Linux-Misc Digest #996, Volume #27 Thu, 31 May 01 21:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Which mail reader / MTA combo with advanced features (Michael Heiming)
PHIGS help needed (Tony)
Re: The problem of a pager ("Collin E Borrlewyn")
Re: How to mount remote Win2K partition? (Dan Smith)
Re: palm m505 & USB & Linux (Ken Mankoff)
Re: options for web based file management (Kwan Lowe)
Linux - ok, which one? ("luther")
Re: getservbyport() not working in redhat? (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: System.map, boot.b, chain.b, etc etc.... (Kwan Lowe)
Re: manipulating /etc/passwd + /etc/group (Kwan Lowe)
Help! VPN'ing through a Linux firewall? (Reuben King)
Re: Fax Servers for Linux? (Roger Blake)
2GB File size limitation ("Justus")
slooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!! ("Liverpool_fc")
SO5.2 file error (Kevin)
Re: slooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!! ("D. Stimits")
Re: Why I cant install Kernel 2.4.5 in my Redhat 7.0? (Christian Rose)
Request for research (John the research guy)
Re: palm m505 & USB & Linux (Neal Lippman)
Re: slooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!! (Bob Martin)
Re: Installing TrueType Fonts (Dave Uhring)
Re: How to mount remote Win2K partition? (Dances With Crows)
Bummed by debian apt-get (Jerome Mrozak)
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:21:00 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which mail reader / MTA combo with advanced features
Thomas Buehner wrote:
>
> Good <local time of day>,
>
> I wonder if there is any mail reader / MTA combo that has these
> features:
>
> - do all of the following for POP3 mailboxes
>
> - do all of the following for the same POP3 mail account on different
> PCs (reason: I work with different PCs at home and at work, and may
> decide to download *certain* messages to both PCs, but not all
> messages)
>
> - only download the mail *headers* on the first pass, and download
> *only those* headers that have not been downloaded yet *to this PC*
> (reason: there may be several thousand old messages in the mailbox)
>
> - allow to flag in the mail reader which messages should be deleted on
> the POP3 server (e.g. obvious spam mails), without downloading the
> message body
>
> - allow to flag that while a certain message should be deleted from
> the server, it should be kept on the PC (reason: to make room on the
> server in case of mails with big attachments, while keeping the
> attached files on the PC)
>
> - allow to flag that while a certain message should be deleted on the
> PC, it should be kept on the POP3 server (reason: I might want to get
> rid of a new work-related mail header/body on my home PC, but still
> download the header the next day on my work PC)
>
> - allow to flag some messages that should be downloaded (but not
> deleted from the server) in the next pass, while the body of the
> non-flagged messages will not be downloaded
>
> Any hints which combination of MUA/MTA (or which add-on utility) could
> fulfill these tasks would be more than welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
This is not MTA related, for more info:
http://www.sendmail.org/email-explained.html
However, there is a small script called poppy, which should do
most things you want, search freshmeat.net.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony)
Crossposted-To: comp.graphics.api.pexlib
Subject: PHIGS help needed
Date: 31 May 2001 14:18:51 -0700
Hi-
I can't seem to find any place to download PHIGS libraries for Linux.
Does anyone know where I can get this, as well as installation
instructions?
Thanks
Tony Vann
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From: "Collin E Borrlewyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The problem of a pager
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 02:39:27 -0400
> Enlightenment will do what your are looking for. I am not sure about
> dropping the window on the pager will make the window goto that
> virtual desktop, but dragging the window to that side of the screen
> or to the bottom for that matter will produce the same results.
>
> - -Jayson Garrell
That is really not enough, if that is all it does. When reading slashdot I
frequently have 8 browser windows open, down one side, accross the bottom,
and up one on the other side, all in the order I opened them. Being able to
drag a newly opened 'in new window' window at a diagonal accross six
desktops to be placed at the end of a stack is enormously useful. Quickly
reshuffling windows after clicking a few links in each (to better represent
their relation to one anothers new content) is similarly useful.
Besides this, I think you are thinking of "Grab title bar, drop on pager"
whereas I am thinking of "Grab pager representation of window, move within
pager".
- He'll get you through Europe on �50 a day, he's...
- Collin E Borrlewyn
- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: How to mount remote Win2K partition?
From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31 May 2001 16:52:15 -0400
Have you tried the username as: 'DOMAIN\username'?
That has worked before when I was connecting to a machine on a domain
with trust relationships tightened down..
--Dan
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From: Ken Mankoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
Subject: Re: palm m505 & USB & Linux
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 15:51:58 -0600
Reply-To: Ken Mankoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 31 May 2001, bgeer wrote:
> "Andre Renaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >"Ken Mankoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I cannot get my m505 to talk to linux. There is some basic recognition
> >> of the USB port and the device attached to it, but no communication
> >> between the palm and the computer whatsoever.
> >>
>
> >I haven't got a USB palm, but in theory (heavy emphasis on theory),
> >assuming that the usb and serial palms both talk to same protocol, just
> >over a different connection, you should be able to hack libusb
> >http://libusb.sourceforge.net support into pilot-link. Again, I haven't
> >tried this, but it might work (you never know).
>
> I'm successfully using coldsync on kernel 2.2.18 with my Prism.
> Apparently, tho, whereas serial ports work very much alike from pc to
> pc, USB chips aren't, so YMMV with an m505.
>
nope, coldsync produces the same stuff that pilot-link does:
errors reading /dev/ttyUSB1 if i have *not* hit the hotsync button. If i
press the hotsync button, and then coldsync/pilot-link, i get this in
/var/log/messages:
kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 3
kernel: usbserial.c: Generic converter detected
kernel: usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0
(or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
kernel: usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB1
(or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
/etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no drivers for USB product 830/2/100
before this, I did the following:
insmod usbcore
insmod usb-uhci
insmod usbserial vendor=0x830 product=0x2
-k.
--
Ken Mankoff
LASP://303.492.3264
http://lasp.colorado.edu/~mankoff/
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: options for web based file management
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:19:19 GMT
Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been on the look out for a good web based file management program
> with no luck. I'd like something that can move, delete, rename, and
> view files. I'd also like it to be able to run in Apache and have
> some type of login structure. Does anyone out there have any
> suggestions? TIA.
Webmin has a file manager module. It requires java, but appears to do what you
asked. It doesn't run in apache itself, though you can use it through a browser.
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From: "luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux - ok, which one?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 15:20:06 -0700
I'd like to dive into Linux. I've got an extra PC I can set it up on - not
the fastest, but it'll run (P-133, 64Mb, 2.1 Gb HD).
In fact, I downloaded redhat 7.1 and installed it, and even got my network
card to work after a day or so of screwing around.
I picked RedHat because it is the most popular, so I went safe the first
time around. However, when I ran into trouble installing my network card, I
decided that their website didn't really have as good online help and
documentation as I had expected.
So now I'm thinking, why redhat? Why not another Linux distribution?
So, can anyone recommend any links where I can find out which distribution
would best suit my needs? Are there any charts showing what they have /
don't have? I like charts...
I've been using Windows versions for years, used to have a Mac a while back,
and Ataris (remember those?). I've got HP Unix and Solaris experience to
boot, but that wasn't exactly yesterday.
Here's what I am going to use it for, for starters anyway:
Webserver (Apache - might want to add Tomcat too, not sure; maybe PHP;
anyway, redhat has Apache..)
- attached to a database - mysql? pgsql? not sure..
FTP server (I guess redhat comes with one, but I can't figure out what it is
or what its called)
And general screwing around with Linux... HTML editor, graphics editor, web
browser, etc. etc.
Question #1)
WHICH DISTRIBUTION? There are so many... maybe choice IS a bad thing!
Question #2)
KDE or GNOME? I want one of them. What's the friggin' difference? Why is
RedHat Installer asking ME which one to install?
Again, any links providing insight into answering these two questions would
be greatly appreciated...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: getservbyport() not working in redhat?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:29:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Vanderpool wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl) writes:
>
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Vanderpool wrote:
>>>i have a little piece of stub code here that won't work on
>>>RH 6.2 or 7.1 and works fine on hpux, irix and solaris;
>>>can somebody explain why it doesn't work on redhat? (it
>>>always returns a null ptr)
>>>
>>>i added the htonl() call as a last resort
>>[-]
>>Close but no cigar 8-) You *do* have to use network byte
>>order but use htons() ...
>>[-]
>>> serventp = getservbyport( (int) htonl( (u_long)79 ), "tcp" );
>>[-]
>>serventp = getservbyport( htons( 79 ), "tcp" );
>>... and try again.
>
>great, that works, thanx! but i'm confused. the port number arg to
>getservbyport() is supposed to be int, htons() returns short (thats
>why i was using htonl instead) if ansi prototyping were in use
>then the compiler should complain - i tried turning on cc -ansi to
>see if it did - and it didn't - but it then complains about the
>u_long cast ("`u_long' undeclared")
[-]
Sent by mail, so keeping it short, no pun intented, here ...
the port is actually a short and while on a big endian machine
htonX() does nothing htons( 79 ) does not yield the same result
as htonl( 79 ) on a little endian machine when casted to an
unsigned short.
...
A trap easy to fall into when porting code from a nice and decent
big endian machine.
Ta',
Juergen
--
\ Real name : Juergen Heinzl \ no flames /
\ EMail Private : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ send money instead /
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System.map, boot.b, chain.b, etc etc....
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:34:09 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Barney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where can I find out what all this is about?
Try: http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/kernel.html
(This is some documentation I created for just this purpose)
> I've asked this before, and failed in trying to find out from the net.
> People invariably point me to the lilo howto, but that document barely
> mentions the above files, and certainly doesn't explain their
> function.
Lots of documentation is available in the source directory. Check under
/usr/src/linux/Documentation for the full explanations.
> When I compile a new kernel I follow the well documented procedure:
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
> make make modules
> make modules_install
> and then:
> cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz
> (because my lilo.conf reads "image = /boot/vmlinuz")
> /sbin/lilo
You don't have to replace the vmlinuz. It's usually safer to create another
image section in lilo.conf so that you can reboot to an older kernel if the
newer one fails. If you're a "damn the consequences" type, then go to it. :)
I usually copy bzImage to /boot/bzImage-version.
> Is this enough? What about all the other chaff in /boot, and in
> particular, System.map? There's a System.map in /usr/src/linux after a
> compile, should I copy it over the top of the existing one in /boot,
> and if so - why?
System.map is usually a link to System.map-KERNEL_VERSION. Copy the system.map
file from your kernel source directory to /boot/System.map-KERNEL_VERSION (e.g.,
/boot/System.map-2.4.5) then symlink System.map to the new file. The System.map
is used mainly for kernel debugging, though some earlier versions of top or ps
might need it.
If you ever get a kernel OOPS, you can use the System.map file to help generate
useful bug reports.
> Sorry to be a pain. I think my problem is wanting to properly
> understand rather than just doing things parrot-fashion.
I don't think that's a problem. :)
> Many thanks for any help offered.
> Barney.
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: manipulating /etc/passwd + /etc/group
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:46:56 GMT
Claus Atzenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I realized that I have gid 501 at /etc/group for 2 users. This is probably
> done by accident. Is there any tool I can use to manipulate /etc/group and
> /etc/passwd?? Or which program do I have to call after manipulating these
> files using an text editor?
> I have Mandrake 8.0. (Mandrake's tool userdrake cannot manipulate gids and
> uids...)
You can use the usermod and groupmod utilities.
For example, to change a user comment:
usermod -c "New Name" username
For your group example:
groupmod -g 502 groupname
You generally do not want to change the files directly with an editor, unless
you use something like vipw or vigr which locks the files beforehand.
> Thanks for any hint!
> Claus
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From: Reuben King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Help! VPN'ing through a Linux firewall?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:13:46 GMT
The whole IPChains thing mystifies me.. managed to get it working on a
basic level by using the HOWTO's.. Now I'm trying to VPN in to work and
my VPN client refuses to connect to the server. I can ping the server
fine. Others use it without problem.
My network is set up using IP masquerading through a cable modem. I
don't have any problems with any other IP services but from what I
understand VPN and IPsec are a bit tricker than your standard TCP
service.
Any advice and help would be most appreciated!
Thanks,
-Reuben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Subject: Re: Fax Servers for Linux?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:24:30 GMT
On 31 May 2001 11:05:41 -0700, Rich King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a good fax server for Linux? It must support
The Castelle FaxPress is supposed to work with Linux and Samba server.
These are expensive boxes, but they work better than any faxmodem-based
solution I've ever seen.
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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From: "Justus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: 2GB File size limitation
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:34:41 -0400
I am running Redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.4.2 on a Dell Power Edge 6400 I am
using ext2 file system. Is there a way to remove the 2GB file size
limitation and how if so? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Justus
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From: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: slooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:55:06 -0400
Reply-To: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
hello,
i got a rh6.2 box that boots and runs extremely slow at the console.
if i telnet into the box from a win98 client, it runs ok.
but netscape, control panel or any gui app launched through gnome takes
30 -60 minutes to start. on boot half way through it stops and freezes at
startting sendmail. well it appears to freeze. but if a few hours go by it
will eventually come up. i am able to ping it while it boots.
i tried "top". this does not tell me much.
thank you for any input.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SO5.2 file error
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:02:06 GMT
I got this error:
Error loading document /tmp/.myself/mhn3UaqWJ:
Object not accessible.
The object cannot be accessed
due to insufficient user rights.
drwxr-x--- 2 myself 315 May 31 16:51 /tmp/.myself
-rw------- 1 myself 21504 May 31 16:51 /tmp/.myself/mhn3UaqWJ
StarOffice was started thus:
soffice.bin /tmp/.myself/mhn3UaqWJ
For crying out loud, I just created the file (unattached from
email) and want to edit it with SO. Maybe SO should RTFM and let
me edit a file I own? ;^% So, then I change the permissions
on the file and on the directory containing it to be read, write,
and execute for all. I get the same SO error.
Seriously though, what gives?
Thanks....
--
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:15:42 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: slooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!
Liverpool_fc wrote:
>
> hello,
> i got a rh6.2 box that boots and runs extremely slow at the console.
> if i telnet into the box from a win98 client, it runs ok.
>
> but netscape, control panel or any gui app launched through gnome takes
> 30 -60 minutes to start. on boot half way through it stops and freezes at
> startting sendmail. well it appears to freeze. but if a few hours go by it
> will eventually come up. i am able to ping it while it boots.
>
> i tried "top". this does not tell me much.
> thank you for any input.
In the case of network applications, having a default route set up wrong
(or various other net setup issues) will cause this. I had one nasty
discovery when setting up a recent RH 7.1 box, that it had set up a
default route on eth0, which is only for 10.x.x.x internal networking,
whereas my DNS was pointed to machines through ppp0. Result: VERY slow
startup of netscape. Run ifconfig and see if there is a default route.
If that route should not really be default, run ifconfig to turn off
default, and try again.
D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why I cant install Kernel 2.4.5 in my Redhat 7.0?
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 02:16:02 +0200
Yongjian Xi wrote:
> Anybody help me what's the problem indeed??
I don't know, but have you tried using Red Hat Linux 7.1 instead, and
install kernel 2.4.5 on that one?
Since RH 7.1 uses kernel 2.4 by default I think installing a newer 2.4
kernel on that one may work better.
Christian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John the research guy)
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,alt.windows-me
Subject: Request for research
Date: 31 May 2001 17:17:55 -0700
Hi,
I am working on a study of technical newsgroups. I am interested in
creating a questionnaire that would be available online and would
attempt to assess your confidence level in solutions to problems that
you've posted as well as overall newsgroup usability and overall
newsgroup satisfaction.
Initially, I am attempting to find out how well received a link to an
online registration site to participate in an online survey would be
received by newsgroup users. The participant would remain anonymous
and would NOT be added to any marketing lists of any sort. The
participant would simply be asked to opt-in to receive ONE email
invitation to the online questionnaire. The participant would not
receive any future correspondence!!
I am very interested in conducting a study of this type but may not
continue if the idea is not welcomed by the newsgroups.
Please let me know if you are for or against this research effort.
I apologize if you feel I have wasted your time.
Thanks,
John
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From: Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: palm m505 & USB & Linux
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:22:03 GMT
The fact that you have to hit the hotsync button before running pilot-link (or other
syncing
software; I happen to use JPilot) is well known with USB handhelds such as the Visor
(which I use).
This is because until the hotsync button is hit, the device isn't detectable by the
USB system and
so /dev/ttyUSB1 doesn't actually exist. I find that although the source code for
KPilot implies
that it will wait a bit to look for the device so you can hit the hotsync button after
clicking the
"sync" button onscreen, that doesn't work for me, but is really is a trivial point to
hotsync
before clicking (at least for me, anyway).
The module needed for the visor is, of course, visor.c (or visor.o when compiled as a
module).
Since the protocols used for communication between the handheld and the syncing
software should be
the same for any handheld, theoretically, I wonder if the visor.c module could be
easily modified
to handle the M500/505 as well...
Ken Mankoff wrote:
> On 31 May 2001, bgeer wrote:
>
>> "Andre Renaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> >"Ken Mankoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >> Hi everyone,
>> >>
>> >> I cannot get my m505 to talk to linux. There is some basic recognition
>> >> of the USB port and the device attached to it, but no communication
>> >> between the palm and the computer whatsoever.
>> >>
>>
>> >I haven't got a USB palm, but in theory (heavy emphasis on theory),
>> >assuming that the usb and serial palms both talk to same protocol, just
>> >over a different connection, you should be able to hack libusb
>> >http://libusb.sourceforge.net support into pilot-link. Again, I haven't
>> >tried this, but it might work (you never know).
>>
>> I'm successfully using coldsync on kernel 2.2.18 with my Prism.
>> Apparently, tho, whereas serial ports work very much alike from pc to
>> pc, USB chips aren't, so YMMV with an m505.
>>
>
> nope, coldsync produces the same stuff that pilot-link does:
>
> errors reading /dev/ttyUSB1 if i have *not* hit the hotsync button. If i
> press the hotsync button, and then coldsync/pilot-link, i get this in
> /var/log/messages:
>
> kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 3
> kernel: usbserial.c: Generic converter detected
> kernel: usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0
> (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
> kernel: usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB1
> (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
> /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no drivers for USB product 830/2/100
>
>
> before this, I did the following:
> insmod usbcore
> insmod usb-uhci
> insmod usbserial vendor=0x830 product=0x2
>
> -k.
>
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: slooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:22:05 -0500
Liverpool_fc wrote:
>
> hello,
> i got a rh6.2 box that boots and runs extremely slow at the console.
> if i telnet into the box from a win98 client, it runs ok.
>
> but netscape, control panel or any gui app launched through gnome takes
> 30 -60 minutes to start. on boot half way through it stops and freezes at
> startting sendmail. well it appears to freeze. but if a few hours go by it
> will eventually come up. i am able to ping it while it boots.
>
> i tried "top". this does not tell me much.
> thank you for any input.
How much memory do you have ? check that linux sees all your memory and check
that your swap space is enabled.
Sendmail expects a fully qualified domain name entry for the host computer,
otherwise it tries to resolve and evetually gives up.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing TrueType Fonts
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:41:00 -0500
Alex Meaden wrote:
> Please can someone tell me how to install TrueType fonts on Linux? I am
> running Red Hat 7.1, KDE, XFree86 4.0.3. Is there a GUI program I can
> use?]
>
> TIA,
> Alex.
>
http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Font-HOWTO.html
You probably have this on your system, also. Look under
/usr/share/doc/HOWTOS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How to mount remote Win2K partition?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 01 Jun 2001 00:45:18 GMT
On Thu, 31 May 2001 20:50:32 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>On 31 May 2001 16:27:06 -0400, Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>You don't mount a partition, you mount a share. The filesystem on the
>>system sharing (FAT, NTFS) doesn't matter. It's an authentication
>>thing, not an NTFS thing.
>>Try using smbmount instead. Example:
>>
>>smbmount //1.2.3.4/c$ /mnt/windows -o username=user%mypassword
>>
>Good suggestion. However the following command;
>smbmount //151.110.7.227/audit /mnt/smb -o username=knoppp%ej08c4s
>results in the same error;
>
>session request to 151.110.7.227 failed
>session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
>SMB connection failed
>
>Is there something I should be looking at on the Windows 2000 side to
>see why this is failing?
Access to the "$" shares is limited to the members of the (domain?)
administrator group; is "joeuser" in that group? What do you see if you
try mounting with "mount -v"? (verbose mode for mount.) This is what I
use to mount shares (on 2K boxen, no less) from my Linux box at work:
mount -t smbfs //BORG/SHARE /mnt/borg -o username=MHGRAHAM,workgroup=
MYWORKGROUP,password=MYPASSWORD
That workgroup= parameter is kind of important. Plus, I don't think
that the smbmount command will help much... "mount" invoked with the
appropriate options calls smbmount, which calls smbmnt, which actually
mounts the FS. Kind of funky, but that's the way it goes.
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From: Jerome Mrozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bummed by debian apt-get
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 20:11:29 -0500
I pointed my Stormix install to http.us.debian.org and told it, through
sources.list, to fetch woody (or testing). It installed about, what, 50
MB of files and considered itself done.
I really expected it to install new stuff, and how about some KDE? Or a
newer Gnome? I didn't get that, perhaps instead what a security update
would give me.
I then pointed to (an equivalent to) kde.tdyc.com -- the actual tdyc.com
wasn't responding. It downloaded a few KDE 1.+ files, but not any 2.0
stuff.
Now I expected that apt-get would do wonderous things for me, and use
the upgrade to give me files, at least task-* that would then get me the
files. What I *did* get I'm not sure if I got a complete update of any
part of my system.
Perhaps I'm pointing at the wrong sources. Perhaps I don't know the
secret Debian handshake. Perhaps this works only for non-branded Debian
stuff.
I then pointed to Ximian for a Gnome update. Red Carpet installed just
fine. It pulled down, what, 50 MB of Gnome stuff. It then complained
about unsatisfied dependencies and went home. Said I should perform a
version of dpkg that, in effect, deleted all of the downloaded files.
I found on gnome.org no other mirrors for acquiring Gnome 1.2 or 1.4,
except through Ximian. Like they were equivalent organizations.
This leaves me with a real sour feeling about the whole "apt" thing. I
*want* to like it, but it keeps jilting me.
Who can save me from this? Someone who can tell me why my Stormix can't
get an updated Gnome from somewhere. Someone who can tell me how to get
to woody from my current potato-based distro.
TIA,
Jerome.
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