Linux-Misc Digest #448, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 15:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: command to lowercase all file name in current directory (Dave Brown)
Re: Swiching between Linux and Windows
Re: Newbie Question about GUI ("The R")
Re: Best E-mail Client? (Grant Edwards)
Re: slave ypserv ("Peter T. Breuer")
PC98 Keyboard ("Floppy")
Help for playing VCD under linux! (OrangeDino)
Help please! My root partition's supper block dead (Bosco Yip)
Re: how to search filesystem for a file? (David E. Fox)
Re: how to search filesystem for a file? (Grant Edwards)
Re: Help please! My root partition's supper block dead (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Re: Text files -- Many into One -- How?? (David E. Fox)
Re: Controlling access to portfw ("The Spook")
Realplayer + how to add one's own bookmarks? (Peter Petersen)
Re: Newbie Question about GUI (raf)
gnoRPM Fix?? (Jim)
OMS requires glib but doesnt find it (G Tselentis)
sc spread sheet (Mike Mcclain)
Re: system-assigned groups (Michael Heiming)
Re: programs mysteriously segfaulting and exiting (David)
Re: Help for playing VCD under linux! ("Alex Chan")
Partitions and Sizes ("Tim Thompson")
Re: Partition Table (David Griffith)
Re: Is there an "Annoyance eliminator"? (David Griffith)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: command to lowercase all file name in current directory
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Mar 2001 00:35:13 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, kellyboy wrote:
>What is bash command to lowercase all file in current directory... ??
>...
>how do I do that to *all* file in current directory??
>
How about a perl program:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# fixcase.pl file1 file2 ...
for (@ARGV){
$ucn = $_;
tr/A-Z/a-z/;
rename($ucn,$_);
}
After typing the above in an editor, save, make executable, run:
./fixcase.pl FILE*TXT
will change all the uppercase filenames matching to lower case.
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Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swiching between Linux and Windows
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:30:08 -0000
There are pros and cons to all of the solutions posted here.
1. Loadlin is another boot loader. To the best of my knowledge it will not
let you run Windows without rebooting.
2. VMWare is the only one which will allow you to run Windows and Linux
without reinstalling one or the other. Some people say it is too slow and
too expensive. It also takes alot of resources.
3. Win4lin installs in you Linux system and you will not be able to run
you old Windows apps without reinstalling them also. It does not access
your current Windows file system. It actually allows the new install to
run in an ext2 file system. You will not have access to most of you
peripherals. However, you may find it will meet your needs.
Hope this was helpful,
Mark
arasu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have Linux Redhat and Windows 98 on the same computer in two
> different hardisks.
> I wish to switch over from Linux to Windows98, and Windows to Linux
> wihout
> shut down or log out. Can any one inform me how to configure this?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -arasu
>
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From: "The R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question about GUI
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:30:18 GMT
How do I do this?
what command do I run?
"Lee Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:23:16 GMT, Bart Friederichs wrote:
> >The R wrote:
> >
> >> How do I start the GUI ?
> >kdm, gdm or xdm start a GUI login screen. when you put this in your
> >rc.local startup script, it will load automagically.
> >
> >
> Personally, I'd alter the /etc/inittab from init 3 to init 5:
>
> Change:
>
> id:3:initdefault:
> to
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> init 3 is mulituser without X
> init 5 is X11
>
> Lee.
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:31:35 GMT
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:29:37 +0100, John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was thinking of ease of use compared to say Adobe InDesign, Pagemaker,
>GoLive which I've done good things in despite some bugs, or Quark
>Express which costs more.
I don't think LaTeX (or any other mark-up language) is well
suited for doing things like magazine or newspaper layout where
there is a very irregular structure and you want to manually
place most of the objects.
>>Yes. There are several packages that do that. DocBook is one.
>
>Do they have a web site ?
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/
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Grant Edwards grante Yow! Now I am depressed...
at
visi.com
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slave ypserv
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:41:14 GMT
Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :> Scenario: RH 6.1
> :> I want to make my system (>20 RH workstations, NFS, amd, NIS/yp)
> :> it bit safer against dropouts.
> :> That is, introduce a second (slave) NIS/yp server.
> :> How can I accomplish this?
> : You can't really. You CAN make the second server a NIS slave to the
> That's odd. I recall that Sun YP/NIS always had this facility.
What facility??? Having a slave NIS server? That's what I'm saying that
linux has (and always has had). Where do you see that I say otherwise?
However, that doesn't protect you against dropouts unless ...
a)
> : first (if they've fixed yppush by now), and then get it to ping the
> : primary. When the ping fails, get it to put up an ip alias for the
> : master so that nis calls go to it instead of the primary (you'll need a
> : floating IP alias as the "master").
or
b)
> : An alternative is for the clients to make broadcast calls. But that's
> : horrible.
Now try again.
Peter
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From: "Floppy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PC98 Keyboard
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:59:30 GMT
What is a PC98 keyboard?
floppy
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From: OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help for playing VCD under linux!
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:50:15 +0800
As I run some vcd software(other than mpegtv) to play vcd, they always
complains that "Xlib:extension "XVideo" missing" and terminated. Can
anyone give me some idea what is wrong with me, I am running XFree86 3.3.6?
Thanks a lot!
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From: Bosco Yip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help please! My root partition's supper block dead
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 01:15:05 +0800
I guess my supper block of my hdb1 and hdb2 is died. Since my hdb2 is my
/, any way to recover it.
Sure I get kernel panic when I try to boot up. I has another linux
system on hda3,
I had try fsck and mount from this , both fail. Can I re-build the
supper block?
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From: David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to search filesystem for a file?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:19:51 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> You can do that, but you'll miss dotfiles. If you *want* to use ls, try:
>
> ls -alR | grep filename_you're_looking_for_or_wildcard
Why waste a process? Use your shell's expanding capability:
# cd /usr
# ls */vi # to find vi for instance
This may miss dot files but for quick and dirty searching, it's faster than
find. Of course, if you have a very large number of files underneath your
current directory, it may fail because there's not enough space to hold the
current command line (* is expanded into all files on the fly by the shell,
of course).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: how to search filesystem for a file?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:37:45 GMT
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:19:51 -0800, David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You can do that, but you'll miss dotfiles. If you *want* to use ls, try:
>>
>> ls -alR | grep filename_you're_looking_for_or_wildcard
>
>Why waste a process? Use your shell's expanding capability:
>
># cd /usr
># ls */vi # to find vi for instance
>
>This may miss dot files but for quick and dirty searching, it's faster than
>find.
It also won't find files named "vi" in the current directory or
in directories more than one level deep: it won't find ./vi or
./foo/bar/vi or ./a/b/c/vi. The "find" command will.
--
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at REVOLUTIONARY HAIR
visi.com PRODUCTS!
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help please! My root partition's supper block dead
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:41:46 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bosco Yip wrote:
>
> I guess my supper block of my hdb1 and hdb2 is died. Since my hdb2 is my
> /, any way to recover it.
> Sure I get kernel panic when I try to boot up. I has another linux
> system on hda3,
> I had try fsck and mount from this , both fail. Can I re-build the
> supper block?
>
e2fsck -b 8193 should help.
Cheers
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Using S.u.S.E. 4.3 and SuSE 7.1
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From: David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Text files -- Many into One -- How??
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:37:10 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> man cat. Buy a book on it.
O'Reilly has a book on cat???? Must be pretty thin.
> Peter
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From: "The Spook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Controlling access to portfw
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:58:49 +0200
Support wrote ...
>I would appreciate information on allowing only
>specific users access to port forwarding.
>Is this information included as a part of the portfw string?
>
>Thanks
>
>David
I'm not exactly sure what you are looking for, but basically, to my
knowledge, there is no authentication involved when doing port forwarding,
i.e. it is not possible to restrict forwarding to specific users. This is
due to the way port forwarding works, it looks only at the IP addresses and
ports -- remember that TCP/IP (the protocol) does not in itself carry any
information about the user of a packet.
If the users are on different machines and if you know the IP addresses of
these machines, it is possible to allow or restrict packets based on this
information with ipchains/iptables rules.
You may be looking for a (non-transparent) proxy instead. Such a proxy can
authenticate a user before giving access to a resource and maybe you should
try that avenue instead.
/TRY
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From: Peter Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Realplayer + how to add one's own bookmarks?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:04:18 +0100
Hello!
My subject says it all:
How to add one's own bookmarks??
I can't find anything which would allow for doing that in realplayer
for linux.
While Realplayer under windows had that since the beginning (at least
since the very early versions I knew), there is still nothing like
that under linux. What version is it now? version 8 or so, I just
wonder...
Well, I know, one can write scripts to launch realplayer with some
specific URL, but still I would find it much more comfortable to just
be able to select my bookmarks from a menu *inside the running
realplayer and to add my own as well.
Any ideas? How do you manage your realplaye bookmarks?
Regards
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (raf)
Subject: Re: Newbie Question about GUI
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:13:30 GMT
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:30:18 GMT, The R wrote:
>How do I do this?
>what command do I run?
>
>
Open it in a text editor.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim)
Subject: gnoRPM Fix??
Date: 25 Mar 2001 18:28:45 GMT
Does anyone know if there is any fix pending for gnoRPM to make it work
with rpm version 4??
The problem seems to be known:
error in loading shared libraries:/usr/lib/librpm.so.0: undefined symbol
fdio
but I've heard of no fix yet.
If there is no fix coming, how would I back out the rpm version 4, and go
back to 3.0.5??
Jim
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From: G Tselentis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OMS requires glib but doesnt find it
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:49:16 +0200
Hi there
I have tried installing OMS (a DVD player) ... I downloaded the tar file,
untarred it in a directory using my normal username (ie no root). Then I
changed to root and tried to install it using the instructions provided
(the basic configure, make, make install) ... when I typed ./configure, it
started doing its configuration then came up with the following few last
lines before terminating ...
checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.5... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
configure: error: Cannot find GLIB: Is glib-config in path?
I've got a full Mandrake 7.2 installation (latest one, with latest kernel
and x windows). I tried to download the GLIB mentioned ... I did, installed
it and everything and still gave me that error. HOWEVER ... when I'm my
normal username and i type glib-config ... it runs it! But when im root, it
doesnt ... and cant install OMS using my normal username. And I get this
quite a lot too ... when I install a package, I dont seem to find it ...
and sometimes other programs depend on them. but nyways ... hope �'ll get
help.
g.t.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Mcclain)
Subject: sc spread sheet
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:02:02 GMT
Howdy,
Has anybody managed to build sc the spreadsheet under linux?
I've tried under RedHat 6 and Slackware 7 but fail like so.
rh6:~/dld_pkgs/sc621> make
interp.c:1050: macro `strchr' used without args
make: *** [interp.o] Error 1
this is where failed in /slak70 also
on this line:
1050: extern char *strchr();
I suspect my makefile needs work, but really don't know what I'm doing
yet.
TIA,
MiKe
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:33:49 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: system-assigned groups
Laurie wrote:
>
> Hi folks
>
> I am looking for a description of or explanation of the function/permissions
> etc of the system-assigned groups withing Linux. When Linux is installed
> there are several curious groups setup by default and I would appreciate
> some help in finding information about them. I have searched through the
> linuxdoc.org site to no avail and searched high and low elsewhere without
> any joy. I know most of them are not to be inhabited by users but want to be
> able to explain their purpose to students.
>
> Any info or helpful URLs greatly appreciated
Hello,
don't know about such an explanation, but you could check it out, or even better
let your students find a way to find all files belonging to one group and
understand from the result?
You could do this with one short line in bash Ie.:
for g in `awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"};{if (! ($1 ~ /root/)) print $1 }' /etc/group`; do
find / * -group $g -ls >> group.results ; done;
This may take some time, check the group.results file if it's done, I left out
files
that are set GID root, as many files belong to root...
Of course this needs to be run as root, lets see if your students can work
something
like this out...:-)
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: programs mysteriously segfaulting and exiting
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:35:51 GMT
fred smith wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : hi
>
> Sounds like a hardware problem. Areas to check are:
> -possibly defective RAM. get memtest86 (from
> http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86) follow the instructions to make
> a bootable disk, boot it and let it run (at least) overnight.
> -CPU overheating. Check all the fans in your computer case, including the
> one in the power supply to make sure they are working well (not stopped,
> not just lazily moving, but running properly). Check for vents clogged
> with dirt. Check the fan on your CPU's heat sink, they often are cheap,
> get clogged with dirt, fail to work. The heat sink may be covered
> with dirt. Perhaps there is no "heatsink compound" between the heatsink
> and the CPU.
> -If you're overclocking the CPU, the FSB, the video card, or any other
> component, cut back to within specs.
> -If all else fails, try just replacing parts til it works. :*(
>
This link might help also.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-hw1/index.html?wzone=linux?open&l=335,t=gr,p=lxhwstabgd1
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From: "Alex Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help for playing VCD under linux!
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:14:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which programs are you using?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "OrangeDino"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I run some vcd software(other than mpegtv) to play vcd, they always
> complains that "Xlib:extension "XVideo" missing" and terminated. Can
> anyone give me some idea what is wrong with me, I am running XFree86
> 3.3.6? Thanks a lot!
>
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From: "Tim Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partitions and Sizes
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:58:48 -0800
Can any one give me some advice on what partitions to set up and the size
they should be? From reading the info on the web, there seems to be lots of
conflicting information, but so far I plan to set up the following,
/ 200mb
/usr 850mb
/var 50mb
/boot 10
/home 320
Swap 64mb
My main concern is that the /home partition is not the correct size. The
book I am using says that you do not need this partition, but a lot of the
stuff on the web says that it is worth setting up and that it should be "set
according to your needs." As I am new to this I do not know what my needs
will be!
I intend to run Linux on a stand-alone lap-top, single user. I have 64mb
memory and 1.5gb hard-disk.
Thanks
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From: David Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Table
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:04:50 +0100
Yvan Loranger wrote:
> "David Griffith" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> > Does anyone here know what has gone wrong with my system.
> > I have 1 20GB hd (IDE) partitioned into many smaller parts. Because windows
> > went on first, i have a primary DOS partition and a secondary dos partition.
> > Linux used to go
>
> What do you mean by a secondary partition?
>
> > hda1 hda2 <hda5 ......... > etc
> > but since a reboot it finds hda1 and 2, but the extended partion appears
> > empty. The kernel then panics as the root should be hda7.
> > What has happened?
> > Can I fix it?
> > fdisk reports an inconsistency in partion table 5, but i darent 'fix' it in
> > case it deletes what may be otherwise recoverable.
>
> --
> Merci.........................Yvan Pour le plein air: Club Vertige
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ncf.ca/vertige
Sorry, slip of the keyboard. I mean extended partition.
However after 2 scans, lots of coffee, and fdisk, i now have ALL my data back,
which i never thought would happen.
David Griffith
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From: David Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there an "Annoyance eliminator"?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:07:46 +0100
japhilp wrote:
> Now they claim that every click that I make is logged, in win98.
> Sure, if it is winME, it not only logs the clicks, it keeps backups of
> files before modifying them.Let them log it. my win98 is a comp that has no
> networking installed , none what-so-ever. :) For the really determined, I
> have it from some dubious sources that you should personally *melt* the
> platter to hide your data. But not everyone can have a foundry in their back
> yard...
>
> Really, this is getting rediculous.Statements like "every click you make on
> Windows 98 Start Menu is logged and stored for ever on a hidden encrypted
> database within your own computer" are not exactly a "Public service
> announcement". More like scare mongering tactics.
I would love to see this 'forensic' software they speak of. They claim your
boss can see everything by just casually browsing, yet it took me all morning
to recreate a lost partition table.
Also at the cost they are charging its almost becoming cheaper to buy a new HD,
and take a piece of sandpaper to the platters of the old one.
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