Linux-Misc Digest #402, Volume #25 Thu, 10 Aug 00 09:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Simple question about CD-Writing for Linux ("Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]")
Re: Linux on AMD (Boddhisatva Troutwaxer)
Re: Couldn't open Netscape (Andreas Kahari)
new kernel, blank LCD ("Shahriar Mohktari")
Re: Off topic question about colors ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Linux on AMD (J Bland)
Re: mgetty: prevent answering (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: setuid root perl script (David Efflandt)
Re: Need a bootCD (Simon Lemieux)
screensaver should not react on mouse activity (Holger Bauer)
Re: Kernel 2.2.16 not working with ATAPI IDE CDRoms (Robert Hampf)
Re: mgetty: prevent answering ("Peter T. Breuer")
Does anybody know how to make work XFree86 with the NeoMagic 256 LX+ (Julian Eggert)
Java ide (emiel)
Re: How do I <4dos>ren *.htm *.html</4dos> in bash? (Marc D. Williams)
Thread Scheduling Priorities ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: new kernel, blank LCD ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Does anybody know how to make work XFree86 with the NeoMagic 256 LX+ graphic
chip? (For a Sony Vaio PCG-709 notebook) (Dr. Unk)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Johan Kullstam)
kmail and realtek (alik)
Quick questions : installing RPM's in X ("Michael")
/proc/mtrr is empty (Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Stephenson-M=F6ller?=)
Re: Quick questions : installing RPM's in X (Dances With Crows)
Linux cannot boot into X-Windows? (Gomez)
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From: "Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.apps.cdwrite,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Simple question about CD-Writing for Linux
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:05:03 +0100
Jimi Aleshin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have Red Hat Linux 6.1 with the 2.2.12-20 kernel. And I just
> installed a Hewlett Packard CD-Writer 9310i. It works in Windows and it
> suggests with it being set to the "Cable Select" jumper. I'm just
> wondering if Linux works with Cable Select? Or do I have to put the
> jumper on Slave or Master? My CD-Reader which came with the computer is
> Master I think (probably). So does that mean I put the CD-Burner on the
> Slave jumper? And also if I have Plug and Play enabled on Linux will it
> autodetect the CD-Writer? If not, is there any other way?
>
> Please tell me anything on making it work, thanks.
Hi,
Sounds like an IDE CD Writer... You will need to build a kernel with the
SCSI emulation switched on. Check out the file
/usr/doc/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO for details.
If possible I would put the Writer on the master jumper and the CD
reader on slave. Last time I tried XCDroast it wasn't happy about a
'slave' writer even though it showed up in the list of devices.
You will need to change the link /dev/cdrom to point to /dev/scd0 (I
think that is what the emulated disks become). No doubt the HOWTO will
mention this...
Regards
Phil Q
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Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
From: Boddhisatva Troutwaxer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:37:06 -0700
shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am thinking of setting up Linux on an AMD machine. Did you
have any
>problem with the install or after the install?
>
>Shook
The one issue you should be aware of if you are using AMD to save
money is that you cannot go cheap on the memory. Linux really
needs to have good, high quality memory.
Also, if you have one of those motherboards that uses both kinds
of memory, be aware that the 72 pin implementation on some of
those motherboards is not very good. Return your 72 pin memory to
the store and get the good stuff.
I also had terrible problems with overheating the first time I
tried an AMD, but that was because I had a ribbon cable caught
in the fan. ;)
T.
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Subject: Re: Couldn't open Netscape
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 10 Aug 2000 09:50:21 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ywk@SuSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi :inuxers
>I am running SuSE 6.4 with netscape 4.72. The problem is Netscape
>couldnot pop up on all my users' desktop. I have checked the settings,
>nothing wrong! Just SuSE keeps writing a lock file to .netscape
>directory that block the initialization of the browser, why?
>there is no problem on root
>anything i can do about it please?
>
>ywk
That lock file ought to be removed by Netscape when the user quits it.
It will not be removed if the user logs out without quitting Netscape
in "the right way" (using 'Exit' in the 'File' menu, or pressing
'Alt+Q').
In general, logging out (or killing X) without quitting your
applications is a really Bad Thing since most applications won't clean
up after themselves or have time to warn the user of unsaved work.
Your problem will be solved by instructing your users to quit all
applications before logging out. The file '~/.netscape/.lock' can be
removed manually if it exists and if Netscape is not running.
/A
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From: "Shahriar Mohktari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new kernel, blank LCD
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 04:36:27 -0400
Hi,
I have recently compile the kernel 2.3.99-pre and tried to run my laptop
(VAIO-f480) with it.
The problem is that after kernel is started to load LCD goes blank and I do
not see anything. I tried a copule of thing but they did not help. Any clue?
By the way do I have to copy the new System.map file to /boot where the
kernel lies?
Shahriar
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Off topic question about colors
Date: 10 Aug 2000 08:39:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
:> John Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : I got X server to run 16 bit color. Had been runing 8. My question is I
:> : don't know what the 8,16,24 bit translate to. I am used to 256 65k and or
:> I think you'd better leave your university then, before you're thrown
:> out. An 11 year old would answer that question in an IQ test on sight.
: Oh, I don't know... He could be doing Phylosophy and Art...
Turns out he's not a student, but on the staff (grounds staff, if I
recall)? I really should have deduced that - bayesian logic said he was
not capable of being an academic student but I dismally failed to
consider a large enough set of possibilities. He wasn't an academic or
technical user at all! I don't think my assessment was inaccurate, but
he was offended, so apologies .. I had this vision of ucdavis (which is
a good place) being fooled by falsified SAT scores ...
: (The perfect combination for getting a job where you can use the immortal
: line "Do you want fries with that?")
Hmmm ... no work available in cake shops? I believe you need minimum
SAT scores in all areas anyway.
: :)
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: 10 Aug 2000 09:59:18 GMT
>> 1. You'll sit tilted to the right. That's from the thickness of all that
>> extra money in the wallet in your left hip pocket.
>> 2. You won't be sending an Intel unique CPU identifier to anyone who has
>> the hack and asks for it.
>> 3. You'll just have to put up with the extra speed. Poor you.
>>
>SuSE 6.4 have default K6-3DNow optimisation as well.
Do they? Never seen it myself. I wonder how you get 3dnow optimisations in
an i386 rpm...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: mgetty: prevent answering
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 06:26:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
>Thinking about this a bit more, removing execute permission would stop
>mgetty from running, but if mgetty was trying to be spawned from
>inittab, you may drive init crazy (it will keep trying to spawn
>mgetty).
Right. And it's a silly idea, to begin with :-)
>Other ideas:
> 1) Have a run level identical to what you normally run, except that
>mgetty doesn't get spawned. Change runlevels at the times you want
>behavior to change.
Urgh.
> 2) Rename mgetty to be something else, and write/get a program which
[...]
UUrgh.
(sigh)
Why not simply using mgetty's built-in functionality? See "man mgetty",
specifically the part about using "/etc/nologin.ttyS*" - which does
exactly what the poster wanted to achieve.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: setuid root perl script
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:21:51 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am writing a CGI script to change user e-mail forwarding configuration
>which will copy /etc/mail/aliases.save to /etc/mail/aliases
>and run "/usr/bin/newaliases"
>
>but the script can't run successfully and the error log shows:
>Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running setuid at /dev/fd/3 line 61, <FILE2>
>chunk 133.
>
>Why?
In your console type: perldoc perlsec
and untaint your PATH.
Didn't I just see this question somewhere else, or are you improperly
posting multiple copies of the same post without properly crossposting?
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From: Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need a bootCD
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:29:55 GMT
> Oops, misread this line. However, in this case, my advice would be: get
> a floppy drive! They're very cheap and can be a lifesaver (trust me, I
> learned it the hard way).
Well, I think I only need a bootable media, since I got a working emergencyCD
for linux, I don't need a boot floppy nor a floppy drive, thus saving money,
hassles and forgetting all about prehistoric devices! ;)
Thanks for the help tho,
Simon
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From: Holger Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: screensaver should not react on mouse activity
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:47:26 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I prevent a screen saver from reacting on mouse movements
(shaking desk ...)
and only allow to react on keyboard presses?
I am using KDE and the screensaver there in.
Regards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hampf)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.16 not working with ATAPI IDE CDRoms
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:52:31 +0300
Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> h�lt �essu fram:
:
: Hi all,
: After getting Linux 2.2.16 compiled and running, I've detected that
: the driver for ATAPI CDROM drives isn't working properly. Actually,
: it's doing really bad.
[...]
: How anybody experience this problem? Do you know of a solution? Any
: patch for the driver?
: Thanks in advance!
I have had this problem with two drives. Have you tried another one?
\vague{I read something about these drives having implemented the
standard in a different way or something like that. This was said to
be a known issue and that there was a fix on the way.} Anyway you are
not alone.
rh
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mgetty: prevent answering
Date: 10 Aug 2000 10:59:24 GMT
M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: (sigh)
: Why not simply using mgetty's built-in functionality? See "man mgetty",
: specifically the part about using "/etc/nologin.ttyS*" - which does
: exactly what the poster wanted to achieve.
Wow, and I was just about to say that ...!
It even works correctly - "not working correctly" in this case would mean
continuing to answer the phone but not letting you log in, in case you all
wonder.
If you just want to restrict logins via mgetty to a set of allowed callers,
mgetty can do that too.
Peter
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:01:23 +0200
From: Julian Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Does anybody know how to make work XFree86 with the NeoMagic 256 LX+
Does anybody know how to make work XFree86 with the NeoMagic 256 LX+
graphic chip? (For a Sony Vaio PCG-709 notebook)
Thanks a lot
Julian
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From: emiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Java ide
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:04:23 +0200
Hello,
Under windows I use Kawa and I like it a lot (Kawa, not windows ;) ). Is
there a similair IDE available for Linux?
thanks,
Emiel.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Subject: Re: How do I <4dos>ren *.htm *.html</4dos> in bash?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:39:43 GMT
On 4 Aug 2000 05:54:13 GMT, brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Easiest way is a cute little perl script that comes with perl these
>days called 'rename':
>
> rename 's/\.htm$/.html/' *
>
>You -could- spell it all out in a perl one-liner or a shell for, but the
>above is so much nicer (and handles files with spaces or other odd
>things in their name, which most shell scripts will choke on).
>
After reading this I went to check to see if I had it and found that
Slackware has a binary called `rename'. One of those little
things one doesn't know is there `til they stumble across it.
In the bash source one can also find a rename script in one of
the examples directories.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Thread Scheduling Priorities
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:29:38 GMT
I hope this is the right newsgroup, I couldn't find a linux.programmer
group - apologies if this is sent to the wrong place.
I am currently porting a proprietary threading system my company uses
to Linux by converting our functions to call appropriate combinations
of LinuxThreads functions.
I have completed the work with one exception: thread priorities.
Our system supports 7 priorities (From Tortoise to Realtime) - however
even a priority realtime thread cannot completely lock up a lower
priority thread, and it certainly should not be able to lock up other
processes.
It would be desirable for the program not to need to be run with
superuser priveledges as well.
Effectively I need to be able to set priorities for SCHED_OTHER
threads - currently I can only do it by changing to SCHED_FIFO or
SCHED_RR, both of which have a far more drastic effect than is required.
Does anyone know of a way I can do this, I am using TurboLinux 6.0
(Based on Red Hat 6.0) and LinuxThreads.
Thanks,
Tim
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new kernel, blank LCD
Date: 10 Aug 2000 11:36:24 GMT
Shahriar Mohktari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have recently compile the kernel 2.3.99-pre and tried to run my laptop
: (VAIO-f480) with it.
: The problem is that after kernel is started to load LCD goes blank and I do
: not see anything. I tried a copule of thing but they did not help. Any clue?
Did you enable console support in the kernel?
: By the way do I have to copy the new System.map file to /boot where the
: kernel lies?
No. It's for debugging.
Peter
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From: Dr. Unk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Does anybody know how to make work XFree86 with the NeoMagic 256 LX+
graphic chip? (For a Sony Vaio PCG-709 notebook)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:47:53 GMT
If XF86Setup doesn't work, try xf86config, configure X to the best of
your knowledge using your system's documentation. You might have to
edit the finished XF86Config file and add the apropriate driver setting.
This page might help.
http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/Status20.html#20
Good luck.
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Aug 2000 08:31:20 -0400
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Robert Krawitz wrote:
> >
> > blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Robert Krawitz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Robert Krawitz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Okay. I agree that source codes are human readable. But most real human
> > > > > are not geeks or machineheads.
> > > >
> > > > Totally irrelevant. Freedom of speech is not confined to speech
> > > > understood only by the majority of people.
> > > >
> > > I would believe that machine codes are not speech to most real human.
> >
> > Again, that's TOTALLY IRRELEVANT. Source code in particular, and in
> > many cases binary, is meaningful to people with the appropriate
> > training. Therefore it is a legitimate form of speech.
> >
> Sorry. But I don't talk to machine of any kind.
>
> Do you write a piece of source code, when you want to tell your
> mother/wife/girlfriend/ something. Or do you just write to them in plain
> English ( or whatever *human* language that you use.
when i write a math paper, i don't expect my mother/wife/girlfriend to
read it. it's in english, well, sort of. pick up a one of those
yellow springer-verlag books. nearly any of them will do. leaf
through it. it is equivalently comprehensible to a lot of source
code.
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From: alik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kmail and realtek
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:36:44 +0200
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Quick questions : installing RPM's in X
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:36:43 -0400
Hi.
I am wondering how someone installs RPM in Gnome (redhat 6.2).
>From the command line, I can su in as root (because I am not normally
root) and install an rpm.
>From X I can't change my login without logging out of X, and logging
back into the system as root. When I am logged in as a normal user...I
get permission denied errors when trying to install an RPM
I tried, from within X, to open a terminal window and su in as root from
there...but that didn't give me root permissions in X (which I can
understand...just thought I would try it. (It did allow me to install
the RPM from the terminal window...but that isn't using the X
functionality to install an RPM )).
I figure there must be an easier way to install RPM's when using X ,
other than logging out and logging back in.
I'm checking out a few websites now for some info.
Anybody have a quick answer to this problem
Thanks.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Stephenson-M=F6ller?=)
Subject: /proc/mtrr is empty
Date: 10 Aug 2000 12:58:53 GMT
I have MTRR support compiled in the kernel and there is a /proc/mtrr. The
problem is, it contains nothing. I am running RedHat 6.2 on a K6-2 300
(stepping 12) and Voodoo3 3000 AGP.
[karl@boye karl]$ cat /proc/mtrr
[karl@boye karl]$
When the 3dfx device driver module (which is supposed to enable MTRR support)
is loaded:
[karl@boye karl]$ cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0xe4000000 (3648MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=1
[karl@boye karl]$
I've learned that there should also be at least one write-back register. Is
this correct? I get the same result using both RedHat's kernel 2.2.14-5.0 and
2.2.16 from kernel.org. Help would be appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Quick questions : installing RPM's in X
Date: 10 Aug 2000 13:04:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:36:43 -0400, Michael wrote:
>From X I can't change my login without logging out of X, and logging
>back into the system as root. When I am logged in as a normal user...I
>get permission denied errors when trying to install an RPM
>
>I tried, from within X, to open a terminal window and su in as root from
>there...but that didn't give me root permissions in X (which I can
>understand...just thought I would try it. (It did allow me to install
>the RPM from the terminal window...but that isn't using the X
>functionality to install an RPM )).
>
>I figure there must be an easier way to install RPM's when using X ,
Yes. It's called "using the command line in an xterm".
But if you can't live without graphics, do this:
$ xhost +localhost
$ su -
# export DISPLAY=0:0
# $GRAPHICAL_RPM_INSTALLER
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Subject: Linux cannot boot into X-Windows?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gomez)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:07:49 GMT
Left my system on for past week. I installed CorelDraw for Linux the last time
I used the computer. When I rebooted my computer (Redhat 6.2 on AMD) today,
it tries to go into the main Helixcode GNOME startup screen but continuously
attempts to get its resolution right. I see a black screen with the computer
trying to find a workable resolution it seems.
I do have (2) font servers running. One is the Fontastic server and the other
is X-Windows Font server. I am thinking this is what is giving me the problem.
Anyone got any ideas?
Gomez
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