Linux-Misc Digest #332, Volume #21 Sun, 8 Aug 99 16:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Weird problem with Linksys EtherFast 10/100 (Tim Behrendsen)
wvdial + dyndns.justlinux.com (Young4ert)
Re: CDROM driver not supported in RH 6 install (Michael George)
Re: Evergreen Spectra Processor Upgrade and Linux? (Gerald Willmann)
Re: C structure size inconsitency (Andreas Hinz)
Re: C structure size inconsitency (Andreas Hinz)
Re: I want my OLE!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Boot Up severe error (Leonard Evens)
Re: Need help on installing patches.. (Bob Martin)
Re: What I think of linux. (John F Wilson)
Re: PPP ("RT")
Timeout expired while waiting for the PPP interface to come up! ("RT")
Re: C structure size inconsitency (John Forkosh)
Re: startx -- -bpp 16.....too long to type ("Nevyn")
Re: help recovering disk space (Bob Martin)
mkbootdisk on different machine (Ron)
Re: helping the Third World (Phil Hunt)
Re: /etc/bashrc file (William Burkett)
Re: mod_perl and Apache in RH6.0 ("Martin")
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From: Tim Behrendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Weird problem with Linksys EtherFast 10/100
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 17:22:05 GMT
Hello all, I'm running Redhat 6.0 with latest tulip.c driver. I have
three LNE100TX network cards installed.
I originally staged a setup at 10mb, and it worked perfectly. But now
that I'm trying to install it in our 100mb network, it doesn't work!
When I tried it again at 10mb, it worked perfectly. I've tried booting
Linux with it connected to the 100mb LAN on the off-chance it needed to
be booted at that speed, but no luck.
Any ideas? All three cards exhibit the same behavior.
Much thanks,
Tim Behrendsen
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: wvdial + dyndns.justlinux.com
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 13:44:08 -0400
Hi Linux Netters,
I managed to connect through a dialup PPP using wvdial -- a wonderfull
PPP with an auto reconnect feature. Aside from using wvdial, I am also
using a free dynamic DNS service provided by justlinux.com. I
downloaded a copy of jlclient-1.1.tar.gz utility from www.justlinux.com
to updating the dns. Unfortunately, this jlclient does not automatically
update the DNS when wvdial reconnect. In other words, when the ISP
disconnects the line and the wvdial kicks in to make a dialup
connection, the DNS did not get updated with the new IP. So, how can
one use the wvdial to let the jlclient update to the
dyndns.justlinux.com so that the new IP gets registered with the
dyndns.justlinux.com?
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS> Remove the "4" from e-mail address to respond.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael George)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: CDROM driver not supported in RH 6 install
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 18:17:13 GMT
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999 22:54:04 -0400, Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The installation gave me the following choices. I've also listed what
>happened:
>
>Aztech CD autoprobe failed
>Backpack CDROM autprobe failed
>Goldstar R420 autoprobe failed
>Misumi asked for specifications / autoprobe
>failed
>Mitsumi (alternate) autoprobe failed
>Optics Storage 8000 asked for specifications / autoprobe failed
>Phillips CM206/260 asked for specifications / autoprobe failed
>Sanyo autoprobe failed
>Sony CDU -31A asked for specifications / autoprobe failed
>Sony CDU -5xx autoprobe failed
>Soundblaster/ Panasonic took forever / autoprobe failed
I don't see the ATAPI or SCSI options in this list. Do you have one of those
types of CD-ROM drives?
Unless I've missed the post, you haven't told us anything about your system
except that it give you errors. Your configuration would be most helpful.
-Michael
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all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly
the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these
republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it
ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under
every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the
best.
-- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Evergreen Spectra Processor Upgrade and Linux?
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 11:01:11 -0700
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Steve Nospam wrote:
> Yes, they are AMD K6-2s. The question I have is whether I can switch
> from an Intel Pentium to an AMD K6-2 processor (using the Spectra
> upgrade) without having to recompile or make any changes in Linux. If
> major changes are required, I might as well get a new motherboard and
> processor (for about the same price), but if I can save doing anything
> to Linux and reinstalling Windows, then the Spectra could be a good
> deal.
I was interested in their processors, too. Linux shouldn't that much of
a problem - as long as you use the standard kernel that came with some
vanilla distro - but on their website they say you might need to update
your mobo bios which could prevent you from going back if the new thing
doesn't work.
Gerald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Subject: Re: C structure size inconsitency
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 18:11:45 GMT
On 8 Aug 1999 11:49:37 GMT, Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Here is a replacement main() function which you can use to
>demonstrate where the padding is inserted.
>
With 'Test2' if shows the following:
====================================
4, 209, 212, 12
0 4 5 6 7 8 9
With 'Test1':
=======================
4, 209, 212, 12
0 4 104 105 205 207 208
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Andreas Hinz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Subject: Re: C structure size inconsitency
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 18:11:46 GMT
On 8 Aug 1999 08:55:01 -0400, John Forkosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Try some experiments, e.g., replace time_t X0 with char X0[4],
> and see what happens.
>
I did that in struct Test1 (see my first message).
With this solution I could read the DOS file as expected. I just forgot
to mention it ;-)
But thanks anyway.
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Andreas Hinz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: I want my OLE!!
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 17:07:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lucas Vogel wrote:
>>
>> I have heard various rumours here and there, and would like to hear it
>> from someone...
>> I want to be able to cut and paste ( if anything ) between applications
>> without a hassle. For example, I want to be able to take some text out
>> of kedit(KDE notepad) and paste it into my Netscape email that I'm
>> preparing right now. Is there code that will enable me to do this? Where
>> is it and how do I get it? If not, how long before someone comes up with
>> it?
>> Thanks guys
>>
>
>X (and Linux also) already has it for text. If you have configured your
>mouse
>under X to have three buttons, then you can highlight the text with the
>first
>mouse button, and by highlighting it automatically gets into the
>"clipboard",
>and you can paste it with the middle button. Under a terminal, the same
>also
>works provided you are running gpm and is comfigured correctly.
>
>Good Luck, Vilmos
...<snip>...
It seems to depend on the application though. Cutting and pasting
into emacs works well. With vi (at least the flavors I've used), no. I'm
no X programmer (yet), but it seems that whoever writes an application,
has to include code for selection. The code in Xlib allows for pretty
general forms of data, but two applications still have to agree on the
format, etc. Plain ASCII text is understood by xterm and a lot of
applications it seems. But suppose you were viewing a postscript document
and wanted to cut and paste section of that, with its bullets and italics
and special fonts. Presumably it could be done, but the viewer, and the
application you were pasting to, would have to agree. Also, cutting and
pasting a section of a jpeg image for example, again, and agreed standard
would have to be coded between the two programs.
I'm not much familiar with OLE, but I presume, because it all comes
from one company, with one suite of applications, that a strong standard
is enforced.
--
Cleave yourself to logodedaly and you cleave yourself from clarity
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot Up severe error
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 11:32:03 -0500
Tony Johnson wrote:
>
> I have RedHat 5.2 which I installed from CD. It seemed to install fine but
> when it restarted where you should get the LILO boot up manager, it spurted
> out an endless string of 010101010101010101 which filled the screen and just
> keeps going. The only way to get out of it is to restart the computer and
> use the bootdisk which loads up into LILO fine. I then just press enter and
> it says loading linux.......
> while accessing the disk. Everything then works fine.
>
> i am quite new to linux so could someone tell me what files i need to copy
> from the floppy to the HDD so it will use the files from the floppy to boot
> normally.
>
> Cheers,
> Tony
It looks as if lilo is set up improperly on the hard disk.
Try booting from the floppy, checking the /etc/lilo.conf
file to be sure it doesn't have some nonsense in it and
running lilo again. This should not affect whether or not
the boot floppy still works. You don't want to copy what
is on the floppy to the hard disk. How lilo boots from the
floppy and how it boots from the hard disk are essentially
independent of one another.
If you are not sure if lilo.conf is right, post information
about your partitions and what it now says.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help on installing patches..
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 18:13:46 +0000
Warren wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I haven't installed patches in a while, and I seem to be having trouble
> doing it. I download the kernel patch from kernel.org, and renamed it
> "patch-2.2.10.gz", I then type;
>
> gzip -cd patch-2.2.10.gz | patch -p0
>
> But..it comes back telling me it's not a valid gzip file. The file is
> listed on the website as "patch-2.2.10.gz", but when I shift-click on it,
> the download process truncates the ".gz"...I don't remember why this is.
>
> Could someone clue me in on how to install patches properly ?
>
> Kind regards,
> Warren Crossfield
Your command is correct, check that you didn't get a bzip file, a lot of
sites are storing both formats.
It may be unzipping it during the download, if it is then it should be a
patch file which is plain text. look at it and see if it is text.
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From: John F Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 12:08:34 -0700
Chris Butler wrote:
> [comp.os.linux.advocacy - Fri, 30 Jul 1999 02:09:23 -0400] * alann wrote *
> > You're right, somewhat. I would be curious as to the average age of Linux
> > users. I'm 34. First computer I ever had my hands on was a Commodore PET.
> > That was a LONG time ago. Right now there are a gazillion Windows users.
>
> I hate to say this, since I'm likely to get landed with a branding of
> teenage skript-kiddie, or similar, but I'm 16. Started with Linux about 2
> years ago.
>
> No, I didn't start using linux because it was the latest "kewl thing". The
> majority of the hype hadn't started at that point, I had a friend who was
> using it and singing it's praises, and finally the curiosity overwhelmed
> me..
>
> > How many are over 40 and grew up in a generation that computers DIDN'T exist?
> > How many users used a computer with Windows for their "virgin" computer
> > experience?
>
> Well, I started with an Amstrad PCW. Green-screen, and *two* floppy
> drives. After that we got a BBC Model B, with a dual 5.25" floppy drive.
> Then I moved onto an Amiga[0] for a while, then an Amstrad 1512[1]. Then
> we got a Compaq 386/25 "portable"[2] machine. Finally, about 3 years
> ago, I got a P60 machine with Win95 on it. The thing I liked best about
> Win95 is that you can have multiple DOS sessions open at once, still do.
>
> The P60's been upgraded to a Cyrix PR-166, and now dual-boots[3] Linux as
> well..
>
> There, that's just about my entire computing history in a nutshell.
>
> [0] We all make mistakes, don't we? :)
> [1] An 8086 PC. Ran at about 2Mhz IIRC, had a 20Mb HD and 640kb of RAM.
> [2] Read: Size of a breeze-block and twice as heavy.
> [3] Spends most of it's time in Linux now. My mum has her own account that
> loads straight into GNOME, with the various games available on the
> panel, so she's happy. My dad now has another machine to run Win95
> stuff, so he's happy. I can use Linux over the network from the 386
> in my bedroom, so I'm happy..
> --
> Chris Butler
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I started out with a Leading Edge 286 with dual floppies, no HD. I now, through a
series of acquisitions, have an AMD K62 400 with 128 MB ram. As a hardware tech I
see Microsoft products all day long.... to be honest, if I never saw another one,
my life would be alot less complicated. Only with MS's plug and pray can I make
two identical systems, install windoze and have them configured differently.
Maybe if the code were available could we see how they manage that feat.
I am pretty new to LINUX and freeware but I am hooked. there are draw backs
because I have to relearn alot of stuff I thought I was more familiar with. Why
does Netscape crash whenever I go to www.redskins.com?? Why the hell cant I pipe
my DSL internet service to my daughters Win98 box?? I'm sure it will all get
figured out and when I resolve an issue like these under Linux I have a greater
degree of certainty that it will stay fixed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 21:49:11 +0200
Under Redhat 6.0 there are two very good programs:
1 under gnome the program netcfg
2 under gnome the program kppp (of kde)
A very good installation guide can you find at:
http://users.skynet.be/jmi/netcfg/
http://users.skynet.be/jmi/kppp/
Rudy
Gregor Gregorič heeft geschreven in bericht
<7o6fkd$s2o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>What is the best program to connect to internet.
>
>
>Thx
>
>Greg
>
>
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From: "RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Timeout expired while waiting for the PPP interface to come up!
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 21:54:13 +0200
Hey,
I hope someone will help me for solving the next problem:
under Red Hat Linux 6.0 I try to get a connection with the Internet (ISP
Skynet Belgium) using the program kppp.
I think that my configuration is OK; but there is a problem when pppd
starts:
By "Logging on to Network" when the kppp program try to start pppd "Starting
pppd...."
the following message appears:
timeout expired while waiting for the PPPinterface to come up (but dmesg |
less) learns me that the ppp0 interface is OK.
The content of the log file PPP-logfile is:
Aug 8 20:01:26 localhost pppd[695]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0
Aug 8 20:01:26 localhost pppd[695]: Using interface ppp0
Aug 8 20:01:26 localhost pppd[695]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Aug 8 20:01:56 localhost pppd[695]: Terminating on signal 15.
Aug 8 20:02:02 localhost pppd[695]: Connection terminated.
Aug 8 20:02:02 localhost pppd[695]: Connect time 0.6 minutes.
Aug 8 20:02:02 localhost pppd[695]: Exit.
So, I think that the problem is: Terminating on signal 15. But , really, I
don't know what I have to do for resolving this problem
Rudy,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Forkosh)
Subject: Re: C structure size inconsitency
Date: 8 Aug 1999 14:45:29 -0400
Andreas Hinz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: On 8 Aug 1999 08:55:01 -0400, John Forkosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > Try some experiments, e.g., replace time_t X0 with char X0[4],
: > and see what happens.
: I did that in struct Test1 (see my first message).
Oh, right. So, where are three extra bytes?... are they
immediately following X0, so that char X1 has three padding
bytes preceding it???
John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Nevyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: startx -- -bpp 16.....too long to type
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 19:43:32 +0100
thankx a lot....everyone...that should b easy enough.....an John
Doe....lol.....im not THAT lazy.......d:oŽ
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help recovering disk space
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 19:45:36 +0000
gcwesley wrote:
>
> I setup my Linux RedHat 6.0 system with a boot partition of 200MB and later
> increased it to 480MB because some programs would not install to the /usr
> partition. Now, I only have about 10% free on the /boot partition. An
> author wrote that I could delete unneeded files, and I've dumped core,
> *.baks and *.tmps. However, he also wrote that I could dump *.o files as
> they where object files created during the build. Is this true? And are
> there other files that I could delete safely also? Thank you in advance.
Sounds like you have something major wrong with your directory
structure. there is no reason for / to take 480MB of space, assuming you
have allocated space for the other main directories. I usually create
seperate partions for /home, /usr, /var everthing else should fit on /,
which right now has < 30MB in it, most that in /lib.
What programs would not install into /usr, shouldn't be anything but
system tools.
Depends which .o files you are talking about. you do not want to delete
the .o filea in /lib/modules, those are for things you built as modules.
after you have rebuilt the kernel, you could clean up /usr/src/linux or
.o files. or any other local package you built from source.
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From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: mkbootdisk on different machine
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 04:30:40 GMT
I have RedHat6.0 running on an older i586 box. This box's floppy drive unable to write
to the disk for some reason. I have RedHat Linux 5.2 running on an i686 box. Samba
file sharing is working on this network. How do (can) I use the 5.2 box to create a
bootdisk for the 6.0 machine? Thanks, Ron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Hunt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: helping the Third World
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 99 13:31:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <derobert-0808990411060001@209-122-254
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anthony DeRobertis" writes:
> OTOH, you have a country that has been on the balance more libratarian
> than any other. And it is one of the most prosperous on Earth. Draw your
> own conclusions.
The most libertarian country currently is Somalia -- there the govmt
taxes 0% of people's wealth, because there isn't a govmt.
--
Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: William Burkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: /etc/bashrc file
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 14:10:28 -0500
Chris Mahmood wrote:
> why lot write a .bash_logout file and stick it in /etc/skel with
> whatever perms you want on it?
> -ckm
I don't understand how that would solve Jose's original problem.
Putting a file in /etc/skel doesn't make it global, it just makes it
available as a default. When a new user is created, the default sample
copy that was placed in /etc/skel is copied into the user's home
directory. Jose, hower, doesn't want to output scripts running from the
home directories, but from a central file that he can keep track of (for
whatever reason). By using skel files, you're still doing things
locally.
In all fairness, this solution, or mine, or Leslie's (which sounds like
a great idea) might be adequate to solve Jose's problem, depending on
what he's actually trying to accomplish/prevent. One can only
speculate.
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From: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mod_perl and Apache in RH6.0
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 20:52:30 +0100
Oh boy I had this one as well and finally worked out what the problem was..
You need to get an updated C compiler for your system.. the older one was a
beta that for whatever reason hates compiling as an ANSI..
Anyway go to Redhat and download the following:
Glibc.rpm
Gdbm.rpm
I don't have the numbers on those but just grab the latest and hopefully
that will sort the problem for you..
I hasten to add I am running Linux by the seat of my pants so it may only
help in part.
All the best
Martin
cahkt-netepbyr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7of2kc$dtt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm fighting with apache_1.3.6 and compiling mod_perl in.
>
> Now, I can build mod_perl-1.21 without a problem, but when i go to build
> apache with mod_perl statically, it doesn't work.
>
> I do this, to configure apache (and i have to chroot apache)
>
> $ cd ../apache_1.3.6
> $ ./configure \
> --prefix=/usr/local/jail/apache \
> --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a
>
> The configure works without a flaw if i don't add perl (minus the
> --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a), but if i do attempt to
> add libperl.a, i get this:
>
> Configuring for Apache, Version 1.3.6
> + using installation path layout: Apache (config.layout)
> + activated perl module (modules/perl/libperl.a)
> Creating Makefile
> Creating Configuration.apaci in src
> + id: mod_perl/1.21
> + id: Perl/5.00503 (linux) [perl]
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [dummy] Error 1
> Creating Makefile in src
> + configured for Linux platform
> + setting C compiler to gcc
> + setting C pre-processor to gcc -E
> + checking for system header files
> + adding selected modules
> o perl_module uses ConfigStart/End
> + mod_perl build type: OBJ
> + setting up mod_perl build environment
> + adjusting Apache build environment
> + enabling Perl support for SSI (mod_include)
> + doing sanity check on compiler and options
> ** A test compilation with your Makefile configuration
> ** failed. This is most likely because your C compiler
> ** is not ANSI. Apache requires an ANSI C Compiler, such
> ** as gcc. The above error message from your compiler
> ** will also provide a clue.
> Aborting!
>
> Now, i think this indicates that i need to rebuild perl, but if so, i'm
> not entirely sure how to do it. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
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