Linux-Misc Digest #33
Linux-Misc Digest #33, Volume #28 Tue, 5 Jun 01 02:13:01 EDT Contents: Re: make chmod 666 default for a dir (Colin Watson) Re: See a man file (Colin Watson) Re: ssh client for Win9X? (David Efflandt) Re: ssh client for Win9X? (Dave Uhring) Re: ssh client for Win9X? (Grant Edwards) Re: 2GB File size limitation (Rod Smith) Re: RH 7.1 disk and gmc corruption (Jason Lott) Re: netscape and cache (Rinaldi J. Montessi) Re: increasing ulimit for core files (John Taylor) Conner Tape (Greg) Re: In Linux, how can I read CDRW data store at Win2k? (David Eastcott) Re: seeking Windows Linux compatible email client (bowman) Re: linux (bowman) Need Some Help With A Compressed File (Multi User) Re: Need Some Help With A Compressed File (Mordak) Re: What are these kernel files for? Do I need them? (Glitch) got EOF from time server (DaveDiego) Debian install from CD? (Grant Edwards) Re: Num Lock (Rinaldi J. Montessi) interrup received, but no mail -- on adaptec aha1542 (Darren and Marla Welson) Re: linux (Andrew Brehaut) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) Subject: Re: make chmod 666 default for a dir Date: 5 Jun 2001 00:18:44 GMT John Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a subdir that I am working on with another user on my system. I have set the mode to be 777 for this subdir, and I want all new files that are created in this dir to have 666 permission by default. Is this possible? No. You could make the directory setgid to some particular group and then both put 'umask 2' in your .bashrc, though (so that files are created mode 0664, and the setgid bit on the directory will cause them to have the right group). This is only safe on a system that allocates a separate group to each user; otherwise, you just have to get used to switching umask. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Spirited, isn't he?' Tynian whispered to Ulath. 'Red-haired people are like that sometimes,' Ulath replied sagely. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: See a man file Date: 5 Jun 2001 00:15:30 GMT jose luis fernandez diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a file (cppp.1) and I want see it with 'man'. If I do 'file cppp.1', the system shows this: cppp.1: troff or preprocessor input text How can I see that file with man ? Depending on your version of man, 'man ./cppp.1', 'man -l cppp.1', or even just 'man cppp.1' might work. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ye GODS! NT crashed the microwave! Hmmm. Am thinkink we should put Elder Sign seal on microwave now. Leave alone. - User Friendly -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt) Subject: Re: ssh client for Win9X? Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 03:26:04 + (UTC) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 02:39:50 GMT, Aaron Brice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use ssh instead of telnet, but is there a nice free ssh client for Win9X? Security is important to me, but it's not worth $50.. :) Putty works well and is free. You may need to use its utility to create its public key (append it to your Linux generated authorized_keys). I use the same passphrase for both. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Also, if I'm connecting across my home lan which is also connected to a cable modem, between two computers that are on the same subnet, can someone on the internet still sniff the packets? Normally internet routers do not route IP's in the private ranges. But if your cable uses private IP's be cautious of others on that cable. You should have some sort of router or firewall that masquerades your LAN which hopefully uses a different subnet than the cable itself. -- David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) 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/ -- From: Dave Uhring [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ssh client for Win9X? Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:27:45 -0500 Aaron Brice wrote: I want to use ssh instead of telnet, but is there a nice free ssh client for Win9X? Security is important to me, but it's not worth $50.. :) Also, if I'm connecting across my home lan which is also connected to a cable modem, between two computers that are on the same subnet, can someone on the internet still sniff the packets? Go to google.com, search for putty -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards) Subject: Re: ssh client for Win9X? Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 03:29:47 GMT On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 03:26:04 + (UTC), David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use ssh instead of telnet, but is there a nice free ssh client for Win9X? Security
Linux-Misc Digest #33
Linux-Misc Digest #33, Volume #27 Mon, 5 Feb 01 20:13:04 EST
Contents:
Newbie: programming? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ipchains DROP target reporting with 2.4.x kernel (Robert Lynch)
newbie - system() or exec() ("Michal Kolesar")
Re: Multibooting 5 OSs = Win98, NT4, Linux, Solaris 8 and Unixware 7 - HOW TO???
(Dean C. Harris)
RedHat 7.0 and WABI ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big
Re: HELP: LILO on Deskstart 45 gig
Re: POp 3 delays ("Gero H. Marten")
Re: Newbie: programming? (Michael Heiming)
Re: How do I setup an HP 842C printer? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Compile from Micro soft access to Linux (Michael Heiming)
Re: Newbie: programming? (Mark Bratcher)
SuSe won't play audio cds ... ? ("Mark")
Re: How can I install RH 7.0 on an ATA100 harddrive ? (Starrwolf)
Can't load binfmt_misc.o ("David J. Topper")
Does JDK 1.3 work with kernel 2.4? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Where to find a RH 7.1 beta CD? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big (Sven Heinecke)
Re: Which Linux distribution is best? (Arctic Storm)
Re: Emacs question (Bob Hauck)
System V init script (Michael Mullins)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Steve Mading)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newbie: programming?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 21:12:27 GMT
I have recently switched to Linux, and am ready to get started
programming. I have a little experience programming with Borland C++
Builder, and M$ Visual Basic, both of which are exclusively for
Windows. Now, I took a look at GTK, and I have NEVER seen anything so
complicated! I also could not figure out Glade, which is obviously a
tool for making GTK programs.
Where should I start? Should I start with C++? I would like to make
programs with GUI's (not text-based). Any guidance would be a HUGE
help. What language, how to get started, etc.
Thanks,
Jason.
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Robert Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ipchains DROP target reporting with 2.4.x kernel
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 21:20:57 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hiya-
I am using an old box as a firewall on my home system, it has a
2.4.x kernel, and uses netfilter and the simple masq script from:
http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/NAT-HOWTO-4.html
together with an added set of targets:
iptables -N logit
iptables -A logit -j LOG --log-level warning --log-prefix "logit:
"
iptables -A logit -j DROP
so I can pick off the nature of DROP'ed packets.
I'd be curious as to what your firewall box is like. Are you by any
chance using the single floppy based setup from the Linux Router
Project?
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
(Dang it! I see the subject of my post is slightly misleading,
it should be "ipTABLES..." NOT "ipCHAINS...")
No, it's an old IBM ThinkPad my brother gave me. 64MB of RAM and
a 2G drive. This is ideal since it has its own mouse and screen,
and no fan, so it is more or less totally silent. I first
installed RH 7.0, then went in and removed all services and
unnecessary packages (including X; I got the number of total
packages down to 153 total, many of which are gcc and friends,
used for kernel compilation). I use SSH to administer the box.
I've compiled and installed the 2.4.x kernel from a tarball, so I
can use netfilter/iptables supported in the kernel.
The firewall currently has one Netgear FA410TX PCMCIA card
connected to my box, and a Meghertz 10/100 PCMCIA modem card for
a PPP connection to my current ISP. I'm about to get (A)DSL, at
which time I will deploy a second Netgear FA410TX PCMCIA card for
the other interface, replacing the Megahertz modem. I've also
ordered a cheap (US$65, delivered) Netgear 5-port switch which
will be used to fan out from the firewall to my own box, and to a
Windows box we also use for work-related items.
Cheers,
Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Michal Kolesar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: newbie - system() or exec()
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:37:33 +0100
Hi,
Is possible save std output of $subject functions to a variable in C?
I would like run standard shell command from C program (trough
system() function in example) and I would like use the output of that
command
for next manipulate in the C program.
ex:
char *output;
output = system("ls -lap");
--
S pozdravem,
Michal Kolesar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.egarden.cz
server of free unix services
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dean C. Harris)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.unix.solaris,alt.solaris.x86
Subject: Re: Multibooting 5 OSs = Win98, N
Linux-Misc Digest #33
Linux-Misc Digest #33, Volume #26Sun, 15 Oct 00 01:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 2 of 6)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Crossposted-To: news.answers,comp.answers
Subject: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 2 of 6)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Oct 2000 00:43:55 -0400
devoted to the subject, at http://www.linux-usb.org/. There is also
LDP documentation, at: ("Where Should I Look on the World Wide Web for
Linux Stuff?")
1.11. Is Linux Public Domain? Copyrighted?
The Linux trademark belongs to Linus Torvalds. He has placed the Linux
kernel under the GNU General Public License, which basically means
that you may freely copy, change, and distribute it, but you may not
impose any restrictions on further distribution, and you must make the
source code available.
This is not the same as Public Domain. See the Copyright FAQ,
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/law/copyright, for
details.
Full details are in the file COPYING in the Linux kernel sources
(probably in /usr/src/linux on your system).
The licenses of the utilities and programs which come with the
installations vary. Much of the code is from the GNU Project at the
Free Software Foundation, and is also under the GPL.
Note that discussion about the merits or otherwise of the GPL should
be posted to the news group gnu.misc.discuss, and not to the
comp.os.linux hierarchy.
For legal questions, refer to the answer: ("Where Are Linux Legal
Issues Discussed?")
1.12. Is Linux *nix?
Not officially, until it passes the Open Group's certification tests,
and supports the necessary API's. Even very few of the commercial
operating systems have passed the Open Group tests. For more
information, see http://www.unix-systems.org/what_is_unix.html.
[Bob Friesenhahn]
2. Topics of Current Interest.
2.1. What Resources Are There for Linux DeCSS and Other Open Source DVD
Software?
There is a DeCSS Resource Site at
http://www.pzcommunications.com/main.htm. For information about the
legal action to bar distributing DeCSS, refer also to 2600's Web site:
http://www.2600.com, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
http://www.eff.org.
2.2. Where Is Information About Electronic Privacy Laws that Affect ISP's?
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has issued a report to Congress that
recommends regulations to guarantee privacy for customers of Internet
Service Providers. The text of the report is at
http://www.ftc.gov/acoas/papers/finalreport.htm. The FTC E-commerce
site is at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menu-internet.htm/
The New York Times on the Web has a page of electronic privacy
information resources at
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/index-privacy.html
Access is free but requires registration.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center maintains a Web page at
http://www.epic.org/. The site also has pointers to information about
international laws that affect cryptographic software.
2.3. How Is the DocBook Version of the FAQ Produced?
At present, the Linux FAQ uses the OASIS DocBook SGML DTD. HTML output
is produced using James Clark's Jade DSSSL parser with modified
versions of Norman Walsh's modular style sheets. Question numbers are
generated with Perl. The text version is formatted from HTML with
lynx, and split into segments using the standard GNU text utilities,
and the segments are posted to Usenet. The DocBook utilities are
located at ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/sourceware/docbook-tools/.
3. Network Sources and Resources
3.1. Where Can I Get the Latest Kernel Version?
Make that versions. The 2.0 series kernels are still available for
older machines. The latest production kernel series is 2.2.x. The
updates to this kernel are bug fixes. Active development is proceeding
on the 2.4 series kernels.
The Web page at http://www.kernel.org/ lists the current versions of
the development and production kernels.
Among the 2.2 kernel's many improvements are a video frame buffer,
faster (although bigger) memory management, support for more hardware
devices, improved security, and improved POSIX compatibility. The
Linux kernel, in many of these areas, is superior to commercial OS's.
To read more about the features in the 2.2 kernels, the unofficial,
draft press releases are located at
http://www.tip.net.au/~edlang/linux/linux2.2pr.html.
If you want to download the source code, FTP to ftp.xx.kernel.org,
where "xx" is the two-letter Internet domain abbreviation of your
country; e.g., "us" for United States, "ca" for Canada, or "de" for
Germany. Kernel versions 2.2.x are archived in the directory
pub/linux/kernel/v2.2, as are patches for the prerelease versions. The
kernel source code is archived as a .tar.gz file, and as a .tar.bz2
file.
Follow the instructions in any of the standard references to compi
Linux-Misc Digest #33
Linux-Misc Digest #33, Volume #25 Mon, 3 Jul 00 16:13:04 EDT Contents: Re: what is this failure? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Help!! Ipchains I'm stuck (Greg) Re: Bash: expand tilde in prompt? (Dave Brown) Re: lilo from diskette (Jim McIntyre) Re: newsreader for Linux? (John Hasler) Re: what is this failure? (Bob Martin) Re: Windows Media Player for Linux??? (Dave Brown) Re: VMWare question (Duane) Opera 4.0a core dump (Praedor Tempus) output from pty (redtux) glibc upgrade (Natalia Muravieva) Re: newsreader for Linux? (Grant Edwards) Re: newsreader for Linux? (Grant Edwards) Debian 2.1 upgrade failed !!! (Barry Samuels) Re: newsreader for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Newbie CDR question (Foo Kwong Lee) Re: I used "make install" instead of "make bzImage" is this bad? (Write tome) Re: How to use tar with mulitple files... (Alex Chudnovsky) Re: How to burn RPM package into a CD-R (Alex Chudnovsky) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux Subject: Re: what is this failure? Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 17:05:05 GMT In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], PoD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On start-up (RedHat6.2) I get: modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/opl3.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/opl3.o failed What is opl3 anyway and how can I fix it? Thanks Wroot OPL3 is an FM synthesis chip found on many sound cards. Have you run /usr/sbin/sndconfig? PoD. Yes, and my sound seems to be all right. Wroot Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. -- From: Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help!! Ipchains I'm stuck Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 17:26:31 GMT Subject: HELP!! IPCHAINS i'm stuck Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 15:33:52 GMT From: Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: @Home Network Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux I'm running a linux rh6.1 box with 3 working nic cards as follows. 1. eth0 internal 192.168.1.1 2 eth1 @home cable modem 24.x.x.169 3 eth2 @home cable modem 24.x.x.166(not on the same subnets) I have a lan setup attached to the network all working fine. using 192.168.1.2.. 3... 4.. 5 windows pc's Currently i have ipchains/masq setup ok giving internet acecess from eth1(cable) to all the pc's on the network. I would like to route traffic from eth2 ( 2nd cable ip) to one or more of the windows pc's. I'm currently using ipchains w/masq. Basic setup listed below: Can you tell me how to route the second cable IP eth2 to another internal IP address on my lan. My guess was I needed to add the 2nd gateway. But i'm confussed when i added the 2nd gateway and rebooted. my box hung at the SENDMAIL for a few minnets and then moved on. when i got into the box the other pc's could not see the Internet at all. my route table had both gatways ass the default like this destination gateway genmask iface default 24.x.x.169 0.0.0.0eth1 default 24.x.x.166 0.0.0.0eth2 Notes: My cable goes into a switch/hub see below: CABLE (24.x.x.169) | - (24.x.x.166) | HUB | | | === || | | | PC2 PC3 LINUX PC4PC5 192.168.1.2192.168.1.3 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.4 192.168.1.5 Ok with/without the second gateway defined I can ping all the IP addresses including the 2 external cable IP's Any help would be appreciated. IPCONFIG RULES I HAVE ipchains -F input ipchains -F output ipchains -F forward ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -i eth1 -s 192.168.1.0/024 -d 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT ipchains -A forward -i eth2 -s 192.168.1.0/024 -d 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT ipchains -A forward -i eth1 -s 192.168.1.2 -j MASQ ipchains -A forward -i eth1 -s 192.168.1.3 -j MASQ ipchains -A forward -i eth2 -s 192.168.1.4 -j MASQ ipchains -A forward -i eth2 -s 192.168.1.5 -j MASQ -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown) Subject: Re: Bash: expand tilde in prompt? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3 Jul 2000 12:31:13 -0500 In article 8jqc2u$m5e$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Jogar the Barbarian wrote: I can't seem to figure out how to get my literal home directory in my prompt instead of the tilde. Help?? -- Greg Ackerson -- Chief IT Geek at H
Linux-Misc Digest #33
Linux-Misc Digest #33, Volume #24 Mon, 3 Apr 00 16:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: serial port (Leonard Evens)
Re: Distro Dystopia (brian moore)
linux printing question... (Kevin J Dressel)
Re: How to force the kernel to use a module? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
'ps' question (Intrepid)
NIS (wally)
bash special characters (Robin Becker)
Re: RedHat 60 install freezes up on "Loading second stage ramdisk" (Lars Bonnesen)
Re: pppd dies from SIGHUP (Madhusudan Singh)
Re: Recommendations Please (Bastian)
Password conversion during upgrade (Kerry Cox)
Re: Mouse wont work in xfree86 (Dances With Crows)
patch(1) (was Re: HELP!! kernel configuration problems) (Paul Kimoto)
Star Office ("Dave")
Re: Star Office (Dances With Crows)
RedHat ISO Images ("Dheera Venkatraman")
Re: lpr only prints as root (Harold Bower)
Re: I want to send EOF to FIFO. (Aleksey)
Re: "make menuconfig" hangs on RH 6.1 ("Eric Potter")
archiving? (Davis Eric)
Xserver broke? Stepped in s--t? (MrJack of LuLuland)
From: Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: serial port
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 13:37:31 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone tell me how to determine which unix device is assigned to my
external serial port, and/or how to assign a device to this port?
Thanks,
Carson
--
Carson R. Wilcox
Senior Architect
DMR Consulting Group
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Com 1 under Dos is /dev/ttyS0
Etc.
Also, look in /var/log/messages after you boot or use dmesg.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Distro Dystopia
Date: 3 Apr 2000 18:10:36 GMT
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 02:59:59 GMT,
David Steuber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running the 2.2.10 kernel. No big deal. So I am a few patch
levels behind. Of course SuSE 6.2 ships with OSS for sound. I have
the sarcasmwonderful/sarcasm AWE 64 Gold ISA PnP sound card on my
machine. OSS has been the only way to get the card to work. OSS,
inspite of its name, is not free. Why is the word 'open' even used in
a product name when the product is not free? So here is the catch
with OSS. It is for users of the SuSE distribution it was shipped
on. Upgrading the kernel requires a reinstall.
Really? OSS/Free (ie, the one that comes with the kernel) supports the
AWE64 just fine and dandy. It's my sound card of choice (ie, good sound
and cheap).
See http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0003/msg02164.html
for a hint.
But wait, there is more fun! SuSE 6.2 shipped with an out of date
GCC. 6.4 fixes that. I am not able to pay for food _and_ an upgrade
at this point. No more on that. Anyway, it turned out to be easy to
simply download and build the latest GCC from the GNU ftp site. Now I
have two versions of GCC on my system. My brain is of very limited
capacity and this confuses me. Which include files will be used? I
don't know! I put the new version in /usr/local/bin. The SuSE
version is in /usr/bin. I can fix the path to put /usr/local/bin
ahead of /usr/bin, but that probably doesn't settle the include file
problem. Or the lib file problem.
An out of date gcc? Considering 2.7.2.3 is still recommended for the
kernel, I highly doubt it's outdated.
From the current 'Changes' file:
|Note that the latest compilers (egcs, pgcc, gcc 2.8) may do Bad
| Things while compiling your kernel, particularly if absurd
| optimizations (like -O9) are used. Caveat emptor. Currently, the only
| C compiler available in a binary distribution is egcs. Version 1.0.3
| seems okay; if you have to have a binary, you may be successful using
| that. In general, however, gcc-2.7.2.3 is known to be stable, while
| egcs and others have not been as thoroughly tested yet.
Does this mean there is no room for packaged distributions? No, not
at all. I just think they should all follow some standards so that it
isn't impossible to build a single, distribution neutral release of a
large application.
Install Debian.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
--
From: Kevin J Dressel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linux printing question...
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:34:29 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got a Panasonic KX-P4410 Laser printer (it is old, but it works
well) that I can get to work with Redhat linux via their printtool.
However, because the printer makes poor use of its memory (having only
512kb), it is impossible to print o
Linux-Misc Digest #33
Linux-Misc Digest #33, Volume #21Wed, 14 Jul 99 16:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux 6.0 locking up on install ...Help! (Duncan Simpson)
Re: "system too big".. for WHAT! (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: Compaq Presario 1600? (Abhishek Kumar)
Re: UML software for Linux? (Steve Wampler)
Re: Linux and Memory ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CIA assassinations (MK)
Re: Linux and Memory (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Sending dual boot machine for tech support ("Erik D. Hansen")
Max memory linux can use ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: tik AOL AIM (Stuart R. Fuller)
Is CD-R usuable as backup medium on Linux? (Calvin Ostrum)
FTP daemon resetting folder permissions??? (Christopher Suleske)
Chmoding directories for «O»thers: x or rx? (Gilles Pelletier)
Re: CIA assassinations (Generalissimo)
Re: kdm instead of xdm?? ("J. Ronald Jarvis")
SB16 WavEffects/DMA Programming Frustrations ("Boisy G. Pitre")
Burning logos on CD (Mark Gray)
Re: Error: LILO doesn't support VGA mode presetting ("Academic Computer Center")
Major RedHat 6.0 Disappointment ("David Eno")
Re: Red Hat 6.0 hangs on P3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: star office prints A4 only ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Debian packaging system (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Amiga will use the Linux kernel. (Philip Brown)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: Linux 6.0 locking up on install ...Help!
Date: 14 Jul 1999 16:57:40 GMT
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher Stutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
'Wulff wrote:
I just purchased the Mandrake/Linux 6.0 package and it consistently
locks up under install.
Everything goes fine until I get to a screen that says "probing for
mouse".
I've installed Mandrake 6.0 w/ a Logitech PS/2 mouse no problem. If
only nfsd worked...
Have you tried knfsd (on 2.2.x?). I machine I know had some problems and
the generally agreement was that knfsd was the wy to fix it. Being chicken
we also plan to run software watchdog timers and chnaged the rest cope to
read and write using nfs, so if nfsd dies a reboot takes place promptly.
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: "system too big".. for WHAT!
Date: 14 Jul 1999 16:24:55 GMT
In article 7mh3q6$n52$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First question: Is there a newsgroup devoted to kernel compilation
problems? I dont see anything in the list.
I just 'up'graded to redhat 6 tried to recompile my kernel.
Upon 'make boot' I wind up with
System is 590 kB
System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [boot] Error 2
Too big for what?? I've got 64MB of RAM gobs of hdd space.
That has nothing to do with it. zImage has to unpack in the bottom 640K.
It's archaic, a legacy for compatibility with older install scripts.
Use bzImage for the 2.2.x kernels. It unpacks in the 64 MB you
were talking about.
Most options are in modules I've weeded out what I dont need.
I've recompiled my kernel before with no trouble. This looks
like an arbitrary limit. If it's too big for a floppy, I dont
care. I use LILO. make bzImage will work but the redhat manual
recommends make boot. I dont know the difference.
The Red Hat manual is wrong.
What's the workaround for this?
Ignore the Red Hat manual. Maka a bzImage and edit /etc/lilo.conf
to use it.
Cameron
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From: Abhishek Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Compaq Presario 1600?
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:06:59 -0400
Bruce Schultz wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:30:56 -0400, David J. Topper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So it seems quite obvious that the Linux laptop situation is quite
grim. I have yet to find a vendor with a machine that has:
Supported Video chipset
Supported audio chipset
Supported modem
It seems as though most will have 2 out of 3 at best. I'd love to see a
day where www.VENDOR.com would actually contain a page listing chipset
specs.
Finding a supported built-in modem will be nearly impossible. I'm not
familiar with any that work. All that I've seen are winmodems. It's no
big deal. If you have a pcmcia port, you can use a pcmcia modem.
So my latest question is about the Compaq Presario line. Do they stack
up? How is the AMD K6-III 380 chip vs. the Portable PII-400?
I have a Presario 1230 at the office. It has an odd pcmcia controller
that some versions of the pcmcia card support can't work with, but
everything (except the winmodem, of course) works. T
Linux-Misc Digest #33
Linux-Misc Digest #33, Volume #20 Mon, 3 May 99 01:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need help setting up a remote X-term. (Regit Young)
I am on a quest... (Jeffery Cann)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really)^ (Bill Bonde)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really) (Chris Costello)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really) (Chris Costello)
Re: CTRL-S (Jim Richardson)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really) (Chris Costello)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really) (Chris Costello)
Re: Windows NT vs. Linux testing by mindcraft (Jesus Monroy, Jr.)
Re: irc (Rick)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really) (Chris Costello)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks ("Colin R.
Day")
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really)^ (Chris Costello)
From: Regit Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Need help setting up a remote X-term.
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:54:15 +0800
Is there a error message ?
"Matthew B. Kennedy" wrote:
Greetings Linux and X users,
I am using RH Linux 5.2. What I am having trouble with is setting up a
connection from my Linux machine at home to a remote computer at work in
order to use X remote applications from home. The idea is that I will
use my local Linux X server to get allow me to use all the graphical X
applications on the remote computer.
I can't find any real specific documentation on how to to this, but this
is what I have tried:
1. I connect to the network using PPP (this all works -- I can access
other services such mail and WWW for instance).
2. Then I telnet to the remote machine using "telnet
remote-machine.qut.edu.au" from my xterm prompt in Linux. I can get in
alright under text mode.
3. Once in the remote machine under telnet, I set the DISPLAY variable
to be the (dynamically allocated) IP address of my local machine)
followed by :0.0 (eg. export DISPLAY=131.181.123.456:0.0). Note, I get
the local IP address information by running traceroute -- is there a
better/ more direct way?
4. Then I run a graphical X application like xemacs. And it just hangs
at the prompt.
I have tried using the local "xhost" command to add
remote-machine.qut.edu.au. But this doesn't seem to make much of a
difference either.
Note that I have previously been able to connect and access these X
programs on the remote computer under windows using X server emulator
like MIX and Xcursion. The technique was similar -- login with telnet,
configure the DISPLAY variable on the remote machine and then fire up
the X server emulator.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I thought using the
dinki-di X server that comes with Linux would make it a breeze --
obviously I'm doing something simple wrong...
Thanks,
Matthew
--
Matthew B. Kennedy
Queensland University of Technology
Australia
--
~ cry for help from a overworked box ~
I've been working for 9 weeks 6 days 4 hours 24 minutes
non-stop. Please ask my stupid owner to reboot me.
He can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jeffery Cann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.slackware.linux
Subject: I am on a quest...
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 08:19:57 GMT
for an X-windows email client for Linux. If my dream of the "perfect"
email client could be written down, it would have the following
features:
- stable: never hangs, never blows up!
- reliable: messages don't evaporate!
- scalable: if I have 2000 messages saved, performance shouldn't drop.
- graphical: what can I say, I am not into pine.
- threaded: this seems to be a hard feature, not sure why.
- minimal resources: bloatware sucks even with P2/350 (128 MB)
Here are the email clients I have tried:
Netscape Communicator
- It is fairly solid, has threading, but cannot support multiple
accounts. It also randomly blows up and uses about 13 MB. I know I can
launch into the mail window by default at startup of netscape, but all
the components of communicator still are loaded.
KDE Kmail
- Lean and mean. Too lean on features. Font support is underdeveloped
and there is no threading in kmail 1.1. Kmail 2.0 will have threading.
Cannot support multiple email accounts. Seems to be stable.
Star Office
- While pretty, 5.0 filtering of MS Office documents is buggy. So,
download the 'filter update' in 5.01 'to improve performanc
