Linux-Misc Digest #292, Volume #27 Tue, 6 Mar 01 07:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: GNU Pascal? (Young4ert)
Re: fvwm roll-up window shade. (Ken Moffat)
Re: HELP ME!: How can I enable ALSA MIDI synth sound? (for SB AWE64 & ("J. H.
Brown")
Whatever happened to ipmasqadm module? (Hung Ngoc Lai)
VPN Tunnel Routing (X)
Re: how to auto start a console app ("Michael Makuch")
Re: Best html editor in Linux? (Scott Alfter)
Re: HELP ME!: How can I enable ALSA MIDI synth sound? (for SB AWE64 & GUS
soundcards) ("Pavan")
Re: sound only with xmms!? ("Jim Zubb")
vpn and linux ("Wong Ching Kuen Frederick")
quota in suse 7.0 ("Wong Ching Kuen Frederick")
devfs on Suse 7.1 ("Jan Hackel")
Re: Boot: bad file descriptor, read-only filesystem? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: devfs on Suse 7.1 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Virus checker for Linuix? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: XFree86 4.0.2 Troubles!!! (Robert Hofmann)
Relink all? (Robert Lawson)
Re: Newbie: Can not start X server (Alex K)
Relink All? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GNU Pascal? (NDQ)
Re: forwarding mail to newsgroup?? (NDQ)
Re: How to auto login ? (Alex K)
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNU Pascal?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 04:25:45 GMT
If you do an FTP search on gasp (http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no), you certainly
will find a lot of GASP sites that carry the source as well as the
binaries. If your hardware is specific, I am afraid that you will have to
compile it by yourself or pay someone to do it for you (as the other post
mentioned). However, if you are looking for i386 binary GASP, then try to
FTP search it and you certainly will save a lot of money.
Gary wrote:
>
> I downloaded the GNU pascal, and wondered if there is a
> compiled version
> I can... gasp... BUY?
>
> Is there something in GNU Pascal that needs to customize
> itself to
> the machine being installed to?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary
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From: Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: fvwm roll-up window shade.
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:52:51 -0800
> Im looking for this capability in fvm2.
> --
> Rick
Sorry, thought xfce was based on fvwm.
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Ken Moffat
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 22:57:38 -0600
From: "J. H. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
linux.dev.sound,linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.music.midi
Subject: Re: HELP ME!: How can I enable ALSA MIDI synth sound? (for SB AWE64 &
I don't know about ALSA or the Gravis, but it should be no problem
getting the AWE64 to work. You need to double check your interrupts and
dma settings. Login as root and run sndconfig and reboot. If you can
use the KDE or gnome midi players, then you might try installing ALSA.
CYBERYOGI =CO= Windler wrote:
>
> I am student of software-techniques and for my thesis I plan to develop a
> sing- and gesture controlled music synthesizer with a 3D/VR user interface.
> Because I need for this project USB webcam support and full-duplex sound
> processing(simultaneous input and output) I was urged to download Kernel
> 2.4.1 and the ALSA sound drivers.
>
> I have a PC with 128MB RAM and an AMD K6 300MHZ CPU running Debian linux with
> Kernel 2.4.1 and installed ALSA 5.10.After trying various ALSA versions I got
> most sound functions to work,but neither the internal MIDI synth of my Sound-
> Blaster AWE64 Value nor of my Gravis Ultrasound Classic run despite they are
> claimed to be supported by the ALSA driver.No matter what I change in
> "/etc/modules" or "/etc/modutils/alsa",I always get in "/proc/asound/sndstat"
> the message: "Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG" and MIDI programs like
> playmidi complain "No playback device set".
>
>
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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Whatever happened to ipmasqadm module?
Date: 6 Mar 2001 01:18:10 GMT
Hi everyone,
I am running RedHat 7.0 with the new kernel 2.4.2. This is
box is being used to connect an entire small network to the
Internet. Everything is working great (NAT, Firewall, mail,
etc...) except one thing. Since I am running the new kernel
2.4.2, I am using iptable (netfilter) instead of ipchains in
version 2.2.
I have a web server which is seating in a DMZ (the linux
box has 3 interfaces, one for Internal 172.16.1.0/24, one for
external 199.0.216.222/30, and the other one for DMZ
192.168.1.1/24) behind the firewall (linux) that needs to
accessible by users on the Internet. When I was running
kernel 2.2.18, I use the module ipmasqadm to forward web
traffic that hit the firewall to the web server in the DMZ.
Now that I am running kernel 2.4.2, I no lonoger see the
module ipmasqadm in the /sbin/ directory. Whatever
happened to this module? Furthermore, the linux firewall
is no longer delivering web traffic to the web server in the
DMZ. I would like to have this problem resolved. At
worst, I have to downgrade the kernel to 2.2.18 but I really
the new kernel 2.4.2. Is ipmasqadm is now part of the
new kernel 2.4.2? If it is, what is the command to put
it in my rc.firewall script? Please help.
Many thanks.
David
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From: X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: VPN Tunnel Routing
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 21:26:21 -0800
Reply-To: r
Anyone...
Does anyone have any ideas about how to set up astatic route thru a
VPN tunnel?
We are using vtund for the server and client ends, I got the tunnel
set up right and can ping and telnet thru the tunnel from the machines
on both ends.
The question is: I need to know how to route the LAN's on both ends
thru the tunnels as well (or at least one other machine on each end
ie: Win2k SR AD Replication).
Is this even possible or are linux VPN's strictly point to point? or
how do you make the /dev/tunX's public on the corresponding network?
any ideas or thoughts will be appreciated.
Thanx!
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From: "Michael Makuch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.embedded,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.dev.apps,linux.dev.config,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.config
Subject: Re: how to auto start a console app
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:52:08 -0600
open works great. Thanks.
Mike
"Victor Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:97qcki$g66$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.development.apps Michael Makuch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> : I have a linux box dedicated to playing mp3's. I wrote my own app using
perl
> : and a number of public domain libraries. It's not an X application. It
just
> : uses ncurses. I'm running RedHat 7.
>
> : I want my app to automatically startup on the console tty1 after bootup.
I
> : tried adjusting /etc/inittab to run my app instead of mingetty. This
appears
> : to work at first but there are odd problems that arise in this
>
> It's just becouse some terminal initialization, which is typically
> done by getty is neccessary to run curses program.
>
> You have to find other way to initilaze terminal for your app.
>
> Look into manpage for open(1) command. It is what you need.
>
>
>
> --
> if (instr(buf,sys_errlist[errno])) /* you don't see this */
> -- Larry Wall in eval.c from the perl source code
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Best html editor in Linux?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 05:52:21 -0000
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>What is the best webpage editor for linux? I prefer having equations and
>figures in the html files. Thanks
joe works pretty well for me. Others swear by vi or emacs.
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From: "Pavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.dev.sound,linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.music.midi
Subject: Re: HELP ME!: How can I enable ALSA MIDI synth sound? (for SB AWE64 & GUS
soundcards)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:00:30 +0530
try running
# modinfo -p snd-card-sbawe
This gives the parameters the module takes. I could enable the
synth device passing parameters to the snd-card-ymfpci. But still
no midi is playing.
-Pavan
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From: "Jim Zubb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound only with xmms!?
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 22:35:17 -0800
In article <98055p$87e$06$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Roland Zumkeller"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I've got some trouble setting up sound. I compiled a kernel (2.4.2)
> with support for my sound card. When I run xmms and play a song it
> works. But with any other application it doesn't. When I start one of
> the mixers it says "No device found." or something similiar. In the
> logfiles I sometimes see complaints about "/dev/dsp" missing. The device
> is in the file system, though. What am I doing wrong here?
>
Which output plugin are oyu using for xmms?
What soundcard are you using?
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From: "Wong Ching Kuen Frederick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vpn and linux
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:29:58 +0800
i have a linux box connected to internet throght leased line. can i setup a
vpn server on it that i can connect it with my windows 98 client at home?!
any help will be appreciated.
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From: "Wong Ching Kuen Frederick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: quota in suse 7.0
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:41:03 +0800
how to enable disk quota in suse 7.0?! seems there is only rpm in 6.4.
thanks.
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From: "Jan Hackel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: devfs on Suse 7.1
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:59:59 +0100
I wanted to play a little with devfs, but came about some problems: The
scripts that came with Suse 7.1 seem to be outdated. Both
/etc/init.d/boot.devfs and the patch installed to
/usr/share/doc/packages/devfsd try to access to a file below /sbin/init.d
(which since 7.1 no more exists). Seems they simply shipped the script of an
older distribution without adaption...
Furthermore the patch for the boot script fails in 2 of 3 points.
My question are:
- Are there working patches for Suse 7.1 somewhere?
- Will it work if simply to patch the boot script by myself as the patch
should, or is there a way to force patch to do its job and is it
save?
- Has someone of you experiences with devfs under Suse, he/she likes to
share? _I_ really would apprechiate to hear (actually read) such...
CU, Jan
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot: bad file descriptor, read-only filesystem?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:06:44 GMT
Shaun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter T. Breuer"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So fsck it, mend it, and then remount it readwrite. if you don't know
>> how to do these things, ask (or read your startup files to see how
>> THEY do it :-)!
> Actually I've never run fsck - but before asking I'm going to sit down
Well, that would seem to be your problem, mostly!
> and have a nice RTFM session. If that doesn't work I'll be back for sure.
That's OK. You'll find that your machine boots with the / is readonly
mode, and then remounts it readwrite thusly:
mount -wno remount /
so all you had to do was
/sbin/fsck -y /dev/hda5 (for example)
and then the above mount command.
> What I'm most curious about, though, is what caused the problem to begin
> with. I've been running RH 6.0 since August 99 and have never seen such
> a problem. My first guess is an issue with RH 7 (wouldn't be the first
Well, if it's RH 6, then it's not RH 7! Or are you saying it was RH 7
that you are using? If so, then yes, it could be natural. Even a
standard machine can blow chunks out of its root partition, especially
if that's where /var and /home is - which is why one wants to separate
them.
> I've encountered; compiling Tulip was an exercise in futility).
> Since posting originally, I've learned that a friend of mine on the same
> class C IP block was owned last night with pamslam and the BIND exploit,
> so I'm now a bit suspicious of a potential scan/hack. But again, my log
> files seemed clean (and they weren't deleted like his were) and AFAIK RH
> 7's pam isn't vulnerable to pamslam. I wasn't running BIND.
Sounds like you are clean.
> I have a long night of research and reading ahead. Wish there had been a
> way to backup the old system's logs before reinstalling so I could go
Sure there was! But then you never needed to reinstall. rpm should have
told you what was missing or damaged.. if it was in place. And copying
the logs to /home would have saved them.
> over them again. Funny, it's times like this I'm *happy* to use linux.
> Learning experiences are good, and so is the community.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: devfs on Suse 7.1
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:16:37 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Jan Hackel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wanted to play a little with devfs, but came about some problems: The
> scripts that came with Suse 7.1 seem to be outdated. Both
> /etc/init.d/boot.devfs and the patch installed to
You don't need any patches. Just
mount -t devfs none /dev
(and run for cover)
> - Are there working patches for Suse 7.1 somewhere?
Possibly, but you don't care, since all you want to do is try it to see
what it's like.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Virus checker for Linuix?
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:30:37 +0000
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Chris Gordon-Smith writes:
>> Viruses that gain access to Linux and then attack Windows systems that
>> connect to the Linux system are more common
> They are? I'm sure it's common enough for Windows viruses to passively
> pass through Linux email servers as attachments to emails addressed to
> Windows users, but these are oblivious to the presence of Linux. I've
> never heard of any that function as you say. I'd describe those as Linux
> viruses, since to do what you claim they do they would have to compromise
> the Linux system.
I think he misunderstood the point of linux virus checkers...
:)
They're nothing bet e-mail attachment filters, really.
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From: Robert Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.linux,de.comp.os.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.2 Troubles!!!
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 12:35:06 +0100
Reply-To: Robert Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Toby!
> > On my Compaq AP200 at work (128MB, ELSA Gloria Synergy 8MB), using XF336, I
> > have 1280x1024x24bit in ~85kHz. Trying it with XF402, I only get something
> > around 54Hz. It is not possible to work with this! Any idea how to tune XF402
> > to have 1280x1024x24bit in a resonable sync (somewere >75Hz)?
>
> Two possibilities - either there is no suitable mode defined (something which
> is highly unlikely with 4.0.x as there are a large collection of default modes)
How can I check this? My monitor is a HP A4576A and it is not listed.
> or you have the wrong monitor refresh rates in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> file. XFree86 picks the best mode it can use with the monitor.
> HorizSync 30.0-100.0
> VertRefresh 50.0-170.0
Well, it is there, but without ".0" at the end. But this shouldn't matter?
Tnx for your help.
Regards,
Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Lawson)
Subject: Relink all?
Date: 6 Mar 2001 12:42:04 +0100
Hi all, I was trying to impliment some work arounds on my RH 6.2 box.
All was going well until I got to the last command....
'type "relink all" from the unix prompt.' I didn't understand the second
bit because I thought that I had been working from the unix prompt all
along.
"Relink all" was not accepted as a command. I couldn't find it in any
refference like man or info. I tried "relink -i" for interactive. No
luck.
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From: Alex K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Can not start X server
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 12:51:34 -0100
Roose Chua wrote:
>
> Hi! I am a newbie to Linux and would just like to ask the group on some
> questions. I have just installed Red Hat Linux 6.0 on an HP VL400 machine,
> using Matrox G450 video adapter, HP p700 17 in monitor, an HP CD-writer
> 9100b and a HP deskjet 930c:
> 1. Where can I get list of Linux commands?
there is no such list, because even for each distro it depends on what
you choose to install. but i bet people have tried to compile lists
anyway.
however, best thing is to read an introductory book on linux.
it will introduce you to the common commands, and then if you continue
with it, just use the "man" command to look up all the new things
you'll come across.
> 2. Everytime I try to start an X-window (Gnome ?), using startx command, the
> window does not fit on my screen and looks very big so I only see a quarter
> of the X window. I tried re-installing Linux, but since my monitor and video
> adapters are not on the list that is included in the installation, I usually
> use custom choices. This does not seem to work though. How do I re-configure
> my system to be able to use the X window?
>
hehe, some people call that a feature:)
this happens because your "virtual" screen is bigger than your
actual screen. you should be able to move around on it by moving the
cursor to the edges of the screen.
you change this by editing the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, or perhaps
through your graphical environment.
there is a X howto:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/index.html
it may be on your system too.
or if you buy a book there'll prolly be a chapter or 2 about X as well.
u can even try: man XF86Config
hth / alex k
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Relink All?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 00:31:53 GMT
Hi all, I was trying to impliment some work arounds on my RH 6.2 box. All was going
well until I got to the last command....
'type "relink all" from the unix prompt.' I didn't understand the second bit because
I thought that I had been working from the unix prompt all along.
"Relink all" was not accepted as a command. I couldn't find it in any refference like
man or info. I tried "relink -i" for interactive. No luck.
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From: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNU Pascal?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 13:01:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gary wrote:
>
> I downloaded the GNU pascal, and wondered if there is a
> compiled version
> I can... gasp... BUY?
>
> Is there something in GNU Pascal that needs to customize
> itself to
> the machine being installed to?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary
Try freepascal.org
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http://vnilux.com
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From: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: forwarding mail to newsgroup??
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 13:03:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Tangren wrote:
>
> Is it possible to automatically forward incoming mail to a newsgroup? We would
> like to have webmaster and help mail forwarded to in internal newsgroup. How
> would I go about doing this? I am running RH 7.0, kernel 2.2.17-14, sendmail
> 8.11.0-8, procmail 3.14-5, inn 2.2.3-3
> Bill Tangren
> U.S.Naval Observatory
In my server, I use (/etc/aliases):
nobel: "|/usr/bin/mailpost vn.comp.os.linux"
to forward all mail to my news server !
HTH,
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http://vnilux.com
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From: Alex K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to auto login ?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 13:09:14 -0100
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>
> You have no cleaning lady? Have you violated your lease and changed
> the locks so that the building maintenance staff, etc., cannot gain
> access to your apartment when you are not there? Are you sure your
> apartment will never be burgled? ...?
>
lol, oh come on. would you ask a windowsuser that?
its not like he hosts kernel.org ...
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