Linux-Setup Digest #904, Volume #20 Sun, 25 Mar 01 03:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Best E-mail Client? (Johan Kullstam)
New Fonts On Screen - Not On Paper (John Scudder)
Re: Best E-mail Client? (Grant Edwards)
Re: Are unused blocks BAD blocks? (Mark Dickie)
Re: Help setting up USB, almost there?! (Long message, includes some .config/logs)
(David Efflandt)
multiple wu-ftpd guest classes (dan chak)
Re: system clock (David Efflandt)
Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat??? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat??? (Michael Perry)
Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat??? (Hal Burgiss)
hi all, (Dan)
Ethertap Setup Question (Greg Stucky)
Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
simple question, but I forgot the answer (Dan)
iptables under 2.4.2 (Nick Traxler)
Why won't the LPR* Boot disk boot on my Toshiba 1950CT? (*Linux Router Project)
("Michiel Wories")
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 03:11:06 GMT
John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dowe Keller
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:20:17 GMT, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >In a world with LaTeX, SGML and Texinfo, why do some people still
> >insist on doing things the *HARD WAY*?
>
> The LaTeX world sounds like rather hard work compared to WISIWIG.
but things like ms-word are *not* WISIWIG. there is a lot of
formatting which changes font, margins &c. all of this is invisible
since you don't see it on the page. it's lots of fun working around
these unseen land mines.
> What's the SGML scene like ? What's the over all aim and to what
> extent is it achieved ?
>
> Does SGML offer a tidy way to author for the web and paper from the
> same 'source code' ? If so, where do you start ?
>
>
> Cheers, J/.
> --
> John Beardmore
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Fonts On Screen - Not On Paper
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:45:32 -0500
Using DrakFont in Mandrake 7.2, I have installed some new TT Fonts and
Type 1 fonts. They all show up beautifully on screen. Running KWord,
they show up in the Font Selection Box and on the page when I select
them. However when I print out the page, the new fonts all look like
ordinary Times Roman. What is missing with the new fonts??
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 04:21:12 GMT
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 03:11:06 GMT, Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >In a world with LaTeX, SGML and Texinfo, why do some people still
>> >insist on doing things the *HARD WAY*?
>>
>> The LaTeX world sounds like rather hard work compared to WISIWIG.
>
>but things like ms-word are *not* WISIWIG. there is a lot of
>formatting which changes font, margins &c. all of this is invisible
>since you don't see it on the page. it's lots of fun working around
>these unseen land mines.
Some of them are pretty severe. A friend of mine spent a
couple days trying to get a drawing with cross-hatching to
print in a legible way -- it never did, even though it looked
fine on the screen. Unless your printer has the same
resolution as your display, nothing is ever WYSIWYG. The
original Mac had a 72 dpi display and 72 dpi dot-matrix
printer. That was pretty close to WYSIWYG.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want to so HAPPY,
at the VEINS in my neck STAND
visi.com OUT!!
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From: Mark Dickie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Are unused blocks BAD blocks?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 04:30:22 +0100
Query_String wrote:
>
> [vaguely related to "Varying number of cylinders"]
>
> fdisk (read output):
> Disk /dev/hdd: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdd1 1 3736 30009388+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hdd5 * 1 61 489919+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdd6 62 361 2409718+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdd7 * 362 1001 5140768+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdd8 1002 1071 562243+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdd9 1072 3736 21406581 83 Linux
>
> This drive was partitioned with cfdisk. The hpfs logicals were
> formatted only under os2 and only cfdisk has ever written to the
> disk tables. hdd9 was created using *all* remaining space above
> hdd8 i.e. no freespace was left.
>
> I ran badblocks against hdd9 (with -w to get a full wipe while I
> was at it) using
>
> badblocks -b 1024 -o /badblox.out -svw /dev/hdd9 21406581
>
> The output badblox file was empty so I assume no bad blocks were found.
>
> Next I created the fs with
>
> mke2fs -v -b 1024 -i 1024 /dev/hdd9
>
> And this reported
>
> Script started on Sat Mar 24 06:31:24 2001
> mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
>
> warning: 884 blocks unused.
>
> Filesystem label=
> OS type: Linux
> Block size=1024 (log=0)
> Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
> 21405696 inodes, 21405697 blocks
> 1070329 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=1
> 2613 block groups
> 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
> 8192 inodes per group
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> 8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409, 663553,
> 1024001, 1990657, 2809857, 5120001, 5971969, 17915905, 19668993
> Writing inode tables: 0/2613
> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
>
>
> What are the "884 blocks unused" ? This is the difference between
> 21,405,697 and 21,406,581 but that's as far as I get |8-)
>
>
> I'm not familiar with badblock handling i.e. does badblocks report
> all bad blocks or only new ones not stored in whatever hidden file
> that may exists for this?
>
> Thanks.
>
Hi,
Unused blocks are blocks which are not part of a partition and are not bad
just not used. Try ajusting the size of an adjacent partition to reclaim
them.
Hope that helps if not ask again and I'll try to say something more useful.
--
============
Mark Dickie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] --home--
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ICQ#82716937
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Help setting up USB, almost there?! (Long message, includes some
.config/logs)
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 04:36:09 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Okay, to add some information to my previous post..
>
>I think that USB itself is okay.. Plugging and unplugging the Smart
>Media adaptor dumps a lot of stuff into the logs about vendor codes,
>etc.. I'm not sure that hotplug recognises the vendor/id though..
>
>My USB keyboard works now, /etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug status shows lots of
>USB stats, including:
>
>USB up; bus count is 1
>T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
>P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
>S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
>S: SerialNumber=e400
>I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
Above is your hub, and SmartMedia reader is below. Note that it says
Driver=(none), it should say Driver=usb-storage (see below)
>T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 12 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
>P: Vendor=04e6 ProdID=0003 Rev= 2.07
>S: Manufacturer=SCM Microsystems Inc.
>S: Product=eUSB SmartMedia Adapter
>I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
Keyboard apparently (hid is for input devices)
>T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 10 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
>P: Vendor=045e ProdID=000b Rev= 1.04
>I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hid
>
>Not sure which lines go with which, but anywho.. I think it must be the
>actual SCSI emulation tying to the USB.. (the scsi-emulation has been
>in use for over a year with my IDE CD burner and is working fine now,
>and normal direct SCSI is working fine with my CD ROM.)
>
>I hope someone can help! Again, Dane-Elec gave me the email address of
>their driver guy who will share his code, so if this reader isn't
>supported currently it shouldn't be heard to impliment.
04e6 is mfr ID for Shuttle Technology Inc, but there is no product 0003
listed in the current usb-storage info. The closest is 0006 eUSB
SmartMedia Card Reader. Maybe you could try duplicating the 0x04e6 0x0006
line in /lib/modules/<kernel_version>/modules.usbmap and change the 0006
to 0003.
But I am new to USB myself, so I am still learning. I guess I am glad
I got a Microtech pc card SmartMedia adapter instead. Even though pcmcia
does not find any manufacturer name (product info: " ", " ", "") it
still recognizes it as function: 4 (fixed disk) and it mounts fine.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:49:57 -0500
From: dan chak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: multiple wu-ftpd guest classes
Hello,
I want to set up more than one guest class in wu-ftpd, so that one of
the guest classes has ratios, and another does not. It seems like the
only three available classes are real, geust, and anonymous, and that
you can only add new classes as ip-ranges of those first three.
Can I made a user-range class? So that user ratioguest has a class of
ratioguestclass? And user regularguest can be in class
regularguestclass?
Any help is much appreciated. Unless I'm understanding the setup of
wu-ftp right now, it seems rather restrictive.
Thanks,
-Dan
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! .240.248.8089 fax
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: system clock
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 05:10:28 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:14:12 +0200, Thomas G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello
>
>does anybody know if there's an option to not let my SuSE Linux 7.1 tamper
>with the system clock. It's ok if it just displays the time I set up in the
>BIOS, but now it changes the time IN the BIOS with 3 1/2 hour.
It should not do anything to your BIOS clock unless you do something with
the 'hwclock -w' (or --systohc) command. Maybe your timezone is set
incorrectly Linux ends up with the wrong time when you boot (or the wrong
setting for UTC/GMT vs. localtime for BIOS time).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat???
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Mar 2001 00:24:29 -0500
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 02:01:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) �crivait/wrote:
>
>Come on! Go for Progeny then! Their rc is already out and I doubt Ian
>Murdoch is the kind to hone his ax against other distros.
Sorry I have no idea what Progeny is, or who Ian Murdoch is. Murdoch
sounds familiar, but can't finger him.
>>What floats my boat most is *Linux*, and that Linux is so infinitley
>>customizable. If I don't like some aspect, I change it at MY will. I
>>am in control and not MS, not Redhat, not the Debian maintainers, or
>>anyone else. It is Linux that allows me this. The distro is secondary.
>
>Not exactly so to me. When I see Red Hat branching off with a new
>compiler and IBM backing mainly Red Hat, I'd rather stay away. Linux
>original spirit is definitely degenerating.
Not degenerating, diversifying and evolving. Or do we all need to look
alike, think alike, speak the same language, wear the same clothes? You
want everyone to be just like you, but not everyone agrees.
BTW, no one is branching a new compiler. This is just plain FUD. 2.96 is
a snapshot of gcc 3.0 development until 3.0 final is released. Of
course, no one is forcing anyone to use development packages. If you
don't like it either use egcs-1.1.2 that is also part of 7.0, or you can
always use Debian.
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat???
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 05:41:06 -0000
On 25 Mar 2001 00:24:29 -0500, Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 02:01:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) �crivait/wrote:
>>
>>Come on! Go for Progeny then! Their rc is already out and I doubt Ian
>>Murdoch is the kind to hone his ax against other distros.
>
>Sorry I have no idea what Progeny is, or who Ian Murdoch is. Murdoch
>sounds familiar, but can't finger him.
>
Deb
Ian
Get it?
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat???
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Mar 2001 00:51:12 -0500
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 05:41:06 -0000, Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>
>Deb
>Ian
>
>Get it?
Ah so! Now it comes back. Girlfriend was Debbie or something? Here I was
thinking he was the guy that owned FoxNews, and all the tabloids.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 01:04:42 -0500
From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hi all,
hi all,
I run redhat 7.0 on SMP, and I'm having some sort of trouble with the
vmware-config.pl working with my autoconf.h, I was told that I can
comment out few lines with SMP on it in vmware-config.pl, but I forgot
what those lines are.
Can anyone help?
-dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Stucky)
Subject: Ethertap Setup Question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 06:14:13 GMT
I am trying to setup diald on my network gateway and I am getting the
message "modprobe: can't find module tap0" etc. I have found the
following information on setting up ethertap But I still can not get
it to work. Can anyone please answer the following questions.
1) do I need to add the following lines to /etc/modules.conf
add options tap0 unit=0 -o tap0
add options tap1 unit=1 -o tap1
..
add options tap15 unit=15 -o tap15
alias tap0 ethertap
alias tap1 ethertap
..
alias tap15 ethertap
2) Do I need to use the following commands to set up ethertap and if
so what IP address do I use?
mknod /dev/tap0 c 36 16
mknod /dev/tap1 c 36 17
...
mknod /dev/tap15 c 36 31
ifconfig /dev/tap* 192.168.1.1 (replace 192.168.1.1 with the
proper IP number for your situation.)
Following is my setup:
DNS Server 192.152.21.100
Gatway 192.152.21.101 this is the PC I am installing diald on and
trying to setup the ethertap devices. This is connected to the
network on eth0 and connects to the internet on ppp0
isp 35.25.62.15
ppp0 is assigned a new IP address dynamically when I dial out
PC's 192.152.21.102-140
3) How do I create the files /dev/tap0 - 15. Can I just create an
empty file in /dev for each one or is there a command I need to use?
Thanks for any help
Greg Stucky
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat???
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 06:20:01 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) �crivait/wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 02:01:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) �crivait/wrote:
>>
>>Come on! Go for Progeny then! Their rc is already out and I doubt Ian
>>Murdoch is the kind to hone his ax against other distros.
>
>Sorry I have no idea what Progeny is, or who Ian Murdoch is. Murdoch
>sounds familiar, but can't finger him.
www.progeny.org
>BTW, no one is branching a new compiler. This is just plain FUD.
Current snapshots of GCC, and any version labeled 2.96, produce object
files that are not compatible with those produced by either GCC 2.95.2
or the forthcoming GCC 3.0. Therefore, programs built with these
snapshots will not be compatible with any official GCC release.
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html
It seems Mandrake and Red Hat have been developping the compiler
without any collaboration with gcc.gnu. Check:
http://www.linux-quebec.org/archives/general/msg02023.html
And then explain what the hell is going on. I'm all ears!
Zhero
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 01:31:50 -0500
From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: simple question, but I forgot the answer
Which file can I edit (most likely under /etc) so that I can give an
alias to a host name, instead of typing in the whole host name to telnet
into the host. I also forgot how to edit it.
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From: Nick Traxler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: iptables under 2.4.2
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 02:43:35 -0500
Does anyone know a simple one or two command sequence to
iptables to turn on forwarding for everything?
Under 2.2.16, I just did:
ipchains -A forward -s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
-d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -i eth0 -j MASQ
and everything magically forwarded. ICQ file send worked
through the masquerade, and I was happy. But I can't figure
out iptables, and I don't really have time right now to pore
over the manpage or try to customize someone's long
rc.firewall script.
Does anyone know this one?
Thanks in advance!
--
Nick Traxler
Computer Science, Purdue University
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/traxlend
"The two most common things in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity."
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From: "Michiel Wories" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.embedded,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Why won't the LPR* Boot disk boot on my Toshiba 1950CT? (*Linux Router
Project)
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:55:22 +0200
Hi,
I am trying to setup a T1950CT notebook as a firewall, but I receive the
message "Boot failed". I have tried the same boot disk on another system and
that worked fine. I am using idiot-image_1440KB_FAT_2.9.8_Linux_2.0 as the
boot image.
Any clues?
Thanks,
Michiel
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