Linux-Misc Digest #980, Volume #19 Thu, 29 Apr 99 01:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: New Kernel-2.2.6 errors (David Pendell)
Re: PST -> PDT OK, time still one hr behind [was Re: timezone and daylight savings
problem] (brian moore)
ISAPNP ("Elliott Paiken")
Re: .cshrc setup help (Neil Rickert)
Re: Log file gzipping and numbering thing ("Peter T. Caffin")
Re: converting ps to pdf (Chris Waters)
Re: Delete Linux's partition : HELP ! (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: How to get Slackware to recognize my mouse? (Donovan Rebbechi)
setting user memory limits with PAM (Donovan Rebbechi)
How to set RedHat's default screen blanking? ("Svend S. Sorensen")
Re: How to get Slackware to recognize my mouse? (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Wanted: A Good Vi GUI Setup (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Oversized Windows or Something... (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Opinions on KDE? (Jeff Burkholder)
Re: Epson Stylus Color II printer and Samba 2.0.3 and NT Workstation 4.0 (SP4) == NO
GO :~< ("Bleh")
Re: Gnome (David M. Cook)
Re: Epson Stylus Color II printer and Samba 2.0.3 and NT Workstation 4.0 (SP4) == NO
GO :~< ("Tiamat")
Re: StarOffice 5.0 ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: CLI app: *.jpg -> thumbnail-*.jpg (Dav Coleman)
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:11:26 -0500
From: David Pendell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Kernel-2.2.6 errors
Just to make sure. Didi you get all of the utility updates listed in the
upgrade guide on www.linuxhq.com? Specifically the util-linux update?
Michael wrote:
>
> This part is from the CD-ROM:
> hdc: command error: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
> hdc: command error: error=0x50
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 725120
> ATAPI device hdc:
> Error: No sense data -- (Sense key=0x00)
> No additional sense information -- (asc=0x00, ascq=0x00)
>
> This part is from the linux native:
> EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3, 65): ext2_free_block:
> bit already cleared for block 2818091
>
> I have recently compiled and build my new kernel-2.2.6 from my old kernel
> 2.0.32 I managed to make it and it boots fine with LILO but things really
> when wrong when I mount my CD-ROM drive and start copying large/huge files
> from it. Above is the error.
>
> Hope you guys know what it is and know how to solve it.
> For more details please state it down and I will reveal more.
>
> From,
>
> Michael
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: PST -> PDT OK, time still one hr behind [was Re: timezone and daylight
savings problem]
Date: 29 Apr 1999 03:32:15 GMT
On 28 Apr 1999 22:05:18 -0500,
Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brian McCauley wrote:
> >
> >
> > There are two ways Linux can operate:
> >
> > 1) The "right" way. The harware clock is in UCT no matter where in
> > the world you are and what time of year it is. Everything will
> > work fine in Linux but some other OSs will fail.
> >
>
> ????????????????????
>
> GMT shit? In America we like to have the exact time. It works for you because
> GMT is your time but for us it's bogus shit.
Um, not true. It actually makes a lot more sense, even in the US.
Think of things like daylight savings time, for example. How much time
is there between 1:59am and 3am? Most nights it's an hour and one
minute. But one night a year it's a minute, and one night a year it's 2
hours and a minute.
By dealing with things as UTC, you avoid the ambiguity: everything is
just an offset from a basic pointer.
(Hint: even those in the UK won't be on UTC during the summer.)
> Personnally I would rather have Linux not mess up with time at all and believe the
> clock. I had forgotten that winblows changed the time and got the time a bit
> screwed up.
It does believe the clock.
> I setup the time under OS/2 with the command time which is the best approach.
> The time was changed automatically without my request on boot to winblows 98,
> it was then adjusted under Linux. My clock was 3hrs ahead instead of 1.
Some of us don't reboot, let alone reboot multiple times a day.
I sure as hell ain't going to get up in the middle of the night twice a
year to set the clocks on several machines. They can do it just fine
themselves.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
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: "Elliott Paiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISAPNP
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:36:48 -0400
Simple question how do I use isapnp in linux? thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: .cshrc setup help
Date: 28 Apr 1999 18:25:06 -0500
Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I know that (when using the c shell) each time one opens a terminal
>window,
>the .cshrc file is executed. Is there a file that is executed (when
>using the c
>shell) once only upon login, and not every time one creates a new
>terminal
>window? Or could one setup a file to executed in such a way?
The file you are looking for is '.login'. However, when you open a
new xterm, '.login' might still be executed. It depends on whether
xterm was invoked with the '-ls' option.
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From: "Peter T. Caffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Log file gzipping and numbering thing
Date: 29 Apr 1999 03:14:47 GMT
I originally wrote:
>[...] (single long flat text files are fine, thankyouverymuch).
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (But how long? You probably want to do this on at least an annual basis,
> if not on the default daily or weekly basis.)
I check my log files fairly regularly. If it's time for a new start or
the files are growing a bit large, I'll delete or archive the logs that
need it.
It's probably just a personal thing, but, the automatic splitting and
archiving off of log just doesn't make sense when you've got a small
system. It results in lots of .gz files of 0-30k in your log directory
which add to the clutter.
(PS: You were right about the entries in /etc/cron.*/*)
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From: Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: converting ps to pdf
Date: 29 Apr 1999 03:36:35 GMT
Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> What's the best way to convert
> 1) a ps file to a pdf file.
> 2) a tex file to a pdf file (how reliable is pdftex and how do I use and
> where do I get it from? Does it come with
> teTeX?)
Here's a script that I use to convert my TeX to pdf:
--begin tex2ps--
#!/bin/sh
#
## script to take a raw tex document, compile it into a dvi document
## and then take that dvi document and convert it to printable ps or pdf
## Example: tex2ps <filename-sans-extension> [ps|pdf]
#
echo ""
latex $1.tex
echo ""
echo "Converting TeX to dvi..."
echo ""
dvips $1.dvi -o $1.ps
echo ""
echo "Converting dvi to postscript..."
echo ""
case "$2" in
ps)
echo ""
echo "Cleaning up..."
echo ""
rm $1.dvi
rm $1.aux
rm $1.log
;;
pdf)
echo ""
echo "Converting postscript to pdf..."
echo ""
ps2pdf $1.ps $1.pdf
echo ""
echo "Cleaning up..."
echo ""
rm $1.dvi
rm $1.aux
rm $1.log
rm $1.ps
;;
*)
echo ""
echo "Exporting to postscript format..."
echo ""
rm $1.dvi
rm $1.aux
rm $1.log
;;
esac
echo ""
echo "Done."
echo ""
--end tex2ps--
Chris Waters
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: Delete Linux's partition : HELP !
Date: 28 Apr 1999 23:01:21 GMT
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:14:42 +0200, Nguyen-Dai Quy wrote:
>Now I have another HDD 2.1 and I would like delete Linux on my old disk
>in order to reinstall Linux on my new disk.
>How to delete Linux's partition and retrieve this partition for Win95 ?
>Thanks in advance !
fdisk. However, I am not sure if you can unmount the root
file system, so what you'll probably need to do is use your
install disk, then when you get up to the partitioning part of
the installation, just delete the partition. Once you've
deleted it, you can format it from inside dos/windows.
--
Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Buying computer parts ? How do you know which vendors to trust ?
http://www.resellerratings.com
Impartial and accurate. Straight from the buyers mouth.
( disclaimer: i'm not affiliated with resellerratings.com )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: How to get Slackware to recognize my mouse?
Date: 28 Apr 1999 23:05:29 GMT
I forgot to mention :
it's a good idea to kill gpm before tweaking your
mouse settings.
killall -9 gpm
--
Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Buying computer parts ? How do you know which vendors to trust ?
http://www.resellerratings.com
Impartial and accurate. Straight from the buyers mouth.
( disclaimer: i'm not affiliated with resellerratings.com )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: setting user memory limits with PAM
Date: 28 Apr 1999 22:57:10 GMT
Hi. I have a RH5.2 2.0.36 box with PAM 0.64-4 installed.
I have been trying to set limits on user memory usage using the files
in /etc/security.
I have added lines to limit "rss" and "memlock" but it doesn't seem
to work. I also edited the files /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/xdm,
adding the following line:
session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so
It seems that some limits such as the limit on number
of logins works, but some limits don't.
oh, here's a nice "test program" to make sure that memory limits work...
( unfortunately they don't on my box ... )
#!/usr/bin/perl
@x=();
while (true){ push (@x,1) ; }
# end
--
Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Buying computer parts ? How do you know which vendors to trust ?
http://www.resellerratings.com
Impartial and accurate. Straight from the buyers mouth.
( disclaimer: i'm not affiliated with resellerratings.com )
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From: "Svend S. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: wsu.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: How to set RedHat's default screen blanking?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:34:09 -0700
I am running RH 5.9 and it automatically loads a blank screen
screensaver, before login. I was wondering if I could change this to
DPMS monitor control instead of a black screen. I can change my
settings under X by adding the xset command in my .xinitrc, but this
does not work in the console, and I wanted to make DPMS the default.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: How to get Slackware to recognize my mouse?
Date: 28 Apr 1999 23:03:52 GMT
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:19:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have Slackware (2.0.34) and a Microsoft "Mouse Port Compatible" mouse. I
>unerstand that this is a PS2 mouse. Anyway, when I run XF86Setup and try to
If the plug looks similar to the one your keyboard uses, it's a PS/2.
The serial mice have two rows of pin-sockets.
>I noticed that the psaux module was failing, so I compiled it into the kernel.
>Still no luck.
>
>Any ideas?
Make sure /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to /dev/psaux.
rm -rf /dev/mouse ; ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
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Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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http://www.resellerratings.com
Impartial and accurate. Straight from the buyers mouth.
( disclaimer: i'm not affiliated with resellerratings.com )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: Wanted: A Good Vi GUI Setup
Date: 28 Apr 1999 23:12:19 GMT
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:12:46 -0700, Jason Bond wrote:
>I have GVIM, and use it instead of vi, but the problem is that on my
>1024x768 screen, the font is so damn small that I can barely read
>anything
>on the screen. I've read through the vim man page but can't find
use this
gvim -fn (your_favourite_font)
I use "9x15". There are lots of fonts, and selection tools to go with
them. To pick a default font, edit ~/.Xdefaults, add a line which says
something like one of these
vim*Font: 9x15
gvim*Font: 9x15
--
Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Buying computer parts ? How do you know which vendors to trust ?
http://www.resellerratings.com
Impartial and accurate. Straight from the buyers mouth.
( disclaimer: i'm not affiliated with resellerratings.com )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: Oversized Windows or Something...
Date: 28 Apr 1999 23:09:16 GMT
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 05:16:22 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've been told, thats my "Physical and Virtual" resolution aren't the same
>which is causing the problem, I don't know.
comment out any lines that say "virtual" from your XF86Config file
(ie prepend a # to all lines that say "Virtual .... " ).
This will be in /etc , /etc/X11 , or /usr/lib/X11 depending on your setup
--
Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Buying computer parts ? How do you know which vendors to trust ?
http://www.resellerratings.com
Impartial and accurate. Straight from the buyers mouth.
( disclaimer: i'm not affiliated with resellerratings.com )
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From: Jeff Burkholder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Opinions on KDE?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:42:31 GMT
I've been looking into the same problem. Especially if I run quake in svga,
when I restart KDE, the cpu runs at 100$ until I kinn maudio.
Anyone have any suggestions how to diagnose this?
In article <7fqjta$gdn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kun Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On my machine, sometimes when KDE starts, a process (maudio) runs wild and
> takes all the CPU time it can use. After killing it, KDE runs fine on my K6-
> 233/128MB/4MB.
>
> For resolution, did you try Xconfigurator or XF86Setup?
>
> Kun
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> James Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've just installed KDE/Linux today on Dell 333 with 128 meg Ram and 8meg
> video.
> > I'm
> > wondering why everything runs extremely sluggish (windows and browser scroll
> in
> > particular); Also, is there any way to change the resolution. I've got a 21
> inch
> > monitor
> > and I'm not sure what the resolution is set on (I had to fudge a little
> loading
> > OpenLinux)
> > something in the realm of 1280x1084 or so. At any rate, I can barely read
the
> > font and
> > the web browser looks like a credit card (exaggeration slight).
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > james
> >
>
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From: "Bleh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color II printer and Samba 2.0.3 and NT Workstation 4.0
(SP4) == NO GO :~<
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.smb,linux.samba,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 02:28:04 GMT
> On th NT side, use the Apple Laserwriter driver and all should work fine.
Which Apple LaserWriter driver should I use? Windows NT 4.0 has 18
different drivers!
================================
Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600
Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS
Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS
Apple LaserWriter II NT v47.0
Apple LaserWriter II NTX v47.0
Apple LaserWriter II NTX v51.8
Apple LaserWriter II NTX-J v50.5
Apple LaserWriter IIf v2010.113
Apple LaserWriter IIg v2010.113
Apple LaserWriter Plus v38.0
Apple LaserWriter Plus v42.2
Apple LaserWriter Pro 600
Apple LaserWriter Pro 630
Apple LaserWriter Pro 810
Apple LaserWriter Select 360
Apple LaserWriter v23.0
Apple Personal LaserWriter NTR v2010.129
LaserWriter Personal NT v51.8
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: Gnome
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:28:34 GMT
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:55:40 GMT, Brian Vicente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It says in the gnome install info to change the X startup scripts and
>add 'gnome-session'
>any idea where this 'startup script' should go or added?
~/.Xclients on a Redhat system. I think it's .xinitrc on a Slackware
system. You may need to create it:
#!/bin/sh
gnome-session
You'll then need to make it executable
chmod +x .Xclients
Dave Cook
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From: "Tiamat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.smb,linux.samba,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color II printer and Samba 2.0.3 and NT Workstation 4.0
(SP4) == NO GO :~<
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 06:42:00 +0200
Bleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message :
01be91e7$e5ca35e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On th NT side, use the Apple Laserwriter driver and all should work
fine.
>
> Which Apple LaserWriter driver should I use? Windows NT 4.0 has 18
> different drivers!
>
> Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS
> Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS
Try one of these 2 ones, it should work :)
CYA
Tiamat
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: nwu.comp.unix.linux,nwu.comp.misc
Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.0
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:56:09 -0400
DO NOT INSTALL STAR OFFICE IN THE DEFAULT SINGLE-USER MODE!!!!
The documentation for StarOffice isn't that bad... but it sucks that
the process isn't intuitive enough that you can get away with just
installing the program without reading the documentation first.
The "best" way to install StarOffice is to login as root... change to
the directory where you unpacked all the installation files, and run the
setup program with the "/net" flag. The will install the main system-wide
files to some central directory (I used "/opt/Office50").
Once the main system-wide files are installed... log in as your
regular-user self and run the setup program that is in the directory you
just installed the system-wide files to (in my case,
"/opt/Office50/bin"). This will copy some settings and about 2 or 3 megs
of stuff to your user's home directory. When all's said and done... you
will run the "soffice" startup script that this places under your home
directory (in my case, "/home/steve/Office50/bin/").
Even if you use your Linux box as root, you have to do this extra
"user installation" step. You CANNOT run StarOffice from the system-wide
directory that the initial setup program creates!
Hope this helps,
Steve
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From: Dav Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CLI app: *.jpg -> thumbnail-*.jpg
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 04:36:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Beverley Eyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can't you do this w/ xv? Just keep reducing the size and then save as a new
file.
>
> Bev
>
> Dav Coleman wrote:
> >
> > --
> >
> > I'm looking for something which will take a jpg file and create a thumbnail
> > jpg version. pnmscale will do this with pnm files, but i'm not sure how to
> > convert pnm<->jpg and although 'man pnmscale' mentions a 'pnm' proggie, i
> > didn't get that installed from rpm along with pnmscale.
> >
> > And freshmeat.net returns nothing on a search for pnm.
> >
> > And I imagine there is an app which can do this without leaving the jpg
arena
> > anyhow?
> >
> > -Dav
> >
> > --
> >
> > http://www.serve.com/dav/
> > --
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> -- Ben Franklin
>
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