Linux-Setup Digest #996, Volume #18 Mon, 26 Jun 00 00:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: rpm files on cdrom: (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: rpm files on cdrom: (Hal Burgiss)
Re: rpm files on cdrom: (Colin Watson)
Is it possible to have a fax and modem on the same line? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help - I Can't Run Emacs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LILO - solved the dreaded "LI" problem! (Kheng-Teong Goh)
Re: A GOOD 56K modem? (Chronocidal Charlie)
does linux work with windows 98 ("greg smart")
Re: Redhat 6.1 PPP won't go... (Mary P)
Talkd Logging (Toni)
Re: Problems with LPRing and Bitchx (Craig Kelley)
Re: Foxpro 2.6 for Unix/Linux & terminfo files (Dennis)
Re: Soundcard error message HELP! (Craig Kelley)
Re: Hostname (Craig Kelley)
Re: Gnome/Sawfish window problem ("Kevin Vandersloot")
Re: Is it possible to have a fax and modem on the same line? (Craig Kelley)
Re: Help - I Can't Run Emacs (Craig Kelley)
Re: linux installation problem (newsreader99)
Re: Remote X login to linux server ??? (Leon Garde)
Re: changing the /root directory location (Leon Garde)
Re: Foxpro 2.6 for Unix/Linux & terminfo files (Dennis)
Re: setting up UMAX scanner with linux (Alex)
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Subject: Re: rpm files on cdrom:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:55:27 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> My cdrom list files or packages as "name-version.src.rpm".
> All the instructions I have on rpm package installation show the name
> as "name-version.i386.rpm".
> How do I go about installing packages from the cdrom with the above
> titles?
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
> Thanks again Bob.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Those are source rpms which has source code to be compiled to a binary
rpm. You can do something like 'rpm --rebuild name-version.src.rpm' to
compile it. But is that what you really want to do? You should look
for the matching binary version unless know this is what you want to do.
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Prasanth Kumar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: rpm files on cdrom:
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 02:02:45 GMT
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:44:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My cdrom list files or packages as "name-version.src.rpm".
>All the instructions I have on rpm package installation show the name
>as "name-version.i386.rpm".
>How do I go about installing packages from the cdrom with the above
>titles?
These are the raw source. You should have the finished binary versions
as well -- probably on a separate CD. If this is RH, the src.rpms are on
the 2nd CD.
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Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: rpm files on cdrom:
Date: 26 Jun 2000 02:13:24 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>My cdrom list files or packages as "name-version.src.rpm".
>All the instructions I have on rpm package installation show the name
>as "name-version.i386.rpm".
>How do I go about installing packages from the cdrom with the above
>titles?
You've got a CD-ROM containing only source code. Unless you're prepared
to build all your packages from source (with the chicken-and-egg problem
of how you install packages required to do the building), I'd suggest
you get hold of a pre-compiled binary CD of your distribution.
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Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Fly me to the moon, and let me play among the stars;
Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars" - Bart Howard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Is it possible to have a fax and modem on the same line?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 02:19:01 GMT
I'm trying to setup a linux box so I can dial into it remotely -
obviously, that means setting the modem to auto answer incoming phone
calls. Problem is, there is also a fax machine connected to that phone
line (in another part of the building), which is also set to answer the
phone when it rings.
The fax answers after 2 rings. I could set the modem to answer after,
for instance, 5 rings. But it seems to me that that does me no good.
Once the fax has picked up after 2 rings (whether it's an incoming fax
or not), the modem will never get a chance to handle the call.
Is there any (inexpensive or free) way that these devices can co-exist
on the same line?
Thanks to anyone who can help!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help - I Can't Run Emacs
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 02:17:32 GMT
Hello,
I recently installed Mandrake Linux, Linux for Windows (lnx4win), on
my laptop. I already had Windows 98 on my computer. The problem is
that several programs are not working correctly, the most important ones
being the editors, Emacs, Pico, and ed. I just get the message:
bash: emacs: command not found
I had an old computer with Mandrake Linux on it also (in which emacs
worked), and I have compared the old emacs and bash files, and changed
the PATH, but I cannot find out what is wrong. Please contact me if you
can in anyway help me solve this prolem.
Thanks, otiss05
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From: Kheng-Teong Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO - solved the dreaded "LI" problem!
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:14:19 +0800
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Yes, I seems to get that LI with Slackware 7 if I installed in the first
linux partition. Wonder is this a bug with Slackware 7.
Sam Hays wrote:
> pimpolicious.
>
> "Charlie Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I've just wiped my laptop and installed Slackware 7 (2.2.13) - I was
> > running Slack 3.5 (2.0.34) but a power failure had corrupted the disk
> > in subtle ways that fsck couldn't completely fix, and I figured it was
> > time for an upgrade anyway.
> >
> > After installation, I got the dreaded "LI" message on re-boot,
> > although if I booted from the installation CD I could get to
> > the hard drive with no problems. I corrected it by changing
> > the line in /etc/lilo.conf that read
> >
> > boot = /dev/hda1
> >
> > to
> >
> > boot = /dev/hda
> >
> > I only have Linux and swap partitions, and I'm using the MBR.
> >
> > Since "LI" is probably the most frequently asked question,
> > I figured I might as well make it the most frequently answered. :-)
> >
> > P.S. As others have pointed out, don't forget to run lilo after
> > changing lilo.conf!
> >
> > --
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Gibbs)
> > Remove the first period after the "at" sign to reply.
> >
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From: Chronocidal Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A GOOD 56K modem?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 02:34:49 GMT
Wish I could give you some direction with the Cyrix, but never had any
experience with one. SUSE either. I've run just about every flavor with
the exception of. Up until about a month ago, I'd been doing all my
playing on an Intel MMX 233 and never had any difficulty at all. I just
recently built this one which is an AMD K6 2/550 with ALI chipset and
Award Bios. I had a hell of a time getting the bios set up where it
would boot and run right on the AMD with RH 6.1. Touchy as hell. You
may wind up having to compile a kernel on another machine and
configuring it for the Cyrix.
Wish you luck. I imagine someone around one of these groups has an
answer they can give you.
Charlie
In article <8j3vqs$sif$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Larry Silkaitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just got a Jaton communicator and it works great in WIN 98. I have
not
> yet gotten SUSE to load correctly with a Cyrix PR133.
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From: "greg smart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: does linux work with windows 98
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:56:10 +1000
i would like to no how i can make windows 98 work with linux, linux is the
server and and windows 98 are the workstations.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mary P)
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 PPP won't go...
Date: 26 Jun 2000 02:41:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 00:54:07 -0700, Rob Basler
wrote:
>If I type ifup ppp0 it dials and connects,
but I get the following error
(snipped)
>Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean
>Problem all had bit 7 set to 0
>Hangup (SIGHUP)
>Exit.
I had the same error for a while and it
meant my ISP wanted me to log on before
negotiating ppp. I had to modify my chat
script. There is a way to check all this
out --
look at:
http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
Hope this helps,
MP
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From: Toni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Talkd Logging
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 04:54:54 +0200
Hy, I'm a Linux newbie, but before asking I searched all available
sources concerning this after asking in this forum...
I'd like to log the sessions on my Linux machine, because sometimes I
like to re-read them...how can I do this ?
Is there any talk-daemon that supports logging, or do I have
to change the code manually ? (This would be very bad, because I can't
program C yet)
Any help welcome,
Greetz,
Toni.
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Subject: Re: Problems with LPRing and Bitchx
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Jun 2000 21:19:36 -0600
"AJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've installed Debian Linux and I am having the following trouble...
>
> I installed lpr but goodness knows if I can find out how to print a simple
> text file on my HP LaserJet III?
>
> OK next I am trying to give a user access to use bitchx. it says it can't
> log into any servers. Do I give the user permission to ppp?
>
> Yes just point me in the direction of the right FAQs would be good. :)
The FAQs and HOW-TOs are all at linux.com; but I must mention that
there are many distributions which are easier on the newbie than
Debian is (although Debian is much better in other areas). In
particular, Mandrake 7.x, RedHat 6.2 and Suse 6.3 or better are very
easy to get printing right.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis)
Subject: Re: Foxpro 2.6 for Unix/Linux & terminfo files
Date: 26 Jun 2000 03:21:49 GMT
Sorry, I'm confused again.
Should I look for a rpm file on CD-ROM #2 of my RedHat-Mandrake 3 disk set? A
rpm file marked gpm or ncurses? Do I want both?
If I can't find either one, what do you suggest. Something off your FAQ sheet?
If so, which file would be appropriate for my system?
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Subject: Re: Soundcard error message HELP!
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Jun 2000 21:22:21 -0600
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am using the sound configuration utility [v.0.33] in Mandrake
> I select the right card and settings, and when it goes to play the test
> sound it gives the message:
> An error occurred opening /dev/audio
> What does that mean? I am new to Linux-
> I tried opening the /dev/audio file and it won't open manually.
> What gives??
This could mean any of these:
o You don't have permission to open the device node (not root, bad
permissions)
o The kernel doesn't have support either compiled in or loaded as a
module for your card (did you recompile your kernel and forget to
compile the proper sound modules?)
o Your card is not supported at all by the driver Mandrake wants to
use (you can try and load it manually to see if you can do it)
o Some other program is using /dev/audio and has a lock on it
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Subject: Re: Hostname
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Jun 2000 21:24:19 -0600
"David M. Carney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for reading!
>
> I've gotten a bit bored with "localhost.localdomain" the Red Hat 6.1 stuck
> me with, so I tried to change it via the hostname command, ie, I typed
> "hostname RH6.1".
>
> Then I rebooted, but later when the screensaver (under Gnome 2.1) tried to
> run, I got an error about permisisons on screen 0, or something like that.
>
> I tried ignoring it and booting my dialer, but NOTHING would work except
> the logout button. So I hit Alt-CTRL-F2 and logged in as root, and changed
> the hostname back, rebooted, and for now, all seems ok.
>
> What did I do wrong? How can I change the hostname without messing things
> up? Is this really what caused my problem?
There are several hostnames, for some reason -- you can avoid any
problems by making sure that /etc/hosts has:
127.0.0.1 cool_hostname.domain cool_hostname localhost localhost.localdomain
That way, eveything will still resolve properly.
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From: "Kevin Vandersloot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnome/Sawfish window problem
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:27:00 GMT
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. D. Brierton) wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 07:37:53 -0700, cowbird
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> Using Helixcode Gnome with Sawfish, I am
>> running ito a problem with popup windows: Any
>> child windows that appear try to resize to the
>> same dimensions as their parent window. Thus,
>> little dialog boxes come up very large. I cant
>> seem to find a control panel setting for this.
>> Has anyone else come across this problem and
>> its solution?
>
> Yes! I thought it may be something stupid I'd
> done when fiddling aroun with Sawfish's options,
> but I'm now inclined to think it is a bug. This
> only started happening when I upgraded using
> Helix Update to Sawfish
> 0.28. I downloaded the latest version from Helix
> last night (0.28.1) in the hope that the problem
> was fixed, but it isn't.
>
> I don't want to send in a bug report until I am
> positive that it is a bug and not something
> silly that I've done. If anyone else is having
> this problem, perhaps they could also post a
> follow-up to this thread, or, alternatively if
> anyone has a solution please let us know.
> Frankly it is surprising how infuriating such a
> small problem can be.
>
The problem is with a new Sawfish feature that
saves histories ( things like the size of windows
) and then screwing up with dialog windows (likely
placing the dialogs in the same catagory as the
parent window and sizing them accordingly). So you
need to turn off window history, unfortunately I
can't remember where that setting is as I don't
have access to my computer with the latest Sawfish
now. I think there should be a setting somewhere
in the configuration program.
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Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: Is it possible to have a fax and modem on the same line?
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Jun 2000 21:26:27 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'm trying to setup a linux box so I can dial into it remotely -
> obviously, that means setting the modem to auto answer incoming phone
> calls. Problem is, there is also a fax machine connected to that phone
> line (in another part of the building), which is also set to answer the
> phone when it rings.
>
> The fax answers after 2 rings. I could set the modem to answer after,
> for instance, 5 rings. But it seems to me that that does me no good.
> Once the fax has picked up after 2 rings (whether it's an incoming fax
> or not), the modem will never get a chance to handle the call.
>
> Is there any (inexpensive or free) way that these devices can co-exist
> on the same line?
Is it a fax *modem*?
If so, you can use mgetty to do both data and fax.
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Subject: Re: Help - I Can't Run Emacs
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Jun 2000 21:26:56 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hello,
> I recently installed Mandrake Linux, Linux for Windows (lnx4win), on
> my laptop. I already had Windows 98 on my computer. The problem is
> that several programs are not working correctly, the most important ones
> being the editors, Emacs, Pico, and ed. I just get the message:
> bash: emacs: command not found
> I had an old computer with Mandrake Linux on it also (in which emacs
> worked), and I have compared the old emacs and bash files, and changed
> the PATH, but I cannot find out what is wrong. Please contact me if you
> can in anyway help me solve this prolem.
> Thanks, otiss05
What does `rpm -qa | grep emacs` tell you?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (newsreader99)
Subject: Re: linux installation problem
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:07:06
Perhaps you should try LISA instead of LIZARD which comes with Caldera.
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:>From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: linux installation problem
>Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:17:05 GMT
>I'm a Linux Newbie and using Caldera Openlinux. I can only get so far
>when I boot from CD Rom....I detect hardware then I get a Panic Line
>:Oops No valid root could be found...Lizard aborted Press <return> to
>continue or "sh" for shell..............following either command
>allows me to proceed no further................what the heck is going
>on here?????? I started with partitioned drive, then not partitioned,
>formated then not formatted,,,,,,,,,,primary part extended part (all
>with fdisk) all to no avail..........help!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Roy B.
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remote X login to linux server ???
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 Jun 2000 13:41:51 EST
In aus.computers.linux Jeremy Low <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone has any idea how I may do a remote X login to a linux server from a
> windoz box
you put the windoze boxes into the server list in
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers (for xdm and kdm )
or
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf (for gdm )
assuming the windoze box has an X server running that will
accept gdm or xdm taking over .
the question of which X server package to install on the
windoze box isn't really a linux related question.
Xappeal has a demo version .
there are reviews of the commercially available packages on the web.
> I wish to see the same X login display like I am in front of a
> linux terminal presenting to me an X login.
now the VNC is free ; but it works a lot differently to a
"windoze xterminal server".
with the vnc the user is allocated an address on the server.
and a password to log in with;
also the vnc process for that user must be kept alive
(between crashes, and reboots ).
then the user must remember there address and password
and log in.
This is a drawback as its a bit tedious and obfuscated.
(feel free to create a front end that
calls the client with the correct address .. )
The advantage is that the "X server" lives on the linux server;
the image of the screen is stored in the server; the address of the
x terminal is the server's address with a different window number.
The windoze client is just a window that "looks at" and replicated this
virtual server !
and what this means is that you can open and close the windoze client window
at any time on any pc and look at and use your server as it was
last time you saw it; in fact it is as if you never "detached";
No other X server that displays on windoze can do this.
The vnc works ok over the modem because it tries to compress the
image data. This does require the cpu at both ends to be reasonable;
400mhz or better is good.
However this is a disadvantage on the LAN as it introduces lag needlessly.
(I wonder if the linux source code can be modified to reduce
its compressing efforts; and thus reduce LAN latency )
There are linux and windoze clients and servers;
and all servers can be shared between multiple clients;
the windoze server only provides a replication of the real windoze
display; and so only one server can run.
leon
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: changing the /root directory location
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 Jun 2000 13:47:12 EST
In aus.computers.linux J Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:58:00 +0800, Jeremy Low <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>anyone has any idea how I may change the location of my /root directory to a
>>different location ( from one partition to another yet maintaining the name
>>as /root )
Dont do this !!
the /root should exist in single user mode;
and in single user mode, the other partitions will not be mounted;
and so , you should not move /root off the / partition.
> Yep, change the location in /etc/passwd
> eg
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> to
> root:x:0:0:root:/somewhere/root:/bin/bash
but that doesn't maintain the name as /root
Actually it is as simple as follows.
Assuming new partition at /mnt/hdc1..
cd /mnt/hdc1
find /root | cpio -pvdum .
rm -rf /root
ln -s /mnt/hdc1/root /root
the symbolic link will work fine.
but don't do this at all.
leon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis)
Subject: Re: Foxpro 2.6 for Unix/Linux & terminfo files
Date: 26 Jun 2000 03:50:28 GMT
Hi again. On my RedHat-Mandrake 7.0 CD-ROM #2, I found both gpm and ncurses.
Use KDE's kpackage to install them. In my usr/src/RPM/SOURCES I have several
bz2 files, including gpm-1.18.0.tar.bz2 and ncurses-5.0.tar.bz2
What's the procedure? What do I want to uncompress on my 350 pentium and how?
What will be created? What directory will I want to execute configure?
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting up UMAX scanner with linux
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:59:46 -0400
kevin lee wrote:
>
> how can i set up UMAX scanner with liunx?
You need to put a lot more info then just say it is a UMAX scanner.
Hopefully you can use sane. Check the following web sites.
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-umax.html
Hope this helps.
Alex.
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