Linux-Setup Digest #222, Volume #20 Thu, 14 Dec 00 13:13:14 EST
Contents:
staroffice 5.2 /net setup problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is there a way to reset the locate/slocate DB? (Tom)
Re: can anyone recommend a newsreader? (Tom)
Re: Dual boot WinME + Linux ("michiel")
VIA sound chip ("Wouter Duyck")
Re: Help setting up RedHat 6.1 or 6.2 (Eric)
modem busy .....oh bugger...... (steve mcclue)
Re: Auto shutoff of the monitor at the graphical login...How? (Matt Haley)
Re: Installing StarOffice 5.2 (Newbie) (David)
Re: Need help installing old Sound Blaster 16 card (Matt Haley)
Re: staroffice 5.2 /net setup problem (David)
Re: 2.2.18 Won't Build??? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: can anyone recommend a newsreader? (aflinsch)
Re: can anyone recommend a newsreader? (aflinsch)
automount daemon (amd) with yp problems ("Thomas Allmendinger (lx20)")
64M instead of 128M with suze7.0 ("Stef")
File locking between Linux and HP-UX 11.0 (Michael Madden)
Re: Dual boot WinME + Linux (Rod Smith)
Re: VIA sound chip (Rod Smith)
Re: Kernel ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: rsh ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: 64M instead of 128M with suze7.0 (Michael Heiming)
Re: error: no space left on the device (David Punsalan)
web server problem please help ("Louis Hajjar")
Re: quickcam (Sinner from the Prairy)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: staroffice 5.2 /net setup problem
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:55:36 GMT
I attempted to install staroffice 5.2 on a redhat 6.2 machine today.
I downloaded staroffice from Sun, and did the following:
<as root>: ./soffice_whatever.bin /net
and chose /use/local/office52 as my install directory
All went well and worked fine. I then:
<as user foo>: /usr/local/office52/program/setup
and chose network install.... Files seemed to copy just fine.
When I try to run ~foo/office52/soffice, I get the installation program
again...... I can never actually get staroffice to load.
If I run /usr/local/office52/program/setup as root, I can do a "network
installation" for the root user and later start /root/office52/soffice
without any problems........
Any suggestions?
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to reset the locate/slocate DB?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:11:25 GMT
Marc Koschewski wrote:
> Is there a way to reset or delete the slocate DB ... it seems like there
> are some files listed, I already deleted from my HDD. I did an locate -u
> as root but nothing changed ...
> BTW: I use Mandrake 7.2
I use 7.2 also. Can't imagine why 'locate -u' doesn't work, but try
'updatedb'. AFAIK, tho, those commands are interchangeable.
--
Tom
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can anyone recommend a newsreader?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:23:17 GMT
Jythexinvok wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good newsreader for linux? Neither trn or
> netscape's built in one are quite doing the trick. I need something
> capable of uudecoding files split across multiple messages (like trn's
> :e command) BUT can handle file names with spaces in them.
I read discussion NG's with Knode, but for getting binaries like mp3's,
Pan is the best http://www.superpimp.org/ and for d/l'ing pics I like
http://xcollector.dino.vg/ All of the above have no problems with file
names that have spaces. Both Pan and Xcollector support getting multiple
files, and retry/resume when needed.
Under trn
> (and if anyone knows a way to fix this please let me know because) if I
> :e a file with a space in the name it saves it using only the first
> word. Not only does this loose the extention, but if I'm grabbing a set
> of files they will keep overwriting eachother.
> Can anyone point me twards a newsreader that can handle this?
--
Tom
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From: "michiel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual boot WinME + Linux
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:33:25 +0100
with Fdisk you create a big enough fat partition (windows Fdisk) then
install winME on that..
if thats done, boot from the linux disk and use the rest of the space for
your linux (at least 2 gig should be enough for some extra progs also) Lilo
will automaticly find your windows partition and name it "DOS" thats it :)
Good luck
Michiel
root wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Are there any issues about WinME + Linux? Can I create all partitions
>(including a dos partition) from the Linux install program, and then
>install WinME in the dos partition? Where do I install Lilo? Are there
>any documents about this, or is it the usual install?
>
>
>
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From: "Wouter Duyck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VIA sound chip
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:39:38 +0100
does anybody know how to install this sound card (build on motherboard) in
Linux?
When i install it using sndconfig, the computer hangs on reboot saying
'loading sound modules'...
Then i have to manually edit soundcard and modules.conf file to restore
everything...
Tanx,
wouter.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help setting up RedHat 6.1 or 6.2
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:52:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jared MacLeod wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I hope I am posting this in the correct newsgoup. It seems like people
> get some really good help here setting up linux.
>
> I am trying to setup a ThinkPad 560 with RedHat 6.1. It has a floppy
> drive but no cdrom. I made a boot disk from boot.img and it boots the
> computer ok. Since I do not have a network card, (just a modem) and no
> cdrom, I decided to try doing the install from the Hard Disk. The
> computer has win95 in a fat32 partition. I moved the fat32 partition to
> the end of the drive and shruk it down. Then I made a fat16 partition
> just before it on the drive big enough to hold the RedHat RPMS. I then
> used some free laplink like software to download the base direcory and
> the RPMS directory from the CDROM to this fat16 partition.
>
> When I try to set it up like this everything seems to go smoothly, it
> loads up the second stage boot stuff from the base directory, I can
> patition the disk, but when it tries to read the packages it freeks out
> with some script errors. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
>
> Maybe the filenames got truncated and RedHat can't recognize them? In
> Win95 the have 2 names, the full one, and the 8.3 ~1 name. I also tried
> booting with the pcmcia.img for fun, because it is a laptop but that
> did not help.
>
Drop to a shell <ctrl><alt><function key 1 to 6>
and see if the partition where the data is on, holds the correct names.
(If they are 8.3 I can imagine this goes wrong)
Otherwise, tell us what the error messages are.
Eric
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From: steve mcclue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem busy .....oh bugger......
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:54:29 +0000
Dear All,
I've just installed Mandrake 7.2, and finally got setserial working so
that my modem is recognised. Tested it out & everything worked fine,
connection to internet, e-mail, the works. Happy bunny.
I switch the machine off, return the next day, reboot, and I can't get
the modem working because I get the mysterious and profoundly
unhelpful message "modem Busy".
Could some kind soul point me in the direction of which process might
be running that has hijacked my modem? Or indeed any other things I
might try to restore function to my poor old modem.
Is this something to do with a lock file (what that?)?
Is it something to do with the getty process that seems to be running
intermittently in the background?
TIA,
Steve
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From: Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Auto shutoff of the monitor at the graphical login...How?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:02:15 -0700
David Bell wrote:
> I've been setting up a couple machines running Mandrake 7.2 (very good),
> and
> have a question: How can I have the monitor shut off after, say, 5
> minutes of
> idle time while sitting at the graphical login screen? It's easy to set
Set in your /etc/X11/XF86Config, in the "Device" section:
Option "power_saver"
Also, check 'man XF86Config' and look for:
StandbyTime, SuspendTime, OffTime
--
Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing StarOffice 5.2 (Newbie)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:11:02 GMT
Paul Beattie wrote:
>
> I have been trying to run it as root.
>
> I will try to reinstall it as a non-root user, but this will have to wait
> until tonight.
>
> Thanks for you help, I'll let you know what happens.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Paul
You can install it as root by using the "/net" switch
"staroffice.file.bin/net". Then all users on the system will have access
to staroffice if they want it. Just make a symlink from the "soffice"
file to "/usr/bin/soffice" so that users can run it.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more work units than 98.897% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Need help installing old Sound Blaster 16 card
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:18:13 -0700
Alk wrote:
> very helpful for both problems, but older SB16 give very bad midi output,
> if so - try sw wavetable
Or just use Timidity to play your MIDI files.
--
Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: staroffice 5.2 /net setup problem
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:17:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I attempted to install staroffice 5.2 on a redhat 6.2 machine today.
>
> I downloaded staroffice from Sun, and did the following:
>
> <as root>: ./soffice_whatever.bin /net
> and chose /use/local/office52 as my install directory
>
> All went well and worked fine. I then:
>
> <as user foo>: /usr/local/office52/program/setup
> and chose network install.... Files seemed to copy just fine.
>
> When I try to run ~foo/office52/soffice, I get the installation program
> again...... I can never actually get staroffice to load.
>
> If I run /usr/local/office52/program/setup as root, I can do a "network
> installation" for the root user and later start /root/office52/soffice
> without any problems........
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
If you install it as root using the /net switch and then try to run it
as a user it still has to install the user files it doesn't do a
complete install again.
Once installed as root just make a symlink from
"/usr/local/office52/soffice" to "/usr/bin/soffice" then as a user just
enter "soffice" at the command line.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more work units than 98.897% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: 2.2.18 Won't Build???
Date: 14 Dec 2000 11:25:17 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fred Love wrote:
> gcc --version reports 2.96
The 2.2.* kernels do not support the (never-released) 2.96 and 2.97
compilers. The 2.2.18 release notes say:
: This x86 code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. Patches
: for building with gcc 2.95 are merged but less tested than other
: compilers. Caution is recommended when using gcc 2.95 and feedback is
: sought.
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html
http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2218.html
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can anyone recommend a newsreader?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:29:34 -0600
Jythexinvok wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a good newsreader for linux? Neither trn or
> netscape's built in one are quite doing the trick. I need something
> capable of uudecoding files split across multiple messages (like trn's
> :e command) BUT can handle file names with spaces in them. Under trn
> (and if anyone knows a way to fix this please let me know because) if I
> :e a file with a space in the name it saves it using only the first
> word. Not only does this loose the extention, but if I'm grabbing a set
> of files they will keep overwriting eachother.
> Can anyone point me twards a newsreader that can handle this?
> Any help would be appreciated.
pan if you are running under X, slrn if running x-less.
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can anyone recommend a newsreader?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:30:31 -0600
Jythexinvok wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a good newsreader for linux? Neither trn or
> netscape's built in one are quite doing the trick. I need something
> capable of uudecoding files split across multiple messages (like trn's
> :e command) BUT can handle file names with spaces in them. Under trn
> (and if anyone knows a way to fix this please let me know because) if I
> :e a file with a space in the name it saves it using only the first
> word. Not only does this loose the extention, but if I'm grabbing a set
> of files they will keep overwriting eachother.
> Can anyone point me twards a newsreader that can handle this?
> Any help would be appreciated.
pan if you are running under X, slrn if running x-less.
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From: "Thomas Allmendinger (lx20)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: automount daemon (amd) with yp problems
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:59:18 +0100
Hi,
i managed to get my amd running using maps served by a yp server; The
problem is that amd does not realize when the maps have changed ;-( When
i do a amq -f by hand everything is fine. Has anybody an idea how amd
can be forced to check the maps from time to time ?
Thanks in advance
Thomas
--
T. Allmendinger
Institut fuer Experimentelle Kernphysik - DELPHI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(privat)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Stef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 64M instead of 128M with suze7.0
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:22:42 +0100
Hello,
My suze 7.0 recognize only 64M instead of 128M. Why ?
Thanks for your help.
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From: Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: File locking between Linux and HP-UX 11.0
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:03:30 -0600
We are running into odd file locking problems between our NFS
server which is running on Redhat 6.2 - kernel 2.2.16 and
HP-UX clients. When a HP-UX 11 client requests a file lock
on a NFS V2 filesystem on linux, we get the following error:
Getting Locking status on build.log...failed -> errno: 46
The following scenarios work fine, but the HP-UX 11.0 clients
fail.
Server Client
====== ======
Linux Linux
Linux Irix 5.3
Linux HP-UX 10.20
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael Madden
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Dual boot WinME + Linux
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:28:52 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are there any issues about WinME + Linux? Can I create all partitions
> (including a dos partition) from the Linux install program, and then
> install WinME in the dos partition? Where do I install Lilo? Are there
> any documents about this, or is it the usual install?
The issues are basically the same as those when dual-booting Linux and
Windows 9x. As a general rule, it's safer to create the partitions (at
least the Windows partitions) using DOS/Windows FDISK, and to change
partition types as necessary with Linux's fdisk. LILO can go in the MBR
or on the Linux boot partition (if it's a primary partition).
As for documentation, there are several HOWTO documents about
dual-booting Linux with various OSs, including Windows 9x. (I don't know
if these have been updated for WinMe specifically, but as they're
virtually identical from this point of view, there's not much need for
it.) My own books, _The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook_
(http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/) has lots of information on many
aspects of multi-booting, although nothing WinMe-specific, since it came
out before WinMe.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: VIA sound chip
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:30:36 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <91apf9$6me$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Wouter Duyck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> does anybody know how to install this sound card (build on motherboard) in
> Linux?
> When i install it using sndconfig, the computer hangs on reboot saying
> 'loading sound modules'...
> Then i have to manually edit soundcard and modules.conf file to restore
> everything...
If this is a VIA 82c686a, in my experience the standard kernel drivers
are pretty poor. The ALSA project (http://www.alsa-project.org) has much
better drivers, although the ALSA drivers in general are a nuisance to
install. Read the instructions thoroughly, then read them again before
attempting the installation.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:03:27 +0100
In comp.os.linux.setup Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Linux Magazine says that Linus has said the new 2.4 kernel should
> be posted by the end of December at the latest.
He said something like that last year too.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rsh
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:05:31 +0100
Vigil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Use rlogin and a ~/.rhosts?
> "cuma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had the audacity to claim:
>> Hi folks, every time I try to connect to my other pc, rsh prompts me for a
>> login and a password. How can I suppress it??
Also by reading the man page for ssh/slogin, I suspect, which will tell
him all about .rhosts, and .ssh/ .
Peter
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:45:40 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 64M instead of 128M with suze7.0
Hello,
could be mobo related try appending mem=128M
to your /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo or set it up via yast1 if you boot
with lilo.
Reboot and cat /proc/meminfo and everything should be OK...:-)
Good luck
Michael Heiming
Sysadmin
Stef wrote:
> Hello,
> My suze 7.0 recognize only 64M instead of 128M. Why ?
> Thanks for your help.
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: error: no space left on the device
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:45:12 -0600
Veronica,
Could there be a huge "core" dump file that the compiler left in the
directory perhaps?
- David
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From: "Louis Hajjar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: web server problem please help
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 08:00:15 +0200
Reply-To: "Louis Hajjar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello to all.
I had install a webserver to my home.
and for some reason when some one try to access to my webpage with full
address like www.domain.com it want work. why?
and if he type the domain.com without www so it work.
any idea what could it be?
Thanks
Louis Hajjar
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From: Sinner from the Prairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: quickcam
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:04:05 +0000
jinp wrote:
>
> I have quickcam driver set up, can any one tell me what application I
> can use to test if it is working?
How did you make it work?
Is a USB or parport version?
> Thanks
> jinp
Salut,
Sinner
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