Linux-Misc Digest #228, Volume #25 Mon, 24 Jul 00 16:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: apache autostart on boot? (Lorin Winchester)
Re: Configure error x... (Markus Kossmann)
Download rate diminishes ("L.M. Dizon")
Re: Sorry - smudgy display under X problem.. (Wally Brock)
Re: Favorites and Outlook address book migration from Windows to Linux (Andy Kinsey)
Re: Kernel & uname -a (-ljl-)
Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition! (brian moore)
Re: Sorry - smudgy display under X problem.. ("Alexander Valys")
Re: porn filter for linux (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Re: porn filter for linux (shane)
Any CD-ROM jukebox driver avalible for Linux? (Jack Zyphur)
Re: Sorry - smudgy display under X problem.. (Timo Kolwe)
Re: RealPlayer 7 and Netscape (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Re: Newbie: want to install Linux badly - but partitiong problems :( (John Hasler)
Re: 4410 Terminal emulation on Red Hat 6.2 (Thomas Dickey)
Re: Help! DNS-Problem! (Barry Margolin)
[ANN]Meet Dave Phillips, author of Linux, Music and Sound Chat on 7/24/00
(DavenotCCC)
Re: Burn Nero5 images under linux ?? (Timo Kolwe)
Re: DNS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: apache autostart on boot? ("Devon Harding")
Let's start up a Found (Juergen Sauer)
Tex Question (Dave Rolfe)
Automating Linux Driver/Module Compilation Using GNU Automake/Autoconf (Robert Young)
Re: How do I let non-root users use StarOffice 5.2? (Bill Unruh)
Re: How do I let non-root users use StarOffice 5.2? (Bill Unruh)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lorin Winchester)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: apache autostart on boot?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove .ORG)
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:38:27 -0500
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:25:41 -0400, Devon Harding
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do I get the source ver.(www.apache.org) of apache to autostart on
>boot-up on RHL6.2?
You want to start Apache each time you boot up, right? You need to do
'ntsysv' and select httpd. That will make the daemon start when Linux boots?
--
Registered Linux User 182034
12:33pm up 20:00, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Configure error x...
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:03:01 +0200
Daniel wrote:
>
> I'm a new user of Linux (Open Linux 2.4)
>
> I tried to install a files and when I make the ./configure I get this
> error message:
>
> checking for X... configure: error: Can't fing X includes. Please check
> your installation and add the correct path.
>
You didn't install XFree86-devel-3.3.6-3.i386.rpm
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "L.M. Dizon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Download rate diminishes
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:50:21 +0200
Any idea why when I download a file or surf the internet, the download rate
just goes keeps on diminishing until the modem "stalls"? I use an Optiflex
Speedcom 2000 56k modem and I get the following information when I use the
command setserial:
setserial /dev/ttyS0 -a
/dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8. IRQ: 4
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
Flages: spd_normal skip_test
I also found from a linux newbie website that you can speed tweak a modem by
changing parameters in the options file found in /etc/options. So I set the
MTU(Maximum Transmission Unit) to 1250 and the MRU(Maximum Recieve Unit) to
1500. I still haven't noticed any change however. What do I need to setup?
Lloyd Dizon
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From: Wally Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sorry - smudgy display under X problem..
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:59:58 GMT
I will assume that you are indeed using the appropriate Xserver (that
S3V as opposed to the regular S3 server). Second there should be a
readme file on your system:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.S3V or README.S3
which will contain information of several options you can use in your
XF86Config file. try:
Option "noaccel"
and see if that solves the problem. If it does then experiement with
several of the other options to see if you can optomize performance.
Good Luck,
Wally
Lew Trotski wrote:
>
> Sorry for the cross posting but this problem has become urgent - I have
> been trying to solve it for about 2 weeks now and it stops me from moving
> on to enjoying Linux..
>
> I have an S3 Virge DX/GX PCI video adapter with 2Mb video ram. I am using
> RH 6.2:
>
> here goes:
>
> 1) Under X whenever anything changes on the screen - it leaves a smudge of
> horizontal lines, rather like a batik pattern. If I move a window, it
> doesn't move, but is smudged or smeared leaving everything unreadable.
> Until something is moved, opened or closed, the display looks perfect,
> except for a vertical line in the right half of the screen.
>
> 2) If I disable my adapter in XF86Config and use the generic adapter I have
> no problems except that the display is, as you know, unusable because the
> resolution is too low and the screen can't contain everything.
>
> 3) My monitor is apparently quite rare - an Unisys SVG-201-COL. I
> discovered the H+V Syncs by checking my W95 setup (31-38.0, 60-87
> respectively - if anyone needs this info) but I don't know the video
> bandwidth..
>
> 4) I am sure it is something quite simple I have forgotten to do in
> XF86Config.. something to do with the S3 adapter..
>
> Can anyone Help? I've even started considering getting rid of Linux since I
> can't do a simple thing like getting a decent display!
>
> Connecting upto the Internet was easy in comparison..
>
> Thanks for your help :)
>
> Lew
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From: Andy Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Favorites and Outlook address book migration from Windows to Linux
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:10:29 -0400
Mike wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Kinsey):
> > "Prasanth A. Kumar" wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. Any idea if there is anything to convert the Outlook
> > address book?
>
> Not really a conversion, but it offers a couple suggestions.. [look at the
> bottom of page ]
>
> http://www.interguru.com/msieall.htm
> --
> Mike
Thanks for the web link. I found a solution. After installing Netscape for
Windows, I imported the Outlook address book to it. Then I exported the
Netscape address book to a .ldif file. After booting to Linux, I copied the
.ldif file to my home directory and imported the file into my Netscape address
book in Linux. Kinda convoluted, but it sure beats typing in all of those
entries...
Thanks for your help.
Andy
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel & uname -a
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:56:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Chris Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having some confusion about some information being reported by "uname -a". Or
>more
> specifically "uname -v" specifying the operating system version.
>
> Typically the format is:
>
> #x kerneltype Date Time
>
> something like: #1 SMP Tue Mar 7 21:01:40 EST 2000
>
> On some of my machines I get
> #2 SMP Date Time
>
> Can anyone tell me what the number is bofore SMP?
Think this is how many times that particular kernel's source was
compile. At least on my system is jives with:
cat /usr/src/linux/.version
3
uname -v
#3 Tue Apri 25 06:55:05 CDT 2000
I've done three compile with the source in question, therefore '.version'
got increment each time. Consult the kernel's Makefile.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition!
Date: 24 Jul 2000 18:15:28 GMT
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:20:19 +0200,
FDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > I have always
> > > been surprised to see my disk drives lights go wild for many
> > > minutes, while the console was terribly slowed down, when
> > > I was not doing anything special.
> >
> > That was because the computer was doing something special...
> > It's called a cron job... If you don't want it to do these housekeeping
> > things when you're using the machine, set the cron jobs for the middle of
> > the night.
>
> Interesting, but incidentally the crontab was _empty_ at that time :-(
> And, in fact, it was the middle of the night - 3 a.m., to be precise.
That still sounds like a cron job. Something like 'updatedb', most
likely. Check /etc/cron.d/daily.
> I guess the system was doing some garbage collection or something similar...
Nope. The kernel doesn't do that.
> Unless of course I was just being hacked at this very moment without knowing
> it (there was no one but me according to the "who" command, but the
> informations used by "who" can be altered somewhere, I guess (/var/wtmp ?) ?
Yes, and most exploits wouldn't show a login user anyway.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: "Alexander Valys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sorry - smudgy display under X problem..
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:20:00 GMT
Try XFree86 4.01.
"Lew Trotski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sorry for the cross posting but this problem has become urgent - I have
> been trying to solve it for about 2 weeks now and it stops me from moving
> on to enjoying Linux..
>
> I have an S3 Virge DX/GX PCI video adapter with 2Mb video ram. I am using
> RH 6.2:
>
> here goes:
>
> 1) Under X whenever anything changes on the screen - it leaves a smudge of
> horizontal lines, rather like a batik pattern. If I move a window, it
> doesn't move, but is smudged or smeared leaving everything unreadable.
> Until something is moved, opened or closed, the display looks perfect,
> except for a vertical line in the right half of the screen.
>
> 2) If I disable my adapter in XF86Config and use the generic adapter I
have
> no problems except that the display is, as you know, unusable because the
> resolution is too low and the screen can't contain everything.
>
> 3) My monitor is apparently quite rare - an Unisys SVG-201-COL. I
> discovered the H+V Syncs by checking my W95 setup (31-38.0, 60-87
> respectively - if anyone needs this info) but I don't know the video
> bandwidth..
>
> 4) I am sure it is something quite simple I have forgotten to do in
> XF86Config.. something to do with the S3 adapter..
>
> Can anyone Help? I've even started considering getting rid of Linux since
I
> can't do a simple thing like getting a decent display!
>
> Connecting upto the Internet was easy in comparison..
>
> Thanks for your help :)
>
> Lew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Subject: Re: porn filter for linux
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:07:44 GMT
You could look for a "clean" ISP. That's one option in my area.
Please post the results of your quest. Thanks...
In article <ikUe5.3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Mike Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is anybody awhere of any porn filter solution available for Linux ? (Man
> 7.1)
--
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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From: shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: porn filter for linux
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:23:39 -0400
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:51:10 GMT, "Mike Murphy"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is anybody awhere of any porn filter solution available for Linux ? (Man
>7.1)
>
You mean a porn-web filter? Look at squid. It's a httpd proxy.
You can filter/alienate domains with patern matching with it.
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From: Jack Zyphur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Any CD-ROM jukebox driver avalible for Linux?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:18:33 -0700
I found a broken NSM "mercury 40" SCSI jukebox surplus and have finally fixed it.
It has 4 SCSI drives, each appearing as a SCSI device (no LUNs) and holds 150
CDs. The CD loading mechanism is controlled by an RS-232 serial interface. I
have no manual for this thing and so, have no idea of the RS-232 command set.
I have the ability (though not yet the knowledge) to write a Linux driver if I can find
the command set (and the time). I would, however, prefer to just find the driver on
the net somewhere. If you know of software (or a method) I can use to get this
thing attached (preferably via my Linux server) to my network please help me out.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timo Kolwe)
Subject: Re: Sorry - smudgy display under X problem..
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:25:04 GMT
Hi again,
Now for something more constructive:
Have you been overclocking your vram (or whatever it has) ???
I had been.....Guess I roasted the vram with that ;-) (or the clock
chip??) Anyway I always experienced this in high resolution and
strangely only when moving the mouse (in Bryce; I guess Bryce had its
own graphics cursor, not the win hardware cursor)
Hope this leads you onto new ways ;-)
Timo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 7 and Netscape
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:56:59 -0500
The RealPlayer7 I installed had two scripts in the install directory:
mimeinstall.sh
pluginstall.sh
After I installed it, I ran the two scripts and Netscape understood
Realplayer links.
Wyatt.
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:21:35 -0230, Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>Does anyone know how to configure RealPlayer 7 for Netscape
>on Linux so that clicking on a file that requires RealPlayer
>will pop up the application? I tried adding the line:
>
>RealAudio: /usr/local/lRealPlayer7/realplay %s
>
>In my Netscape preferences and then restrted Netscape but it did
>not work for some reason.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Neil
>
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: want to install Linux badly - but partitiong problems :(
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:49:53 GMT
Peter Lairo writes:
> What should i do?
Install Lilo on the MBR of the Linux partition.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4410 Terminal emulation on Red Hat 6.2
Date: 24 Jul 2000 18:50:52 GMT
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:30:06 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>I am a beginning Linux user. I know just enough UNIX to be a little
>>dangerous. For the life of me I cannot seem to get a telnet session to
>>work between a Red Had 6.2 workstation and a proprietary piece of software
>>on a Lucent server. The application interface will only function
>>correctly with 4410 or 605 emulation. Help!
> telnet proprietary.lucent.server
> login:
> password:
> export TERM=att4410 (bash, use "setenv TERM att4410" for csh)
> (or)
> export TERM=att605
> ?
> Or alternatively, open an xterm like so:
> xterm -ls -tn att4410
> and the terminal type will be set automagically. HTH,
att 4410 and 605 are partly compatible with vt100, but there are a lot of
function keys (that could be done with xterm using resources), but also
programmable function keys (not done compatibly with xterm). If it's
really hardcoded, I would expect it uses that feature.
--
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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From: Barry Margolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help! DNS-Problem!
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:55:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steffen 'Mugge' Chmil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>The Problem:
>- [my computer] - resolves the ip's from [ns1]; name->ip is bad
>- [ns1] - forwarding questions to [ns2]; I have root account
>- [ns2] - forwarding questions to [ns3]; I have no account
>...
>- [nsx] - (forwarding questions to [nsx+1]/root-ns-requests); (!) hosts
>(unauthorized) bad dns-records (zone-files) from my domain
>...
>- [root-ns]; name->ip is o.k.
>
>The Question:
>I want to get name->ip - pairs from [ns1], [ns2], ... [nsx]
>(,...[root-ns])
>to see, which server is [nsx] (and hosts the bad records) to contact
>his adminstrator to solve this problem. Ist this possible/is there
>another way to fix this problem?
for server in ns1 ns2 ... nsx
do
dig name a @$server
done
--
Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Genuity, Burlington, MA
*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DavenotCCC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ANN]Meet Dave Phillips, author of Linux, Music and Sound Chat on 7/24/00
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:06:47 GMT
got this blurb thought some might be interested
>Monday, July 24th 7:00 pm pacific/10:00 pm eastern
>
>Join us as we take a hard look at recording, storing, playing, and
editing >music and sound under Linux.
>
>Just point your Java enabled browser to
>http://WWBChat.com/login/index.shtml
>and login if you have a screen name already or register for free.
Netscape 3.0+ >or IE with MRJ 2.1.1 recomended by the site
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timo Kolwe)
Subject: Re: Burn Nero5 images under linux ??
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:10:57 GMT
On 24 Jul 2000 17:41:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
wrote:
>cdrecord has no restrictions on the amount of data you can write to a
>CD. It will stop writing when the device returns the equivalent of
>ENOSPC, but that's it. The -audio option here is somewhat important, as
>a CDDA sector is 2352 bytes while a data CD sector is 2048 bytes
>(there's no error-correction information on an audio CD, so the sectors
>can hold more data.)
>Unfortunately, if the thing isn't separated into distinct tracks,
>writing like this will make the entire CD one huge track. There should
>be an option somewhere to tell cdrecord or cdrdao to insert track index
>numbers at specific times, but the cdrecord man page didn't say *how*
>one would do this. cdrdao probably has this option better-documented.
That's right, but then cdrecord treats the image as sounddata only.
But actually it is a *complete* image of an audio-cd (including all
header information and whatever is needed) So what I really need is a
program that writes the raw contents of my image to cdr. And no
program that attempts to write its own header/superblock/whatever-it
is-called. Anyway it didn't work:
[useless cdrecord ouput ;-)]
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
Cdrecord release 1.8a30 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
scsidev: '0,3,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0
atapi: 0
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities : RELADR SYNC LINKED
Vendor_info : 'TEAC '
Identifikation : 'CD-R56S '
Revision : '1.0N'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-R.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 1323008 = 1292 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
cdrecord: Bad audio track size 745761298 for track 01.
cdrecord: Audio tracks must be at least 705600 bytes and a multiple of
2352.
Greetings,
Timo
======================================
Timo Kolwe, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hint: Remove that 'annoying' part
======================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DNS
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:00:08 GMT
Bind is in fact running. I can ping host name after host name on the
outside, but nothing on the inside. Does masquerading interfere with DNS
at all? Is there somewhere to bind the local DNS to a specific NIC?
-Sam
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rob Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is bind running on the linux box? Are your dns servers on *all*
machines
> setup?
>
> Andrew Purugganan wrote:
> >
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > [ I recently got a DSL connection to the Internet (woo hoo!!!) and
> > [ immediately after the guy left after installing it on my Win98
box, I
> > [ pulled it and put it on my Linux Box (was RedHat, now's Mandrake
7.1).
> I
> > [ got IP Masquerading up and running fine and I can do all the net
stuff
> > [ from any of the four machines connected to the Linux machine. The
only
> > [ problem I've run into is with DNS. I had DNS working fine before
the
> DSL
> > [ stuff. I can ping the Linux machine via its IP address, but not
via its
> > [ name. Same with all the other machines on the network. This is
keeping
> > [ Samba from running correctly. My question is this. Is there a
clear-cut
> > [ guide to setting this up in plain elglish? The ADSL connection is
on
> > [ ETH0 and the internal connection is ETH1. Any help would be
greatly
> > [ appreciated.
> >
> > normally the file /etc/hosts should have the (internal) IP, the FQDN
> > fully qualified domain name and the short name equivalent of each.
> > --
> > jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
> > Registered linux user no. 164098
> > Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
> > --- OUT THERE??
>
> --
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>
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Before you buy.
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From: "Devon Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: apache autostart on boot?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:28:03 -0400
httpd isn't listed because it's not an rpm. It was install from source via
'./configure,make,make install'
-Devon
"Lorin Winchester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:juuhl8.um5.ln@stickboy...
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:25:41 -0400, Devon Harding
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >How do I get the source ver.(www.apache.org) of apache to autostart on
> >boot-up on RHL6.2?
>
> You want to start Apache each time you boot up, right? You need to do
> 'ntsysv' and select httpd. That will make the daemon start when Linux
boots?
>
> --
> Registered Linux User 182034
> 12:33pm up 20:00, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
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From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Let's start up a Found
Date: 24 Jul 2000 18:34:43 GMT
Hey World,
Let's start up a found to collect the money for big
Law Suites against Microsoft Monopoly playing Hardware
manufacturers.
In most cases the support for Linux is not done by the hardware
manufacturers, no those companies only deliver drivers and support
only for their products in the MS Windows Lines.
This is using the MS Monopoly and acts against the costumer interests,
so this status acts against me, you, and mostly all of those who read this.
If I understood the Microsoft act right, the major point was Microsoft used out
their monopoly against the customers.
The same argument hits against manufacturers, who only delivers Microsoft
compilant drivers.
For example: GDI Printers from Canon, Lexmark, HP,
Winmodems, ISDN Cards, Networkcards, Webcams, Joysticks and many others.
Facit: This Hits all of us.
Let's search for a strong Lawyer firm, open up a Found to do civil acts against
those Hardware companies, who do not support dan deliver Linux Driver Modules.
To deliver Driver modules would so easy, just put the few kilobytes of binary
modules onto the Website, write a INSTALL doc and setup the knowledge
for the callcenters... and all will be happy.
For example: Graphics, with OpenGL Hardware could be offered as Binary
Module Kit for XFree 4.x.y without giving any source away.
For Example: Modem, Winmodem: offer a binary Module, which gives us a
Serial port emulator i.e. /dev/ttyWinModem0 to use...
For Example: Printer, any PRINTER may be supported with a small binary
module for Ghostscript and a PostScript PPD, this module must only
be able to translate the GS binary raster to the printer.
For example: any other Hardware may be represented by a simple
module.
So, today it is much cheaper to ignore the Linuxers.
Such a Foundation like I suggest my stop this. Answer any company on the
world which only supports Windows (Acer, Winmodems, ATI, DVD Player companies,
and many other) with a expensive LawSuite, according to the Lawsuite against
Microsoft.
Let's make it VERY expensive to the companies only to support Microsoft OSs.
The target is to get our favorite Hardware Supported.
I will personally donate the first US $1000, if this idea comes true.
Think about - And write your Ideas down in this Forum!
mfG
J. Sauer
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From: Dave Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tex Question
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:56:31 -0400
I searched the news groups and could not find one that has Tex or LaTex
in its name so I thought I would try this news group. I need to create a
document with line numbers sort of like this:
1 Blah blah
etc
etc
etc
5 Blah Blah
The key here is line numbers in the left margin every 5 lines so that
folks can refer to line number 45 and everyone knows what that is. I
have poked around in the LaTex and Tex docs and do not see how to do
this. So can someone provide me with the right incantation that will
accomplish this? Or better yet, does any one have a patent application
style defined that I could use??
Thanks, Dave
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From: Robert Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Automating Linux Driver/Module Compilation Using GNU Automake/Autoconf
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:00:22 -0400
Hi,
Does anyone know how to write the GNU automake (Makefile.am) script to just
compile a source code (C programs) as a linux driver/module? Here is the
scenario:
I have created several files, i.e. file1.c, file2.c, file.h. These files
when
get compiled will produce a Linux driver for some I/O devices. So far, I
have
the configure.in made from issuing the "autoscan". I also have created the
Makefile.am which consists of the following lines:
bin_PROGRAMS = file
file_SOURCES = file1.c file2.c file.h
I also have executed "aclocal; automake; autoconf" to generate the
configuration files, Makefile.in, and Makefile. When I typed "make", it
compiled file1.c, file2.c, and created the "file" program. What I want is
to
create a driver/module "file.o" for Linux kernel. Does anyone have any idea
what I should include in the Makefile.am to tell the GNU automake and
autoconf
just to compile and create a driver/module for Linux kernel?
TIA.
--
Robert Young,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,alt.os.linux.cadera
Subject: Re: How do I let non-root users use StarOffice 5.2?
Date: 24 Jul 2000 20:02:33 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patrick Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
You must read the readme.
Youmust install SOffice (SO) as root, with the -net option.
This installs the 200 or so MB of stuff whereever you tell it to.
Then you must make sure that it is readable by all
chmod -R a+rX staroffice-directory
Then each user must run staroffice-directory/program/setup
to install about 2MB of files in thier own directory.
If you did not use the -net option, you must erase it all, and reinstall
as root with the -net option. Optionally you can have each user install
all 250MB of stuff into their own directory.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: How do I let non-root users use StarOffice 5.2?
Date: 24 Jul 2000 20:04:19 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patrick Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Actually, I did read the README that came with the installation. I couldn't
>find anything at all. The closest thing I found from Sun's site is to start
>the installation with ./setup /net (then run the setup on each user's
>login) which is what I have done. That doesn't seem to work. Can you give
>me a little more details?
It does not. You must use -net rather than /net on a unix system.
(Not setup, you have to run that awful ....bin program which you
downloaded with the -net option for SO 5.2)
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