Linux-Misc Digest #346, Volume #27 Mon, 12 Mar 01 22:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: mhstore/OE attachment conflict (Kevin)
Re: Statistic data analysis - Linux/PHP/mySQL ("Alex Collins")
Re: Tk based alarm clock (Phil Ehrens)
Re: "Requires RedHat" other Linux distributions (Grant Edwards)
Delay when connecting to pop3 on local server (Warren Bell)
Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what? (James D Parker Jr)
Re: Moving Linux from one hard drive to another (James D Parker Jr)
kwintv-0.8.5 compile problems ("IH")
Re: how to print with GIMP? (Robert Krawitz)
Re: "Requires RedHat" other Linux distributions (John Hasler)
Re: C-Media CM8738 board (the softrat)
Re: USB Scanner? (the softrat)
PHP on RedHat --> MSSQL ("Londonboy")
2 gripes that i can't fix (Glitch)
Replacement for windows media player? (vorwart)
Re: xawtv config file not applied (Steve Martin)
Re: Unexpected behaviour on UDP ports ("Mad@Spammers")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin)
Subject: Re: mhstore/OE attachment conflict
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:11:57 GMT
You'll have better luck getting an answer on comp.mail.mh
Cheers...
--
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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From: "Alex Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Statistic data analysis - Linux/PHP/mySQL
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:19:45 -0000
Have you though of setting up a perl script, which could then be run via the
cron daemon (crond) every x minutes (or however often you wanted to analyse
the results).
perl can access the db, and can be made to analyse just about anything, some
major companies happen to use it for checking their data for fraud, and
today i just found out from slashdot that their is a 7 kline piece of perl
that will decode DVD CSS encryption (perhaps an insult to the term
encryption!)
perl could do it nicely. but you will have to write it yourself. but you can
find tutorials on how to do this for free on the net. and example code..
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:l.983993841.1474273681@[132.207.49.145]...
> Hi,
>
> I have to build a web page with a questionnaire. People will respond
> to some questions, then send the results back to me. We already have
> decided on the PHP4/mySQL/Apache alternative, running on a Linux system
> (RedHat 6.2). What I'm looking for a an application, running on Linux,
> which could do data analysis.
>
> What I mean is, the system should be able send the responses of the
> user to an application, running on the server, which would do some
> medium to advanced statistic analysis on the data, and then send some
> results back to the user, and store them in the DB too. So, I'm looking
> for suggestions on how to do this? Is there any Linux application
> available (free or not) that could automatically get data from a mySQL
> DB, or any other data source which I could produce using PHP/mySQL, and
> then do a series of computation, returning the results in my DB or in
> some other way...?
>
> Looks complicated, and I'm open to every suggestions! :)
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Guillaume.Boudreau
>
>
>
>
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Ehrens)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Tk based alarm clock
Date: 12 Mar 2001 23:24:31 GMT
Reply-To: -@-
He means same system --
Let's see... mmm... ps -Ao fname,vsz |grep tclsh... pmap 6514...
mumble mumble... count on fingers...
Looks like between 250 and 300 Kb for each new interp on both
Linux and Solaris. The rest is .so's.
Phil
* Tong * wrote:
>"Donal K. Fellows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Victor Wagner wrote:
>> > By the way, it would require perl or Tcl interpreter to stay in memory
>> > during all your login session, and this seems to much for just an alarm
>> > clock.
>>
>> It depends on whether you already have an interpreter already present.
>> The overhead for a separate interpreter within an already-running
>> process is pretty small...
>
>Thanks, Donal. You've answered a question that I wanted to ask. :-)
>Can you just explain a little bit on the term "already-running
>process" please?
>
>Does it means within same shell, or same user or same X system...?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: "Requires RedHat" other Linux distributions
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:42:18 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>|>Is it because they made some deal with the people at Redhat to
>|>be able to call them up if they get stuck on some issue? I can
>|>see that at some small software house that can't afford to hire
>|>a couple Linux experts. But Oracle? I guess Larry made his
>|>billions by being stingy.
Probably. Most of the millionaires I know are pretty stingy
when it comes to running their businesses.
>| The Linux group at Oracle probably doesn't have all of Larry's
>| billions allocated to them. Even groups at huge companies have
>| budget and resource constraints.
>
>Contraints determined by someone who thinks Redhat == Linux and
>adjusts the figures accordingly?
No, by somebody who tells them they can have enough resources
to support one Linux configuration, and once they start
generating revenue, they can have more resources. If you can
only support one configuration, you pick the most popular one.
If you think there's such a large market for commerical Linux
databases, stop sitting on the sidelines and complaining.
Write a database and support it on 20-30 Linux distributions.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! FUN is never having
at to say you're SUSHI!!
visi.com
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From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Delay when connecting to pop3 on local server
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:00:22 -0800
I've noticed that when I use any of my email clients to check my mail on
my server machine from another machine on the network it's a little
slow. It connects, then takes about 2 seconds to authenticate, checks
the mail and then takes about a second to disconnect. But if I check my
ISP email account it connects, checks mail and disconnects in about a
second.
I know it's not a big problem but does anyone know what would be causing
the delay? The thing I don't get is I use a local address (192.168.0.4)
as the server address in my client, so shouldn't it be connecting
faster?
I'm running Mandrake 7.2. Could it be somthing with the pop3 program? I
have three machines connected on the local network but I'm not running
anything like named or DNS. When I type the hosts command with one of
my machines or a machine IP (hosts machine2, hosts 192.168.0.2) it says
host not found. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
TIA
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From: James D Parker Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:26:13 -0500
Michael Heiming wrote:
> "James D Parker Jr." wrote:
>
> > Michael Heiming wrote:
> >
> > > George Adams wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have (well, had) a dual-boot PC running Win95 and RH Linux 6.2. In the
> > > > process of upgrading my Win95 partition to Win98, my boot sector and LILO
> > > > got overwritten. Now the PC boots straights into Win98. The Linux
> > > > partition is still there, but with no LILO it's pretty much inaccessible.
> > > >
> > > > I don't have a Linux boot disk (though I can probably get one if it will
> > > > help.) Is there any way to get back into my Linux partition so I can
> > > > reinstall LILO?
> > >
> > > If Win98 didn't canibalize more than your MBR, which it normaly doesn't, it
> > > should be no problem.
> > >
> > > Get a boot/rescue CD/disk,boot and mount your / to /mnt, asuming your
> > > /etc/lilo.conf was OK:
> > >
> > > lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
> > >
> > > Should be all you need to do
> > >
> > > Good luck
> > >
> > > Michael Heiming
> >
> > Oops, I pressed the wrong button.
>
> Doesn't matter, that's what this Cancel message option NS-Crashicator is
> about...
>
> >
> >
> > You will probably have to point to where lilo is: e.g.,
> >
> > /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
> >
>
> Without being picky, asuming you use the rescue CD/disk that belongs to your
> distro, you
> should have the right lilo version on this rescue system, which will be in your
> PATH.
>
> If the OP had updated his lilo, he wouldn't have asked this question...
>
> Michael Heiming
I have Red Hat 7.0. Lilo is not in PATH when I bring up rescue CD/disk. Guess
it's YMMV.
Jim
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From: James D Parker Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moving Linux from one hard drive to another
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:34:12 -0500
Eric wrote:
> > >
> > > You must however take in consideration that PM is very strict on what is
> > > allowed in
> > > a partition table. As long as you stick to those restrictions, you're
> OK.
> > > Usually it's just so that different CHS values are used. Check what PM
> uses,
> > > and verify
> > > that linux thinks the same. If not, don't use linux fdisk.
> > >
> > > If they are equal, use cfdisk (instead of fdisk).
> > >
> > > Eric
> >
> > PM documentation says for error #120: "This error occurs under some OSs
> when
> > logical partitions are not chained together in the expected order. DOS,
> OS/2,
> > Windows 95, and Windows NT require that logical partitions be chained
> together
> > in ascending order. ... Some versions of Linux FDISK utility chain logical
> > partitions together in the order they are created..." Note particularly
> "Some
> > versions." Perhaps your version is different.
>
> This would only occur if you add partitions in between existing partitions.
> (Or perhaps make another primary after the extended partition?)
> Anyway, if this occurs you can easily recreate the entire table, in the
> correct order.
> This is a simple task, no need to worry about it.
>
> Did this occur?
> Show me you `/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hd[ab]` output
> I can tell you what to change, and how to do it.
>
> Eric
I created a logical partition that was between two existing partitions. I
solved the problem by deleting it with Linux fdisk, which restored things such
that PM and other OSs were happy, and then recreating it with PM.
Thanks
Jim
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From: "IH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.x.video
Subject: kwintv-0.8.5 compile problems
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:30:06 GMT
Hi,
I am having problems compiling. I am running Mandrake Cooker (8.0) and I
have xawtv running fine.
Linux Kernel 2.4.2-8mdk,
QT 2.3,
XFree86 4.0.2
These are the errors that make returns....
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include -I/usr/lib/qt2/include
-I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -c kirc.cpp
kirc.cpp:43: declaration of `int *__errno_location ()' throws different
exceptions
/usr/include/bits/errno.h:39: than previous declaration `int
*__errno_location () throw ()'
make[3]: *** [kirc.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kwintv-0.8.5'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
Appreciate any help.
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: how to print with GIMP?
Date: 12 Mar 2001 19:56:52 -0500
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rick wrote:
> Without being there, I can only guess. But I suspect there is
> soimething wrong with you seetup. Perhaps you don't have the
> right printing command.
What printing system do you use? The code for detecting printers
changed with the new version of gimp-print. However, the original
user might want to try upgrading to Gimp 1.2; the detection code there
should be more robust.
--
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for Gimp Print/stp -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Requires RedHat" other Linux distributions
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:21:18 GMT
> But then, why do they have a problem and few other programs do?
> glibc-2.1.3 has been flawless for me.
They probably used private symbols. Most free software authors know
better.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the softrat)
Subject: Re: C-Media CM8738 board
Date: 13 Mar 2001 01:55:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 07:55:50 -0800, JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having problems getting this to work. The board is recognized all
>right when my system is launched, and the cmpci.o and soundcore modules
>loaded. However, under /proc no sound entry is created, and when doing a
>cat of /dev/sndstat the message printed is that there is no such device. The
>board is there, of course.
>
> This happens both under 2.2.18 and 2.4.2 kernels. Anybody have any
>suggestions so as to what is going on?
Yeah. C-Media makes junk and supports it poorly. But it is cheap!
C-Media does not support the /dev/sndstat device, which is now obsolete for
new Linux applications. Ignore it and requests to it and documentation which
talks about it.
As far as I can tell, cmpci and soundcore are it for drivers. May be your
mixer is not turned up. Kinda forget about midi files. They will only work
with timidity++. Also, the only format you can use without a lot of
screwing around which I can't remember at the moment is *.wav. Enjoy!
--
the softrat
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
PS. Unfortunately I also have C-Media sound shit. It's glued to my
MoBo.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the softrat)
Subject: Re: USB Scanner?
Date: 13 Mar 2001 02:00:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 04:32:00 GMT, Andre John Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Scudder wrote:
>>
>> Will a USB Scanner work under Linux?
>
>The short answer is yes. The long answer, is that you should let us
>(the newsgroup) know what scanner you are looking to use as it all
>depends whether the drivers to support it are available.
>
>Andre
'Andre' is wildly optimistic. The real 'short answer' is 'maybe'. For
example, my UMAX Astra 2100U doesn't work and probably never will 'cause
the nice folks at UMAX just don't give a shit about us Linux dweebs.
Do you suppose that anyone gives a shit about *your* USB scanner?
--
the softrat
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Londonboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.infosystems.www.servers,comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: PHP on RedHat --> MSSQL
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 02:05:49 GMT
I am runnng PHP 4.0.4pl1 on RedHat 7.0 and I tried to make PHP to connect
with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 on the same network.
I tried to get PHP working, but I don't know how. I read many of the
articles, they told me to download Sybase driver?? www.freetds.org
I am totally confused. Is there a easy way that I can download the RPM and
install it? I don't want to download the source code and recompile them (I
am scared, coz I am newbie). Is there an existing binary file I can
download?
I think... what I am looking for is "mssql70.so"
Thanks a lot.
N.B.
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:25:56 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 gripes that i can't fix
1. I can't for the life of me figure out how to make messages expire
using Netscape Discussion. My newsgroups keep growing b/c I can't figure
out how to make the old messages ****ing go away.
Can anyone help?
2. Everytime I exit X windows and get back into Enlightenment I have to
set my screensaver again back to xmatrix. It never says if I exit E. I
tried using the Try button and the Revert button in the configuration
window but neither makes the setting stay. Setting my wallpaper is not a
problem but the screensaver setting won't stick. Even Windows can do
that, why can't E?
thanks
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From: vorwart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Replacement for windows media player?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:43:45 -0500
Does anyone know of an application that can replace windoze media player,
mainly for the audio feeds?
The main reason i need it is to be able to retrieve my messages from my
pagoo account, which I was using b4 doing away with windows.
Pagoo used to have real audio feeds, but have done away with them. All
feeds are now like so:
foolink/sendPCMWaveMessage.asp?
I have contacted thier support. They told me to go back to windows. Yeah
right.
http://www.pagoo.com - incase you want a visual.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.x.video
Subject: Re: xawtv config file not applied
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:34:11 -0500
IH wrote:
> My problem is that the norm, input and pixsize don't work on load.
I had to put norm in the [global] section before it would work.
> The documentation is also wrong I think in the man page specifies that
> the values for input are television where in fact that is invalid and it
> should be tunner.
My config file has "Television" for the input value, works like
a charm.
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:55:54 -0300
From: "Mad@Spammers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unexpected behaviour on UDP ports
I am affraid you haven't understood my question. I am already doing more
or less of what you suggested but in a RedHat like fashion as my distro
is very similar to RedHat's.
Anyway I have found out the real issue: djbdns opens UDP ports above
1025 randomly. As it directly opens sockets (so I've been told or at
least so I have understood) kernel constraints don't apply. I think nmap
does the same, so much so I have to specify the port I want it to bind
when performing a scan.
Regards
David wrote:
>
> "Mad@Spammers" wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks.
> >
> > I am using an ipchains based packet filter with a 2.2.18 kernel.
> >
> > My filter was crafted from a gfcc example and changes local port range:
> >
> > # Change ip local port range
> > # Allows for keeping ppp-in filtering rules simple
> > PORT_ST=61000
> > PORT_END=65095
> > echo $PORT_ST $PORT_END > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
> >
>
> You can do this with a line in rc.local so that it is configured at boot
> time with this:
>
> echo "61000 65095" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
>
> Or if your system uses "/etc/sysctl.conf" you can do it like this.
>
> # Allowed local port range
> net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 61000 65095
>
> You will need to restart the network if your using the sysctl.conf file.
>
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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> Completed more W/U's than 99.106% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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