Linux-Misc Digest #259
Linux-Misc Digest #259, Volume #20 Wed, 19 May 99 06:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: PPP Madness (Ian Briggs)
PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, v1.4.0 released (Robert Osterlund)
Re: Some Common Questions (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Calendaring (Christopher Browne)
Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ? (Neil Zanella)
DB2 installation fails with glibc = 2.0.7 is needed (Richard Walter)
Re: Ken Thompson on Linux (Neil Zanella)
Re: Funny problem with 'date' (L J Bayuk)
Re: DDS-3 DAT drive (Rod Roark)
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (was: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?) (John
S. Dyson)
The World Wide Expo 1768 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need help setting up system. (Bev)
Kernel upgrade ("Morten")
Re: Calendaring ("Cameron Spitzer")
Re: Kernel 2.2.3 mystery (The Man)
Re: Silly Question (olivier eymere)
Re: /usr/sbin/in.identd missing? (Bill Unruh)
hostname and /var/log/messages (hudini)
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Drive Image? (Chris Sorenson)
Re: New Star office for glibc 2.1 (Fred Kuipers)
Re: Kernel upgrade (brian moore)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Briggs)
Subject: Re: PPP Madness
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 00:33:12 GMT
Michael Rathburn wrote:
:have used thier scripts done it manually and allsorts of wierd things have
:happened all I want to do is use my linux machine to learn about unix step
:by step but it seems you have to read more crap than a Philadelphia lawyer
:on a case with no precedent !
Nurse! We need more medication here! :-)
First off, I notice you have a Freeserve email address. If it's
Freeserve that you're trying to hook up to, then a rummage back through
the last couple of months in freeserve.help.unix and uk.comp.os.linux,
will reveal that many others have been reduced to tears by their inability
to get any kind of sensible connection to Freeserve (although most of the
problems seemed to resolve themselves about a fortnight ago). Also, I
understand the PCPlus scripts use scripted authentication, but Freeserve
apparently support CHAP only.
:I have bought 2 books and
:BTW I have read the man pages and it still wont work
If you haven't already found it, can I suggest Bill Unruh's "How to hook
up PPP" (at http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html) which is a good
step-by-step approach to building up a set of working scripts.
And, if you think the problem is at Freeserve's end, there are other free
ISPs in the UK.
Good luck.
Ian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Osterlund)
Subject: PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, v1.4.0 released
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 00:13:56 GMT
PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, version 1.4.0
HIGHLIGHTS: introduced a new config file, files.cfg, for managing
any system (text) file (e.g., /etc/inetd.conf, /etc/syslog.conf,
/etc/sudoers); much improved security via user-configurable
service access parameters and server-client callback; dozens of new
validation self-tests; bug fixes
"This is by far one of the most interesting/powerful tools I have
seen for Linux administration... an extremely interesting tool."
--Kurt Seifried, Linux Administrators Security Guide
(https://www.seifried.org/lasg)
PIKT is an innovative new paradigm for administering heterogeneous networked
workstations. PIKT monitors systems, reports problems, and fixes those
problems automatically whenever possible.
PIKT uses an embedded scripting language that sports an especially clean
syntax and introduces unique features to make your programming easier.
PIKT is also a sophisticated script preprocessor and control mechanism for
managing all of your administrative scripts. You can, setting aside the PIKT
language, even use it to version control, install, error log, and schedule
programs written in other languages, as well as to employ macros, meta-
comments, and C-like #if, #ifdef, and #include directives in Perl, AWK, etc.
PIKT is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Available now
for Solaris, SunOS, GNU/Linux, and now also FreeBSD. For more info, and
complete source code, documentation, and data files (all 40,000+ lines of
it), please visit the PIKT Web site at:
http://pikt.uchicago.edu/pikt
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Robert Osterlund, Unix Systems Manager[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grad School of Business, U of Chicago phone: 773/702-8898
1101 E. 58th Street, #309, Chicago, IL 60637, USA fax: 773/702-0233
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Some Common Questions
Date: 18 May 1999 23:49:15 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Curt Corum wrote:
RealPlayer5.0 -
Linux-Misc Digest #264
Linux-Misc Digest #264, Volume #20 Wed, 19 May 99 19:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Panasonic CD-R 7502 not supported ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: car mp3 player (brian moore)
Re: Help with configuring e-mail? ("Anders Gulden Olstad")
Re: NT the best web platform? (Mark Forsyth)
Re: NT the best web platform? ("Stuart Fox")
New Linux Forum ("SEATTLE")
Re: netscape + java (Daniel Kollar)
Re: GNU has the sweet smell of Freedom of expression (Chris Costello)
Re: creating RH 6.0 CD - Part II (Rod Smith)
Re: Gnus/vim? [was: best offline newsreader?] (Bud Rogers)
Re: Netscape 4.6 .rpm, .deb? was, Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ?
(Bob Tennent)
Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page (gus)
* * * Mindcraft offer to re-run Linux vs NT test (Paul Gregg)
Re: possible to burn Mac Bootable with xcdroast? (Rod Smith)
Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page ("Chris")
Re: imblib - libpng (NF Stevens)
Re: In defence of UNIX man pages (Charles E Taylor IV)
Partition problems ("E B+S Prof. Dr. F. F. Branco-Porto Santo")
Looking for FREE Java IDE builder (Al Dev)
installing new driver on ghostscript (benjamin)
Re: ISDN Modem recommendations (Nick Birkett)
Re: How to grow my dos partition ("muzh")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Panasonic CD-R 7502 not supported ?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 08:26:49 GMT
Hi all,
I have a pb with a panasonic CD-R. When I enter this command :
cdrecord dev=6,0 -inq, I get this result :
Cdrecord release 1.8a19 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: '6,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 6 lun: 0
Device type: Removable unsupported
Version: 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities : SYNC LINKED
Vendor_info: 'MATSHITA'
Identifikation : 'CD-R CW-7502 '
Revision : '4.16'
Device seems to be: unknown.
It seems this is a pb of my scsi adapter (AHA 2920). Could someone
confirm me this or tell me how to solve this pb ?
Thanks in advance
Fabien
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: car mp3 player
Date: 19 May 1999 20:25:46 GMT
On Wed, 19 May 1999 19:35:51 GMT,
rs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 13 May 1999 16:04:06 GMT, David L. Bilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking into constructing an mp3 player for my car. I've searched the
web, but come up with lots of useless (for me) info. Basically, what I'm
looking for is a linux mp3 program that I can use for the playing. It
should support keypad control, and ideally, output to an LCD screen. Does
anyone have any pointers. If not, where can I get info on writing one
myself? Thanks.
David Bilbey
Oh and I almost forgot, I am starting on a new project to use a linux
kernel on a floppy which expands into a ramdisk to include the MPG123
player, the sound card module, and the code for the joystick and LCD.
Any help, suggestions, or info for getting started on such an endeavor
is greatly appreciated
Should be simple. Look on Sunsite, er, Metalab for the various
'cramdisk' kits. I keep a floppy around with a kernel that supports
3c509 and NE2000 nics, a serial port and includes Lynx and Minicom.
Great when you're stuck using someone's broken computer and just want a
proper terminal program. (And, yes, Hyperterm sucks.)
The cramdisk package has all the information you need to make your own
cramdisk, including choosing what files to put on it.
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Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: "Anders Gulden Olstad" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help with configuring e-mail?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:55:48 +0200
Anders Gulden Olstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, sendmail should disguise all mail from you as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
concentric.net I mean, sorry.
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From: Mark Forsyth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:55:35 +1000
Hmmm. I think the point is being somewhat missed here.
Seems to me that the benchmark testers haven't told us what the test
consists of. ie. The software in question, thye hardware it is to run on
and any special settings applied to either hardware or software.
Software
includes operating system here. If we knew everything about the test
they could run NT on whiz bang hardware with whiz bang tweaks agains
apache on a 286 with 1 meg of ram and a 10 meg H/D and we could STILL
make valid comparisons. By revealing NOTHING of teh
Linux-Misc Digest #265
Linux-Misc Digest #265, Volume #20 Wed, 19 May 99 21:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Where is kernel in Mandrake 5.3?? (hellraiser)
how to run EC program on web? ("peary")
re: Big Tar problem (Jarvis)
Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page (Rene van Valkenburg)
Re: Calendaring (David Pitts)
Re: New cable modem means I have a lot to learn (Robert Heller)
Re: Getting PPP to work (David Pitts)
Re: moving directories (Chris)
OpenSSL0.9.2b+ Redhat 5.2 on Alpha: cannot "configure" ("Sean Boran")
Re: NT the best web platform? (Benoit Goudreault-Emond)
Makeing a boot/root disk , howto ? (Mirko Roller)
Re: Creating Redhat 6 CD image (John Auld)
Re: /usr/sbin/in.identd missing? (Matt Kressel)
Re: Communism dosn't even exist, never did... ("Martin Ozolins")
Re: Need help setting up system. (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Re: Non-destructive partioning of linux partition? (Rod Smith)
From: hellraiser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where is kernel in Mandrake 5.3??
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:14:00 -0400
Phillip wrote:
I've just installed Mandrake 5.3 and tried to recompile the kernel the same
way I did with RedHat 5.2 and when I type 'make menuconfig' in
/usr/src/linux, I get error messages. I've played around with it and can't
figure it out.
what errors are you getting?
my guess is that you probably don't have the ncurses library installed.
if that is the case, then get the ncurses library (i forgot where... try
freshmeat.net), or try 'make config' or 'make xconfig'.
Appreciate the time. As I am not a regular reader of this group, please
reply to me via e-mail. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks alot!!!
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From: "peary" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: how to run EC program on web?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:20:46 +0800
Hi, all,
I use Informix SE on LINUX, and I found a problem.
I write an easy EC program(nothing about sql) and
compile it to execution file. It can run well under linux command,
but if i run it on web browser, it don't work(never have output).
But if I rename it to "tt.c" , and compile it to an execution file.
It can run well on both linux command and the web browser.
I don't know why? It is the same C program and nothing about SQL,
just compiled by different C compiler. Why one can execute on web browser,
and the other can't?
Anyone knows? Does any parameter I need to set on linux for web?
Thanks...
Peary
Here is my program, "tt.ec"
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include string.h
void main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
printf("Content-type:text/html%c%c",10,10);
printf("This tests the output of C on WEB...\n");
/*printf("%s",argv[1]);*/
return;
}
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From: Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: re: Big Tar problem
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:31:41 +0800
I seem to have a big problem with my tar after i upgrading my kernel to
2.2.7 and i dont know if it is a linux trojan/virus or some program
conflict with my kernel. Please advise.
Everytime i tar a program with root, the program extracts nicely however
the owner and the gourp of the file is some random normal user or
sometimes numbers. I am not sure but i think that my tar also affects
compiled files in the *.tar file, recently i downloaded vmware and after
installing i tried to run vmware and it couldnt find the file although i
got the path right. Also had the same problem when i downloaded mtv
Anyone have this problem?
thanks
J
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From: Rene van Valkenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: nl.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page
Date: 19 May 1999 22:45:16 GMT
In nl.comp.os.linux Thomer M. Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Vi Lovers Home Page:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tmgil/vi/vi.html
The only true EDitor:
http://swarm.cs.wustl.edu/~jxh/ed.html
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Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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From: David Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Calendaring
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 03:56:22 -0700
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Cameron Spitzer wrote:
In article N6o03.11012$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Christopher Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 18 May 1999 10:36:30 -0600, Stan Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to know if there is an application on Linux that would allow calendar
sharing. I have a bunch of users running Windows 95/98 using Outlook 97.
Plan has been doing this for a goodly five years;
Great tease. How is one supposed to look up a computer program named "plan"?
I expect that Ical
does the same, and reasonably
Linux-Misc Digest #268
Linux-Misc Digest #268, Volume #20 Thu, 20 May 99 01:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: NT the best web platform? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
neighboor table ("Sergei O. Naoumov")
ISDN Modem recommendations (Carl Waring)
Re: New Star office for glibc 2.1 (Charles E Taylor IV)
Re: information on "how to make a bootable linux cdrom"... or? (Brian Wallace)
Re: URGENT: How to download Red Hat 6??? (Hawke)
Re: Non-destructive partioning of linux partition? (Chris Sorenson)
We Need Good Unix Programmers! ("Carl Engstrom")
gcc ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page (William Wueppelmann)
Re: DDS-3 DAT drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Amaya: works only with local files ? (Mihaly Gyulai)
Re: Using another partition mounter under / ("Mage...")
Re: NT the best web platform? (Marc Slemko)
Re: Kernel 2.2.3 mystery (µ¶ÞæÄ~Chameleon~µ¶ÞæÄ)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 14:32:28 GMT
In article 7hru82$am6$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did any of your guys look at the webbechmark posted by PC
magazine?Below is the URL
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2256617,00.html
In this, it stated that NT4 and IIS is the best web platform today,
with "Leading performance, excellent programmability and wideest
variety
of third party addons". Contraray to common belive, it says IIS
outperformances other webserver(apache, netscape enterprise server)
when
load increased!!
At the end of this article, it goes on to explain that, IIS's
leading
performance(can you believe it???) is due to effective use of
threading
and efficient handling of file and network i/o. The interesting point
is
the asynchronous I/O, "Asynchronous I/O lets a threaded web server
process requests at the same time it performas file or network i/o".
Then it named Apache for lacking of such feature.
I am very suspicious of such statement. In its words, it seems that
asynchronous I/O can only be realized in a multi-threaded server,
You can not implement true async IO without having kernel scheduled
threads. I can't think of a single commercial OS that supports SMP and
doesn't have kernel threads and async IO. All major commercial UNIX's,
NT, VMS have kernel threads and async IO.
Exposing LWP to user mode is another story altogether. Generally UNIX
variants don't expose LWP to user mode due to inadequacies in the UNIX
process abstraction (fork a process). IF they do expose LWP the
process model is different when using LWP. ie. you can't fork()
however, in my opinion, a slave i/o process can easily accomplish this
(correct me if I am wrong). And as the introduction of copy-on-write,
a process fork is almost as light as a thread creation. Then how come
Slave IO processes can be used for sure. That's traditionally how you
achieve parallelism on UNIX but there is overhead costs associated to
this process model and limits app scaling on multiprocessing
environments.
Latency on a SPARCStation2 for creating:
User Thread(pthreads) 52ms
LWP (kernel schedule thread) 350
Process 1700
Creating a process, even on a OS that supports copy-on-write, is still
an expensive activity. In addition there is added runtime overhead of
dispatching interprocess communication because of the calls from user
mode - kernel - user mode. In addition you would use kernel objects to
syncronized access to shared resourses which have additional overhead.
LWP can allow less kernel overhead because you can use user mode
syncronization objects (ie. critical sections) and thread
communications is done within process address space.
the crappy IIS outperforms my beloved Apache? Is it true to some
extent
or is it just another FUD???
It's true to a certain extent. Part of the question is was that on
single or the number of cpus on a multi-cpu system.
IMO a OS like Linux will undoubtfully beat a multithreaded OS because
of less system overhead. On 2 cpus Linux and, depending on the app,
could hold its own. Past 2 cpu it has no chance.
And this may not be a bad thing if your only trying to compete in the
low-end server market.
cheers.
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From: "Sergei O. Naoumov" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: neighboor table
Date: 19 May 1999 14:30:40 GMT
Hi!
I just freshly installed RH 6.0 and occasionally I see this message:
"neighboor table overflow"
What does it mean?
Thanks,
Sergei
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From: Carl Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: ISDN Modem recommendations
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 16:18:09 +0100
We are
