Linux-Misc Digest #758, Volume #25 Thu, 14 Sep 00 04:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: fixing garbled display ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Can anyone help me out? ("router")
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (Richard Steiner)
Re: you can turn the power off now (Bill Thompson)
Re: How to grep for date? (Wayne Pollock)
Routing problems? (Georg Prager)
linux bootup (nathanr1)
linux startup graphic ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Brother HL-1030 Printer Driver?? (Grant Taylor)
mirroring a queue with printcap (?) ("Marcel Post")
Re: Customizing Completion in Bash (Peter Kruse)
2 NICs (BorgDrone)
Re: MsLinux! (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Why Does the EXT2 filesystem not need defragmentation. (Floyd Davidson)
Re: make/find syntax question (Sergei Organov)
linuxconf and modules (Ed Hurst)
Linuxconf and modules (Ed Hurst)
Linuxconf and modules (Ed Hurst)
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fixing garbled display
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:17:27 -0500
On 12 Sep 2000, Peter T. Breuer quoth:
PTB> Quentin Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
PTB> : Any suggestions (apart from not 'cat'ting binaries to screen) ?
PTB>
PTB> Type "reset" blind.
PTB>
PTB> Alternatively, type "echo ^V^O" blind (those are control chars).
[ good advice as usual, however... ]
That often times does not work reset enough to allow 'clear' to
work properly. IIRC, echo CNTRL+vESC+c will do a full reset.
( I have this as an one key alias ). Some people do a tput and
and or stty, etc, after this... I have never found that necessary,
although in some cases it may be (I don't know for sure, I am not
a term guru).
I use perl -e 'print "\ec"' as my actual alias, that way I dont
embed control chars in my init files ( plus \e is clearer than
\033 to me). This usually fixes the 'clear' problem.
[ Thomas Dickey: If you are reading this, don't hammer me too hard
for my term ignorance. :-) ]
All the Best!
anm
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=> <"Another> =>
=> <"Perl> =>
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From: "router" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can anyone help me out?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 05:33:13 GMT
> If, on the other hand, part of the goal is to actually know something
> about Linux, then the fact that there are parts of Slackware that
> require typing things in should not be _overly_ daunting.
I do have the goal to actually know something about linux. Hence I chose
Slackware, even tho I have a copy of mandrake (which is starting to get too
much like windows). I'd rather have complete control over "where things are"
as some of the replys so eloquently put it, then have some setup program, or
wizard as most windows users now know them, do it for me so that I need
another program to actually change something.
That's why I came to this newsgroup, hoping to find someone who could
actually help me out with my problem, not just direct me to another
distribution. Any volunteers?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:51:48 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, sinister-catsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>I dont think OS/2 is quite viable for anyone but a minimalist and BeOS
>needs a competent sales force if it wants a piece of the desktop
>marketshare.
I'm uncertain what OS/2 is lacking except in the gaming and high-end
multimedia departments? I agree about the comments re: BeOS, tho...
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OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
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From: Bill Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: you can turn the power off now
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:42:37 +0700
Leonard Evens wrote:
>
> Dan Jacobson wrote:
> >
> > Recommendation: whereas windows has the comfy 'you can safely turn the
> > power off now' screen [funny, why doesn't it also tell us when to turn the
> > power back on? :-)]; and whereas Linux seems to only have the two words
> > "power off" come out on the screen [is it telling me to turn the power
> > off, or is it saying that it turned the power off, and if so, why is my
> > computer still whirring?]
> > Therefore: Linux should be more clear. [At least my distribution and
> > probably yours.]
>
> If you have power management running and it is working, the
> halt command should actually turn off the computer. But if it
> is not running or their is some glitch, it will be safe to
> turn the computer off after the second message indicating the
> system is halted. One follows the other in seconds. I suspect
> it is safe to turn the computer off after the first message,
> but I haven't tried it recently.
Mandrake 7.1 and maybe earlier versions turns off the computer
when the Bios power management is set correctly. I only need to
remember to turn off my scanner and printer.<g> I use 'shutdown -h
now'.
'halt' and 'poweroff' may also work.
Bill
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From: Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to grep for date?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:48:10 -0400
You need double quotes to hide the space in your date string:
grep "$todaysdate" /var/log/messages
Also, the date command takes an argument that allows you to specify
the exact format of the date you want. Then you and save a step:
todaysdate=`date <yada>`
grep "todaysdate" /var/log/messages
where <yada> is the proper arguments for a short month name and date;
check the man page for details.
-Wayne Pollock
George wrote:
>
> I'm trying to learn a little about the Bash shell, by writing a script
> that will check my system log for events that happened today.
>
> If I use the following line in a script, I get the desired output
> (assuming the date is Sep 12):
>
> grep 'Sep 12' /var/log/messages
>
> I discovered the "set" builtin, and figured out how to use it to
> create a variable that is today's date:
>
> set $(date) ; todaysdate="'$2 $3'" ; echo $todaysdate
>
> The above command produces the output I'd expect, 'Sep 12', including
> the single quotes. But when I put it into grep, I don't get the
> results I expect:
>
> set $(date) ; todaysdate="'$2 $3'" ; \
> grep $todaysdate /var/log/messages
>
> I get this error message instead:
>
> grep: 12' No such file or directory
>
> Obviously, grep isn't seeing it's command line the same as when I
> typed the date directly. Why is it different?
>
> Thanks!
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From: Georg Prager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Routing problems?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 06:10:21 GMT
Hi,
I create a connection with pptp (ADSL). IP and PtP address are assigned
to me. Routes are set.
#route -n
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
111.222.333.444 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.5.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
0.0.0.0 111.222.333.444 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
Now my problem:
It's not possible to ping the PtP computer or any other IP in the
internet (Or make a telnet) .
#ping 111.222.333.444
PING 111.222.333.444 (111.222.333.444): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
ping: wrote 111.222.333.444 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
ping: wrote 111.222.333.444 64 chars, ret=-1
My system runs under Debian 2.1, under SuSe or RedHat everything
functions without problems.
#ifconfig ppp0
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:212.xxx.xxx.xxx P-t-P:111.222.333.444
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1490 Metric:1
RX packets:154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:87 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
Thanks a lot and excuse me my bad english.
Georg Prager
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From: nathanr1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux bootup
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 06:28:37 GMT
how do i get rid of sendmail hanging during boot up in redhat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: linux startup graphic
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 06:37:23 GMT
Hi,
can somebody tell me how to get the startup image of Tux while
booting up. That is , if I'm correct a small image of Tux appears on the
top left corner . I think I have to fiddle around with framebuffer or
something.
thaks in adance
Sandy
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Brother HL-1030 Printer Driver??
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 06:57:26 GMT
Steven Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <SNBt5.239324$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "D. Abuan"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Just bought this Brother HL-1030 printer but forgot to check the
>> hardware compatiblity list... Does anyone have any solution to get
>> this thing working???
According to my data, it works with the hl1250 driver included in
Ghostscript 6 and newer, or available separately for inclusion in GPL
Ghostcript.
See http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=261673
> I have a HL-1240. It works beautifully on my Redhat 6.0 box. In
> printtool, I selected the HP LaserJet 4/5/6 series filter. All the
> Windows PCs on the LAN prints great via Samba :-)
Doubtless. However, I have a number of reports that this printer's
2MB memory is not enough, and that it cannot be extended. Thus I do
not recommend this printer to people. The 1250 (adds a SIMM slot),
and especially the 1260 (adds Postscript) and 1270N (adds Ethernet),
however, are all gloriously Linux compatible devices.
--
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Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
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From: "Marcel Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mirroring a queue with printcap (?)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:18:18 +0200
To store information on two separate places, I'd like to know whether it's
possible to duplicate the data that gets into queue A, and put it into queue
B. In this situation I want to connect a printer to queue A, and append the
data to a file that gets into queue B.
It seems to me that this should be entered in /etc/printcap.
This is what I have in /etc/printcap now to print to a JetDirect:
jd_04:\
:lp=/dev/null:sh:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/jd_04:\
:rm=192.168.1.13:rp=raw:
I guess that a 'simple' line should be added here to enter the 'mirrored'
queue. If, and if so, How to do this, is what puzzles me.
Info needed for RedHat 6.2 (or SCO-OpenServer 5)
Cya,
marcel
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From: Peter Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Customizing Completion in Bash
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:06:08 GMT
use tcsh,
Peter
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
kjordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't like the way bash completes things for me and I want to
> change it. I went through the info and man pages but I still couldn't
> figure it out.
>
> Here's how my completion works now: Let's use filename completion
> as an example and let's assume I have the files `foo.bar.1',
> `foo.bar.2', `foo.bar.3', and `foo.bar.4' in the working directory,
> along with a bunch of other files that do not begin with `foo'. Now,
> when I type `ls foo<TAB>' at the command prompt, the shell prints out
> a list of all possible file completions (so, four file names in this
> case), and then the command prompt has `ls foo.bar.' and waits for me
> to finish. I want to change this behaviour but I don't know how.
>
> I want completion to work the way my emacs completion works.
> Here's what I mean: After I type `ls foo<TAB>' I don't want the shell
> to print out all possible completions. Instead, I just want the shell
> to expand the command to `ls foo.bar.' and wait for further input.
> Then, if I hit <TAB> once more, *then* I want to be presented with all
> possible completions. See what I mean? I want completion to expand
> without presenting all possibilities whenever it can unambiguously do
> so, and to present possibilities only when it can't unambiguously
> complete on its own.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> -JK
>
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From: BorgDrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 NICs
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:22:00 GMT
hi,
I have two 3com 3c509 NICs. Both work fine, but when I try to load the
driver module with 'insmod 3c509' it automatically
detects _both_ NICs, and assigns both network cards the same i/o
address. Passing parameters such as 'io=0x230'
doesn't seem to work, it just says 'invalid
parameter: io.
I've read the insmod man page, btw.
Somebody told me I need to install some 3com config tool first, is that
true? If so, where can I get it? I couldn't find it
anywhere on their website.
any help appreciated, thanks very much,
Dominik
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Subject: Re: MsLinux!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 14 Sep 2000 09:44:34 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>http://www.microsoft.com/Windowsme/
Go play in the Win/dos advocacy group...
Oh, BTW, I like #5 on the top-10 list
5. Revert your computer back to normal.
They actually had to put that into the system!
/A
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Does the EXT2 filesystem not need defragmentation.
Date: 13 Sep 2000 23:02:40 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) wrote:
>Floyd Davidson:
>>mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>> I have been looking for detailed explainations as to why
>>>Linux ext2 does not have a fragmentation problem.
>>
>>What would it accomplish? On a multi-user/multi-tasking OS that
>>buffers disk reads to whatever RAM is available, there just is
>>no significant performance hit due to disk fragmentation.
>>
>>Due to multi-tasking for many users, actual disk reads are
>>scattered all about the disk anyway. And since any decent
>>modern OS puts disk reads into RAM buffers and therefore many
>>(or with enough RAM, most) disk read requests actually become
>>memory reads instead, once again there is no added performance
>>hit due to disk fragmentation.
>>
>>None of the above relates directly to any specific file system.
>
>... All of which is true, and is _somewhat_ orthogonal to the
>question.
I do not agree. It makes the actual question raised above
simply moot.
>a) Yes, when you get multitasking into play, there is some
> _inherent_ fragmentation of accesses _regardless_ of how
> data is physically organized.
>
> But that does not establish that there is "no fragmentation
> problem," only that there _is fragmentation_.
Not fragmentation. Insteed there is the same effect, as far a
disk reads, on performance as there would be with fragmentation
whether fragmentation exists or not.
The point is that there is no "fragmentation problem", or in
another way of saying it, there is not a problem which can be
significantly corrected (i.e., from which a significant
performance gain can be had) by reducing reasonable amounts of
disk fragmentation.
>b) Yes, cacheing is good; that diminishes the ill effects of
> fragmentation as the accesses come from RAM...
>
> That means that fragmentation is a bit less important than
> it might otherwise be.
Actually, it is more than "a bit". It means that when data is
repeatedly read (for example when shell scripts invoke many
commands again and again) there is not only not a performance
hit, but in fact the "repeated" nature of it causes an increase
in performance over a one time only operation.
>The _important_ point is that ext2 only suffers _significantly_
>in performance from fragmentation when you write to a
>filesystem that is very full, in which case you likely have
>bigger problems than from performance.
I don't think that is all that important. The effect is like
saying that using your fastest disk drive for swap and putting
the swap partition in the middle of the disk will cause a
performance increase. That may be true under one particular set
of circumstances; however, it is the worst case scenario and one
which everyone trys very hard to avoid simply by buying enough
RAM to rarely ever allow the system to actually run from swap.
In other words, by the time performance is so degraded that it
actually has an effect, who cares.
>That tends to be true for _any_ reasonably modern filesystem
>design; things should be pretty quick when the FS isn't
>terribly full, and you run into the _innate_ dilemma of having
>to do a lot of work to find free space to fit in new material.
>
>MS-DOS "FAT" suffers from the problem that it doesn't have a
>good way to "coalesce" free space; once you have consumed all
>the space on the partition, it can start "choking" even though
>there is lots of free space, basically because the space
>management scheme is 15 years old, and rather naive, ignoring
>the understanding of filesystems that existed at the time.
That is true fact. But (and this is a serious question because
I don't have enough experience with Microsoft OS's to know) does
anyone actually use DOS's FAT for anything other than floppies
anymore? Granted that everything MS has done since is grossly
hampered by some form of backward compatibility, and thus also
can be described as ignoring well understood design principles
used by everyone else, but regardless those are the filesystems
to compare to in this case, not MS-DOS "FAT".
(Heh, if you think MS-DOS's filesystem ignored modern concepts,
right at about the same time Bell Northern Research (BNR) put
winchester hard disks into their DMS line of telephone
switches... and since they had 9 track tape drives using IBM
formatting, you guessed it, the hard disk used a modified form
of the same filesystem as the tape. You wanna talk about
horrible ideas...!)
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From: Sergei Organov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: make/find syntax question
Date: 14 Sep 2000 11:33:56 +0400
>From documentation of GNU make:
`$(subst FROM,TO,TEXT)'
Performs a textual replacement on the text TEXT: each occurrence
of FROM is replaced by TO. The result is substituted for the
function call. For example,
$(subst ee,EE,feet on the street)
substitutes the string `fEEt on the strEEt'.
Sergei.
Ethan VonderWeid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm writing a makefile (gnu-make, if it matters) for a java project and
> one of the things I need to do is scan a directory and get a list of all
> the jar files in it and compose a classpath variable from that list.
> here's what I've got so far:
>
> DESTINATION = /some/dir
> CLASSPATH = $(wildcard $(shell find $(DESTINATION) -name "*.jar" -prune
> -print 2>/dev/null))
>
> what this gives me is a value for $(CLASSPATH) that looks like this:
>
> /some/dir/foo.jar /some/dir/lib/bar.jar /some/dir/baz.jar ...
>
> what I need is a way to replace the spaces separating each element with
> colons (":") so that the value for $(CLASSPATH) looks like this:
>
> /some/dir/foo.jar:/some/dir/bar.jar:/some/dir/baz.jar:...
>
>
> I looked through the find man page and thought the -printf option looked
> promising, but I couldn't get it to give me what I wanted.
>
> anyone with suggestions can mail them to ethan(at)vonderweid(dot)com
> (after mandatory address demangling, of course ;).
>
> thanks,
>
> e
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From: Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linuxconf and modules
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:37:18 GMT
The Big Dummy factor strikes again. I tried to upgrade my linuxconf to=20
1.21r1 but it gave me all sorts of problems-- I couldn't print via=20
ghostscript, Gnome started complaining, etc. so I rebooted. That was eve=
n=20
worse! I lost X altogether. Thinking there was some incompatibility, I=20
rpm'd back down to v 1.16r1 and tried to check all the config files I=20
remember editing. I had to shut off xfsft completely, but I can live=20
without TTFs. That got X working, and my X login came back up. I can onl=
y=20
use KDE; not even AnotherLevel or Gnome, or even Gnome apps will run for=
=20
my user. (Oddly, root can run Gnome apps just fine.)
Here is the confusing part of my boot messages:
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module fetchmailconf does not exist=
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module gurus does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module inetdconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module isapnpconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module kernelconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module managerpm does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module printer does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module shellmod does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module syslogconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Setting firewalling
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost rc: Starting linuxconf succeeded
I am running RedHat 6.1 i386 on an Evergreen Spectra 233mhz upgrade chip=
.=20
I am running a single-user machine, standalone with a modem dialup=20
connection. I followed the instructions in the Small-Memory-HOWTO and=20
some security articles and shut down a lot of services that I don't use:=
=20
fetchmail (I use fetchpop), isapnp, and I've never messed with=20
firewalling at all (I run Junkbuster).
Now that I've thoroughly confused things, if you have any clue, point th=
e=20
way. I'll gladly accept "RTFMs" if you'll identify which FM.
Ed
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From: Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linuxconf and modules
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:18:23 -0500
The Big Dummy has done it again-- I decided to upgrade to the newest
version of linuxconf (1.21r1) and immediately my printer quit working
properly, and I had all sorts of errors that prevented X from starting.
Having no idea what an upgrade would change, I first tried to recover my
previous version of linuxconf (1.16r1), then went and checked all the
config files I could recall editing in the first place. I still was
forced to shut down xfsft for now, or X would not run at all. I got my X
login up and can only start KDE (1.1.2), not even AnotherLevel, and
certainly not Gnome (that's another problem altogether-- root can run
Gnome just fine).
RedHat 6.1 i386 on an Evergreen Spectra 233mhz upgrade chip, and fully
current Helix-Gnome. My startup messages included:
=======================================================================
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module fetchmailconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module gurus does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module inetdconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module isapnpconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module kernelconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module managerpm does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module printer does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module shellmod does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module syslogconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Setting firewalling
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost rc: Starting linuxconf succeeded
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Odd, since I never had firewalling before, AKAIK. I've been using
Junkbuster. I don't use fetchmail, but fetchpop. I run a stand-alone,
single-user machine connecting via dialup modem. That part still works.
I once shut off a lot of services based on the Small-Memory-HOWTO and
the advice of a few articles about security. I have no idea why these
modules are sought.
If you are short on patience, just tell me where to look up the info
myself.
Ed
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From: Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linuxconf and modules
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:22:59 GMT
The Big Dummy has done it again-- I decided to upgrade to the newest=20
version of linuxconf (1.21r1) and immediately my printer quit working=20
properly, and I had all sorts of errors that prevented X from starting. =
Having no idea what an upgrade would change, I first tried to recover my=
=20
previous version of linuxconf (1.16r1), then went and checked all the=20
config files I could recall editing in the first place. I still was=20
forced to shut down xfsft for now, or X would not run at all. I got my X=
=20
login up and can only start KDE (1.1.2), not even AnotherLevel, and=20
certainly not Gnome (that's another problem altogether-- root can run=20
Gnome just fine).
RedHat 6.1 i386 on an Evergreen Spectra 233mhz upgrade chip, and fully=20
current Helix-Gnome. My startup messages included:
=======================================================================
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module fetchmailconf does not exist=
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module gurus does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module inetdconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:51 localhost linuxconf: Module isapnpconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module kernelconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module managerpm does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module printer does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module shellmod does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Module syslogconf does not exist
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost linuxconf: Setting firewalling
Sep 13 22:20:52 localhost rc: Starting linuxconf succeeded
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Odd, since I never had firewalling before, AKAIK. I've been using=20
Junkbuster. I don't use fetchmail, but fetchpop. I run a stand-alone,=20
single-user machine connecting via dialup modem. That part still works. =
I=20
once shut off a lot of services based on the Small-Memory-HOWTO and the =
advice of a few articles about security. I have no idea why these module=
s=20
are sought.
If you are short on patience, just tell me where to look up the info=20
myself.
Ed
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