Linux-Misc Digest #184, Volume #25 Thu, 20 Jul 00 04:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: newbie question - Linux kernel (Richard Steiner)
Re: squid configuration (Shawn Smith)
Re: Another distro question... (Fester)
Re: printing differences (Grant Taylor)
Mandrake stuck in x terminal (user error probably)
Re: quotas file (brian moore)
Re: Mandrake stuck in x terminal (user error probably) (David Dorward)
Re: Help with cdrecord ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
cant get out of x term. in mandrake
Re: RedHat and /etc/issue.net (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Help with cdrecord ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Which distro for newbie? (Brett Castleberry)
Re: screensaver or similar generating problem (brian moore)
Re: Linux as PDC ("Sander E. Robijns")
Re: Linux, here i come - but one BIG problem stopping me (Dick Martin)
Re: Mandrake stuck in x terminal (user error probably)
Re: Linuxconf starts in character mode. (Kim Carter)
Re: Network is unreachable (Akira Yamanita)
Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition! ("Bruce Kennewell")
Re: fping (Villy Kruse)
Filesystem always reported as 100% full (Sam Jordan)
Re: <xvidtune> (Rasputin)
Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition! ("01111000")
Re: Mandrake stuck in x terminal (user error probably) (Rasputin)
Re: capture screen output during booting (Kevin Lacquement)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: newbie question - Linux kernel
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:51:27 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "dams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
> Is Lniux kernel based on BSD or SVR4?
Neither one. The Linux kernel was developed from scratch based on the
POSIX specs.
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
Everyone thinks I'm psychotic, except for my friends deep inside the Earth.
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From: Shawn Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: squid configuration
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:14:37 -0500
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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
I have to admit that I gave up trying to set up a proxy on Linux. I just don't
have the time right now (God knows I tried). So, I run windows "internetgate" w/
wine. It is a shareware proggie that is free for two computers.
--
All the best,
Shawn Smith !UNT Proud!
My Resume http://sites.netscape.net/shawnspad/shawn_smith_resume.htm
My freeware: http://sites.netscape.net/shawnspad
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fester)
Subject: Re: Another distro question...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 05:02:06 GMT
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:56:21 -0400, D F
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, I used WinLinux 200 for a time. It's a real Linux
>distro, except that it runs on a FAT partition. The only
>'advantage' I can see to it is that you don't have to
>partition you HD to make it run.
>
>I've heard others express the same opinion as you have, that
>it's like another Windows program, but I found this not to
>be the case. It's more like launching a DOS program from
>Windows. You have to restart in MS-DOS mode to run it,
>meaning you can't keep other Windows apps running or
>anything like that. I'm not sure about how the program is
>invoked, but I know the machine reboots into DOS before
>opening Linux. I tried WinLinux 2000 as a newbie but I also
It does it the same way the BeOS Personal does it. The icon you
double-click is a PIF file. One of the options of a PIF file is to force
windows into exiting to DOS before the file runs.
It can also specify a custom autoexec.bat and config.sys if it wants.
--
-- Fester
White Text on Black since 1999.
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printing differences
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 05:23:54 GMT
Maik unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I own a OKI 10ex laserprinter (HP Laserjet driver). if i use gimp to
> print a picture, it looks fine. if i use StarOffice 5.1 to print the
> same picture, it looks much more coarse and less sharp.
> StarOffice uses "lpr" to print, so i tried it manually to convert
> the picture to postscript and print it with lpr from a console. It
> also looked coarse.
> What does make gimp different (and better!) to convert a graphic to
> postscript??? How can i print with the same quality out of
> staroffice ?
Well, the Ghostscript ljet4 driver by default does rather poor
dithering, and does it rather coarsely. You can switch to the lj4dith
driver, which dithers better, and/or fiddle with Ghostscript's
DITHERPPI setting as documented in the gs file Use.htm.
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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]>
Subject: Mandrake stuck in x terminal (user error probably)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 05:30:07 GMT
I am stuck in x terminal on Mandrake. Just installed again, the gui
doesn't come up. Had it installed once and brought up Gui fine. Had to
reinstall because the boot partition corrupted. have my HD partitioned
with Partition magic. Have a boot mount (100 meg)(primary), a root mount
(/)(about 7 gig)(logical), and a swap partition (133 meg)(logical).
Anybody with any help will be greatly appreciated.
Jer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: quotas file
Date: 20 Jul 2000 05:39:05 GMT
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 02:35:49 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I enabled quota system on a mail server
> currently there are about 1500 mail users on the system
> everyone has 5MB mail quota on the file system /mail
>
> Now, what I don't understand is /mail/quotas is very large
> > ls -l /mail/quotas
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 3950617280 Jul 19 17:04 /mail/quotas
>
> /mail/quotas is large as 3.9G
> but /mail file system only has 4G
> > /usr/ucb/df
> /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s4 4129822 254529 3833995 7% /mail
> the usage is only 254MB
> Now I have 2 questions:
>
> 1) Why doesn't "df" command show the usage of /mail/quotas, is
> the quotas file really occupies the disk space?
It's a sparse file. df reports how much it uses. Try 'ls -s' to see
the allocated size.
> 2) If the quotas file really occupies very large disk space,
> is there any problem if I delete the file /mail/quotas manually?
Other than losing your quotas?
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Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
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Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake stuck in x terminal (user error probably)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 06:45:19 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am stuck in x terminal on Mandrake. Just installed again, the gui
> doesn't come up. Had it installed once and brought up Gui fine. Had to
> reinstall because the boot partition corrupted. have my HD partitioned
> with Partition magic. Have a boot mount (100 meg)(primary), a root mount
> (/)(about 7 gig)(logical), and a swap partition (133 meg)(logical).
> Anybody with any help will be greatly appreciated.
I think you mean you are stuck in console mode. An XTerminal is a
virtual console in a window on the GUI. To get to X from the console
type startx
--
David Dorward
http://www.dorward.co.uk/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help with cdrecord
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 06:02:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
so-shoot-me>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> You didn't say whether you were trying to create an audio cd or
> create a cdrom for data (like linux distributors send out.) Let's say
> you have some files you want to archive. They aren't enough to fill
up
> a whole CD and you hope to be able to add more files to the CD later,
> until it is filled up. In that case you want to create a multi-
session
> CD.
>
Your message is just what I've been looking for--an explanation of what
all these arcane looking commands actually do, and why I need them.
Thanks so much!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cant get out of x term. in mandrake
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 06:30:03 GMT
installed mandrake, cant get into KDE. Newbie here, anyhelp will be
greatly appreciated.
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Subject: Re: RedHat and /etc/issue.net
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 06:38:59 GMT
> Conway Yee wrote:
>
> It would appear that RedHat scripts are doing something
> rather annoying.
>
> I would like to CHANGE the greeting on the login prompt in telnet.
>
> This occurs in /etc/issue.net. I noticed, however, that my changes
> were NOT permanent. I think I have tracked the problem to the
> system changing it BACK to the RedHat default during bootup.
>
> Where is my RedHat 6.2 system committing this atrocity?
Check out /etc/rc.d/rc.local
If I have anything like this, I usually hunt it down by looking
for a relatively unique string (such as the RedHat release like
Apollo) and grep through the whole /etc dirtree.
cd /etc; grep -r Apolllo *
and this will spit out the files which have the Apollo string in it.
Vilmos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help with cdrecord
Date: 19 Jul 2000 23:46:23 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> so-shoot-me>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > You didn't say whether you were trying to create an audio cd or
> > create a cdrom for data (like linux distributors send out.) Let's say
> > you have some files you want to archive. They aren't enough to fill
> up
> > a whole CD and you hope to be able to add more files to the CD later,
> > until it is filled up. In that case you want to create a multi-
> session
> > CD.
> >
>
>
> Your message is just what I've been looking for--an explanation of what
> all these arcane looking commands actually do, and why I need them.
> Thanks so much!
You're welcome. There are times when I've asked for help on usenet
and gotten it from people who had struggled with the docs. There are
times when I struggled with the docs myself and finally got something
to work, like cdrecord, and am glad to save somebody else some grief.
The command lines I put in my post were basically cut and pasted from
a file I keep around. I cut and paste from that file myself when I
burn a CD just so I know I'm not leaving out an argument or making a
typo. I know there are tools like xcdroast, but once I got cdrecord
working and was comfortable with it, I never felt like experimenting
any further.
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From: Brett Castleberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which distro for newbie?
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 02:24:42 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark Sidarous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Path:
>
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>
>
> Never tried Linux before. Which distribution should I use?
>
>
>
> --Mark--
>
If you use what other people are using where you are, it might be easier
to get help. Here at Florida State the most popular distro is Mandrake,
which is based on Red Hat. Don't use Turbolinux, it has problems.
Slackware is better for experienced users. Caldera's version includes
Partition Magic, so that you can partition your hard drive as you install.
Otherwise you have to do that before you install. I like Red Hat. It's
got lots of support and I have been able to download the Gnome-Helix
desktop with no problems. But in our FSU Linux User Group Mandrake is
king. If you grab a copy of Maximum Linux magazine real quick, you can
get it for the price of the magazine.
Brett Castleberry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: screensaver or similar generating problem
Date: 20 Jul 2000 06:58:31 GMT
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:00:07 -0500,
Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok,
>
> This is the scenario. A Linux RedHat 6.1 running an application
> started from the inittab as with the command: xinit my_application
> I am not using a PC keyboard (actually there is no keyboard connected)
> After some minutes, the screen is switched off and there is no way to
> recover it (since I have no keyboard to "press any key").
> I am becoming crazy because I cannot find what is switching off the
> screen.
> Any ideas ?
>From 'man XF86Config':
BlankTime time
sets the inactivity timeout for the blanking phase
of the screensaver. time is in minutes, and the
default is 10. This is equivalent to the
Xserver's `-s' flag, and the value can be changed
at run-time with xset(1).
StandbyTime time
sets the inactivity timeout for the ``standby''
phase of DPMS mode. time is in minutes, the
default is 20, and it can be changed at run-time
with xset(1). This is only suitable for VESA DPMS
compatible monitors, and is only supported
currently by some Xservers. The "power_saver"
Option must be set for this to be enabled.
SuspendTime time
sets the inactivity timeout for the ``suspend''
phase of DPMS mode. time is in minutes, the
default is 30, and it can be changed at run-time
with xset(1). This is only suitable for VESA DPMS
compatible monitors, and is only supported
currently by some Xservers. The "power_saver"
Option must be set for this to be enabled.
OffTime time
sets the inactivity timeout for the ``off'' phase
of DPMS mode. time is in minutes, the default is
40, and it can be changed at run-time with
xset(1). This is only suitable for VESA DPMS
compatible monitors, and is only supported
currently by some Xservers. The "power_saver"
Option must be set for this to be enabled.
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From: "Sander E. Robijns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux as PDC
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:00:31 +0200
Mike, you already received this message directly, but I also wanted the
other readers to know...
Greetings,
Sander
---
Hi Mike,
Take a look below for a sample configuration file. This one I use at home,
and Linux/Samba is working as a PDC for my Windows 9x clients. Note however,
that PDC support for Windows NT (and 2000 I presume) is NOT supported yet by
Samba. This will be supported when version 2.1 comes out (currently I am
using 2.05a).
Most important settings for PDC are:
domain logons = Yes # pretty obvious
os level = 43 # higher priority that Windows NT
preferred master = Yes # master browser
domain master = Yes # obvious
And do not forget the [netlogon] share, it won't work without it. You may
share any directory you like, as long as the users are permitted to read
(and execute if you use logon scripts) from it.
Hope this helps, good luck,
Sander
---- snip ---
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from glengoyne.mckey.nl (192.168.115.2)
# Date: 2000/04/26 20:33:36
# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = HOME
netbios name = GLENMORANGIE
server string = Samba Server
encrypt passwords = Yes
log level = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
load printers = No
domain logons = Yes
os level = 43
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
comment = Linux Samba server for Windows clients
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
print ok = Yes
browseable = No
[netlogon]
comment = netlogon directory voor domain logons
path = /exports/samba/logon
browseable = No
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"Michael J. Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8l2pvk$8qq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Can anyone explain to me (or send me a smb.conf file) how to setup a Linux
> station as a PDC for Windows? Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dick Martin)
Subject: Re: Linux, here i come - but one BIG problem stopping me
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:21:17 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Lairo wrote:
> >...
> >when i ran partition magic, it gave the following error:
> >
> > Error #108: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
I got this message when I tried to do a partition with fdisk the first
time, I just figured that the size of the partition had to end on a
cylinder boundry so I used my pocket calculator to figure how big it
should be. I don't know much myself but it worked.
Dick Martin
> >
> >Any ideas on how i can fix this mess so i can create some partitions for
> >linux???
>
> I've not had good experience with Partition Magic 4.0. It doesn't like
> a lot of partition tables! And the manual says that if you have a
> partition table problem, just delete everything and start all over again.
>
> I have found that the Partition Magic (?) which is built in to
> the Caldera installer will deal with the same drive that their commercial
> version refuses to touch. So I just boot up the Caldera install CD,
> repartition (or resize, or whatever) and then I'm okay. One warning,
> I don't think the Caldera installer deals with relocating partitions
> like the commercial version does. When I've resized ext2 partitions,
> I've always done a backup, reformatted the partition, and restored.
>
> I don't know about PM 5.0 -- never saw it.
>
>
> --
> Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake stuck in x terminal (user error probably)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:30:03 GMT
I guess I didn't word that the way I meant. When i login to Linux, it
does go to a window on the gui called "X term". I do not know how to get
to the KDE from there. Even when I select KDE for session type at login.
Possible swap size problem?
Thank for the reply
Jer
David Dorward wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I am stuck in x terminal on Mandrake. Just installed again, the gui
> > doesn't come up. Had it installed once and brought up Gui fine. Had to
> > reinstall because the boot partition corrupted. have my HD partitioned
> > with Partition magic. Have a boot mount (100 meg)(primary), a root
mount
> > (/)(about 7 gig)(logical), and a swap partition (133 meg)(logical).
> > Anybody with any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> I think you mean you are stuck in console mode. An XTerminal is a
> virtual console in a window on the GUI. To get to X from the console
> type startx
>
>
> --
> David Dorward
> http://www.dorward.co.uk/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim Carter)
Subject: Re: Linuxconf starts in character mode.
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:58:22 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have exactly the same problem. I also run Mandrake 7.1 and no matter what
> I do, linuxconf does not want to start in X mode!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Alberto
> Oswald Knoppers wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Running Mandrake 7.1 and linuxconf will not start with its X GUI. In
>> this case I have telnetted to this system and set the DISPLAY variable
>> to my local system.
>>
>> Other X applications work fine this way.
>>
>> Any ideas on what to check?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Oswald
>
>
> --
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Don't know if there is another X based version but the RH one uses Gnome -
ie its gnome-linuxconf and is I believe RH specific ...
Another alternative is to run it via a web browser - look on on Deja for a
uk.comp.os.linux thread called 'Accessing linuxconf with a web browser'
late '98.
HTH
Kim
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network is unreachable
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:42:24 GMT
Tanner Slayton wrote:
>
> Tom Hoffmann wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:30:02 GMT, Tanner Slayton wrote:
> > >Hello,
> > > I am trying to get Caldera Open Linux 2.3 to work with my Windows NT
> > >Domain using Samba 2. I am getting an error "Network is Unreachable"
> when
> > >trying to join the domain.
> >
> > "Network unreachable" errors are usually indicative of a routing
> > problem. What does "netstat -rn" show?
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
> Iface
> 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0
> eth0
> 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0
> eth0
> 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
> eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
> lo
A netmask of 255.255.255.248 is pretty restrictive. That leaves
you with avilable 6 host IPs (8-2 for broadcast addresses).
Your network on eth0:0 only carries 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.6? Also,
that conflicts with the existing network of 10.0.0.0/16.
10.1.0.0/16 would be OK. So would 10.1.0.0/255.255.255.248 if
you want to keep that network tiny for some reason.
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From: "Bruce Kennewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,rec.autos.simulators
Subject: Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition!
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:40:52 +1000
No...he's one of a band of people who believe that Linux will one day become
the pre-eminent operating system.
They are a little like Mac owners: very, very devoted to their cause.
--
Regards,
Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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> Linux? Is he a member of Charles M. Schultz's Peanuts gang?
>
> Uwe Schuerkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > "Grand Prix Legends" by Papyrus (http://www.papy.com/) is arguably
> > the best windows-only racing simulation available to date. Even
> > though it is more than two years old no other racing simulation has
> > yet managed to match the depth of the car physics available with
> > GPL, or the pure excitement when racing human opponents over the
> > internet.
> >
> > Because of this a Linux port of "Grand Prix Legends" would add
> > greatly to the ever growing portfolio of Linux games; at its age it
> > should not be too hard to persuade Sierra / Papy into maybe handing
> > out the port to some third party like Lokisoft, maybe adding a
> > couple of features here and there in the process and releasing it as
> > GPLII.
> >
> > If you would like to see a great racing simulation for the Linux
> > platform please point your browser to
> >
> > http://www.schuerkamp.de/cgi-bin/sign.cgi?function=list
> >
> > and add your name to 300+ signers to date.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your time,
> >
> > Uwe
> >
> > --
> > Uwe Schuerkamp http://www.schuerkamp.de/
> > uwe.schuerkamp at telemedia.de for direct mail (from: is spambox)
> > PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: fping
Date: 20 Jul 2000 07:46:06 GMT
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 20:25:00 GMT, Bosco Tsang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to compile fping 2.2b1 on RedHat 6.1 but encoutered the following
>error. Anyone got any idea on solving this?
>
>--
>gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 fping.c
>fping.c:222: conflicting types for `sys_errlist'
>/usr/include/stdio.h:553: previous declaration of `sys_errlist'
>
Just remove the declation on line 222. IN a perfect worl every global
variable or procedure should only be declared in some included header;
expecially those provided by the system.
It is better, though, to use strerror to get the error string.
man strerror. Sometimes global variables that are not supposed to
be used by the public gets re-named without warning.
--
Villy
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From: Sam Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Filesystem always reported as 100% full
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:45:58 +0200
Hello
I'm using SUSE 6.4 and I'm having problems with one of my
filesystems. It's always 100% full (according to 'df'), regardless how
many files are deleted. I'm sure that this must be an error, but I
have absolutely no idea how to correct it. As far as I remember even
running 'fsck' did not change anything. I am slowly getting troubles
with different applications, for example some of my Java apps refuse
to write to files anymore. Here is the output of 'df':
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 3927769 3821206 0 100% /
/dev/hda1 7496 3019 4077 43% /boot
/dev/hdc 116654 116654 0 100% /cdrom
Thanks in advance for any ideas. If possible please include my
email address in the recipient-list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
bye
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Sam Jordan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: <xvidtune>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:55:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <N/A> wrote:
>i have trouble running 'xvidtune' for Corel Linux OS. i go to the 'run'
>command and run it but nothing happends, what am i doing wrong? i am
>trying to fix the overly large display. thank you.
Run it from a console; if it says 'command not found', install it..
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: "01111000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,rec.autos.simulators
Subject: Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition!
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:56:47 -0700
"G-Loc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Vdud5.6744$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Linux? Is he a member of Charles M. Schultz's Peanuts gang?
its linus' evil twin... bwah hah hah
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the agent of the X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: Mandrake stuck in x terminal (user error probably)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:02:28 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I guess I didn't word that the way I meant. When i login to Linux, it
>does go to a window on the gui called "X term". I do not know how to get
>to the KDE from there. Even when I select KDE for session type at login.
>Possible swap size problem?
Doubt it. So yuo are starting X OK, and trapped in an xterm?
What happens if you type kfm at the prompt?
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: Kevin Lacquement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: capture screen output during booting
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:04:16 GMT
WesRight wrote:
<SNIP>
> When the bootup is complete and you're sitting at the login prompt, hit
> the right <shift> and <pg-up> or <pg-down>. It must be the right shift
> key and then page-up or down will scroll all the way back to the beginning
> of the boot process.
>
I don't know if it's just my computer (Toshiba 300CDS laptop), but both
shifts work for me.
Cheers,
Kevin
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