Linux-Misc Digest #88, Volume #26 Fri, 20 Oct 00 07:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: What file(s) setup one's env? ("Kousik Nandy")
Stock Red Hat 7 kernel compile fails. (Jeff Workman)
Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP (Dries van Oosten)
Ircd help needed ("Cipher9")
RPM problem ("Jacek P.")
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Trevor Brown)
Re: StarOffice or Applixware (KE6FPK)
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (2:1)
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (2:1)
Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP (Richard Horton)
Re: MIcrosoft's web site won't quite work with Netscape (cll muzh)
Re: too little fonts (cll muzh)
Apache and mod-ssl ("Steven de Boer")
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? ("David Brown")
Re: Apache and mod-ssl (Villy Kruse)
Re: truncated sounds (Christian Wenz)
Re: Increase RAM in RedHat Linux (Neil)
And,,, kernel panic ("Alim")
RH7, KT7-RAID, LS-120 probs ("Alim")
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From: "Kousik Nandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What file(s) setup one's env?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:16:58 +0530
man sh
man login , too :-)
Kousik
"Praedor Tempus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When you do an "env" in a term window, you get a LOT of environment
> information.
>
> From where does all this information derive? What file or files
> contains this information?
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From: Jeff Workman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Stock Red Hat 7 kernel compile fails.
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 03:24:50 -0400
All,
OK, I have read the gotchas and caveats about RH 7 and it's "kgcc" but it
still doesn't help the problem I'm having.
This is the errors I am getting on 2 different boxes. One of these is a
RH 6.2 server install upgraded to RH 7 and the other is a clean RH 7
workstation class install. No modification to the kernel configuration
has been made or anything, just a simple "make menuconfig" then immediate
save, then a "make dep; make clean; make bzImage" which gives the
following compile errors on both machines. Can somebody tell me what the
fix is for this?
TIA,
Jeff
kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m386 -DCPU=386
-DUTS_MACHINE='"i386"' -c -o init/version.o init/version.c
make -C kernel
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
make all_targets
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m386 -DCPU=386
-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ksyms.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h:50,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:19,
from ksyms.c:14:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:6: warning: `cpu_data' redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/processor.h:96: warning: this is the location of the
previous definition
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:28: warning: `smp_num_cpus'
redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/smp.h:77: warning: this is the location of the previous
definition
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:118: warning: `smp_call_function'
redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/smp.h:83: warning: this is the location of the previous
definition
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:51,
from ksyms.c:21:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/hardirq.h:23: warning: `synchronize_irq' redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:138: warning: this is the location
of the previous definition
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:52,
from ksyms.c:21:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/softirq.h:75: warning: `synchronize_bh' redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:142: warning: this is the location
of the previous definition
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h: In function `kstat_irqs':
In file included from ksyms.c:17:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:47: `smp_num_cpus' undeclared (first use in
this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:47: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
only once
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:47: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [ksyms.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2
--
"For competitive reasons we can't tell you the location of our fiber."
-- An anonymous representative of a very large telco
"For competitive reasons we can't tell you the location of our backhoe."
-- An anonymous representative of a contractor.
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From: Dries van Oosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:39:44 +0200
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Gotzon Berrojalbiz wrote:
> I've read the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound and
> I've realized that there's no posibility of compiling newer kernel
> versions to support this soundcard. I compiled a 2.2.13 kernel for this
> but I haven't been able to find the ADLIB options in 2.2.16 and 2.2.17
> kernels.
This chip is my worst nightmare. My gf's computer has this chipset. First
it gave here a lot of trouble under Win98 (random hangups, rundll crashes,
etc.). Then when I tried to convince here to use Linux, it would work at
all and now (after the bimonthly reinstall of windows), the OS hangs when
I try to install the driver.
Groeten,
Dries
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From: "Cipher9" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.irc,alt.irc.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Ircd help needed
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:01:56 +0200
hi, i've got a prob setting up ircd.
when one user is on the system, and another wants to log on, it says:
Closing Link: Cipher10[[EMAIL PROTECTED]] (Too many connections)
it seems only one user can connect.
how do i correct the problem?
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From: "Jacek P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM problem
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:39:18 +0200
Hi!
When I was installing a rpm (rmp -ivh package_name), I noticed message:
cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packeges
(I don't have this directory on my system)
cannot open Packeges index using db3 - operation not permitted (1)
-> The rpm database cannot be opened in db3 format. If you have upgraded the
rpm package you need to convert your database to db3 format running
"rpm --reduilddb" as root.
Afer this messages I saw progress bar and software was placed in target
directory. Then I uninstalled package. And when I enter:
rpm -qa shows, that packeg is istalled
rpm -e can't uninstall package, 'cos it is not installed
rpm -i cant install package, 'cos it is installed
I have no problem when I try to install or uninstall others packeges.
My system is: RH 7.0.
What is going on? How to install this package and what to do that command
rpm -qa doesn't show message that package is already installed?
Best regards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: 20 Oct 2000 07:59:50 GMT
If you are coming over from a Windows background, you will like StarOffice
5.2. It even is present both in Windows and Linux environments (how's
that for compatibility?). The commands used are very similar to Word, and
the output is compatible with Word. You can't beat the price for
StarOffice (at $0)!
Basically, StarOffice is a good "replacement" for Word... until you have
the time to learn more UNIX-typed approaches to word processing. LaTeX is
mentioned, and there are a lot of similar programs that are all based on
the Markup Language approach. You are probably familiar with HTML. Well,
the resulting file is a simple text file with character sequences
interpreted as the formatting. Remember all those "useless" commands in
MS-DOS like fc? Those are copied over from UNIX, and are designed to work
with text-only files. So when you use the Markup Language approach, all
these text-manipulation commands are available to you (and they are very
fast in executing), including grep.
When you are very familiar with Windows, and just getting started with
Linux, you will find that any cross-platform programs, including
StarOffice 5.2 and WordPerfect Office 2000, are nice to use. But you need
to keep learning the stuff you don't know about already, like LaTeX, and
bash, and linuxconf (these are only examples).
--
Trevor
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From: KE6FPK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: StarOffice or Applixware
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:10:02 -0700
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From: 2:1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:44:30 +0100
Haoyu Meng wrote:
>
> U need to read a whole book to understand how to use Latex. I am in the business
> of writing books using computers. I don't want to have to learn programming to
> do that.
Use LyX. No book required.
-Ed
--
Konrad Zuse should recognised. He built the first | Edward Rosten
binary digital computer (Z1, with floating point) the | Engineer
first general purpose computer (the Z3) and the first | u98ejr@
commercial one (Z4). | eng.ox.ac.uk
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From: 2:1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:53:08 +0100
> I AM learning to deal with lyx and pybliographer because of the
> bibliography app integration - in my work, this is a MUST. The
> main problem with it is that its output (lyx and latex) is not
> accepted by any of the scientific journals to which I could
> conceivably publish. They all accept word, wordperfect, wordstar,
> pdf. SOME accept simple ascii text, which lyx/latex can handle,
> but not a single one will accept latex or lyx format documents.
lxy/latex can make PDF documents. Try pdflatex. This isn't the best
solution, since it doesn't deal with postscript images. The best method
is to latex the file, use dvips to make a ps file with embedded images,
then ps2pdf to make a pdf doc. I think there is a pslatex to avoid the
first step.
-Ed
--
Konrad Zuse should recognised. He built the first | Edward Rosten
binary digital computer (Z1, with floating point) the | Engineer
first general purpose computer (the Z3) and the first | u98ejr@
commercial one (Z4). | eng.ox.ac.uk
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From: Richard Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:01:47 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:39:44 +0200, Dries van Oosten
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Gotzon Berrojalbiz wrote:
>
>> I've read the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound and
>> I've realized that there's no posibility of compiling newer kernel
>> versions to support this soundcard. I compiled a 2.2.13 kernel for this
>> but I haven't been able to find the ADLIB options in 2.2.16 and 2.2.17
>> kernels.
>
>This chip is my worst nightmare. My gf's computer has this chipset. First
>it gave here a lot of trouble under Win98 (random hangups, rundll crashes,
>etc.). Then when I tried to convince here to use Linux, it would work at
>all and now (after the bimonthly reinstall of windows), the OS hangs when
>I try to install the driver.
>
>Groeten,
>Dries
>
Seconded... I would recommend if it is an onboard card disabling it in
BIOS and buying a cheep soundblaster card and using that instead.
My Win98 install now works fine with after abit of swearing, but Linux
detects it, says it will load the driver, then says driver loader...
try doing anything and I get driver not loaded... lsmod shows the
sound driver as loaded, rmmod of the soundcard driver kills my system
with a string of errors... going to rebuild this weekend so will have
more info later.
--
All opinions are my own and are not in any way meant to represent those of my employer.
Richard Horton.
"Users are like bacteria - each one causing a thousand tiny crises until the host
finally dies..."
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From: cll muzh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MIcrosoft's web site won't quite work with Netscape
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:11:01 +1300
Funny -- I have just gone to www.microsoft.com with
Nutscrape4.73/Suse7.0/2.2.16 with java/javascript ON -- and everything
seems fine!
What must I do to get the behaviour you are complaining of?
Leonard Evens wrote:
>
> I am running Netscape 4.75 under RH 6.2. When I try to access
> Microsoft's website, I get a blank page. The problem seems to
> be Javascript. If I turn it off, I get the web page, but
> certain options are not available. I was trying to search for
> a driver to download. There is a line starting "Search" where there
> should be a box or an area to type something, but it isn't there.
>
> Are there any conjectures about whose fault this is? Is
> Microsoft running a non standard version of javascript so
> that only IE will work with it? Or is there a bug in Netscape's
> javascript.
>
> This is one instance in which I must say I don't believe in the
> "free market". GOVERNMENT should tell these people they have to
> use compatible protocols and not try to shut each other out.
> Nobody else is going to do it.
>
> Of course, many of you will say I shouldn't be bothering with
> the MS website in the first place. But sometimes one doesn't
> have a choice if one wants to work with other people who use
> their products.
>
> If the politics works out so Microsoft can kill the Justice
> Department suit, this is of course the biggest threat to Linux.
> Microsoft can so corrupt all the standards that only its products
> will work. Us Linux users will be stuck in our own ghetto where
> we can play with interesting and innovative software, but we will
> increasingly be cut off from the rest of the world.
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
Never trust a man in a suit --
cll
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From: cll muzh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: too little fonts
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:40:58 +1300
1) In /etc/X11/XF86Config , make sure the lines for the 100dpi fonts
occur BEFORE the lines for the 75 dpi fonts.
2) Many programmes allow you to choose the fonts and font sizes used.
In Netscape you find this under the menuitem Edit->Preferences->Fonts .
root wrote:
>
> Hi, wanna change standard size fonts for linux RH 6.2 that show me
> netscape and other application in a
> very little way.
> How do I do?
>
> Thanks in advince for any help.
>
> Evaristo
--
Never trust a man in a suit
cll
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From: "Steven de Boer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache and mod-ssl
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:41:38 +0200
I have configured apache with mod-ssl and php4 on RedHat 6.1. My problem is
that I have apache running with ssl and I want to restart. When I try this,
apache stops and all processes are gone. When I run apache without ssl, a
restart works fine.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanx
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From: "David Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:02:16 +0200
2:1 wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> I AM learning to deal with lyx and pybliographer because of the
>> bibliography app integration - in my work, this is a MUST. The
>> main problem with it is that its output (lyx and latex) is not
>> accepted by any of the scientific journals to which I could
>> conceivably publish. They all accept word, wordperfect, wordstar,
>> pdf. SOME accept simple ascii text, which lyx/latex can handle,
>> but not a single one will accept latex or lyx format documents.
>
>
>lxy/latex can make PDF documents. Try pdflatex. This isn't the best
>solution, since it doesn't deal with postscript images. The best method
>is to latex the file, use dvips to make a ps file with embedded images,
>then ps2pdf to make a pdf doc. I think there is a pslatex to avoid the
>first step.
>
For on-line documents, pdfLaTeX is much better, as it makes it very easy to
produce links. A couple of packages (such as hyperref) are all that are
needed to turn cross-references into hyperlinks, and the table of contents
into a nice tree of contents links. Thumbnails can easily be produced and
linked in, so that the final pdf has all the gimics you could want, all
without changing more than a couple of lines at the start of the document.
Obviously, this does not matter for printed documents, but for on-line
documents it makes a huge difference.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Apache and mod-ssl
Date: 20 Oct 2000 10:17:47 GMT
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:41:38 +0200, Steven de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have configured apache with mod-ssl and php4 on RedHat 6.1. My problem is
>that I have apache running with ssl and I want to restart. When I try this,
>apache stops and all processes are gone. When I run apache without ssl, a
>restart works fine.
>
>Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
The mod-ssl documentation explains different methods on how to enter
the passphrase for the private key required for the SSL certificate.
Villy
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From: Christian Wenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: truncated sounds
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:24:14 +0200
yes indeed, it seems so that the pop-ups truncate the sound.
especially at the beginning of gnome.
while working there are now problems.
but i would like the reason for this "bug".
actually i dont know which xfree version, i have, cause i am not
at home. greetings from hamburg
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Increase RAM in RedHat Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:37:50 +0100
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:50:35 -0400, "David ...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On my systems it is found automatically. On some systems you need to add
>a line to /etc/lilo.conf like this.
>
> append="mem=xxM" # where "xxM" is amount of memory.
NOOOOO !
set xx to be memory minus 2MB
If you have 128Meg then set xx to be 126
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From: "Alim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: And,,, kernel panic
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:41:07 +0100
Oh I forgot. After booting, playing in XFree86 and going back to console,
there was a kernel panic. I believe this to be something to do with the
Thunderbird processor, and its CPUID but I'll get back on Monday with that
information (going away for the weekend).
Thanks
alim
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From: "Alim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7, KT7-RAID, LS-120 probs
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:40:40 +0100
My new PC has an ABIT KT7-RAID Motherboard, with LS-120 on the primary IDE
as master and an IBM 75GXP 30Gb on the Primary RAID as master. It is set as
UDMA5 in the highpoint bios and I am having problems...
1. When it comes to disk management installing RH7, no device is found on
which a filesystem can be installed. Do I need drivers to be loaded and how
would I do this prior to installation?
2. I took the HD onto UDMA66 to see if anything else had probs, and when it
came to making a boot floppy, the LS-120 had no activity and hung the
system. Hence I could not boot into Linux normally afterwards because LILO
didn't install.
For users' information, my GeForce2 GTS worked fine out of the box with
XFree86 4.0.1 and the SBLive! was cool too. Just the Mobo, HD and LS-120
were problematic.
Any help would be brilliant. And I do read this newsgroup regularly and
couldn't find anything about this specifically elsewhere.
alim
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