Linux-Misc Digest #971, Volume #20 Thu, 8 Jul 99 21:13:12 EDT
Contents:
This question HAS NEVER BEEN ASKED BEFORE!!!! (toto)
Re: Where is $PATH set in RH 6.0? (Steven Howe)
Re: Can not logout from Gnome (cjmnews)
Re: e-mail program (Justin B Willoughby)
Re: crontab, specify last day of month? (Greg H)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? ("Chad Mulligan")
build problem (Eric Y. Chang)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
FWD- Apple ships Linux-enabled QuickTime Server (Alex Lam)
Re: Selecting GUIs?
ALSA: recording from line in on CS4236B chipset (Roman Sulzhyk)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? ("Chad Mulligan")
gnu logo (Ash)
crontab, specify last day of month? (Paul Smicker)
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From: toto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: This question HAS NEVER BEEN ASKED BEFORE!!!!
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 20:10:57 -0700
Anyone used Qt on NT/Unix heterogeneous environment? Any considerations
to share, caveats, suggestion? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
--
len
if you must email, reply to:
len bel at world net dot att dot net (no spaces, ats2@, dots2.)
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From: Steven Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is $PATH set in RH 6.0?
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 23:39:05 +0000
Silviu Minut wrote:
> Under RH6.0 the path is set for the first tyme in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. Believe
> it or not. Then it's appended in other files: /etc/profile, .bash_profile,
> possibly others.
not quite so. If it were then then path for everyone would be:
# Set the path
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH
which includes 'sbin', which users do not get automatically.
A quick look with the 'strings' on /bin/login reveals...
strings /bin/login
.
.
.
/bin/sh
TERM
dumb
HOME
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
PATH
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
SHELL
/var/spool/mail
MAIL
LOGNAME
.
.
.
where the paths for users and root are set.
Steven Howe
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From: cjmnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can not logout from Gnome
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 23:23:46 GMT
This happened to me after I set my hostname, but did not put the
hostname into my /etc/hosts file. Once added (as part of the localhost
entry) Gnome logout worked after that.
Chris
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Efi Merdler wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > When I try to logout from Gnome the panel closes,but then nothing
> > happens,I close my WM(WindowMaker),but then again the WM
> > disappears,but the desktop stays,the only way to close Gnome is by
> > using Ctrl-Alt <-
> >
> > Why ?
> > How can I fix it ?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
> I have the same problem on my laptop just after I boot, although
> it doesn't always happen. Also gnome seems to take forever to
> come up in such a session. Others have reported this or
> similar problems. The problem appears to be the session
> manager. If you go to the toolbox and click on session manager
> you will probably discoverer that there is no associated menu,
> which suggests the session manager never got started properly
> or died. You might also look at .xsession-errors to see if it
> is at informative.
>
> But so far no one seems to know exactly what is happening.
>
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Subject: Re: e-mail program
Date: 9 Jul 1999 00:11:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Chris Mahmood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> I've been playing with tkrat the last couple of days, pretty cool.
> -ckm
mutt Rules!!!! Its not gui but is a console type mail prog like Pine or
Elm but better.... Very fast too! <g>
- Justin
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From: Greg H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: crontab, specify last day of month?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 00:02:28 GMT
R.K.Aa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm if it's that important to catch it all, why not run it at
> 00:00 on the first of every month? :P
Should this be the route chosen, the script can be put in
/etc/cron.monthly
Greg H.
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 17:23:50 -0700
"Bob Taylor" wrote in message ...
>In article <7m07l7$lgm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Fredrich P. Maney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> In comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Anthony Ord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>
>> [deletia]
>>
>>: What was this about the attitude of US posters?
>>
>> Maybe it has something to do with the amount of material and personnel
>> that the US put into the effort compared to the rest of the world.
>
>Quite. The U.S. out produced all our allies *combined*. My father
>worked at a *small* shipyard during the war producing Liberty
>ships. That *one* yard peaked at delivering 4 ships *per day*. The
>U.S. armed forces peaked at about 14 million.
>
The number of British troops outnumbered the US troops in Normandy 6-6-44
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Y. Chang)
Subject: build problem
Date: 8 Jul 1999 21:41:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. I am having a few problems building spice3f4. This is the Linux
ported version. The problem is that it says that -lXaw is not found.
This refers to libXaw.so, the Athena widgets library. This library is
found, at least by other builds using Imake. Unfortunately, the
Spice distribution does not use Imake. It uses some custom build
script (build). The odd thing is that -lXt is in the link line as
well, and that causes no error message. By the way -lXt is in the
same directory (/usr/X11/lib). Those things are always there. Other
tools build with -lXaw. I have seen this problem before, and believe
that it is a FAQ, but cannot find any reference to it.
Has anybody else seen this (and is able to render some assistance)?
Thanks, Eric
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Crossposted-To:
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Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Date: 8 Jul 1999 23:46:25 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Fredrich P. Maney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
= I am not debating that, never have, never will. I said, and I'll keep it
= simple for you, "... how many US troops died? .... it was more than your
= entire country." Now, where in there do I ever mention the US Civil War
= or compare the number of US dead in WWII with the Civil War?
I'd love to know where you got the idea that WWII cost the USA millions of
lives though.... >*snigger*<
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From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FWD- Apple ships Linux-enabled QuickTime Server
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 14:12:36 -0700
Posted 08/07/99 12:43pm by Tony Smith, The Register, London, UK
Apple ships Linux-enabled QuickTime Server
Apple's open source QuickTime Streaming Server software has been
updated to support not only the company's own MacOS X Server operating
system, but Intel-based Linux systems.
The update allows software developers working with that platform to
create Linux streaming media products without having to make changes
to the core components of the source code, said Apple.
At the same time, the update, which takes the software to version
1.0.1, doubles performance to 2000 concurrent media streams, the
company claimed. And the pre-compiled MacOS X version is now available
in French, German and Japanese language editions.
Updates to QuickTime Streaming Server (the pre-compiled MacOS X
release) and Open Source Streaming Server are available now, free of
charge from Apple's Web site.
The support for Linux on Intel comes largely from the open source
community itself. Apple said over 14,000 copies of the open source
version of QuickTime Streaming Server (the full release
minus the MacOS-specific user interface code) since it was released
ten weeks ago. Many of them will have been developers working on
non-Mac platforms, but since Apple's goal here is to promote QuickTime
rather than the MacOS, that may not matter too much to the company.
What Apple wants to do is ensure QuickTime becomes the standard for
Internet multimedia, and that means beating RealNetworks. Apple's
approach is to get QuickTime on as many Net servers as possible, and
right now that means supporting Linux. It can't ignore other versions
of Unix and Windows NT, but that's the beauty of the open source model
-- someone, somewhere out there will
develop it for you. ®
source- http://theregister.co.uk/990708-000012.html
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: Selecting GUIs?
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 19:32:24 -0500
Look for a file called .Xclients in the current user directory (dir or ls).
Edit this file and see if it is specifying the gui to use. This at least
was the case in RH Linux 5.1.
Shahms King wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Brent Davies wrote:
>>
>> I _know_ this is a lame question, but I'm not affraid to admit that I'm
>> still a beginner.
>>
>> I just installed RH6 and Gnome was the default Xwindows GUI. I switched
to
>> AfterStep (because I like it), but I noticed that there isn't a nice easy
>> (graphical) way to switch it back to Gnome.
>>
>> How to I manually edit the Xwindows environment to reflect the fact that
I'd
>> like the X Server to load Gnome instead of AfterStep?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Brent
>
>
>
>I know RedHat includes a utility called "switchdesk" for doing just
>that. It can only switch between GNOME, KDE, and AnotherLevel though.
>
>--Shahms King
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From: Roman Sulzhyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ALSA: recording from line in on CS4236B chipset
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 21:18:23 +0000
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Greetings gentlemen:
This question is to maintainers/gurus of ALSA, a great package BTW. I've just
installed it and had found it really well implemented, especially /proc support.
I have trouble recording from line in. I can hear the stuff well in my line out
(speakers), but when I do 'cat /dev/audio > foo.out' or use arecord the resulting file
is really quiet, I can barely hear the recording. I think it could be related to some
switches which need to be enabled, so I'm attaching my /etc/asound.conf file:
=== /etc/asound.conf ===
# ALSA driver configuration
# This configuration is generated with the alsactl program.
soundcard("card1") {
mixer("CS4236B") {
element("Master Digital Out-SW",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
element("Master Digital In-SW",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 71
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 71
element("Master Digital Volume",0,200,Volume1(44,44))
element("Synth Switch",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 63
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 63
element("Synth Volume",0,200,Volume1(63,63))
element("FM Switch",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 63
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 63
element("FM Volume",0,200,Volume1(0,0))
element("PCM Switch",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 63
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 63
element("PCM Volume",0,200,Volume1(63,63))
element("DSP Input Switch",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 63
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 63
element("DSP Input Volume",0,200,Volume1(63,63))
element("Digital Loopback Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 15
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 15
element("Digital Loopback Volume",0,200,Volume1(15,15))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 15
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 15
element("Input Gain Volume",0,200,Volume1(15,15))
element("Mono Bypass Switch",0,100,Switch1(off))
element("Mono Input Switch",0,100,Switch1(off,off))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 15
element("Mono Input Volume",0,200,Volume1(0))
element("Mono Master Switch",0,100,Switch1(off,off))
element("Analog Loopback Switch",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
element("Line Output Switch",0,100,Switch1(off,off))
element("Line Input Switch",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Line Volume",0,200,Volume1(31,31))
element("Line Input Bypass Switch",0,100,Switch1(off,off))
element("Aux Output Switch",1,100,Switch1(on,on))
element("Aux Input Switch",1,100,Switch1(on,on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Aux Volume",1,200,Volume1(31,31))
element("Aux Output Switch",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
element("Aux Input Switch",0,100,Switch1(off,off))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Aux Volume",0,200,Volume1(31,31))
element("Aux Input Bypass Switch",0,100,Switch1(off,off))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 1
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 1
element("MIC Volume Output",0,200,Volume1(0,0))
element("MIC Output Switch",0,100,Switch1(off,off))
element("MIC Input Switch",0,100,Switch1(off,off))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("MIC Volume",0,200,Volume1(0,0))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 3
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 3
element("Input Accumulator",0,302,Accu3(0,0))
}
}
=== end ===
Just in case, this is my pcm device stat:
======
[roman@caviar /proc/asound/0]$ cat pcm0
CS4236B
Playback
Mode : OSS compatible
Format : Signed 16-bit Little Endian
Rate : 44100Hz [requested 44100Hz]
Channels : 2
Buffer size : 65536
Buffer used : 32768
Fragments : 128
Fragment size : 256
Underruns : 1
Total underruns: 77
Record
Mode : native
Format : Signed 16-bit Little Endian
Rate : 44100Hz [requested 44100Hz]
Channels : 2
Buffer size : 65536
Buffer used : 65536
Fragments : 8
Fragment size : 8192
Fragments min : 1
Overruns : 0
Total overruns : 0
======
Thank you, any help would be really appreciated. I would also appreciate being
Cc-ed on replies.
Roman
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 17:27:55 -0700
Paul D. Smith wrote in message ...
>%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord) writes:
>
> ao> Canada was involved, India was involved, Japan was involved, China
> ao> was involved, the Soviet Union was involved, South Africa was
> ao> involved, Australia / New Zealand were involved - and it was a
> ao> mainly European war...
>
>When I said "European", I was including Russia. Australia/New
>Zealand/Canada went wherever Britain went.
>
>As for Japan/China, until Dec, 1941 that was almost a separate, regional
>war. Even though there were various treaties and non-aggression pacts
>between Japan and the other players, most nations were _not_ at war with
>Japan before that, including Britain. Also Canada, Poland, South
>Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
You did know that the US Navy and Marines were very active in china in this period.
The Japanese sank the US Gunboat Panay in 1937. Roosevelt imposed massive economic
sanctions against Japan as a result.
>
>Between Dec 7, 1941 and Dec 13, 1941, all those countries (and more)
>declared war on Japan, and in addition the U.S., the Central American
>countries, Cuba, and a few others declared war on Japan _and_
>Germany/Italy.
German and Italy declared war on the US not the other way.
>
>There's an argument to be made that this mushrooming of the conflict in
>the space of less than a week, "choosing up sides" as it were, is the
>real start to the _world_ war. Whether it would have been called a
>"World War" if none of those things had happened is something we'll
>never know.
>
>I actually don't agree with the original assertion; I've always felt
>that WWII started on Sep. 1, 1939, no later than Sep. 3, 1939. That's
>the beginning of the conflict that directly grew into WWII, with no
>intervening peace, so it's all WWII to me. But that's just MHO.
>
>All I was trying to say was that the original poster wasn't saying that
>no war exists unless the U.S. is a party to it (which was the ridiculous
>comment made in a followup), or even necessarily that no world war
>exists unless the U.S. is involved, although some would make that
>argument (would we still call it WWII if Great Britain hadn't been
>involved, for example? Maybe, maybe not. Does it matter? I can't for
>the life of me see how.)
>
>I'm done.
>
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> Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Management Development
> "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
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> These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
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From: Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gnu logo
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 17:38:50 -0700
i am looking for a small gnu logo to put on my server index page - does
anyone know where i can get a small one ( not the large 2' by 2")
ar
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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 16:33:15 -0700
From: Paul Smicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: crontab, specify last day of month?
Hi All--
Is there a way to specify the last day of the month in a crontab file?
Some have 30, some have 31, etc., and I'd like to have a particular
script (www log rotater) run on whichever the last day happens to be
that month. Thanks in advance...
--
Paul Smicker
Computer Specialist
WestEd
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