Linux-Misc Digest #915, Volume #27 Mon, 21 May 01 09:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: running kde programs in gnome? (Chris Cera)
Where's sa_len? (Frank de Bot)
Re: Wierdest Damn Problem Regarding Linux Login (John Thompson)
X-Server / Resolution ("Michael Jakscht")
Re: error on compiling qt-2.3.0 (Joerg Stadermann)
Re: using pan: watches and downloads ("Duane Healing")
Re: Server vs Workstation (Martin Gregorie)
system password and vmailmgr password... ("FooSi")
Re: Deleting a partition On Windows Me... (Peter Lang)
Re: Linux-users' daft mentality (Christian Capito)
Re: GCC 2.95.3 Configuration/Installation (Noble Pepper)
Re: GCC 2.95.3 Configuration/Installation (Noble Pepper)
linux sendmail "user does not exist" (niketan sharma)
Convert QT5.0 (3.0) .mov file to MPEG/VCD ? (WONG SAI-KEE)
StarCraft under Linux
Re: problem with upgrading rpm ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Linux-users' daft mentality ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Looking for a GUI telnet (Dan Mercer)
Re: error on compiling qt-2.3.0 (Goophy)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Cera)
Subject: Re: running kde programs in gnome?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:24:46 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Did you run ldconfig after installing the libraries? Did you also
> install the header files?
^^^^^^^^^^^^
yes. By installing the headers, are these in some kind of other
package? I 'make install' to the 3 main ones they mention. Is
there a header.tar.gz or similiar?
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From: Frank de Bot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where's sa_len?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:19:11 GMT
Hi,
I've recently installed RedHat 7.1. When I tried to compile ftpd bsd
(0.3.3) it failed! The compiler says there's an undefined reference to
SA_LEN. On all other distribution I've tried (suse 6.3,7.1 RedHat 6.2 7.0)
it worked well. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
thanks in advanced,
Frank de bot
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wierdest Damn Problem Regarding Linux Login
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 21:00:33 -0500
Steve Fletcher wrote:
> Greetings everyone ....
>
> Here is the issue ... I came in this morning and attempted to
>
> login to my linux (2.2.14-5.0..Red Hat 6.2 (Zoot)) system via
>
> the screen saver relogin prompt. Dispite a dozen or so very careful
>
> attempts my login continued to failed ... so I rebooted via the power
>
> switch. All the boot up messages were quite normal. The following
>
> login text appears as normal...
>
> Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
>
> Kernel 2.2.14-50 on an i686
>
> system6 login:
>
> I type my user login name and hit return and NOTHING happens.
>
> The "Password:" prompt never appears. this also unsurprisingly
>
> happens for root and several other user logins I have.
>
> When I attempt to telnet onto the linux system I get ..
>
> Trying bla.bla.bla.blah...
> Connected to system6.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
> Kernel 2.2.14-5.0 on an i686
>
> BUT NO LOGIN prompt!!!!
>
> HOWEVER ... I can ftp onto the system and navigate as freely as I
> choose.
>
> So I copied some crutial files over and am considering wiping the disk
>
> clean and reinstalling. But before I do does anyone know what has
> happened?
>
> Has anyone seen this before?
>
> Any simple solutions?
>
> I looked at the /etc/inittab file and all looks well.
Perhaps you are the victim of an inept rootkit with a
non-functional trojaned login program. Can you boot into
single-user mode and take a look at things that way?
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Michael Jakscht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: X-Server / Resolution
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:36:21 +0200
Hi to all of you!
Maybe you can help me. I'm stock at the following
point :
- Diskless Linux Client
- Server runs good
- Clients (with ATI RageIIc) are running good
- Clients with SVGA or S3 card don't run
In /var/X11R6/bin/ the link "X" directs to the right
X-Server, XF86_SVGA or XF86_S3. Both of them don't
work in the following way:
I just can't change the resolution to more than
640x480.
It doesn't matter what I'm telling the Clients
with the SVGA or S3 card in the /etc/XF86Config
-File, it doesn't work.
Where do I make a mistake?
Does anyone have an idea?
Would be a great help.
I just need 800x600 with more than 16 colours,
so I would love to have 800x600 with 256 or more
colours.
Thanx in advance,
Michael
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From: Joerg Stadermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: error on compiling qt-2.3.0
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:48:06 +0200
On Sunday 20 May 2001 20:19 Goophy wrote:
> Hi there
> I've a problem compiling the qt-2.3.0 library...
> this is (a part of) the error output:
>
> make[6]: Entering directory `/usr/local/qt-2.3.0/tools/designer/uic'
> g++ -L/usr/local/qt/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/qt/lib -o
> /usr/local/qt/bin/uic uic.o ../shared/widgetdatabase.o
> ../shared/domtool.o
> ../integration/kdevelop/kdewidgets.o -lqutil -L../lib -lqt
> /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so: undefined reference to `FT_Init_FreeType'
> /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so: undefined reference to `FT_Load_Glyph'
> /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so: undefined reference to `FT_Done_Face'
<snip>
> reference to `XRenderCompositeString32'
> /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so: undefined reference to `XRenderAddGlyphs'
> /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so: undefined reference to
> `XRenderChangePicture' /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so: undefined reference
> to `XRenderFindFormat' /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so: undefined reference
> to `FT_New_Face' /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so: undefined reference to
> `XRenderCreatePicture' /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so: undefined reference
> to `XRenderFreeGlyphSet' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[6]: *** [/usr/local/qt/bin/uic] Error 1
>
>
What os do you have?
Which X are you using?
The problem seems to be the render extension. Try ./configure -no-xft
HTH,
Joerg
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: using pan: watches and downloads
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:21:03 GMT
Not a bad idea. You really should contribute this back to the pan
developers since pan is under heavy development. Go to
http://pan.rebelbase.com for more info. I've always just used "watch" as
a tag to spot threads I'm interested in more easily, but having them
automatically get dl'ed when updating is a good idea.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In a feverish moment of semi-lucidity, "Felmon John Davis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flailed at the keyboard thusly:
> Greets!
> Trying to get friendly with Pan as a newsreader but I confused. I can
> set some threads to being 'watched' but it doesn't seem like their
> 'bodies' are being downloaded.
> What's the point of 'watch' if it doesn't fetch the 'watched' articles?
> More importantly, how can I configure Pan so that it will suck in
> threads I've marked without my having to do it manually? The 'manual'
> doesn't yet seem to be on-line. Thanks!
> F.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Felmon John Davis
> Union College / Schenectady, NY
> os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
> --------------------------------------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Subject: Re: Server vs Workstation
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:33:35 GMT
On Thu, 17 May 2001 22:41:41 -0500, "Chakravarthy K Sannedhi"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am wondering what difference it is going to make if I have chosen server
>option instead of workstation option while installing the Red Hat 7.0 OS.
>If I am having enough space on machine is it a better idea to install server
>rather than the workstation?
The main difference it seemed to make on my RH 6..2 installatin is
that all the X-windows stuff got omitted. Dist partitioning was still
the same - the choices are aute (which wipes the disk) and custom
(which lets you choose the partitioning scheme, keep Windoze
partitions, etc.
If you're setting up a stand alone box, whether dual boot or not you
probably want 'workstation'. This way you'll end up nwith Xfree86 (the
X-term server) installed on your Linux box and only accessable from
the PC's screen & kbd.
If, like me, you're set up a dedicated box and only intend access it
via a LAN with the X-term server hosted on a separate PC then you
should go for a 'server' and (later) add the packages needed for
running X-tetrm applications.
--
gregorie | Martin Gregorie
@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
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From: "FooSi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: system password and vmailmgr password...
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:56:04 +0800
Hi,
I want to allow user to change their system password ( telnet,ftp) and
vmailmgr virtual user through webpage.
Is it possible? If I need to write cgi scripts, any references?
Thanks
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From: Peter Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deleting a partition On Windows Me...
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 20:52:56 -0700
Amy wrote:
> now only 11 GB I have a feeling it has something to do with the partition.
> Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it so I can have my full hard drive
> again? It would be preffered if it didn't erase any of my Data, Thank
> you :)
I had a similar problem ... I installed the old disk from my
old machine, then by booting from a DOS floppy, ran Nortons
(version 7) Disk editor, and zeroed out all the partition
data. Fdisk just didn't work for me, that time...
hope this helps,
Peter
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-at- -dot- -dot-
"...Canberra is a pleasant place to live, for the white collar,
middle class, conformist car-owning majority..."
- 'Canberra, Site and City', (Linge, 1974)
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From: Christian Capito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux-users' daft mentality
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:05:59 +0200
on Monday 21 May 2001 09:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
> {my prefered OS is oberon: much faster & 1% of the size, superior
OberonOS - what's that? Last thing I knew it was a programming language.
> commander; mc has improved on NC), I don't WANT or need to know the
> syntax for grepping, changing file/{dir never done this ?} permission
I think you're in the wrong group. Go to alt.os.linux.sucks and get rid of
your negative energy there, you'll be with friends.
Coming in here and dissing people who have taken time to give others a
hand, telling them they should do it differently instead instead of trying
to learn from them, is real bad style.
You really sound like you don't have a clue and Linux definitely isn't the
right OS for you. Go find an OS where you don't have to know anything about
file permissions, searching, etc. Let us know when you've found it.
Christian Capito
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GCC 2.95.3 Configuration/Installation
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 06:04:04 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jimbob wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.setup Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Harry Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>> This is the error I get when I try to get it to work:
>>>
>>> Chiefslapahoe:~/untard/gcc-2.95.3# ./configure
>>> Configuring for a i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld host.
>>> Created "Makefile" in /root/untard/gcc-2.95.3
>>> ./configure: cc: command not found
>>> *** The command 'cc -o conftest -g conftest.c' failed.
>>> *** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.
>
>> Seems that configure doesn't think you have a compiler either. I don't
>> understand why you need a compiler for rpms, I thought they were
>> supposed to eliminate the need to compile things. But I never grokked
>> rpm's, that's why EVERYTHING on my current system I compiled myself.
>
>> Anyway, to solve your problem you need a "working compiler"
>
>> See if you have gcc:
>
>> ls -l /usr/bin/gcc
>
>> if it is not there try:
>
>> locate */gcc
>
>> if that doesn't work try:
>
>> find / -name gcc
>
>> find will take FOREVER but it will search your whole filesystem as it
>> exists now.
>
>> if you find gcc then use
>
>> export CC=/usr/bin/gcc
>
>> to set the environment variable.
>
>> If you don't have gcc or this doesn't get there are more things to
>> try, just come back here for more abuse.
>
> Is there a way to compile gcc even if you dont have a compiler
> installed? Just curious as to how gcc would have been built initially.
>
Can you tighten a bolt without a wrench? Sure you can but probably not
easily and not well.
Complile it one place and put it another.
See www.linuxfromscratch.org if you are really interested.
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GCC 2.95.3 Configuration/Installation
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 06:21:48 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moshe Samuel wrote:
> I have also been trying to install this version of gcc on my RedHat 6.2
> system. I have a K6-2 475 in the box, and config seems to be having
> trouble
> working out what my system is. Sorry to piggy-back on your thread, but
> once people are anyway thinking about this issue, does anyone know what
> arguments
> I should pass to the config program to get it to work? Any suggestions
> gratefully welcomed... TIA, MoSam
>
-i686-pc-linux-gnu
less config.guess
./configure --help
You probably have something else wrong here, things worked nicely for me
on a RH 6.1 system with a K6-2 400
As I meant to ask the original poster -
Why install .3 ? it is a development compiler trying to move to 3.0
Most people would be happier with 2.95.2, golly it will even compile a
KERNEL!
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From: niketan sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux sendmail "user does not exist"
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:30:09 -0000
hello
please suggest how can i make pop3 user on net and allow them to exchange
mails with Linux server at our site. If the user is made on net and if he
sends the mail to internal user ( having a/c on linux box) the linux user
cannot reply to net user and says "user does not exist" please suggest
what can be done.
whereto get help
niketan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: WONG SAI-KEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Convert QT5.0 (3.0) .mov file to MPEG/VCD ?
Date: 21 May 2001 11:23:45 GMT
Any freeware/shareware on Linux to do so ?
Thanks a lot.
SK
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: StarCraft under Linux
Date: 21 May 2001 11:32:21 GMT
Hi,
After installing wine, I want to give it a test.
I then go for starcraft. The world is not perfect...
First, I cannot find the 'install.exe' in CD, instead, I run
the 'autorun.exe'. It looks good when the menu screen pop up.
When I press the 'Install' button, errors are given back:
F:\StarCraft Setup
there is no application associated with the given
file name extension
My wine config is that:
[Drive A]
"Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Type" = "floppy"
"Label" = "Floppy"
"Serial" = "87654321"
"Device" = "/dev/fd0"
[Drive C]
"Path" = "/usr/share/wine-c"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "MS-DOS"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[Drive D]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "CD-Rom"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
; make sure that device is correct and has proper permissions !
"Device" = "/dev/cdrom"
[Drive E]
"Path" = "/tmp"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Tmp Drive"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[Drive F]
"Path" = "${HOME}"
"Type" = "network"
"Label" = "Home"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[Drive Z]
"Path" = "/"
"Type" = "network"
"Label" = "Root"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[wine]
"Windows" = "c:\\windows"
"System" = "c:\\windows\\system"
"Temp" = "e:\\"
"Path" = "c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;e:\\;e:\\test;f:\\"
"Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"
and I can play winmine with wine.
Can anyone help me on this? thanks a lot
---- Brittle
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with upgrading rpm
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:59:49 +0200
Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I upgraded RPM to 4.0.2 from 3.0.something and neither one lets me
>>> install the libjpeg rpm. So it's not ME that can't open the correct
>>> RPM.
>>
>> It "lets" you do whatever you want. You have control. If you don't want
>> to take any notice of its dependency advice, force it with a switch
>> override.
> I tried --nodeps. I got the same error.
Then it is not a dependency error. It sounds like you have a munged
package, or one not for your distro, or not for that release of your
distro.
>> You only want libjpeg.so.62, for crissake. Take it out of the
>> package, put it in your own package, and install it.
> i don't bother with ' all the time.
?? What?
>> (a) All rpm's come with source. Extract it, compile it, install it.
>> (b) all distros come with source. Get somebody elses if you don't
>> like redhat's. They're all over the web.
> i don't use RedHat. I use Suse.
Then it's even easier, given that SuSE are miles better engineers that
RedHat. You ARE using a SuSE rpm, and not a RedHat RPM, right? If not
you ought to be stopped from installing it! Which SuSE are you using?
Is it even binary compatible with the package you are trying
to install?
>>> Linux *is* different than WIndows, right?
>>
>> Linux is a kernel. Redhat is a distribution based on the linux kernel
>> and gnu tools.
> well if u want to split hairs then the next time Windows crashes don't say
> Windows did, say the kernel did.
Windows is a kernel and an operating system. These are not hairs. There
are no distinct distributions of windows with different O/S and the
same kernel and all linux distros differ usually in both. You would
probably get about 40% code overlap between different distros (I did
once calculate the overlaps, when I was evaluating differnt o/s's for
installation in the labs, but I don't have the results still to hand
...). So you can't say "linux".
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux-users' daft mentality
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:10:05 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The post below is typical of Linux-users' 'talk'.
> I guess the writer is advising:
> " search in the idle/usr/src/linux/.config file for the 'idle' string ".
This is usually abbreviated as
"grep -i idle /usr/src/linux/.config" (you got it wrong).
> Why do computer users either want M$-cartoon-clicking or detailed
> key-stroke-lists ?
They don't. The appropriate vocabulary is the one that makes sense to
use. There are no satisfactory common words for "grep -i" (general? regular
expression patternmatch ignoring case). You wouldn't try and talk about
specialist music using the language of the busdriver on the street, so
don't try and do that here.
What you are complaining about is that an imperative instead of a
declarative instruction was apparently given, but that is not the case.
His instruction expands as "look in /usr/src/linux/.config for the
'idle' string, whatever case it's in".
> Can't you think/plan/communicate at the level of:
> "phone John to find out when he can meet Mary, and notify her to
> expect him"; instead of: "dial XYZ and say bla.bla.....".
He said precisely what was appropriate, as it happens. I'd normally
agree with your dislike of imperative versus declaritive styles, but
not in this case.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Mercer)
Subject: Re: Looking for a GUI telnet
Date: 21 May 2001 12:11:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck) writes:
> On 18 May 2001 21:07:36 GMT, Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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,
>
> But VNC doesn't know what it is displaying, and X does. The VNC client
> is not very smart and basically only knows how to display bitmaps. An X
> server supports a much more sophisticated protocol.
>
> I use VNC a lot, and like it, but X is usually faster, even without
> compression.
>
Well, I usually telecommute 2 days a week using ReflectionX over
a cable modem. I use VNC to connect to my work NT box. But
Friday I needed to start a job from work, let it run, then
connect in from home and finish it. The bad news, the VNC on my
HP totally sux, crashing the clients whenever the mouse pointer
hits the edges (even tho the virtual window size was smaller than
the actual screen size). So I fired up another Xvnc on my Linux
box (I manage the Linux box with Vnc) and that worked as
expected.
I was shocked to see just how much faster than ReflectionX VNC
was. About the only problem I encountered was that the Insert key
wasn't mapped. I don't think I'm going back to ReflectionX.
I use nedit primarily as my editor, and the menu based cut and
paste appears to be very network intensive. It's virtually
unusable over ReflectionX, but almost instantaneous over
VNC.
I simply cannot buy the argument that X is faster. It certainly
is not my experience.
--
Dan Mercer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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Subject: Re: error on compiling qt-2.3.0
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Goophy)
Date: 21 May 2001 12:55:46 GMT
I've
a Debian Potato Linux installation with
XFree 4.0.2 and a 2.4.4 kernel
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