Linux-Misc Digest #774, Volume #26 Wed, 10 Jan 01 20:13:01 EST
Contents:
Need Help To Compile kicq-2.0.0b1 (Youngert)
Re: How restore RedHat6.0 bootup login window? (Robert Lynch)
nfs & redundancy (Brian Pontz)
Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions? (Lee Allen)
Re: Help - Serial v USB modem? (Tim Haynes)
Mail Client Recomendation (Richard W.Knight)
What am I missing? (Noname)
Windows 98 dialing to RH Linux ppp help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Bad sizing behavior with sawfish/Netscape 6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Microsoft Messenger ("lenny")
Re: Microsoft Messenger ("Adam J BC")
Re: Palm data to gnome-cal, gnome-card? ("lenny")
Help! Printer doesn't stop printing!!! (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?=)
Re: is gcc producing optimal code? (Dirk Groeneveld)
iptables masquerading ("Raoul Zwart")
RE: Tips from Compaq/Linux users? (net name)
RPM 3.0 -> 4.0 foxhole (hi_potent)
Re: ppp problem with ISP (Glitch)
Re: tar questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: problems compiling 2.4.0 kernel (Jerry Kreps)
Re: Junkbuster + Squid fails to block on some sites ("Lloyd Llewellyn")
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From: Youngert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Help To Compile kicq-2.0.0b1
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 22:01:36 GMT
Hi,
Has anyone had any luck in compiling kicq-2.0.0b1 on a SuSE-7.0 Pro Distro
Linux? It has been a nightmare for me to compile such beast. For now, I
will have to play with kicq-1.0.0 until someone can lend his/her hand to
help me out.
TIA.
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From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How restore RedHat6.0 bootup login window?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 22:27:25 GMT
James Culbertson wrote:
>
> I restarted my server, observed that 3 file system fixes were done. At
> the end of that and subsequent reboots, I end up with a gray screen with
> a working mouse cursor and no login window. I can do a Ctrl-Alt-F1 and
> login fine. All mail, Samba, FTP, etc services are OK.
>
> When I do a ps command, I see that the following processes are running:
>
> /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon (which is a link to /usr/bin/gdm)
> /etc/X11/X -auth /var/gdm/:0.xauth :0
>
> and a remote linux box can open up an X terminal using my linux box's X.
>
> I am guessing that /usr/bin/gdmgreeter might be the login program. A
> friend of mine has Red Hat 6.1 which shares similar /usr/bin/gdm*
> programs . . . except he has gdmlogin instead of gdmgreeter. When
> freshly booted up, my Red Hat 6.0 box has no gdmgreeter (or gdmlogin)
> process running. My friend's Red Hat 6.1 box has a gdmlogin process
> running.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get my login prompt back or where I should
> start looking?
What I would try is getting the gdm rpm already installed; on my
RH7 box this is:
$ rpm -qv gdm
gdm-2.0beta2-37
and as root reinstall it:
# rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs blah-blah.rpm
Bob L.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Pontz)
Subject: nfs & redundancy
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 22:26:29 GMT
How do I make a nfs server redundant?
Example:
Say I have 5 web servers and 1 nfs server.
The 5 webservers are all nfs mounted on to the
nfs server because they need to share html
pages.
The single point of failure here is the nfs server. How do
I make it (nfs server) redundant?
Brian Pontz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Subject: Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 22:29:19 GMT
Gee, doesn't the subject say it all?
I have run a couple versions of Netscape under Linux, and ended up
throwing it out because it was just too buggy. Does anyone have any
experienc on Netscape 6 on Linux?
-Lee Allen
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help - Serial v USB modem?
Date: 10 Jan 2001 22:45:13 +0000
Reply-To: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Acher) writes:
> |> They are. USB Just Works(TM). I've got a very nice little 56K v90 USB
> |> effort myself, and as long as you `modprobe acm' it works. Bear in mind
>
> Then you had luck. As for normal modems, there are also Win-USB-modems
> around. They consist mainly of a line interface and an AD-converter. The
> "sound" goes into the PC via USB, the CPU has to do the rest. These
> modems are not supported and propably will never be supported. I have a
> Elsa Microlink USB, and it works with the ACM-driver (it�s a real
> modem...)
Erk. Lose-modems strikes USB, that's bad news.
FWIW, mine's a (graphite) MacSurfer USB v90 modem (says `Swann' on the
front). Tom, anything else you need to know about it, sing out by all
means.
(A virtual UART at 460.8kbps? That's gotta help :)
~Tim
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From: Richard W.Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mail Client Recomendation
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:35:53 GMT
Can anyone recommend a GUI mail client that will allow multiple IMAP
accounts that use the same server name? I have been using StarOffice 5.2=
but I'm getting tired of always having to synchronize the inboxes. Also,=
StarOffice does not seem to remove deleted mail from the server when
using IMAP. I've tried Netscape but it chokes on the server name being
the same.
Thanks
Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What am I missing?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:07:00 GMT
I tried to install a couple of packages, one of them is jdk1.3 and the
other is firestarter (firewall) and in both cases I get errors of files
missing. For java:
mydir/appletviewer:/usr/bin/head: No such file or directory
mydir/appletviewer:/usr/bin/cut: No such file or directory
mydir/native_threads/appletviewer:error in loading shared libraries:
libjvm.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory
for firestarter:
gtk+ >= 1.2.1 is needed by firestarter-0.5.1-1
gnome-libs >= 1.0.0 is needed by fire..
ipchains >= 1.3.9 is needed by fire...
...
..
libSM.so.6
...
..
Where can I find those? It seems i'm missing this gtk application, but
what about the rest and where can i find them?
Thanks
Kindly post only
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Windows 98 dialing to RH Linux ppp help!
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:09:37 GMT
My problem I'm sure has been solved a zillion times but I'm really stuck
and in a time crunch - I need to get a windows 98 box to open a dial-up
PPP link to a redhat 6.2 linux box running pppd.
I have successfully worked out two likely pre-requisites:
WINDOWS 98 HYPERTERM GETS A SHELL LOG-IN SUCCESSFULLY ON LINUX BOX.
TRUMPET 3 WINDOWS 3.1 DIALER CONNECTS PPP SUCCESSFULLY ON LINUX BOX.
However, now that I have those two tests done, I need to get the Windows
98 box (which will be the production environment) to dial to the linux
box, and the Windows 98 dialer won't complete the log-in sequence.
I have not set up PAP or CHAP - there is no default routing planned in
the linux box, no expected security issue, etc. The two machines each
have a fixed IP address (which worked OK with Trumpet 3/Windows 3.1)
which are the only options issued to pppd. Based on perusing the
archives of these USENET groups it seems likely I'll need to grapple
with this, so what I'm looking for is a simple cookbook advice that
would achieve this particular end.
Any advice/examples would be so much appreciated!
Tnx,
Dave
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bad sizing behavior with sawfish/Netscape 6
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:22:31 GMT
System: Slackware 7.1, sawfish window manager, netscape 6.0
The sizing hints in netscape 6 don't work well with sawfish. The
dialogs netscape pops up are the same class name as the browser
window, so sawfish makes them the same size. Say, you bring up
the "find in page" dialog, it comes up the same size as the browser
window. If you size it down, the next browser window comes up
small. Netscape 4.* gives the dialogs a differant class name, so
this isn't a problem.
The question is, is it possible to just turn off the sizing hints
for a given class name? It's a nice feature for most applications,
but almost makes netscape 6 unusable.
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From: "lenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Messenger
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:48:03 GMT
In article <93igu0$r4j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Armond Perretta"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <93iggl$9pvdf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Adam J BC"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I don't suppose there is a microsoft messenger clone for linux out
>> there is there?
>
> The LM 7.2 distro features a pkg called "Everybuddy" that is _supposed_
> to be able to do what you want. It works with AOL's AIM, but I've not
> tried it with Messenger.
Yep works with messenger.
Newer versions of Gaim also work.
See :
http://www.marko.net/gaim/
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From: "Adam J BC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Messenger
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:50:58 -0000
> >> I don't suppose there is a microsoft messenger clone for linux out
> >> there is there?
> >
> > The LM 7.2 distro features a pkg called "Everybuddy" that is _supposed_
> > to be able to do what you want. It works with AOL's AIM, but I've not
> > tried it with Messenger.
>
> Yep works with messenger.
> Newer versions of Gaim also work.
> See :
> http://www.marko.net/gaim/
Excellent! Thanks.
Adam
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From: "lenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Palm data to gnome-cal, gnome-card?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:56:33 GMT
In article <MP%66.8189$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Cathy Gramze"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have my Palm synching, but it simply backs up to a backup directory.
> How can I get the PALM data to go into gnome-cal and gnome-card??? I am
> using gnome-pilot to synch.
>
> cathyy
You might try the Gnome configuration tool.
Should be in the bottom panel.
This has a section just for pilot/cal/card configuration.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?=)
Subject: Help! Printer doesn't stop printing!!!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 Jan 2001 21:52:48 -0200
Hi
I have a printer and I tried to print a lot of things, but with no
success.
Well, now the printer decided to work. But it is printing everything I
sent to it in the last day (perhaps hundreds of pages). How do I stop
it? I tried lpq but is just says no entries. I tried lpc too, but no
success.
Please help
TIA
Andr�
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From: Dirk Groeneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: is gcc producing optimal code?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:15:00 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[optimized code for gcc]
To get the most out of your CPU, check out PentiumGCC (pgcc) and AthlonGCC
(agcc?). (Sorry, I lost the URLs)
These are gccs with added pentium/athlon support. They seem to work for
many people, they don't for me though. Building KDE with them produced
binaries that didn't run on my machine.
Good luck!
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From: "Raoul Zwart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: iptables masquerading
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:26:33 +0100
can anyone give me the basic iptables rules to make masquerading happen on
the new 2.4 kernels?
please email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TIA
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From: net name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Tips from Compaq/Linux users?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 19:24:22 -0500
Thanks for the additional info.
Can you please advise where you get such good deals on RAM;
since, I'm a relative newby to the linux scene where to get mandrake?
I am mostly interested in a version that is fast, stable and w/out
many security holes in it(I know this depends mostly on me) Easy install is
a
plus, as is documentation.
I have a complete set of unix manuals from ATT, but not sure how much
that's going to help in the day to day op. of linux. Email me privately if
you prefer.
>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
>net name wrote:
>
>> Just got done reading a rather lengthy thread on the troubles people
>> have using other than OEM os's with compaqs. I know compaq is a junk
>> machine, especially the presarios, but I am stuck with mine for now.
>
>> Has anyone successfully used linux on a presario 1610? If so,
>> what flavor of linux was it? Any tips on the install? For someone on
>> a budget with one of these presario dinosaurs, a slow hard drive and
>> only 16MB ram, what version of linux would you suggest. Or, should
>> I just forget about it and stick with that other piece of crap, windoze?
>
>Get as much RAM as you can afford, and you'll be fine. The trouble with
>Compaqs is the same as with any other mass market, cheap computer: they
>have onboard sound and video which can be difficult to get working with
>Linux. Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with them, and they can be a lot
>of machine for the money. Even these problems can be solved by adding
>sound and video cards (and modems) known to work with Linux, often for very
>little money. You can always move these parts to a newer, better machine
>when you get one, so they're a sound investment.
>
>But RAM is the key. Linux will actaully make good use of all the RAM you
>can throw at it. Processor speed isn't as important with Linux as with
>Windows. The only trouble you might have with adding more RAM is the
>expense. For an older Pentium I, FPM or EDO RAM is easily twice as
>expensive as the newer PC100 and PC133 stuff. But if you have a PII, PIII,
>Celeron, or equivalent, there's no excuse. I've been buying 128MB sticks
>for $60 lately. And with a late model, fully featured X-centric
>distribution like Mandrake 7.2, 128MB is probably the sweet spot for the
>average user (as with Win 2000). "Lighter" X setups work fine with a lot
>less RAM. I bet you could even run IceWM and Netscape OK with 16MB.
>
>Even if you want to run a lightweight X setup, I still think Mandrake is
>the easiest to install and deal with. You can select IceWM from the login
>screen, and you can shut down all the daemons and services you don't need
>from a simple window with buttons.
>
>Matt O.
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From: hi_potent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM 3.0 -> 4.0 foxhole
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:31:52 GMT
Hello,
I wanted to upgrade RPM to RPM 4.0 because i was getting the now
infamous "only packages with major nos <= 3 are supported by this
version of RPM" error. So i carefully removed the rpm package manager
and all programs with associations with it and tried to install rpm-4.0
tar.gz in /usr/local/bin where it lived before. The ./autogen command
complained i needed libtool-1.3.5, autoconf-2.13 and automake-1.4 (which
i did have but earlier versions). I downloaded the gzipped tape archives
of those files, of which autoconf and automake installed but not
libtool. libtool during ./configure says:
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
I changed the path in .bash_profile so it would find the compiler:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.6 and it
still didn't work. Doesn't seem to matter anyway, because in frustration
i tried to install rpm 4.0 anyway without libtool and it doesn't
acknowlege the upgraded versions of autoconf or automake. With all this
in mind, how do i accomplish installing rpm 4.0?
Many, many thanks in advance.
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:04:54 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ppp problem with ISP
Just nevermind. I'm getting different answers from each person and I'm
tired of messing with it. Obviously this isn't like Windows, even though
I wish it was as I have no problem logging inot my ISP using WIndows. I
dont have to worry about version numbers or my pap secrets file being
just right or making sure i got the debug option turned on for pppd and
making sure my script file is ok. I dont have to worry about any of
that with Windows.
i'll just do it by myself.
Glitch wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> My ISP uses PAP for ppp connections. I can login fine using Win98 but
> kppp won't login using PAP. Neither OS will work usinga terminal window
> as my ISP has changed their menu system to where a person can't initiate
> a ppp link manually therefore it has to be done automatically.
> Unforutnately that doesn't work in Linux, as I said.
>
> I'm getting teh 'receive serial link is not 8-bit clean". I'm reading
> curently from search results at Google this error usually means that my
> ISP didnt' have ppp running on yet on their end. If that is the case
> then how is it Win98 can make a connection to my ISP w/o my
> intervention? What does Win98 do that Linux isn't doing to force the
> server to start a ppp link? There is no way I can use a expect/send
> script (in a terminal window) with kppp like i used to. The closest I
> can get is using PAP but ppp times out b/c it says I tried to start ppp
> when the server wasn't ready so it just dies. But I dont know how to get
> the server to start ppp.
>
> I've also read that it may be something to do with the number of bits or
> the settings of how those bits are sent, like 8 bits are sent with Non
> parity , something like that. Right now Win98 is configured with an 8N1
> setting. Where do i look to see if ppp in Linux is setup the same way
> and how would i change it if it's not like that?
>
> How does win98 do it and can i do the same thing in Linux? How do i fix
> this? Get a new ISP? It has to be something in
> Linux if Windows can do it.
>
> My Net connection is the last thing I need to be able to use Linux the
> majority of the time I use my PC so I hope I can get it going soon.
>
> thanks
> brandon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tar questions
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:49:48 GMT
Hi all,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I use the backup scripts at the link below which use cpio and afio.
>
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/backup/backup-1.03.tar.gz
>
this seems to bee a very old package. i like the depth of analysis in
the docu as well as the concept, but on our system the script
complained not to find some old program versions (libc.so.4).
Maybe i'd be able to work through these problems, but i seems that this
package is discontinued for 'tob', and even tob is 'discontinued',
see 'http://www.fgf.de/doc/packages/afio/SCRIPTS'.
So my question is, where can i find an actual version of such a
package, or is backup 'out' and 'uncool'?
continue seeking, help would be nice,
Bernhard S. (test1test)
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems compiling 2.4.0 kernel
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 19:00:19 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try the boomerang option, it works for my Fast Etherlink II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <93cgvm$h1g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I've compilied the 2.4.0 kernel, but I can't get it to recognize my
> > ethernet adapters. I tried compiling them (it's an Etherlink III and
> a
> > Linksys DEC Tulip) as modules and direclty into the kernel, but
> whenever
> > the system boots up I get a failed on initializing ETH0 and EHT1, and
> > when I try to ifconfig them, it says unknown device.
> >
> > i'm running linux mandrake 7.1
> >
> > does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > thanks.
>
> Welcome to "how much more testing could it possibly need". The patches
> between test11 and 2.4.0 release break the tulip driver. I dont know if
> using the older driver will work or what, I'm just going to go back to
> test 11. I'm really pissed about this, as pissed as one can be with
> free software.
>
> Assume it's the combination of 3com and tulip... That's the most common
> two cards in anyone's computer. Every DSL firewall is set up like
> that. Let's test *the* most common fucking system, guys! Assume it's
> just the tulip driver. WTF were those last minunte goddamned changes
> before testing??? WTF are we gonna release THE STABLE RELEASE with the
> MOST IMPORTANT network driver with TOTALLY UNTESTED changes.
>
> Oh sure linus, how much longer could we let people keep testing the same
> code. Not.
>
> Yeah that's how i wanted to spend my afternoon, sitting through FSCK 5
> times before deciding it wasn't even options that were causing it.
>
> Cripes.
>
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From: "Lloyd Llewellyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Junkbuster + Squid fails to block on some sites
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:04:06 GMT
> Squid is the proxy, not junkbuster. So set the proxy server in Mozilla to
> 3128.
...so where does Junkbuster come in the picture?
Also, it's noted in the comments of Junkbuster's forwardfile to forward all
requests to localhost:3128 if you want to use Squid in conjunction with
Junkbuster.
Is this incorrect or am I perceiving this incorrectly?
Thanks
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