Linux-Misc Digest #37, Volume #28 Tue, 5 Jun 01 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: increasing ulimit for core files (Steve Allan)
Yahoo Messenger behind a firewall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: writing basic batch commands? (newbie alert) (fred smith)
Re: SSH problem ("Chris Coyle")
Re: Replicating Linux computers ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: how to connect to internet in non-X ("Jay")
i386,i486,i586 ... (Hajo Drescher)
Re: A plea to those posting questions (Leonard Evens)
Re: TUX (flatfish+++)
Mandrake 8: how to change timezone? (Grant Edwards)
Re: i386,i486,i586 ...
Re: HELP: how to "tar" directory? (Leonard Evens)
Linux box hang every week (Frank Cheng)
Re: writing basic batch commands? (newbie alert) ("LRW")
Re: LCD Active Matrix laptop display and Xwin problems. ("LRW")
Re: A plea to those posting questions ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Installation problem for RH7.1 & 7.0 (Leonard Evens)
Re: RH 7.1 disk and gmc corruption (Leonard Evens)
Audio processing (malicorne)
Re: Conner Tape (Leonard Evens)
root password problem (Frank McCormick)
Re: A plea to those posting questions (Steve Lamb)
Re: A plea to those posting questions (Steve Lamb)
Re: where is the startup shell script in RH71? (Leonard Evens)
Making Linux partition bigger (Frank McCormick)
Re: i386,i486,i586 ... (Markku Kolkka)
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Subject: Re: increasing ulimit for core files
From: Steve Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:11:25 GMT
John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Steve Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
>: # console session
>: % ulimit -H -c
>: unlimited
>: % ulimit -S -c
>: 1000000
>:
>: # telnet session
>: % ulimit -H -c
>: 0
>: % ulimit -S -c
>: 0
<snip>
>
>Try modifying /etc/security/limits.conf
>
>add something like:
>* soft core 65536
>
I tried setting both hard and soft limits in limits.conf - didn't
help. The part that has me confused and seems to be the heart of the
matter is the fact that I'm seeing a different default hard limit for
console logins vs remote logins. Seems like a security setting, but
I can't find where this is happening.
Are others seeing the same thing?
Thanks.
--
-- Steve __
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Yahoo Messenger behind a firewall
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:14:52 GMT
Has anyone got this working? I am using the Linux version
ymessenger-0.93.0-1.i386.rpm
It tries to connect, pulls up my buddy list, but dies with the error
"You are not currently connected, please login first"
I am behind a CheckPoint firewall, and use the Windows version of
Yahoo Messenger with great success.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: writing basic batch commands? (newbie alert)
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:48:30 GMT
In comp.os.linux.help LRW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've been trying to look around, but can't really find anything on it. I
: know I'm just not looking right. Man's, HOW-TO's, nothing comes really close
: in my guessing what topic it would be under. But basically I need some basic
: help in writing simple batched command scripts.
: For example, I want to make a script to create a user and make a password:
: #useradd -m <newuser>
: #passwd <newuser>
: With it prompting for the <newuser> name once to use in both lines.
: Playing around I made a file that has those lines, chmod'd it to be
: executable, and it works but of course, only with whatever name I put in the
: file in place of <newuser>. So I need to know how to get a file to prompt
: for a user,
: OR better yet, to take what's put in the command line at the same time.
: For example if I named the above file "ua", and I could type at the prompt:
: #ua fred
: It would complete the two commands using "fred" as the username.
Something like (untested...):
#!/bin/sh
echo -n "Enter name of new user: "
read username # where "username" is a variable containing whatever
# is typed in at the keyboard
echo -n "Create new user: $username ?? (Y/N): "
read yn
if [ "$yn" != "y" ]
then
exit
fi
useradd -m $username
passwd $username
: Anyway, if anyone knows the MAN or HOW-TO that would explain this, or a doc
: on the web, I would be REALLY appreciative!
: Thanks!
: Liam
--
---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
"For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged
sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow;
it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
============================ Hebrews 4:12 (niv) ==============================
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From: "Chris Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SSH problem
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:32:50 -0400
"Leonard Evens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Richard R. Kaufman" wrote:
> >
> > G'day,
> >
> > I have compiled SSH 2.4.0 on my Redhat 6.2 (running on a Sparc). It
> > compiled without any errors or problems. I can accept connect, accept the
> > finger print, and get in just fine. But after awhile an error appears,
> > saying "Host Failed Key Check" and I get disconnected.
> >
> > Any ideas? Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.
> >
> > Richard R. Kaufman
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
>
> I suggest switching to openssh (which also needs openssl). If
> you upgrade to RH7.0 or 7.1, you will get it automatically,
> but you can also get rpm packages for it on the net. Try
> www.rpmfind.net
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
Yes I also use openssh on RH 6.2,
and I have never seen the problem described.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Replicating Linux computers
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 18:27:28 +0200
Christopher Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Uri Van Creveld wrote:
>> I have 50 identical PC's on which I want to run Linux.
>> I don't want to run the installation on each one,
>> And I'm not so keen on using dd because it means opening them all up etc.
dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=102400 | ssh other_machine dd of=/dev/hda1 bs=102400
>> What is the best way to do it? Is ghost good for it? something else?
or
tar cvlpfC - /mnt/hda1 . | ssh other_machine tar xvlpfC - /mnt/hda1
>> Help would be apreaciated.
Why?
> THis is easy with RedHat using kickstart. FOr
> other distributions I'm not so sure.
Why not?
You both could do with either reading the man pages for common
utilities such as tar and dd, or looking at the Partition HOWTO
and other relevant material!
Peter
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From: "Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to connect to internet in non-X
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:40:01 GMT
Sorry NG my best guesses. Repost details of your Xwindow problem here and
in linux.redhat.misc while you're working on the tarballs.
>From the Linux command line you can ftp from the linux command line
$ ftp
ftp > open ftp.xfree.org
ftp > ls
ftp > cd somewhere
ftp> get package or mget packages
keep at it and good luck.
"NG_lurker <remove AT from email address when replying>"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi jay,
>
> no help with Xconfigurator even by adjusting the horizontal and vertical
> refresh rats. still have this wretched windows flying all over!!! i plan
to
> get these tarball updates from XFree86 website and hope to get lucky. will
> keep in touch. cheers!
>
> NG_lurker
>
>
> Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:pcwS6.2393$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hey how is it going?
> >
> > "NG_lurker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > hi wise ones,
> >
> > Not me.
> >
> > >
> > > this one i get clearly. my problem is when i download the tarballs
they
> > will
> > > go to my windows partition. finding them from linux will be a journey
> for
> > > me, u know what i mean? what should the command be, mount/unmount?
still
> i
> > > will locate these tarball in the net and post again in the NG.
> > >
> >
> > Not sure about this. You can # cat /etc/fstab and see if your win
> partition
> > is listed. If it is you do something like (su)# mount -o vfat,ro,noauto
> > /dev/hdb? /mountpoint. Check # man mount.
> >
> > >
> > > let me try this setting in Xconfigurator. P3?
> >
> > The P3 is from the monitor control buttons.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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From: Hajo Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: i386,i486,i586 ...
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 12:36:12 -0400
Hi
I was wondering about the meaning of these
numbers when I install for example Redhat 7.1.
Ok, I know these are the generation of the processors.
But, all RPMS are in a directory i386 - for Redhat,
does it mean that these are compiled for a i386 ???
why do they do so ???
For Madrake I find a i586 directory, so is it more efficient
for Pentiums, and K6 and so on????
I would appreciate if someone coud clarify this question
or give me some reference
hajo
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: A plea to those posting questions
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:33:32 -0500
Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 18:25:00 -0500, Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >So here is my plea. If you are asking for help, please don't make it more
> >difficult for someone to respond by messing up your address. If that is too
> >difficult for you, then put a comment in your posting that you don't want
> >mail sent to you and responses to the newsgroup will suffice.
>
> How about just not mailing the response? Common theme on most newsgroups
> that if someone asks a question on the newsgroup they can return to read the
> replies there. If I ever ask a question I certainly am not going to undo my
> spam protection nor will I point out that I don't want an email. I never
> asked for the darned thing in the first place.
>
> --
> Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
> ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
> -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
At least half the time when I respond to a question, I get email
asking for further details. It is often easier to help someone
in this way than to try to communicated through the newsgroup.
I understand the desire to avoid spam; I get my share. But I
doubt if many spam creators use mailings to linux newsgroups
as a source of e-mail addresses. I don't seem to notice an
increase in spam as a result of my relatively frequent postings
to such groups which don't have any no-spam inserts in my
e-mail address.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: flatfish+++ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TUX
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:41:44 GMT
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 15:36:48 GMT, Joshua D. Drake
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>LinuxPorts.Com (poet's website) has opened a online store to help support
>the Linux Documentation Project. They have used the artwork from their
>online comic, TUX as supporting material. TUX can be found on the web at
>http://www.linuxports.com/TUX .The artwork was used in the creation of
>mugs, shirts and mousepads. To purchase please take a look at
>http://www.cafepress.com/linuxports . So ask yourself... Who do you want to
>fsck today?
>
>Joshua Drake
Documentation is one thing Linux has plenty of.
flatfish+++
"Why do they call it a flatfish?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Mandrake 8: how to change timezone?
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:51:46 GMT
I can not figure out how to set the timezone in Mandrake 8.0.
Changing it in linuxconf has no effect.
There doesn't seem to be an /etc/localtime or
/usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime file, and the TZ environment
variable isn't set. Where does Mandrake store timezone
settings?
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Everywhere I look
at I see NEGATIVITY and
visi.com ASPHALT...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: i386,i486,i586 ...
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:55:26 GMT
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 12:36:12 -0400, Hajo Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I was wondering about the meaning of these
>numbers when I install for example Redhat 7.1.
>Ok, I know these are the generation of the processors.
>But, all RPMS are in a directory i386 - for Redhat,
>does it mean that these are compiled for a i386 ???
> why do they do so ???
>For Madrake I find a i586 directory, so is it more efficient
>for Pentiums, and K6 and so on????
>I would appreciate if someone coud clarify this question
>or give me some reference
i386 : 386 and later processors
i586 : optimized for pentium and later processors
i686 : optimized for pentium pro and later processors
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: how to "tar" directory?
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:42:01 -0500
J Garcia wrote:
>
> I was wondering if somebody could help me out. I would
> like to know how to use "tar" command to create a
> tar'red file for a directory with several levels of
> subdirectories.
Say foo is a subdirectory of the current directory which you
want to tar to a file named foo.tar
tar cvf foo.tar foo
will do what you want. It will even include in the tar archive
and '.' files in the directory and certainly every subdirectory.
If you also want to compress, use
tar cvzf foo.tgz foo
'tgz' can be considered an abbreviation of 'tar.gz'. The z
option passes everything through gzip/gunzip as a filter.
>
> I have used O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell book to
> look this up and while I am able to create a .tar.gz
> file, the .tar.gz or .tar cannot be untarred on
> Windows 95 and turns out to be an invalid archive. I
> am creating a .tar.gz for use by a Windows 95 user.
> Please help.
The Windows 95 user would have to have up to date versions
of tar and gunzip which are consistent with the version you
are using under linux. Those are not standard Windows programs,
so one has to depend on simulations designed to run under Windows.
You may have to get up to date versions of those Windows programs.
It is also quite possible that a program like WinZip can deal
with a tar archive.
>
> __________________________________________________
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--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Frank Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux box hang every week
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 17:01:05 GMT
Hi, folks,
We have a Compaq PC running Debian Linux with Kernal 2.0.38. It is a
Pentium Box with 16MB RAM. This box is simply running two scripts which
dial out to test some NAS. One Rocketmodem and one RocketmodemII are
installed in the box.
This box hang every week. I do top to see if short of resource. CPU is
not overloaded. Mem is still 1.5MB free plus 130MB free swap.
>From the console, I captrued the following message.
<<
Rocketport sInitch(1,0,6) failed
Rocketport sInitch(1,0,7) failed
Call Trace: [<00125085>] [<0012c8c4>] [<0012c90b>] [<00125116>]
[00123697>] [<001237af>] [<0010a941>]
[<0017b9b4>}
Code: 0f bf 42 0c 39 f0 75 18 0f bf 4a 0e 39 cb 7c 10 0f bf 42 10
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c181e454
Current -> tss.cr3=00218000, %cr3=00218000
*pde=0009e067
*ptc=00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<00171f70>]
EFLAGS: 00010206
eax: 00000004 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00ebcd00 edx: 0181e444
esi: 00000004 edi: 00ebcd00 ebp: 001a46f0 esp: 0009af0c
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Stack: 0019098b 00000004 00125085 00000400 ffffffed 006e87f8 00ebcd00
00000001 0012c8c4 00000000 00000902 0012c90b 00ebcd00 00125116 00000004
00000000 00000080 0019098d 001a46f0 00125437 00000004 00000000 006e87f8
00000000
>>
Thanks
Frank
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From: "LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: writing basic batch commands? (newbie alert)
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:09:34 -0500
Cool! Thanks for the suggestion!
I always get the best book ideas from newsgroup people. =)
Liam
"Steve Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Get "Essential System Administration" by Frisch. Also useful is a book on
your
> favorite shell.
> http://www.oreilly.com/
>
> Steve Smith
>
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From: "LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: LCD Active Matrix laptop display and Xwin problems.
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:13:38 -0500
Fantastic!
That was a PERFECT suggestion! I followed his suggestion to a T, very quick
and easy, and BAM! I was SO pleasantly surprised to see that silly
cross-hatch wallpaper with the big fat "X" pointer. =)
Now I just need to tweak color into it. =/
Thanks!!!
Liam
"Sinistar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:fVVS6.29913$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:F8MS6.725$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi all.
> > Well, putting Slackware 7.1 (which I believe is xfree86 3.3.x) on my
> laptop.
> > All is good except the setup of Xwin.
>
> > It's an old Toshiba T4850CT with a 640x480x64K TFT-LCD. The installed
card
> > database has a few Toshibas mentioned, but not this one. All of them use
> > SVGA server anyway.
> > So in any case, has anyone gotten it to work on an older laptop?
> > Particularly something close to this model? I'd LOVE to be able to see
the
> > bottom third of your XF86Config!
> > Thanks for any help. =)
>
> Give this page a shot and see if the X-Window config info helps your
> situation:
>
> http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~gerhardb/linux/LINUXT4600.htm
>
> -- Trav
>
>
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: A plea to those posting questions
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:00:31 +0200
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I understand the desire to avoid spam; I get my share. But I
> doubt if many spam creators use mailings to linux newsgroups
> as a source of e-mail addresses. I don't seem to notice an
> increase in spam as a result of my relatively frequent postings
> to such groups which don't have any no-spam inserts in my
> e-mail address.
Ditto. But of course I filter out anything with offers of money in the
subject. Or CAPitals. Or exclamations.
Peter
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation problem for RH7.1 & 7.0
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 12:17:37 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I encounter the following problems and appreciate if anyone can help.
> Thanks.
>
> 1. I have built a RH Seawolf 7.1 disc1&2. I can manage to boot up from
> disc 1. After a while, the system prompt "what type of media contains the
> packages to be installed"? I sellect Local CDROM, but the system response
> that "I could not find a Red Hat Linux CDROM in any of your CDROM drives".
> What could be the problem?
>
> 2. I try to install RH7.0, it can detect the monitor is VP150m
> (viewsonic), the video card: NVIDIA Geforce DDR (genic) Xserver: XFree 86.
> It prompt error executing the X server in a probing mode, and also prompt
> to config the video card manually. How do I rectify?
>
> The PC used is Pentium III 933 intel mother board.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
Can you see what is on the CD with an existing system, preferably
on the same machine? The RedHat installers are pretty good about
detecting CD drives, but if the CD is faulty, it won't work of
course.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 disk and gmc corruption
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:50:53 -0500
Jeff S wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Ever since I installed Red Hat 7.1 I've been running into disk corruption
> problems. Also, /usr/bin/gmc keeps getting trashed and frequently so do
> some of the icons it uses. Haven't changed any hardware recently, and all
> has been working fine with RH5.2, 6.x and 7.0. In the midst of these
> problems, sometimes fsck reports numerous disk problems--usually about
> inodes (lots of them!) and such, but not always.
>
> What I've tried thus far:
> -Not using my root account (still have the same problems) -Using the RH
> installer to wipe the disk clean, verify blocks and repartition, then
> doing clean workstation-class install.
>
> So far nothing seems to have any lasting effect. Is anyone else seeing
> these problems or is it time for me to get a new hard disk?
>
> Jeff S
I've installed RH7.1 on a laptop, and I had a lot of problems
getting it to work with the PS/2 mouse which I eventually found
a workaround for. Along the way I noticed similar problems. This
machine also worked fine up to RH7.0. It seems to happen when
the system is stressed, for example, when I tried to run mozilla.
I haven't tracked down the problem completely, but I suspect it
is a relatively minor problem that occurs when one has limited
memory---I have 32MB ram---and it can be fixed by upgrading to
later versions of gnome/gmc packages. I've had problems on
this laptop with gnome and gmc before that were fixed that way.
Let me know if you discover the solution to your problem.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: malicorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Audio processing
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:27:53 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
Is there a way to adjust permanently equalization parameters of an audio
file ? For instance, there is a mp3 file that has too much bass. I would
like to play/pipe the output of this file into an utility that would let
control the equalization of the sound then to pipe it out into some kind of
a recorder/converter to obtain either a new mp3 or an audio file of other
format.
Anybody doing something like this or something similar ?
Alain
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Conner Tape
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 12:14:49 -0500
Greg wrote:
>
> I have a Conner CTT3200 I-F tape drive. It uses a floppy controller via
> IDE card. How do you set this thing up to work ? Do I have to have
> certain drivers ? Do I have to have the jumpers set in a certain way ?
>
> Thanks
The floppy controller and the IDE ports are different. Perhaps
I don't understand you, but if the tape drive uses the floppy
controller, it would be plugged into the floppy controller by
using the same cable that the floppy drive is connected to.
Such tape drives use the ftape package. IDE (ATAPI) tape drives
are plugged into one of the two IDE ports through the appropriate
cable.
I've been searching the web to find out just what that tape drive
is, but I can't find it. Conner seems to have been absorbed by
Seagate, and the Seagate web site doesn't mention it.
If it is an IDE tape drive, it should be available as the
device /dev/ht0 (nht0 for non windinding device) under Linux.
To install the drive, whether it uses the floppy controller or
an ide port, you may need to worry about termination by setting
a jumper on the drive or on any device it shares a cable with.
Can you provide some more details about the drive, such as what
kind of tapes it uses and which cable you were trying to connect
it to?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: root password problem
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 09:47:59 -0400
I finally ! got around to changing my root password ( I'm the only
person using this machine so it's no big deal ) and now when I login as
root, and type the password there is a 45 to 50 sec delay before the
BASH prompt returns. This never happened before . Anyone have an ideas
as to what I could look for ?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: A plea to those posting questions
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 17:48:24 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:00:31 +0200, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Ditto. But of course I filter out anything with offers of money in the
>subject. Or CAPitals. Or exclamations.
Hell, I have a filtering system that will catch 99.95% of all spam with a
nearly 0.005% false positive rate. OTOH I am still aware that was, ages ago
on a completely different address, filtering 3-5 messages a day.
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Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: A plea to those posting questions
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 17:50:32 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:33:32 -0500, Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At least half the time when I respond to a question, I get email
>asking for further details. It is often easier to help someone
>in this way than to try to communicated through the newsgroup.
That's find and good; doesn't refute that many people don't want to alter
their settings just for you.
>I understand the desire to avoid spam; I get my share. But I doubt if many
>spam creators use mailings to linux newsgroups as a source of e-mail
>addresses.
A newsgroup is a newsgroup. I don't add the spam munging in, it is a
blanket thing. The reply-to and the From: don't alter whether I am posting
here, alt.gothic, comp.lang.python or what have you. I think that is the same
for most.
>I don't seem to notice an increase in spam as a result of my relatively
>frequent postings to such groups which don't have any no-spam inserts in my
>e-mail address.
I had. Again, just reply here, if people want further clarification that
is up to them.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where is the startup shell script in RH71?
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 12:22:08 -0500
Teke Tu wrote:
>
> Hi, can anyone tell me where is the startup shell script is stored in RH7.1
> , because I want linux automatically mount my FAT32 partitions at start up.
> Thank you very much.....
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
Let me echo the good advice to put it in /etc/fstab. But if
you want to learn more about such things, there is a good
description of the boot process in one of the RedHat manuals.
Unfortunately, I can't remember which, and there are four of
them. It is either the Getting Started Guide or the General
Reference Guide. These are available at the RedHat web site
and they are provided as part of some of the RedHat boxed packages.
In any event, if you want to do something after everything else
in the booting has been done, you put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Making Linux partition bigger
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 09:57:42 -0400
When I installed Linux on my Windoze machine I thought 700 megs would be
enough - now I find I am running out of space and want to enlarge the
Linux partition.
It was created along with the swap partition of 100 megs using Partition
Magic.
The question is can I shrink the W95 partition and enlarge the Linux
partition without problems. Won't the bigger portion of the ex2
partition have no file system ( well it'll have a FAT file system as
the drive was formatted FAT32 originally ). What will Linux say about
this ?
Thanks
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: i386,i486,i586 ...
Date: 05 Jun 2001 20:30:21 +0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
> i386 : 386 and later processors
> i586 : optimized for pentium and later processors
> i686 : optimized for pentium pro and later processors
Actually the suffix (infix?) in the rpm files indicates the _minimum_
CPU requirement, so i586 binaries will crash on a i386. At least
RedHat claims that their "i386" binaries are _optimized_ for i686 CPUs
but will run even on i386. (gcc options -mcpu=i686 -march=i386).
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