Linux-Misc Digest #233, Volume #25 Tue, 25 Jul 00 04:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: debian and new software ergh! (John Hasler)
Re: porting from libc5 & ncurses (John Hasler)
How do I change Resolution? ("Lamar Thomas")
Re: hdparm help please - Invalid argument?? (David Efflandt)
Re: Sorry - smudgy display under X problem.. (michael james obrien)
Re: porn filter for linux (Grant Edwards)
Re: UPS with serial port (Alex)
Re: ontrack ddo; windows doesn't see my files (Oktay Altunergil)
ports in use ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: smc driver related question (Dave Brown)
Re: How do I change Resolution? (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Re: porn filter for linux (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Re: ports in use ("Simon")
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (raf)
Re: Startup questions (Lew Pitcher)
How to uninstall Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 (wksl)
UUCP over TCP/IP (J Garcia)
Re: How to uninstall Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 ("David ..")
Re: UPS with serial port ("Tony Newman")
Re: Can not log in using FTP ("Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]")
Re: ports in use (Fester)
[?]error building cross-gcc for mips (jauming)
enter www from behind firewall (Nicolette de Bruijn)
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: debian and new software ergh!
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 03:13:07 GMT
Paul writes:
> I tried this but ergh, it still didn't work. I got a ton of errors after
> it downloaded about /mnt/cdrom1 for some reason? I have no clue why.
Because you don't have your Corel CD in the drive.
> Should the deb http:// line be the only one without a pound sign in front
> of it for the sources.list file?
That would be the simplest solution. Putting your Corel CD in the drive
should also work. You've probably already got everything you want off the
CD, though.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: porting from libc5 & ncurses
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 03:20:11 GMT
Kevin E Cosgrove writes:
> Has anyone ported the curses based spreadsheet "sc" to glibc-2.x and a
> modern version of ncurses?
Yes. Debian includes it. www.debian.org.
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John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I change Resolution?
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 04:26:31 GMT
How do I change Resolution?
I am running Red Hat Linux 6.2 with everything installed. My Resolution is
set to 1024x768 and I would like to change it to 800x600. Thanks for your
help.
Lamar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: hdparm help please - Invalid argument??
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 04:29:25 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:34:37 GMT, Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm having trouble getting hdparm (3.6-4) to work on RedHat 6.2 with a
>home built 2.2.15 kernel. I have two IDE hard drives the smaller a
>Maxtor 4.3, with linux hdb9, etc.; and the larger a Western Digital
>WD68AA- with Windows, hda1, etc.
>Starting with the -i option:
>
># hdparm -i /dev/hda1
>/dev/hda1:
> HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Invalid argument
># hdparm -i /dev/hdb9
>/dev/hdb9:
> HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Invalid argument
hdparm is for DRIVES not partitions. Try using /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
with no numbers on the end.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (michael james obrien)
Subject: Re: Sorry - smudgy display under X problem..
Date: 25 Jul 2000 04:31:18 GMT
Lew,
Im using the S3 Virge with 4 Mb ram (an STB Nitro3D card). I find it to
be a terrific chipset and i have had no problems. I have used the svga
server, not the special s3v xserver.
Try setting up X by using xf86config or XF86Setup. Choose the SVGA
X server, and manually specify your monitor with the sync frequencies you
mention before.
You may also want to look at the documentation on S3virge at
www.xfree86.org.
If you still have problems, email me and I'll send you a copy of my
XF86Config file.
-Michael
Lew Trotski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: porn filter for linux
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 04:41:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew N.
McGuire wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Mike Murphy quoth:
>
>][ Is anybody awhere of any porn filter solution available for Linux ? (Man
>][ 7.1)
>
>To block it or find it? ;^)
Ah. Now I see. Either one of those sounds possible. I thought he wanted a
program to sort through porn and filter out only the ones he would like and
discard the rest. Now _that_ there's a PhD topic!
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Did you find a
at DIGITAL WATCH in YOUR box
visi.com of VELVEETA??
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: UPS with serial port
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:45:08 -0400
Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> >Is there a UPS Linux compatibility list somewhere?
>
> PowerChute software from APC works under Linux. From my observations, it
> can function on an equal par with the Win'** version; including all
> shutdowns, scheduled tasks, and self-tests.
>
I have just check out the apc's web site. They do have PowerChute software (for
Linux) for download. I just got myself a BACK UPS 500 MC few days ago... I will
try the software after I got the cable... Hopt it is not too hard to configure
(with RPM for RedHat6.1).
Alex.
>
> --
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
> Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test4
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From: Oktay Altunergil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ontrack ddo; windows doesn't see my files
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 05:30:03 GMT
Akira Yamanita wrote:
> Can you boot into Windows now though?
no I can not boot into Windows. I was able to boot into linux and access
the windows partition before, but now I can't do that. The partition won't
boot. I believe this is because OnTrack offset my drive with 63 sectors and
Linux is looking at the wrong place.
>Overlay software does with
> software what the BIOS does with LBA. Windows needs the overlay
> software to work with a large drive if the BIOS doesn't support
> LBA. Linux should work with or without it but it might depend on
> whether you booted with the overlay software (there's usually an
> option to boot to a floppy) or not when you installed Linux.
linux was installed before I had the large HD. There's nothing on the large
HD, it was supposed to be secondary.
> (Sorry if you already know this.)
>
> Try upgrading the overlay software. There's usually an uninstall
> option too which may help.
Software tells me there's nothing to Uninstall there.
Anybody know how I can mount that partition with a 63 sectors offset??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ports in use
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 05:25:43 GMT
How can i come to know wheather a perticular port(tcp/ip network) is
free. If it is in use which process/daemon is using it.
Thanks in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: smc driver related question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Jul 2000 00:38:46 -0500
In article <8lhqia$shu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Cohen wrote:
>I got smc-ultra.c for my smc ether card. But this file refers to
>another file called "8390.h", which i can't find anywhere.
>
>does ne1 know where to get this file or how to get the device installed
>properly. thanks for any info.
So you've got to compile the driver? Interesting. The 8390 code is
support code for "ne"-type NICs. You probably already have a compiled
module for it on your system. The header file (8390.h) is actually
in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net, assuming you have kernel sources, or
at least kernel headers installed.
Armed with this knowledge, I'm not sure what I'd do next. I hope you
have instructions from SMC.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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Subject: Re: How do I change Resolution?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 06:03:49 GMT
"Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I change Resolution?
>
> I am running Red Hat Linux 6.2 with everything installed. My Resolution is
> set to 1024x768 and I would like to change it to 800x600. Thanks for your
> help.
Given that you installed X with support for 800x600 you can do:
CTRL+ALT+grey +/- to circle through your resolutions. If you
permenantly want to use 800x600 you change that in your X config file
(mine is /etc/X11/XF86Config)
in the Screen section change (something like):
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
to (something like) so that your default value is the first one:
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "800x600" "640x480" "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
IF I remember correctly.
M.
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Subject: Re: porn filter for linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 06:03:51 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew N.
>McGuire wrote:
> >On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Mike Murphy quoth:
> >
> >][ Is anybody awhere of any porn filter solution available for Linux ? (Man
> >][ 7.1)
> >
> >To block it or find it? ;^)
>
> Ah. Now I see. Either one of those sounds possible. I thought he wanted a
> program to sort through porn and filter out only the ones he would like and
> discard the rest. Now _that_ there's a PhD topic!
Now, seriously - that is really an interesting question.
It would indicate that Linux is changing. Is going mainstream.
Think about it, NetNanny for Linux! Porting censorware into censorware
hell .... :-)
M.
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From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ports in use
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 07:01:39 +0100
netstat -ta
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8lj8ck$ubn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> How can i come to know wheather a perticular port(tcp/ip network) is
> free. If it is in use which process/daemon is using it.
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (raf)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.lang.oberon,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.mach,comp.os.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.psion.misc
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 06:15:41 GMT
Piers B. wrote:
>What does your grandmother do with her computer??????????/
>
I don't know about his grandmother, but I loaded Gobe Productive into my
grandmother's 4.5.2 and she's off writing her life stories complete with
pictures from 1922. Wait till she discovers the internet.
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Startup questions
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:27:12 -0400
Micromans wrote:
>
> 1) I have Linux RedHat 6.0. I am using /etc/rc.d/rc.local to put startup
> programs. I want a pause in the script because I first connect to my ISP via
> PPPD, then I want to wait about 15 seconds for the connection to be made,
> and after that I want my squid caching-proxy server to start. How can I put
> a 15 second pause in the script?
sleep 15
But this is probably not the best way to start ppp-dependant
processes.
Instead, put your squid startup in the /etc/ppp/ip-up script (You can
put the corresponding shutdown in /etc/ppp/ip-down). /etc/ppp/ip-up is
executed by the ppp daemon once the IP connection has been established
between your system and the remote system, making it ideal for
performing IP-dependant startups.
> 2) What kind of script is rc.local? Is there a name for it?
A "start up" script, perhaps?
> 3) What does the following code mean, and can someone suggest a reference
> for this kind of script?
>
> ie: if [ -f /usr/local/squid/bin/squid ] ; then
> echo -n 'Squid'
> (/usr/local/squid/bin/squid &)
> fi
In english.....
if the file "/usr/loca/squid/bin/squid" exists, then
echo the text "Squid" to the console, without a newline, and
run the program /usr/local/squid/bin/squid in background
end-if
man sh -.
man bash |- for scripting language builtins like if, then, fi, &
man ash -'
man test (for the '[' command)
man echo (for the echo command)
man squid (for the squid command)
etc...
> Thanks
> Micromans
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: wksl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to uninstall Caldera OpenLinux 2.2
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 06:30:12 GMT
I need help. After setup Open Linux I can't uninstall it, if I use Dos
6.22 to format my harddisk and then I tried to reinstall back my Open
Linux 2.2 , it will boot for the first time but if I shut down the PC and
tried to boot up my PC and run OpenLinux then this time it will not boot
up it will show a lot of
010101010100101110101010101010101010101001010101010101101010101101010100110
101010101010101101010110101011010101010110101010100101010101010101010101010
110101010101010010110101010101101001010101010101010101010110101010101010101
So what shell I do now?
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:51:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: J Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UUCP over TCP/IP
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.uucp
I am looking for (preferably free) providers of UUCP
over TCP/IP for email (and news?). I searched the net
but could not find any; would like any help. Thanks
for responding.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to uninstall Caldera OpenLinux 2.2
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 01:48:51 -0500
wksl wrote:
>
> I need help. After setup Open Linux I can't uninstall it, if I use Dos
> 6.22 to format my harddisk and then I tried to reinstall back my Open
> Linux 2.2 , it will boot for the first time but if I shut down the PC and
> tried to boot up my PC and run OpenLinux then this time it will not boot
> up it will show a lot of
> 010101010100101110101010101010101010101001010101010101101010101101010100110
> 101010101010101101010110101011010101010110101010100101010101010101010101010
> 110101010101010010110101010101101001010101010101010101010110101010101010101
>
> So what shell I do now?
Boot with a DOS or windoz boot disk and at the A: prompt enter "fdisk
/MBR" and then reboot. That will remove lilo from the master boot record
and put it back to a DOS style MBR.
--
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From: "Tony Newman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: UPS with serial port
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:18:40 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-To: "Tony Newman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 24 Jul 2000 20:43:01 -0400, David C. wrote:
>David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) writes:
>>> David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for recomendations for UPSs that Linux can work with to
>>>> do a proper shutdown. Does Tripplite support Linux? I've been told
>>>> to avoid APC because it only puts out 90v on battery. I don't want
>>>> to waste my power supply.
>>>
>>> Please post a source for this crazy notion that APC's UPSs cut your
>>> voltage by 25% when on battery.
>>
>> A friend of mine used APCs and noticed problems when they switched
>> over. He measured the voltage output at only 90v.
>
>Then he's got a broken UPS. Or his batteries need replacing. I can
>assure you that mine (a BackUPS Pro 1400 and a cheap BackUPS 300) don't
>do this.
>
< the rest of the replies snipped >
One thing to watch out for is the waveshape of the power comming from
the UPS (while on battery). If it isn't a pretty good sine wave, it
can fool some meters into reading an incorrect voltage. I suspect you
are more apt to see this on the lower-end devices (both low-end UPS's
and low end meters).
My experience with APC devices has been very good. The only way I can
tell there has been a power problem while I was out of the room is an
entry in the PowerChute log. This is with a pair of SmartUPs 1400's,
supporting two 233MHz AMD K6 boxes, a 400MHz K6, a 700MHz Athlon, an
SB-180 CP/M box, and other minor stuff.
If I can remember to do so, I'll hang an oscillicope across an old
BackUps 400 at work and see what happens.
--
Tony Newman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Springfield, Oregon, USA
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From: "Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Can not log in using FTP
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:10:34 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I can log in with telnet to my machine, but not with ftp, anybody
> knows how ???
>
> ftp> open mato.demon.nl
> Connected to mato.demon.nl.
> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> ftp>
Hi,
This is a clue... It would seem that when you install a RedHat
Workstation some server applications do not get installed and the ftp
server is one of them. That said I did a 'custom' installation of RH6.1
and didn't get the server either - Ho-Hum.
Your config files are correct, check to see if the ftp server package is
installed (rpm -q wu-ftpd). If not then install it from the CD or get it
from Rufus (http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM).
If you want root ftp access and can live with the security implications
then remove the root entry from /etc/ftpusers
HTH
Regards
Phil Q
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fester)
Subject: Re: ports in use
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 07:47:52 GMT
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 05:25:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can i come to know wheather a perticular port(tcp/ip network) is
>free. If it is in use which process/daemon is using it.
>Thanks in advance
as root:
fuser -n <tcp/udp> <portnum>
will return the PID of the process that is using that port. For example,
$ fuser -n tcp 23
would return the pid of my telnet daemon
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by using 'one', 'thus', or 'hence'."
-Tomo
"Thus, one is inclined to laugh at
anything Tomo says hence." -Dexter
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From: jauming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [?]error building cross-gcc for mips
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 07:38:09 GMT
[?]error building cross-gcc for mips
how to fix the following error? (thx in advanced!:)
xgcc: installation problem, cannot exec `mips-tfile': No such file or
directory
make[1]: *** [libgcc1-asm.a] Error 1
make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicolette de Bruijn)
Subject: enter www from behind firewall
Date: 25 Jul 2000 07:47:09 GMT
At the company where I work my computer is behind
a firewall. Under Windows it is possible for me
to enter the World Wide Web, but when I try to
run Netscape under Linux and do the same I get stuck.
The same happens when I try to ftp. How can I solve
this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Nicolette
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