Linux-Misc Digest #605, Volume #20 Sat, 12 Jun 99 16:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Re: Hardware Flow Control (NF Stevens)
How to configure smtp server for ISP? (Anthony Campbell)
Re: TAO: the ultimate OS (Peter T. Breuer)
MS SQL ODBC for SYBASE (Raymonds Doetjes)
Help for MODEM ("Emanuele Fabrizi")
fsck.ext2 exited with signal 11? (Michael)
Re: creating eject option for cdrom icon in KDE (Prem Deol)
Re: Shutting down as a normal user.. (Anthony DeLuca)
Re: Help!! NT + linux partition mkfs problem!!! (Marc Mutz)
login restrictions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: AIX UNIX (Michel van der Kleij)
Re: 'ls' command: how to show all files in all directories? (Johan Kullstam)
ghostscript 5.50 does not work after install ("Stephen E. Watts")
Re: copying playstation roms...?? (Jaime Herazo B.)
Re: Linux |Going over 98 (Jaime Herazo B.)
Re: how do you change the IP address (Bob Hauck)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: Hardware Flow Control
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 19:24:15 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Davis) wrote:
>I may not have any of this right because I am not an expert by any
>means. Over my ppp connection I have severe packet loss. I want to
>beleive is is because of flow control. I have enabled hardware flow
>control in my modem init string. Now i think that I need to enable in
>on my serial port (ext modem) What would the command be to enable
>hardware flow control over my serial port, if this is even possible or
>would maybe help the situation. Any help would be apprecieted. And
>an email would also be appreciated.
Are you using the crtscts option when starting pppd? This is supposed
to enable hardware flow control.
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Subject: How to configure smtp server for ISP?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:42:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do you supply the smtp server in a dynamic ISP? I have the name of the
server (relay.force9.net) but where does this go?
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone)
Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Crossposted-To: alt.folklore.computers,alt.usenet.kooks
Subject: Re: TAO: the ultimate OS
Date: 11 Jun 1999 20:14:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alexander Viro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <5uI73.910$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied to Vladimir Nuri,
: aka. M. Najtiv, aka L.D., aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
: >>i.e. "post your resume, bozo". no, I am not going to offer flamers fresh
: >>fodder. hahaha
: >
: >Usenet is filled with cranks.
: Oh, yes. And one you had replied to is one hell of interesting specimen.
: Check DN and check his website. Check net.legends FAQ, BTW.
Yep. I checked. You're right. He's a nutter. The dejanews search rapidly
leads one to
http://www8.pair.com/mnajtiv
and theer he appears to announce himself as M.Najtiv.
: And 'The Internet Writer Resource Guide' (compare the language, style and
: ideas). Strictly speaking he is *not* a crank, he's a bloody accurate
: imitation. Chris, meet <drumroll> alter ego of L. Detweiler.
Don't understand the reference. Is this really the L. Detweiler of which
I have heard but never seen in action? Sheesh .. I've experienced Ludwig
Plutonium at first hand, and I thought that was OTT.
But, yes, he appears not to be actually stark raving out the window, but
merely subtly derranged. His writings make syntactic sense, and the
logic in them is also correct (unlike LP), it just doesn't get anywhere. He
obvously has a fair aptitude for mathematics and physics, but the papers of
his I can say I am qualified to referee are just undergraduate piffle.
: Or about cryptography. Or about Fermat. Or about Termination Problem.
Just so. I've just got through reading about half of his termination
problem paper. He points out that a turing machine is a finite state
machine run lots of times, so that the outputs are from the sequence
f^n(state_0) (fine .. this is the usual starting point for formal
methods-based attacks ...). Then he points out that the transitive closure
under f of any set of states x is [the reachable states] (my translation
into standard nomenclature) and that the halting problem consists of
asking of any initial state x if it is in the smallest transitive closed
set of states [= least fixed point]. He then says that just having a
computable function that says yes no or loops would be satisfactory.
and I'm about half way through the paper with those two sentences. I
can't take the rest .. too elementary, at snail's pace. Absolutely
worthless non-work.
: Or about new protocols. Or about evil elitists and censors on xxx.lanl.gov.
The latter, yes, I saw.
: In some kind of sense he knows what he is doing and knows it very well.
: And he had posted enough to reconstruct his resume. Yes, it is some fodder.
: Spend a couple of hours on search engines - his post-'95 exploits make
: a fascinating reading.
Indeed. This one's not the crank. It's "Viro".
And our friend probably wants to reference
P.T. Breuer and J.P. Bowen.
Decompilation: The enumeration of types and grammars.
{\em {ACM} Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
({TOPLAS})}, 16(5):1613--1647, September 1994.
(huh? was it really 94? I thought it was 95. Oh well) where it is
shown that decompilation is turing complete, but that "it can usually be
done" and gives a decompilation algorithm that never halts provided the
object code could have been obtained from an infinite number of slightly
variant source codes. I.e. I probably know what I am talking about and
I believe "Viro" certainly doesn't.
Can I go back to lurking again, please! Is "Viro" really L.Detweiler then?
=====================================================================
Peter T. Breuer MA CASM PhD. Ing., Asoc. Prof.
Area de Ingenieria Telematica E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dpto. Ingenieria Tel: +34 91 624 91 80
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Fax: +34 91 624 94 30/65
Butarque 15, E-28911 Leganes URL: http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb
Spain
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From: Raymonds Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MS SQL ODBC for SYBASE
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:41:46 +0200
I have found something out concerning Syabse.
Alot of questions rose how people could use WIndows clients for Sybase.
The problem is, there is'nt a ODBC driver (feeley) available.
No I found out, thet the M$ SQLSRV32 driver works 100% correct with
Sybase. Not strange when you think that M$ has never ever invented
something themselvces, they only improved or changed ideas. Wich they
did with their MS SQL server wich uses the same socket protocoll as
Sybases.
The only thing that you have to do, is to setup the SYabse server to
listen on port 1433. This is the default port that the
MS SQL ODBC drivers try to attache to since this is the default
MS SQL server port.
I have tested it and it works great!
Sybase is great and specially when it is free and it runs on Linux
Raymond
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From: "Emanuele Fabrizi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help for MODEM
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:24:31 +0200
I have an internal modem PCI called : SupraExpress 56i V PRO
make by DIAMOND.
Under Windows98 it works : Port = COM3
Interrupt = 10
and the 'DOS Support' menu (under 'Propriety') says :
for DOS application : COM Port = COM3
Base Address(Hex) = 03e8
IRQ = 4.
Under Linux (SuSE 5.3) the modem don't work.
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fsck.ext2 exited with signal 11?
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 15:09:33 -0400
When the system starts up, it says warning...fsck.ext2 exited with
signal 11. Then it asks for the root password and drops me to a shell. A
manual fsck doesn't work either. I get the same error. What does signal
11 mean?
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From: Prem Deol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: creating eject option for cdrom icon in KDE
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:29:32 -0700
Thanks for the quick response Peter, but I think I was misunderstood.
1) I'm a linux newbie (I've used systems before, but never
admin/maintained).
2)
I'm not trying to create a new icon associated with a command line to
eject.
Instead, I am trying to add "eject" as an option to the right-click menu of
the
cdrom icon which was created by kde.
Currently, this right-click menu reads:
Open with
Copy
Move to Trash
Delete
Mount --> Unmount (depending or whether mounted or
not)
Properties
I'd like to have Eject as an additional option.
Also, pardon my lack of linux system knowledge, but how do I set the eject
command to be setgid root.cdrom?
Prem
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> : How do I set up an "eject" option for my cdrom icon under KDE?
>
> The same way you set up any icon, either on the desktop or on the panel.
> Click on HELP and find out, if you really don't know how to.
>
> : I'd like to have an eject option when I right click on the cdrom icon
> on
>
> Option? What do you mean? You need to have one action per icon, or else
> start a program with a menu.
>
> : I've set my permissions for the cdrom as follows, and I can eject from
> a
> : command
> : line (as one would expect), but it'd be nice to have this with the
> other
>
> So add the command line to your icon! What are you slavering about?
>
> : brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 22, 4 May 5 1998 hdb
>
> Uh. This is all wrong. It should be 660 root.cdrom, and you should be
> in group cdrom. Anyway, that wouldn't matter if you just set xcdeject to
> be setgid root.cdrom, and permisions g+x, o-x. That would cover all
> bases.
>
> : Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Peter
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From: Anthony DeLuca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shutting down as a normal user..
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:51:09 -0400
Thanks for your opinion, hudini. I did respond hastily. Andrew Halliwell , take my
apology and thanks for the advice. But to tell a person that they acted hastily and
babbled was not needed, it made me feel like I should have not posted the question.
I tried looking for the answer and when I couldn't find it, I posted the question.
This is just my opinion, that is all. I am not trying to have a pissing or bitching
contest here. I just wanted some help that is all. Have a nice day.
Tony
hudini wrote:
> Mr Andrew Halliwell gave you a very polite and complete answer to your
> question. You are just being a bitch. Grow up.
>
> Anthony DeLuca wrote:
> >
> > Well excuse me for being a beginner and not knowing all you know. I thought we
> > are here to help each other and not belittle someone. If this is the kind of
> > help you offer, then maybe you should refrain from helping. So, you are a
> > fortune teller that could tell someone had obvious haste and that they babbled.
> > Well maybe they had a question that they couldn't answer !!! That is why they
> > posted it here to get a civilized response and not to be put down for their lack
> > of knowledge. This is the way beginners learn, from the help of others. Were you
> > born with all of your knowledge? If we all had your knowledge and great
> > communication skills, the world would be a better place.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > In his obvious haste, Anthony DeLuca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
> > > : How come I can't shutdown or reboot as a normal user. This is my home
> > > : machine....I am told that shutdown is not an available command... I even
> > > : tried su shutdown -h now.... and it still didn't work...Thanks in
> > > : advance..
> > >
> > > Why do you need to?
> > > <CTRL ALT DEL> does the same thing.
> > >
> > > You must remember that Linux is a multi user operating system, and many of
> > > the config files are written by the distributors to take this into account.
> > >
> > > (This stopping Joe Bloggs from issuing a shutdown command and trashing
> > > everyone elses work).
> > >
> > > Root is the only user that *SHOULD* have that power...
> > >
> > > But... The three fingered salute will reboot or halt (depending on the
> > > config options) the individual machine. Unless the sys-admin/owner has
> > > disablewd it because it's a multi-user machine).
> > >
> > > : Tony
> > >
> > > --
> > > ______________________________________________________________________________
> > > |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| |
> > > | Andrew Halliwell | "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't |
> > > | Finallist in:- | suck is probably the day they start making |
> > > | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge |
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > |GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
> > > |PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e>e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --
> You know you shouldn't be looking in here...
> So here is what you get:
> You are not one of the 1 1 users allowed in this box....
> So... GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME YOU MOTHER FUCKER PEEPING TOM (OR BITCH.
> Whatever your foggot instincts are.)
> Go use wincrap95... Because LINUX is for IQs GREATER than 95!!!
> DONT even try to reboot me. Or I'll take a picture of you!
> I log every single key stroke!
>
> Beavis & ButtHead Jan '94
> MTV (tm) 1980
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 21:37:20 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!! NT + linux partition mkfs problem!!!
Justin Pelletier wrote:
>
> > Here's what I did:
> > I tried out the program to read the NTFS from linux,
> > and I typed:
> > mkntfs /dev/sda1
> > (which at the very least should have been /dev/sda2, the NTFS part.
> > I wish to read), and now I can't boot.
> > Simply stated: is my NT FAT partition completely trashed now?
>
> Unfortunately for you, you just formatted /dev/sda1 so everything on it
> is lost.
>
> > Any way to recover?
>
> I don't think so...
>
I don't too, but if you have someone who is a wizard for NTFS, then
preserve the current state of your partition by issueing the following
in linux (as root):
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=<dest> bs=512
or
dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=512 | gzip | dd of=<dest> bs=512
for compressed image.
That will save an image of the corrupted partition to <dest>, which
should be a device or file with enough free space. The reason that I
think that not all is lost is, that it is most likely that mkntfs has
not written to every single sector. So, depending on the robustness of
NTFS, it may be possible to recover important data (e.g. with a
hex-editor).
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: login restrictions
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:29:58 GMT
How do I restrict a person from logging in as root?
Daryl Rose
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Michel van der Kleij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AIX UNIX
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:07:58 +0100
I used to work a lot with AIX. Nice system! You'll find it has X, a selection
of window managers and, already mentioned, SMIT. The latter is the linuxconf of
AIX and very powerful and easy to use indeed. Fear not, you'll feel as much at
home using AIX as I did when I first started using Linux a few months ago!
Ah, one small thing though: I believe AIX is a System V derivative as opposed
to the BSD origins of Linux (well, mostly anyway) so some commands have a
slightly different syntax (e.g. ps and the "printing" commands).
Mich.
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, John McKown wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:57:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Anyone have any info on AIZ UNIX and what it comes with. I am takeing
>>on a job that has an IBM RS6000 with AIX UNIX on it. I am new to this
>
>Try asking on comp.unix.aix. Also, IBM has a web site
>http://www.rs6000.ibm.com
>Which has a LOT of information on the RS/6000 and AIX. Most of the manuals
>are available for reading via this web site.
>
>Vague ramblings follow so that Prodigy's news server doesn't reject my post.
>My company runs 14 RS/6000 boxes. But I don't work on them. I'm in tech
>support for the OS/390 (S/390 mainframe) system. I also run Linux at home.
>
>Good luck with your new position,
>John
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Subject: Re: 'ls' command: how to show all files in all directories?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 Jun 1999 15:41:37 -0400
Michel van der Kleij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Try: ls -lR
but that obscures the directory structure. it's not lost but i find
Tmp/Bonnie/Bonnie.c
Tmp/Bonnie/Commentary
Tmp/Bonnie/Makefile
Tmp/Bonnie/Bonnie
to be more clear than
Tmp/Bonnie:
total 49
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jk jk 19674 May 21 17:51 Bonnie
-rw-r--r-- 1 jk jk 19060 Aug 21 1991 Bonnie.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 jk jk 6658 May 21 18:07 Commentary
-rw-r--r-- 1 jk jk 45 Aug 21 1991 Makefile
> Mich.
>
> On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> Have a rather large www directory, with god-knows-what subdirectories
> >> and files from years of additions. Inventory time.
> >>
> >> How would you port all listings to a file, ie 'ls > allfiles.txt' in
> >> one easy step?!?! I have to keep doing this:
> >
> >> ls * > allfiles1.txt
> >> ls */* > allfiles2.txt
> >> ls */*/* > allfiles3.txt
> >
> >> etc. until complete; then print all those resultant 'allfilesX.txt' I
> >> would like to just get the whole directory/subdirectory/* etc. put into
> >> one file.
> >
> >> What do you recommend?
> >
> >find . -type f -print > allfiles.txt
> >
> >--
> >johan kullstam
--
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: "Stephen E. Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ghostscript 5.50 does not work after install
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 14:40:34 -0400
I am running SuSE 6.1.
I downloaded the following rpms from SuSE ftp:
gs_lib-5.50-0.i386.rpm
gs_both-5.50-0.i386.rpm
gs_fonts-5.50-0.i386.rpm
I installed them in that order using rpm -Uvh <filename>
Now I cannot edit the apsfilter in either Yast or
/var/lib/apsfilter/setup
(get message saying: "Attention: chosen printer driver not available
with installed ghostscript version: ").
Typing /usr/bin gs -v returns:
"/usr/bin/gs: error in loading shared libraries
libvga.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory"
Printing using: cat <textfile> >/dev/lp0 works (although it does not
page feed). All other attempts to print fail (no error messages, but
nothing happens).
-Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaime Herazo B.)
Subject: Re: copying playstation roms...??
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:52:16 GMT
I remember seeing somewhere that the PSX CD-ROMs have a hidden blank
track that makes copying hard to do. Maybe you want to look for the
theory behind the PSX copying in general before finding out how to do
it in linux. I believe there are places in the emulation sites or even
the w*rez ones that have the info. Look for psxcopy on google or
something like it. Download it, and read the docs. Maybe this can help
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 01:56:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Greg Hookey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Does anyone know how to copy a sony playstation cd-rom using
>> cdrecord.
>
>This is something that I'd like to know too. Currently the only media
>that I cannot backup is my playstation games, and I'd like to be able
>to do that (I know I need a modchip to use the backups).
>
>The info that I have gleaned so far is that the disks need to be written
>in DAO (disk at once) mode, which I should be able to do with cdrdao.
>cdrdao says that it doesn't yet write data tracks, but the README seems
>to contradict this. Perhaps that is currently an experimental feature.
>
>My first problem though is reading the data off the disk. The disks
>seem to be mixed mode (XA) cdroms, with one data track at the start
>(MODE2 FORM1) followed by 0 or more audio tracks. The data track appears
>to be an iso9660 filesystem which I can successfully mount. However, if
>I try to read that data track off using 'dd', I get an I/O error
>somewhere along the line. I guess I'm hitting the playstation copy
>protection stuff.
>
>Also, trying to read the table of contents with cdrdao read-toc produces
>some scsi errors towards the end of the data track, and then again with
>the first audio track.
>
>There are programs under windows that are able to read the data, so
>obviously it is possible. But how?
>
>I am willing and able to write/modify programs to do this - I just need
>some info on what I need to do.
>
>Any info anyone?
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaime Herazo B.)
Subject: Re: Linux |Going over 98
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:36:22 GMT
Just a suggestion: use the "custom" method. That way, you can control
the partitions at your will.
On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 07:24:43 -0700, "John G. Sandell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Since you have 2 GB of free space you should have no problem. The RedHat
>install lets you (1) specify a mount point for the C: drive and (2)
>install the LILO boot loader, which lets you boot either Windows or
>Linux, your choice at startup.
>
>Just take your time, read the Red Hat manual carefully, and you should
>be okay.
>
>John Sandell
>
>Wammall wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I have a sony laptop running the pre installed 98. I have shrunk the primary
>> partision down to 2 gigs, of the 4 avaliable. I want to install red hat 6 from
>> cd. What hapopens to 98 if i do this and allow linux to do a workstation
>> install. Will I still be able to go into 98. Do I have to do anything special
>> to 98. 98 is on a FAT32 2 gig partision.
>>
>> 2. Can I transfer files from 98 to linux and vice versa, if so how.
>>
>> Any help much apreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
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From: Bob Hauck <b o b h @ w a s a t c h . c o m>
Subject: Re: how do you change the IP address
Date: 11 Jun 1999 15:34:18 -0600
"Brent E. Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I installed Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 and configured the network settings
> Now I would like to change the hostname and IP address on the linux
> system.
Run "lisa" as root. For hostname, go to:
System Configuration->
System Configuration->
Set Hostname
For IP address, go to:
System Configuration->
Network Configuration->
Configure Network Access->
Configure Network Card
You can do this by editing scripts manually, but lisa is easier.
--
15:15:00 up 108 days, 4:33, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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