
I have standard 150 MHz Pentium System,
with a 13 GB Western Digital drive Harddrive.
48 MB of RAM.
33K Robotics modem( Full modem - not winmodem)
Internet works great.
Thank You
Bob Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1821 Willoway Circle North
Columbus, Ohio 43220
Tel: 614-538-1597
FAX: 614-538-8187
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From: Dave Breece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deleted /var/spool/mail mailbox?!
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 01:10:00 -0700
At some point during the configuration of fetchmail (or possibly
sooner), my /var/spool/mail/ mailbox got deleted. /var/spool/mail/root
is still there, as is my roommates.
How do I go about re-creating a mailbox?
~~~
davebreece
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koos Pol)
Subject: Re: Deleted /var/spool/mail mailbox?!
Date: 17 Jul 2000 08:39:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 01:10:00 -0700, Dave Breece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| At some point during the configuration of fetchmail (or possibly
| sooner), my /var/spool/mail/ mailbox got deleted. /var/spool/mail/root
| is still there, as is my roommates.
|
| How do I go about re-creating a mailbox?
You don't need to. It will be instantiated automagically on receipt of mail.
Koos Pol
======================================================================
S.C. Pol - Systems Administrator - Compuware Europe B.V. - Amsterdam
T:+31 20 3116122 F:+31 20 3116200 E:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check my email address when you hit "Reply".
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From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet and Backspace Problem
Date: 17 Jul 2000 09:22:55 GMT
David Efflandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BSDi seems to automatically use the right character regardless of what it
> is (as do RH to Mandrake and Mandrake to RH). I wish I could figure out
> how to do that on Solaris so both RH and Mandrake xterm would work
> properly.
Perhaps BSDi is using the ptyInitialErase resource of XFree86 xterm as designed
(it could account for that). RH & clones are using translations to override
the settings, which doesn't really work well except as a compromise between
old/new versions of xterm.
--
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:17:52 +0000
WantToKnowPlease wrote:
> Hello there
> My monitor resolution is 640x480 and I want to change it to 800x600
> or upper level.
> xconf didn't work for me, neither editing XF86Config.
> when I was installing (RedHat 6.1) I tested all screen resolution that are
> greater than
> 640x480 they didn't work.!
> Can anyone tell me what is going on please?
> I am running Windows98 on the same machine and it works fine with all
> resolutions
> Thanks in advance.
Could you also inform us which server is installed. The very basic VGA server
defaoults to 640x480
minimum, maximum and average. The make of your video card and the amount of
memory on it would help us to give more accurate solution.
See ya.
Stanislaw.
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From: Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wine in 256-color mode
Date: 17 Jul 2000 10:06:40 GMT
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have some old Windows programs I'd like my daughter to be able
: to play under wine. They start OK, but hang because they only
: want to run in 256-color mode. Is there a way to tell wine to
: open specific programs in 256-color mode while leaving X in a
: higher color depth? I've been trying to get through to winehq to
: ask this but their site seems to be dead.
Open another X-Server in 8bpp mode, like
startx -- :1 -bpp8
and start wine there.
Recent wine versions should cope with other displays, but at the expense of
speed
Bye
--
Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
========= Tel. 06151 162516 ======== Fax. 06151 164321 ==========
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Subject: Re: non-X mpeg-player
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:15:38 GMT
On 13 Jul 2000 14:38:51 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all !
>
>Does anyone know if and where I can find a VGA-based mpeg-player
>(i.e. not requiring X) ?
>
The old mpeg_play is the only one I know of.
Just today I tried to get mpeg_vga (named as such as not to conflict with
the X version of mpeg_play) to play a couple of mpegs I downloaded but
it failed. The X version played the files okay.
It is pretty old though, from 1994 I think.
You might find an archive called mpeg-linux.bin.tar.gz. The binaries
in there are from 1993!
Get the source and try it out.
--
>>ANIME SENSHI<<
Marc D. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/8269/ -- Win3.x Makeover
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: squid configuration
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:07:21 GMT
Hello all
I have been using Microsoft Proxy server to connect my existing Lan to
Internet.
Now i want to switch to Linux. I tried squid to connect to internet,
but it is not working. I am using RH6.2
Where can i get a stuff on topics like " How to connect Network to
internet by using Linux proxies (Squid or apache etc.).I come across
various topics but all i found complex and confussing.
Can anyone suggest step-by-step methos availble on web.Thanks in advance
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:12:08 -0400
From: Sid Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ACCESS WINDOWS FILES
Daniel wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Im new with Linux so far i enjoy it.
>
> I know I cannot access Linux disk within Windfows but can I do the
> opposite, can I access my othe files within Linux?
>
> Thank in advance
Yes,
Fist type 'man mount'. Read and understand the following arguments,
then:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdxx /mnt/(dir of your choice)
...where hdxx is the designation of your windows drive.
Make sure you first create the directory where it will be mounted, this
is where you will find the files.
Good luck and enjoy,
Sid Thomas
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From: Dmitri V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.programming
Subject: Re: programming tools and techniques
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:36:10 +0000
Thank you, Andrew, that *was* an impressive exposition. I'll keep this
text for my future reference on how to write educational materials.
Dmitri
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: squid configuration
From: CRAIG E RANSOM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:50:00 EDT
In article <8kupd2$gbu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote:
> Can anyone suggest step-by-step methos availble on web.
>
I don't know about step-by-step, but there's a TON of info at:
http://www.squid-cache.com/
-- Craig (The Data Ferret)
http://www.pcferret.com/ for RARS, NetClip
Using Virtual Access 5.01 build 301 in Win98
"Do not meddle in the affairs of FERRETS..."
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: mpeg capture from video capture card
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:00:49 -0400
> > Do you know an existing program (with sources) wich capture video from a
> > video capture card (bt chips) and save it in mpeg or quicktime format.
> > Without using Xwindows.
> broadcast2000.
Broacast2000 *uses* X. Not what he asked for. Other than that, though,
it's a really neat program.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Kernel panic with boot & rescue disk after kernel upgrade
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:58:49 GMT
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:22:21 +0300, Billy A.
<<8kuc9p$edq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have Red Hat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5) and I upgraded (compiled) my kernel
>to 2.2.12. After that, I made a new boot disk with 'mkbootdisk 2.2.12'.
>I type 'rescue' in the Lilo prompt after I boot with my new boot disk
>and when it's time to remove the boot disk and insert the rescue disk,
>I get the following errors:
>request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted
>request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted
>VFS: Cannot open root device 02:00
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
>
>Did I forget to include something during the kernel upgrade?
>Any help would be appreciated :)
Compile floppy disk support into the kernel (NOT as a module) if you're
doing a 2-disk boot/root floppy rescue system. If you want a rescue
system and don't want a lot of hassle getting it to work properly, visit
http://www.toms.net/rb/ .
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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