Linux-Setup Digest #474, Volume #19 Fri, 25 Aug 00 15:13:11 EDT
Contents:
MandrakeInstall not working after grpmi upgrade ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
startx fails: console ownership ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to access a Fat32 partition from Linux? (Chiefy)
Re: CDROM Error: /mnt/cdrom is not a valid block device ("Filip Van Acker")
Re: Associate File Types? (Steve Juranich)
Re: startx fails: console ownership (Jim Townsend)
Re: minimal install (Bob Schwab)
Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FYI: Applix vs. StarOffice vs. WP8 vs. Corel Office for Linux.... (D G)
Re: TkRat Leaving Mail System Internal Message (Eduardo Chappa)
Re: i810 RPM file from Intel (D G)
broadcast 2000
Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows (The Ghost In The Machine)
Please Help !! ("Daniel Pfuhl")
Re: i810 audio (D G)
Kingston KNE2021LC and Red Hat 6.1 (Bill Alexander)
Startup Causes Dual Mounting of CDROM's (brian)
Re: How to access a Fat32 partition from Linux? (hover)
In Shell Prog, How to put current date into a varialbe? (hover)
Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows (Mark Preston)
cannot get into Gnome (Anson Ng)
tape drive help ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
modules.conf and fstab ignored in RedHat 6.2 (D G)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misk
Subject: MandrakeInstall not working after grpmi upgrade
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:57:16 GMT
did anyone upgrade grpmi with MandrakeUpdate? Did MandrakeUpdate still
work after that? Mine doesn't. How can I fix it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misk
Subject: startx fails: console ownership
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:59:18 GMT
i run mandrake 7.0 and cannot startx as nonroot user: "Perhaps you do
not have console ownership?" so how do i set it up that i can do that?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: How to access a Fat32 partition from Linux?
Date: 25 Aug 2000 17:15:04 GMT
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:11:45 GMT, hover did say to the dudes:
[snip]
>I was always told that 'wrong fs type, ... (I can not remember all
>items) or wrong superblock, or too many file systems mounted.'
>
> I checked with 'mount', there are altogether 6 file system already
>mounted.
>
> Can anyone tell me what to do? By the way, is this the right
>way to access a fat32 partition and read/write file from it?
Obvious one, but...
Have you created an empty directory to mount your partition?
I prefer to place the partition information in /etc/fstab.
At boot, the partitions are mounted and ready to roll before I'm logged
in.
--
LGB.
"Christ's sakes, LGB. If we shot the loons, you'd be dead right now."
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From: "Filip Van Acker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: jaring.os.linux
Subject: Re: CDROM Error: /mnt/cdrom is not a valid block device
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:00:27 +0200
Davide Bianchi wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:11:55 +0800, "Hor Jiun Shyong"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>Hash: SHA1
>>
>>hi
>>
>>i've just upgraded my cdrom drive to Aopen 52X. now my linux 2.2.5
>>has problem reading cdroms.
>>it will display this message.
>>CDROM Error: /mnt/cdrom is not a valid block device
>>under win 95 with same system, everything is ok.
>>previously under an older cdrom drive, everything is ok.
>>pls help. thanks
>
>Try to use the /dev/scd? or /dev/hd? device instead. Usually the
>/dev/cdrom is only a simlink to the "real" device.
>Davide
>
>
I have te same problim. My CD is the 1 IDE contoller and wen i use /dev/hdb,
i have no problim.
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From: Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Associate File Types?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:04:17 -0700
I'm certainly not an expert on this, but try editing your .mailcap file
directly. I've sometimes had better luck doing it that way.
After you edit .mailcap, you'll need to "pretend" like your going to add a
new MIME-type to netscape. When you open the
Edit|Preferences|Navigator|Applications dialog, a box will pop up saying
that the mailcap entry has been changed on disk. Just click on OK, and
close the dialog box. Netscape should then understand what it needs to do.
PS: The reason you have to go through that rigamarole is to force netscape
to re-read the .mailcap file.
======================================================================
Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/ssli
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Steve Brennan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem that I can't seem to figure out. I have loaded the latest
> Citrix ICA client on my Linux box and it works great. I want to be able to
> pass it an .ICA file through a web script and have it start and execute the
> ICA file. I can do this on my M$ boxen but cant seem to get the association
> correct in Liunx. Is this handled in Netscape? I've tried setting a MIME
> (?) type like "application/x-ica" in Netscape but it still doesnt work.
> When I pass the ICA file it brings up the typical open/save dialog box.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Best,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Jim Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misk
Subject: Re: startx fails: console ownership
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:38:58 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> i run mandrake 7.0 and cannot startx as nonroot user: "Perhaps you do
> not have console ownership?" so how do i set it up that i can do that?
Check the ownership of your /home/user directory config files,
particularly .Xauthority and .Xdefaults.
What you've probably done is SU'd to root in a console, then started X.
This causes the above mentioned files to be owned by root. Trying to
boot as user after that becomes difficult.
Jim.
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From: Bob Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: minimal install
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:42:17 -0700
You might want to checkout Jailbait:
http://jailbait.sourceforge.net/
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:47:55 +0200, Rolf Lindenbring
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>i want to install a very small linux.
>(Flashdisk 20MB or less)
>who can i make it?
>is it possible to get a small x-server on it ?
>what distribution should i use ?
>any ideas
>
>Thanks,
>Rolf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.text.xml,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 19:15:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Consider
> that the data in the fields are not just encoded but also ecrypted as my
> example was offered to illustrate.
I still have cryptographie on the roadmap of my XML::Edifact module.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
Alf O. Watt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> proposed a simple solution using
namespaces and processing instructions to the perlxml mailing list in
December 1998. The beauty of this aproach is that the secure document
is still well-formed and valid, and of the same document type. It could
even be translated back to UN/EDIFACT to obtain a message with encrypted
segments.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
I think that cryptographie on document level is extremly important,
as the documents may contain confidental data.
> Did you notice the address of the URL in the DOCTYPE line?
>> : <!DOCTYPE RST "http://localhost/fubar.dtd>
what about <!DOCTYPE RST "http://www.webcam.de/fubar.dtd> this would not
only mean the same (www.webcam.de is 127.0.0.1 ;-) but offers the possibility
to change in future versions.
Bye Michael
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FYI: Applix vs. StarOffice vs. WP8 vs. Corel Office for Linux....
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:45:23 -0700
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josh Rovero wrote:
>
> >> I bought WP8 for Linux (Corel's) at a local Sam's club. I bought Sun's
> >> CD-ROM disk for $10 with StarOffice 5.1 on it (it has versions of SO for
> >> Win98 [and I have one copy installed as a Win98 ap], Linux, Solaris, and
> >> OS/2, by the way), and just this weekend, I decided to spring for Applix
> >> 5.0 (an office suite for Linux) at Best Buy (must have been on sale, the
> >> cash register rang it up for $62) to see how well it ran.
> >
> >I spent a fair amount of time comparing Applix and Star Office.
> >Applix works better IN MY CASE. Can run it remotely from
> >other X displays, handles the interchange with MxxxxSxxx
> >formats I need, can spawn as many copies of Word or
> >Spreadsheet as I need, all in separate windows. It does
> >not take over the desktop like Star Office.
>
> My observations exactly. SO is way too big and slow compared to either WP
> or Applix. And the way it thinks it needs to take over and show that damned
> desktop is really annoying.
It's understandle that it would be bigger than WP8, which is simply a
word processor. How about Corel Office? Anyone tried that. That
seemes like more of a fair comparison, since it has spreadsheet, word
processor, presentations, etc. like the other two.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eduardo Chappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: TkRat Leaving Mail System Internal Message
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:30:56 -0700
*** Cory Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote in the comp.mail.misc newsgroup
about "TkRat Leaving Mail System Internal Message" on Aug 24, 2000:
:) I've tried to use TkRat on my Linux box, but it puts this weird "Mail
:) System Internal Message" in each of my mail folders (mbox).
:)
:) Does anyone know why it's doing this or how I can get it to stop? I've
:) included a sample of the message below.
Unless you see that message like a real message in the index of messages
in your mail program there is nothing yu have to worry about. This message
is an internal message for the IMAP server. Recent versions of Pine don't
see this message, and in the unlikely case you see it there is a
configuration option that allows you to not to create the message when you
actually delete it. Nothing really bad would happen if you deleted this
message, you would not loose e-mail, but if your program knows how to use
this message then you would loose functionality, which maybe you don't
care after all.
--
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i810 RPM file from Intel
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:50:26 -0700
Rafael Zabar wrote:
>
> I have installation problems with i810 using Linux 6.5 for xwindows. The
> vga card is also built-in into the motherboard and I assumed a voodoo 3
> generic as suggested by my supplier. But on specifying the monitor
> properties, my monitor is not listed, so I went to choose the custom option.
>
> The graphical display is not correct after installation.
>
> Please tell me, how do I load this RPM after I downloaded this on the
> xwindows?
>
> Any help is much appreaciated.
There should have been step-by-step instructions at the intel site you
got the rpm from. What is Linux 6.5 for xwindows?
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: broadcast 2000
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:48:05 -0600
I got this compiled but haven't a clue about how to install it.
Anyone have this figured out?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.text.xml,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:03:50 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, mlw
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote
on Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:13:58 -0400
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>paul snow wrote:
>[snip]
>>
>> XML can be used to define a program in abstract. A single, separate
>> Software Rendering Facility can be used to take a program's abstract form in
>> XML and render it to the target computer system.
>>
>> XML can be used to capture the options required for this rendering.
>>
>> XML can be used to refer to a group of programs in abstract (XML), and their
>> options (XML), in order to define a single definition that can be expressed
>> in different ways on different computer systems to construct an operational,
>> distributed application. (Unlike today, where we have to install every web
>> server, every firewall, every Java JDK, every etc. all from scratch, with
>> one mistake preventing any of it from working!)
>>
>> This discussion about how XML might be used along with Linux to create a new
>> concept in Operating Systems is beginning. We have the technology and the
>> know how. We just have to take our computer system, set it on its side and
>> view it a bit differently. This technology is going to completely change
>> the rules of software configuration, management, and security, and you can
>> make it happen.
>
>This who XML hysteria worries me. We have people thinking that it is
>something other than a very inefficient text based file format. Example:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
><!DOCTYPE RESULTSET SYSTEM "http://fubar.com/fubar.dtd">
><RESULTSET>
> <RESULT ID="0" >
> <MATCHES>0</MATCHES>
> <TIME>0.1605</TIME>
> <RATINGS>0</RATINGS>
> <MAXSCORE>2510</MAXSCORE>
> <SCORE>6947</SCORE>
> <SIZE>6536</SIZE>
> <LANGUAGE>_LANG1_</LANGUAGE>
> <DATE>957148708</DATE>
> <FORMAT>0</FORMAT>
> <MODDATE>0</MODDATE>
> </RESULT>
></RESULTSET>
>
>That's all that XML is, nothing more. It can not replace programs, it is
>not a new concept in operating systems.
It might replace programs (programs are interpreted data in their
own right, after all -- to the right interpreter, such as an x86
micro, a JVM, or even a BASIC environment), but it sure looks
hard to manage, although not too hard to generate.
But why can't we use a schema/data approach? Something like:
first 8 bytes - magic signature number, just because
byte - endianity
byte - user-defined version ID
2 bytes - number of fields
field descriptor byte: 0=short, 1=long, 2=float, 3=double,
4=zero-terminated string
field name: zero-terminated string
field descriptor byte:
field name:
...
(The floats would be in IEEE format, which is the one 680x0 and
80x86 micros use -- and possibly a large number of other computer
systems.)
Surely somebody out there's thought of a standard for this.
Or one can use a chunky format, something a la Amiga's IFF,
where data is in chunks, understood by each program. Chunks
could even have DTD-like structures if necessary.
But nooooooo....we get to clutter up what is essentially a
data-centric stream with a lot of framing clutter. Unless
I'm missing something in the DTD spec which allows for the
specification in binary of all of this data...?
>
>--
>http://www.mohawksoft.com
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From: "Daniel Pfuhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please Help !!
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:07:58 +0200
Hi
My Apache won't work. I mean I have installed SuSE 6.4 on
my PC first without Apache. After that I downloaded the source
code for Apache 1.3.12. Everything works properly after compiling
and installing it. But when I try to access it from my browser it
returns a 403-FORBIDDEN error.
I�m almost sure to have the right entries in my httpd.conf because
on another server it works with the same values except that I have
installed Apache from yast.
Do I have to change access-rights of directories or files manually?
But I need the install from source !
It would be so fine if somebody could help me with my problem
and point me in the right direction.
thanx daniel
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i810 audio
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:06:19 -0700
Servicios de proyectos wrote:
>
> Hi:
> I install the kernel 2.2.16-3, that include a module i810_audio.o, but I
> don't find some like a HOWTO for to do that work.
>
> hints please about of documentacion for this.
I couldn't get it to work. Just get the alsa drivers from
www.alsa-project.org and you'll be happy.
--
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From: Bill Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kingston KNE2021LC and Red Hat 6.1
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:09:53 -0600
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I have a Kingston KNE2021LC in my ex-Windows-now-Linux box that has
trouble with the ne2k-pci LAN driver. The driver won't load for some
reason. Anybody have an idea? I'm on Red Hat 6.1.
Bill
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I have a Kingston KNE2021LC in my ex-Windows-now-Linux box that has trouble
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Anybody have an idea? I'm on Red Hat 6.1.
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From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Startup Causes Dual Mounting of CDROM's
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:14:52 -0500
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Problem: when an external scsi cdrom writer is attached (through a
pcmcia card), the system mounts the device to the same mount directory
of the internal cdrom player.
The rc.sysinit script causes both my built-in cdrom and my external
cdrom to mount at the same directory. I have tried adjusting fstab and
mtab with no successful difference being made. I am running the
external scsi cdrom writer from a scsi pcmcia card on Redhat 6.2,
kernel 2.2.16-3. Any suggestions for changing the order, adding or
modifying a line in the rc.sysinit script? Or, is there another way
that is not occuring to me?
For example, both the cdrom and the external cdrom writer mount to
/mnt/cdrom even though fstab clearly shows /mnt/cdromscsi as the mount
directory for the scsi.
I need to write the start up script in such a way that when the scsi
cdrom writer is not attached that the system will continue to recognize
it and mount it at a unique designated mount directory on a subsequent
startup when it is attached
Issue, if the /etc/rc.sysinit script needs modification, do I modify the
line that contains:
mount -a -t nonfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc
This mounts all the file systems.
Perhaps commenting out the clear /etc/mtab statement by changing:
#Clear mtab
>/etc/mtab
To show as below:
#Clear mtab
#>/etc/mtab
The only problem I see with this is that the system will require the
same mount setup as when I shut down the system. If I carefully make
sure this always takes place, I'll be okay. Otherwise, schizophrenia
will have a chance to usurp my filesystem.
I wish I had room on my harddrive to load another linux os and compare
the startup scripts.
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<b>Problem: when an external scsi cdrom writer is attached (through
a pcmcia card), the system mounts the device to the same mount directory
of the internal cdrom player.</b>
<p>The rc.sysinit script causes both my built-in cdrom and my external
cdrom to mount at the same directory. I have tried adjusting fstab
and mtab with no successful difference being made. I am running the
external scsi cdrom writer from a scsi pcmcia card on Redhat 6.2,
kernel 2.2.16-3. <b>Any suggestions for changing the order, adding
or modifying a line in the rc.sysinit script? Or, is there another
way that is not occuring to me?</b>
<p>For example, both the cdrom and the external cdrom writer mount to /mnt/cdrom
even though fstab clearly shows /mnt/cdromscsi as the mount directory for
the scsi.
<p>I need to write the start up script in such a way that when the scsi
cdrom writer is not attached that the system will continue to recognize
it and mount it at a unique designated mount directory on a subsequent
startup when it is attached
<p>Issue, if the /etc/rc.sysinit script needs modification, do I modify
the line that contains:
<p>mount -a -t nonfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc
<p>This mounts all the file systems.
<p>Perhaps commenting out the clear /etc/mtab statement by changing:
<p>#Clear mtab
<br>>/etc/mtab
<p>To show as below:
<p>#Clear mtab
<br>#>/etc/mtab
<p>The only problem I see with this is that the system will require the
same mount setup as when I shut down the system. If I carefully make
sure this always takes place, I'll be okay. Otherwise, schizophrenia
will have a chance to usurp my filesystem.
<p>I wish I had room on my harddrive to load another linux os and
compare the startup scripts.
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From: hover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to access a Fat32 partition from Linux?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:31:28 GMT
Hi, all
Thanks for all your help. Finally, I solved the problem.
Actually, Before I did anything, I could mount /dev/hda1 but could
not mount /dev/hda6.
I remembered that after I partitioned my disk using fdisk, I
formatted /dev/hda6 under windows98. Then I tried the command
'mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hda6'
AND I CAN MOUNT /dev/hda6 now! Besides, windows98 can still
access /dev/hda6 as disk D:
But I still don't know why all these happen, can anyone tell me?
In article <8o46io$lr0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
hover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I just installed Linux and Windows98 on my computer. I have one
> hard drive and partitioned it as follows:
>
> /dev/hda1 fat32
> /dev/hda2 linux native
> /dev/hda3 linux swap
> /dev/hda4 extend
> { /dev/hda5 linux native
> /dev/hda6 fat32
> }
>
> Now, both Linux and Windows98 work properly. Linux has /dev/hda2
> and /dev/hda5 mounted. Windows98 can see disk C: and D:. But I want to
> access /dev/hda6 from Linux. When I use the mount command
> 'mount -t vfat /dev/hda6 /windisk'
> I was always told that 'wrong fs type, ... (I can not remember all
> items) or wrong superblock, or too many file systems mounted.'
>
> I checked with 'mount', there are altogether 6 file system already
> mounted.
>
> Can anyone tell me what to do? By the way, is this the right
> way to access a fat32 partition and read/write file from it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
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From: hover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: In Shell Prog, How to put current date into a varialbe?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:35:01 GMT
Hi, all
When writing a shell program, I need put the current date into a
variable. I tried 'a=exec date', but a is the return status of
command 'date', not the output of 'date'.
Can anyone tell me how to do it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Preston)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.text.xml,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:37:25 GMT
On 24 Aug 2000 09:10:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee) wrote:
>In article <3q1p5.14319$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>>
>>This discussion about how XML might be used along with Linux to create a
>new
>>concept in Operating Systems is beginning. We have the technology and the
>>know how. We just have to take our computer system, set it on its side and
>>view it a bit differently. This technology is going to completely change
>>the rules of software configuration, management, and security, and you can
>>make it happen.
>
>XML is bullshit. Go Away.
>
Although this message was cross-posted to lots of groups, you will
find that they are all either Linux or XML groups. Both XML and Linux
are leaning towards simplification of software management with such
creations as the new SCO-Linux alliance and the XUL / CSS interface
definition of the GUI in Netscape 6.
To make such a broad statement, so far out of the appropriate context,
does not further discussion.
--
Mark A Preston BSc, FIAP
The Magpie's Nest
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Anson Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cannot get into Gnome
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:42:49 -0400
I just installed Redhat Linux 6.2 onto my new PC. I use a Voodoo3 2000
w/16MB video card. But after I login, and type "startx" in my shell
prompt, a little portion (about 10%) on top of the GUI screen shows up.
And when I move the mousedown to the black region of hte screen, it
disappears, i.e. everything is visible only at the top 10% of the screen
after switching to the GUI screen. What would the problem be and how I
could solve it??
Best Regards,
Anson
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tape drive help
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:44:02 -0400
Reply-To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I need help with setting up a HP5gb external tape drive.
thanks
Paul
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modules.conf and fstab ignored in RedHat 6.2
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:43:17 -0700
I have the cdrom set up in fstab as follows:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noauto,unhide 0 0
However, everytime I mount it, RedHat 6.2 insists on mounting it as
noexec, nosuid. So I change the line explicitly to
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,suid,dev,users,exec,noauto,unhide 0 0
And it *still* gets mounted as noexec,nosuid. So now I have to mount it
with -o exec on the command line. How can I fix this behavior?
Everything worked fine with RedHat 6.1.
Also, the modules.conf file is getting ignored. Modules won't load or
unload automatically, even though they worked fine under 6.1. I did
have to change conf.modules to modules.conf to make 6.2 happy, but that
was the only change I made. Anyone else having these problems?
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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