Linux-Misc Digest #686, Volume #26 Tue, 2 Jan 01 06:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: Problem with suse.com (Mark Post)
Re: lilo-- behaviour without an hda drive ("Dan White")
Re: Is nfs incompatible with proper use of a UPS? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Problem booting RH 7 with Bootmagic. (gataway)
Tuesday 2 January 2001 LXNY General Meeting: Michael Smith on shell programming and
the peril of a secret takeover of Earth by the 4C Entity in alliance with T13
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Backing up Fire by filedate ?? ("Dino")
Re: Backing up Fire by filedate ?? (David)
Re: Embedded SQL databases for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: .exe ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PPP-SB1000 need help (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs?= Saucedo)
Re: Any fix for Java in Netscape? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Accounting software? (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: StarOffice on RH 7.0 (Glitch)
Linux Browsers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: crontab question (Duane Evenson)
Re: Can't install RH 6.2 on ATA66??? ("Allan West")
FTP connect does not work in RH6.2??? (Bo Berglund)
nfs client (A. Ramos)
Hidden gnome taskbar. (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Ftp server - shared folder ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problem with suse.com
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:12:19 GMT
On Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:55:20 -0500, Joseph Zieniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Has anyone in this newsgroup tried to access www.suse.com?
>They have a list server "suse-linux-e" which is an English
>server that is part of suse.com and I cannot get.
>I can access the German site "www.suse.de" and the UK
>site with no problems. Is suse.com down?
www.suse.com works fine for me.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: "Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo-- behaviour without an hda drive
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:18:58 GMT
In article <92o4s9$m02$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I have been trying some experiments with my system, and have been
> finding weird behaviour of lilo which perhaps someone can explain.
>
> I have Linux on my hdb drive, and want to transfer my hda to another
> machine. I set up lilo.conf to point only at the b drive (see below) so
> no reference to a exists. I run lilo to place LILO onto a floppy, which
> boots into the hdb drive fine. I now remove the hda drive, and try to
> boot from the floppy. I get the dreaded
> 01 01 01 01 01 01 .....
> I now plug that old a drive onto the master of the second ide ( ie make
> it /dev/hdc). Now using the LILO on the floppy gives me LI and there
> sits. Why? The LILO on the floppy should not care if the master on the
> first IDE bus exists, since it needs only the hdb drive. And in
> particular why in the world does it care in hdc exists or not.
>
You can probably get away with tricking LILO before you remove hda. Add:
disk = /dev/hdb
bios=0x80
then run rerun lilo, which will complain it's not a bootable drive. You
can ignore the message. Remove hda, reboot and cross you fingers :)
- Dan White
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is nfs incompatible with proper use of a UPS?
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 08:05:11 GMT
Elliot Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have already found this to be a problem when an nfs server dies for some
> reason. I have not been able to break the connection from its clients. We
Man mount. The soft and intr options.
> had an nfs server go down semi-permanently and the only way I found to get
> the other machines to stop trying to connect was to alter fstab, then try
It's usual to IPalias for the server on the clients, and then dismount.
> I am sure that both nfs and UPSs are used together in many medium and large
> installations. But how?
Shrug .. it depends how you want to run them. Servers don't normally go
down. If they do, you have an abnormal situation. I run twin servers
with IP failover to the second when the first goes down.
Or you could look at CODA.
Peter
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 16:28:34 +0800
From: gataway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem booting RH 7 with Bootmagic.
I know i have saw this discussion before but the msg seems to be
erased.
Anyone please let me know where is the link to download or help about
ATA 100
with RH 7.
I can't boot up Linux using bootmagic , but can boot up win98SE only.
Here is a brief description of what i have actually done.
I have 3 harddisk : Harddisk one and two are both ATA100 harddisk
attached to
Abit HotRod ATA 100 but not using RAID function.
Harddisk 3 is A SCSI Ultra 160 Harddisk,Which i install RH 7 on it.
I used the Workstation setup to install RH 7 , I'm very confuse of abt
the 1024 cylinder, and others abt Linux RH 7 Please enlighten me about
this issue in detail,
as i'm a newbie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Tuesday 2 January 2001 LXNY General Meeting: Michael Smith on shell
programming and the peril of a secret takeover of Earth by the 4C Entity in alliance
with T13
Date: 2 Jan 2001 03:33:52 -0500
LXNY will have a general meeting Tuesday 2 January 2001.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
The meeting runs from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. After the meeting full and
precise instructions on how to get to our traditional place of refreshment
will be given in clear.
Thanks to support of the IBM Corporation, the meeting is at their building
at 590 Madison Avenue at East 57th Street on the Island of Manhattan.
Enter the building at the corner of Madison and 57th and ask at the desk
for the floor and room number.
Recently, LXNY members have been getting more and more questions from
people who have heard about free software and want to know more. Two sorts
of questions come up:
1. How do I do thus and such using free software?
2. Why use free software?
At this meeting we will start to answer questions of both sorts.
Michael Smith, General Manager of LXNY, will present an introduction to the
*n*x shell. Part of the reason for *n*x's extraordinary success is that
the shell presents to the user a radically object oriented view of just
about everything going on in a running system. The question of whether the
crudity of the view presented is an advantage or an impediment has
exercised flamers on Usenet for twenty years. But one thing is certain:
today, if you know the shell, you are master of your own box.
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/29/1650224.shtml
http://www.multicians.org/shell.html
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/index.html
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/crypt.html
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/index.html
http://www.metahtml.com/264841416278194/~bfox/welcome.mhtml
http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/server-programming
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/03/04/1437214.shtml
http://www.kornshell.com/~dgk
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scsh
http://psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/html/chapter25.html
http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lisposes.html
http://www.squeak.org
http://home.brightware.com/%7Erwk/symbolics/symbolics-mail.html
http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/unixhaters.html
http://catalog.com/hopkins
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
http://www.multicians.org/mepap.html
http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html
http://www.artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.html
But by this summer, knowing the shell will not guarantee you control over
your own box.
Today one of our most important rights, the right to own a computer, stands
in grave peril. Vastly stupid but immensely wealthy and powerful secret
conspiracies stand poised to seize the hard disks of each and every home
and small office computer on the planet.
http://www.dvdcca.org/4centity
http://www.t13.org
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15718.html
http://www.eff.org
The plan is simple: require each ATA hard drive to contain secret hardware
and software under sole control of the Directorates of Infotainment. This
hardware and software will be impossible to control by the putative owner
of the hard drive. If four large corporations agree to the proposal, by
the summer of 2001, all new ATA hard drives will be required to contain
such machinery of surveillance and control. ATA hard drives are the most
popular drives in computers used by individuals for private purposes.
We will hear reports on the correlation of forces from members who have
gathered information from official and unofficial sources.
LXNY needs volunteers for the hard work of education and propaganda ahead
of us. If you want to help come to this meeting.
Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
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From: "Dino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Backing up Fire by filedate ??
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:43:39 +0800
Dear All,
How can I tar an entry folder's file by file date under linux ?
Let's say I want to tar file from 1st Oct,2000 - 1st Nov,2000 ..
Rgds,
Simon.H
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Backing up Fire by filedate ??
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 08:53:36 GMT
Dino wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> How can I tar an entry folder's file by file date under linux ?
> Let's say I want to tar file from 1st Oct,2000 - 1st Nov,2000 ..
tar cvf filename-Oct,1-Nov,1-2000.tar filename
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 98.973% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Embedded SQL databases for Linux
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 09:00:59 GMT
jay wrote:
>
> I am looking for a database to use for project that I am working on. I
> am trying to find an embedded database that supports SQL. I have looked
> into Berkeley DB but there is no SQL support. What else is available?
> So far, I have found very little. Thanks.
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
There are many: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle, and Mimer, just to name
a few. Go to www.slackware.com, click on applications, under office
click on database.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: .exe
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 09:26:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi all. i'm trying to find how to open a .exe file in RH 6.2. I'm sure
> it's easy, but i cannot do it. i downloaded 'filename.exe' and when i
> double-click, i'm prompted to "select an application to open" it with?
> suggestions appreciated.
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
Try this: copy the .exe to a .zip file then type 'unzip zipfile'.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs?= Saucedo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP-SB1000 need help
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 03:29:02 -0600
I have this prob with my PPP conf: I connect to the internet through a
half-duplex cable modem connection (it' s a TELCO connection) this
means that i have to dial-in into the isp server via normal (telephone)
modem to
send requests to the server and get the response (the downloads) through
the cable line. But now, with Linux (rh7,
2.2.16) the PPP interface is receiving/transmitting all the packages,
thus rendering the SB1000 cable card unusable.
So, how do I configure PPP to be able to transmit the packages only? is
there any method to know if that is the
problem or maybe is the card itself?? I have readed all the docs and
worked with all the files concerning sb1000 with
no luck, so any new advice will be very welcome, tks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Any fix for Java in Netscape?
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 09:38:22 GMT
Edwin Johnson wrote:
>
> About a year ago I was installing Slackware4.0 and had problems such as you
> have with a _lot_ of disk activity. Increasing the swap drive space
> amazingly took care of the problem while running 32m RAM. Incidentally, if
> you have RedHat there is something on the Netscape web site regarding paths
> for fonts which give similar problems. I've never had RedHat so don't
> know if that cures everything, but it is worth a look.
>
> ...Edwin
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Netscape uses a lot of memory. I had 160 MB of RAM installed in my
comptuer and Netscape ran fine. I took out 32 MB to put in anohter
computer, and Netscape started to thrash my hard drive, even with 128 MB
of RAM!
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Subject: Accounting software?
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 09:42:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there some accounting package, like Peachtree or quickbooks
available for linux?
TIA
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 03:34:59 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice on RH 7.0
"Sudhakar R." wrote:
>
> I have been trying to install StarOffice 5.2 on my RH 7.0 box. When i run
> the .bin file(downloaded from sun.com), the setup program starts up fine.
>
> I want to use the Network installation option 'coz I want it to be used on
> my standalone system by multiple users. But the setup program does not
> give me this option anywhere.
>
> Can someone please help.
> Thanx in anticipation
> Sudhakar
you specify that option when you issue the initial command to install
the program i believe, using the /net switch but i could be wrong
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Linux Browsers
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 09:24:06 GMT
Hi
Why is it that it takes konqueror about twice as long to draw a jpeg
picture (stored locally) on the screen as netscape?
Why does netscape take up almost all available CPU time trying to
connect to a server that's OFF the network?
Why are netscape windows so co-dependent? Sometimes one window gets
stuck, I can still use other programs, but not other netscape windows?
Not that I feel like I'm in a position to demand anything from GPL
developers, just curious.
Wroot
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http://www.deja.com/
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From: Duane Evenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: crontab question
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 02:26:20 -0700
NDQ wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> >
> > NDQ wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm under RH6.1. Before, I can edit crontab with command :
> > > $ crontab -e
> > >
> > > But now when I exit editor I see :
> > >
> > > [quy@iris] ~$ crontab -e
> > > crontab: no changes made to crontab
> > >
> > > File /etc/cron.allow is OK, daemon crond is running...
> > >
> > > Have you any idea for help me ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > --
> > > NGUYEN-DAI Quy
> >
> > After you type in the stuff you want in the editor, did you write it
> > out before exiting the editor? I do not want to insult your
> > intelligence, but I do not know your level of experience.
>
> I used vi/vim from 6 years so I think OK by typing ":wq" for saving and
> exiting, non ?
>
> Thanks,
> Q.
I use nano as my editor. Last try, I save to the default file
/tmp/crontab.10315. I get the same error message. Even when I delete the
original crontab file in /var/spool/cron to avoid any permission errors, I
get this message. I cannot save to /var/spool/cron/duane as I get
Could not open file for writing: Permission denied.
I've only been able to edit this file as root using linuxconf.
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From: "Allan West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't install RH 6.2 on ATA66???
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 09:58:33 -0000
boot from LILO using something like IDE2=0x4000 (or whatever the base
address of your IDE controller is)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:92q0br$te9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Will Red Hat install on a RAID ATA66/100 controller? I have a beautiful
new
> custom built computer, Athlon TBird 900, ABIT KT7RAID, 2 IBM 765GXP Hard
> Drives on the RAID controllers. Partitioned and formatted for a linux
> partition to install the RH6.2 that came on CD in the back of my textbook
for
> next term. Got the error message -- no valid devices found for filesystem.
I
> wondered if 6.2 wouldn't work, but 7.0 might, and then I see another post
> with someone in exactly the same pickle with 7.0 -- wondering if the
problem
> is his ATA66 controllers. The RedHat site's Compatibility List is just no
> help at all, as far as I can determine.
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund)
Subject: FTP connect does not work in RH6.2???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 10:08:05 GMT
I have just installed RH 6.2 workstation and I am testing it out from
a Win NT box over the internal LAN.
I can get Telnet login to work, but whatever I do when I try FTP I
don't get connected.
I am using Ws_Ftp32 on my NT machine and as soon as I click the
connect button there is a lot of disk activity on the Linux machine
but eventually there is no connect.... :-(
Here is the log from Ws_Ftp32:
WINSOCK.DLL: WinSock 2.0
WS_FTP95 LE 4.50 97.05.17, Copyright � 1992-1997 Ipswitch, Inc.
- -
connecting to 192.168.0.1 ...
Connected to 192.168.0.1 port 21
! Connection failed
I have checked that ftp is switched on in inetd.conf, but where can I
set up permissions and such (if that is what is failing)???
Bo Berglund
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A. Ramos)
Subject: nfs client
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 10:23:21 GMT
Hello, anybody know nfs client/server product? i need
one client/server faster and fiability product, rpc.nfsd is very
slowly and unstable for my purporses (netapp or mc2 etc)
exuse my poor english ;(
See ya
foo.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Hidden gnome taskbar.
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 10:40:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a problem in that I generally have a lot of windows open, and
wind up having to hunt for the gnome taskbar by minimising windows.
Is there some way to pull it in front of everything else?
( For some reason it always sits behind all the other windows. )
TIA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ftp server - shared folder
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 10:39:34 GMT
Dear All,
I wonder how I can set up an ftp server in a "jailed" folder.
Ftping to the default proftpd server, I can see /, /var, and so on.
How Can I block this? I wanna set the curious away and I don't want to
increase risks at all.
With best regards.
Zasinka
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