Linux-Misc Digest #783, Volume #27 Sat, 5 May 01 19:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: ftP?? (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Re: [OT] Oracle Installation (Dave Uhring)
Re: File System going bad (Scott)
Re: Compiler for P200MMX (Dave Uhring)
Re: Backups (Scott)
Strange minor problems with CD and 2.2.19 (Ian Northeast)
Re: ftP?? (Vilmos Soti)
Re: [OT] Oracle Installation (Vilmos Soti)
Re: time adjustment (Chiefy)
Re: PCMCIA failure after upgrade 2.4.3-ac7 -> 2.4.4 (David Hinds)
Re: [OT] Oracle Installation (J Hayward)
Re: File System going bad (John Hasler)
Inserting several jpg files into StarOffice presentation ("J-Pip")
linux (darkntrue)
Re: Redhat Installtion Problem.. always looks lin the wrong place.. ("AK")
Re: HP Products disapoining in Linux - was Linux vs Microsoft (Juergen Sauer)
Re: Redhat Installtion Problem.. always looks lin the wrong place.. ("Matt Ng")
Matrox G100 MMS Support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LinuxPPC -- Installation/setup problems (epd)
Re: linux ("Glitch")
Re: [OT] Oracle Installation (Dave Uhring)
Re: linux (Robert)
Re: Best way to manage source code? (Michael Heiming)
psa[play MP3 player and Linux (Dustin Puryear)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: ftP??
Date: 5 May 2001 17:18:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SammyTheSnake proclaimed on comp.mail.sendmail that:
> isn't ftp a little faster or something...?
Would y'all mind not x-posting stuff about ftp to comp.mail.sendmail please?
:)
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis
mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
------------------------------
From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [OT] Oracle Installation
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 12:19:57 -0500
powerpro wrote:
> Can any one of you tell me how to install oracle 8.1.4 on Redhat 7.1. If
> it is a OT here, please apolize me.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
I've tried and don't think it can be done. The javavm which comes with
Oracle hangs as soon as you start ./runInstall.
It installs on a system using glibc-2.1.3 but not on a system using
glibc-2.2.2. Install Mandrake-7.2 or an earlier version of RedHat which
uses either glibc-2.1.2 or glibc-2.1.3. I know it installs on Mandrake-7.2
and I was using Oracle-8.1.7.0.1.
Or, you might try to find the lib dependencies inside the Oracle jre and
attempt to symlink the required lib names. Haven't tried that, but it
_may_ work.
------------------------------
From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux.slakware
Subject: Re: File System going bad
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 12:22:37 -0500
Oh, Man!!!
Perhaps if I crank up my AC power frequency, over clocked the CPU,
changed over to 240VAC, and turned up my thermostat?
-SCotty
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.help Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > did you actually read my original post, are you just
> > trolling for a flame war?
>
> > This problem takes weeks to show up. It's not something I just
> > place on a bench, boot up and see if it's there.
>
> So your second task is to develop an accelerator for the condition,
> as well as your first ask being to develop a diagnostic for it!
>
> (I am trying to teach you how to test!).
>
> Peter
------------------------------
From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiler for P200MMX
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 12:24:36 -0500
Dedicated to all Manson Fans wrote:
> I'm searching for an optimizing compiler for my system. A Pentium 200
> MMX is not as fast as it should be for resource-wasting. Does someone
> know where to get?
>
> Thanks...
>
>
What's wrong with gcc and using the options -O2 -march=pentium?
------------------------------
From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Backups
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 12:31:44 -0500
All advice was noted and appreciated. Thanks!
("as stated elsewhere" refers to another thread in here where
I discussed HD problems)
Steve Wolfe wrote:
>
> > As I stated elsewhere, I've got a duplicate HD (/dev/hdb), partitioned
>
> I'm not sure exactly where "elsewhere" is, so I can't look at what you've
> previously posted, and can only make guesses as to your config. If I'm
> wrong in those guesses, I apologize...
>
> If you have a dulpicate hard drive for backups (same model of drive, I'm
> assuming, since you use the word "duplicate"), why not do something simple,
> such as....
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
>
> That would make a bit-for-bit copy, meaning that in the case of extreme
> failure, you swap the drives, and you're running again. Of course, fiddling
> with the block size would speed it up. And, of course, if you were to put
> the second drive on a different controller than the first, that should speed
> things up as well.
>
> steve
------------------------------
From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange minor problems with CD and 2.2.19
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 18:31:12 +0100
This machine started out as RH5.2 2.0.36. I'm running VMWare 1.1-317
(which is quite old but they want $300 for an upgrade - a bit steep
compared to the $99 I paid originally) and xcdroast 0.96ex as a
convenient front end to cdrecord etc. I have both an IDE CD-ROM and a
SCSI CD-RW. The IDE is hdc and is the one mapped by VMWare to its
virtual machines' CD drives and defined to xcdroast as the input device
for copying CDs. I have since put in kernel 2.2.19 and all its
prerequisites.
When the kernel was 2.0.36 there was a small problem with VMWare's
closing the CD door as soon as I had opened it when a Windows virtual
machine was running, making inserting CDs a little tricky, and another
with cdrecord's failing to allocate DMA memory, both of which now seem
to be gone (hopefully in the latter case, as it was intermittent).
However, a new problem has arisen which is common to both VMWare and
xcdroast. Both try to access the CD drive on startup, and should not
care whether it has a disk in at the time. VMWare has been told to use
/dev/cdrom which is a symlink to hdc; xcdroast hasn't been told anything
and should detect CD drives. Intermittently, both fail to find it.
VMWare complains that it cannot open /dev/cdrom because there is "no
media found", and xcdroast deletes the IDE CD from its list of eligible
devices, although it always finds the SCSI CD writer. Both operate fine
if there is a disk in the drive at startup, and intermittently if there
isn't (I get an impression that it's dependant on how long since the
device was last used, but it's not modules being unloaded, as `lsmod`
does not change between its working and not). It is never necessary to
mount the CD, just to insert one. Both continue to operate correctly
once they have been started with a CD loaded.
Another symptom is that VMWare intermittently complains that software
control over the CD drawer lock is not available, and advises that I
"upgrade" to 2.2.4 - when I am on 2.2.19. This doesn't matter to me.
I will experiment further, using xcdroast as I have the source, but if
anyone has seen this problem before I would be grateful for any
suggestions.
Regards, Ian
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: ftP??
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 17:35:41 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake) writes:
>> Can't you use scp? If you want to offer files to the world, use http.
>> There is nothing to be gained by using an ftp server except perhaps a
>> few new entries in your passwd file ;-(
>
> isn't ftp a little faster or something...?
Was http designed to download 6xx MB iso images? I am not sure.
Vilmos
------------------------------
Subject: Re: [OT] Oracle Installation
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 17:38:03 GMT
Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Can any one of you tell me how to install oracle 8.1.4 on Redhat 7.1. If
>> it is a OT here, please apolize me.
This is comp.os.linux.misc. This is not OT here.
There are newer versions of Oracle. Do you have a reason to stick to that
old one? Maybe a slow modem? :-)
> I've tried and don't think it can be done. The javavm which comes with
> Oracle hangs as soon as you start ./runInstall.
As I remember there are known problems with runInstall. Try to search for it.
Vilmos
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: time adjustment
Date: 5 May 2001 18:33:13 GMT
04 May 2001 19:53 GMT, wroot did say to the dudes:
> I've heard that there are time servers or something that a UNIX system can
> connect to to adjust its clock. Is it true and is it possible to do it
> under Linux?
In addition to the other suggestions, 'ntpdate' will do as you require.
------------------------------
From: David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA failure after upgrade 2.4.3-ac7 -> 2.4.4
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 19:05:37 GMT
In comp.os.linux.portable Martin.Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>/lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o: init_module: No
> such device
Try reconfiguring with CardBus support enabled instead of i82365.
Then use the yenta_socket module in place of i82365 as your socket
driver.
-- Dave
------------------------------
From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [OT] Oracle Installation
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 12:03:31 -0700
Hello,
This doesn't include that old a version, but it might help you out.
http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/
Regards,
Jim H
powerpro wrote:
> Can any one of you tell me how to install oracle 8.1.4 on Redhat 7.1. If
> it is a OT here, please apolize me.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
------------------------------
From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux.slakware
Subject: Re: File System going bad
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 18:24:23 GMT
Scott writes:
> Perhaps if I...turned up my thermostat?
Your getting close. Get yourself a can of freeze-spray and a hair dryer,
open up the case, and start heating and cooling various components.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 03:19:15 +0800
From: "J-Pip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Inserting several jpg files into StarOffice presentation
I have downloaded quite a number of jpg files and would like a convenient
way to view them consecutively. There's a hundred of them per folder on
average.
Is it possible to insert them all at one shot into a StarOffice
presentation?
Or some other graphics-handling software ? Could somebody please recommend?
Thanks,
J-Philippe.
------------------------------
From: darkntrue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 19:30:08 -0000
Hello,
I would like to know if there is any place on the internet where i can
practice linux commands without downloading the software redhat?
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
------------------------------
From: "AK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat Installtion Problem.. always looks lin the wrong place..
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 20:58:50 +0100
Anyone not had this problem or offer suggestions?
"AK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9cv0du$nrn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> OK this is strange and got me confused.
>
> Downloaded REDHAT 7.1 ISOS.
>
> Burnt both CDs.. and now.. I have 48speed CD x 16 DVD
> Toshiba SD1502 DVD ROM.
>
> Anyway the installation refuses to boot if my CDWriter is
> enabled via the BIOS... once disabled.... it boots fine.
>
> But when it comes to the installation of the packages..
> it looks at the CDwriter, which it didn't boot from and
> has NO CD in .. wtf going on here?
>
> Anyway so I thought Id try it the otherway round..boot from
> CDWriter and disabled DVDROM... it does the same thing..
> boots ok.. but when it comes to installing.. it looks at the DVD
> ROM which is disabled via BIOS and has no CD in. Cant
> eject as it locks the drive.
>
> cheers.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Kila_m
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
------------------------------
From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Products disapoining in Linux - was Linux vs Microsoft
Date: 5 May 2001 18:26:01 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb
am Fri, 04 May 2001 23:09:41 GMT in comp.os.linux.misc:
[...]
> I've only ever had three printers, since the 1980s. The present HP
> LJ5l is running fine, and my little brother inherited the DeskJet 500
> which presumably is still running. I like their hardware. (And
> _love_ their calculators; again, different division...) Though not
> the _modern_ cheap stuff.
That's simular to my position.
But after buying a modern HP Printer (HP1220/PS), I
was very very diapointed. HP told in Dec. 2000 a big Liar on their
Porductdiscription Website -- PosScript capable. So it would be fine for
Unix/Linux, but they are telling liars ... it's SW-PostScript in
Winshit-Driver.
Then I bought Epson, and all customers we consult also.
[...]
mfG
Jojo
--
J�rgen Sauer - AutomatiX GmbH, +49-4209-4699, [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
** Das Linux Systemhaus - Service - Support - Server - L�sungen **
http://www.automatix.de to Mail me: remove: -not-for-spawm- **
------------------------------
From: "Matt Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat Installtion Problem.. always looks lin the wrong place..
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 16:18:02 -0400
I haven't, but why don't you just try physically disconnecting your DVDROM (or
CDWriter), ie. remove the IDE cable from that drive and then try the
installation. There's no way you'd have the system look in the wrong
place if there's no connection.
In article <9d1lp6$1np$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "AK"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone not had this problem or offer suggestions?
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Matrox G100 MMS Support
Date: 5 May 2001 21:11:49 GMT
Hello,
I am in the process of aquiring some Quad G100 MMS boards for a kiosk-type
system. The basic idea is a single computer with 4 monitors and 4 keyboard/
mose USB pair hooked up. I'm planning on configuring XFree to bind certain
keyboard/mouse
pairs to each display. While figuring this out I have come up with a few questions
that someone here may know:
1. Does XFree 4.x support the G100 MMS? I know MetroLink offers G100 drivers.
2. Can the TV Input feature be used with eigher the Linux drivers or the MetroLink
ones?
3. If the TV input can be used, can it be copied to each display?
Thanks for you time.
-Lucas S.
------------------------------
From: epd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LinuxPPC -- Installation/setup problems
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 21:30:07 -0000
Hey all you Linux peoples...
I have been trying to install Linux PPC on my G4 450,128ram box...
I have partitioned the drives exactly how the instructions said:
/ (root)
swap
/home
/boot
And i setup a fifth partition to boot the installation of linuxPPC...
I got to the installer and i mounted ONLY ROOT (was that where i
went wrong?)
Then i selected the packages and some of them installed, and some
didn't: it gave me an error message saying that "NAME OF PACKAGE
could not be installed. Continue?" I pressed continue and went
along my merry way...then i set a password and all the network
settings. and rebooted. I got to the boot up screen and the linux
booting screen comes up and goes to 14%....then it stopped and gave
me an error.......
could anyone give me some insight into this matter????
Thanks alot and send responses to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks again...
P.S. please excuse my stupidity on this matter...i am just beginning to
join the linux revolution!
EPD
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
------------------------------
From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 17:48:53 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "darkntrue"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to know if there is any place on the internet where i can
> practice linux commands without downloading the software redhat?
>
> --
i'd tell you to telnet into your ISP and practice a few nondestructive
commands but......you use AOL, so that idea is screwed from the get go.
------------------------------
From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [OT] Oracle Installation
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 16:46:35 -0500
Vilmos Soti wrote:
> Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> Can any one of you tell me how to install oracle 8.1.4 on Redhat 7.1. If
>>> it is a OT here, please apolize me.
>
> This is comp.os.linux.misc. This is not OT here.
>
> There are newer versions of Oracle. Do you have a reason to stick to that
> old one? Maybe a slow modem? :-)
>
>
>> I've tried and don't think it can be done. The javavm which comes with
>> Oracle hangs as soon as you start ./runInstall.
>
> As I remember there are known problems with runInstall. Try to search for
> it.
>
> Vilmos
>
The newest version of 8i is the one which I cannot install on a glibc-2.2.2
system, 8.1.7.0.1. I checked otn.oracle.com yesterday and there are no
newer versions.
The fundamental problem appears to be the new glibc and the solution is to
install an older version of Linux, preferably Red Hat, and then upgrade the
kernel and any packages which have security problems.
I suppose it might be possible to replace Oracle's jre with one which will
run under glibc-2.2.2, but what other problems will that bring with it??
------------------------------
From: Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 18:31:58 -0400
Glitch wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "darkntrue"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I would like to know if there is any place on the internet where i can
>> practice linux commands without downloading the software redhat?
Go to www.workspot.com They will give you (free) a remote linux desktop
which can be used with a browser or a vnc viewer. I tried it with I.E.5
and win98, have never tried it with linux.
Follow the link for "remote linux desktop", and register.
all the best,
Robert
|remove spamfree if replying directly|
>>
>> --
>
> i'd tell you to telnet into your ISP and practice a few nondestructive
> commands but......you use AOL, so that idea is screwed from the get go.
>
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 00:39:10 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best way to manage source code?
MH wrote:
>
> Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> >
> > You completely misunderstand the purpose of /usr/local. It's for YOUR
> > installations, to keep them separate from the system providers
> > installations. It's exactly where you'd put the links to the stuff
> > you compile, so you'd hardly _want_ to remove these dirs! The
> > fact that they're empty now merely reflects the fact that you haven't
> > done any work, just produced hot air ...
> >
> > Peter
> >
> Why are you such an asshole? Did your mother refuse to breast feed you as
> a baby? Once again, you fail to follow a thread. Then you hurl insults
> over issues that were openly and clearly declared in the original or later
> posts in the thread.
Calm down, this is a ng, not a help desk and even there, where you pay
for advice
, something like this wouldn't be accepted, if you can't handle the
facts, your
problem, but don't shout on other people. If I remember right, I told
you about /usr/local, long ago in this thread and others posted
interesting
follow ups. I had myself problems to understand what you really meant
with
"manage".
People are willing to help you, but you need to do your homework on your
self.
Michael Heiming
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: psa[play MP3 player and Linux
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 17:24:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I own a Nike psa[play 120 MP3 player. It's very nice. According to the Nike
website the psa[play features "RIO Audio," which I take to mean they simply
repackaged a Rio product. Does anyone have any links to software that can be
used to control this MP3 player under Linux? It is a USB device.
Regards, Dustin
--
Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear
Integrate Linux Solutions into Your Windows Network
- http://www.prima-tech.com/integrate-linux
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list by posting to comp.os.linux.misc.
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Misc Digest
******************************
