Linux-Misc Digest #650, Volume #25 Sat, 2 Sep 00 21:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Updated version of hinv perl script ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Pine has no BCC option? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sony Vaio HE HS JE JS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: dialup and a proxy server (Brian Duffell)
Re: sony Vios...requesting info (prasanth Mudundi)
Re: Getting my Soundblaster16 installed in Redhat 6.1 ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: associations (James Franklin)
Re: dialup and a proxy server (Zebee Johnstone)
Re: Zip 100 & RedHat 6.2 (James Franklin)
Re: Updated version of hinv perl script ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Getting my Soundblaster16 installed in Redhat 6.1 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: VIA Integrated Sound Blaster Pro Woes (Stefan Woerz)
Re: timestamp problems (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: Winmodems and Linux, a fix ? anyone? (SOMERTON KENNEDY)
Re: Mkisofs: How to create an empty ISO9660 image (Otto Wyss)
Re: Mkisofs: How to create an empty ISO9660 image (Otto Wyss)
Re: Winmodems and Linux, a fix ? anyone? (Bit Twister)
how to create hard-linked directories? (Steffen 'Mugge' Chmil)
Re: ncurses, /usr/share/terminfo v /usr/lib/terminfo (Thomas Dickey)
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Updated version of hinv perl script
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:56:10 -0500
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Robert L. Klungle quoth:
~~ Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 19:44:57 GMT
~~ From: Robert L. Klungle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: Updated version of hinv perl script
~~
~~ I acquired a copy of the hinv script on the net (don't remember where)
~~ several years ago. Haven't seen any updates since. A couple of days ago
~~ I noticed that some of the elements were no longer there or were wrong
~~ (apparently Linux has changed). So modified and added to get to 2.1.13.
~~ Quick hack so not the best.
~~ If anyone knows of anyother updates, wouild like to see/have them.
~~ Here is my current one.
OK, I took the liberty of changing some things, minor errors and a couple
personal things. Here is a summary of what I did.
1. Removed duplicate code.
2. Fixed compile time error on line 163.
3. Renamed file handles to be more descriptive than 'FD'.
4. Fixed s/total.// in scsi loop to read s/total\.//.
5. Made script indentation 4 columns (studies have shown this to be most readable)
6. Explicity closed file handles.
7. Got rid of concatenation warnings ( $modelname ||= 'Unknown' )
8. Fixed some syntactical errors (legal, but bad).
9. Added error checking on open statements.
10. Various other small things (cuddled elses, style stuff).
I still think that there is alot wrong with this script, the biggest being
lack of 'use strict;', but I did fix some things and tried not to break anything.
If you find I did break something, I apologize, but I tried to be careful.
I tested the script and it does work on my system, so if word wrap screws it
up you can email me if you are interested.
[ aside: sorry for reposting a now 243 line script ]
anm
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Try and emulate SGI's hinv command
# We want to figure out the following:
# CPU type, mhz, memory, busses, floppies, disks, tapes, cdroms, ttys,
# networks, graphics.
open(DMESG, 'dmesg |') ||
die "Can't fork dmesg: $!\n";
while (<DMESG>) {
@_ = split;
if (/^tty/) {
$ttys{$_[$#_]}++;
}
elsif (/^Floppy/) {
$floppy{$_[$#_]}++;
}
elsif (/^FDC /) {
s/.*is a //;
chop;
$fdc{$_}++;
}
elsif (/^scsi : detected/) {
$scsi = $_;
}
elsif (/^eth\d.* at /) {
s/\s*at .*//;
push(@eth, $_);
}
}
close(DMESG);
open(CPU, '/proc/cpuinfo') ||
die "Can't read /proc/cpuinfo: $!\n";
while (<CPU>) {
@_ = split;
if (/model name/) {
$modelname = (split /:/, $_)[1];
}
if (/cpu MHz/) {
$speed = $_[3];
}
if (/vendor_id/) {
$modelname ||= 'Unknown';
$vendor = $_[2] . $modelname;
$cpus{$vendor}++;
}
}
close(CPU);
open(IO, '/proc/ioports') ||
die "Can't read /proc/ioports: $!\n";
while (<IO>) {
if (/keyboard/) {
$kbd++;
}
elsif (/vga/) {
@_ = split;
$graphics{$_[$#_]}++;
}
elsif (/timer/) {
$tmr++;
}
}
close(IO);
open(MEM, '/proc/meminfo') ||
die "Can't read /proc/meminfo: $!\n";
while (<MEM>) {
@_ = split;
if (/^Mem: /) {
$_[1] /= 1024;
$mem = "Main memory size: $_[1] Mbytes\n";
}
}
close(MEM);
if (-e '/proc/ide/hda/model') {
open(HDA, "/proc/ide/hda/model") ||
die "Can't read /proc/ide/hda/model: $!\n";
$hda = <HDA>;
$ides++;
close(HDA);
}
if (-e '/proc/ide/hdb/model') {
open(HDB, "/proc/ide/hdb/model") ||
die "Can't read /proc/ide/hdb/model: $!\n";
$hdb = <HDB>;
$ides++;
close(HDB);
}
if (-e '/proc/ide/hdc/model') {
open(HDC, "/proc/ide/hdc/model") ||
die "Can't read /proc/ide/hdc/model: $!\n";
$hdc = <HDC>;
$ides++;
close(HDC);
}
if (-e '/proc/ide/hdd/model') {
open(HDD, "/proc/ide/hdd/model") ||
die "Can't read /proc/ide/hdd/model: $!\n";
$hdd = <HDD>;
$ides++;
close(HDD);
}
print $mem if defined $mem;
for $key (keys %cpus) {
print "$cpus{$key} $key $speed MHz processor";
print $cpus{$key} > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
}
for $key (keys %ttys) {
print "$ttys{$key} $key serial port";
print $ttys{$key} > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
}
for $key (keys %fdc) {
print "$fdc{$key} $key floppy controller";
print $fdc{$key} > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
}
for $key (keys %floppy) {
print "$floppy{$key} $key floppy drive";
print $floppy{$key} > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
}
for $key (keys %graphics) {
print "$graphics{$key} $key graphics device";
print $graphics{$key} > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
}
if (defined $tmr) {
print "$tmr timer controller\n";
}
if (defined $kbd) {
print "$kbd keyboard";
print $kbd > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
}
if (defined $ppt) {
print "$ppt parallel port";
print $ppt > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
}
if ($#eth > -1) {
$n = $#eth + 1;
print "$n ethernet interface";
print $n > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
for $eth (@eth) {
print " $eth";
}
}
if (defined $hda) {
print "$ides IDE device";
print $ides > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
print " $hda";
}
if (defined $hdb) {
print " $hdb";
}
if (defined $hdc) {
print " $hdc";
}
if (-e "/proc/parport/1/hardware") {
$ppt++;
}
if (defined $tmr) {
print "$tmr timer controller\n";
}
if (defined $kbd) {
print "$kbd keyboard";
print $kbd > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
}
if (defined $ppt) {
print "$ppt parallel port";
}
if (defined $hdd) {
print " $hdd";
}
if (defined $scsi) {
$scsi =~ s/.*detected //;
$scsi =~ s/total\.//;
print $scsi;
open(SCSI, "/proc/scsi/scsi") ||
die "Can't read /proc/scsi/scsi: $!\n";
$_ = <SCSI>;
while (<SCSI>) {
next unless /Vendor/;
s/.*Vendor:\s*//;
s/\s*Rev:.*//;
s/Model:\s*//;
print " $_";
}
close(SCSI);
}
open(PCI, "/proc/pci") ||
die "Can't read /proc/pci: $!\n";
$done = 0;
while (<PCI>) {
if (/^\s*Bus/) {
if ($done == 0) {
print "PCI bus devices:\n";
$done++;
}
$_ = <PCI>;
print;
}
}
close(PCI);
if ($#eth > -1) {
$n = $#eth + 1;
print "$n ethernet interface";
print $n > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
for $eth (@eth) {
print " $eth";
}
}
if (defined $hda) {
print "$ides IDE device";
print $ides > 1 ? "s\n" : "\n";
print " $hda";
}
if (defined $hdb) {
print " $hdb";
}
if (defined $hdc) {
print " $hdc";
}
if (defined $hdd) {
print " $hdd";
}
__END__
--
Andrew N. McGuire
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
perl -le'print map?"(.*)"?&&($_=$1)&&s](\w+)]\u$1]g&&$_=>`perldoc -qj`'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Pine has no BCC option?
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:47:08 GMT
wow, thanks. I can't believe I missed that one. I'm not on a linux
machine a lot, so I don't have much time to read all the docs that come
with the programs. But this is certainly a lesson I'll be learning. I
knew pine was rich in options.
In article <39b034fe$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Pine has no BCC option? Or is it somewhere in the setup that I can't
> > find. If that is it, where is it?
>
> Sure it does. Did you read the dox? Often it does not show up on the
> screen (there are a lot of headers) but if you have the cursor in the
> header section, try CTRL-R (that should expand to the headers). The
pinerc
> file (which you can edit manually or use the setup option on) has a
> section where you can choose which headers appear when you compose a
> message. There is help if you use the configure setup options from
within
> PINE (will tell you the headers you can put there). Personally I
leave BCC
> hidden (as I use it so seldom) and CTRL-R with the cursor in the
header
> section to make it available (CTRL-R in the message body reads in a
file).
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sony Vaio HE HS JE JS
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:46:13 GMT
Has anyone ever gotten the modem of Sony Vaio HE HS JE JS (K)
notebooks to work with Linux?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Brian Duffell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: dialup and a proxy server
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 23:56:15 +0100
On 2 Sep,
"Steven L. Dahlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if there is a product or a way to setup a proxy server
> with dial up capabilities, i.e., allowing anyone on my network to make a
> request and, if there is no current connection to the ISP, disl up and
> establish the connection. Earlier I tried diald but despite a lot of input
> from several and a lot of elbow grease I was unable to make it work.
> Currently I am using a product call WinProxy on an NT workstation that
> works like a charm. It was easy to setup and configure and has been easy
> to maintain. But I would certainly prefer to have a linux server in that
> role, but the pain and trouble of diald was too much.
I'm having limited success with pppd (2.2 kernel) but I can setup the ppp
connection ok. unfortunately the calling application is unable to resolve
unless I ping an unknown ip address first, and give time for the link to
setup before I use the resolver for the actual download. It may be fine with
a linux network rather than mixed OS's
--
Brian Duffell RiscPC600 | StrongARM 233Mhz RISC OS 4 50Mb
Darlington Dolphin Masters ASC |<www.darlington-masters.org>
Thornaby ASC | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: prasanth Mudundi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sony Vios...requesting info
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 19:08:02 -0400
Thanks for the info.
prasanth mudundi
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> prasanth Mudundi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : planning on buying a sony PCG-F590K VAIO NOTEBOOK
> : can i install linux and has anybody done it.
>
> Plenty of people have linux on sony vaios. Don't know about your model.
> Linus himself has a 505, as I recall.
>
> : I prefer SUSE. But if i have to i am willing to
>
> The distro is irrelevant. Linus complained that he couldn't use both
> the cdrom and the floppy at the same time, making it difficult to boot
> from floppy in order to get the distro off the CD. I think both are on
> pcmcia crads. The solutions range from the obvious to the ingenious (I
> think Linus' fell in the latter category, involving the use of the
> floppy format of the first tracks on a bootable cdrom).
>
> If yours is a firewire model, that doesn't work. Or didn't, last time I
> looked.
>
> Peter
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting my Soundblaster16 installed in Redhat 6.1
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 18:15:30 -0500
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, mike quoth:
~~ Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 11:08:55 -0400
~~ From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: Re: Getting my Soundblaster16 installed in Redhat 6.1
~~
~~ Hi Peter, and All,
~~ I have tried pnpdump and read PnP HOWTO and
~~ Sound HOWTO, and haven't, so far, found a solution. I will
~~ continue to try.
~~ Thanks
~~
~~ Mike
~~ P.S. The config programs don't see or find the correct info
These work for my ISA SB16 (Vibra):
/sbin/modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3 mpu_io=0x300
/sbin/modprobe opl3 io=0x388
/sbin/modprobe v_midi
anm
--
Andrew N. McGuire
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
perl -le'print map?"(.*)"?&&($_=$1)&&s](\w+)]\u$1]g&&$_=>`perldoc -qj`'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Franklin)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: associations
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2 Sep 2000 18:46:19 -0600
On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:35:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Go into the Gnome Control Panel and go to Edit MIME Types.
>David
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>In article <8ojpft$bkb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Darren Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How do I associate an application with a particular file type, like a
>> certain editor with text files? I use rh62 and am using gnome in X.
>>
>>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
Although I use KDE I will offer this. In KDE I have to ensure that I create
the file mime first, go to the application mime and associate that particular
file mime, the go back to the file mime and pick the application that I
associated with it. Maybe Gnome is more intuitive.
--
James
A Daily Quip, Quote, or Fortune:
"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
-- George Ade
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zebee Johnstone)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: dialup and a proxy server
Date: 2 Sep 2000 21:39:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.setup on Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:17:58 -0700
Steven L. Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me if there is a product or a way to setup a proxy server
>with dial up capabilities, i.e., allowing anyone on my network to make a
>request and, if there is no current connection to the ISP, disl up and
>establish the connection. Earlier I tried diald but despite a lot of input
>from several and a lot of elbow grease I was unable to make it work.
Diald is not much chop and is old.
Read the man page for ppp, especially the demand, persist, idle and
holdoff parameters.
Zebee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Franklin)
Subject: Re: Zip 100 & RedHat 6.2
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2 Sep 2000 18:56:13 -0600
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:20:30 +1200, Peter Rodriguez wrote:
>NDQ wrote:
>
>> Peter Rodriguez wrote:
>> >
>> > I have got an Iomega Zip 100 (Parallel version) running perfectly under
>> > RedHat 6.0 with a line added to .bash_profile - " modprobe imm >&
>> > /dev/null " However on another machine running RedHat 6.2, this doesn't
>> > work. Any ideas, anybody?
>>
>> Which error when you try :
>> $ modprobe imm
>>
>> ????
>
>I get
>
>imm : Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.0.0)
>scsi : 0 hosts.
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o : init_module : Device or resource busy
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o : insmod
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o failed
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o : insmod imm failed
>
>--
>Peter Rodriguez
>2/219, St. George Street, Papatoetoe
>Auckland, NEW ZEALAND LINUX RULES
>
>
>
I use modprobe ppa. Is imm better or better yet, how is it different?
--
James
A Daily Quip, Quote, or Fortune:
"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
-- George Ade
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Updated version of hinv perl script
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 19:09:16 -0500
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Andrew N. McGuire quoth:
~~ Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:56:10 -0500
~~ From: Andrew N. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: Re: Updated version of hinv perl script
~~
~~ On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Robert L. Klungle quoth:
~~
~~ ~~ Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 19:44:57 GMT
~~ ~~ From: Robert L. Klungle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ ~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ ~~ Subject: Updated version of hinv perl script
~~ ~~
~~ ~~ I acquired a copy of the hinv script on the net (don't remember where)
~~ ~~ several years ago. Haven't seen any updates since. A couple of days ago
~~ ~~ I noticed that some of the elements were no longer there or were wrong
~~ ~~ (apparently Linux has changed). So modified and added to get to 2.1.13.
~~ ~~ Quick hack so not the best.
~~ ~~ If anyone knows of anyother updates, wouild like to see/have them.
~~ ~~ Here is my current one.
~~
~~ OK, I took the liberty of changing some things, minor errors and a couple
~~ personal things. Here is a summary of what I did.
~~
~~ 1. Removed duplicate code.
~~ 2. Fixed compile time error on line 163.
~~ 3. Renamed file handles to be more descriptive than 'FD'.
~~ 4. Fixed s/total.// in scsi loop to read s/total\.//.
~~ 5. Made script indentation 4 columns (studies have shown this to be most readable)
~~ 6. Explicity closed file handles.
~~ 7. Got rid of concatenation warnings ( $modelname ||= 'Unknown' )
~~ 8. Fixed some syntactical errors (legal, but bad).
~~ 9. Added error checking on open statements.
~~ 10. Various other small things (cuddled elses, style stuff).
~~
~~ I still think that there is alot wrong with this script, the biggest being
~~ lack of 'use strict;', but I did fix some things and tried not to break anything.
~~ If you find I did break something, I apologize, but I tried to be careful.
~~ I tested the script and it does work on my system, so if word wrap screws it
~~ up you can email me if you are interested.
~~
~~ [ aside: sorry for reposting a now 243 line script ]
~~
[ snip script ]
There is still duplicate code in what I posted, some code is also still out of order.
Also, my solution for fixing the concatenation warnings was not the best, I found
a better one. I am still hacking this thing, because it is kind of a useful script,
I will share any later developments with anyone interested (and of COURSE the OP).
anm
--
Andrew N. McGuire
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
perl -le'print map?"(.*)"?&&($_=$1)&&s](\w+)]\u$1]g&&$_=>`perldoc -qj`'
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting my Soundblaster16 installed in Redhat 6.1
Date: 3 Sep 2000 00:01:24 GMT
Andrew N. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, mike quoth:
: ~~ I have tried pnpdump and read PnP HOWTO and
: ~~ Sound HOWTO, and haven't, so far, found a solution. I will
: ~~ continue to try.
: These work for my ISA SB16 (Vibra):
: /sbin/modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3 mpu_io=0x300
: /sbin/modprobe opl3 io=0x388
: /sbin/modprobe v_midi
Being precisely what's given in the sound howto (except that having a vibra,
you have abnormal dma channels, and you have the mpu port at 300 instead
of 330, ahem ...):
Sound initialization started
<Sound Blaster 16 (4.13)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5
<Sound Blaster 16> at 0x330 irq 5 dma 0
<Yamaha OPL3 FM> at 0x388
Sound initialization complete
Peter
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From: Stefan Woerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA Integrated Sound Blaster Pro Woes
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 02:24:27 +0200
Hi John !
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have the same problem with the ABIT VH6, which uses the same codec.
>
> From what I've been reading, the latest ALSA library supports the VIA
> sound chipset. Check them out at http://alsa-project.org. You first
> have to remove any modules that are loading now, as this replaces OSS.
>
I had similar problems with my VIA sound chipset. But I just
installed ALSA and it is working :)
Thanks for this tip,
Stefan
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: timestamp problems
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 20:29:24 -0400
Tony wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Tony wrote:
> >
> > > Running Linux Redhat 6.2 Kernel 2.2.16-3, P-III 700MHZ 256MB RAM:
> > >
> > > When I create a file (pico for example) or when I run "touch
> filename"
> > > the timestamp of the file is exactly 7 hours in advance (GMT).
> However
> > > all other system clocks seem to be correct. When I run "date" the
> date
> > > and time returned is correct. I have run timetool, linuxconf,
> checked
> > > the CMOS's date/time and all those are correct.
> > >
> > > This problem occurs if I FTP a file to the computer or any
> manipulation
> > > of a file where a timestamp would be initiated. Because of this
> > > timestamp problem, many programs won't work correctly. For example:
> > >
> > > When Linux RedHat starts up it runs "/etc/rc.d/inet.d/syslogd". This
> > > startup script uses "touch" to create a file at:
> > >
> > > /var/lock/subsys/syslog
> > >
> > > But because the timestamp of this touch is different than the time
> of
> > > the machine, this startup says it failed. However syslogd is running
> and
> > > all log message timestamps show the "correct" date/time. Other
> problems
> > > are also caused by this. For example:
> > >
> > > If I edit a file with my programmer's editor it always says that the
> > > time of the file I am trying to save is newer on the computer than
> the
> > > time I am now trying to save and asks if I want to overwrite. These
> are
> > > just some of the annoying problems this has caused.
> > >
> > > I have not done any updating of my system (kernel etc) for over a
> month.
> > > Everything worked just fine and then one day it didn't.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > > Before you buy.
> >
> > It may be that one of the programs is putting out UTC time. My machine
> runs
> > the hardware clock in UTC. I sometimes have problems with my other
> system
> > that is dual boot Microsoft Windows 95 and Linux. I have to run the
> clock
> > there in local time because Microsoft is too dumb to do anything else.
> > Trouble is, Windows diddles the clock whenever Daylight Savings TIme
> begins
> > and ends, and once in a while it thinks that is at a different time
> from
> > reality. When it adjusts to Daylight Savings Time in January or
> something,
> > things get really screwy. This machine is Linux-Only, and I have no
> > problems running the hardware clock in UTC.
> >
> > Here are a few experiments:
> >
> > valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ date
> > Sat Sep 2 14:13:48 EDT 2000
> > valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ touch frammis
> > valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ ls -l frammis
> > -rw-r----- 1 jdbeyer jdbeyer 0 Sep 2 14:13 frammis
> > valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ /sbin/clock
> > Sat Sep 2 18:15:30 2000 -0.601410 seconds
> > valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
> >
> > (I see my hardware clock is drifting. My system clock is set to the
> > U.S.Navy clock up to 4 times a day, and is rarely more than a few
> seconds
> > off.)
> >
> > --
> > .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> > /V\ Registered Machine 73926.
> > /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
> > ^^-^^ 2:12pm up 24 days, 21:41, 5 users, load average: 2.31, 2.34,
> 2.28
> >
> >
>
> I can't see anything wrong with the clock:
>
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]$ date
> Sat Sep 2 11:58:39 MST 2000
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]$ touch frammis
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]$ ls -l frammis
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 tonyf tonyf 0 Sep 2 18:58 frammis
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]$ /sbin/clock
> Sat Sep 2 11:59:01 2000 -0.823669 seconds
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]$
>
> You'll notice that touch created a file 7 hours in advance. This I
> believe is GMT, but I don't see how it can create a file with this
> timestamp if all other times are not GMT? The CMOS is also set to the
> correct time.
> Isn't this a strange one? There must be something that determines the
> date of a newly created or modified file. Obviously this has nothing to
> do with the clock (at least these clocks).
>
> I looked at my /etc/adjtime file:
>
> -0.013481 967840065 0.000000
> 967840065
> LOCAL
>
> On my other Linux box it reads:
>
> 0.0 0 0.0
>
> So could this be something?
>
> Thanks for trying to help.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
What is the value of your environmental variable TZ?
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 8:18pm up 25 days, 3:47, 4 users, load average: 2.33, 2.20, 2.26
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From: SOMERTON KENNEDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux, a fix ? anyone?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 00:44:50 GMT
winmodems dont work with linux sorrry
Robert Clement wrote:
>
> Can anyone get a winmodem to work with Linux? Does anyone know of such a
> thing?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss)
Subject: Re: Mkisofs: How to create an empty ISO9660 image
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 02:43:28 +0200
> >to create an empty 650MB ISO image possibly with Joliet and RockRidge
> >
> I presume the problem is that if you do a mksiofs of an empty directory,
> the image you get is quite small. Then if you mount it, the loop device
> doesn't allow the size to increase... I don't remember if this is the
> case
>
Yes, or at least I haven't found out how.
> I'm not sure how you might do this. I think I might experiment with
> creating a 650 mb file with all zeros in it (using dd and /dev/zero,
> specifying a block size and count). Then put that in a directory by
> itself and doing a mkisofs of that directory. That will get you the
> size that you want. Then you should be able to mount it and erase the
> 650 file you created and replace it with stuff you want to be in the
> image....
>
Thanks I'm going to try it.
I just thought there must have been a switch in mkisofs which allows to
specify the size of the image.
O. Wyss
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss)
Subject: Re: Mkisofs: How to create an empty ISO9660 image
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 02:43:32 +0200
> >to create an empty 650MB ISO image possibly with Joliet and RockRidge
> >
> What would the purpose be? iso9660 file system is a read-only file system,
> so what would you do with an empty read-onoy file system
>
Mounted through the loop device, it is just as writeable as anything
what's laying physically on a harddisk.
I want to organize my backup that way. Dropping anything to backup on
this image and burning it to CDR when it's full. I know I could to the
same with a backup directory except it's much easier to see when the
image is full.
O. Wyss
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux, a fix ? anyone?
Reply-To: This_news_group.invalid
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 01:01:20 GMT
You might look around here
http://www.linmodems.org/
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 02:21:05 GMT, Robert Clement
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone get a winmodem to work with Linux? Does anyone know of such a
>thing?
>
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From: Steffen 'Mugge' Chmil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to create hard-linked directories?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 03:02:36 +0200
root-rights, same partition.
ln -d, -F, --directory does not work...
thx!
Steffen
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From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ncurses, /usr/share/terminfo v /usr/lib/terminfo
Date: 3 Sep 2000 01:08:59 GMT
Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well what you are requesting is a patch for the problem.
no - not even that (it was moved about 4 years ago, but some distributors
chose to continue packaging obsolete/buggy software).
(and when built from the original distribution, both /usr/lib/terminfo
and /usr/share/terminfo are the same - symlinked).
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http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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