Linux-Misc Digest #323, Volume #25 Wed, 2 Aug 00 22:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Can't start GNOME as root ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DNS (Akira Yamanita)
3D Hardware Acceleration Not Working for One User (Kevin Brown)
boot disk question ("none")
Re: Oh no! (John Hasler)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (John Hasler)
Re: Changing LILO in Mandrake? (Andres Soolo)
Re: the psychology of linux and the hacker ethos (Mary P)
Re: fetchmail: domain name must exist?! (David Rysdam)
Re: boot disk question (Dances With Crows)
Re: Switching to 40-characters video mode under Linux (character based) (Vladimir
Florinski)
X 4.0.1 and /etc/termcap ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cron behaves differently on Sundays? ("OzEmail News Server")
Re: Best Quality Encoder for Linux. ("OzEmail News Server")
Re: Netscape Mail Problem (Michel Catudal)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't start GNOME as root
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:03:11 GMT
Ohh yaehh - that fixed the problem!
I was about to go crazy!
Thanks a lot!!
In article <8m9rne$6d8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Lurch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello,
>
> do you have a file called .XClients in your homedirectory as root? if
so,
> delete it.
>
> hope this helped...
>
> Lurch
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8m9dmj$sss$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hello
> >
> > I can't start GNOME when loged in as root. startx executes KDE.
> > I tryed to change to GNOME with Desktop Switching Tool, but when
startx
> > is executed KDE start up??
> >
> > Only got the problem when loged in as root.
> >
> > Jimmi
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
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Before you buy.
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:10:26 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> No settings have been changed (except in an attempt to get it working).
> Killing Samba and restarting it doesn't help. Rebooting the workstations
> doesn't work. I even went back to a standard smb.conf file and started
> over.
Post the [global] section of /etc/smb.conf.
Also try "nmblookup -M -" and post the output.
Stop Samba and shut down the Win9x machines. After every single
one is down, bring them back up. They should be able to recognize
each-other by their names. If not, there's another problem. (Be
sure to bring them up and test them one at a time.)
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From: Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.sys.sgi.graphics
Subject: 3D Hardware Acceleration Not Working for One User
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:15:42 GMT
I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 with an NVidia GeForce 256 DDR with
XFree86 4.0 using the 0.92 NVidia kernel. I am running a 3D visualizer
that uses SGI Performer 2.3.1 as the 3D engine. Up until a few days
ago, everything worked fine with every user, but then the username i use
most often stopped running OpenGL acceleration with both my app that
uses performer and perfly, the SGI OpenFlight model viewer. They now
run using Mesa Software accel, and look like crap. Every other user on
the system, plus root, all work fine with both perfly and my app, they
look awesome. Performer spits out something about using OpenGL 1.2.0
when its workin right, but it says something like OpenGL Mesa 1.2.0 when
the acceleration doesn't work right.
I don't have any programs that run native OpenGL without performer, so
I'm not quite sure if its performer or the NVidia drivers that are
broken.
Does anyone know why acceleration would stop all the sudden for just one
user, and keep workin for everyone else?
Thanks,
Kevin Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "none" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot disk question
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:18:21 -0700
Hello,
I have searched quite a bit and can't seem to find a good solution to this
problem. I want to create a basic floppy disk with a minimal kernel and
root system. The only thing I want to do is boot the system from the floppy
and run a very small program, I don't need net access or even hard drive
access. Anyone know of a good source of information on doing this? I
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Oh no!
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 23:14:48 GMT
blowfish writes:
> Unless you're using one of the *BSD, and install from their "ports"
> system (which will fetch the main source, all dependency files' sources,
> MD5 checked them, patch the necessary patches, then, configure, make and
> install everything right inside your very own machine, in front of your
> eyes, and ask you what to do if there's more than one option to be
> decided. And will tell you in detail and how to correct the problem if it
> (hardly ever, but outside servers serving some of the files can be
> unreachable from time to time.) fails.
Or you are using Debian and use apt, which will do pretty much the same
thing with binaries from the Debian archive.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 23:04:19 GMT
blowfish writes:
> I did have many of my work copyrighted (not computer related, but in
> arts.)
No. You have _all_ of your works copyrighted. Copyright is automatic.
Go study up a bit on copyright.
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John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Andres Soolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Changing LILO in Mandrake?
Date: 3 Aug 2000 00:27:55 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Tim Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...accept UNIX like dum abbriviations and call it LILO.CONF.
lilo.conf , not LILO.CONF . The spelling is not the only thing
that matters.
By the way, if you don't like abbreviating then why don't you
try to write `GNU/Linux' without abbreviating as a little home
assignment? :-)
--
Andres Soolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it
from charity, or revenge?
-- Gustave Vapereau
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mary P)
Subject: Re: the psychology of linux and the hacker ethos
Date: 3 Aug 2000 00:40:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>shawn wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>
... well Im
>>having trouble with my whole learning
>>process. I possess no great love of an
operating system that crashes
>>frequently . . .
Hi shawn,
First of all, trying to get away from Windows is a negative
goal, sensible though it might be. It might help to add a
positive goal -- e.g. learning something
new and cool, challenging yourself, curiosity about computing,
puzzle-solving, whatever.
>>..I've tried to learn c, c++, perl,
>>python, even HTML causes me to stumble and turn into a vegetable...
>>these things seem to me like lack of motivation,
or laziness, or perhaps
>>im am just not at the right age to start cramming
all of these things
>>into my cranium.
Don't use age for an excuse. I am 53, and my computing background
is limited to Macs (little or nothing to do with
real computing) and some time in Windows offices.
I will never become a master hacker, but
I have a good mind and I like figuring things out, which
is all it takes to begin. (my next project will be
perl, BTW - I found the entire development kit with the CD
and all documentation, still shrink-wrapped, at St. Vincent's
last week for $2.50 tee hee)
I suggest you find out about your own
learning style and build on your strengths. Are you best in the
mornings, or at night? Do you learn
best from books, from having somebody show you, or what? Take
a class if you are no good at motivating yourself when alone.
Find a person to work with, maybe a neighbor kid who can help you.
Classes drive me crazy, but many people need the social interaction
and structure.
Define what else is stopping you. If you are afraid of messing
up your computer, get an old one to play with. If you have an
uncomfortable workspace, fix it. If you like games, use
game-related projects for motivation. If big projects stop you,
start on littler ones like customizing your shell prompt.
Create
a context for your learning: if sitting
down to memorize html is torture,
making a web page about your favorite subject might be a better
way to learn the same material. In other words,
start with a quest or problem
and use Linux as a tool to work on it.
And if you have always hated sit-down work, don't have the
patience to read a few pages in a magazine, and details annoy
you to death, maybe this isn't your best use of your valuable
time. Everyone finds something they're no good at. So what.
MP
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while they're eating a sandwich, then they're eating that
sandwich for ever.
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From: David Rysdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail: domain name must exist?!
Date: 02 Aug 2000 20:15:34 -0400
These kinds of stupid sendmail config problems is exactly why I created nbsmtp.
It's a simple utility for those that need to send out SMTP mail *and nothing else*.
Check it out from freshmeat or via this URL:
www2.fastdial.net/~drysdam/software/software.html
Klaus =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=F6nenberg?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Try to edit the /etc/sendmail.cf file:
>
> DSpopserver.yourprovider.com
> DM<nothing !!!>
> Cw localhost your-own-domain-name.com
>
> Beware:
> There ist NO Space between DS and the Popserver�s Name
> There IS a Space between Cw and "localhost"
> DM ist empty
>
> And more:
> If you have an entry like THIS in your /etc/sendmail.cf:
> Cwlocalhost
> # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email
> Fw-o /etc/mail/sendmail.cw %[^\#]
>
> you must also edit this file. Simply enter your domain-name in the first and
> only line in this file:
> yourdomain.com (NOT www.yourdom...., just the domain name)
>
> This is how I got it working (but don�t know why :-)))
>
> Bye
> Klaus
>
> Peter Bismuti schrieb:
>
> > I've got sendmail/fetchmail working, I can pull off my mail from the pop
> > server and read it in elm, but I can't reply or send email out, when I
> > try I get this message, can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks!
> >
> > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > ... while talking to nu.cs.fsu.edu.:
> > >>> MAIL From:<peterb@roughneck> SIZE=1182
> > <<< 501 <peterb@roughneck>... Sender domain must exist
> > 501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data format error
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: boot disk question
Date: 3 Aug 2000 00:54:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:18:21 -0700, none wrote:
>I have searched quite a bit and can't seem to find a good solution to this
>problem. I want to create a basic floppy disk with a minimal kernel and
>root system. The only thing I want to do is boot the system from the floppy
>and run a very small program, I don't need net access or even hard drive
>access. Anyone know of a good source of information on doing this? I
Did you search at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html ?
There's a bit of info in there about replacing /sbin/init with whatever
program you want, including "Hello World". The author of the HOWTO
suggests exercises you can try to increase your understanding, and the
"Hello World" thing is one of them. HTH, good luck.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Switching to 40-characters video mode under Linux (character based)
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:06:10 -0700
Benjamin Nyrup wrote:
>
> I have an application (a Point-Of-Sale cash register) that needs to run in
> 40-characters VGA-mode. Under DOS I just enter the command "mode co40" and
> it switches nicely, or I can send an ANSI-sequence that will do the job. How
> can I accomplish this under LINUX? The various video modes, that you can
> select in lilo.conf only changes the number of lines or set 132-columns
> mode.
>
This is from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/svga.txt:
Because of the complexity of all the video stuff, the video mode IDs
used here are also a bit complex. A video mode ID is a 16-bit number usually
expressed in a hexadecimal notation (starting with "0x"). You can set a mode
by entering its mode directly if you know it even if it isn't shown on the menu.
The ID numbers can be divided to three regions:
0x0000 to 0x00ff - menu item references. 0x0000 is the first item. Don't use
outside the menu as this can change from boot to boot (especially if
you have used the `scan' feature).
0x0100 to 0x017f - standard BIOS modes. The ID is a BIOS video mode number
(as presented to INT 10, function 00) increased by 0x0100.
...
It appears then that if you know the VGA mode (used by the BIOS call 0x10) you
can add 0x100 to it and put this as argument to the "vga=" line in lilo.conf.
You can probably find these modes in any old DOS programming manual.
--
Vladimir
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: X 4.0.1 and /etc/termcap
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 01:18:28 GMT
I am running a RH 6.2 machine. I tried to upgrade to X 4.0.1 but it is
all messed up now. I downloaded the binaries from xfree86.org and used
the Xinstall.sh script to install everything. Everythng worked fine
till then. I was told to edit the /etc/termcap file and replace the
old Xterm entries with the new ones, specified file. I did so, and ran
xf86config. But this wont work, and this is the message i get.... (II)
UnloadModule: "vga" (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable
configuration.
Fatal server error: no screens found I assume this is still the
termcap error, so please if any one who is runing this, or anything,
help me or mail me your termcap file. Nauman
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Before you buy.
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From: "OzEmail News Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cron behaves differently on Sundays?
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:42:03 +1000
Maybe you have a born again cron daemon? It doesn't like to work on
Sundays.
(Sorry - couldn't resist!) ;-)
"Carl Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Here's an odd one. I have many systems running RedHat 6.2 or 6.1.
> They all have the same entry in root's crontab:
>
> 0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/sbin/sendmail -q
>
> The purpose of this is to clean out /var/spool/mqueue, because
> none of these systems run sendmail as a daemon (for security
> reasons).
>
> Six days of the week, this works fine. But on Sundays, from 00:00
> to 23:45, every occurrence of this command yields the following
> message in an e-mail to root:
>
> Subject: Cron <root@cachalot> -q
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
>
> /bin/sh: -q: bad option
>
> This is so bizarre! Why only on Sundays? Any ideas?
>
> --Carl Benson
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From: "OzEmail News Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Quality Encoder for Linux.
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:55:21 +1000
"Dances With Cows" has given some good advise - as for nice front ends try
GRIP.
It's a Gnome app but runs under KDE as well. It has all cdparanoia's
ripping built in and uses you choice of the main encoders (blade, lame etc).
But it also does cddb lookups and adds the song/artist/album to each MP3
automagically. It also does one step rip-encode. To top it off it's all
multi-threaded so as soon as it finishes ripping the 1st track it will start
encoding but still go on ripping the 2nd track etc.
I'm very happy with it and hat's off to the developers! Check it out at:
http://www.nostatic.org/grip/
Cheers,
James
"Jean-Sebastien Morisset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8m9p19$6ir$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've been using my Windows box to encode MP3s using Music Match
> (256/320kps with error correction and highest qual. setting). I'd like
> to start encoding on my Linux box instead (which also has an optical
> input from my stereo) and wondered what the best applications were. I'm
> especially concerned for the MP3 compression. Are there applications
> which are known to maintain a heigher fidelity than others?
>
> Thanks,
> js.
> --
> Jean-Sebastien Morisset, Sr. UNIX Administrator
> <http://www.jsmoriss.dyndns.org/>;
> UNIX, the Internet, Homebrewing, Cigars, PCS, and other Fun Stuff...
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Mail Problem
Date: 2 Aug 2000 20:51:12 -0500
Boddhisatva Troutwaxer a �crit :
>
> Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >log as root
> >
> >rpm -e -vv plugger
> >rpm -e -vv netscape
> >rm -R -f ~/.netscape
> >rm -R -f /home/___your_user___/.netscape
> >
> >
> >reinstall both plugger
> >and netscape
>
> I do not have plugger on my system or on the free CD that my
> Mandrake Linux came on. What is plugger, where can I get it, and
> why do I need it?
>
Plugger is plugins for netscape. You'll have to make a search for it. I have found it
on
SuSE CDs as well as Mandrake and Corel. I did find one problem with Plugger with
plugins,
for some reasons it messes up with many plugins but this is about all we have so we
have to
live with it. Some pluggins work good, some not very well. For example the midi plugin
of
plugger sucks big time. I find the UMP plugin better, on the other hand it would crash
on
my system or play to fast so I recompiled it and put the binary and explanation on
what to
do to compile your plugin on my web site.
> >Don't forget to enter the mail. Make sure you have dns numbers
> in /etc/resolv
>
> I don't have an /etc/resolv. I do have an /etc/resolv.conf, which
> I presume to be the same file under a slightly different name.
> The only information it contains is a line with my system's name
> in it. How should the DNS be specified in this file? Does the
> file need any other information, such as my login or password, or
> the name of my mail server at Pac Bell?
>
I was too lazy to type the conf extension or wrote too fast.
Unless you use an intelligent dialer like wvdial set for the stupid mode you must have
the DNS numbers
in that file for PPP to resolv the DNS. Under SuSE we don't write in that file but
enter the information
with yast which writes it in /etc/rc.config
> Also, I don't know what you mean by "Don't forget to enter the
> mail."
>
EMAIL like in EMAIL address (keyboard error)
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