Linux-Misc Digest #475, Volume #20 Thu, 3 Jun 99 10:13:39 EDT
Contents:
How to print w/StarOffice 5.1 and RedHat 5.2 upgraded to kernel 2.2.x? (Dale
Hennessey)
Re: DHCP client problem with 2.2.x (Francois Magnan)
Re: NT the best web platform? ("Chad Mulligan")
3 button mouse emulation... (Laurent GALIO)
Re: Disk Druid not improving, and why... ("Chad Mulligan")
Making an ICQ server (Azfar Kazmi)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (Mark Grzywacz)
Re: DHCP client problem with 2.2.x (Dann Church)
Re: Netscape error: network is unreachable (Caroline Abbey)
Re: word processing, what to use? (Duncan Simpson)
Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested (Peter Mutsaers)
Re: Caldera 2.2 + Specialix SI/XIO? (Azfar Kazmi)
Re: Caldera 2.2 + Specialix SI/XIO? (Azfar Kazmi)
Re: mandrake isp setup (Michel Catudal)
Re: Help with crontab (Nguyen-Dai Quy)
Q: CD to disk caching? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Hennessey)
Subject: How to print w/StarOffice 5.1 and RedHat 5.2 upgraded to kernel 2.2.x?
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:09:33 GMT
I just put StarOffice 5.1 on my machine
and I can't seem to make it print. There
seems to be a default queue defined and
from what I can see in the help, the default
queue looks ok.
However, when I try to print a test page
I get nothing on the printer and nothing
in the queue, despite StarOffice telling me
that the print was successful.
Would someone who got printing to work
under this combination of software mind
sharing their configuration with me?
Many thanks! :)
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Subject: Re: DHCP client problem with 2.2.x
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francois Magnan)
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:08:48 GMT
Try removing:
/etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth1.cache
before you execute dhcpcd. I had to add this to my ifup script.
Otherwise dhcpcd would never get an IP. I run dhcpcd 1.3p17 in kernel
2.2.5-15.
Francois Magnan
On 06/01/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm having problems with getting my cable modem to work with
>the newer 2.2.x kernels. I'm currently using a 2.0.36 kernel with
>dhcpcd 0.65 just fine to get an IP address from my provider.
Apparently
>the dhcp server is a cisco, of which I know no more. Anyways I've
just
>tried kernel 2.2.8 with all of the updated packages including
>dhcpcd-1.3.17pl2 which I got as a source rpm and rebuilt with the new
>2.2.8 kernel. I get the following error in my /var/log/messages
>
>connection timed out waiting for a valid dhcp server response.
>
>I haven't had any problems with dhcp using the 2.0.x kernels.
>
>Any clues as to a way to get this to work would be greatly
appreciated.
>Thanks,
>
>Brian Seppanen
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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>
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Universite de Montreal
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Reply-To: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:23:54 -0700
Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <1sg53.638$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chad Mulligan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > Essentially, hobbyists don't have the discipline to do it properly.
For
> >> > examples look at Disk Druid, and RH 6.0.
> >>
> >> And that makes Linux unprofessional?
> >>
> >> Thomas
> >>
> >In a word. Yes! Leaving a bug in a recommended installer program that
will
> >destroy data is UNPROFESSIONAL!
>
> Exactly, just like Microsoft knows Access97 has a horrid data destorying
bug
> in it and barely did anything in the begginning when it was discovered. I
> lost a weeks worth of data because of it. Microsoft is just as
unprofessional
> as Linux.
And which bug is this? I personally don't like the MDB type database file
system, it's kind of like placing all your eggs in one basket, and I've been
bitten by that one. I use dBase files when working with Access more often
than not. BTW the DD bug destroys whole hard drives not mere database files.
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From: Laurent GALIO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: 3 button mouse emulation...
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 11:55:57 +0100
Hi
I have installed LinuxPPC on an AppleMac Power Macintosh 4400... It
works fine.
My only problem is about the mouse.... It doesn't emulate the 3 buttons
with the keyboard. Normally it is the option-2 key ... Here it doesn't
work (similar effect as option-1).
I didn't find how to set up that (the mouseconfig is already set up on
"3 button emulation"!)
I previously installed LinuxPPC on my PowerComputing PowerTower (PPC604
166MHz) and the emulation works well on it...!
If somebody knows where I can get this information...
Thank you
Laurent
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Reply-To: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Disk Druid not improving, and why...
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:53:08 -0700
James Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7j44ra$qaj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.misc Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : How about the little but that, when patitioning drive 1, it reset at the
> : bios level, drive 0 to dos compatibility mode. I consider that a
serious
> : defect.
>
> Forgive my asking, how do you tell that it was set to Dos-compat mode
> in the BIOS?
A drive with more than 1024 cylinders was reset to a mapped mode with the
largest cylinder being 1023.
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From: Azfar Kazmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Making an ICQ server
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 10:37:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Is there any ICQ daemon available? I looked at freshmeat.net but found
none stable. How can I make an ICQ box?
I have provided a cache server to users and they connect to Internet
through that. Since they wish to use ICQ and Squid doesn't allow that
therefore I thought why I don't make my own box an ICQ server. Is that
possible? I have never used ICQ though. I even don't know how the client
works.
I am using Redhat 4.1 kernel 2.0.34
--
Azfar Kazmi
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From: Mark Grzywacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:17:21 +0100
On 2 Jun 1999, Michel Catudal wrote:
> At Cheapbytes I found those prices
>
> S.U.S.E 6.1 $34.95
> RedHat 6.0 $1.99
> Mandrake 6.0 $1.99
> BSD 3.2 $7.99
> Slackware 4.0 $3.99
>
> Price jump you say?
That's hardly a fair comparison - The $1.99 price is only for one CD - no
manual, extra software amd technical support. The SuSE price includes all
that above (comes with 5CD's - Star Office WP8 etc). There are cheap one
CD SuSE packages available - hell the .iso image is free to d/l - I think
you should compare like with like.
I am not a rapid fan of any one particular distro - I've only used Redhat
and SuSE and the full RedHat package is a bit steep!
====================================================
Mark Grzywacz
Dept. Virology
Royal Free and University College School of Medicine
Rowland Hill Street
London
NW3 2PF
Tel:0171 794 0500 (Ext.3746)
Fax:0171 830 2854
E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dann Church <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DHCP client problem with 2.2.x
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 05:57:11 -0600
Brian,
I actually had the reverse problem, I couldn't get dhcp client to work until
I upgraded kernel and version of dhcpcd.
But, from looking at some previous messages, it looks like you may have to
power-cycle the cable modem in order for it to clear up the lease on the ip
address. I've seen postings on this that winblows does not release the dhcp
lease correctly and causes this.
Anyways, good look!
--Dann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm having problems with getting my cable modem to work with
> the newer 2.2.x kernels. I'm currently using a 2.0.36 kernel with
> dhcpcd 0.65 just fine to get an IP address from my provider. Apparently
> the dhcp server is a cisco, of which I know no more. Anyways I've just
> tried kernel 2.2.8 with all of the updated packages including
> dhcpcd-1.3.17pl2 which I got as a source rpm and rebuilt with the new
> 2.2.8 kernel. I get the following error in my /var/log/messages
>
> connection timed out waiting for a valid dhcp server response.
>
> I haven't had any problems with dhcp using the 2.0.x kernels.
>
> Any clues as to a way to get this to work would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
>
> Brian Seppanen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Caroline Abbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape error: network is unreachable
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 13:18:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The error message is from IP and means there is no path to that
network (whatever it is). Try looking at your log files for any hints.
The log files are probably in /var/log. Usually the file
/var/log/messages, but there may be others there too.
No path means a routeing problem. You should also check your
routeing table (netstat -r). Is it, perhaps, that netscape is trying to
contact its home page and cannot find it?
Good luck!
Phil Berry
For Linux, NT and Internet training see: http://193.63.48.62:8080
John Thompson wrote:
> I just updated Netscape from v4.08 to v4.6 and now am seeing
> the error message "Netscape error: network is unreachable"
> shortly after firing up the Message center to read news.
> Netscape is configured to use the news server on my home
> network and despite the error message appears to function
> properly.
>
> Why does it display this error and is there a way to turn it
> off?
>
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: word processing, what to use?
Date: 3 Jun 1999 12:47:15 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
writes:
<stuff snipped>
>I've also used Lyx, which wasn't ready, Wordstar, MS-Word (which was
>baffling, unreliable, and inappropriate for large works), Framemaker,
>Crystalwriter, Applix Words, and Wordperfect.
>And sgmltools. And HTML in vi/elvis/vim. (Vim's the best!)
According to vibes I get LyX beats quite a lot of the commercial offerings
in the same area, especially in things like using other packages. With care
you can even get it to fail to notive evil valiogn stufff (hidden I a \def
in plain TeX mode, a little aboev where I applied it). I was favorably
impressed by how well it coped with my abuse.
<lots more snipped>
>My favorites are Framemaker and LaTeX. They keep getting better as
>you learn to use them. LaTeX' only problem is its poorly *organized*
>documentation. (I have the four standard LaTeX books. Any particular
>feature or issue will be mentioned in one or two of them, and usually
>in a footnote.) I learned to dread looking for "packages" in the
>heap of stuff called Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. It's almost
>always easier to generate complicated effects in Perl that spits out
>low level LaTeX than figure out how to install, debug, and apply the
>"package" that was supposed to do it all within LaTeX and make it
>easy. <...more here all snipped...>
If you want really complex stuff then I find plain TeX is the way to
go. I use a mixture of plain TeX and LaTeX and find it works
nicely. Things like tall 0 spanning two rows of a matrix become much
less challenging when you use the low-level plain TeX stuff. LyX math
mode fails to realise that it can not understand some things and tends
to dump core unless you hide the evil stuff in macro or similar (sad
but true).
I did have a really hard time doing something that \bordermatrix
almost does but not quite. A really good understanding of how to do
this proerly, wihtout any kludges, is something on my list of things
to do in my copious free time.
The organisation of Lesile Lamport's book and the excess of gnats and
gnus could be improved upon though. I think Knuth's book on plain TeX
is better organised, even if the stuff gets more than a little
esoteric in places... I guess I am hoping M$ gets the idea of complete
documentation that allow me to figure out the problem when I have
tried to the obvious things (and similarly clueful tech support).
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: Peter Mutsaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested
Date: 03 Jun 1999 14:14:30 +0200
>> "BK" == Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BK> Since SCSI is almost exclusively what tends to run on the
BK> larger servers, I'm not really particularly interested in
BK> results with IDE drives. I don't suppose you can re-run these
BK> test results on a machine with decent SCSI controller &
BK> drives?
I have fast-SCSI-2. But since I found out 3/4 of a year ago that
current UDMA drives are at least twice as fast (>14MB/s raw) as
fast-SCSI-II (10MB/s theoretical, in practice much lower) I switched
to UDMA. UDMA also has low CPU usage. I think SCSI is only worthwhile
for UW or U2W disks.
BK> I don't know anything about iozone, but I know that bonnie
BK> doesn't come anywhere close to fulfilling this goal. Maybe
BK> I'll just have to hack on it some so that it can at least come
BK> closer to what I want, but I'd prefer to not have to do that.
iozone is very simple, it just sequentially reads & writes and does an
fsync in between. But it doesn't measure simultaneous disk access as
bonnie does. I started a number of iozones in parallel once to check
how the filesystem behaves with concurrent readers & writers, which
gave quite interesting and different results.
BK> And hdparm? Don't make me laugh.
What's wrong with hdparm, setting flags after booting instead of in
the kernel?
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | the Netherlands | what I'm doing.
===============+=====================+=================
Running FreeBSD-current UNIX. See http://www.freebsd.org
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From: Azfar Kazmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Caldera 2.2 + Specialix SI/XIO?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:08:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just found that driver is available at www.specialix.com's software
drivers page. I will now proceed to check it out. You can also give it a
try.
--
Azfar
In article <3758db8a.18761319@wingate>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Raper) wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am a newbie with Linux and I was wondering how I might go about
> installing and configuring a Specialix multi-port card to work under
> Caldera 2.2 Linux?
>
> I have downloaded the sidrv.taz file and run through the update
> procedure but it bombs out pretty early - the patch command doesn't
> succeed. Looking at the readme it seems to want the 2.1 kernel rather
> than the 2.2 kernel. Is there an update for this yet?
>
> TIA
> Chris R.
>
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From: Azfar Kazmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Caldera 2.2 + Specialix SI/XIO?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:02:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I myself am looking for Specialix support. Months back, on linux mailing
list, I was told that 2.0.36 and later will carry support for Specialix.
I just downloaded 2.2.9 and found that support is not there. Let me know
if you find any solution, so will I.
Where did you get sidrv.taz from?
--
Azfar
In article <3758db8a.18761319@wingate>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Raper) wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am a newbie with Linux and I was wondering how I might go about
> installing and configuring a Specialix multi-port card to work under
> Caldera 2.2 Linux?
>
> I have downloaded the sidrv.taz file and run through the update
> procedure but it bombs out pretty early - the patch command doesn't
> succeed. Looking at the readme it seems to want the 2.1 kernel rather
> than the 2.2 kernel. Is there an update for this yet?
>
> TIA
> Chris R.
>
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mandrake isp setup
Date: 2 Jun 1999 21:28:04 -0500
Michael Truncellito wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Can someone please tell me why I can't get a dns address to enter in my
> configuration in the kppp panel when I try to setup my internet connection..
> the add button is greyed out so I can't use it ...Help!!
> Thanks for any help..
That kppp panel has never worked, use control-panel
It should be installed. It worked beautifully and creates
the scripts for you on the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
Then use
ifup ppp0
and
ifdown ppp0
to connect and disconnect.
Don't forget to setup the modem then the ppp
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From: Nguyen-Dai Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help with crontab
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 15:05:54 +0200
Louie R. Orbeta wrote:
>
> Adam L. Mendelson wrote:
> >
> > I have an entry in my crontab it reads "1 * * * *
> > /usr/local/bin/netmrtg" and crond is running. Hoever this entry does
> > not seem to execute. I am trying to run a script every minute. This is
> > the first time I have tried to put cron to use. Is there anything wrong
> > with the syntax for having this run every minute? How can I debug why it
> > does not appear to run at all. Thank you in advance for any help, and a
> > cc in email would be greatly appreciated
>
> Hi,
>
> The entry "1 * * * *..." will only run in the 1st minute of the hour.
> If you want to have this run every minute, do this:
>
> "1 * * * *..."
> "2 * * * *..."
> "3 * * * *..."
> ...
> "59 * * * *..."
> "0 * * * *..."
Or
1,2,3,4,5,6,.....,59,0 * * * * /usr/bin/toto
>
> Yes, you have to enter an entry for every minute in your crontab, but
> that's how crontab works. :p
>
> Hope this helps.
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Quy NGUYEN-DAI
Fracture Mechanics- University of Liege, Belgium.
Phone:+32-4-3669241 Fax:+32-4-3669311
http://ltas18.ltas.ulg.ac.be/~quy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Q: CD to disk caching?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 22:13:01 GMT
Hi there
I just upgraded an odd-DOS-based CD-server to Linux (kernel 2.2.5). It
works well, but as some of the 14 CD readers/changers attached to it are
only 2x-capable, I am looking for tricks to speed everything up a little
bit.
I know Linux is damn good at using free RAM for HD/CD caching, but as
I don't have much of it, is there any way I can use the _hard_drive_ (or
a part of it) for additionnal CD caching?
Any suggestion welcome. Thanks!
Olden
(BTW, if you know a good and public newsserver in north California,
please tell me, I'll be glad to stop using this cheesy web interface...)
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