Linux-Misc Digest #47, Volume #28 Wed, 6 Jun 01 18:13:04 EDT
Contents:
LG and Goldstar CDRs & Audio - Here's how... (Dan Gray)
Splitting a ext2 partition. ("Joel")
Re: AOL (Matthew Lybanon)
Re: fetchmail config problem (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: I need a really small distro for an old puter ("Missy")
Proftpd on RH7.1 (rennix)
Re: internet explorer & outlook express (Chris Bragg)
Re: AC'97 sound chips on board - no sound in RedHat 7.0 ("Ernest Hammerschmidt")
The bare minumum. ("Joel")
Re: Splitting a ext2 partition. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor for linux ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: /dev on vfat partition ("Peter T. Breuer")
HELP! How to send MSWord mail attachments? (kj0)
Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor for linux (M. Buchenrieder)
XFree86 resolution (Chad Lemmen)
Re: The bare minumum. (Steve Lamb)
Re: X-server access problem in RH 7.1 (Andrew)
Re: Splitting a ext2 partition. ("Joel")
Re: The bare minumum. ("Joel")
Re: fetchmail config problem (Floyd Davidson)
Re: HELP! How to send MSWord mail attachments? (Jan Schaumann)
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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:10:44 +0000
From: Dan Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LG and Goldstar CDRs & Audio - Here's how...
I was trying to get this to work yesterday and noticed that there had
been a large number of posts to this forum on this subject, as a result of
a few hours research and managing to extract the universal language of
code from a German web page, here's how.....
To everyone who has been asking on this forum, it is possible to write
audio CDs from wav files on the LG and Goldstar CED-8081B drives using
cdrdao...
1. You must be using .cdr or .wav files, for those writing from MP3
(ahem) this script will work for you...
============================
#!/bin/sh
for i in "$@"
do
mpg123 --cdr - "$i" > "$i".cdr
done
============================
2. Get hold of the wav2dao perl script from
http://www.daszler.de/linux/wav2dao.
2.1 Make it executable
3. Get cdrdao from
http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
3.1 Compile cdrdao
4. ./wav2dao.pl -n -o mycd.toc *.cdr
5. cdrdao write --device 0,1,0 --driver generic-mmc --speed 8 --buffers
256 mycd.toc
Obviously the devices need to be changed to reflect your system.
Hope that this helps everyone ;)
Regards
Dan
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SCAR - The Linux Shell script archive:
http://www.dangray.org/cgi-bin/scar
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From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Splitting a ext2 partition.
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:13:37 -0500
How can I split a linux partition into 2 partitions. It's kinda hard to
explain why I need to do this. I know there is a dos utility that can cut
some of a FAT partition off, but what about linux? Thanks in advance.
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From: Matthew Lybanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AOL
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:23:14 -0500
AOL will run under MacOS (not sure about OSX), so whatever they do it
doesn't require Windows. AOL's site doesn't make it clear whether the
Mac version will run under OSX. If it will, there is a possibility it
might work under Linux.
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail config problem
Date: 6 Jun 2001 20:25:26 GMT
Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way to configure fetchmail to get messages from a qmail server
> containing a specific string in the subject line? What I am doing is sending
> out a message to thousands of users, and fetching all the bouncebacks to my
> local machine. This works fine, but I want to leave valid responses on the
> server.
Nope. That's not fetchmail's job. It just talks to a POP or IMAP
server, neither of which cares what the content of the messages is. You'd
be better off preprocessing it on the server, perhaps with procmail.
Alternately, perhaps you could send out the messages such that bounces go
into a different mailbox than (presumably human-generated) responses.
JDW
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From: "Missy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: I need a really small distro for an old puter
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 20:26:43 GMT
I have no idea, maybe? I think someone said they had linux on a
microchannel....I was wrong about mine being a 56 or 57, it's a 77.
"Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <QMgS6.13626$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Missy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have a PS/2 56 or 57 made in 1992 with OS/2 currently on it. I know
> > nothing about OS/2, nor really want it. I got this puter to put Linux on
> > and tinker with it without destroying my parents puter. lol Does anyone
> > have suggestions of what distro to put on it? It has a 216MB hard drive
> > and 8MB of RAM, a floppy drive, and a 'cd-rom reader with a caddy' that
> > I've yet to install. Thanks!
> >
> > Missy
> >
> >
> SHeeks, I remeber them.... Does Linux support Microchannel????
>
> --
> Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
> Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
> 10:40pm up 3 days, 10:54, 2 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00
> ...Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan
food.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rennix)
Subject: Proftpd on RH7.1
Date: 6 Jun 2001 13:29:37 -0700
Hmmm, after my 7.0 box crashed I've decided to install 7.1. Worked
fine.
I was curious about the kernel packet filtering and enabled the
firewall
while installing - leaving only http, ftp, ssh and smtp open.
Seemed ok. But after installing my proftpd (I don't like wu-ftpd for
some good reason) I was unable to ftp my box. Neither out or in....
So I disabled EVERYTHING (ipchains, iptables even the infamous
"disable fireall" option in linuxconf)
But still no connect....
The proftp demon works fine. I can ssh in and out and the Apache runs
just perfect.
So what am I doing wrong?
Is there a way to disable the kernel packet filter? Or do I have to
reinstall
everything?
Thanx
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From: Chris Bragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: internet explorer & outlook express
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:35:41 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 6 Jun 2001 03:40:18 -0700, thefoxyone wrote:
> dont suppose these will work on redhat or other flavours, directx would be
> nice too :)
Ummmm, no.
--
Chris Bragg
OS: SuSE Linux 7.1
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From: "Ernest Hammerschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,tw.bbs.comp.linux,hk.comp.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: AC'97 sound chips on board - no sound in RedHat 7.0
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 23:11:13 +0200
In article <9flnok$v1j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Wilson Ng"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My on-board sound chip VIA AC97 audio controller (WDM) works fine with
> WinME. I tried to run sndconfig to enable the sound in my Linux
> installation in RedHat 7.0. The program detected that the sound device
> is VIA82cxxx. After I confirm the autoprobe was done and my system
> hangs. I rebooted Linux and the startup freeze when starting the sound
> module.
Had about the same problem with the chip on my Epox board. One day I
found a Redhat subdir somewhere on the driver CD. Never tried the drivers
though, since I already had another soundcard installed :-)
Ernest
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From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The bare minumum.
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:57:17 -0500
Hi. What is the bare minumum of software needed for linux to boot to bash.
I am going to install linux on a computer with very little hardisk space
(about 100 MB). Is it possible? I don't think Redhat installer will
install the bare minimum, so I need to do it myself. I know this will be a
little complicating (since I'm not a linux expert), so is there any website
you know of that will give some light on what I'm trying to do? Thanks in
advance.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Splitting a ext2 partition.
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:55:29 +0200
Joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I split a linux partition into 2 partitions. It's kinda hard to
> explain why I need to do this. I know there is a dos utility that can cut
> some of a FAT partition off, but what about linux? Thanks in advance.
You can't split it. You can shrink it using gnu parted. But I don't
know why you don't simply back it up, carve it up, and restore.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor for linux
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:53:59 +0200
Byron Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Gerald Willmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On 5 Jun 2001, Saqib Ali wrote:
>>
>> > Is there a good WYSIWYG HTML editor for linux????
>>
>> what makes you think there even could be a wys... editor for html?
>> Depending on what browser and os you use html looks different each time.
>> Why not use xemacs and then click on save and on reload in netscape
>> once in a while - works fine for me.
> That was a retarded answer. Simply state where the person can search for
> software or recommend a WYSIWYG program the person can use.
You know perfectly well what he's saying. The retard would be you if
you didn't get it, but you do. He recommended his editor of choice,
now I'd also suggest vim and netscape, operating in tandem. I see
precisely what I get (in netscape) that way.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev on vfat partition
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:50:02 +0200
Agent Smiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Agent Smiths) wrote:
>>"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>As to umsdos not using the vfat long file names .. that certainly used
>>>to be the case, and used to be mended by applying the dmsdos patch. I
>>>don't know what the situation is nowadays. I imagine that it might
>>>use native vfat long filenames, if asked to.
>>
>>I will look at umsdos/dmsdos then. Thanks.
> I tried umsdos. First it uses plain msdos. Second it cannot
What do you mean "plain msdos"? dmsdos is an extension that allows use
of msdos stackered or compressed filesystems, yes. So what? It runs
over the vfat layer. If you run umsdos over dmsdos, you'll find that
long filenames are converted to vfat names, instead of fat nanes,
which is what you want. Here are the kernel config options:
CONFIG_MSDOS=m
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_DMSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_UMSDOS_UPON_DMSDOS=y
> find init while vfat can.
Filesystems do not "find" anything. Kindly express yourself in a manner
that doesn't require advanced telepathic guesswork to fathom what you
mean! When you run umsdos as root, the kernel looks for /sbin/init
in the /linux subdirectory of the root. Be careful with capitalization.
It doesn't matter what layer underlies umsdos. If you bollixed the
umsdos directory files (probably by creating them with fat names and then
trying to read them with vfat names, or v.v), fix 'em yourself, but don't
start accusing the rest of the world of causing your mistakes!
Peter
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From: kj0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP! How to send MSWord mail attachments?
Date: 6 Jun 2001 17:05:45 -0400
I work exclusively on Unix/Linux, but I need to send some important
documents in Microsoft Word format as e-mail attachments, to
recipients who work exclusively on MS Windows. This is something I
will have to do a lot of in the coming month, so I am trying to find a
solution that I can implement from within Linux.
I rarely need to send attachments with my e-mail, and when I do I just
use the attachment feature in my mail reader (Pine). I just learned,
however, that MS Windows mail readers (or at least some of them)
receive the attachment as "gibberish" appended at the end of the
e-mail's text, instead of appearing as a clickable link to bring it
up in MS Word.
Is there a way within Linux to attach these word documents to my
e-mail so that the Windows-bound recipient has no difficulty reading
them?
Many thanks!!!
KJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor for linux
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:17:49 GMT
"Byron Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>"Gerald Willmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On 5 Jun 2001, Saqib Ali wrote:
>>
>> > Is there a good WYSIWYG HTML editor for linux????
>>
>> what makes you think there even could be a wys... editor for html?
[...]
>That was a retarded answer.
No. He stated the simple truth.
>Simply state where the person can search for
>software or recommend a WYSIWYG program the person can use.
There is no WYSIWYG program for HTML, regardless of the OS used.
HTML was never designed for anything even remotely close to that,
and since there is almost no standard that today's browsers are
following above HTML3, whatever you write in HTML may or may
not look the way it was intended to be.
>Plenty of them out there,
No.
>and if you already have netscape it comes with
>a half decent editor itself.
Yes, there are plenty of editors. XEmacs could do all of that.
So would amaya. But no editor on earth can create WYSIWYG HTML
code, as that's a paradoxon.
Michael
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: Chad Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XFree86 resolution
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 21:10:12 -0000
Using XFree86 4.0.2 and Caldera eDesktop 2.4. I ran XFree86 -configure to
generate a XF86Config file, but there is no video resolutions listed in the
file that was generated. The X server works, but how does it know what
resolution to use "800x600" "1024x768" etc... ?
I can't seem to cut and paste right now so I cant past the "Screen" section
of XF86Config so here is just one display setting
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
This is all it has for each depth setting. There is no Modes, which I thought
it was set the resolution. So how is the resolution being set?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Subject: Re: The bare minumum.
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 21:14:02 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:57:17 -0500, Joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi. What is the bare minumum of software needed for linux to boot to bash.
>I am going to install linux on a computer with very little hardisk space
>(about 100 MB). Is it possible? I don't think Redhat installer will
>install the bare minimum, so I need to do it myself. I know this will be a
>little complicating (since I'm not a linux expert), so is there any website
>you know of that will give some light on what I'm trying to do? Thanks in
>advance.
Try installing the base Debian installation. Clocks in at about 24Mb
IIRC.
--
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: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-server access problem in RH 7.1
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 21:30:04 -0000
Problem solved!
As Markku wrote, there was a default firewall set-up. I used the
command "lokkit", set the configuration to "no firewall" (this machine is
already behind a firewall - so only the local LAN can access it anyways).
I then found that I had to logout of the machine, log back in, and restart
x. Thanks a lot to all who wrote telling me of the many steps to a
solution.
Andrew
Markku Kolkka wrote:
>
> Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > No, both machines are on the LAN behind the firewall. Is it possible
RedHat is setting up its own firewall and not allowing telnet access from
a remote computer?
>
> Yes, there's a firewall setup step in the RH7.1 installation, and if I
> remember correctly the default setting is "maximum security" which
> doesn't allow any incoming connections. Use lokkit or gnome-lokkit to
> change the firewall configuration.
>
> --
> Markku Kolkka
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Splitting a ext2 partition.
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 16:46:14 -0500
Thanks for your idea, but how exactly can I do that? using tar? Then,
after I reorganize the partitions, how can I untar the files again? I do
have a windows partition on that computer, soI can put the .tar file there
while I repartition the filesystem. How would you do this?
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How can I split a linux partition into 2 partitions. It's kinda hard to
> > explain why I need to do this. I know there is a dos utility that can
cut
> > some of a FAT partition off, but what about linux? Thanks in advance.
>
> You can't split it. You can shrink it using gnu parted. But I don't
> know why you don't simply back it up, carve it up, and restore.
>
> Peter
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From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The bare minumum.
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 16:47:15 -0500
That's a good idea. I'll do that.
I had preivously done that, but at the time I had never even seen linux, so
I did't know what I was doing. Thanks.
"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:57:17 -0500, Joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi. What is the bare minumum of software needed for linux to boot to
bash.
> >I am going to install linux on a computer with very little hardisk space
> >(about 100 MB). Is it possible? I don't think Redhat installer will
> >install the bare minimum, so I need to do it myself. I know this will be
a
> >little complicating (since I'm not a linux expert), so is there any
website
> >you know of that will give some light on what I'm trying to do? Thanks
in
> >advance.
>
> Try installing the base Debian installation. Clocks in at about 24Mb
> IIRC.
>
> --
> 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: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail config problem
Date: 06 Jun 2001 13:12:36 -0800
Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is there a way to configure fetchmail to get messages from a qmail server
>> containing a specific string in the subject line? What I am doing is sending
>> out a message to thousands of users, and fetching all the bouncebacks to my
>> local machine. This works fine, but I want to leave valid responses on the
>> server.
>
> Nope. That's not fetchmail's job. It just talks to a POP or IMAP
>server, neither of which cares what the content of the messages is. You'd
>be better off preprocessing it on the server, perhaps with procmail.
>Alternately, perhaps you could send out the messages such that bounces go
>into a different mailbox than (presumably human-generated) responses.
>
>JDW
Hopefully he would first learn that spamming the net is not
appropriate.
And you probably don't really want to assist spammers!
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Schaumann)
Subject: Re: HELP! How to send MSWord mail attachments?
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 22:09:20 -0000
* kj0 wrote:
>
>
>
> I work exclusively on Unix/Linux, but I need to send some important
> documents in Microsoft Word format as e-mail attachments, to
> recipients who work exclusively on MS Windows. This is something I
> will have to do a lot of in the coming month, so I am trying to find a
> solution that I can implement from within Linux.
People who work exclusively in Windows are well able to read pdf's, ps's
or plain text - no need for a proprietary format that is useless as soon
as your co-workers version of Word differ from each other.
> I rarely need to send attachments with my e-mail, and when I do I just
> use the attachment feature in my mail reader (Pine). I just learned,
> however, that MS Windows mail readers (or at least some of them)
> receive the attachment as "gibberish" appended at the end of the
> e-mail's text, instead of appearing as a clickable link to bring it
> up in MS Word.
This is either an problem on your end (ie pine does not attach files
properly) or on their end (whatever they're using to read the mail does
not display attachments properly). To check the first case, just CC
yourself and see if you get the message with an attachment.
If the problem is on the other end, well, tough luck for the
windows-users.
> Is there a way within Linux to attach these word documents to my
> e-mail so that the Windows-bound recipient has no difficulty reading
> them?
any RFC compliant mail-client will happily let you do that, and I assume
pine does it fine as well.
-Jan
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http://www.netmeister.org
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