Linux-Setup Digest #40, Volume #20 Tue, 14 Nov 00 23:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Execution wrapper? (Colin Watson)
Re: auto power off (Jim Broughton)
Re: Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition? ("Anthony W. Youngman")
RAM Not Recognized ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: sh help needed to determine time of day (Doug. Mitton)
Re: auto power off ("Karl Heyes")
Re: RAM Not Recognized (Vilmos Soti)
Re: unknown printer...broken pipe...help (ljb)
where can I get makeinfo tar? (Mark Worsdall)
Re: where can I get makeinfo tar? (Mark Worsdall)
Re: reiserfs in kernel 2.2.14 ("John Battista")
Re: reiserfs in kernel 2.2.14 ("John Battista")
Dialup in Gnome??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fdisk and IDE-drives with more than 30 GB capacity? (E J)
NTFS support in linux? (p e a r c e)
how install Intellimouse (Murray Eisenberg)
Re: dual boot newsgroup (Murray Eisenberg)
Re: Dialup in Gnome??? (Noble Pepper)
Re: RedHat 7.0 install gui problem ("Vijay Culas")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Execution wrapper?
Date: 15 Nov 2000 00:11:22 GMT
Trond Aasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do I set up an execution wrapper for a particular file-type
>(extension)? I wish to execute a java jar from a bash shell just by
>doing something like:
>[user@host java]$./program.jar
See Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt in the Linux kernel source tree, which
allows you to do exactly this given a suitable wrapper script. Also see
Documentation/java.txt in any vaguely recent kernel (2.3.10 or later if
you want the newer scripts that do $CLASSPATH properly), or
<URL:http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/javawrapper/>; this may
work with .jar files, but I haven't tried it so you may have to hack
things a bit.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Racism is generally the last refuge of the unimportant."
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From: Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: auto power off
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:20:34 GMT
Fokkema DBRA wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I just upgraded from RH6.2 to RH7.0 and I noticed something slightly irritating.
> When I shut down my system under RH6.2 the kernel automatically powered down
> the system. Under RH7.0, it just halts the system. Why is this? Is it a kernel
> problem (just switch this option and recompile?) or do I have to edit some
> file or is it something else?
>
> Hope that someone can help.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
Im not sure whether the shutdown command is still
current. Try man shutdown.
shutdown -h now # this shuts er down now.
shutdown -h +5 # shutdown in 5 minutes.
is the normal command in most linux systems.
You must of course have apm compiled into the kernel.
(apm= advanced power management)
--
Jim Broughton
(The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
If Sense were common everyone would have it!
Following Air and Water the third most abundant
thing on the planet is Human Stupidity.
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From: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:28:18 +0000
Reply-To: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wine Development
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Derek Jolly wrote:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Raskin), in message
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote
>>
>> >I had a similar problem with the same system and Linux distro/version.
>> >For some unknown reason, the Mandrake 7.1 installation didn't resize the
>> >Windows partition properly on my 12GB drive, so the Windows and Linux
>> >partitions ended up overlapping. When the disk defragmenter ran
>> >automagically every Friday morning, Windows would take back about 200 MB
>> >from the Linux partition. Can you say "Kiss your Linux good-bye"?
>> >
>>
>
>This is typically the result of using two different fdisk programs to
>partition
>the disc.
>
>
Except he didn't use ANY version of fdisk to cause the problem...
Every version of linux fdisk I've seen warns about creating DOS
partitions. Stupid doze believes the header information at the start of
the partition over and above the partition table itself. So if the data
in the header is corrupt, bang goes the next partition...
My complaint about stupid doze fdisk is that, having *recognised* the
disk as having 790 cylinders, it created an extended partition ending on
cylinder 790, then put inside it a logical partition ending on cylinder
791. And no, linux fdisk went nowhere near the disk - indeed, the
closest linux got to that disk then was to blow away the partition table
(dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd bs=1024 count=1). I thought it wiser to
give doze a blank partition table and it STILL screws up!!!!!
--
Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk
Witches are curious by definition and inquisitive by nature. She moved in. "Let
me through. I'm a nosey person.", she said, employing both elbows.
Maskerade : (c) 1995 Terry Pratchett
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RAM Not Recognized
Date: 15 Nov 2000 12:00:36 +1100
Hi
append="mem=128M"
Although I have added, then moved around, the above line in my lilo.conf file,
Linux fails to recognize the correct RAM capacity. Any suggestions? I use RH
6.2 and a floppy (where lilo.conf is) to boot from a loopback device in a
Win98 partition.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug. Mitton)
Subject: Re: sh help needed to determine time of day
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:34:59 GMT
Or you can try:
HOUR=`/bin/date +"%k"`
Have I mentioned I REALLY like Linux! :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Worsdall wrote:
>> I need to determine the time of day, which then
>> determines which dialup number to add.
>
>(Warning: untested code.)
>
>You can get the hour (between 00 and 23, inclusive) by using the (silly?)
>command line
>
>HOUR=$(date | awk '{print $4}' | awk -F: '{print $1}')
>
>> # Daytime number (Between 8am and 6pm)
>> # /sbin/isdnctrl addphone ippp0 out 084409xxxxx
>>
>> # Nighttime number (Between 6pm and 8am)
>> # /sbin/isdnctrl addphone ippp0 out 084404xxxxx
>>
>> so how would one do this in #! /bin/sh
>
>Then you can use the arithmetic "-lt" and "-gt" operators with "test";
>something like
>
>if [ $HOUR -lt 8 ] || [ $HOUR -gt 17 ]; then
> # it's nighttime
> PHONENUMBER=084404xxxxx
>else
> # it's daytime
> PHONENUMBER=084409xxxxx
>fi
>/sbin/isdnctrl addphone ippp0 out $PHONENUMBER
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From: "Karl Heyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: auto power off
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:39:42 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Broughton"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fokkema DBRA wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
...
>
> Im not sure whether the shutdown command is still
> current. Try man shutdown.
>
> shutdown -h now # this shuts er down now. shutdown -h +5 # shutdown
> in 5 minutes.
>
>
> is the normal command in most linux systems. You must of course have
> apm compiled into the kernel.
> (apm= advanced power management)
Check the apm options as well, your system may need to go back into
real mode.
karl.
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Subject: Re: RAM Not Recognized
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:43:37 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> append="mem=128M"
> Although I have added, then moved around, the above line in my lilo.conf file,
> Linux fails to recognize the correct RAM capacity. Any suggestions? I use RH
> 6.2 and a floppy (where lilo.conf is) to boot from a loopback device in a
> Win98 partition.
Did you run lilo to update the bootsector on the floppy?
Vilmos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb)
Subject: Re: unknown printer...broken pipe...help
Date: 15 Nov 2000 01:46:40 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I cannot set up my Canon 4300 printer in RH 6.2. I am not running X, so I
>cannot use the printtool command and must do this by hand. Why would I get
>this error when I try to print a test page:
>
># ls -l | lpr -P4300 (where 4300 is the nane I assigned my printer)
>
>lpr: 4300: 4300: unknown printer
>Broken pipe
>
>Printcap:
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/4300:\
> :mx#:0:\
> :sh:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/4300/filter:
>
>Anyone know which i I did not dot?
Ignore the broken pipe message (you got that because lpr quit). And lpr
quit because there is no printcap entry for your printer called "4300". But
I can't tell if your printcap is incomplete, or you didn't post all of it.
The first word (before the :) of any printcap entry needs to to be the
printer name, so yours should start with "4300:"
By the way, if you have only one printer, you might as well call
it "lp" which is the default for lpr.
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From: Mark Worsdall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: where can I get makeinfo tar?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:45:34 +0000
Hi,
I am looking for makeinfo, where is it?
M.
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From: Mark Worsdall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where can I get makeinfo tar?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:58:08 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Worsdall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Hi,
>
>I am looking for makeinfo, where is it?
>
It's part of texinfo.
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From: "John Battista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: reiserfs in kernel 2.2.14
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:17:01 -0800
Um.... qucik note here...
get the kernel from SuSE.. it has the support for Reiser in it..
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/6.4/kernel-2.2.16/
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/6.4/kernel-2.2.14/
on a side note..
IF any of you are using McAfee on any Win box in your network.. the latest
DAT seems to think anything on a ReiserFS share... has the win32/Love virus
on it...
never had this happen until I updated the DAT today.. then everythign on the
share that was exe or OCX was somehow a virus..
checked with AVP just in case... << mcafee was giving me bogus info
"Chris LeFebvre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Noel:
> I use Red Had and have never used any other file systems other than
what's
> included in the Red Hat kernel by default but based on an Infoworld
article I
> read recently the kernel you've gotten doesn't have reiserfs already
patched in.
> You'll need to go to www.namesys.com/download.html and get the reiserfs
patch
> for your kernel version and apply it, then the option you're looking for
should
> appear in the config options.
>
> Regards,
> - Chris
>
>
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From: "John Battista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: reiserfs in kernel 2.2.14
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:20:25 -0800
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/d1/lx_suse.rpm
Also there for the source of the kernel that will support ReiserFS
"Chris LeFebvre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Noel:
> I use Red Had and have never used any other file systems other than
what's
> included in the Red Hat kernel by default but based on an Infoworld
article I
> read recently the kernel you've gotten doesn't have reiserfs already
patched in.
> You'll need to go to www.namesys.com/download.html and get the reiserfs
patch
> for your kernel version and apply it, then the option you're looking for
should
> appear in the config options.
>
> Regards,
> - Chris
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux
Subject: Dialup in Gnome???
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 02:40:58 GMT
Ok, I am using the new Helix Gnome desktop on Linux Mandrake 7.0. I
have a problem though, I can't get it to dial up to the internet only
when I am in that desktop. If I change into the KDE 1.1.2 desktop,
using kppp or using ifup command works great. But if I go into Helix
Gnome desktop and use the same commands, kppp or ifup, it dials up, but
it won't finalize the connection and then hangs up and then redials. It
will do that until I tell it to stop dialing.
I tried downloading some other dialers that were specifically makde for
gnome, but none of them work any better.
I also tried to use the applet that comes with gnome that goes in the
taskbar and you tell it to connect and it does nothing.
Any ideas!!!
David
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk and IDE-drives with more than 30 GB capacity?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:07:16 -0800
Use the latest SuSE distribution with the most recent kernel.
I have a 40G Maxtor. Redhat 6.2 could not formatting the last 20G of my 40G harddrive.
Redhat 7.0 did format the last 20G of my 40G harddrive.
You don't need a new BIOS if you are only running Linux.
If you are running Windows and Linux, I would recommend you getting MaxBlast software
from the maxtor website.
Michael Schnick wrote:
> Hello out there!
>
> I have got problems partitioning an IDE-drive with more than 30 GB capacity.
>
> Can you tell me where to find documentation on that problem?
>
> Here�s the whole story:
>
> I tried to install Linux on my new harddisk drive. It�s a Maxtor drive, model 94610U6
> with about 46 GB capacity.
>
> My BIOS isn�t able to use diskdrives with more than 8 GB of capacity, that�s why I
>use
> the "clipping" option.
>
> When I start fdisk it tells me my drive has about 30 GB of capacity.
>
> I�m using a SuSE 6.4 distribution, with a 2.2.14 kernel and a fdisk
> version v.2.10f.
>
> The maiboard seems to be model MB-586VXU1, made by "ability".
> But I haven�t found a BIOS-Update yet.
>
> I�d like to use the whole capacity of my drive as a bootdrive in that
> computer.
>
> Can you tell me what I have to do, or where I can find further
> documentation concerning this matter?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> CU,
> Michael
>
> ICQ# : 14657968
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (p e a r c e)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: NTFS support in linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 03:34:33 GMT
Does linux support the NTFS filesuystem used in NT 4.0 [can I mount
these drives]? If so, at what kernel revision did it becoime
implemented?
Thanks!
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REPLY TO: pearce AT orangedelta DOT com
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From: Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: how install Intellimouse
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 03:46:28 GMT
When installing Linux (RH 7.0), what mouse should I select for a
Microsoft Intellimouse -- the kind with the scroll wheel? Can I get the
scroll wheel to act as a scroll wheel, or instead as a third mouse
button? How?
When I installed RH 6.2 with the same mouse, I didn't see an option for
the Intellimouse.
--
Murray Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
Amherst, MA 01003-4515
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From: Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dual boot newsgroup
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 03:51:27 GMT
There probably would not be so many questions if Linux distributors --
especially Red Hat -- did a much better job of documenting how to handle
this, especially with Windows NT and no FAT partition! I don't see why
they cannot include ALL the necessary instructions on accomplishing this
with their installation instructions instead of referring to complex
mini-HOWTO docs.
In fact, more generally this is one of the really frustrating things
about getting started with Linux -- one encounters what almost seems
like an infinite regress of links from one piece of documentation to
another. End of rant.
Peter wrote:
>
> There are so many questions about dual boot that it deserves a
> comp.os.linux.dualboot.
>
> The dual boot questions are of no interest to me. I avoid dual boot no
> matter what operating system. I even use a new computer when I have to
> switch to summer time.
--
Murray Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
Amherst, MA 01003-4515
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Dialup in Gnome???
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:50:48 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, I am using the new Helix Gnome desktop on Linux Mandrake 7.0. I
> have a problem though, I can't get it to dial up to the internet only
> when I am in that desktop. If I change into the KDE 1.1.2 desktop,
> using kppp or using ifup command works great. But if I go into Helix
> Gnome desktop and use the same commands, kppp or ifup, it dials up, but
> it won't finalize the connection and then hangs up and then redials. It
> will do that until I tell it to stop dialing.
> I tried downloading some other dialers that were specifically makde for
> gnome, but none of them work any better.
> I also tried to use the applet that comes with gnome that goes in the
> taskbar and you tell it to connect and it does nothing.
> Any ideas!!!
> David
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
This doesn't seem to be a very popular set up anymore but I like it.
1. Get plain vanilla pppd stuff to work, see the ppp howto at
www.linuxdoc.org. With this you can connect at console with no GUI stuff
running at all.
2. Use one of the demand-pppd scripts (search Yahoo for them). The first
step will eliminate a lot of problems you may have if you go here first.
Now you really don't need any GUI tools, pppd will dial when an app looks
for a connection, and disconnect after a period of inactivity.
3. Use something like the modem lights applet if you want to see thru put
and/or manually disconnect. Use ppp-on/ppp-off if you don't use the demand
stuff. If you do the demand stuff use ping to connect and the script
comments should have the command to force disconnect.
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From: "Vijay Culas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.0 install gui problem
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 03:59:43 GMT
Since you've paid RedHat for a freely available product, take advantage of
the support that you are entitled to.
"Bob V" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi everyone,
>
> I hope this is the right board to post this on. Just bought the boxed
> version of
> Redhat 7.0. I have a 333Mhz Celeron system, 128Mb of ram, and an S3
> Verge
> chip graphics PCI card.
>
> All I did was boot from the CD -ROM. I just hit return after the boot:
> prompt came
> up. After a bunch of initialization steps, the gui window finally
> materialized. The problem
> is that the window has "scratches" all over it making it hard to see the
> text, and the mouse
> cursor looks like a 1" square barcode instead of the normal small arrow
> we're all used to.
> Any clues.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bob
>
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