Linux-Misc Digest #144, Volume #26 Thu, 26 Oct 00 06:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: MS Access ODBC driver ("Michael Westerman")
Re: Signal definitions? (Paul Kimoto)
wu-ftpd subfolders ("Micer")
Re: Signal definitions? ("Micer")
Re: Signal definitions? (Robert Kiesling)
Echoing to console screen out of cronjob (Josef Dirnberger)
Re: Help lpr: connect: Connection refused ... (Villy Kruse)
Re: Out of room in /var partition, log file no longer loggin (Villy Kruse)
viewing Chinese. (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?=)
Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ ("none")
Re: Echoing to console screen out of cronjob ("Sjoerd Langkemper")
Re: Signal definitions? (Neil)
Re: Linux on a ZIP 100MB? (Neil)
problem switching between X and console (Reiner Griess)
Re: Signal definitions? (Eric)
Re: problem switching between X and console (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
Re: decent synaptics driver? (Alexander Clouter)
Re: DELL LATITUDE C600 and Red Hat compatibility issues (Daniel)
Re: format the swap patition (John Thompson)
Re: ftp tools for linux (John Thompson)
Re: kde2 (qt-2.2.1) compile time? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SuSE Linux 7.0 problems (jmantel)
Converting PostScript (Anonymous Coward)
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MS Access ODBC driver
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:26:45 +1000
try finding a star office odbc driver.
because st office can open access files.
it saves a file that it uses to access the access file. (read write).
it may solve your problem. i don't know.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8t700b$ftl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am looking for an ODBC driver to connect to an MS Access file under
> Linux. A free (or cheap) one. I can find things like ODBC bridges
> that will let me connect to an NT box. I can find an ODBC driver that
> is almost $700 that claims to read Access (and scores of others I don't
> need). And I have found an SDK kit for more money than I can spend.
> Any help?
>
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Signal definitions?
Date: 26 Oct 2000 01:30:22 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7MOJ5.16117$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Micer wrote:
> But, how does a person know what sections are available for an individual
> command being inquired upon? For example, if I do "man 1 signal" I get "No
> entry for signal in section 1 of the manual". If I do "man signal" it gives
> me section 2 automatically. But If I do "man 3 signal" I get another error.
> Likewise there are no sections 4, 5, or 6 for signal. But there is a section
> 7.
>
> How do I get a list of available sections?
[Please remember to snip unneeded quoted material.]
In practice, first you'd run "man -k signal" to see which sections contain
a "signal" entry.
There's some convention for the sections: #1 is for user commands, #8 is
for system-administration commands, #2 and #3 are for programming, #5 seems
to contain file formats, #6 is for games ... (but I don't remember where
this is documented).
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: "Micer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wu-ftpd subfolders
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:38:03 -0700
I have several Linux Redhat 6.0 boxes that I am using to learn Linux. They
work great.
On the first box I installed Redhat 6.0 as "Server Install". It
automatically stuffed everything except space rubbish onto the box (it asked
me if I wanted space rubbish too, and I said no). One of the things it
installed is wu-ftp version 2.4.2. It works great! It automatically created
the folder /home/ftp, and within ftp it created the folders bin, etc, lib,
and pub. These have a variety of files in them.
Then on the second Linux box I had no ftp, so I downloaded wu-ftp (version
2.6.1). It installed fine after I first installed bison. However, the
installation didn't create a /home/ftp folder or any of the subfolders. In
addition, when I try to log in to it from the other Linux box I get these
messages:
ftp
ftp>open 172.17.10.116
220 blade.mville.com FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1(1) Wed Oct 25 ready.
Name (172.17.10.116:root): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
530 Can't set guest privileges.
Login failed.
ftp>
I am a new comer to Linux and wu-ftp, (or any ftp server for that matter).
Can anyone tell me what I've missed in the installation? Do I have to create
/home/ftp and its associated subfolders manually? Why did the "Server
Install" of Redhat 6.0 do this automatically for me on the first machine?
Thanks,
Micer
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From: "Micer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Signal definitions?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:52:05 -0700
>[Please remember to snip unneeded quoted material.]
>
>In practice, first you'd run "man -k signal" to see which sections contain
>a "signal" entry.
>
>There's some convention for the sections: #1 is for user commands, #8 is
>for system-administration commands, #2 and #3 are for programming, #5 seems
>to contain file formats, #6 is for games ... (but I don't remember where
>this is documented).
>
>--
>Paul Kimoto
But when I do a "man -k signal" I get the message "signal: nothing
appropriate".
Micer.
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Subject: Re: Signal definitions?
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:15:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto) writes:
> In article <7MOJ5.16117$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Micer wrote:
> > But, how does a person know what sections are available for an individual
> > command being inquired upon? For example, if I do "man 1 signal" I get "No
> > entry for signal in section 1 of the manual". If I do "man signal" it gives
> > me section 2 automatically. But If I do "man 3 signal" I get another error.
> > Likewise there are no sections 4, 5, or 6 for signal. But there is a section
> > 7.
> >
> > How do I get a list of available sections?
>
> [Please remember to snip unneeded quoted material.]
>
> In practice, first you'd run "man -k signal" to see which sections contain
> a "signal" entry.
>
> There's some convention for the sections: #1 is for user commands, #8 is
> for system-administration commands, #2 and #3 are for programming, #5 seems
> to contain file formats, #6 is for games ... (but I don't remember where
> this is documented).
man 1 -- commands
man 2 -- system calls
man 3 -- additional library functions not described in section 2
man 4 -- configuration file formats
man 5 -- special file formats and C data structures
man 6 -- games and demos
man 7 -- macro files
man 8 -- daemons and hardware configuration commands
man 9 -- device drivers and kernel modules
[As far as I can determine, it's a holdover derived from the original
AT&T Unix manual page categories. If you consult different manufacturers,
they all list different category topics. For Linux, this is how
they mostly seem to run.]
--
Robert Kiesling
Linux FAQ Maintainer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.mainmatter.com/linux-faq/toc.html http://www.mainmatter.com/
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From: Josef Dirnberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Echoing to console screen out of cronjob
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:12:06 +0200
hi folks,
is there any possibility to "echo" some stuff during script execution
within a cronjob to console screen (logging to a log file I can do) ?
e.g.
#! /bin/sh
echo "doing this and that ..." >console
..
Josef Dirnberger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Help lpr: connect: Connection refused ...
Date: 26 Oct 2000 06:47:09 GMT
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:04:56 -0400, chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello
>
>I am trying to run a RH 6.2 Samba print and file server at work.
>
>I had it working fine, then all of a sudden, it decides to stop
>printing. If I send a job via windows, it will spool, but sit forever.
>When I try to print directly from the server I get this error:
>
>"lpr: connect: Connection refused. Jobs queued, but cannot start
>daemon"
>
The next in line server is down. That is the system or printerbox your
printcap entries point to. Restart that one.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Out of room in /var partition, log file no longer loggin
Date: 26 Oct 2000 06:49:23 GMT
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:59:47 -0400,
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Vlar Schreidlocke wrote:
>
>> My machine is on 24/7. Could logrotate have stopped working?
>
>It could have, but I very much doubt it.
>
But it should be checked that crond is active. Without crond running
no logrotate.
Villy
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,hk.comp.os.linux,linux.help,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: viewing Chinese.
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:47:24 +0800
How can I make Linux able to view chinese text in X windows? I don't
want to change to a chinese interface.
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From: "none" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ
Date: 26 Oct 2000 07:07:15 GMT
At the risk of needlessly extending a pointless thread, posted where it
shouldn't be, here is my two cents:
After the twelve years of the Clinton's rule in Arkansas, it was at or near
dead last in nearly every area, but unlike Texas, was not improving........
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article <8t4ek7$d7b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Private User wrote:
> > >
> > > The state of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George W. Bush,
> is
> > > ranked:
> > >
> > > 50th in spending for teachers' salaries
> > >
> > > 49th in spending on the environment
> > >
> > > 48th in per-capita funding for public health
> > >
> > > 47th in delivery of social services
> > >
> > > 42nd in child-support collections
> > >
> > > 41st in per-capita spending on public education
> > >
> > > And ...
> > [Etc. deleted]
> >
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From: "Sjoerd Langkemper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Echoing to console screen out of cronjob
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:21:57 GMT
I think you have to write to /dev/console, but you have to be root for that.
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Signal definitions?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:32:42 +0100
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:00:52 -0700, "Micer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>But, how does a person know what sections are available for an individual
>command being inquired upon? For example, if I do "man 1 signal" I get "No
>entry for signal in section 1 of the manual". If I do "man signal" it gives
>me section 2 automatically. But If I do "man 3 signal" I get another error.
>Likewise there are no sections 4, 5, or 6 for signal. But there is a section
It deosn't matter to much what they all do. Apache for example understands quite
of lot of different signals: you read about what they actually do in the apache
documentation. SAme for Bind. AFAIK the action of signals on specific processes
depends on how the code has been written.
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a ZIP 100MB?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:34:02 +0100
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:31:43 -0200, Filipe Bonjour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Could anyone please indicate me if there is a newer version of the HOWTO
>anywhere, or where I can find a list of the really necessary packages? I
>don't need anything too fancy, though X (in VGA mode) would be nice.
try the BOOTDISK howto. There's info on setting up minimal root ext2 file
systems in there. Its quite complicated stuff !
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From: Reiner Griess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem switching between X and console
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:47:52 +0200
Hi there!
I've installed RH 7.0 and got a problem.
If I'am working in X-window (gnome) and switching to console
everything works fine. But when I'm going back to X, I got problems
with moving windows around. I can't drag them! Switching more than one
time between X and console does not help. Going into
multi-user-console-mode (init 3) and then back to X-mode (init 5) does
help.
Is there anybody with the same problem? And does anybody knows how to
get back a stable system?
Thanks a lot
reiner
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Signal definitions?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:51:38 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Micer wrote:
>
> >[Please remember to snip unneeded quoted material.]
> >
> >In practice, first you'd run "man -k signal" to see which sections contain
> >a "signal" entry.
> >
> >There's some convention for the sections: #1 is for user commands, #8 is
> >for system-administration commands, #2 and #3 are for programming, #5 seems
> >to contain file formats, #6 is for games ... (but I don't remember where
> >this is documented).
> >
> >--
> >Paul Kimoto
>
> But when I do a "man -k signal" I get the message "signal: nothing
> appropriate".
>
> Micer.
run makewhatis first to create the apropos database
You should always notice the links to other manpages: man man has a
pointer to man apropos, which has an entry to man makewhatis (man man
also contained that pointer)
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
Subject: Re: problem switching between X and console
Date: 26 Oct 2000 11:02:10 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Reiner Griess wrote:
[cut]
>
>And does anybody knows how to
>get back a stable system?
You gave the answer yourself. Re-install the last version of Red Hat
that you used.
/A
--
Andreas K�h�ri, Uppsala University, Sweden
========================================================================
"If you leave now, you're going to miss the real experience."
-- Richard M. Stallman, Stockholm 1986. Visit www.gnu.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Clouter)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: decent synaptics driver?
Date: 26 Oct 2000 09:21:51 GMT
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:20:42 -0400, Rick wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I dont have a /etc/gpm.conf. I have a /etc/gpm-root.cont,
> so Im still at a loss. But, there does seem to be some third party
> drivers, and my 3 button mouse is now working fine.
>
Thats probably because you are not using Debian :) Fire up grep (or if
you don't know the syntax use 'mc') to find the file you need to
edit.
BTW I used all those 3rd party tools and after some time I found it
easier to just go back to gpm. However its your call :)
Alex
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From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DELL LATITUDE C600 and Red Hat compatibility issues
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:30:02 -0000
Does somebody have a XF 86 config for Latitude C600 ???
flytr0nic wrote:
>
>
> Just buy an ethernet pccard. I have a 10/100 LinkSys card which only
> cost $50 and works great.
>
> :Chris
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Evan Panagiotopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am planning on buying that laptop. Any comments? I saw in
> > http://www.redhat.com that the Xircom Ethernet adapter that Dell is
> > offering is NOT compatible with Red Hat.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Evan Panagiotopoulos
> > Library/Media Technology Director
> > Poughkeepsie City School District
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: format the swap patition
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:54:58 -0500
* Tong * wrote:
> How can I format a linux swap partition for linux to use?
The "mkswap" comand prepares the swap area. "swapon" enables
linux to use it.
> I found that one of my swap linux is not functioning (is it so?):
>
> $ cat /proc/swaps
> Filename Type Size Used Priority
> /dev/hda1 partition 514040 2344 -1
> /dev/hdb1 partition 514040 0 -2
It looks like your first swap partition (/dev/hda1) is barely
used. Why would you expect the second swap partition to be used?
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp tools for linux
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:57:27 -0500
Te-Cheng Shen wrote:
> Is there any ftp tools like WSFTP on windows platform such that you
> can download the whole directory.
ncftp, or if you really like how wsftp looks, try "wxftp." It's
interface is as close as you can expect to wsftp.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kde2 (qt-2.2.1) compile time?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:42:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:11:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fester) wrote:
>I saw Kirk R. Wythers rant about the following:
>>Well... I' should have been a little more patient, seems there was quit of
>>bit of compiling to do... Now if I could just get the rpms to install. I
>>amy have to compile kde2 from tar as well..
>>
>
>I gave up after an hour an a half and downloaded the damn RPMs. :P
What shall I say ? On my 120 MHz it took at least 8 hours to compile
qt2.2.1. You may end up and have to compile it anyway, if you need gif
support, thats disabled in the rpm's. Lot of web pages have gif, including
the kde site.
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: jmantel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE Linux 7.0 problems
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 03:00:40 -0700
Grahame Kelly wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Brendan Heading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just made the splash and bought the full distro of Suse Linux 7.0,
> > with all the manuals and all the CDs etc. However I'm having some nasty
> > problems with X Window. For some reason, it periodically blanks the
> > screen (the monitor switches to "suspend" mode) and the system has to be
>
> You should update to X 4.0.1 from suse.com. I did and it fixed the
> same problems I had with my Matrox card.
>
> Cheers, Grahame
>
I have to agree with Grahame. You really should upgrade to X4.0.1.
Also check to see if you have the powermanagement stuff installed
and turned on. That can cause some problems as well.
Jaime
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From: Anonymous Coward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Converting PostScript
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:01:46 +0800
Hi, appreciate any help. Can someone advise of any program that can
convert PostScript into text documents?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Damon
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