Linux-Misc Digest #3, Volume #27 Fri, 2 Feb 01 19:13:03 EST
Contents:
Sound card problem(actually driver) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What/where are ALL the startup files in Linux/GNU? ("OpenMind")
Re: "Login incorrect", not asked for password (Robin Hinde)
Re: FTP for KDE2 that's as good as gFTP ? (Robin Hinde)
Q: SuSE 6.3: sendmail: outgoing OK & incoming fails (Philip J. Bondi)
Q: SuSE 6.3: sendmail: outgoing OK & incoming fails (Philip J. Bondi)
Beeping while loading Linux (Ruffian949)
Re: Time to compile a kernel (John Hasler)
Re: The detected UART is odd: maybe an IO port conflict? ("Jeff Susanj")
Re: Macintosh disk images in Linux / win9x ?
Re: Q: SuSE 6.3: sendmail: outgoing OK & incoming fails (Paul Lew)
Re: Kernel 2.4.1 -- 'free' report 0 shared memory (Matt Haley)
Re: What/where are ALL the startup files in Linux/GNU?
Re: How to upgrade software for old Redhat system? (Michael Heiming)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: help on Raid ("jujubeesRULE")
Video Capture: mpeg (1 frame every 2 sec) (Chris Webster)
Re: Software Need to Creat VCD ("jujubeesRULE")
Re: Red Hat 7 (Arctic Storm)
Re: Q: SuSE 6.3: sendmail: outgoing OK & incoming fails (Michael Heiming)
Re: implementation of colored man pages (Thomas Dickey)
Re: who's rewriting /etc/fstab? (Roger Davis)
Re: slow sockets ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How can I install RH 7.0 on an ATA100 harddrive ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sound card problem(actually driver)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 21:09:48 GMT
Hello, I have posted this at least one other time. My sound driver will
not accept mic input. I have the crystal soundfusion cs4614 card, and I
have upgraded the alsa drivers to 0.5.9beta. Can anyone help me? Oh, I
have kernel 2.4.0 test9
Thanks,
Justin Hibbits
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From: "OpenMind" <**Mail Free America**>
Subject: What/where are ALL the startup files in Linux/GNU?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:25:56 -0800
I am configuring a group of keyboardless-mouseless Linux/GNU machines as
computing nodes, planning on launching tasks on each from a central machine.
All these machines use the same hardware, so I have brought up one machine
with RH 7 and successfully cloned identical drives for each using the cp
command.
Since the first machine was called "node01," naturally each machine thinks
it is now node01.
I'm thinking of placing all configuration files on a diskette, which each
machine will read when it boots. I can create customized diskettes for each
named machine. (Perhaps someone has a better strategy, of course. NFS?
Bear in mind that I wish the machine names to be alphanumerically
sequential, like node01, node02, etc., and that I need to assign the same
name to the same machine each time.)
I suppose that once the machine was running, the files could be copied to
the hard drive with a script.
So I need to learn about ALL the files or utilities needed to put the
machine into a usable state, accessible via telnet and rsh.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Hinde)
Subject: Re: "Login incorrect", not asked for password
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 21:23:44 GMT
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:06:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Hinde) wrote:
>(originally posted to nz.comp)
>
>Slight problem with logging into my desktop.
>
Solved, libcrack was missing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Hinde)
Subject: Re: FTP for KDE2 that's as good as gFTP ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 21:26:36 GMT
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 05:32:10 GMT, Arctic Storm
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>FTP for KDE2 that's as good as gFTP ?
>I'm currently running KDE 2.0.1.
>I used to run GNOME that came with RedHat 7, and I liked the gFTP.
>Is there an FTP cilent that's as good as gFTP? As you all know, gFTP is
>GUI-based, unlike the text-based NcFPT in KDE2.
If you just want a gui, what is wrong with just using your KDE folders
for ftp? Works seamlessly in KDE1 here.
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From: Philip J. Bondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Q: SuSE 6.3: sendmail: outgoing OK & incoming fails
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 21:21:16 GMT
Hello to all:
I have installed SuSE 6.3. I use an ADSL internet connection via
Roaring Penguin. I have a dynamic IP address. I have setup a domain
name with dyndns.org. I can send e-mail from my machine. However, if
I send e-mail to my machine, it always gets rejected.
I have tried the information in the SDB, but it does not seem
to work.
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/fetchmail_null.html
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/sendmail-suse61.html
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/isdn_dynip-sendmail.html
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/sendmail_4.html
Can anyone tell me what I should be doing?
--
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Philip Bondi, Database Administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Philip J. Bondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Q: SuSE 6.3: sendmail: outgoing OK & incoming fails
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 21:21:57 GMT
Hello to all:
I have installed SuSE 6.3. I use an ADSL internet connection via
Roaring Penguin. I have a dynamic IP address. I have setup a domain
name with dyndns.org. I can send e-mail from my machine. However, if
I send e-mail to my machine, it always gets rejected.
I have tried the information in the SDB, but it does not seem
to work.
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/fetchmail_null.html
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/sendmail-suse61.html
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/isdn_dynip-sendmail.html
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/sendmail_4.html
Can anyone tell me what I should be doing?
--
--
Philip Bondi, Database Administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ruffian949 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Beeping while loading Linux
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 21:30:12 -0000
I am using a dual boot win95/Linux RH7.0 system. Lilo takes me to the
dos/linux selection screen. I choose Linux, it then says loading Linux
followed by a bunch of ...., after the 3rd period my main board buzzer
starts beeping? Once the text starts to print the beeping stops and the
system seems to operate fine. Any one know why or what is causing this?
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time to compile a kernel
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:54:50 GMT
Phil Durbin wrote:
> I reflashed my BIOS an viola I have a screaming athlon box. Build time
> was about 5 minutes with about 90 processes running (servers and such).
Is that with 'make -j'?
John Thompson writes:
> I have to wonder why it would make a difference at all. I thought the
> BIOS dropped out of the picture...
After first configuring the motherboard.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: "Jeff Susanj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The detected UART is odd: maybe an IO port conflict?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 21:44:09 GMT
"D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I'm not familiar with your particular hardware, but if the uart really
> is a 16450, it is incredibly old and outdated (early 1980's?). The 16450
> will overheat and die if you try to clock it beyond its original
> intentions. Almost every device needing this category of uart now runs a
> 16550A. Probably you need to use setserial or some other means to
> specify 16550A instead; but be warned, that a true 16450 running at full
> specs of a 16550A might die.
I doubt that the UART would die but more likely it would loose a lot of
data. The 16550A has an internal buffer to handle situations where it is
receiving data faster than it can process it. 16450s can reliably work at
at most 38K whereas the 16550A can work in the neighborhood of 115K if the
CPU can take data that fast. This would allow a 56K modem to work at full
speed with data compression enabled, assuming an average compression of 2:1.
Jeff S.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Macintosh disk images in Linux / win9x ?
Date: 2 Feb 2001 15:56:04 -0600
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:52:40 +0100, Alexandros Sklavos
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
> does anybody know how mac diskette images can be created in Linux or
>in Win95/98 ??
1) macintosh format disks can't be created w/ PC hardware, irregardless
of the operating system. They're CLV where there are more sectors on
the outer tracks.
2) macintoshes since around '92 have been able to read/write pc format
disks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Q: SuSE 6.3: sendmail: outgoing OK & incoming fails
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 22:09:34 GMT
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, Philip J. Bondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello to all:
>
>I have installed SuSE 6.3. I use an ADSL internet connection via
>Roaring Penguin. I have a dynamic IP address. I have setup a domain
>name with dyndns.org. I can send e-mail from my machine. However, if
>I send e-mail to my machine, it always gets rejected.
>
>I have tried the information in the SDB, but it does not seem
>to work.
>http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/fetchmail_null.html
>http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/sendmail-suse61.html
>http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/isdn_dynip-sendmail.html
>http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/sendmail_4.html
>
>Can anyone tell me what I should be doing?
>
>--
>--
>Philip Bondi, Database Administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Quite possible the rejects are because the sendor's domain is not "real"?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley)
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.1 -- 'free' report 0 shared memory
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 22:17:27 -0000
On 2 Feb 2001 14:44:20 -0500,
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>The kernel no longer reports the shared memory in /proc/meminfo (where
>free(1) gets its numbers). It's not a problem.
Thanks.
--
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Mandrake 7.2 / RedHat 6.1 / Windows 98 SE / FreeBSD 4.2 / Windows NT 4
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What/where are ALL the startup files in Linux/GNU?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:44:08 -0500
Don't know all of them , but here's what I usually look over in a RedHat
system ( ofcourse, I am still stuck with a 6.0 cd , but with a 2.2.17 kernel
, updates etc. )
/etc/sysconfig/ directory contains system configuration settings :
network : this contains the network settings. the line HostName= specifies
the name of the computer.
the network-scripts directory : files that specify each of the interfaces
to be used ifcfg-eth0 is the first interface . The line onboot=yes means
that it wil be brought up when the networking system starts.
the file lo handles the lo opback interface to reach localhost.
There are files here for setting up static routes, etc.
=================================================================
the /etc directory:
hosts : this file contains a list of ip to name resolution entries. If you
have the bind system set up ok, it should check this file first , then go
to the dns servers .
The ip and the host name of this computer should be specified here . At the
least, there should be "127.0.0.1 localhost".
/etc/rc.d directory :
Directory and its children contain scripts that are executed on startup .
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory :
This is where all the start up scripts are put, those that have to run when
you enter or leave a run level .
example :
network ( start|stop|restart) - brings up the networking system i.e, all
the interfaces that had onboot=yes in their config files ( located in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/)
the rc1.d to rc6.d :
these are directories for the varous run levels . When the system enters a
run level it will go into the matching directory and execute all the S*
links . When it leaves a particular run level, it will execute the K*
links.
the file inetd.conf I think, has been replaced by the directory xinetd .
Somebody let me know why they changed to it .
/etc/fstab : the file system table .
hth
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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 23:34:18 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to upgrade software for old Redhat system?
OrangeDino wrote:
> As Redhat Linux use rpm for installation,the rpm of new software usually
> support new version RHL because Redhat often change the system layout in
> new version. Then installation of the new rpm sometimes would not
> replace the old rpm in old Redhat system. Sometimes the new installed
> software even not work. If I want to upgrade the original software in
> rpm to new version with replacement of the old rpm, what should I do?
> Use the source code to compile and install the software?
> Or, use source code rpm to build new rpm for my system?
> Which way can replace the old rpm files and make the new software to
> work better with my system?
> Thanks a lot!
> I don't want to upgrade to newer RH because my Linux Box work fine, only
> some software is a bit older.
Hello,
you should upgrade, because many thing change, and the older your distro is
the
worser it gets, I had some trouble with updates (SuSE), backup your data &
the system configuration
(ie. backup everything below /etc) and reinstall from scratch.
Boot and download all those updates the vendor has for your shinny new
distro, there are almost more than you think there should
be considering, you bought a distro that was just released a few days ago.
But problems tend to get fixed very fast
with Linux...:-)
If you want to work with rpm, typing man rpm should give you all needed
infos, then try all those thing you wrote...
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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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: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 18:03:13 -0500
Ian Davey wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >Ian Davey wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Aaron R. Kulkis"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >> As far as Atheists are concerned, god doesn't exist any more than Santa
> > Claus
> >> >> or the Easter Bunny.
> >> >
> >> >Which *IS* a belief in itself.
> >>
> >> Not true. I read lots of novels and enjoy them, but don't believe any of the
> >> content as it's just fiction. There's no belief system wrapped up in it.
> >> There's no need to pay any attention to people who elevate stories into a
> >> belief system.
> >
> >You have just expressed a belief.
> >
> >It might be true, or not...either way, it IS a belief.
>
> You've still not managed to convince me. But perhaps it's just a matter of
> semantics, Atheism is a lack of *religious* beliefs (theism), but not a lack
> of belief. Does that work better for you? So an Atheist believes something
> other than religion.
There's an old law of military command:
Failure to come to a decision is a decision in itself.
Do the math.
>
> There is a valid proof that God doesn't exist, but I can't remember who coined
> it now: "the existance of God disproves the existance of God, therefore God
> does not exist". Seeing as you're mathematically/scientifically minded, you
> might be able to figure out the logic of that statement.
>
> Not Christian are you?
>
> ian.
>
> \ /
> (@_@) http://www.eclipse.co.uk/sweetdespise/ (dark literature)
> /(&)\ http://www.eclipse.co.uk/sweetdespise/libertycaptions/ (art)
> | |
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H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "jujubeesRULE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help on Raid
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 23:08:48 GMT
> So, when I create then new Raid partition (
> mkraid --really-force /dev/md0), this partition is not shown when I
> launch the command df in the shell,
> because, "/dev/md0" raid partition needs to
> be reformatted.
>
> Can I add a disk without formatting ?
IIRC, its not possible with raid. You can do it with LVM though.
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From: Chris Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video Capture: mpeg (1 frame every 2 sec)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:18:46 -0700
What I'm looking for: I would like to come off a 10 flight with a 10
minute "fast forward" looking video (mpeg) of the flight (1 frame every
2 seconds?).
I have a Hauppaugge WinTV card working with XawTV. The "streamer"
program can produce a series of jpegs or an AVI (RIFF?) file.
1) Is there a linux program which I can view that AVI/RIFF file with?
or
2) Is there a program that can take a string of jpegs and make an mpeg?
or
3) I'm going about this all wrong and I should try.....
--Chris
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From: "jujubeesRULE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Software Need to Creat VCD
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 23:23:54 GMT
In article <l9Ld6.95901$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Young4ert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My Linux system is equipped with a Voodoo3 3500 TV/AGP video card. When
> I boot the system into Win2k, I can connect my VCR/Camcoder/Antenna to
> the TV/in of the Voodoo3 card and start to digitize any film that is
> played on the VCR/Camcoder/Antenna and then create a VCD as well as
> write it on a CDR media. The newly created VCD can be played on a CVD
> player. Now that I have installed Linux (dual boot), I would like to
> do such a thing on Linux.
> Can anyone please tell me what software package should I install to be
> able to digitize and convert a film played under VCR/Camcoder/Antenna to
> a VCD?
>
> TIA.
>
Probably not possible at this time (Could be wrong though), since the tv
tuner support for the voodoo is in fairly early development
You can check it out here: http://v3tv.sourceforge.net/
If (or when) it does work, you'd need something like broadcast2000
(http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.php3) and vcdimager
(http://www.hvrlab.org/~hvr/vcdimager/).
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 23:29:58 GMT
> I see a fair bit of bashing of Red Hat 7 on this newsgroup....
>
> As someone who is setting up a new server for development in our company,
> I was going to go with RH7.
>
> Is there any reason not to at this point? The server will be running a
> test platform to migrate our existing POS environment from SCO to Linux on
> many servers. Also considering Suse7
>
> I guess my question is this : Is RH7 stable? What are the problems? Are
> they working them out?
I'm runnig RedHat 7.0, and I'm happy with it. The few glitches here and
there can be resolved with patches and upgrades. RedHat will release the
Linux Kernel 2.4 package in a few weeks, and then eventually RedHat 7.1, so
having RedHat 7.0 now will make the upgrade smooth.
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Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 00:08:39 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Q: SuSE 6.3: sendmail: outgoing OK & incoming fails
"Philip J. Bondi" wrote:
> Hello to all:
>
> I have installed SuSE 6.3. I use an ADSL internet connection via
> Roaring Penguin. I have a dynamic IP address. I have setup a domain
> name with dyndns.org. I can send e-mail from my machine. However, if
> I send e-mail to my machine, it always gets rejected.
>
> I have tried the information in the SDB, but it does not seem
> to work.
> http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/fetchmail_null.html
> http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/sendmail-suse61.html
> http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/isdn_dynip-sendmail.html
> http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/sendmail_4.html
>
> Can anyone tell me what I should be doing?
>
> --
> --
> Philip Bondi, Database Administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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Hi,
did you setup sendmail, what ever version you use, as SuSE 6.3 is pretty
old, IMHO 7.1 is available
and reloaded/restarted it that it is responsible for your mail?
Asuming that your temporary DNS hack works, as I don't think something
like this should be used for mailing as DNS is from what I know a
distributed DB, that has TTL (Time to live) that may vary, DNS server
arround the world could cache your MX entrie, and deliver the wrong if
their TTL isn't expired.
IMHO I would only run http server on a 24/7 connection with dynamic IP,
get a cheap domain,that has one page that redirects to your @home
machine, where you have apache running. And some scripts looking on your
IP and if it changes, well
you could automagically upload a new index.html with your new IP...:-)
What says /var/log/mail? The first place to go if there are mail
problems...
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: implementation of colored man pages
Date: 2 Feb 2001 23:38:44 GMT
Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1 Feb 2001 22:38:50 GMT, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>It's possible that xterm is doing it (colors can be assigned to bold,
>>underline and reverse). Just checking, I see that this is the case for
>>Redhat 6.2 (read the XTerm app-defaults file).
>>
> Same applies to termcap - some implementations use colours, others use
> underlining and/pr reverse video.
> For instance RH 6.2 colours man pages and directories with the xtem
> (PuTTY) and telnet (Teraterm) implementations I've used to access it.
no - that's a different topic. The manpage change is done to an existing
program (man) by changing how bold and underline are displayed. One could in
principle change the termcap strings to achieve this, but it would not work
well.
The 'ls' program reads an environment variable to decide if it should attempt
to display colors (though of course vt100's never did display colors ;-)
--
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From: Roger Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: who's rewriting /etc/fstab?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 13:22:45 -1000
>How sure are you (or the previous poster) that PM is the one actually
>changing fstab? I just find it really hard to believe that that kind of
>utility would go around editing files on your system. It really sounds more
>like Red Hat noticing that something has changed on the next re-boot and
>then "fixing" your config files for you.
(I'm the one who originated this thread, for anyone who's jumping into
the middle.)
My original complaint was that PowerQuest's Drive Image 4.0, not their
Partition Magic program, was rewriting /etc/fstab. A subsequent poster
stated his suspicion that Partition Magic does the same thing. I have
used PM myself but have never seen it rewrite /etc/fstab, however I nearly always use
it to pre-partition before installing Linux. I don't believe I
have ever used it to resize a previously installed ext2 filesystem. Given
what I have witnessed with Drive Image, though, I can well believe that
PM may also rewrite /etc/fstab.
I am absolutely certain that Drive Image, a program which creates and
restores CD-R backups of Linux and/or Windows filesystems, rewrites
/etc/fstab when restoring a CD-R image. I have two pieces of evidence
to confirm this. First, if I restore a Linux filesystem from CD-R with
DI (this is done from a DOS floppy environment, not from Linux or Windows)
and then immediately boot from a RedHat installation CD in rescue mode
and mount my hard disk's root filesystem as /a, the file /a/etc/fstab
in that filesystem is trashed. RedHat installation does not even mount
this filesystem at boot time, that's something I did manually
after the CD boot-up completed. (Of course, it could be that 'mount' is rewriting the
fstab. ;-> ) Second, after giving up on DI I then
experimented with Symantec's Ghost, a similar CD-R backup/restore product.
When I restore a Ghost CD-R backup in an analogous manner and boot Linux
from disk, everything is fine and /etc/fstab is unchanged.
During one conversation with PQ tech support, their guy told me he had
discussed the problem with one of their Linux testers who told him that
DI 'no longer rewrote /etc/fstab the way it used to'. Yeah, right! It
clearly used to do this by design in the past, and they seem to think they
have removed this 'feature'. NOT!!
By way of comparison, I have found Ghost to be a better product for CD-R
backup and restore of Linux filesystems, although it's got a large number
of annoying problems of its own. PQ has way better phone support during
the initial registration period, whereas Symantec has none unless you pay
for it, and Symantec's WWW support is terrible.
http://mkcdrec.ota.be/ looks very promising for Linux CD-R backup.
I have never tried it, but the author apparently has just added support
for multi-volume CD sets and I will try it soon. If anyone else out there
has any experience with this or any other Linux CD-R backup product I
would love to hear about it. Drive Image is useless and Ghost is only
marginally acceptable, I would leap at the chance to abandon both and
use a real Linux solution here!
--
Roger Davis
University of Hawaii/SOEST
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: slow sockets
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 23:30:10 GMT
In article <95eonn$798$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <95ekbs$2ln$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I recently installed linux (Corel) on my 333 Mhx PC.
> >
> > Getting a port from the outside takes over 60 seconds each
> > request. This is a problem with POP3 as well as FTP, but
> > HTTP connections work fine.
> >
> > I've got over 128 MB of RAM and I'm using a 100 MB NIC.
> >
> > I've encountered this problem in the past with routered
> > connections where the port switch failed due to router
> > configurations, but this happens inside my network, not
> > past the router.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > -David
> > + DGS Consulting
> >
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> >
> Which daemon is running, inetd or xinetd? Are the services that you
are
> having trouble with properly listed in /etc/services and not commented
> out? Also, are you using tcp-wrappers?
>
> Mike
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>
Both the sockets are in /etc/services, as they both
work, eventually.
I am using inetd. I believe the system is also using
wrappers since the hosts.* files were installed. However,
I've never verified this.
Any ideas why the sockets are so slow to connect? Maybe
it's important to know that the sockets work fine, once
connected.
-David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How can I install RH 7.0 on an ATA100 harddrive ?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 23:27:31 GMT
I have an Assus motherboard with a Promise controller and I have Win98
installed on an IBM hard drive supporting ATA 100. The problem is I cannot
instal RH 7.0 on this drive because the installer does not detect my drive. I
searched for solutions. I found that I should try to put my drive on the
other controller not using ATA 100 and install RH there. Then I should
recompile the kernel to have support for the Promise controller. I could then
setup lilo to recognize my ATA100 and then I could FINALLY switch back to the
ATA100 controller. MY QUESTION IS: Do you know of any other simpler
solution? If you do please share it with me.
PLEASE REPLY.
Thank you in advance.
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