Linux-Misc Digest #999, Volume #25 Tue, 10 Oct 00 17:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Partitioning..... (Pajamas)
RH7 vs Mandrake 7.1 (Scott)
Re: Equation Editors - AND STARMATH... (Kevin E Cosgrove)
ctrace for linux ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: JDK1.3 (Kyle Parfrey)
Re: Filesystem question (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Optimizing compilation (Stewart Honsberger)
system parameters in Suse 6.4 (jens)
RPM 3.0.4 won't install new packages (Jiim McIntyre)
Re: Please HELP!! THIS HAS TO WORK TONIGHT (Toffer)
Re: Optimizing compilation (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: can't login - hacked? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: what is it (Dances With Crows)
Re: mount & mtools (Dances With Crows)
Accessing certain sites fails... (weird) (Dances With Crows)
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Passing variables to Expect from bash, How? ("Shining Knight")
Re: RPM 3.0.4 won't install new packages (Jean-David Beyer)
gnu emacs diary functionalities. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 (Mike)
trouble compiling a kernel RH7 ("havesum2")
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From: Pajamas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning.....
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:08:06 -0500
>I hoped to boot from floppy in order to avoid this problem, and because
>I don't know how to set up a dual-boot. Does it occur automaticly?
>
>The Jigsaw Man
I know. But it is so easy to let lilo automatically do its thing. I
had Win98SE on a fat32 partition and moved it all into a 5 gig
partition leaving 4 gig for linux. I installed redhat 7 by booting
from the cd. During the install I was forced to use druid to make
some linux partitions. I chose 90 meg for swap and the rest for /
mount point. It worked like a champ and left me with lilo dual
booting with only a 5 second delay.
PJ
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From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7 vs Mandrake 7.1
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:55:45 -0500
Anyone have any links to comparison reviews? Or just reviews for one or
the other? Anyone have any experiences with either of the two, good or
bad!!"
thanks,
scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Equation Editors - AND STARMATH...
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,sci.math
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:14:15 GMT
I use groff's eqn macro set to do exactly this with fabulous
results. Here an example input:
.EQ "(Eq. 8)"
"r\s-4\din\u\s+4" =
{"r\s-4\dinn\u\s+4" "r\s-4\dinp\u\s+4"}
over
{"r\s-4\dinn\u\s+4" + "r\s-4\dinp\u\s+4"}
.EN
I convert this to PostScript like so:
groff -e -t -ms -Tps file.ms > file.ps
I get from PostScript to GIF like so:
pstopnm file.ps
mv -f file001.ppm file.ppm
pnmcrop -bottom file.ppm | pnmcrop -top | pnmcrop -right | ppmtogif > file.gif
G'luck....
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Radix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know of an equation editor (for linux systems) that can
> display complex mathematical equations (greek alphabet, and all that
> other stuff) etc.
--
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ctrace for linux ???
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:08:47 GMT
Hi everyone ...
Maybe i am asking wrong, but is there a ctrace
like program (found on commercial unices) for
linux ?
I need to trace the execution of a c source
(compiled of course) and can't find anything on
the net ...
Please help ...
Marian
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From: Kyle Parfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: JDK1.3
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:27:53 GMT
At suns site they have a beta release for linux, it works fine, for me
anyhow. Its not rpm as far as I remember but I had no trouble installing
on mandrake.
Kyle
Ryuji Yokoyama wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> Is there RPM format of JDK1.3(JAVA2 SDK v1.3) ? If so, please tell me
> where can I get it.
>
> thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Filesystem question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:31:30 GMT
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:02:28 +0100, David Quinn wrote:
>Being a linux newbie, I was working under the impression that the unix file
>systems did not support spaces in filenames wheras Windows does. So I
>created the partion in FAT32 so that windows applications would be able to
>save files correctly.
That assumption is interesting, considering it's exactly-backwards. {smile}
The Linux filesystem(s); ext2 and the somewhat newer ReiserFS both natively
support LFNs (Long FileNames), whereas the FAT filesystem has grown through
the years from a floppy-disk filesystem. It was originally something like
Fat4 or Fat8, and soon developed into Fat16, still with the 8.3 filename
restriction in place. Shortly thereafter, and with the introduction of
Windoze'95, the kludge to allow LFNs was introduced. That same kludge is
still being used, albeit a little 'tweaked' in the FAT32 filesystem.
When you save a file to any FAT filesystem, you're saving it under an 8.3
filename, with the LFN stored seperately.
>Having done some further investigation it appears my assumption is wrong!
>So my problem can clearly be solved by simply replacing the FAT32 partition
>with a standard Linux one.
That would be my preference.
>However, I never like to leave problems unresolved so if anyone has any
>explanation for the probelm with sharing my FAT 32 partition, I'd still be
>interested to know why it didn't work.
I'm not sure, but then I'm also not familiar with 'fsconf'. IME, the best
way to create a FAT32 filesystem is by using the native Windoze tools. (The
'format.com' included with Win98 will format a partition Fat32 whether you
want it or not).
The Linux-based tools I use to create/manage filesystems are fdisk, mke2fs,
mkreiserfs. There exists an "mformat" utility that comes in the "mtools"
package, but I think that only deals with FAT16 partition types.
Long story short; my suggestion would be to either use ext2, Reiser, or
if you need Windoze to be able to access the partition also, use the
Windoze format application.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Optimizing compilation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:33:55 GMT
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:04:20 +0200, Martin Herrman wrote:
>> How can I setup gcc so that it automatically compiles everything for my
>> PIII instead of for a 386 ? (will this also work with makefiles?)
>> Cause I don't really see why it's best to compile your tarballs yourself if
>> they end up being optimized for a 386 :-(
>
>In /root/.bash_profile:
>
>CFLAGS=-O3 -mcpu=i686 -march=i686
>CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS
>EXPORT CFLAGS CXXFLAGS
Where would one find a listing of the supported architectures? (man, HOWTO,
etc.. would be perfect).
I, for example, run a K6-2, but hope to shortly upgrade to an Athlon
(pardon me; Thunderbird).
>--
>Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
>Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.17 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
>12:00pm up 4 min, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.21, 0.10
Just out of curiosity; how does one go about making Slrn execute a command/
script to create the sig file?
>Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
ROTFL!
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From: jens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: system parameters in Suse 6.4
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:39:30 +0200
Dear all,
I am charged with determining certain parameters on Suse 6.4-machines
such
as:
processor (amount, type),
RAM
MAC-address
IP-addresses
loadbalancing-group
OS
patch-level
date of last checkup
release/patchlevel of installed software
Are there commands that allow the user to read out the above parameters?
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks very much in advance,
Jens
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From: Jiim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM 3.0.4 won't install new packages
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:57:12 GMT
Hi
I'm using rpm 3.0.4 on rh 6.2. When I try to install or update new
packages, I get the message:
"Only packages with major <= 3 are supported by this version of rpm".
I've never had this problem before. Because of this error, I can't
upgrade rpm itself. I get the same error message when I try rpm-Uvh
libtool-1.3.5-8.i386.rpm. Same thing for autoconf, and automake. Anyone
have some idea of what's going on here. TIA
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Toffer)
Subject: Re: Please HELP!! THIS HAS TO WORK TONIGHT
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:13:21 GMT
The setup..
The following is an incompete (insecure) solution. These are notes I
made a year ago for CALDERA linux 1.3, but the principles remain
unchanged. . . . .
A linux box is used to provide dial-up access to the internet for a
number of intranet clients (typically: base 10) connected to it via an
ethernet LAN.
The following software setup is needed...
1. The clients define the linux box as their default route with a
metric value of 1 (if applicable), and have a route to it available.
2. The linux box is configured for ip forwarding and ip
firewalling. These are kernel configuration parameters - and so a
kernel rebuild is probably needed.
3. In cadera - the LISA utility is used to enable ip forwarding
(lisa turns it off otherwise).
4. The ppp configuration for the linux must be set as usual, and
must define a suitable default gateway via the ISPs dial-up server.
5. The ISPs DNS servers must be configured into the list of DNS
servers for the clients (as well as the gateway).
6. Since the clients have INTRANET addresses, the gateway must
have "masquerading" turned on. This means that the outgoing packets
appear to be coming from the gateway itself (which does have a
valid internet address). This is done using a sequence of IPFWADM
commands. An example is listed in the script sample below.
============================= snip
====================================
# Rules for forwarding stuff - We only forward from the listed hosts
ipfwadm -F -f # Flush (wipe) the forwarding rules list
ipfwadm -F -p deny # Default is to deny all forwarding traffic,
but ...
# Add a specific case of forwarding acceptance. We forward traffic
# from hosts where the first 24 bits of address match "10.0.0",
# with no restriction on the target address. Ie 10.0.0.* can talk
# to anyone through us. The "-m" means we masquerade the source
address
# so that it looks as if it is this server that is talking. We need
# to do this because our clients dont have true internet addresses:
# they are INTRAnet hosts.
ipfwadm -F -a accept -m -S 10.0.0.0/24
# Rules for outgoing packets - unrestricted
ipfwadm -O -f # wipe the rules list.
ipfwadm -O -p accept # Add the default rule to "accept" all traffic
# Rules for incoming packets - unrestricted
ipfwadm -I -f # Wile the rules list.
ipfwadm -I -p accept # Default is to accept all traffic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Please HELP!! THIS HAS TO WORK TONIGHT
>
>Alot of you been helping be but I need to get this working tonight. It
>does not have to work great but it has to work tonight. I need someone
>to give me the dummy version on how to do it. Please send me the
>command lines if you can.
>
>I gave a network of two computer. one as a ppp (modem line) to my ISP.
>I have to give me other computer on the network access to the internet??
>
>Please help me out and email me the commands if you can
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Optimizing compilation
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:32:37 -0400
Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:04:20 +0200, Martin Herrman wrote:
> >> How can I setup gcc so that it automatically compiles everything for my
> >> PIII instead of for a 386 ? (will this also work with makefiles?)
> >> Cause I don't really see why it's best to compile your tarballs yourself if
> >> they end up being optimized for a 386 :-(
> >
> >In /root/.bash_profile:
> >
> >CFLAGS=-O3 -mcpu=i686 -march=i686
> >CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS
> >EXPORT CFLAGS CXXFLAGS
>
> Where would one find a listing of the supported architectures? (man, HOWTO,
> etc.. would be perfect).
"Using and Porting GNU CC" by Richard M. Stallman would be good. I have Version
2.8 of the manual which may be out of date.
-mcpu is listed as accepting i386, i486, i586 (pentium), pentium, i686
(pentiumpro) and pentiumpro.
-march is listed as accepting i386, i486, pentium, and pentiumpro.
There are about 100 pages of options. Better get the latest copy of the book.
> I, for example, run a K6-2, but hope to shortly upgrade to an Athlon
> (pardon me; Thunderbird).
>
> >--
> >Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
> >Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.17 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
> >12:00pm up 4 min, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.21, 0.10
>
> Just out of curiosity; how does one go about making Slrn execute a command/
> script to create the sig file?
>
> >Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
>
> ROTFL!
>
> --
> Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://tinys.cx/blackdeath
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
> Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test7
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't login - hacked?
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:34:02 -0400
"Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
>
> > Hi Again,
> >
> > It just got worse - it is a hacker. I just saw in top that there were
> > several processes running which I don't recognise and after updatedb
> > and locate on the process name I found the intruder's directory which
> > seems to indicate that this program is a packet sniffer!!
> >
> > HELP! What do I do now?? He obviously got root or else he couldn't
> > run the packet sniffer. Is my just stopping his processes, deleting
> > his directory and changing root and other passwords enough??
> >
> > Equally, how do I get all my normal telnet and FTP logins back??
> >
> > I seriously need the help of a security guru here :o)
>
> Game over, you lost. Pull the plug on the machine, format and reinstall.
> Perhaps read up on some host-hardening techniques during the install.
> Sorry to be so blunt, and give you such bad news, but there is really
> no other way. Oh yes, remember, any backups you made are probably
> tainted as well.
Not all of them. The total backup he made just after the installation and
before connecting to the network and Internet should be OK.
> Good Luck!
>
> anm
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> News::NNTPClient;$;=News::NNTPClient->new();($==>$$)=($;->group(($|||
> ((<comp.lang.perl.misc>)))));for$)(<$=>..<$$>){map{$\=v12;die 1?qq{$1
> }:q--while s<^.+(j..T .{6}(r) p.R. .{5}\2).+>[$1]mig}$;->article($))}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: what is it
Date: 10 Oct 2000 20:35:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:28:39 -0200, Sergey Grishin wrote:
>There is a problem appeared when compiling kernel 2.2.17.
>A make generates the following command
>as86 �0 �a �o bbootsect.o bbotsect.s
>whereupon an Error �as86 � unknown command� occurs.
>Okay so what is as86 and what is �0 option Suppose I am missing that
>as86 package of which I have never heard anything then where do I get
>it?
as86 is a special assembler, used for assembling real-mode code on x86
architectures. It is necessary because as (the standard assembler) only
does protected-mode x86 code, and since all x86 machines start up in
real mode, the kernel must have some real-mode code in it to be able to
load itself into memory and switch to protected mode.
It's in the dev86 RPM on your distro CD. For some reason which I can
only guess at, RedHat has left this package out of the dependency tree.
Doesn't seem like it'd be difficult to include it; something like the
following pseudocode?
package kernel-source:
if(architecture == x86){
require dev86 ;
}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: mount & mtools
Date: 10 Oct 2000 20:35:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:33:40 -0400, Arlan Lucas de Souza wrote:
>Is it true that if I use mtools I can't access anymore floppy disks throuh
>mount command?
>[arlan@epsilon /tmp]$ mdir a:
> Volume in drive A is LINUX BOOT
> Volume Serial Number is 2410-07EF
>Directory for A:/
[snip]
>[arlan@epsilon /tmp]$ cat /etc/fstab
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
>[arlan@epsilon /tmp]$ mount /mnt/floppy
>mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>[arlan@epsilon /tmp]$ mount -t msdos /mnt/floppy
>mount: only root can do that
This sort of error message ("you must specify the filesystem type" when
mounting a disk listed as "auto" in fstab) can mean that the disk is
going bad, the correct filesystem support (msdos or vfat here) is not
available, or that there's a hardware problem. On a known good MS-DOS
disk, I get:
mcopy stuff A:
mdir A:
Volume in drive A has no label
Volume Serial Number is 39E3-83EE
Directory for A:/
stuff 12240 10-10-2000 16:02 stuff
mount /floppy
ls /floppy
stuff
mtools should not damage/mangle a DOS floppy in any way, but you should
not use mtools on a floppy that's been mounted. If it's mounted, use
the standard Linux utilities; if not, use mtools--simple!
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Accessing certain sites fails... (weird)
Date: 10 Oct 2000 20:35:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Been having a strange problem for the last 10 days; hope someone can
help me out here.
Attempting to access http://freshmeat.net/ from my Linux box fails. At
the moment, I connect with PPP, and I can access just about any website
except that one. Netscape, kfm, and Lynx all stall out while attempting
to get at the site. Thinking it was a browser problem, I did this:
ragweed:~$ telnet freshmeat.net 80
Trying 64.28.67.35...
Connected to freshmeat.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP 1.0
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:29:47 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.2
Location: http://freshmeat.net/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
...which is *not* what I was expecting. When I use PPP, I get an IP
address that resolves to something like "pm-546.foo.bar.mich.net", so I
tried changing my machine's hostname to that. No dice.
The site is not blocked at the ISP; I can pull up freshmeat.net from
another machine running MacOS 9 without problems. Both machines use the
same phone line, same userid, and same password to connect. Anyway, all
help appreciated; I will be checking both NGs for the next few days so
please reply to the group. Thanks....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:31:13 GMT
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:58:16 GMT, Harshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Thanks for all your help.
> >I can now use the tape drive if I manually load the aic7xxx and st modules.
> >But even though I have the 'alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx' line in
> >/etc/conf.modules, the module is not automatically loaded on re-boot.
> >Do I have to use '/sbin/mkinitrd' to generate a new ramdisk image?
> >- Harshal.
>
> Yes.
> --
> Dick Freedman
>
Harshal: I have followed this entire thread of about fixing Linux 6.1 so it
would recognize your tape drive. There appear to be 4 pieces to the puzzle
but only three solutions were printed in the messages. Those four pieces
were:
Problem Solution 1) host adaptor
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx in /etc/conf.modules 2) scsi tape support
/sbin/insmod/st in /etc/conf.modules 3) scsi core module
? 4) new ramdisk image /sbin/mkinitrd in /etc/conf.modules
How did you get SCSI core support? Did you use the command
/sbin/insmod/scsi_mod ? Did you put the command into /etc/conf.modules?
It appears from the thread that you did NOT have to recompile the kernel,
correct?
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From: "Shining Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Passing variables to Expect from bash, How?
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:41:06 -0700
Write your expect script from your bash shell, allowing the shell to
evaluate them on output and then run the resulting script,
echo "#!/usr/bin/expect -f
expect $VAR1
send $VAR2" > escript
chmod a+x escript
./escript
"BadBoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8rtbfh$k9g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am trying to pass two variables from a short bash script to a shorter
> expect script. I have even tried:
> export VAR1 VAR2
>
> and then written a simple expect script as:
>
> #!/usr/bin/expect --
> echo $VAR1 $VAR2
>
> which didn't work.
>
>
> But a similar bash script works fine:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> echo $VAR1 $VAR2
>
>
>
> Preferably, due to the escript only being 4 lines long (the expect
> script) I would prefer to run it inside the bash script, which uses awk
> for a two line for ;do loop.
>
> If anyone has a clue how to accieve this goal, please email monkey book
> page numbs, man page keywords, hate mail, whatver. Thanx
>
> Bruce Meyer
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM 3.0.4 won't install new packages
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:41:02 -0400
Jiim McIntyre wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm using rpm 3.0.4 on rh 6.2. When I try to install or update new
> packages, I get the message:
> "Only packages with major <= 3 are supported by this version of rpm".
> I've never had this problem before. Because of this error, I can't
> upgrade rpm itself. I get the same error message when I try rpm-Uvh
> libtool-1.3.5-8.i386.rpm. Same thing for autoconf, and automake. Anyone
> have some idea of what's going on here. TIA
>
> Jim
Try upgraeding to rpm-3.0.5-9.6x. You should be able to do that. It should
be able to install the next one.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: gnu emacs diary functionalities.
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:47:10 GMT
Hi Everyone:
I have GNU Emacs 20.7.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu). Recently I have tried
to use the diary functionalities. I can insert the diaries without
problem, but after I have saved the ~/diary file and re-start emacs
diary. It says that there is no diary entry in the file. But when I open
the file, there are entries. Does anyone know why and if there is a fix.
Jack Xie
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:54:04 GMT
Oops. Let me try that again without the tab key so it's legible:
There appeared to be 4 pieces to the puzzle but only three of the
solutions were printed in the messages. Those four pieces were:
1) host adaptor solution=alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx in
/etc/conf.modules
2) scsi tape support solution= /sbin/insmod/st in /etc/conf.modules
3) scsi core module solution= ?
4) new ramdisk image solution= /sbin/mkinitrd in /etc/conf.modules
How did you get SCSI core support? Did you use the command
/sbin/insmod/scsi_mod ? Did you put the command into /etc/conf.modules?
It appears from the thread that you did NOT have to recompile the
kernel, correct?
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From: "havesum2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trouble compiling a kernel RH7
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:03:30 -0500
im using an abit kt7 750 thunderbird and i cant get it to compile a kernel
with RH7 it works fine with 6.2 anyone else have this problem.
kernel ver. 2.2.17
thanks in advance for any help,
havesum2
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