Linux-Misc Digest #704, Volume #25 Fri, 8 Sep 00 19:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: sndconfig ("Bill Piety")
Re: ORACLE Cluster solution
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (Jim Broughton)
Newbie questions ("Tony Wainwright")
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (Harlan Grove)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (Gary Hallock)
Re: gtk+ and glib (Glitch)
Re: IP address stealing on Intranet ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Newbie questions (Glitch)
Re: Newbie questions (jeff)
Re: The Government's Decision to Use Microsoft ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Trouble with NIS+ (Mike Frisch)
Parrallel connection between 2 Computers? (Gursoy TURAN)
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From: "Bill Piety" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sndconfig
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 16:51:17 -0600
In article <8paqse$lmn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi all,
>
> My pc runs Redhat6.0 and Win98. It has no plug and play sound card, but
> a Sound Max Integrated Digital Audio contraller by Anolog Devices Inc,
> which is built onto the mother board. The sound is brilliant on win98.
> However, under Redhat6.0, the controller can not be detected by
> `sndconfig', and also it's not on the card list; so I have to edit the
> file /etc/conf.modules myself. I am not sure how to change the file.
> Suggestions?
>
<snip>
Do you by any chance have the ad1815 or ad1816 chip?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: ORACLE Cluster solution
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 21:50:03 GMT
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 23:10:33 +0200, Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What's keeping you from using advanced replication under
Linux instead?
>A Parallel Oracle Cluster is still impossible right now with Linux
>due to the lack of a Clustering File System that allows several servers to
>write on the same
>data at the same time. This could soon change with the CFS project which is
>prommising.
[deletia]
--
Finding an alternative should not be like seeking out the holy grail.
That is the whole damn point of capitalism.
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From: Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 21:53:44 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in group comp.os.linux.misc The
>Ghost In The Machine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > -- check out the demise of Commodore Amiga,
> > for example; it still can do things other computers cannot, but
> > has long since been passed by in the mind of the general public.
>
> Like what? I've heard this before but I'd liek to hear some
> examples. The last time I had contact with a commodore I was
> 11, and hardly knew what computers could do...
The amiga had many capabilities. TRUE Multitasking (priority based round robin.)
The ability (with add on components) of producing commercial quality video. Some
commercials were done (dont ask for name I know them not) and most cable companies
used the
amiga for the program schedule channel output. (saw a few of those guru meditation
system faults on my local cables program channel) (for you windows users thats like
a BSOD). Was the first real affordable desktop computer that had full scale rendering
software. (allthough slow as hell without a 68030 or better) A built in graphical
user
interface (not great but not bad either). It did all that running stock at 8mhz.
First computer to offer 6.5 million color output (albiet for stills with stock
hardware).
Used a 2 button mouse as apposed to apples 1 button. Also had a robust shell language
too
boot. REXX a software programming (language?) was pioneered on the amiga and later
spread
to other operating systems. (although it never really caught on and got left in the
dust)
Too damm much to list.
--
Jim Broughton
(The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
If Sense were common everyone would have it!
Following Air and Water the third most abundant
thing on the planet is Human Stupidity.
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From: "Tony Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Newbie questions
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 22:56:30 +0100
Hi there,
I'm a newcomer to Linux, although I did have limited experience of it whilst
at college ? years ago. I am very experienced with Windows.
I have a publishers edition of Red Hat Linux 6.0 (installed) and Caldera
OpenLinux 2.2 that came with 'The Complete Reference Linux 3rd Edition' by
Richard Petersen, and I have a few??? questions that I hope someone will
answer.
1) In this book he says that when installing Red Hat Gnome there will be an
icon on the desktop labelled CD-ROM and that by right clicking it you will
be able to mount the CD-ROM. Mine didn't. Is there anyway to re-create it?
2) When re-installing Windows the LILO seems to have been overwritten and I
have to boot from a floppy. Can I 're-activate' LILO?
3) When installing Linux I activated the Gnome Display Manager (graphical
login). Can I deactivate it and boot straight to the command line?
4) Probably not be able to help...but my monitor display bows out in Linux
but is rectangluar in Windows and can only get 800x600 resolution in Linux.
I have a Goldstar LG Studioworks 520Si monitor and an SiS 6326 display
adapter - I think I may need to replace these but can't afford to...yet.
Also I have and ESS ES 1869 soundcard, a Rockwell PCI Modem Enumerator
HCFModem with a Rockwell PCI56RVP modem that won't work - am using Windows
to send this.
Sorry this is so long but as I said - I am newbie and these niggles are
ticking me off, so any help will enable me to get to grips more enjoyably
with this OS.
Cheers
Tony
PS So far I think Linux is Ok.
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 21:51:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
jabali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
>Linux is currently the only end-user system alternative to windows on
>a PC (IBM compatible in older terminology). Of course you also have
>Mac-OS.
Don't care much for OS/2 or BeOS, do you? Well, BeOS may not be viable
in the long term, but OS/2 will be around for years to come.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 18:10:28 -0400
From: Gary Hallock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Jim Broughton wrote:
> boot. REXX a software programming (language?) was pioneered on the amiga and later
> spread
> to other operating systems. (although it never really caught on and got left in the
> dust)
Actuall, Rexx was pioneered on VM/CMS. I used it when it was still in beta testing
for IBM internal use. It only later spread too other operating
systems and is now available on most OS. Rexx is still very much alive with Object
Rexx available now for Linux. There is also NetRexx which is
somewhat of a merging of Rexx and Java. All develpoed by Mike Cowlishaw of IBM.
Check out http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/rexx/
Gary
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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 18:22:47 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gtk+ and glib
did you run ldconfig after installing the new version of the libs?
I know that is one thing that is needed. I haven't worked with gtk/glib
for a while so there are probably other things that other readers can
advise you on.
HTH
Brandon
"Andrew J. Perrin" wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install jpilot on my debian system, which involves
> having gtk+ 1.2.0 or greater and therefore glib 1.2.0 or greater. I
> downloaded source for both and installed; glib seems to have
> installed fine into /usr/local/lib, but when using configure gtk+
> doesn't find it. If I force configure for gtk+ to assume it's there,
> then the jpilot configuration doesn't find gtk+:
>
> checking for gtk-config... /usr/local/bin/gtk-config
> checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no
> *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why...
> *** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
> *** that the run-time linker is not finding GTK or finding the wrong
> *** version of GTK. If it is not finding GTK, you'll need to set your
> *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
> *** to the installed location Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that
> *** is required on your system
> ***
> *** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although
> *** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> ***
> *** If you have a RedHat 5.0 system, you should remove the GTK package that
> *** came with the system with the command
> ***
> *** rpm --erase --nodeps gtk gtk-devel
> configure: error: *** GTK >= 1.2.0 not installed - please install first ***
>
> /etc/ld.so.conf contains:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
> /usr/lib/tkstep
> /usr/lib/libc5-compat
> /lib/libc5-compat
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/local/lib
> /usr/local/lib/glib
>
> gtk+ and glib seem to be there:
>
> achebe:/usr/local/lib# ls -l *glib*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 20 Jan 28 23:36 libglib-1.2.so.0 ->
>libglib-1.2.so.0.0.8
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 485439 Jan 28 23:36 libglib-1.2.so.0.0.8
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 736800 Jan 28 23:36 libglib.a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 666 Jan 28 23:36 libglib.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 20 Jan 28 23:36 libglib.so ->
>libglib-1.2.so.0.0.8
>
> glib:
> total 1
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 1024 Jan 28 23:36 include
> achebe:/usr/local/lib# ls -l *gtk*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 19 Jan 29 01:27 libgtk-1.2.so.0 ->
>libgtk-1.2.so.0.5.3
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 4957358 Jan 29 01:27 libgtk-1.2.so.0.5.3
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 9036200 Jan 29 01:28 libgtk.a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 732 Jan 29 01:27 libgtk.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 19 Jan 29 01:27 libgtk.so ->
>libgtk-1.2.so.0.5.3
>
> any ideas why his isn't happening?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ap
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew Perrin - Solaris-Linux-NT-Samba-Perl-Access-Postgres Consulting
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP address stealing on Intranet
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:26:05 -0500
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, M. Buchenrieder quoth:
~~ Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:32:16 GMT
~~ From: M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: Re: IP address stealing on Intranet
~~
~~ "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
~~
~~ >On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, D G quoth:
~~
~~ [...]
~~
~~ >~~ Tell that to Al Gore and his "internet access tax".
~~
~~ >Hey, he created it, so he can tax people for its use if he
~~ >wants to, dammit.
~~
~~ Rrrright.
~~
~~ Besides that, Al Gore's ideas are pretty much meaningless outside
~~ of the US. Since the poster was from hungary, I doubt that the
~~ internals of the US presidential hogwash are of much interest to
~~ him.
It was a joke, I figured it was so blatant a joke
I left off the :-). I guess I shouldn't have. :-)
Lighten up people.
anm
--
Andrew N. McGuire
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
perl -le'print map?"(.*)"?&&($_=$1)&&s](\w+)]\u$1]g&&$_=>`perldoc -qj`'
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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 18:35:06 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie questions
Tony Wainwright wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> I'm a newcomer to Linux, although I did have limited experience of it whilst
> at college ? years ago. I am very experienced with Windows.
>
> I have a publishers edition of Red Hat Linux 6.0 (installed) and Caldera
> OpenLinux 2.2 that came with 'The Complete Reference Linux 3rd Edition' by
> Richard Petersen, and I have a few??? questions that I hope someone will
> answer.
>
> 1) In this book he says that when installing Red Hat Gnome there will be an
> icon on the desktop labelled CD-ROM and that by right clicking it you will
> be able to mount the CD-ROM. Mine didn't. Is there anyway to re-create it?
I'm sure there is but I haven't attempted anything in that realm yet so
I will skip this for someone else.
> 2) When re-installing Windows the LILO seems to have been overwritten and I
> have to boot from a floppy. Can I 're-activate' LILO?
boot with a rescue disk and once logged in to linux once again run
'lilo' at the prompt. This will put lilo back into the MBR. For future
reference anytime u reinstall windows this will happen as it likes to
put its own information over whatever may already be in the MBR so if
you ever get a new driver/computer/whatever, install windows first,
then linux.
> 3) When installing Linux I activated the Gnome Display Manager (graphical
> login). Can I deactivate it and boot straight to the command line?
edit your inittab file in /etc
Change the default runlevel from 5 (it could be set to 4 right now, I am
not sure what RH sets as their default runlevel for X windows) and
change it to 3 most likely. Someone who knows RH (I use SuSE) will be
able to tell you the correct values in case I'm wrong.
The line to edit will look similar to the following:
id:2:initdefault:
> 4) Probably not be able to help...but my monitor display bows out in Linux
> but is rectangluar in Windows and can only get 800x600 resolution in Linux.
> I have a Goldstar LG Studioworks 520Si monitor and an SiS 6326 display
> adapter - I think I may need to replace these but can't afford to...yet.
Not sure about the monitor. You may need to get an actual driver for
the Sis if u are using a generic svga driver for now. That may help with
the resolution. It is also possible that the current driver works but
that the default res. is 800x600. If that is the case try hitting CTRL
ALT and - to decrease resolution or CTRL ALT + to increase resolution.
If there are other resolutions available this will cycle through them.
If not then run Xconfigurator to select multiple resolutions and color
depths.
> Also I have and ESS ES 1869 soundcard, a Rockwell PCI Modem Enumerator
> HCFModem with a Rockwell PCI56RVP modem that won't work - am using Windows
> to send this.
To get the sound working you should be able to run sndconfig at the
prompt. You should also look into ALSA. Their site is alsa-project.org
The modem will most likely (99% chance) not work. Goto
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html for more info and then
possibly www.linmodems.org depending on what the first site says.
HTH
brandon
p.s. don't crosspost
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jeff)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie questions
Date: 8 Sep 2000 22:33:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>2) When re-installing Windows the LILO seems to have been overwritten and I
>have to boot from a floppy. Can I 're-activate' LILO?
You need to configure /etc/lilo.conf with an entry for your Windows
partition, and make sure that lilo.conf includes: boot=/dev/hda ... then
issue the lilo command at the comand line, as root. see: "man lilo" for lots
of details.
>3) When installing Linux I activated the Gnome Display Manager (graphical
>login). Can I deactivate it and boot straight to the command line?
I'm not familiar with either RH or Caldera, but somewhere in /etc there's a
series of subdirectories (something like /etc/rc_.d directories, where _ is
runlevel) look for entries like "s99gdm" (the 99 may be a different number.
This instructs the init routine to start gdm (gnome display manager).
Remove all such entries.
>4) Probably not be able to help...but my monitor display bows out in Linux
>but is rectangluar in Windows and can only get 800x600 resolution in Linux.
>I have a Goldstar LG Studioworks 520Si monitor and an SiS 6326 display
>adapter - I think I may need to replace these but can't afford to...yet.
>Also I have and ESS ES 1869 soundcard, a Rockwell PCI Modem Enumerator
>HCFModem with a Rockwell PCI56RVP modem that won't work - am using Windows
>to send this.
Sounds like you need to tweak your X config.
-jeff
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Government's Decision to Use Microsoft
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:33:11 -0500
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, The Darkener quoth:
~~ Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 17:34:20 GMT
~~ From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: Re: The Government's Decision to Use Microsoft
~~
~~ 1) Windows NT can't become C2 compliant unless you configure it with the C2
~~ Configuration manager and use it on certain hardware:
~~
~~ http://www.rito.com/nt/ntsec/navy/section_5.htm
~~
~~ 2) NT also automatically looses it's C2 compliance when you connect it to a
~~ network - it's only orange-book certified.
~~
~~ 3) Here's an interesting article on exactly HOW MS got NT to be certified:
~~
~~ http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/October12/1c.htm
~~
~~ I'm not here to explicitly bash NT, but that's just some info on exactly how and
~~ why NT is certified. Linux does have a long way to go as well, but I think they
~~ have a better chance in achieving the final goal as Microsoft does...
IIRC, the US government already does use linux for classified systems.
(not very often though, Solaris is prevelant.)
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] (Mike Frisch)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Trouble with NIS+
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 22:43:26 GMT
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:15:59 +0000, Guy-Armand Kamendje
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have the following problem: I have installed Nis+ on my Redhat 6.2
>machine and the connection to the Nis+ Server is quite ok! (Users in the
>NIs+) kann logon on my machine. But whenever I try to mount a directory
>from the Nis+ server (for example users directories), I get the
>following message.
>call_verify: server requires stronger authentication
>call_verify: unknown auth error 5
>I dont really understand what this means. The client credential was
>created using DES as security parameter.
Correct me if I am wrong, but you're attempting to use AUTH_DES as the
authentication flavour for the NFS connection? If that's the case, I am
pretty confident that the current Linux NFS implementation does not
support AUTH_DES (even though the C library obviously does as it supports
NIS+).
Mike.
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From: Gursoy TURAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Parrallel connection between 2 Computers?
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 17:55:02 -0500
Is there a way to connect two computers with a parallel cable. My aim is
to copy files from my desktop to laptop.
I've read the nullmodem serial HOW-TO, but still am wondering if there
is a way of simply accessing the hard drive of the second computer and
then simply copying the files to a local HD.
--
Gursoy
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