Linux-Misc Digest #796, Volume #26 Sat, 13 Jan 01 06:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: PostScript quality? (Rod Smith)
2.4 and I have no modules? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where is my memory? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Warning : Win2000 defragments not as linux communauty will expect. (mike)
Re: Software Recomendation (David)
Re: 2.4 and I have no modules? (Linux User)
Video Streaming (Francis)
linux device in BSD (Charlie Root)
Re: What am I missing? (Noname)
Re: pine+fetchmail+POP3/IMAP? (Matt Haley)
Re: rh7 bootdisk ? (E J)
/usr busy on shutdown; can't shutdown (Chris Menzel)
linux books, etc. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com (John Harkness)
Re: linux books, etc. (E J)
Second opinion Re: Can you recommend a good Linux book? (Stanislaw Flatto)
Installing Red Hat (Vitturio de Sika)
'tar' with large backup jobs / spanning tapes ("Michael D. Bartberger")
Re: installing problem ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: 'tar' with large backup jobs / spanning tapes (Marc Billiet)
Help With Install Please HELP HELP HELP ("Gio Ahmad")
change mouse pointer? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: PostScript quality?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 05:17:18 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I thought PostScript fonts were supposed to be superior to other fonts in
> both display and printing quality (this is why Apple uses them?), yet they
> look terrible under X. Why?
You're working under a mistaken assumption. At printer resolutions, the
differences between Type 1 fonts and other font types (primarily
TrueType these days) are pretty minor. (Exception: bitmapped fonts
scaled from other resolutions.) At screen resolutions, the differences
have more to do with how much time and effort went into building hints
into the fonts than anything else, but TrueType supports more hinting
features, so TrueType has the POTENTIAL to look better than Type 1 on
the screen. In practice, it can go either way, and it also depends on
the quality of the font rendering algorithms.
Oh, and MacOS supports both Type 1 and TrueType fonts, but MacOS favors
TrueType fonts. (Apple invented TrueType; they cross-licensed it with
Microsoft in exchange for some graphics protocol that never went
anywhere.)
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 2.4 and I have no modules?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 05:24:56 GMT
I have a RH6.2 that I upgraded to 2.4 everything looks like it compiles
but I have no modules? I do an lsmod and nothing is there. I told it
to load modules and have re xconfig'd several times. I've also make
modules and modules_install with no luck. It seems to boot fine
otherwise?
Please help
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Where is my memory?
Date: 13 Jan 2001 00:31:01 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Brewer wrote:
> When
> I boot [or] reboot the computer it will test 128 Mb, when I boot into Windows 98
> it shows 128 Mb, but
> when I boot RH Linux 7.0 (2.2.16-22) and look at the log and /proc/meminfo
> they only show 64 Mb of memory. Why can't Linux see all the memory? Is
> there a kernel configuration parameter that needs to be changed and
> recompiled?
You need to boot the appropriate kernel with the argument "mem=128M". How
do you boot?
(If you want to build your own kernel, try David Parsons's memory-detection
patch at http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Memory/memory.html; or try the
most recent 2.2.19pre* or the new 2.4.0 kernel, which both use some newer
detection methods.)
--
Paul Kimoto
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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: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Warning : Win2000 defragments not as linux communauty will expect.
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 05:34:48 GMT
Hi Cathy,
how do you know what types are going where on your
hard disk after defragmentation?
Mike
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Software Recomendation
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 05:41:53 GMT
Cubic Meter wrote:
>
> Can anyone recomend an image program that can acquire images from my
> scanner? GIMP doesn't allow me to do it, so is there any other good ones
> out there?
There is a program named "sane" but you need to check to see if your
scanner is compatable with it.
--
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Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.000% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4 and I have no modules?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:01:04 -0800
Hello,
The 2.4.x kernels have a different directory structure for kernel modules
then 2.2.x. You must update modutils in order for RH 6.2 to locate them.
Read the 'Changes' file in the Documentation directory of your 2.4.x source
for more information on what is required to run 2.4.x
Cheers,
Jim H
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a RH6.2 that I upgraded to 2.4 everything looks like it compiles
> but I have no modules? I do an lsmod and nothing is there. I told it
> to load modules and have re xconfig'd several times. I've also make
> modules and modules_install with no luck. It seems to boot fine
> otherwise?
>
> Please help
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francis)
Subject: Video Streaming
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 05:44:12 GMT
Is there anyone tried to write some applications in simulating the
process of video streaming? How can I define the data structure of
video streaming? Where can I find those related information about the
basic streaming concepts and technology? Thanks for your concern.
Francis
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From: Charlie Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: linux device in BSD
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:32:59 GMT
Hi,
I'm running FreeBSD 4.2 and just installed the Linux Matlab package from
the Mathworks (I am running Linux emaulation etc and that works fine,
have also Linux realplayer working).
When I start Matlab, it complains that it cannot locate /dev/ptmx, a
master device for pseudo-ttys under Linux. What is the corresponding
BSD device for this? Is it tty ? or pty0 ?
Thanks,
Ewout Boks
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From: Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What am I missing?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:37:20 GMT
Thanks man,
All I had to do was create two symbolic links to head and cut and it now
works beautifully. Too bad I screwed up my X-Window for nothing.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:23:50 GMT, Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I think I tried to "locate head" and "locate cut", but couldn't find
> >those files. Are they Linux files? I reinstalled Linux yesterday and
> >had a problem with one of the files in the a series. It was called
> >aaasomething.
>
> Sounds like you need to run updatedb as root, to build the
database.
>
> locate head | grep bin
> /usr/doc/gtkmm-devel-1.2.0/docs/gtk/headers/bin.h
> /usr/bin/head
> /usr/bin/autoheader
> /usr/bin/HEAD
> /usr/bin/rpm2header
>
> locate cut | grep bin
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xcutsel
> /usr/bin/cut
> /usr/bin/pnmcut
> /usr/bin/xbmcut48
> /usr/bin/cutbl
> /usr/bin/pvfcut
> /usr/lib/bx/help/4_Misc/bind/yank_from_cutbuffer
>
> Since locate is case sensitive, I aliased locate as
> alias locate='locate -i'
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley)
Subject: Re: pine+fetchmail+POP3/IMAP?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:51:04 -0000
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:43:29 -0500,
Sudhakar R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My linux box is used by multiple users with individual logins. All users
>also have individual email accounts on a separate IMAP/POP3 mail server.
>
>I want to configure my system such that, mails for users are fetched into
>/var/spool/mail at a regular interval (say 1 min) from the mail server.
>
>I suppose this can be done by using fetchmail and each user having a
>.fetchmailrc file in his $HOME
>
>But, what about fetchmail itself. Do I have to run it as a daemon in
>root?
>
>How do I go about this? And what protocol do you suggest I use to contact
>the mail server --IMAP or POP3 ..it supports both.
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>Thanx
>-sud
>
>
Here's a fetchmail config for multiple users. You would run fetchmail as root
in daemon mode.
=======
set postmaster "postmaster"
set bouncemail
set properties ""
poll mail.server.com with proto POP3
user 'user1' there with password 'pass1' is user1 here options fetchall
poll mail.server.com with proto POP3
user 'user2' there with password 'pass2' is user2 here options fetchall
=======
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: rh7 bootdisk ?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 07:04:59 GMT
During the RH7.0 installation, did you put a floppy in your computer when it
was creating lilo?
That is your linux bootdisk.
If you did not, put in your RH7.0 CD and perform an upgrade of something
small and existing (i.e. a game) don't perform a install when it creates lilo
get your floppy disk ready.
If lilo still does not install on your harddisk find out why using your linux
bootfloppy.
lilo: linux single
bash# lilo
I would suspect it is a 1024 cylinder problem, but RH7.0 has the latest lilo.
pamela wrote:
> I installed RH7 from the "respin" cd's (downloaded and burned), and
> installed on the last 3 gigs of my 30 gig hard drive.
>
> Installed LILO to the mbr but LILO doesnt show up. So now how should I go
> about making a bootdisk to get into my Linux system?
>
> thanks in advance to any replies
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From: Chris Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /usr busy on shutdown; can't shutdown
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 01:04:58 -0600
I was unable to shutdown until it was pointed out to me that symlinks to
the halt script in rc.0 and rc.6 might be missing (they were). That
*almost* solved my problem. However, I still don't get a full, clean
shutdown. After umounting my /root and /var filesystems, umount fails to
umount /usr, reporting unhelpfully (for me, anyway) that the device is busy
-- despite the fact that a KILL has been sent to all processes. The
shutdown then hangs. The system nearly shutdown by that point, so there is
nothing I can do but hit the reset button.
Any ideas about what is going wrong and how to fix it would be appreciated.
Chris Menzel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linux books, etc.
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 08:00:10 GMT
I am a novice to Linux and have had some configuration troubles,
including networking, and would like to be able to get into things and
fix (or screw up) as best I can on my own along with the aide of this
website. I'm basically looking for suggestions on websites and
books to help me get started with linux. Editing configurations,
editing boot files, kernel and kernel module recompiles, and anything
else that will be useful. Just good linux handbooks basically or
authors that would be helpful now and in the future. Also, what
programs are good for editing configuration files? vi, emacs, what?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Harkness)
Subject: Re: 'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 08:32:48 GMT
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:24:43 -0600, Jerry Kreps
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>pamela wrote:
>
>> "Jan. 12, 2001 | Since geek glamour is an idea whose time has come, it
>> shouldn't be impossible to make an intelligent and beguiling thriller
>about
>> the open-source software movement. Peter Howitt's "AntiTrust" just isn't
>> it."
>>
>> http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/01/12/antitrust/
>>
>>
>
>Since Salon is owned lock, stock and barrel by Gates would you expect a
>different review?
>
>--
You're thinking of slate.com.
John Harkness
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux books, etc.
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 08:52:26 GMT
Download and burn the Redhat 7.0 Documentation CD. It chock full of
how-to's and manuals. I would recommend it highly to compliment any
linux distribution.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am a novice to Linux and have had some configuration troubles,
> including networking, and would like to be able to get into things and
> fix (or screw up) as best I can on my own along with the aide of this
> website. I'm basically looking for suggestions on websites and
> books to help me get started with linux. Editing configurations,
> editing boot files, kernel and kernel module recompiles, and anything
> else that will be useful. Just good linux handbooks basically or
> authors that would be helpful now and in the future. Also, what
> programs are good for editing configuration files? vi, emacs, what?
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> Jason
>
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Second opinion Re: Can you recommend a good Linux book?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:42:53 +1100
Greg wrote:
Read the many answers to your posting, including mine.
The best books are NOT distribution dependent, those are put together under
time pressure to capture the market and are good till next number upgrade.
General books regarding Unix/Linux will serve you, not as "door stoppers".
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Greg.
Welcome.
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
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From: Vitturio de Sika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Red Hat
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:42:11 GMT
Just installed Best Linux 2000 (Red Hat?). What could be wrong
with it when the graphics are unstable. Sometimes for instance
the text is printed with the background color and the colors
change haphazardly. PC100 motherboard with an integrated graphics
chip (8megs?), 64 Megs ram, Celeron 300 Mhz
thanks in advance,
eki
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From: "Michael D. Bartberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 'tar' with large backup jobs / spanning tapes
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 01:51:57 -0800
Reply-To: "Michael D. Bartberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello all:
I was wondering if anyone had experience with using the Linux
(our distribution is Red Hat 6.2) version of tar, for archiving large
amounts of data which require more than one tape.
When using tar to try to back up a /home partition on our server
(consisting of about 5 GB of data) to a DDS-4 SCSI DAT drive (Seagate
Scorpion) containing a DDS-2 120m cartridge (capacity 4GB of
uncompressable data / max. 8GB of compressable data) using
tar -cvf /dev/st0 /home
I receive a "no space left on device" message, which I assume is because
I am hitting the end of the tape. I'd like to be able to make the tar
operation span more than one archive. Similar kinds of backups on, for
example, SGI IRIX, using its version of tar automatically senses the end
of a tape and asks for the next during creation and extraction of
archives.
So, my questions are as follows:
1) I see from the 'man tar' page under Linux, the following option:
-M, --multi-volume
create/list/extract multi-volume archive
Does the use of this -M argument then correctly span the archive over
more than one tape, if needed? Does it work correctly for both
creating and restoring multi-tape archives? If so, then.....
2) ...is it necessary to provide the tape capacity when creating such
a multi-tape archive? Or does this get detected correctly? I
notice an option:
-L, --tape-length N
change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes
and I'm not sure if this needs to be specified explicitly, or whether
tar will correctly detect the EOT and ask for the next.
I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions as to what I might do to
successfully create and extract multi-tape archives under Linux.
Thanks very much,
-Michael
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing problem
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:00:39 GMT
"Martijn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi I am a newbie to Linux I'm trying to install Redhat 7.0 on an old P-75
> with 8 mb ram and an ide 1GB harddisk I created a boot disk with the
rawrite
> utility that works just fine but when I try to install Linux it gives a
> error message signal 9??
> and then it aborts the installation I tried it with no Partitions and with
a
> FAT-16 Partition the only mode that works is the rescue mode I tried using
> Fdisk there to make a Linux Partition but I don't know how it works can
> please anybody help me and e-mail me.
>
8 MB is not enough memory for the installation program. It simply does not
fit in.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: Marc Billiet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'tar' with large backup jobs / spanning tapes
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:16:19 GMT
I have no experience with it, but according to 'info tar', =93the method=
=20
'tar' uses is not perfect, and fails on some operating systems or on som=
e=20
devices=94. The solution in that case is to use the option --tape-length=
.=20
So I suggest to try it out.
Note that 'info tar' seems to give more information than 'man tar'.
Marc
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oorspronkelijk bericht <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Op 13-01-01, 10:51:57, schreef "Michael D. Bartberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]=
u>=20
over het thema 'tar' with large backup jobs / spanning tapes:
> Hello all:
> I was wondering if anyone had experience with using the Linux
> (our distribution is Red Hat 6.2) version of tar, for archiving large
> amounts of data which require more than one tape.
> When using tar to try to back up a /home partition on our server
> (consisting of about 5 GB of data) to a DDS-4 SCSI DAT drive (Seagate
> Scorpion) containing a DDS-2 120m cartridge (capacity 4GB of
> uncompressable data / max. 8GB of compressable data) using
> tar -cvf /dev/st0 /home
> I receive a "no space left on device" message, which I assume is becau=
se
> I am hitting the end of the tape. I'd like to be able to make the ta=
r
> operation span more than one archive. Similar kinds of backups on, f=
or
> example, SGI IRIX, using its version of tar automatically senses the e=
nd
> of a tape and asks for the next during creation and extraction of
> archives.
> So, my questions are as follows:
> 1) I see from the 'man tar' page under Linux, the following option:
> -M, --multi-volume
> create/list/extract multi-volume archive
> Does the use of this -M argument then correctly span the archive o=
ver
> more than one tape, if needed? Does it work correctly for both
> creating and restoring multi-tape archives? If so, then.....
> 2) ...is it necessary to provide the tape capacity when creating such=
> a multi-tape archive? Or does this get detected correctly? I
> notice an option:
> -L, --tape-length N
> change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes
> and I'm not sure if this needs to be specified explicitly, or whet=
her
> tar will correctly detect the EOT and ask for the next.
> I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions as to what I might do to
> successfully create and extract multi-tape archives under Linux.
> Thanks very much,
> -Michael
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From: "Gio Ahmad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Help With Install Please HELP HELP HELP
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:36:57 GMT
I have this Toshiba laptop (satellite pro 2155cds) I do all that the Linux
redhat instructions say I do the graphical install it runs through it's
check But then its stops at
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
this machine was formated it has no c: i can boot with a:bootdisk dos type
or what should i do i just want linux on thish comp
please help
TIA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: change mouse pointer?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:26:03 GMT
How does one change the mouse pointer in X, ala windows? In windows you
can change to a different "something.cur". Is it possible to use a
cursor from windows in X? Are cursors just bitmaps?
frplinx
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