Linux-Misc Digest #831, Volume #26 Tue, 16 Jan 01 07:13:01 EST
Contents:
HELP!!! Problems using DAT-steamer (Joerg Ettrich)
Re: RPM listing, categorized (Rafael Garcia-Suarez)
Re: Changing mouse speed (David Efflandt)
Re: QIC-80 (Brad Rhodes)
Re: disable mail for each cron job (David Efflandt)
Re: Disappearing output act. (David Efflandt)
Re: editing netscape preferences- help needed (David Efflandt)
Ethernet card from Hell (H-P Pavilion 8665C, MPX en5038 card) (Erich Schwarz)
Re: Problem with posting from leafnode (Karel Jansens)
Re: Problem with posting from leafnode (Karel Jansens)
Printing to a dcucenter 420st ( network printer ). (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: fetchmail (John Thompson)
Re: Sysstat package problem (John Thompson)
How can I search file at midnight commander? (Carfield Yim)
Serial Number (Henning Eiben)
[OT] Start using Linux now! ("buddy_holly")
Boot Problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Never can upgrade/recompile kernel on RH 6.2/7.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Never can upgrade/recompile kernel on RH 6.2/7.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PocketMail (linux) ("buddy_holly")
tar question? ("Antony Mak")
Where to find the inetd.conf ("Jesper Yde")
Re: tar question? (bob)
Any good doc about TeX LaTeX ? (Bernard DEBREIL)
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From: Joerg Ettrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP!!! Problems using DAT-steamer
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:46:39 +0100
Dear all,
since a few days I'm trying to get a useable backup of our server. We have
Linux machine running SAMBA as file and print server for NT clients. The
ammount of storage that shoud be saved is about 25GB upt to 40GB.
As Backup device we use a DAT DDS3 Streamer from seagate, and we would like
to use a simple UNIX tar or GNUtar, in order to restore these tapes on another
UNIX machine, and beeing independent of the used backup-software.
Well, the DDS3-DAT format should (!) be able to store 20GB on each
125meter-DDS3-DAT tape... but I'm trying every day again and again...
I can't get a 15GB share backed up on such a tape, either using the available
/dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 devices...
I'm not an expert in devices, and I don't know which device is for data-
compression or not ?!?
PLEASE, can anyboby help me to get the backup working right ????
Thankx,
Joerg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rafael Garcia-Suarez)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.rpm,linux.redhat,comp.lang.perl.modules
Subject: Re: RPM listing, categorized
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:59:20 GMT
S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote in comp.lang.perl.modules:
>
> Or probably you know a perl module that let me access the rpm database
> using perl?
Go to http://search.cpan.org/ and do a search for 'RPM'. You will find
what you want.
--
# Rafael Garcia-Suarez / http://rgarciasuarez.free.fr/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Changing mouse speed
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:11:22 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:06:33 GMT, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> I have Redhat 6.1 and my new Belden mouse is not responsive enough.
>I have to move it a greater distance than my old mouse.
> How can I change its response via a command line or script file?
See if 'apropos mouse' shows any utilities for that.
For the console see 'man gpm' and maybe add commandline parameters in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm script.
For X edit /etc/X11/XF86Config.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Brad Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: QIC-80
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 03:16:20 -0800
Being a resident of the United States, I don't know where you can get these in
Europe. You might want to try eBay ( http://pages.ebay.de ), these are sold
there often. I know of some US companies that carry them; I don't know if they
do international shipping so I don't know if they would be any help:
http://www.reliable.com
http://www.globalcomputer.com
Marcus Greferath wrote:
>
> anyone aware of where to get these old QIC-80 tapes, used or new?
> i found a streamer in my collection of old stuff and would like
> to play with it.
>
> thanks in advance. marcus.
>
> --
> Marcus Greferath
> Dept. of Mathematics
> University of Duisburg Phone: ++49-203-379-2674
> 47048 Duisburg, Germany Fax: ++49-203-379-3139
> cellular: ++49-179-285-3993
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: disable mail for each cron job
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:20:03 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Marco Janker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I set up some tasks handled by CRON. Now I get everytime an e-mail. How can
>I disable this?`
man 5 crontab
Tells you how not to get any mail from any cron jobs for that user.
Or if you don't want mail for a specific command in crontab add this to
the end of that commandline:
> /dev/null 2>&1
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Disappearing output act.
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:40:08 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am using a perl script to read the output of ps using:
>
>open(PS, "$ps_cmd|") || die "can't run $ps_cmd: $!";
>
>Now this works when I run the script from the prompt and I can use the
>output. But when I run it from a script or from the cron ps doesn't
>return anything. This is also true with top but I get the error:
>
>top: tcgetattr() failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
>Can anyone offer any advice.
Of course top needs a terminal, but I don't see why ps should. What are
you doing with the output when you get it? Maybe it is a PATH problem or
the current dir is not what you think it is. The following works for me
even as CGI:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
my $ps = `/bin/ps ax`;
print $ps;
Or when I did a quick test from crontab:
38 * * * * /bin/ps ax > /home/efflandt/pscron.test
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: editing netscape preferences- help needed
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:46:32 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:22:54 -0500, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am running Netscape 4.5 on a Linux computer. I want to set it up so
>that when I download a gzipped postscript file, ghostview automatically
>runs to view the file. This works for me as root, but logged in as a
>user it does not work. In fact, when I edit my netscape preferences as
>a user, they are not saved. It seems to me this is likely caused by a
>file permission error or something. can Anyone give me some pointers on
>how to resolve this problem.
Check file ownership and permissions of ~/.netscape and any subdirectories
as a normal user. Maybe at some point in time you did 'su' instead of
'su -'. Without the - you were using the user's environment (and
.netscape files) instead of root's.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erich Schwarz)
Subject: Ethernet card from Hell (H-P Pavilion 8665C, MPX en5038 card)
Date: 16 Jan 2001 09:21:11 GMT
I am trying to set up a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 8665C for
dual-boot with Red Hat Linux 6.2. This turns out to be much more
of a chore than I would like. Solved one problem with the wacko
video card. Then hit the wall on activating the Pavilion's
ethernet adapter card.
It's allegedly a RealTek 8139, but I have found that the rtl8139.o
driver doesn't work.
So I opened the box. Turns out that the ethernet card's chip
is prominently labelled "MPX EN5038A1". Thanks, Hewlett-Packard.
I then tried ne.o and ne2k-pci.o. Both fail to be loaded with
insmod due to a bunch of whiny "undefined values" that they seem to
have. Setting up ne.o or ne2k-pci.o as eth0 modules loaded into
the kernel doesn't help either.
Before I tear this bloody card out and replace it with something
adult, is there somebody out there who knows a silver bullet for this?
Thanks.
--Erich Schwarz / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Karel Jansens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with posting from leafnode
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:18:09 -0100
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Steve wrote:
>* Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>| Karel Jansens wrote:
>>| >
>>| > I'm using leafnode for collecting news, with Netscape as my newsreader.
>>| >
>>| > The problem is that whenever I post from leafnode, fetchnews (run with
>>| > the parameters -vvv -P) gives the reply "xxx already exists upstream",
>>| > where xxx is the message number leafnode has assigned. Posting directly
>>| > from Netscape to my newsserver gives no problems.
>>| >
>>| > I couldn't find any references to this kind of probem in the
>>| > documentation, either online or on my system.
>>| >
>>| > What am I doing wrong?
>>|
>>| I'm writing this on Netscape 3.04, and will be posting with
>>| leafnode-1.9.17-1 ('fetchnews -vvv)'
>>| I have no problems with it.
>>|
>>| That error message does look familiar, but it's been years
>>| since I saw it, so I really don't remember what I did to fix
>>| it... maybe just upgrade.
>>|
>>| - Steve
>
>Karel ask here: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- mailing
>list for leafnode.
>
>To unsubscribe, send mail with "unsubscribe" in the subject to the list,
>conversley use "subscribe" to well... unowhat.
>
>
Thanks for the info, Steve, but I'm beginning to suspect either ignorance or
[Windows-based] malevolence from my ISP's part.
I've now switched to KRN, which can be used as an offline newsreader (the only
redeaming factor of what can only be described as "bugware"). If this post
doesn't make it, I'll have to start bugging them.
Regards,
Karel Jansens
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From: Karel Jansens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with posting from leafnode
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:32:46 -0100
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Karel Jansens wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Steve wrote:
>>* Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>| Karel Jansens wrote:
>>>| >
>>>| > I'm using leafnode for collecting news, with Netscape as my newsreader.
>>>| >
>>>| > The problem is that whenever I post from leafnode, fetchnews (run with
>>>| > the parameters -vvv -P) gives the reply "xxx already exists upstream",
>>>| > where xxx is the message number leafnode has assigned. Posting directly
>>>| > from Netscape to my newsserver gives no problems.
>>>| >
>>>| > I couldn't find any references to this kind of probem in the
>>>| > documentation, either online or on my system.
>>>| >
>>>| > What am I doing wrong?
>>>|
>>>| I'm writing this on Netscape 3.04, and will be posting with
>>>| leafnode-1.9.17-1 ('fetchnews -vvv)'
>>>| I have no problems with it.
>>>|
>>>| That error message does look familiar, but it's been years
>>>| since I saw it, so I really don't remember what I did to fix
>>>| it... maybe just upgrade.
>>>|
>>>| - Steve
>>
>>Karel ask here: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- mailing
>>list for leafnode.
>>
>>To unsubscribe, send mail with "unsubscribe" in the subject to the list,
>>conversley use "subscribe" to well... unowhat.
>>
>>
>Thanks for the info, Steve, but I'm beginning to suspect either ignorance or
>[Windows-based] malevolence from my ISP's part.
>
>I've now switched to KRN, which can be used as an offline newsreader (the only
>redeaming factor of what can only be described as "bugware"). If this post
>doesn't make it, I'll have to start bugging them.
>
Well, it's here.
So it's not my ISP's fault then.
Frankly, I'm flabberghasted. I upgraded leafnode to 1.9.18, as suggested, but
it still refused to post my articles.
I'd stick with KRN, were it not for the fact that I utterly despise it; it's
the only program that manages to bring my entire system down (no network, so
telnetting is out of the question).
Oh well...
Karel Jansens
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Printing to a dcucenter 420st ( network printer ).
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:43:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onsite I'm trying to setup several linux boxs to print to xerox
docucenter 420st network printer using ipp/cups with little success.
I've tried several things, none of which seems to work.
So several questions:
1) Since it is it's own network node ( sorry can't think of a better
phrase ), how do I specify the URI. I've tried both socket:// and
http://.
2) The name of the printer is "xerox 420st". I suspect much of the
problem is the space in the name, how do I handle that?
I expect something like http://"xerox 420st" but that doesn't work.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:27:11 -0600
Steve Connet wrote:
> When I run fetchmail as user blix it works great. User blix as a
> ~/.fetchmailrc file.
>
> But I want fetchmail to automatically start when I boot up the
> machine. If I put fetchmail in my rc.local will it run as root? And
> won't that look for a .fetchmailrc for root? And if I tell fetchmail
> where blix's .fetchmailrc file is, won't it send all mail fetched to
> root?
>
> How do I get fetchmail to start on bootup and fetchmail for user
> 'blix'
I use a script in root's crontab for this. The script fires up
the connection, then does "su - blix" to become user blix, then
fires up fetchmail, and then logs off when it's done. You could
put a similar thing in your rc.local script to make it run at
boot.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sysstat package problem
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:14:20 -0600
Buck Turgidson wrote:
> I downloaded a package called sysstat and installed the rpm on RH 6.1 It seemed to
>install it correctly, but where did it put it,
> and how do I execute it?
>
> I checked all the usual suspects like /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /sbin, etc. etc.
Try "rpm -ql sysstat"
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:42:20 +0800
From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I search file at midnight commander?
When I using Windows with Windows Commander, I can search file with
[alt] + [letter]; I find that I can't do the same work with mc in linux.
I think that there should be similar thing at midnight commander, can
anyone tell me? And where can I find document of midnight commander? I
don't understand the manual of midnight commander because there are many
command like M-v, C-v, but I don't know how to type it.
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From: Henning Eiben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial Number
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:25:22 GMT
Hi,
how can I read the serial number of a storage device (eg. CD-ROM) (the
number you get when you do something like "dir" in Windows/DOS)?
--
Henning Eiben
Application Engineer busitec GmbH
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From: "buddy_holly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.drugs.pot,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: [OT] Start using Linux now!
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 02:09:35 -0900
SPA Anti-Piracy is going to start cracking down BIG-TIME in the coming years
of the Information Revolution. I predict they will use sophisticated
technology to determine every U.S. (and eventually world) citizen who is
using unlicensed software! This applies to everyone who casually copies
software without a valid license for every program.
http://www.siia.net/piracy/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Boot Problems
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:00:24 GMT
Help!
My RedHat 6.2 system won't boot anymore, it gets to 'Configuring Kernel
Parameters' (just after you have to press 'i' for interactive setup) and then
stops, anyone know what is wrong??
Prompt reply by email appreciated VERY much!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Never can upgrade/recompile kernel on RH 6.2/7.0
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:12:31 GMT
Hello,
I don't understand what is this problem! I'm trying to built my kernel
on RH6.2 (2.2.14--->2.2.16) it fails. RH7.0 (2.2.16)--->2.2.17 and
2.2.18 it also fails. Each times I got the error related to lib.so.6,
statig.c, make[2]:*** [first_rule] Error 2, and a lot of warning. Finaly
It tell me to report gcc bugs to ..., then it plante completely my
computer.
I'm using a classical procedure described anywhere, which had works to
me every time on slackware or debian without any problem.
I got my new kernel from www.kernel.org, and even if I don't change any
thing with make xconfig, it plante. This telling me that the problem is
not related to depandancy in modules or something like this.
Can anyone helps tell me what is the problem?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Never can upgrade/recompile kernel on RH 6.2/7.0
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:12:45 GMT
Hello,
I don't understand what is this problem! I'm trying to built my kernel
on RH6.2 (2.2.14--->2.2.16) it fails. RH7.0 (2.2.16)--->2.2.17 and
2.2.18 it also fails. Each times I got the error related to lib.so.6,
statig.c, make[2]:*** [first_rule] Error 2, and a lot of warning. Finaly
It tell me to report gcc bugs to ..., then it plante completely my
computer.
I'm using a classical procedure described anywhere, which had works to
me every time on slackware or debian without any problem.
I got my new kernel from www.kernel.org, and even if I don't change any
thing with make xconfig, it plante. This telling me that the problem is
not related to depandancy in modules or something like this.
Can anyone helps tell me what is the problem?
Thanks
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From: "buddy_holly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: PocketMail (linux)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 02:25:36 -0900
Does anyone know if there is any software for the Sharp TM-20 pocketmail
device for Linux?
thx in advance
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From: "Antony Mak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: tar question?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:52:36 +0800
Hi all,
We have a Freebsd unix server as our file server. Everyday users put their
files on the server name as "yyyymmddxxxxx". When I try to use tar to backup
the files by month. It failed as follow:
#tar czvf /backup/backup.tgz /data/200012*
/usr/bin/tar: Argument list too long
Can anyone tell me how can I make daily backup on such large amount files in
a directory.
Thanks in advance
Antony
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jesper Yde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where to find the inetd.conf
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:57:08 +0100
Help! I cannot find the inetd.conf file ?
I am trying to install teapop, and it says to edit the inetd.conf file !
But how (what to edit) and where (is the file)?
regards
Jesper
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bob)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tar question?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:00:28 +0200
Simple enought, create a tar include file suchlike:
find /data -name "200012*" -print > /tmp/tar.include
tar -czvf /backup/backup.tgz -I /tmp/tar.include
brett
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hi all,
>
> We have a Freebsd unix server as our file server. Everyday users put their
> files on the server name as "yyyymmddxxxxx". When I try to use tar to backup
> the files by month. It failed as follow:
>
> #tar czvf /backup/backup.tgz /data/200012*
> /usr/bin/tar: Argument list too long
>
> Can anyone tell me how can I make daily backup on such large amount files in
> a directory.
> Thanks in advance
>
> Antony
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: Bernard DEBREIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Any good doc about TeX LaTeX ?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:05:04 GMT
Thanks for any advice on web or paper documents about text processing
using LaTeX or/and TeX.
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