Linux-Misc Digest #784, Volume #26 Thu, 11 Jan 01 21:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Softball newbie question(s) (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Kernel 2.4 problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
how to set the HP8100 printer to print page correctly? ("Bill Xu")
Re: Which prog for streaming (Michael Heiming)
linux mirroring ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Swap Partition Size (Johan Kullstam)
KDM Login Screen Customization (Jason Bond)
Re: Tax Software?? (Michel Catudal)
Re: Swap Partition Size (David)
Re: Help! Printer doesn't stop printing!!! (Michel Catudal)
Re: Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions? (Michel Catudal)
APIC error on CPU0:00(08) ("V.P.")
Re: Chown problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Accessing NT scheduler from linux? (Ash)
Printing... (Jeffrey Hood)
Re: Which prog for streaming ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ppp problem with ISP ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: "unix dial-up account" spam question [was Re: how can i stop a "subject" spam]
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sun/HP Gnome support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Announce: Turbo XML v2.0 for Linux Now Available! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CDE for Linux/FreeBSD ("muzh")
Re: booting problem (Dances With Crows)
Re: problems starting stuff when kppp is running (Dances With Crows)
Re: Scanner (Michel Catudal)
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Softball newbie question(s)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:56:55 -0500
Dwight Tovey wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> > Dwight Tovey wrote:
> > >
> > > If the problem is the PATH, check the man page for your shell and look
> > > for how to set the PATH environment variable. If the problem is the
> > > execute permissions, check the man page for 'chmod'.
> >
> > You really do not want . in your PATH: it subjects you to the slings and
> > arrows of Trojan horses.
> >
> >
>
> That is of course correct. Having "." in your PATH can be a major
> security problem. What I meant to say (and really did a lousy job of
> explaining) was that he could add the specific directory that his
> program is in to his PATH if he intends to keep developing programs
> there: ala PATH=$PATH:$PWD
>
> In general though it would probably be just as easy (and in the long
> run, safer) to just get into the habit of using the "./" form when you
> want to run local programs.
>
I have a directory, ~/bin for that. The permissions for ~/bin are 0700,
and likewise for ~, so the chances of someone putting a Trojan horse
into ~/bin are pretty small. If they can do that, they probably figured
out the super-user password already.
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.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 5:55pm up 2 days, 19:04, 2 users, load average: 2.08, 2.11, 2.09
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 problem
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:50:18 GMT
I had similar problems to you until someone in another newsgroup
suggested I upgrade my modutils to 2.4. This may well be in the
required software list someone else mentioned. Anyhow, I DLed modutils
at www.kernel.org (it's there, keep looking for it) and installed it
with rpm -Uvh. After that, my sound card no longer gave a "failed"
while loading. My lockd still does, but according to someone else in
this thread, that's supposed to do that. :-/
In article <93c0kb$57a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using RH 7.0 and I've downloaded kernel 2.4. The kernel compiled
OK,
> and I installed it just like the README tells. But there seem a few
> errors when booting with the new kernel. It says NFS lockd error. I
> can't remember exactly. There are also problems with my sound card
> (es1371). I compiled the sound card support into the kernel, not as a
> module. But the sndconfig utiliy reports that it must be a module! And
> the ppp is not correct either. It just says modprobe can't find ppp0.
> Is there anything I can do? Thanks!
>
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From: "Bill Xu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to set the HP8100 printer to print page correctly?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:11:23 GMT
Hi,
I set HP8100 network printer in my workstation, I have checked "Fix
stair-stepping test", and I use lpr command to print it, but if the line is
too long in the file, the line will be truncated, not auto return and print
the line wholly.
Which opition should I use for lpr or which setting do I miss.
Thank you in advance,
Bill
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:12:20 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which prog for streaming
Tobias Schenk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it still up to date to use 'tar' if I want to stream my data for
> backup? I think not.
> Which programs do you use and what is your streaming philosophy to do
> so?
> I have an HP 12GB SCSI-DAT-Streamer. Are there certain issues to this.
> Which progs do I need to handle a streamer? I heard of 'st'. But apart
> from ejection it doesnt seem to work correctly.
>
> Thank you for any advice
>
> Tobias
Hello,
I would recommend using tar, why?
It just works and is easy to handle if you really read:
man tar
man mt
You should start your backups with nohup and &, let tar write the blocks
it writes
to nohup.out, use a non rewinding device eg. /dev/nst0 the first time you
use it,
if it's done try the mt tell option to get the block the tape stoped,
now last_block_from_nohup.out/block_mt_tell_done gives you the factor you
have to devide
other block_numbers from the nohup.out, now you can position (mt seek)
your tape in a few seconds and
read the file you want...:-)
(Just make sure you have the nohup.out file (bzip2) compressed handy)
You can even script this and use it over ssh to backup to a central
backup-server, and send you nice mails if it's done including
the output from fdisk -l + (df -h) + cat /etc/fstab + (mount) (You'll
need them in case of a hd failure)
All those other backup tools, I looked up (if your serious, try to get
the great O'Reilly Book Unix Backup & Recovery),
just have some problems,one of them: If your machine with the tape
crashes, you have not only to re-install the system but your
shinny backup software too, and get it all running....
While you have tar & mt on every rescue distro system CD you could just
boot off and replay your system on a new hd...
Modules like SCSI support are loadable from my distro (SuSE) boot
CD....:-)
The most important about backup:
It's worth nothing if you can't recover in case of failure!
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linux mirroring
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:18:49 GMT
Hi,
Is there any software, commercial/non-commercial, for linux mirroring?
I have 2 NFS servers. Only one is used by clients. I want first server
(which is used by clients) to automatically mirror the data to another
NFS server at the same time. So whenever some transaction will be
updated on first nfs server that will also be updated on second nfs
server automatically. The second nfs server is for failover purposes.
Please help
cheers
kapil
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Subject: Re: Swap Partition Size
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:00:38 GMT
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >
> [snip]
>
> > i find it useful to seperate swap usage into two kinds
> >
> > 1) active swapping
> >
> > 2) dormant program storage
> >
> > in the first case, you are *running* program(s) which cannot all fit
> > into RAM at one time. imagine a dozen setiathomes.
>
> Since the instruction space on these is the same, they would not take up
> as much more space as you might think. They do use a lot of data space,
> though and that cannot be shared (for that program, anyway). Also, it
> would not make sense to run a dozen unless you had at least a 12-CPU SMP
> machine. I suppose if I had a 12-way SMP machine (and a 2.4 kernel to
> run them), I would have a lot more memory than I have now.
i merely used setiathome as an example of a program that actively
runs. anything like a simulation, a computational program, busy
network daemons like hpptd/apache are also examples. it's not
intented as serious example of usage. hopefully you get my drift
anyway.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDM Login Screen Customization
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:03:05 -0800
I am trying to customize the KDM 2 login manager so that, in the
pulldown tab in the login screen, one can load either KDE,
Enlightenment, WindowMaker, or AfterStep. Now when I go into the KDM
login manager as a user I can't change the four tabs, but if I click
modify then I can after I enter the root password. But the changes I
make as root aren't there if I open the login manager again as a user
and aren't there at the login...they're just the same damn kde, gnome,
failsafe, etc. defaults. Before in KDE 1.1.2 (or so), when I modified
them, then in /etc/X11/xdm/Xclients (or Xsessions, I can't remember),
which I believe was one of the next files to be loaded I would export a
global variable based on the result of the menu item selected, and then
in ~/.Xsession it would read the value of the system variable and launch
the appropriate window manager. It used to work in KDE 1.1.2. What the
hell is going on with KDE 2? Does it not do things in that order?
Thanks much in advance,
Jason
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tax Software??
Date: 11 Jan 2001 18:25:04 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit :
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher W. Aiken) writes:
> > Is there any tax software like Kiplinger TAXCUT from
> > H&R Block for FreeBSD or Linux?
>
> You may be able to run TaxCut atop WINE; I must confess to not having
> tried this out in a couple years, but I did run it successfully 2
> years ago, and Wine _has_ to have improved since then...
>
Is it possible to run wine when you don't have winblows on your PC?
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swap Partition Size
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:30:21 GMT
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>
> Since the instruction space on these is the same, they would not take up
> as much more space as you might think. They do use a lot of data space,
> though and that cannot be shared (for that program, anyway). Also, it
> would not make sense to run a dozen unless you had at least a 12-CPU SMP
> machine. I suppose if I had a 12-way SMP machine (and a 2.4 kernel to
> run them), I would have a lot more memory than I have now.
I have had 24 setiathome W/U's running at the same time. Though it was
only to see if linux could and would do it, it did, and is possible but
slow. I will say one thing though I only run a max of 2 W/U's at once on
my system now, linux ran all 24 without complaining or crashing once.
Now that is power!!
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ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 98.992% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Printer doesn't stop printing!!!
Date: 11 Jan 2001 18:38:05 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit :
>
> Kill the lpd daemon, then empty out the printer spool directory then run
> "checkpc -f"? (assuming you are on as root)
On SuSE that command doesn't exist. Unless Andr� runs the same system as you
he is out of luck.
lpq -Pqueue
tells what is on the queue
If for instance the queue is 676
lprm -Pqueue 676
will flush the printout.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions?
Date: 11 Jan 2001 18:41:06 -0600
Steve a �crit :
>
> * Lee Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >| 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
>
> I didn't find N6 to be very reliable, however my experience has been the
> opposite with Mozilla's recent release and the nightly builds which I
> update to weekly.
>
On SuSE N6 crashed while loading newsgroups.
As for Mozilla it runs in molasse. I have a PC with a K6 550Mhz and 128Mhz.
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From: "V.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: APIC error on CPU0:00(08)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:48:03 GMT
This message apears only when i use linux kernel-2.4 and not in 2.2.17.
What is means ?
Any Help is apreciated
Final message in dmesg
Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1)
APIC error on CPU0: 00(08)
APIC error on CPU1: 00(04)
APIC error on CPU0: 08(02)
APIC error on CPU0: 02(08)
APIC error on CPU1: 04(04)
APIC error on CPU1: 04(02)
APIC error on CPU1: 02(04)
APIC error on CPU0: 08(04)
APIC error on CPU1: 04(08)
APIC error on CPU0: 04(04)
APIC error on CPU1: 08(08)
APIC error on CPU1: 08(02)
My Motherboard is BP6 with two Celeron 500
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Chown problem
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:49:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Not true. Slackware-current (past 7.1) allows both dot and colon.
> See the man page for chown.
You're right. I did a little fiddling to see how it works, since
the man page isn't clear. Looks like you can do "chown user.name:"
to change to user with a dot, but it has the side effect of also
changing the group ownership to the primary group of user.name. If
you go by the SYNOPSIS in the man page, the dot shouldn't work at
all.
It seems to me this is a bad choice, and it would be a better idea to
just go with the standard method and port old shell scripts rather
than making it incompatible with new scripts written on the many POSIX
standard systems. The other one of these that bugs me is bc
producing banner output which breaks any script that tries to parse
it. Sure you can avoid it with the -q option, but then your script
won't work anywhere else. Well, there's always perl scripts.
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From: Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing NT scheduler from linux?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:59:16 GMT
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From: Jeffrey Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing...
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:01:10 GMT
Is there a utility or something for the command line that will allow you
to control the size and type of fonts for printing, without putting the
file into an editor... also stuff like landscape printing, two-page per
page, etc...
One of the things that I miss the most from Windows (maybe by now the
only thing....) but one that I need for source code, etc...
I'm sure that there is a good way, but I can't find it...
Thanks in advance,
JH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which prog for streaming
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:11:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tobias Schenk wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > is it still up to date to use 'tar' if I want to stream my data for
> > backup? I think not.
> > Which programs do you use and what is your streaming philosophy to do
> > so?
> > I have an HP 12GB SCSI-DAT-Streamer. Are there certain issues to this.
> > Which progs do I need to handle a streamer? I heard of 'st'. But apart
> > from ejection it doesnt seem to work correctly.
> >
> > Thank you for any advice
> >
> > Tobias
>
> Hello,
>
> I would recommend using tar, why?
>
> It just works and is easy to handle if you really read:
>
> man tar
> man mt
Only problem you might have with tar is without multi-streaming or
buffering, you may not be able to keep the drive moving all the time.
If a streamer runs out of data, it has to backup and then come
back to speed which slows down the write considerably. You can
hear it doing it on a lot of drives. I was thinking the HP DAT
was a helical scan drive which isn't impacted that much by this
due to the slow transport speed, but I'm not familiar with that
particular model.
In any case, if you're backing up more than a few small systems,
I would always go with a commercial grade backup program. They
handle tape labeling, scheduling, indexing, and various other
things that are easy to mess up doing it manually. A lot of
shops don't like to plunk down the cash but it pays for itself
in labor saving and backup reliability.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ppp problem with ISP
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 02:01:52 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ]In comp.os.linux.misc Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ]> Jan 9 23:13:29 bigblue modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
> ]FIX!
> Nothing to fix. There is no module called ppp0 on any Linux system in
> the world. This is some bug in the modules system or in the kernel
> module for ppp. It is an error message which comes up sporadically in
Interesting. Modprobe only asks for ppp0 if it's asked to ask for it.
DO a strings /sbin/modprobe | grep ppp and you'll see both ppp0 and
ppp1. Try modprobe -c | grep ppp and you'll see ...
alias ppp0 ppp
alias ppp1 ppp
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp
so one would suppose that ppp0 can be requested by the kernel, and
that it is translated to a call for the ppp module, which he has not
got (or it would be found).
> this group and noone had ever given an explanation of why.
Because the kernel is asked to access the network device which is known
as ppp0. Apparently it's ldisc-3.
> ]> Jan 9 23:13:29 bigblue modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
> ]> Jan 9 23:13:31 bigblue last message repeated 16 times
> ]> Jan 9 23:13:31 bigblue chat[305]: ~^?}#@!}!}!} #} }$} } }!}$}%t}"}&}
> ]> }*} } }'}"
> ]> }(}"}1}$}%t}3})}#} @{c:wT};~~^?}#@!}!
> The problem is that he has not terminated his chat script properly. He
> is trying to wait for a terminal login while the other side is trying to
> send ppp messages. The chat script must end with
> CONNECT '\c'
uh, yes. Not that I write a lot of chat scripts, but I would have
thought all the pre-prepared scripts did. How can he have got rid of
it?
> ]> Jan 9 23:13:31 bigblue modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
> ]> Jan 9 23:13:35 bigblue last message repeated 33 times
The first error is from modprobe. I'd need to see an ifconfig ppp0.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "unix dial-up account" spam question [was Re: how can i stop a "subject"
spam]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:53:17 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc "Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ummm Dale, since you appearantly understood spam filtering while using a
> dial-up connection, I have a question for you...
>
> I have a problem getting legitimate mail from my local linux mail spool to
> pass the spam filters on my employers mail system...
I'm not Dale, but I had the same problem. The mail was getting
rejected because the IP address was known to be a dial-up IP.
To fix this, relay your mail through your ISP.
I use postfix, and set relayost to my ISP'd mailserver in the
/etc/postfix/main.cf file.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sun/HP Gnome support
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:22:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Roger Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone here have any good inside info (especially from Sun's
> point of view, as I maintain a bunch of Solaris systems) on why
> Sun and HP are going to be offering Gnome desktop support soon,
> but AFAIK haven't said diddly about supporting KDE? Is this a
> GPL vs. Qt license issue, or were there technical reasons?
>
> [ Just thought I'd stoke the ongoing Gnome vs. KDE flamefest a bit.
> ;-> ]
You can get it from horse's mouth:
http://www.sun.com/software/gnome/faq/#34
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:23:08 GMT
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From: "muzh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDE for Linux/FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:31:48 +1300
Or you could use the cdesim windowmanager or the xfce desktop
envoirenment -- both of these are free and look vaguely like CDE
Recently, the keys of [EMAIL PROTECTED] 's computer randomly
danced and produced <_vk76.189085$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <93kjmf$feg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Abilio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Where i get CDE for FreeBSD/Linux?
>
> Xi Graphics makes a version available under the name DeXtop. I've never
> used it (or any other version of CDE). Be aware that CDE is commercial
> software, not open source. For more information on DeXtop, check this
> URL:
>
> http://www.xig.com/Pages/DeXtopGUI.html
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: booting problem
Date: 12 Jan 2001 01:32:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:22:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>I use a Redhat 6.2 version. While i was on root ,by mistske ,i shutdown
>the P.C .
Consider it an object lesson on why you're not supposed to power-off a
running Unix system? ;-]
>When i rebooted it , i was force d to run fsck command manually so i
>gave the command - " fsck /dev/hda7" after that the comp. booted .
>but the problem is that it goes all the booting sequence but does not
>give the bash prompt . nethier does it give the Xwindows , the screen
>just goes blank.
Did e2fsck say anything about removing directories/files/illegal blocks?
What's on /dev/hda7, anyway? /home, /usr, / ?
This sounds like a problem with X or one of the files it depends on to
me. If you boot the system with "linux 3", does the text-mode prompt
come up? If it does, log in as root and run XConfigurator again (in
case it was /etc/X11/XF86Config that got broken), then enter "startx" at
the prompt. If something else is wrong, then X should die and leave you
staring at a text console filled with error messages. Search this NG
and comp.os.linux.hardware for likely-sounding keywords in those error
messages before posting anything. You posted from Deja; I assume you
know where their powerful search facilities are.
If you can't find anything, then post the error messages. Include
about the last 20 or so lines from startx, and any line containing
"errno=111" is useless.
If booting with "linux 3" doesn't work, try booting with "linux S".
This bypasses the normal boot sequence and dumps you straight to
single-user mode, which *might* be useful. If "linux S" doesn't work,
then something has gone seriously wrong....
>As iam new to linux i don't have much idea about it .
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/
http://linuxnewbie.org/
file:/usr/doc/howto/
The dead-tree documentation if you bought a boxed set
Should help a bit. There's a lot of information out there; use it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: problems starting stuff when kppp is running
Date: 12 Jan 2001 01:32:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:26:40 -0000, Adam J BC staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>i installed everybuddy just now, then launched kppp, connected to the
>internet, and when i tried to start everybuddy it wouldn't let me. i
>can't remember the exact error, something to do with GTK and I remember
>seeing a : and a couple of 0s. sorry, i should have written it down
>but i forgot. anyway, i found i couldn't start netscape either. or
>even a simple terminal. unless kppp was closed.
>
>so...any ideas as to what's going on?
You checked the box that said "Auto-configure hostname from this IP" in
kppp's Setup menu. Uncheck that box. X uses the hostname of the
machine as one component of a magic cookie that determines which
processes are allowed to access the X-server; when the hostname suddenly
changes from "localhost" to "pm-154.32.23.modempool.isp.com", X gets
very confused.
You could also do "xhost +localhost" before starting kppp... IIRC
there's a place where you can tell kppp to execute a command before
dialing, and "xhost +localhost" could be a good choice.
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
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http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scanner
Date: 11 Jan 2001 19:37:06 -0600
"Andr�" a �crit :
>
> > [Author: Michel Catudal
> > [Date: 4 Jan 2001 19:40:13 -0600
> >
> >Yes but not if your scanner is on a parallel port except for a very
> >few scanners that I've never heard of until I looked at the list.
>
> Where is the list?
http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html
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