Linux-Misc Digest #965, Volume #26 Mon, 29 Jan 01 19:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: how to unzip a .zip file (Herb Stein)
Re: java repaint problem on gnome/solaris (Roland Mainz)
How to get Java on Konqueror ? (Arctic Storm)
LastChance!FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux +MORE!!!!!!!!! (schlomo)
Re: How to "kill" in KDE ? (Arctic Storm)
Re: How to "kill" in KDE ? (mst)
Re: How to get Java on Konqueror ? (mst)
Re: Looking for Math Software (Carlos)
Re: [slakware] bin upgrade to glibc (2.1.2->2.2.1)? (mst)
Re: How to "kill" in KDE ? (John Todd)
Re: bad printing quality ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Utility for finding absolute path of file? (Harlan Grove)
Re: How to get Java on Konqueror ? (Arctic Storm)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Joseph T. Adams")
Have a Linux Systems Company? - Submit it to Dmoz! (Peter Watkinson)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Joseph T. Adams")
Re: Reading QIC Tapes (Sandy Drobic)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Joseph T. Adams")
x won't start ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Veeery slow access to samba from NT 4.0 (Heinz Ruffieux)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: is there any good browser out there?? (Fester)
Re: partitions mirroring ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to get Java on Konqueror ? (Noble Pepper)
Re: Command for Standby or Sleep Mode? (Eric Sandeen)
implementation of colored man pages (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Ziefle)
A simple question ("Tobias Bengtsson")
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From: Herb Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to unzip a .zip file
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:05:34 -0600
zip and unzip are part of the RedHat distro.
John Thompson wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > According to the info pages on gzip, it uses the same algorithm as PKZIP,
> > which is Lempel-Ziv. PKZIP calls the method it used "deflate." The file
> > that gunzip extracted was a text file which I opened in emacs and it was
> > perfectly readable.
>
> Yes, it uses the same compression algorithm as pkzip, but the
> file structure is entirely different. As another poster pointed
> out, .zip files are collections of individually compressed files
> with a directory to find them within the archive. gzip-ed files
> OTOH, are single files that have been run though a compression
> algorithm that just happens to be the same as the one used by
> pkzip. gzip files do not have directories analogous to those
> found in .zip files and gunzip does not even try to find such a
> directory when you invoke it to un-compress a file. Archive
> utilities such as "tar" may support calling gzip to un-compress
> an archive and feed the result through a pipe to tar to process
> the output stream, but this is quite different from the way pkzip
> works.
>
> > I don't have unzip.
>
> If you need to access .zip files from linux, you will need to
> find unzip and install it.
>
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.lang.java.help
Subject: Re: java repaint problem on gnome/solaris
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:48:35 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently installed Gnome on my Solaris8(sun4u) box.
=:-)
> However, as soon as I try to start _any_ java app the java app does not
> get painted. If I drag a window over it some
> of the items will be repainted.
>
> It sounds to me like a backing-store issue, however I cannot figure out
> how under solaris/gnome to do this.
Are you using JDK/JRE 1.3_01 ?
If yes... it _may_ be the same problem as
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4397524.html
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to get Java on Konqueror ?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:29:46 GMT
I have RedHat 7, and recently installed KDE 2.0.1.
When I browse in Netscape, Java enhanced web pages run Java applets/scripts
without problems. Konqueror, however, is unable to display wab pages that
have Java applets.
I enabled the Java/JavaScript in Konqueror Browser setting.
I have "Automatically detect Java" checked, but this doesn't work.
I tried "Use user-specified Java", but the path is set to /usr/lib/jdk, but
this directory doesn't exist.
Why does Java work in Netscape, but not in Konqueror?!
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From: schlomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,chi.forsale,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: LastChance!FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux +MORE!!!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:20:09 GMT
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to "kill" in KDE ?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:40:59 GMT
> > GNOME has "kill" option for applications that don't respond. This is
> > nice
> > when Netscape or some other program crashes. How do you "kill" a
> > non-responding application in KDE 2.0.1?
>
> My KDE has an icon on the desktop for a program called xkill. If it isn't
> on yoyr desktop, then click K, go to Applications then Monitoring. It is
> there.
Here's a direct quote from KDE support web site.
12.3. Killing windows in KDE
There is a standard keybinding (Ctrl+Alt+Esc) that gives you a
skull/crossbones cursor. Click that cursor on a window to kill it. The
keybindings are viewable/changeable from the KDE Control Center in KDE
above version 1.0.
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to "kill" in KDE ?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:47:01 -0500
Cubic Meter wrote:
>
> Arctic Storm wrote:
>
> > GNOME has "kill" option for applications that don't respond. This is nice
> > when Netscape or some other program crashes. How do you "kill" a
> > non-responding application in KDE 2.0.1?
> >
> >
>
> My KDE has an icon on the desktop for a program called xkill. If it isn't
> on yoyr desktop, then click K, go to Applications then Monitoring. It is
> there.
>
If you don't have xkill on the app bar at the bottom, here's how to add
it:
Right-click on the bar, select from the pop-up menu "add" then "legacy
application",
browse to /usr/X11R6/bin and select xkill, select a nice icon for it,
and you're set to go.
MST
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get Java on Konqueror ?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:52:24 -0500
Arctic Storm wrote:
>
> I have RedHat 7, and recently installed KDE 2.0.1.
> When I browse in Netscape, Java enhanced web pages run Java applets/scripts
> without problems. Konqueror, however, is unable to display wab pages that
> have Java applets.
> I enabled the Java/JavaScript in Konqueror Browser setting.
> I have "Automatically detect Java" checked, but this doesn't work.
> I tried "Use user-specified Java", but the path is set to /usr/lib/jdk, but
> this directory doesn't exist.
> Why does Java work in Netscape, but not in Konqueror?!
NS has built-in java (one of the reasons it's so big); to use it in Konq
you have to add an external java interpreter, such as jre 1.3 from Sun.
Go download it from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/; beware, it's a
big download, 15M or so.
MST
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Looking for Math Software
Date: 29 Jan 2001 15:40:43 -0600
If he/she's a student then mathematica is, I think, only $150...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mathster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Along with Mathematica if you want to shell out $1500 USD
>
>On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 02:45:29 GMT, "G Pollack"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>In article <952jjd$ovf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> Just to let you know, both Matlab and Maple are available for Linux.
>>>
>>So are Scilab and Octave, and they're both free.
>
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [slakware] bin upgrade to glibc (2.1.2->2.2.1)?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:58:33 -0500
Ray Fencey wrote:
>
> hi all
>
> i'm currently considering an upgrade of the c libs (libc 2.1.2) that
> are on my linux box - slackware 7.0 dist - by grabbing the bins taht
> are dist from the slackare-current archive for which the libc version
> is 2.2.1
>
> can anyone tell me if this is problematic just to 'dump' the new bins
> onto my linux box... i've had a look at the gnu/fsf site for problems
> wrt upgrading glibc but the only issues i found were with upgrading pre
> glibc (ie libc.5) to glibc.
>
I have done the said upgrade; just download the current d/glibc.tgz
(also, doesn't hurt to upgrade a/glibcso.tgz and d/glocale.tgz), then
use upgradepkg on them. :) Easy and painless.
MST
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: How to "kill" in KDE ?
Date: 29 Jan 2001 21:26:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My KDE has Task Manager in System in the Tree.
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 20:10:36 GMT, Arctic Storm
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>GNOME has "kill" option for applications that don't respond. This is nice
>when Netscape or some other program crashes. How do you "kill" a
>non-responding application in KDE 2.0.1?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bad printing quality
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:34:27 GMT
In article <%%Xa6.258508$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you're checking the file with gv or the like, the quality is > >likely
> to be quite poor; for some reason, gv just produces lousy results
> handling color on the screen.
This was the problem. I viewed it with the gimp and it looks great...
> It's really hard, though, to know from a verbal description just what
> the problem is. Three possibilities spring to mind:
>
> 1) Something's misconfigured on your setup, producing lousy output
> quality.
> 2) Ghostscript includes early or poor-quality drivers for your
> particular printer. You won't fix this except by upgrading
> Ghostscript, which may entail contributing to its development.
I got an Epson Stylus Color 760 and I'm using the uniprint driver from gs. As
far as the documentation tells, this is a rather good supported model. So
there must be a misconfiguration in gs. I installed the 740p.upp via
lprsetup, as described in the support data base from www.suse.de. I really
understand enough to edit the .upp or the /etc/apsfilterrc files...and there
is no hint in the sdb from SuSE. So what can I do?
-j
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Utility for finding absolute path of file?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:47:40 GMT
In article <952pgj$irg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Matt Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Has noone ever heard of "type" and "which"?
>>
>> And if the file in question isn't executable, what help is either?
>
>I was just curious, why can't you use locate? Assuming you have
>updatedb slocate, and locate commands on your system, but I thought
>those are fairly standard. locate does spit out a lot of files if you
>aren't specific, but I figure if you already know the exact file name
>it isn't an issue.
Not true! Look at the other branch of this thread in which the OP and I
go back and forth with shell scripts to do what the OP wants: given a
partially qualified filename, generate the filename with the full path.
This is NOT what locate does if there are several files with the same
basename (e.g., Makefile or README).
I don't know why it's needed, but I do recall similar perceived need
under DOS/Windows.
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get Java on Konqueror ?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:16:41 GMT
> > I have RedHat 7, and recently installed KDE 2.0.1.
> > When I browse in Netscape, Java enhanced web pages run Java
> > applets/scripts
> > without problems. Konqueror, however, is unable to display wab pages
> > that have Java applets.
> > I enabled the Java/JavaScript in Konqueror Browser setting.
> > I have "Automatically detect Java" checked, but this doesn't work.
> > I tried "Use user-specified Java", but the path is set to /usr/lib/jdk,
> > but this directory doesn't exist.
> > Why does Java work in Netscape, but not in Konqueror?!
>
> NS has built-in java (one of the reasons it's so big); to use it in Konq
> you have to add an external java interpreter, such as jre 1.3 from Sun.
> Go download it from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/; beware, it's a
> big download, 15M or so.
I downloaded and installed the j2sdk-1_3_0-linux-rpm.bin.
I set the path to /usr/java/jdk1.3/jre, but this almost works.
I checked "Show Java Console" option.
Any Java enhanced web page opens a Java Console window, and I get error
messages displayed in the Java Console.
Any other suggestions?
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From: "Joseph T. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: 29 Jan 2001 23:18:36 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Edward Rosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Christian morals were also invented by people. Besides, even if they
: weren't there is so much contradiction that most people can and do
: interpret the morals in the wa of their choice. ie, they end up with a
: set of morals based on their own ideology.
Christians, as you might expect, would disagree.
And although I'm nothing even vaguely resembling a Christian, I tend
to agree with them a lot more often than not. They're about the only
folks left who are openly talking about morality, and identifying it
(or more precisely the lack of it) as one of the major root causes of
many of the problems we face.
Today, we have no morality - only the rule of powerful people, falsely
called "law." It seems to work when people's pockets are full. Wait
and see what happens when they're not.
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Watkinson)
Subject: Have a Linux Systems Company? - Submit it to Dmoz!
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:19:07 GMT
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From: "Joseph T. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: 29 Jan 2001 23:23:16 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Deism is a belief in the existance of God.
: Atheism is a belief in the non-existance of God.
: Obviously, Jefferson's detractors were lying.
The polytheistic Romans accused the monotheistic Jews and Christians
of being atheists also.
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandy Drobic)
Subject: Re: Reading QIC Tapes
Date: 29 Jan 2001 23:11:00 +0100
>> I've got a SCSI Tanberg 250MB QIC tape drive at /dev/st1.
>> Now I can't read any tapes. Whether I use tar, cpio or dd I
>> just get input/output error after about 30-60 seconds of tape
>> motion in the drive.
> Do you remember these guys:
> http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
I used ftape to access a TR3 streamer more than a year ago, but I don't
think it provides any kind of format for the tape streamer. That's
something the backup program has to take care of.
Sandy
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From: "Joseph T. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: 29 Jan 2001 23:29:43 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Bruce Scott TOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>why is having a guy as President that actually has a universal set of
:>morals such a bad thing? Some people view having a good moral
:>background as more important than being able to supposedly invent the
:>Internet or 'putting the economy back on track'. They are only his
:>morals in the fact that he has embraced them, just like most other
:>Christians in the world. You can't say he shouldn't share them b/c they
:>are God's to share, not his. If Bush dies those morals still exist, even
:>if a lot of people like making their own.
: You fell for that PR Bullshit like a real sucker didn't you.
: Bush has no moral background. Neither does Gore.
The sad thing is that both of them do, if you go back far enough.
But it's really hard to gain power in this corrupt system if you don't
make compromises.
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: x won't start
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:20:57 GMT
I was messing around with some alpha software and it appears to have
had an effect on my ability to start up x. I am running red hat 6.1.
The error message looks somewhat like this:
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xlbcomp) reports: Errors:
bad length in Geometry
Output File "/var/tmp/server-0.xkm Removed
Errors from xkbcomp are not Fatal to the x server
Couldn't load xkb keymap, Falling back to pre - XKB deymap
- FontTransSocketUNIXconnect: can't connect: errorno: 111
Failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font fixed.
Part of me is suspicious that the software over ran the /tmp file, but
rebooting does not fix the problem and I thought that would flush /tmp.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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From: Heinz Ruffieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Veeery slow access to samba from NT 4.0
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:30:08 -0000
Hi,
I'm running a Samba server V2.0.7 based on RH6.2 since quite a long time.
It works great together with my Windows 2000 laptop.
Now I got a new laptop to connect running NT 4.0. From this laptop anything
on TCP/IP level works fine. Also I can browse the Samba server using the NT
command line tools (net use / net view).
As soon as I try to map a network drive using the explorer the systems
explorer hangs or gets very, very slow. The same happens when I try to
setup a Samba printer.
The same system also got a netware client installed because our company
runs Novell.
Is there anybody who already faced the problem and can help?
Thanks
Heinz
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:29:22 -0500
Bruce Scott TOK wrote:
>
> In article <94sp41$ehd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In article <94snje$ekf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (.) wrote:
> >...
> >>Wasnt there something about a government BY the people and FOR the
> >>people written down somewhere?
> >...
> >
> >The US is a republic not a democracy. Kindly read the Federalist Papers
> >for the rationale behind not trusting the populace. It has a government
> >of laws, and the laws in the state of Florida were fairly clear, and
> >the polling stations had signs giving instructions that voters should
> >make sure that their ballots were punched through and to remove hanging
> >chads. And if they double-punched, they could ask for new ballot papers.
> >
> >Maybe there's a good reason for literacy tests after all.
>
> Typical racist nonsense. You forgot to mention the harassment and lies
> (oh, the polls are closed today, at 15h00) that caused many people who
> were on their way to the polls not to vote. And you also forgot the
Before the new Congress was sworn in...the last congress held hearings.
EVERY single witness who appeared admitted, that yes, THEY WERE ALLOWED
TO VOTE.
You know what's REALLY ironic...EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE WITNESSES
lives in a DEMONCROOK-run county.
> fact that many black people were denied registration because of felony
> even though they were not felons at all.
All of them living in Demoncrook-run counties.
>
> Florida has a long history of such stuff. Even in Democrat-run
> districts, where some of the abuses occurred, against a segment of the
> electorate that in Florida was voting 13-1 Democrat. Just Stupid.
>
> --
> cu,
> Bruce
>
> drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/
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A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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...despite (C) above.
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her behavior improves.
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G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fester)
Subject: Re: is there any good browser out there??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:39:06 GMT
I saw nybblex rant about the following:
>Hi,
>It seems that there is no good browser for linux... Netscape crashes all the
>time, Mozzila is tooooo heavy, kfm is toooo light and I can't find any good....
>...any idea??
>
>thanx in advance
>Konstantinos
>
Konqueror, the browser that comes with KDE 2.0 is quite stable, and does
some really nice rendering.
--
-- Fester
Kepler said, "No one."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: partitions mirroring
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:52:09 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
May be you are right, Raid is probably what I am looking for.
I supposed RAID refer to mirroring (or striping) full disks nor just
some small partitions from one disk to another disk having completely
different geometry.
I do not have crashes. So long so good. But I had already a couple
heart crushes (using other OSs) because of hard disk failures. Most of
the trouble I had was around disks or blowers.
I am trying to prevent lots of work (I am still learning) reinstalling
a full Linux system. My idea is: in case one of the disks fail I will
swap the IDE cables and the other will take over.
If the small disk fails I will have everything in the other. If the
large disk fails I will just replace it, reset the data partition
restoring using a backup and resetting the OS partition mirrors.
As soon as I can I will buy another large disk and mirror everything.
I have the small disk since long ago.
If we have mirror of data and OS it is the best.
If we have backup of just the OS, it will take some time to restore
data, if some data loss is acceptable.
If we have mirror of data we may not loose anything but it will tale
long time to reset the OS even from tape (I think).
That is the reason why I am trying to make a mirror of the OS. Linux,
for me, is and will be for long, I am sure, voodoo. But I don't give
up.
Henrique Martins
>
>Hello,
>
>sounds like sofware RAID you are looking for, there are some HowTo
>available.
>
>You can set max. mount-count between e2fsck with tune2fs, but why does it
>fsck so much? Are you booting so much, or
>is your system crashing, then there is something wrong, as I have only
>seen Linux crash due to hw failure?
>
>Good luck
>
>Michael Heiming
>
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get Java on Konqueror ?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:48:13 -0600
Arctic Storm wrote:
> I have RedHat 7, and recently installed KDE 2.0.1.
> When I browse in Netscape, Java enhanced web pages run Java
> applets/scripts
> without problems. Konqueror, however, is unable to display wab pages that
> have Java applets.
> I enabled the Java/JavaScript in Konqueror Browser setting.
> I have "Automatically detect Java" checked, but this doesn't work.
> I tried "Use user-specified Java", but the path is set to /usr/lib/jdk,
> but this directory doesn't exist.
> Why does Java work in Netscape, but not in Konqueror?!
>
>
There is a Howto at www.konqueror.com.
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From: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Command for Standby or Sleep Mode?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:48:55 -0600
Take a look at
http://mobilix.org/apm_linux.html
for a good overview of this stuff for Linux...
I'm not sure how the RH 7 kernel is configured, with APM etc...
it is possible, depending on how your kernel is configured and what
hardware you have.
-Eric
OpenMind wrote:
>
> New to Linux... running RH 7 using the included GUIs.
>
> Unlike Windows, using the "Shut Down" protocol from the GUI seems to shut
> down LINUX, but not the hardware.
>
> I want to do the following:
>
> At least, issue a command (as root, presumably) which closes Linux and
> places the hardware in a low-power consumption mode from which it can be
> awakened with a Wake On LAN signal.
>
> At best, Linux will not have to shut down, but can go into a suspended
> state.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Ziefle)
Subject: implementation of colored man pages
Date: 29 Jan 2001 23:46:56 GMT
How is the colorization of the man pages under Red Hat (and misc. other
distributions) done?
The man pages themselves don't contain the formatting commands staticly.
So is there a modified version of man which parses and inserts the
colorization commands before sending the stuff to STDOUT/the pager?
--
J�rg Ziefle
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From: "Tobias Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A simple question
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,linux.debian,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:46:57 +0100
Hi!
Up until recently, I was running the 2.2r0 Potato release. The day before
yesterday, I upgraded to one of the Woody releases and since then the
system hasn't been the same. I'm thinking that this can be a problem
generated by the fact that I didn't download the Woody upgrades directly,
but I used some packages that I had on a few cd's here. At any rate, ever
since the upgrade my soundcard has refused to have anything to do with
anyone except root.
Since I've got a Soundblaster PCI128, I decided to use the ALSA drivers to
get it up and running. No problems there, I downloaded the alsa packages
(driver, libs, utils) and compiled just fine. Then I installed and off i
went, everything was working great until I upgraded to Woody. Now the ALSA
drivers simply won't be available to the ordinary user, when I try to do
"amixer" with my usual account I get the following;
tjolle@willow:~$ amixer
The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.
Although, I do the same thing just after running su;
tjolle@willow:~$ su
Password:
willow:/home/tjolle# amixer
Group 'Input Gain',0
Capabilities: volume mute jointly-mute Channels: Front-Left Front-Right
[..snip..]
Also, I thought I would include what it looks like when I try to run "gamix";
tjolle@willow:~$ gamix
probe.c 31: No ALSA device. main.c 29: Can not make mixer.
Now, all I want to know is; what gives? I mean, why the heck are my ALSA
drivers hiding from everyone except root? Could I mistakenly have
installed the ALSA debs when I upgraded the system? I had problems with
the included ALSA debs earlier, that's why I decided to compile them on my
own.
Thanks in advance,
Tobias Bengtsson
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