Linux-Misc Digest #894, Volume #25 Thu, 28 Sep 00 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Modprobe: Can't open dependencies file (MH)
Re: Problem with rpm ("Jan Schaumann")
Re: NEWBIE: exploring Linux + win/lin modem (E J)
Re: List of RH7 iso mirrors -- we need one (John)
Re: CD-ROM problem (Dances With Crows)
Re: HELP: How to use FTP or should I turn to Windows (Sharon Wang)
Re: There is a reason for this... (Michel Catudal)
Re: There is a reason for this... (Michel Catudal)
Re: laTex/TeX or groff for documents? (Robert Heller)
mingetty (Tom Voltaggio)
Re: System hangs on boot ("Mark")
Netscape Communicator upgrade to 4.75 (YY Lee)
Re: mingetty ("mojo")
Re: CP/M and Linux, can it read disks (Michel Catudal)
Re: Newbie: EZ question about dir structure (Barry OGrady)
Re: Netscape Communicator upgrade to 4.75 (Christopher W. Aiken)
Re: Where can I find a kernel? (Bob Martin)
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:10:28 -0700
I get the following error on boot, and I think it may be related to my
printer not being detected by printtool:
Modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.16/modules.dep
The file DOES exist, and is readable by everyone. What is causing the
error? How can I correct it? Could it have anything to do with printtool
not being able to detect my printer (yes, parport.o exists, and kernel
support for parallel printing was enabled)?
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with rpm
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:10:22 -0400
In our last episode, "Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi all.
> I'm trying to install an rpm package for Linux. I'm running Gentus
> Linux on a celeron machine. But when I try rpm -1 <packagename>, get
> the message:
>
> package <packagename> is for a different operating system.
>
> Don't all linux distributions recognize the same Linux rpm packages? Any
> assistance will be appreciated.
make sure you got the correct rpm for you architecture.
There are rpm's for i386, for i686, for sparc, for alpha, for ppc...
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
-- Ernest Hemingway
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NEWBIE: exploring Linux + win/lin modem
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:19:57 -0700
Emil Vatai wrote:
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400
>
> 1st the Modem: Lucent Win Modem (says Win98), LT modem (says Win2K), Genius
> GM56PCI-L 56Kmodem (says it's box)?
> The prob is half fixed: I've got REDHAT 6.0 (I don't know its kernel #) but
> I got a driver for "lucent chipset"? (I think) and it need's 2.2.12-20
> (which is higher than linux RH 6.0's). I don't know if the modem driver will
> work for me and getting a kernel is new for me (shoul I be afraid? or is it
> no biggy?).
>
I don't know about the lucent modem, but my coworker compile the kernel for
RH6.2 for his laptop lucent modem and
was pretty happy with it.
>
> The last part carries me to the next topic...
>
> I'm relatively new to linux. I've been reading about it, understood most of
> it, and I'm cool whit it. But since I haven't found anything yet (I hope)
> that I can do on Linux what I can't do on Win, I'm still pretty much Windows
> based (don't hate me for it I'm just 17). To tell you the truth I still find
> windows 2000 better (but I say that I hope that will change in time). btw I
> this is my first contact whit other Linux users.
>
Windows 2000 is better than Windows NT or Windows 98 or Windows ME.
You will only find Windows on Intel or compatible Machines.
You will find linux on palmtop (wow! how did they fix X in there) to mainframe
(IBM S390) and maybe supercomputers.
>
> My aproach to Linux, is it good?
> I don't have any, I'm useing it beside win98 and win2k, I made an acount for
> my selfe, but I find it anoying that when ever I wana do something I have to
> 'su', I find X window a bit slower than MSwindows, and I'm thinking that
> maybe I should look at it more as a server and less as win95 workstation.
>
Let me see, X on Windows cost about $200.00. Why don't Microsoft built it in?
>
> Internet?
> Since I have a winmodem I don't connect Linux and the Internet too much
> (I've downloaded the Xfree86 Server for my Voodoo3 once, and the lucent
> modem driver, that's all). But at the same time it's absolutly no problem to
> get a pirat CD and theire really cheap and not illegal (that is, no one
> cares! cute). So I've bought RH 5.2, and RH6.0... can I keep it up
> continueing like that?
>
You can't pirate Redhat, you can freely distribute it. Right now I am download
Redhat 7.0 from a download site.
(about twice as fast as dialup). I can copy it and give to friends with out
any legal problems.
I can also learn without paying big bucks:
Oracle on Linux: I am only using it for learning, that is ok as long as it is
non-commericial, Oracle even encourages download its software for
non-commerical use.
SQL Server on Windows 2000: Microsoft don't care if it for learning, you
still owe Microsoft big bucks. If you can prove you are from a school,
Microsoft may give you a discount.
>
> I think that's about it, tell me what to do first - I think I know the
> basics.
> Thanx, Emil Vatai
> (from Yugoslavia)
If you want the basics of linux, get the Redhat 6.2 or Redhat 7.0 documentation
CD. It is chockful of how to's, faq, installation notes.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John )
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: List of RH7 iso mirrors -- we need one
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:35:59 GMT
Huh? Kentucky isn't anywhere near there and I downloaded fine from
sunsite.auc.dk.
Din't know I shouldn't have used it 20 kbs seemed fine to me.
Mogens Kjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jem Berkes wrote:
>>
>> "Paul T. McNally" wrote:
>> >
>> > Chowder wrote:
>> >
>> > > That would be cool if we could get a list of RH7 iso mirrors going!
>> >
>> > I had some good luck with ftp.lame.org. I work nights and I was able
>> > to download the iso's at work.
>>
>> I downloaded from sunsite.auc.dk, about 40 kb/sec throughput (took
>> overnight to download). Since then I've checked twice and I've always
>> been able to log in.
>
>This server is located in Denmark. Unless you're downloading to
>someplace in Scandinavia, this is a Really Bad Idea.
>
>Mogens
>--
>Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg Laboratory, Dept. of Chemistry
>Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark
>Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08
>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.crc.dk
Remove the "-nospam" from my return address to respond.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM problem
Date: 29 Sep 2000 01:51:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:23:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am typing
>"mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom"
>then it says
>"mount: Wrong medium type"
>
>This error is with the same RH CD from which I installed the Linux. The
>error msg is the same for other data CDs too. I am not using any audio
>CDs at all.
And what does "ls -l /dev/cdrom" tell you? It should be pointing to
/dev/hdc, as you indicated in an earlier post that your CD-ROM was
hooked up there. If it isn't, then you will get errors like that. You
can fix it with "ln -sf /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom" if it's pointing to the
wrong place.
Also, is this a CD-R(W)? If so, you may need to use /dev/scd0 instead
of /dev/hdc, for reasons explained in the CD-Writing-HOWTO. I think it
would be a good idea to post the complete output of "dmesg" to this NG
since that could help someone help you.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: Sharon Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP: How to use FTP or should I turn to Windows
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:02:30 -0400
Thanks.
Massimiliano wrote:
> Check the file /etc/passwd. At the end of the line concerning the user
> being refused by the ftp server there shoul be the shell used to login,
> usually /bin/bash.
> If there is NO shell selected the user can login from consoles but NOT
> from remote (ftp is considered remote login even if used from the same
> machine).
> So, simply add "/bin/bash" at the end of the line, and it will work
For each user, the login shell is specified at the end of line. So it's
unlikely that this is the cause. The authentication fails at some point
which I don't where and how.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: There is a reason for this...
Date: 28 Sep 2000 21:06:02 -0500
Jerry L Kreps a �crit :
>
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Holly wrote:
> >> Amusing, I have 2 hard drives 14G and 15G with 3G for winblows and the
> >rest for
> >> Linux. I will remove winblows as soon as my Mustek 600 CP scanner is
> >supported on
> >> Linux.
>
> Have your tried the 600SC or the 600 II CD? I bet either would work with
> the proper config setting.
> JLK
It says here that my scanner doesn't work with it
http://www.mostang.com/sane/man/sane-mustek_pp.5.html
Since I don't scan stuff very often it's not a big issue. I'd hate to
feel like I crossed over.
--
Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking?
then it's time to upgrade to Linux.
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: There is a reason for this...
Date: 28 Sep 2000 21:12:02 -0500
Holly a �crit :
>
> > Amusing, I have 2 hard drives 14G and 15G with 3G for winblows and the
> rest for
> > Linux. I will remove winblows as soon as my Mustek 600 CP scanner is
> supported on
> > Linux.
>
> Yes. Hm. That's nice. I am not unaware of MS's flawed approach and
> execution, I simply require their os, with as much space as I can spare
> for it, so I can use software that doesn't *exist* for Linux (or BSD),
> namely certain particularly useful and flexible audio recording tools.
> (Have you ever seen the space multitracking takes up? Not pretty...)
>
I haven't had much problem here. I just finished recording all my Dean Martin
LPs (55 LPs) on CD and the results are excellent. I never had to reboot to winblows
to do anything except when I scanned some pictures to put on the CDs.
As I recalled my SuSE 7.0 package says that I have over 1800 applications.
So sotfware doesn't exist you say! What is the magic number for software
to start existing?
--
Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking?
then it's time to upgrade to Linux.
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: laTex/TeX or groff for documents?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:12:10 -0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.Brautaset),
In a message on 29 Sep 2000 04:09:23 +0100, wrote :
S> Hope I'm not starting a flame-war here, but wich would be the prefered tool for
S> writing short reports and essays? (The kind you hand in at universities.) I
S> know that both can be used for typesetting whole books, but how is the learning
S> curve for the both of them? And, I use emacs; TeX is best supported here, isn't
S> it?
LaTeX is wonderful for these sorts of docs. LaTeX is actually fairly
easy to learn -- mainly because 90% of the special things you need
happen to be plain English words: \begin{centering} ... \end{centering}
-- begin, end, centering: you know what these words mean, right? How
about: \section{Introduction} and so on.
LaTeX is also just about the *only* system that *properly* formats
scientific expressions. This can be real important to Math, Physics,
and Chem. professors. Getting those pesky expressions just right can
make or break your grade point average...
S>
S> Sincerely, Stig
S>
--
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From: Tom Voltaggio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: mingetty
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:13:26 GMT
Someone told me about alogin to allow for
automatic login.
This instructs you to modify the /etc/inittab as follows:
change
1;2345 respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttty1
to
1;2345 respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttty1 /bin/alogin
When I do, I get an error on bootup which says that the
system is respawning too fast and shutting it down for 5
minutes.
Any clue? The docs for alogin only talk about agetty, or
mgetty, but not mingetty.
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From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: System hangs on boot
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:17:36 GMT
I cant help u, but do u go to mit??
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> My linuxppc 2.2.15pre3 kernel hangs on boot after
>
> remounting root filesystem read/write [OK]
>
> is displayed. It was running fine for a long time, and then I did a
>
> >shutdown -h -t 0 now
>
> because I was taking the machine to a different room. It hung on
> shutdown when unmounting the fs, and then gave me the above error when
> rebooting.
>
> Does anyone have any idea where to go with this? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Joe
>
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From: YY Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape Communicator upgrade to 4.75
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:21:54 GMT
I use Mandrake 7.1 with Netscape Communicator 4.73. I downloaded new
Netscape Communicator 4.75 and installed it at '/opt/netscape'. Somehow
when I tried executing '/opt/netscape/netscape' it says:
// start capturing --
netscape: program is version 4.75, but resource are version 4.73.
This means that there is an inappropriate `Netscape' file installed
in the app-defaults directory. Check these environment variables
and the directories to which they point:
$XAPPLRESDIR
$XFILESARCHPATH
$XUSERFILESEARCHPATH
Also check for this file in your home directory, or in the
directory called `app-defaults' somewhere under /usr/lib/
//end capturing --
Is this mean the Netscape binaries are at '/usr/lib/netscape' and if it
is, can I upgrade or overwrite the NC 4.73 to 4.75 without screwing up
my whole system?
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From: "mojo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mingetty
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:37:09 GMT
i'm no expert but shouldn't that be
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttyS1 /bin/alogin
have u looked at /var/log/messages
to give u more info as to what the error is.??
"Tom Voltaggio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Someone told me about alogin to allow for
> automatic login.
>
> This instructs you to modify the /etc/inittab as follows:
> change
> 1;2345 respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttty1
> to
> 1;2345 respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttty1 /bin/alogin
>
> When I do, I get an error on bootup which says that the
> system is respawning too fast and shutting it down for 5
> minutes.
>
> Any clue? The docs for alogin only talk about agetty, or
> mgetty, but not mingetty.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CP/M and Linux, can it read disks
Date: 28 Sep 2000 21:36:15 -0500
Paxx a �crit :
>
> Can Linux read CP/M disks, and how would I have to mount a floppy to do it.
> I know that fdisk recognizes a CP/M partition. A friend has some old disks.
> Thanks for any help you can give.
You should find what you need here
http://www.moria.de/~michael/cpmtools/
And don't forget to look on my web site for "The dumb sons of America"
and if you can read French "Les tatas d'Am�rique"
2 good ole American humor sites.
--
Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking?
then it's time to upgrade to Linux.
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry OGrady)
Subject: Re: Newbie: EZ question about dir structure
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 03:35:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whats an EZed question?
Barry
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Updated 27/07/00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher W. Aiken)
Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator upgrade to 4.75
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:54:51 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:21:54 GMT, YY Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
->I use Mandrake 7.1 with Netscape Communicator 4.73. I downloaded new
->Netscape Communicator 4.75 and installed it at '/opt/netscape'. Somehow
->when I tried executing '/opt/netscape/netscape' it says:
->// start capturing --
->netscape: program is version 4.75, but resource are version 4.73.
->
-> This means that there is an inappropriate `Netscape' file installed
-> in the app-defaults directory. Check these environment variables
-> and the directories to which they point:
->
-> $XAPPLRESDIR
-> $XFILESARCHPATH
-> $XUSERFILESEARCHPATH
->
-> Also check for this file in your home directory, or in the
-> directory called `app-defaults' somewhere under /usr/lib/
->//end capturing --
->Is this mean the Netscape binaries are at '/usr/lib/netscape' and if it
->is, can I upgrade or overwrite the NC 4.73 to 4.75 without screwing up
->my whole system?
->
You might try this. Save your bookmarks.html file from your
.netscape directory. Then delete your .netscape directory.
Fire up /opt/netscape/netscape and see if the error goes away.
If not, then, in addition to the above, uninstall both versions
of Netscape. This should clean out things. Then re-install
the 4.75 version.
--
---
Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where can I find a kernel?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:57:25 -0500
MATHEWS BAIJU P wrote:
>
> I need a linux kernel that is close to th 2.3 release and which will mount
> the filesystem of tyoe msdos. My dos partition is FAT16 nad my current
> kernel does not understand msdos while mounting.
>
> Since my DOS file system and the linux file system cannot talk, I cannot
> download the source of the kernel and then compile.
>
> Is there any dos utility that understand the linux file system and
> transfer files between dos and linux?
>
> Thanks
> PAUL
www.kernel.org , but what distro are using ? I don't of any of the major
distros that do not include support for DOS file system. use the mtools
utility to copy from DOS to linux.
--
Bob Martin
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