Linux-Misc Digest #45, Volume #27 Wed, 7 Feb 01 03:13:02 EST
Contents:
Screen blanks after 30 minutes ("Jackson C. Allen")
P2P Name-Space Project Need Comments (Bill Chiu)
Re: ipchains permissions (David Efflandt)
? Windows Same Gnome ("Alec Soroudi")
hotmail client in linux (Clayton Cheung)
Re: Screen blanks after 30 minutes (GYULAI Mihaly)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Steve Mading)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Steve Mading)
Problem compiling sane : `EINVAL' undeclared ("Cedric Chausson")
Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big (Eric)
Re: Unpacking ISO-images without a CD burner ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
Re: kernel null pointer on dual cpu-celeron ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
Re: Open Source databases.... ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
Re: Samba 2.0.7 and large files (>2 GB) ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
Re: Compile from Micro soft access to Linux (GYULAI Mihaly)
Please help, networking disaster
Re: Newbie: programming? (Michael Heiming)
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From: "Jackson C. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Screen blanks after 30 minutes
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 06:02:24 GMT
How do I keep the screen from blanking after about 30 minutes? I am not
running X, so there is no screen saver. This is on RH 6.1.
Thanks for any help.
Jack Allen
Remove NOSPAM from name to reply directly.
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From: Bill Chiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: P2P Name-Space Project Need Comments
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 06:10:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Linux Community:
I'm working on a project to join together the personal computer owners
of the world, to share their unused computing powers with one another,
to share files with fellow netizens.
I've done a little research to find a suitable technology to make
sharing computing resources, and I thought CORBA is excellent for this
purpose. In my understanding, CORBA supports multi-platform objects to
call each other's services across any internet connections. I was
looking at VisiBroker and I found its name service and clustering
services close to what we need, but not enough.
Let me describe what I'm trying to achieve with GnuSpace. In the
vision of Object-Web, everything is object and they are
interoperatable. In the compatible vision of GnuSpace, the objects are
running on top of thousands of personal computers, and objects may have
unstable life-cycle, the network connections may be unstable, and
objects need to be able to migrate from PC to PC for reasons of
availability and stability. Why build a distributed platform on top of
this mess? Why not? It is what many companies are doing research in
e.g. P2P technologies, and if the open source community build it first
on top of personal computers, then this network belong to the personal
computer users, not a few particular entities.
I need programmers who are familiar with CORBA naming services. I like
to start with an open source implementation of a new service, and also
an open source implementation of P2P network. What I'm doing is
building a CORBA complient name service using open-source P2P network
protocol (e.g. gnutella). If you have even a cursory interest in this,
or any ideas what what you might like, I'd appreciate your input! I
welcome discussions and ideas to make this project great!
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: ipchains permissions
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 06:41:10 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 01:58:18 GMT, Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have RH 7. I changed the file access permissions of
>/sbin/ipchains to 777. When I try to execute ipchains
>from my own account, I get the following message:
>ipchains: Permission denied (you must be root)
>
>I thought chmod took care of this but apparently not.
>Is there anything I could do (besides su) to run ipchains
>while logged in as other than root?
Since it needs to be run as root, you have to make it suid root in order
for any normal user to run it. That would be chmod 4755, or it would be
better to make it 4750 and chgrp it to a group you are a member of (or
make a speacial group for it and add yourself to that group). On most
Unix systems group 'wheel' is the group most commonly used to designate
who can do root things.
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From: "Alec Soroudi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: ? Windows Same Gnome
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:01:06 GMT
Hi,
I love the same gnome game that comes with Gnome. Does anyone know of
Windows/DOS version of it or a similar game?
thanks a lot.
--
Alec Soroudi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Clayton Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hotmail client in linux
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:30:04 -0000
Is there any email client that supports hotmail in linux? I am using RH7.0
now. Does netscape messager works with hotmail, how should I configurue
netscape or other clients so that they can be used with hotmail?
--
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From: GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Screen blanks after 30 minutes
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:13:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jackson C. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I keep the screen from blanking after about 30 minutes?
You can give the command:
setterm -blank 60
It'll do a 60 min blank.
If you want to disable it entirely, do 'setterm -blank 0'.
Put this command into a file that is executed during machine startup.
--
GYULAI Mihaly
http://gyulai.freeyellow.com
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From: Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: 7 Feb 2001 07:13:40 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Steve Mading wrote:
:>
:> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Tom Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>
:> : "Steve Mading" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
:> : news:95fl3c$dju$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:> :> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Dan Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> :> : Could you please take this conversation private or at least to
:> :> : a more appropriate newsgroup. While I believe God advocates Linux
:> :> : (Bill Gates being the antiChrist)
:> : comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
:> :> : are not appropriate forums for this discussion.
:> :>
:> :> When insults are made in public, the responses must be equally public.
:>
:> : Must the responses be made ad nauseum, though?
:>
:> : This sort of debate has been going on for as long as humanity and it sure
:> : as hell isn't going to be solved in COLA...We can't even agree on something
:> : so simple as a distro around here!
:>
:> This is not an argument over whether or not atheists are correct.
:> It is an argument over who the label "atheist" applies to. Aaron
:> is picking a definition that atheists themselves don't agree with,
:> and then using that definition to make claims about what atheists
:> believe. That's a classic strawman fallacy.
: If you were born of Korean parents in Korea, calling yourself
: Mexican doesn't change the facts....no matter how much you
: disagree with the definitions of "Mexican" and "Korean"
True. That has no bearing here, where you are using incorrect
definitions (hint, no other dictionary agrees with Websters
on this). Regardless of the definition being used, to apply
a belief to a group of people who don't hold it is a strawman.
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From: Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: 7 Feb 2001 07:11:35 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
:>In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>> Then there was the "agnostic dyslexic insomniac" who used to lay awake
:>> all night wonding if there really was a dog.
:>
:>Nice attempt to end a thread by darwinizing it.
:>
: Not really. Just a lost attempt at levity. :-)
For something to be funny, it has to have not been repeated a
zillion times. The dislexic agnostic god/dog thing is a dead
horse.
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From: "Cedric Chausson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: fr.comp.os.linux.configuration
Subject: Problem compiling sane : `EINVAL' undeclared
Date: 07 Feb 2001 07:15:18 GMT
Hello all,
I have a problem while compiling sane-backends 1.0.4.
The ./configure goes all right. Then I do make. It starts compiling some
but it ends with an error message :
sanei_net.c: In function `w_option_value':
sanei_net.c:122: `EINVAL' undeclared (first use in this function)
sanei_net.c:122: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
sanei_net.c:122: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [sanei_net.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Cedric/Installation/sane-backends-1.0.4/sanei'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Anyone have an idea ?
I'm running RH 6.2 with Gnome 1.2.
Thanks in advance.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 08:37:40 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Bratcher wrote:
>
> In article <95p91j$a7k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeremy Paiz wrote:
> >okay, so here's my plan: i'm going to configure lilo to boot either windows
> >or linux.
If the partitiontable is simple, it'll automatically set it up for you
> >in redhat linux 6.2 installation, lilo installation immediately
> >follows the partitioning part. i tried partitioning as normal "/",
> >"<swap>", "/usr", "/home" and "/var", along with "/boot" (which appeared in
> >red indicating it failed). when i clicked to move ahead to the lilo
> >installation, the partitioning dialog froze and i was forced to restart.
> >this happened twice more.
That should teach you. :-)
Don't move ahead until a step is finished.
DiskDruid will NOT allow you to make a /boot beyond cyl. 1024
Use the fdisk option to partition (A checkbox in the upper right corner
IIRC)
> >my question now is: do i skip partitioning
> >altogether and proceed with lilo installation? do i leave out the "/boot"
> >partition? is there something else i should do?
> >
> >
>
> Linux cannot run without /boot. You're going to have to get /boot in
> there somewhere.
That's correct, but it doesn't need to be a separate partition.
If / succeeded, just let /boot be a part of it.
> You must be choosing the "custom" or "expert" installation. Why don't
> you pick one of the automatic ones ("Workstation" for example)?
>
Might be less friendly to any other OS on that disc?
Eric
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Reply-To: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Unpacking ISO-images without a CD burner
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:43:39 +0100
You do this.
mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -t iso9660 /path/to/thefile.iso /mnt/iso -o loop
Now just cd to /mnt/iso you got your files there , copy them somewhere else
if you like...
"Richard Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I try to download and install Linux on my computer, but I haven't got a
CD
> > burner.
> > The only download methods I can find on the net is iso-images or all the
> > individual files from FTP, which would take me days to download.
> > So I'm wondering if there's any way to unpack or convert the ISO-images
to
> > individual files without having to burn a CD.
> > Or if anyone know of a site to download SuSE Linux 7 as a ZIP or similar
> > archive file.
> > All help appreciated, and please no answers like "buy a CD burner".
> >
> > Audun
>
> try www.cheapbytes.com and order a cd shipped to you. ONly a few
> dollars plus shipping.
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Reply-To: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel null pointer on dual cpu-celeron
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:44:44 +0100
"Chris Pelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hello,
>
> we're running several dual-cpu celeron 466 machines with Redhat 6.2,
> kernel 2.2.16-3 with SMP support, and get the following error:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 0000000a
>
>
> which will completely lock up the machine. it seems to be relatively
> random, i.e. not traceable to a single process. Any ideas?
When i got thatone(single cpu though) some of my RAM where broken, and had
to be replaced..
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Reply-To: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Open Source databases....
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:45:29 +0100
"alan simes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Nils O. Sel�sdal" wrote:
>
> > What open source RDBMS are out there? We have successfully used
> > MySQL in some projects, however for our next requirements are diffrent,
> > among other
> > things we need stored procedures.
> >
> > What options in opensource/free db's do we have?
>
> You must check out Borlands Interbase product, simply excellent !!!
Ok, didnt know it was free..
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Reply-To: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba 2.0.7 and large files (>2 GB)
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:47:56 +0100
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:95pgcd$i9q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <MORf6.7075$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > P�r Lindahl
> > if you do a ls -lh it is also 0sized?
> > Could be you need some new file/utils ..
>
> Thanks for your answer!
>
> Yes, it comes out as 0 bytes even if I do a 'ls -lh'. I should mention
> that according to my man-file for ls, there is no -h option, but it
> seems to work anyway when I use it.
-h lists sizes in Kb,Mb,Gb -whatever is appropriate, instead of bytes..
you eventually get tired of counting commas in 100Mb files(or wasit
10Mb....;)
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From: GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compile from Micro soft access to Linux
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:41:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Carl Kvanvig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your response. I have a program that is developed in
> Access and would like to compile it into Lenux format to operate on
> a lenux web host. Thus I would like to convert the entire program
> into Lenux. Is that possible?
I don't think it would be easy. If _you_ did that program and have
some documentation on it (by yourself... :) then you can write that
program again in another language.
I don't know how this program would be used (single machine, single
user, ...) but if you want it to be accessible from other machines by
web browsers, you can use the following combination:
Apache web server + MySQL database + PHP script language program
I made some steps into this direction and it works fine, but I'm not
profi on this subject...
There exists documentation on how to combine the above programs
(only the install is a bit tricky), and a good starting tutorial for
PHP programming in this environment:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/21/index2a.html
Good luck!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help, networking disaster
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:49:03 GMT
I'm having a terrible problem with my network. If anyone can offer any
suggestions it would be GREATLY appreciated. This will probably be a little
long winded but trying my best to explain the situation. I have a computer
running redhat 6.2 connected to a cable modem via eth0 and a local network
via eth1. It acts as a gateway and firewall for my local network using
ipchains/ipmasq. Yesterday there was aprox 24 hour outage caused by road
runner and when it was over my cable modem would not connect to the internet
at all. I had it configured as a static ip (ip 24.25.12.12, gateway
24.25.12.1, netmask 255.255.255.0) and it has been working that way for
about 6 months. I never could get DHCP to work (which is probably what they
want so I never did). A friend of mine also had the outage and even though
his is configured DHCP he managed to keep his ip after the outage. After
trying repeatedly to get back online I figured that it just wasn't going to
let me get my IP back so I connected it to my windows machine and set it for
DHCP and let it assign me a new IP (this is how I got the settings in the
first place through winipcfg) and got several numbers and tried them on the
linux box and nothing worked. The last set I got was (ip 66.26.242.93,
gateway 66.26.242.1, netmask 255.255.254.0) I configured linux with those
settings and swaped hte cable but no luck, if i swap the cable back it works
fine on windows still. I have tried disabling ipchains entirely and tried
switching my two network cards back and forth to see if perhaps there was a
problem with one of the cards - there isn't. Whenever I ping anything even
my gateway I get destination unreachable. I tried using TCP dump to see
where my pings are going but it doesn't pick up anything. I've had friends
ping me and I see the cable modem activity light go on as well as the light
on my network card but tcp dump registers nothing and ifconfig shows no
additional packets received. I just spent the past 4 hours trying
everything I could come up with talking to a friend of mine who's much more
knowledable in linux than I with no results what so ever. It seems as
though something is filtering all the traffic at a very low level before it
can get in and out. The routes seem to be ok. I've double checked hte ip
gateway, netmaks etc. repeatedly and tried getting new addresses assigned
and using those with no luck. I also tried getting DHCP to work even though
I don't want to use it - it always times out with no response. I'm fairly
sure it's not ipchains causing the problem because I have stoped rc.firewall
from being executed on startup. There are no routes in
/etc/sysconfig/static-routes and there are no additonal wierd routes other
than those automatically created when I bring up the interface/s. I have
tried just bringing up the internet interface alone to see if somethign on
my local interface is interfering but it is not. I tried manually changing
hte ips, I tried using linuxconf, and I tried using netconfig. Nothin has
any effect - any traffic I send is always destination unreachable and of
course I cannot dns anything. When I bring up either interface configured
as a local network interface (i have tried swapping the configuratino files
between the interfaces i.e. making eth1 the internet and eth0 the local and
vice versa) tcpdump works fine I can see anything sent and any response to
the network card on either card when it is configured for local. It
communicates fine with my other computer on the network for any task. I can
only assume that there must be something in the configuration that gets
executed in ifup that isn't right for the internet configuartion. Maybe
something left over in some file from the old settings? I have changed
everythign in /etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and /etc/hosts. I can't
understand how traffic can come in and light receive light on the cable
modem and on the network card but not show up on ifconfig as received
packets or to tcpdump. A few packets are showing up as received right after
startup between 5-15 but after that the number never goes up. Does anyone
have any idea what hte problem is?
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 08:41:40 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: programming?
Darryl Wagoner - WA1GON wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Heiming) wrote in
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> I have recently switched to Linux, and am ready to get started
> >> programming. I have a little experience programming with Borland C++
> >> Builder, and M$ Visual Basic, both of which are exclusively for
> >> Windows. Now, I took a look at GTK, and I have NEVER seen anything so
> >> complicated! I also could not figure out Glade, which is obviously a
> >> tool for making GTK programs.
> >>
> >> Where should I start? Should I start with C++? I would like to make
> >> programs with GUI's (not text-based). Any guidance would be a HUGE
> >> help. What language, how to get started, etc.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jason.
> >>
> >> Sent via Deja.com
> >> http://www.deja.com/
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >take a look at tcl,
> >
> >tcl8.0
> >
> >should be on your distro/box/sure you find it online, there are some
> >examples that come with tcl.
>
> I don't mean to start a war, but TCL and TK it the wrong thing
> to start with. It has a very evil syntax which requires you to
> use a very poor coding standard. Don't get me wrong you can
> do a lot of cool things with TCL/TK which can't be done easy
> with other languages. It falls into the same catagory as Basic & Perl.
> They started with a good idea and continued until it had outgrown
> what it was design for.
>
> Darryl WA1GON
Hello Darryl,
your of course right with this evil syntax, but from what the original
poster wrote,
I thought it could be something woth looking at, cause you get some
prosperities
with it very fast...
I don't like GUI tools anyway, as in my opinion CLI gets you done most
things much faster...:-)
Best regards
Michael Heiming
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