Linux-Misc Digest #893, Volume #27 Fri, 18 May 01 20:13:03 EDT
Contents:
secure POP3? (Bill Tangren)
Re: problem compiling f77 with f2c or gcc on redhat 7.0 ("John Collins, SimCon")
Start FTP ("Buck Turgidson")
Re: Start FTP (Tony Curtis)
Re: lpr does not work (Jinsong Liang)
Re: Looking for a GUI telnet (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: Start FTP ("Buck Turgidson")
Re: dos partition not writable under linux (Aranwen)
Re: Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS (Angry Bob)
Re: bad links (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Star Office -- I give up (Jerry Kreps)
DNS problem .... please help! ("Straker")
Re: Star Office -- I give up (Jerry Kreps)
Re: kmail crash in kde-2.1.1 (Joerg Stadermann)
Re: Can no longer log into Citibank online (Dave Uhring)
Re: secure POP3? ("Leif Kremkow")
problem with upgrading rpm ("Glitch")
Re: Large VFAT filesystems and Linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: problem with upgrading rpm (Steve Lamb)
Re: Can no longer log into Citibank online ("Glitch")
Re: Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS (Graham Bentley)
Re: My Linux Experience (Jerry Kreps)
Adding a partition to / (Victor Dods)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Tangren)
Date: 18 May 2001 20:26:30 GMT
Subject: secure POP3?
Is it possible to make a POP3 connection secure? By that, I mean, if you want
to connect to a POP3 server using, let's say, Netscape mail, and you don't want
to transmit an unencrypted password over the net, is that possible? I have
OpenSSH and OpenSSL running on several Linux boxes (2.2.17-14), and I can
connect via a secure shell telnet and ftp clients with no problems. How do I do
this for POP3?
Thanks.
Bill Tangren
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From: "John Collins, SimCon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: problem compiling f77 with f2c or gcc on redhat 7.0
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 21:23:04 +0100
Ronald Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, I have a piece of fortran 77 code which compiles find on various
> unix machines
> that I have access to, Suns, SGI machines etc. I attempted to compile
> the code on my linux box, redhat 7.0 with gcc 2.9.6 (I assume it calls
> f2c),
> I also tried f2c directly. It seems to have some problems understanding
>
> some logical operators. Here it a snip of the error message:
>
> movcol.f: In subroutine `movcl1':
> movcol.f:633:
> if (phypde.eq..false.) y(m*i) = rwk1(m21+1)
> 1 2 3
> Use .EQV./.NEQV. instead of .EQ./.NE. at (2) for LOGICAL operands at (1)
> and (3)
> movcol.f:642:
> 20 if (phypde.eq..true.) then
> 1 2 3
> Use .EQV./.NEQV. instead of .EQ./.NE. at (2) for LOGICAL operands at (1)
> and (3)
> movcol.f:656:
> if (phypde.eq..true.) then
> 1 2 3
> Use .EQV./.NEQV. instead of .EQ./.NE. at (2) for LOGICAL operands at (1)
> and (3)
> movcol.f:678:
> if (phypde.eq..true.) then
> 1 2 3
> Use .EQV./.NEQV. instead of .EQ./.NE. at (2) for LOGICAL operands at (1)
> and (3)
>
> There are several more lines of this corresponding to each encounter of
> such
> logical tests.... is there any compile time option which will allow this
> to compile
> without having to change the code. This is not my code so even a
> marginal rewrite
> would cause problems besides the obvious portability issues.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you could reply to my email
> as well
> as the group that would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> R Haynes
>
Run the code through FPT (http://simcon.uk.com) with the command
% change .eq. for logicals to .eqv.
It then becomes standard - all F77 compilers should accept it - so
there should be no adverse impact on portability.
Best wishes,
John
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From: "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Start FTP
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 20:20:03 GMT
Sorry for the dumb question. I need to ftp into my linux box about once a year.
What is the command to start the ftp server on linux, so I can access it from
Windows?
Sorry, memory is one of the first things to go.
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Start FTP
Date: 18 May 2001 15:46:11 -0500
>> On Fri, 18 May 2001 20:20:03 GMT,
>> "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Sorry for the dumb question. I need to ftp into my
> linux box about once a year. What is the command to
> start the ftp server on linux, so I can access it from
> Windows?
Depends. Which distribution are you running? Is the ftp
server standalone or run from [x]inetd? Which ftp server
are you using? (sshd might be a better thing to do.)
> Sorry, memory is one of the first things to go.
You need to put some ECC RAM in your head :-)
hth
t
--
Just reach into these holes. I use a carrot.
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Subject: Re: lpr does not work
From: Jinsong Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:01:58 -0600
Lew Pitcher wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2001 13:29:49 -0600, Jinsong Liang
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am using RH6.2 and Canon BJC-1000 printer. I have configured the
> >printer using printtool. Now files can be printed in Kwrite or Emacs.
> >However, when I use "lpr textfile" command directly in console, nothing
> >happens. The response to lpq is "no entries". What's the problem?
>
> First guess: your /etc/printcap entry doesn't have an entry for your
> default printer.
>
> Lew Pitcher, Information Technology Consultant, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> (Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
Following is the printcap file:
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
I am not familiar with it. Please help.
Leo
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for a GUI telnet
Date: 18 May 2001 21:07:36 GMT
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> VNC does what you want, is free, and cross platform. It's
> performance is a bit worse than running a real X server
Considering that VNC includes compression, whereas X does not, you're
basically alleging that VNC is seriously broken... It's also not been my
experience that VNC is in and of itself slower than pure X. It may seem that
way at times because you're displaying an entire desktop with VNC as opposed
to the single window you're usually displaying with X, but if you tune your
X session to VNC's preferences (large areas of flat color, as little
animation as possible) its performance can be very impressive.
JDW
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From: "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Start FTP
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 21:01:25 GMT
I have RedHat 6.1. I believe there is a daemon process, but I just can't
remember....
"Tony Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> On Fri, 18 May 2001 20:20:03 GMT,
> >> "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > Sorry for the dumb question. I need to ftp into my
> > linux box about once a year. What is the command to
> > start the ftp server on linux, so I can access it from
> > Windows?
>
> Depends. Which distribution are you running? Is the ftp
> server standalone or run from [x]inetd? Which ftp server
> are you using? (sshd might be a better thing to do.)
>
> > Sorry, memory is one of the first things to go.
>
> You need to put some ECC RAM in your head :-)
>
> hth
> t
> --
> Just reach into these holes. I use a carrot.
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From: Aranwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dos partition not writable under linux
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 21:30:13 -0000
! chmod 777 /hda ! /hda refers to complete disk, /hda1
refers to partition 1 on that disk.
I see where you're coming from but /hda is the mount point..i think it's
correct. Isn't it? :)
Either way thanks a lot for your help you've been very kind. The thing i
don't understand is..a few days ago at school they told us that the default
permission is 666 and the umask value is subtracted from that. Is that
false?
I guess it is cause 666-000=777 is kind of odd :)
I'de be gratefull if you could explain this to me.
And one more thing...you mean that chmod can't change the permissions on a
partition, it can only be done through mount and umask,and after that they
can't be changed?
Thanks again.
-Lady Aranwen
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS
Date: 18 May 2001 21:47:55 GMT
What would you like to read? [comp.os.linux.setup or *?]
This is a Don Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scroll! it says:
> I've posted all these problems in more detail in the past, but no one has any
> workable answers. ;-(
go download yourself the latest Mandrake8.0 and install that instead....
7.0 is so old you don't want it anyhow.
--
AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
I'm a cynical son of a bitch. compred to me, beaker
is puppy dogs and ice cream. :-)
-Trey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: bad links
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:04:29 GMT
In article <9e2d0h$gms$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wroot wrote:
>Hi
>
>How can I get ls and tree to highlight bad symbolic links with blinking
>colors? (The way ls is set up on Redhat)
[-]
Is it ? Just checking since ls does a lstat() and so can't even
know whether a link is bad except when run with -L aka --dereference,
though this results in a message from ls.
Might be one of RH's "innovations" ?
Juergen
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office -- I give up
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:44:48 -0500
Christopher R. Carlen wrote:
> I am using SO 5.2 on Suse Linux 7.1. I will summarize the problems
> I
> have encountered in the past two days trying this software for the
> first time. Perhaps some of this stuff
> can be resolved. The software is almost unusable with the amount of
> bugs I have encountered.
>
> 1. In Draw, I changed the zoom factor using the View menu, the
> rulers failed to rescale and then broke. Passing the mouse over the
> rulers caused them to rescale, but they no longer had cursors to
> track the mouse position. Selecting an object also failed to produce
> the tick marks on the ruler. Closing and opening the drawing fixed
> this. It hasn't happened again.
Works ok for me.
>
> 2. Numerous crashes, SO just says that some unrecoverable error has
> happened, and vanishes. Fortunately this hasn't corrupted any files,
> but it is too frequent an occurrence for "professional" software. It
> happens every 5-10 minutes or so with hard use.
My SO 5.2 setup on SuSE 7.1 has not crashed once, yet. I have it
running on my 1996 Sony VAIO with 64MB RAM, using KDE2 and on my
Athlon 1GHz with 512MB RAM, also running KDE2. Both installs are
very stable. I have created databases, queries, forms, reports,
graphic charts, spreadsheets. There are some annoyances in the email
section, but I prefer to use KMail.
In MY experience frequent crashing of GUI apps, especially complex
ones like SO 5.2, are due to poor xserver setups.
JLK
>
> 3. After finishing my drawing, I created a File|New|Labels document.
> I set the format to Avery 5664 labels. I then copy/pasted my drawing
> objects to the labels. Then I tried to print. Blank page. Print to a
> .ps
> file. Also a blank page in the .ps viewer, although there is a lot
> of .ps generated. It seems that I cannot get anything, text or
> drawing objects to print from the labels. I can print the drawing
> though.
>
> 4. I experimented with printing the drawing. I can print it with the
> fit to page option. (I made the page format for the drawing 19"W x
> 3.5"H so SO warns me that it can't print it, then gives me options
> to fit to page (the page type selected in the printer options) or to
> posterize. Fitting to page worked Ok, but posterizing didn't work.
> Some hunks of my drawing printed, but others were just gone.
>
> 5. More experiments with labels. I made user-defined labels, and put
> some text on them. Amazingly, when I printed these user defined
> labels, something came out! But when I copied my drawing objects
> onto them, same old story, a blank page.
>
> 6. SO crashes with unrecoverable errors every few minutes. This is
> ridiculous.
>
> Well, I don't have time to continue as a Sun Microsystems beta
> tester for SO, so I guess I will have to give up and find other
> software. Perhaps the version number should be adjusted to 0.5.2? It
> is a shame because I had heard SO billed so many times as the office
> suite that can make Linux able to do everything M$ Windoze can do,
> but it unfortunately is of worse quality than M$ software. I have
> used Applixware for a few years, but it is weak on features. It is
> also very stable though. In fact I can hardly recall if it ever
> crashed. I was excited to see that Star Office Draw had good
> features for very precise drawing. But it is too buggy and unstable
> to get the nice drawing on my screen onto a piece
> of paper. Very disappointing.
>
> Good luck Sun developers, I hope you folks can get SO to be a stable
> program some day. But you have a lot of work cut out for you it
> seems. I would even be willing to pay good money for SO if it worked
> well.
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From: "Straker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DNS problem .... please help!
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 00:37:25 +0200
Hi all,
I have a Bind 8.2.3 running on my Linux. The problem is simple. I start
named and after an impredictable time the messages log file starts to be
filled with Lame Server messages but, and this is the really problem, the
named process starts to take 99% CPU time and the server become unusable
until I restart it.
Why and, more of all, suggestions ?
thanks in advance
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office -- I give up
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:56:00 -0500
Chris Carlen wrote:
>(snip)
> Interesting. If I get a lot of reports that Star Office is stable,
> then
> I may have to refocus suspicion on Suse 7.1 Linux. What distro do
> you
> use? Are you using SO 5.2?
>
> Perhaps I will go through the trouble of downloading the thing from
> Sun instead of using the program included on Suse's CDs.
>
> I am running on an AMD Athlon 1200 with 256MB RAM. Printing to a
> Postscript HP LaserJet 5M. But even when I print to a file in the
> cases that I am doing, the .ps shows only a blank page with a .ps
> viewer.
>
I am running on an AMD Athlon 1 GHz with 512MB RAM and printing to a
LexMark Z52 using SO's generic printer. It prints great and SO runs
quite well. I am using the SusE 7.1 distro on both of my PCs and
SO5.2 runs on both without problems.
Send me one of the files you can't print or save or are otherwise
having trouble with and let me test them in my setup.
Jerry Kreps
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From: Joerg Stadermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: kmail crash in kde-2.1.1
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:51:00 +0200
On Thursday 17 May 2001 12:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I went through blood, sweat and tears to get KDE-2.1.1.1 installed
> finally crowned with qualified success last night.
>
> Doing so required 'force' and 'nodeps' all applied in the 'right'
> order, none of it documented. ('--test' is your friend though!)
>
> One main reason for all of this was to get the newest version of kmail
> going. Now I find it crashes immediately after starting!
>
> I'm thinking what I have to do is take the koffice rpm and 'force' and
> 'nodeps' the darned thing into place.
>
<snip>
kmail is not part of koffice, it belongs to kdenetwork. Start kmail
from konsole and see what errors you get.
HTH,
Joerg
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can no longer log into Citibank online
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 18:14:22 -0500
Carter Brey wrote:
> For years I've used Citibank's Direct Access service to access my
> accounts through the web using Netscape. Now they've gone and redesigned
> the site and I get a blank java server page (.jsp) after logging in. No
> error mesages. I cannot access my accounts. Customer Serviuce sez there
> are other reports of Linux users having this problem. Anybody else here
> experiencing this difficulty? I run Netscape 4.77 full 128-bit
> encryption, java script and cookies enabled.
>
> Thanks,
> Carter Brey
>
>
Are you using a factory supplied 2.4.X kernel?
If you are then search groups.google.com for ECN Explicit Congestion
Notification.
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From: "Leif Kremkow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: secure POP3?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:16:20 -0500
["Bill Tangren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] last said:
> How do I do
> this for POP3?
You want:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html
Regards,,
Leif
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with upgrading rpm
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:25:41 -0400
hi,
This is the typical story of Linux. I downloaded the new version of
Opera. I tried to run it but i'm told i need libjpeg.so.62....not
surprising this requirement isn't mentioend on the website.
Anyway, I download an rpm of libjpeg from rpmfind.net. What happens
then? I'm told
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: libjpeg62-6b-19mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed
Now I thought this meant I had to upgrade to a verison of RPM 4.0 or
higher. So I download a tarball of 4.0.2 and untar it. The files are
placed throughout my filesystem. I then try to install the original RPM
I wanted to have installed. I get the same error though. I make sure i'm
using the new rpm i just installed and I am so why am i getting the same
error? Do i need to download more stuff to work with the new RPM? A lot
of files were listed at ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/. Did i not
download everything i needed???????
All this just to get Opera running. I ran the setup program for Opera
under Windows and when I ran the program the first time, GASP. It
actually executed w/o any errors regarding any missing libraries. Too bad
the Linux version didn't do the same.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Large VFAT filesystems and Linux
Date: 18 May 2001 23:23:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Yes, I'm replying to my own post]
On 18 May 2001 18:43:43 GMT, Dances With Crows staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>Are there any known problems with very large (>64G) FAT32 filesystems
>and Linux?
[snip]
http://search.luky.org/linux-kernel.2000/msg01304.html
...argh, didn't do an exhaustive search. To summarize, a stock Linux
kernel, 2.2 or 2.4, cannot access more than 64G of a FAT32 partition
using the standard vfat fs support. The patch/discussion at the link
above provides a way to access up to 128G of a FAT32 partition. As hard
drives get larger and larger, this will surely become a problem for more
Linux users if they keep Doze9x around.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Subject: Re: problem with upgrading rpm
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 23:26:31 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 18 May 2001 19:25:41 -0400, Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>All this just to get Opera running. I ran the setup program for Opera
>under Windows and when I ran the program the first time, GASP. It
>actually executed w/o any errors regarding any missing libraries. Too bad
>the Linux version didn't do the same.
Too bad you're using Red Splat. Opera installed fine every time for me on
Debian.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can no longer log into Citibank online
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:34:57 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Carter Brey"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For years I've used Citibank's Direct Access service to access my
> accounts through the web using Netscape. Now they've gone and redesigned
> the site and I get a blank java server page (.jsp) after logging in. No
> error mesages. I cannot access my accounts. Customer Serviuce sez there
> are other reports of Linux users having this problem. Anybody else here
> experiencing this difficulty? I run Netscape 4.77 full 128-bit
> encryption, java script and cookies enabled.
>
if they know that linux users are having problems why don't u talk to
them and find out if anything is going ot be done about it? I would
think that would be more productive than finding out if others have the
same trouble. Goto the source of the problem, don't find more examples
of the problem.
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From: Graham Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 00:44:01 +0100
Don,
Its unfortunate that you had so many problems
with Linux.
I have never really had that much trouble with it
and when I did people helped me out. I think if
you ask the right questions in the righ places
you would get help (something that you wouldnt get
from MS ;-)
I suppose this is easy for me to say as I have been
tinkering around with Linux for a few years altho I
am no expert.
I have also installed and used successfully :-
BeOS
QNX
FreeBSD
and to a lesser degree Plan 9.
I have found that Millenium does some wierd stuff
and freezes on occasion so I think its better to stick
to 98SE for now. Linux has been wierd on me as well
from time to time but nothing I didnt get sorted.
On some of your other points :-
External Serial Modems are the best way to go (IMHO)
The Graphics Part of Star Office is ok and better than Corel.
Try Suse Linux 7.1 . . I think more stable and reliable than
Mandrake (which is a bit fussy again IMHO !
Don Hinds wrote:
> I basically quit even trying to get Mandrake 7 to work properly.
>
> 1) I can boot GUI, but in non-gui, even in FAILSAFE it locks up with a
> Kernel Panic.
>
> 2) There is no option to use a modem (Linux USB supported modem) on USB
> port, or perhaps I should say there is no option to use USB for the modem.
> There are 4 (as I recall) port options for modem including serial, but USB
> is not on the list.
>
> 3) Corel WP will not install. Not the one on the Mandrake 6.5 CD, nor the
> one on Corel website. I get a load of directories or path not found
> errors.
>
> 4) Corel PhotoPaint installs but gives a FontTastic (missing) error when I
> try
> to run it. I tried the Corel website and UK Linux User CD versions.
>
> I've posted all these problems in more detail in the past, but no one has
> any
> workable answers. ;-(
>
> If I can't acutally USE Linux, it doesn't matter a whole lot if it doesn't
> crash. Windows 95/98/ME may crash a lot, but between times IT WORKS!
>
> Don
>
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Linux Experience
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 18:52:17 -0500
On Dec 29th, 1996 I purchased a Sony P166 VAIO with 64MB RAM and an
ATI Rage graphics card. It came with Win95. Between Jan 1 and March
7th I had to reinstall Win95 FIVE times. That started me off looking
for OS/2, which I had tried before. In my search I found a book by
Bill Ball called "Learn Linux in 24 Hours". It included RH 5.0 on a
CD in the back of the book. It took me about 30 hours to get
comfortable with the few command Ball demonstrated in his book. I
upgrade through RH6.0 and noticed a decline in quality in the newer
releases so I started looking around for another distro. I found
SuSE 5.3. I am now at SuSE 7.1. The difference in engineering
between RH and SuSE is remarkable. I retried RH using 6.1 and I've
tried Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1, but SuSE still beats them all.
SuSE slips on my Sony like a silk glove. It has a Trinitron monitor
and a BJC-600 that prints in color beautifully. It has a Zip100
drive running of a second parallel port. A Mustek sanner is hooked
to $50 NCR53C810 scsi card. Eth0 is hooked to a Cisco 675 router
acting as a dhcp server for my ADSL connection, and eth1 is hooked to
an EN-104 ethernet router that connects to two other computers. The
sound is some old mobo chip that OSS runs beautifully.
SuSE has a little harder time going onto my AMD Athlon 1GHz box with
two 30GB HDs. It has an ATI r128 Rage graphics card and a Microsoft
wheel mouse. It is attached to a Zip250. It also has an PlexStor
8432i ATI CDROM. The printer is a LexMark Z52, which is fantasic.
Their Linux driver is golden! The sound is an SB LIve card, which
sounds fantastic. The big problem with the Athlon is that VIA chip
problem, which prevents my CDROM from writing files bigger than
100MB. It took two weeks of frustration before VIA admitted their
problem. I will probably go with the patch in the 2.4.x kernal
rather than download and burn the bios. But, even then, a SuSE
install is 1) put in the CD and boot the computer, 2) answer a few
questions 3) go have a cup of tea. I used the DVD install CD and
never had to change it during the install.
One of the marks of the fine SuSE engineering is the way YaST (or the
graphical YaST2) adds or removes apps from the menu structure of both
KDE and GNOME (both of which are installed on the Athlon, which I am
using right now).
Others milage may vary but as long as SuSE works so well for me I
stay with it.
JLK
Jim Johnson wrote:
> Having two-thirds of an old PC and realising that I could experiment
> with Linux for free, I recently set out to see what I could achieve
> with it. I chose to try Redhat 7.0 and bought a couple of hefty
> books to help me along. Here is what I achieved and failed at:
>
> - installed without much trouble
> - configured X Windows with small difficulty (due to an old video
> card?) - installed an Ethernet card with some difficulty (getting
> the Tulip driver to work took one week of my spare time)
> - configured Samba for file-sharing with my Windows PC in both
> directions (simple and rewarding - initially)
> - unable to get SWAT to work
> - configured Apache to serve locally my web-site (reasonably
> straightforward)
> - unable to get any response from a printer (Epson Stylus) connected
> to the parallel port
> - frustrating mixed results with an external Hayes modem connected
> to a serial port (I could dial, connect and run PPP manually using
> Minicom, but most attempts to configure and run PPP from the shell
> failed. The modem just failed to respond to any AT commands.
> Annoyingly, it did work for a short while after running the RH PPP
> configurator but later stopped again, despite not making significant
> changes to the config files)
>
> Also, after flawless performance for a couple of weeks the Samba
> shared folder stopped working properly. Small files transfer easily
> from Linux to Windows but larger files just stopped getting through.
>
> I have decided that I would like to succeed with Linux in order to
> give me a local web server, a firewall to the internet, a second
> on-line printer and perhaps mail services. I also find that it is a
> great catalyst for learning much about networking, mail systems and
> computers in general.
>
> The problem is that I find many tasks that ought to be simple, or at
> least possible after research and effort, to be insoluble. This is
> despite my long acquaintance with PCs under DOS and Windows, despite
> the fact that I am much above average in aptitude, despite the wide
> research and reading that I have done on the internet, in news
> groups, in magazines and in books and despite the very large number
> of hours devoted over the past two months. My diligence in
> attempting to solve my own problems has been significant.
>
> I don't write to seek help on my specific difficulties but to ask
> this general question: are my experiences common? If they are then I
> would conclude that Linux is far too difficult to use to gain
> wide-spread acceptance outside professional server roles at its
> current stage of development. If not then perhaps I have faulty
> hardware, a dodgy distribution or a peculiar clouding of the mind
> where Linux is concerned.
>
> I'd be grateful to hear other people's comments.
>
>
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From: Victor Dods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adding a partition to /
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:07:24 -0700
How exactly do I go about adding a partition under / so I can add more
space to the / filesystem? I tried creating the partition and mkfs'ing
it as ext2, then I added it to my fstab as
/dev/sdb7 / ext2 defaults 1 1
Needless to say it didn't work, otherwise I wouldn't be writing this.
Could the cause be the fact that I tried to mount it onto / ? Anyway,
help would be much appreciated.
Victor Dods
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