Linux-Misc Digest #990, Volume #26 Thu, 1 Feb 01 09:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: re-compiling kernel, where is the current configuration? (Eggert Ehmke)
Re: no sound or network, need higher resolution (LateBloomer)
Re: Nie uruchamia mi sie smbd... ("Tomek Jablonski")
Re: Selling GPL programs (Stephen Rank)
Re: Linux on Alpha station (Stephen Cornell)
Re: implementation of colored man pages (Martin Gregorie)
linux bootdisk(s) with X support? ("Jan Vandesompele")
Re: VNC - SSH ("Jan Vandesompele")
Re: best internal modem? (Julian Jacobs)
Re: Programming (Stephen Rank)
Re: how to upgrade rpm (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: NFS broken with 2.4.1? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Recommended AVI/MPEG videoplayer? (Michel Bardiaux)
Smbd doesn't start up (Mat)
Re: KPPP Problems ("Meron Lavie")
Re: KPPP Problems ("Meron Lavie")
Re: Convert Word-DOC to PostScript (-ljl-)
Re: how to upgrade rpm (-ljl-)
Re: DMA channels? (Michael Heiming)
Re: problem with wget (Michael Heiming)
Re: best internal modem? (Lawrence Troxler)
Re: Linux on Alpha station (Martin Gregorie)
Re: how to upgrade rpm (Philippe Possemiers)
Re: linux bootdisk(s) with X support? (Michael Heiming)
help with writing file via TFTP server (Hung Ngoc Lai)
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From: Eggert Ehmke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: re-compiling kernel, where is the current configuration?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 12:11:12 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:59:50 -0800, Lupei Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
>top of it. the question is:
>where is the current configuration file kept?
It's always in the root of the linux source tree: .config
So copy the .config from the old source tree to the new tree. At first you
should do a
make oldconfig
so the new configuration options will be worked in. Then do a
make menuconfig
or
make xconfig
to add your specific items.
make dep bzImage modules modules_install
cu
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: no sound or network, need higher resolution
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LateBloomer)
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 11:15:52 GMT
Hi,
I had installed Red Hat 6.2, kernal 2.2.5
I was able to start my soundcard with sndconfig.
Later I lost my sound, error message "device or resorces busy"
Fixed the problem by going into the BIOS and changing the setting
for Plug and Play OS to "No"
Thanks for the Advice!
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:13:11 +0100
From: "Tomek Jablonski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nie uruchamia mi sie smbd...
"Mat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Czesc,
>
> probuje uruchomic sambe (2.0.7 na RedHat 7.0),
> robie wiec tak:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
>
> dostaje w odpowiedzi:
>
> SIOCADDRT: Plik istnieje
> SIOCADDRT: Plik istnieje
>
> Starting SMB services: [OK]
> Starting NMB services:
>
>
> pozniej robie:
>
> ps -A | grep mbd
>
> i widze tylko nmbd (dwukrotnie)
>
> W pliku /var/log/samba/smb.log mam nastepujacy wpis:
>
> lib/util_sock.c: open_socket_in(863)
> bind failed on port 139 socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Adres jest juz w uzyciu)
>
> Samba oczywiscie nie dziala. Co robic?
>
> Z gory dziekuje za wszelkie wskazowki, gdyby moj problem byl wyjasniony
> w FAQ-u,
> bardzo prosze o namiar na niego,
>
> pozdrawiam,
>
> Maciek
>
>
>
tu raczej wiekszosc cie nie zrozumiala
to jest angielska grupa :-(
tomek
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From: Stephen Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Selling GPL programs
Date: 01 Feb 2001 11:34:51 +0000
John Krane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There are several programs downloadable
> from the internet with a GPL license that are
> for sale. But I thought GPL programs were
> free. What is the true story here?
``Free as in speech, not as in beer''.
That means that you can charge what you like for the software (whether
anyone will pay is another story), but you can't restrict what the
people you sell to do with the software. Have a look at the GPL
(locate COPYING | head -1 | xargs less) for info.
Most (all?) Linux distributions, for example, are available to buy on
CD. Lots of people do buy them (esp. those with only modem access to
the net), and lots of people make (legal) copies of these CDs.
HTH,
Stephen
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Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, U.K.
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From: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Alpha station
Date: 01 Feb 2001 11:48:41 +0000
Jean Lebrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In fact, a friend will give me this this station. I don't know
> OpenVMS. So I want to install Linux.
Wait a moment, I thought it was running Digital Unix, not VMS? The
information you gave in the original post looked very Unixy (CDE, file
systems described as /proc, /user1, etc). True, if it's running VMS,
then lots of Gnu stuff won't compile for it. On the other hand, the
gnu tools should install on Digital Unix without a problem.
> But at the beginning, I try to install a lot of program with the source code.
> On Linux, I install software only from the source code.
As I mentioned before, you probably won't be able to get XFree running
on the hardware. Depending on what you want to use it for, that may
or may not be a problem.
--
Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/fax +44-1223-336644
University of Cambridge, Zoology Department, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3EJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Subject: Re: implementation of colored man pages
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 11:50:22 GMT
On 31 Jan 2001 04:47:21 -0900, Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie) wrote:
>>However, to save us all from reinventing a wheel:
>>
>>- does anybody know which capabilities control colours?
>>- how are the colours encoded in the capabilities?
>>- is this information documented anywhere?
>
>See the man pages for terminfo and ncurses to answer all of
>the above.
>
Thats a good pointer: thanks.
Evidently 'ls' uses some non-standard scheme; I'd used it as my
departure point and quickly found that it uses some undocumented hex
representation.
FWIW, not all programs use terminfo; I'm certainn must
written-for-Linux ones do, but some PD code contains its own library
functions (presumably to protect itself from broken implementations on
other platforms) and some of these tend to use termcap as the lowest
common denominator.
--
gregorie | Martin Gregorie
@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
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From: "Jan Vandesompele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux bootdisk(s) with X support?
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:19:55 +0100
Hello,
is it possible to make let's say two disks, which allow you to boot a linux
kernel and provide basic X support? I need some kind of boot disk to run an
ICA client (terminal server client). I can't install anything on the
harddrive of the machines, it are NTFS partitions which I can't delete and
may not boot into.
So what I need is: TCP/IP stack to connect to the Citrix Terminal Server, X
support so I can load Citrix ICA Client.
Maybe I can make a bootable CD somehow? But how do I do that? I certainly
would have 'a bit' more space to put everything on.
What are the basic files needed to run Xfree?
Maybe a difficult problem...
Cheers, Jan Vandesompele
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From: "Jan Vandesompele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VNC - SSH
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:37:34 +0100
Run the vncserver on the linux box. You will be asked to give a password.
Install VNC also on the NT machine.
Startup the VNCviewer
type the correct ip address of your linuxbox followed by the session number.
If you don't know your session number try 1 or 0 to begin with (for example
123.123.123.123:1 or 123.123.123.123:0)
click on 'ok',
when prompted for a password give the password
and you're in business...
Sergiy P. Zhenochin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95b7m1$3k5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I would like to access Linux box from NT using vnc. Does anyone know how
to
> do it? It seems that explanations in the documentation apply to the client
> running on Linux, not on NT.
> Thanks,
> Sergiy.
>
>
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From: Julian Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best internal modem?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 12:51:53 +0000
have you tried scan.co.uk.
They do a PCI linux compatable (hardware) modem.
It's about �32 plus VAT and delivery. It also gets onto they're
today.htm page at about �27.
Havent got one yet but plan to soon.
JulianJ
Digital Puer wrote:
> I have a new Dell 4100 running Win2000. It shipped with a winmodem
> that doesn't work with Linux, so I want to replace it.
> What is the best internal hardware modem that is most compatible
> with Linux (specifically RH 7)?
--
Julian Jacobs
UNIX System Administrator
BT WebServices
* Tel: (44) 29 2066 1377
* Fax: (44) 29 2034 0066
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.btwebservices.com/
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From: Stephen Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Programming
Date: 01 Feb 2001 12:55:46 +0000
Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dave Barcelo wrote:
> >
> > I need to write a program that will tell me how long it has been since
> > the last reboot. I want to get the answer in dd:hh:mm:ss format.
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> man uptime
or:
cat /proc/uptime
and do the maths ;)
first figure is uptime in seconds (2nd is idle time, also in seconds,
FYI).
HTH,
Stephen
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Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, U.K.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to upgrade rpm
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:02:59 -0500
Steve Ackman wrote:
>
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:41:54 -0500, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have rpm-3.0.3-43mdk from mandrake 7.0 I often get an error saying I
> >cant istall a package with version >= 3. How can I upgrade or change my
> >rpm package so I can install these packages?
> >
> >Any and all help appreciated.
>
> Red Hat has an updated rpm version on it's errata page
> where you can download rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm.
>
Once you have rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm installed and running on your
machine, what is the next one you should get to upgrade to the current
rpm? I tried installing rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm and it failed because of an
awful lot of dependency problems. It wanted
glibc >= 2.1.92 (I have glibc-2.1.3-15.4), db1 = 1.85 (not installed),
libbz2.s0.1 (I have /usr/lib/libbz2.so.0 from bzip2-0.9.5d-2),
libdb-3.1.so (I have /lib/libdb-2.1.3.so from glibc-2.1.3-15.4),
libc.so.6 (I HAVE /lib/libc.so.6), rpm = 3.04 (needed by
rpm-build-3.04-048.4: what are they talking about? I have:
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ rpm -qa | grep rpm
rpm-build-3.0.5-9.6x
rpm-devel-3.0.5-9.6x
rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
rpm-python-3.0.5-9.6x ), rpm-build-3.0.5 (I have -9.6x version),
rpm-devel-3.0.5 (I have -9.6x version).
I could not find a glibc 2.1.92 and hesitate to go up to the 2.2 series.
I could not find a plain rpm 3.0.5 version, and fear it would be a
downgrade from 3.0.5-9.6x, and so on.
So I decided to give up on it.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 7:45am up 3 days, 16:14, 3 users, load average: 3.19, 3.14, 2.87
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS broken with 2.4.1?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:17:16 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote (in part):
>
> MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (in part):
> > [snip] got the following error
> > message when attempting to mount an NFS share (NFS server services were not
> > compiled into the kernel, as this box will be client only):
> >
> > nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
> The message from mount is just telling you that you have a new
> kernel. Ignore, or make a new mount executable.
>
I get this when I boot my machine (in /var/log/messages). But what
puzzels me is that I get:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 60080 Aug 1 2000 /bin/mount
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 870767 Aug 1 2000 /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-VA.2.1smp
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ rpm -q mount kernel
mount-2.10m-2.2
kernel-2.2.14-VA.2.1
Do you mean I should find a newer version of mount, or that I should
just "touch" it?
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 8:10am up 3 days, 16:39, 4 users, load average: 3.09, 3.11, 3.01
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From: Michel Bardiaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommended AVI/MPEG videoplayer?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 13:23:53 GMT
Eric wrote:
>
> Andrew Purugganan wrote:
> >
> > Before I start d/loading any more of these players, I'd like to hear from
> > you ppl. I would like the least amount of d/loads, too; preferably a
> > complete standalone package. I have Mandrake 6.0, 2-2.13mdk kernel on a
> > slow connection. I have sound working.
> >
> > xanim need this, aktion needs that, kmpg yadda yadda
> >
> > What works for you?
> >
>
> xine, lamp, and the ones you mention.
Found xine easily at xine.sourceforge.net, but lamp eluded me... Do you
have an URL?
>
> They all work here.
>
> Eric
There is also xmms, xmps, xtheatre, avifile; am still trying all of
these (most require or at least strongly recommend quite recent versions
of several packages like SDL and XFREE4, so I have to live dangerously
:-) and upgrade my Debian/Potato to 'bleeding edge'...)
Now that the trick of using the Windows DLLs in a Linux player is known
to work, and that there is even an OpenDIVX project, the set of tools
for video is almost complete on Linux (even though most are still 'in
development'). About the only missing piece (but it's a big one!) is
either an open-source encoder for ASF, or an alternate, open, streaming
format. Any pointers?
Cheers.
--
Michel Bardiaux
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From: Mat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Smbd doesn't start up
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 14:25:37 +0100
Hi,
sorry for my previous email - I mistook polish language group for
english one :-)
My problem is that when I try to run samba (2.0.7 na RedHat 7.0),
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
I get as response:
SIOCADDRT: File exists
SIOCADDRT: File exists
Starting SMB services: [OK]
Starting NMB services:
After that I type:
ps -A | grep mbd
and everything I can see is:
nmbd (twice)
There is no line with smbd. I finally went into
/var/log/samba/smb.log
and saw following entry:
lib/util_sock.c: open_socket_in(863)
bind failed on port 139 socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already in use)
Samba doesn't work. What have I done wrongly?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Maciek
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From: "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: KPPP Problems
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:52:54 +0200
Thanks for the suggestions.
This _did_ allow me to actually run applications after connecting, but I
still have to be root. Any more ideas?
TIA -
--
Meron Lavie
www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
NOTE: THERE ARE NO NUMBERS IN MY REAL EMAIL ADDRESS HOST NAME: ANTI-SPAM!
"Bill Unruh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95237v$9sh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In <94uthg$fh4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Meron Lavie"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]I am a Linux/RH7 newbire, who is experiencing 2 problems with PPP:
>
> ]I can use the _Redhat Linux_ dialup tool within KDE, with no problem
> ]whatsoever, however with KPPP:
>
> Well, use the redhat one.
>
> ]1) I can successfully dialup when I'm root, but from without root I'm
always
> ]asked for the root password. Why shouldn't everyone be allowed to use the
> ]modem? How can I enable modem usage for all accounts?
>
> chmod a+rx /usr/sbin/{pppd,chat}
> chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
> chmod a+rx /dev/ttyS?
>
> ]2) After dialing and succesfully connecting, no applications can be
brought
> ]up - clicking on their icon/menu item does nothing. On the other hand, if
I
> ]already have a console/shell window open, I can execute commands such as
> ]ping, ftp, etc., so I know I have a network connection. However, being
able
> ]to use my browser would be nice...
>
> Give your machine a name, or uncheck the kppp box which tells it rename
your
> machine. It was always a stupid button to have in the first place.
>
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From: "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: KPPP Problems
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:55:09 +0200
I couldn;t find this anywhere on the kde.org site. Could you please help
point me to the right direction?
TIA--
Meron Lavie
www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
NOTE: THERE ARE NO NUMBERS IN MY REAL EMAIL ADDRESS HOST NAME: ANTI-SPAM!
"Trent Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Open up a terminal window as root. enter this:
> chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
>
> go to www.kde.org and read their FAQ, they have a
> workaround for the KPPP problem with the redhat
> distro.
>
> --
> ----->Trent
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://home.earthlink.net/~trentjoy
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Convert Word-DOC to PostScript
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 13:18:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:46:43 GMT, -ljl- staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> >In article <958n7n$g9dan$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "[BRDLocutus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> can anyone here tell me where to find a Linux-Tool to convert
> >> Word Documents to PS (PDF would be ok, too) ?
> >While not exactly a tool, StarOffice might do that. Also, can't
> >Word produce PS output.
>
> StarOffice will do that, but MS Word's "Print to File" option doesn't
> quite do the right thing--the PostScript files it generates have the
> .PRN extension instead of .ps , even though they're (mostly) real
> PostScript. I have had success in taking these .PRNs, renaming them,
> and using various things like ps2pdf on them.
I tried to load a ps file into StarOffice running on NT4 and got an
error message ACRODIST.EXE not found, or something like that.
Anyone have any ideas? Surely they don't require DISTILLER, do they.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: how to upgrade rpm
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 13:28:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have rpm-3.0.3-43mdk from mandrake 7.0 I often get an error saying I
> cant istall a package with version >= 3. How can I upgrade or change
my
> rpm package so I can install these packages?
>
> Any and all help appreciated.
Welcome to RPM hell; they have done it _again_.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: DMA channels?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:03:02 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I find out if I have DMA channels? Reading "help" in kernel
> xconfig made me think that DMA may be unreliable on some computers. How
> can I test it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wroot
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
Hello,
cat /proc/dma
Good luck
Michael Heiming
Sysadmin
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
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From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with wget
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:04:41 +0100
Wong Ching Kuen Frederick wrote:
> i try to access a page with wget but it doesn's seems to work. i think the
> page has checked the type of browser such that wget is not supported. can
> anyone suggest how to work around it? the output of wget is as follows:
>
> wget -S http://www.forexnews.com/unsupported/readNA.asp?f=N20010131E.mgn
> --10:43:19--
> http://www.forexnews.com:80/unsupported/readNA.asp?f=N20010131E.mgn
> => `readNA.asp?f=N20010131E.mgn'
> Connecting to proxy.cuhk.edu.hk:8080... connected!
> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
> 2 Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
> 3 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 02:41:12 GMT
> 4 Location: /browser.asp
> 5 Content-Length: 133
> 6 Content-Type: text/html
> 7 Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDGGQGGMAC=EIBBMGECECKGLFDCJHFHKHAL; path=/
> 8 Cache-Control: private
> 9 Age: 110
> 10 X-Cache: MISS from earth.csc.cuhk.edu.hk
> 11 Proxy-Connection: close
> 12
> Location: /browser.asp [following]
> /browser.asp: Unknown/unsupported protocol.
Hello,
try w3mir...
Good luck
Michael Heiming
Sysadmin
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From: Lawrence Troxler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best internal modem?
Date: 1 Feb 2001 13:49:21 GMT
Digital Puer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: thanks, but to be more specific, what is the most compatible internal
: *PCI* modem? My Dell 4100 only has PCI slots.
I recently got a new system with an Actiontec Call Waiting Modem. Works
fine and is PCI. Expensive though. Mail me if you need more info.
Larry Troxler
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Subject: Re: Linux on Alpha station
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 13:53:05 GMT
On 01 Feb 2001 11:48:41 +0000, Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Wait a moment, I thought it was running Digital Unix, not VMS?
>
Looks to me like its running Digital Unix version 4.0d, which is IIRC
the last-but-one release. Now renamed Compaq True64 UNIX 4.0d.
This is a good, stable release, especially if its patches are up to
date.
The only reason I can see for swapping over to Linux would be the cost
of the maintenance license, but this will not be cheap for the
hardware either.
My last project used this version of UNIX (though on a max size
Alphaserver 8400) and we ported a lot of PD software to it wothout any
problems apart from the then current version microEmacs, which would
not compile for reasons I never had time to sort out. I bet the latest
Martin Whittaker Linux port of 4.00 would be OK though.
--
gregorie | Martin Gregorie
@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 14:54:12 +0100
From: Philippe Possemiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: how to upgrade rpm
Get rpm 3.0.5(-7), it can handle rpms >= 3.
You can get it from ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-3.0.x/
Philippe
-ljl- wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have rpm-3.0.3-43mdk from mandrake 7.0 I often get an error saying I
> > cant istall a package with version >= 3. How can I upgrade or change
> my
> > rpm package so I can install these packages?
> >
> > Any and all help appreciated.
>
> Welcome to RPM hell; they have done it _again_.
>
> --
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>
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From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux bootdisk(s) with X support?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:11:35 +0100
Jan Vandesompele wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to make let's say two disks, which allow you to boot a linux
> kernel and provide basic X support? I need some kind of boot disk to run an
> ICA client (terminal server client). I can't install anything on the
> harddrive of the machines, it are NTFS partitions which I can't delete and
> may not boot into.
> So what I need is: TCP/IP stack to connect to the Citrix Terminal Server, X
> support so I can load Citrix ICA Client.
> Maybe I can make a bootable CD somehow? But how do I do that? I certainly
> would have 'a bit' more space to put everything on.
> What are the basic files needed to run Xfree?
>
> Maybe a difficult problem...
>
> Cheers, Jan Vandesompele
Hello,
I don't think you can run X from floppy:
ls -alh /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.5M Jul 29 2000
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
But you don't need to run X if you just want to start a X app and redirect the
output to another machine that has a X-Server running!
You can make bootable CDs with mkisofs & cdrecord...
Good luck
Michael Heiming
Sysadmin
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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with writing file via TFTP server
Date: 1 Feb 2001 13:55:10 GMT
Hi Everyone,
I would like to know if there are ways that I can write a file to
my linux via TFTP server (I have TFTP service running on the
linux box) without having the file actually has to exist first
(i.e. touch filename). I need to do this is because I need
to copy configuration files from Cisco routers to a TFTP
server (which is my linux box) and this box is accessible
via the public network. I need to retrieve about 200 routers
configuration files and I don't want to give people access
to the box (i.e. run command like touch filename). I know
the simple solution is to put 3com daemon server on
Microsoft windows; however, I am very paranoid about
Microsoft windows. I am much more comfortable with
Linux since I know that it is a lot more secure than
Windows (no pun intended). I am running kernel 2.4.1
on the box and very strong ipchains so I know that the
box is quite secure. But going back to the question,
how can I write a file to my linux box via TFTP server
without having the file actually has to exist on the linux
box first. This is an urgent situation. Please help...
Many thanks.
David
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