Linux-Misc Digest #700, Volume #23 Mon, 28 Feb 00 13:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Tyan 1854S motherboard..is it good (Michael Hofmann)
Unmount Problem! (Will Lim)
Setting ASCII screen colors in Linux? (william henry hsu)
Re: Kernel compiles and AMD processors (Draco Ravenloft)
Re: How to change the screen resolution (Michele Beltrame)
Re: Best text editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
browser other than Netscape ("Yasuaki Kudo")
Re: How2 set X11 8 bits/pixel ? (Stefano Rivoir)
Re: linux freezing up (Leonard Evens)
Re: FP2000 and .htaccess (Don Stafford)
OpenSSL version 0.9.5 released (Bodo Moeller)
Unmount problem! (Will Lim)
Re: Help, I need some linux advice! (Oolon Colluphid)
sendmail m4 problem (Digiwyrm)
printer stopped working! Can you help? (Kingshuk Majumdar)
Re: How do I fax staroffice document? (Carl Fink)
Re: Windows 2000 has 63,000 bugs - Win2k.html [0/1] - Win2k.html [0/1] (Donovan
Rebbechi)
Re: No Print Previews? (Hans Dumbrajs)
Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader (Hans Dumbrajs)
ide disk, not detected (2.2.6 and 2.2.13) is there a fix ? (Eric Quere)
Re: logs to floppy + eject for security? (Michael McConnell)
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From: Michael Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Tyan 1854S motherboard..is it good
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:45:28 +0100
Gerald Willmann wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Michael Hofmann wrote:
>
> > True, but IIRC BIOS companies like Award (which has been bought by
> > Phoenix btw) deliver something like a standardized BIOS that has to be
> > adapted to a specific hardware on a motherboard. So it's TYAN's duty to
> > make sure the powerdown cycle is implemented properly. On the S1590S
> > this is not the case. The specs call for real mode before powerdown.
> > TYAN's BIOS doesn't do this, that's why there is a real mode patch for
> > Linux. Other MoBo manufacturers have provided updated BIOS's to correct
> > this problem.
> > TYAN doesn't care about this, they don't care to answer emails regarding
> > this issue, hence I don't care to buy TYAN products in the future.
> > I prefer Linux-aware and customer-oriented companies.
>
> Michael: why all the fuss about shutdown - one of the great things about
> linux is that it stays up for months or longer. And btw, why does your
> company offer linux only on servers but not on workstations (or did I
> overlook some secret webpage)?
Not to shut down is IMHO not a good plan for preserving energy,
especially since I'm using my box for only 1 - 2 hours a day. Running
Linux 24/7 is a good thing for servers though.
Regarding Linux and Siemens I can't give you any information at all. I'm
in the automotive business writing software for body controller
modules....
In the office we're only using Micro$oft stuff, unfortunately.
Michael
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From: Will Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.linux.questions
Subject: Unmount Problem!
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:50:23 +0800
I'm using Linux Redhat6.1.
I can't unmount the file system and proc when during shutdown. This
problem occur once i set the quota for my user and group.
Thanks for help.
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Subject: Setting ASCII screen colors in Linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (william henry hsu)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:12:34 GMT
[Sorry for the redundant cross-post, but either my news reader is burping
or one of the NGs in my cross-post list is moderated and causing the others
not to go through. --- WHH]
Is there a way to remap the default screen colors (just the Linux
terminal screen colors --- not X colors) in Linux? I'm running RHL 6.1
on a Linux box in my office, and have TERM set to "linux". I connect
to it via dialup from my Windows 2000 system at home, using PenguiNet
for Windows 95/NT/2000. PenguiNet has ssh but (AFAIK) none of the
screen color customizability features that Windows Telnet or Teraterm
has, and I'd like to be able to get my good old-fashioned lime-on-black
green screen.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill
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William H. Hsu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of CIS, Kansas State University
Research Scientist, Automated Learning Group, NCSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~bhsu ICQ: 28651394
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From: Draco Ravenloft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel compiles and AMD processors
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:23:50 -0600
You're correct.
You can compile it for any of those.
AMDs are fully Pentium class architecture. Mandrake compiles optimized for a
pentium and I use an AMD k6-2 450 and it FLIES.
If you compile it for PPro, please lemme know how well that works out.... I
might have to look into recompiling soon anyways for some errors I've been
having, could be interesting to up the code
Kichi Leung wrote:
> Timothy J. Lee wrote in message <84bdd7$1o2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >When configuring the Linux kernel for PC platforms, you have
> >a choice of 386, 486, Pentium, or Pentium Pro processors.
> >Which choices are most appropriate for AMD K6 and Athlon
> >processors? Do the choices only affect compiler optimization,
>
> I suppose AMD chips could live with either Pentium or PPro.
> The compiler will use that choice to slightly modify the code so that it is
> optimized for those processors. If you choose 486/Pentium/PPro, the
> optimizations also makes the kernel unusable on a 386.
>
> >or do they cause additional code specific to the chosen
> >processor to be included in the kernel?
> >
>
> -----
> Kichi Leung
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michele Beltrame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to change the screen resolution
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:30:05 GMT
Michael Westerman wrote:
> when i try to switch to a terminal it goes out of sync the same happens
> when i exit kde.
Are you using VESA modes in console? If yes, then this might be the
problem.
Michele.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Best text editor
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:37:43 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:04:50 +0400, Stéphane Melnitchouk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What is the best text editor MS-Word like for X ?
What about WordPerfect ?
http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8.htm
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Answers please in this newsgroup!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Yasuaki Kudo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: browser other than Netscape
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:39:55 +0900
I recently switched to Linux from NT.
Honestly, Netscape is not nearly as good as Internet Explorer. Is there any
good alternative for Linux?
TIA,
Yasu
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From: Stefano Rivoir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How2 set X11 8 bits/pixel ?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:59:10 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm told:
> > It seems that you have an unusual display depth or bitmap
> > layout ( grayscale?). Try to use X11 with 8 bits per pixel.
>
> How do I do that ?
You may want to try
startx -bpp 8
or write -bpp 8 as argument to the call in ~/.xinitrc.
Bye
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux freezing up
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:59:42 -0600
Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
>
> I was playing a game for linux and the machine suddenly froze up (as far as
> I could see, even the keyboard LEDs were all dead). Now with NT, this is a
> rarity and it usually suggests wrong driver or faulty hardware.
>
> I wonder if the same applies to Linux. How often should I assume Linux to
> die? Especially when you are playing games.
Often this is just X freezing. If so you can get out with
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
without shutting off the computer or resetting.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Don Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FP2000 and .htaccess
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:46:13 -0500
I got it working by putting the .htaccess in EACH directory
Thanks for the hints from the 1st message
========================================================================
Don Stafford, Director of Information Technologies
UAV Entertainment Corporation
2200 Carolina Place
Fort Mill, SC 29708
803-548-1056 x159 704-940-1056 x159
803-548-2493 - Fax 704-940-3335 (Fax)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 8371791
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bodo Moeller)
Subject: OpenSSL version 0.9.5 released
Date: 28 Feb 2000 17:53:56 +0100
OpenSSL version 0.9.5 released
===============================
OpenSSL - The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS
http://www.openssl.org/
The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of version
0.9.5 of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. This new OpenSSL version
incorporates over 150 changes and bugfixes to the toolkit (for a complete
list see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES).
The most significant changes are:
o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
o Automation of 'req' application
o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
o Usable certificate chain verification
o Certificate purpose checking
o Certificate trust settings
o Support of authority information access extension
o Extensions in certificate requests
o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
data
o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
RSA functionality
o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
via a per-thread stack
o PRNG robustness improved
o EGD support
o BIGNUM library bug fixes
o Faster DSA parameter generation
o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
o Experimental MacOS support
We consider OpenSSL 0.9.5 to be the best version of OpenSSL available and
we strongly recommend that users of older versions, especially of old SSLeay
versions, upgrade as soon as possible. OpenSSL 0.9.5 is available for
download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (the various
FTP mirrors you can find under http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html):
o http://www.openssl.org/source/
o ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/
Yours,
The OpenSSL Project Team...
Mark J. Cox Richard Levitte Holger Reif
Ralf S. Engelschall Bodo Moeller Paul C. Sutton
Dr. Stephen Henson Ulf Moeller Geoff Thorpe
Ben Laurie Andy Polyakov
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From: Will Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Unmount problem!
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:23:21 +0800
I'm using Linux Redhat6.1.
I can't unmount the file system and proc when during shutdown. This
problem occur once i set the quota for my user and group.
Thanks for help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oolon Colluphid)
Subject: Re: Help, I need some linux advice!
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:23:31 GMT
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:16:54 +0100, Thomas Amm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Tandem Guy wrote:
>>Hello. I'm a C/C++ programmer who's decided it's time to learn UNIX.
>>Unfortunately, I don't have access to UNIX at work. Someone suggested I
>>give Linux a try at home. This seems reasonable, but I have a lot of
>>questions. I'd like to by a PC on which I would run LINUX and LINUX
>>only. What would be the minimum system requirements I'd need? I'm not
>>looking to do much more than some basic C/C++ development. Also where
>>can I get a copy of the OS and does it come with a C/C++ compiler. I
>>know these are pretty basic questions and I apologize if there is a FAQ,
>>but I didn't see one. Thanks in advance for any replies to this post.
>>
>>
>>
>for that propose you really need nothing, but ANY Linux distibution and an
>internet connection. Your Linux should contain KDE, KDevelopment and the
>basic development libs. The basic compiler g++ is
>included in any distribution. Actual libraries you will always need, so the
>best way to keep up-to date is copiling some state-of-the-art sources and
>download the libs your compiler is missing. ;-).
>For basic C/C++ programming the (free) KDeveleop environment and debugger
>will do it. On the GNU, GNOME, KDE etc pp sites there's enough free stuff and
>any programmers' support around.(Linux is living from open source as you
>maybe know)
> So you can download a free distribution if you have plenty of times,
>or better get some evaluation copies from magazines etc. find the one to fit
>you best and eventually buy the one you like best. That shouldn't take you
>more than ~50 $.
I would even say: if you do not need the fanciest GUI there is you
could run Linux even on an old 486 with 16MB of RAM. Moreover,
ther are distributions, which cost you less than 50Bucks and do
also come with a whole bunch of compilers for almost any language
you can think of.
Wolfgang
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From: Digiwyrm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: sendmail m4 problem
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:28:11 -0600
On Redhat 6.0, when I try to edit sendmail.cf for the DM (I masquarade
as) field, I still get my mail bounced back, since my mail still says
root@myboxname. Manually editing sendmail used to work in Redhat 5.2,
now in 6.0 it says use the sendmail.m4 file. However when I use the m4
"command" after editing the sendmail.m4 file, it says m4 is not there
(even using absolute path). Is something missing? where can I get the m4
"command"? Or am I doing something wrong on the manual edit of
sendmail.cf?
Any help appreciated :o)
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From: Kingshuk Majumdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printer stopped working! Can you help?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:30:10 GMT
Hi,
I bought a Epson Stylus 900 printer which I tried to hook up with my
machine which is loaded with Redhat 6.1 and Windows.
First I couldn't configure the printer for LinuX. There were two problems:
1) Bug in Redhat 6.1 version - you need to include a line in
/etc/conf.modules file (alias ... parport pc ...)
2)As far as I know there is no driver for this printer.
To resolve this I modified my conf.modules file accordingly and tried a
different driver - Epson ECP (or C) 2 (something like this - I forgot
now). In the first time it worked - I was able to print out a black and
white test page. The I tried Epson Stylus Color with 360x360dpi and
was also able to print a color test page (both ascii and postscript).
But the color was not that good so I tried a higher resolution
720x720 - then my printer started to print junk when I tried to print
the test ps file. I switched off the printer - removed all the jobs with
lprm. Then I changed my printer to the previous one - but now the printer
desn't response. The printer works fine under Windows but when I tried to
print in Linux - say for example the test page - it sends the page to
the printer queue but it didn't print anything!! I tried to see using
lpq - but there are no entries!!!!! I tried many ways - each time
deleting the proper files from the /var/spool/lpd directory. Also looked
at the /etc/printcap file. But nothing works!!
I disconnected my printer from the machine - reboot it but strangely when
I tried to add a printer - the autodetection found the port!!!!
Now my guess is - somewhere this info got registered when I first hooked
up the printer and it found the proper port. There may be also a lock file
which is preventing the printer to print. But I couldn't find anything -
is there anyone who can help me with this.
Thank you very much.
--Kingshuk.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: How do I fax staroffice document?
Date: 28 Feb 2000 12:03:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:30:12 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>But what utility I use to convert it to postscript file?
It's called "StarOffice". File, Print, select the "Generic Printer",
and check the "Print to File" checkbox.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I-Con's Science and Technology Guest of Honor in 2000 will be Geoffrey
A. Landis. See <http://www.iconsf.org> for I-Con information.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 has 63,000 bugs - Win2k.html [0/1] - Win2k.html [0/1]
Date: 28 Feb 2000 17:48:23 GMT
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 07:22:09 -0800, JCA wrote:
>crashed wrote:
> This is a very commendable feeling but, unfortunately, not the way things
> have
>historically worked out, the egregious example being that of home VCR formats.
There are more to "merits" than the product quality. There are very good
reasons why home VCR formats worked out the way they did.
>Any tactic within the law should be used in order to kill the Redmond beast,
>least it kills Linux and the open source movement first.
When you talk about "history", think about all the great revolutions -- the
(Chinese) cultural revolution, the Russian revolution, the French revolution
... and also think of their aftermaths. Once the means become corrupted, the
end follows suit.
> This is a kind of >Alliance vs. Empire struggle.
Put your light saber down, buddy. The only "struggle" is that to offer
good quality software to the users.
--
Donovan
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From: Hans Dumbrajs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No Print Previews?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:59:54 +0200
nldgr wrote:
> Why Leenux got no print previews???
what do you mean?
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From: Hans Dumbrajs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:00:56 +0200
Try to use "lpr" without the % s
ndg wrote:
> lpr % s
>
> Hans Dumbrajs wrote:
> >
> > nldgr wrote:
> >
> > > I can print from the command line, Corel WP7, and Xess; but can't print
> > > in Navigator or Acroread.
> > > I put the same command in them that I used in WP and about five other
> > > variances, but alas, a no-go.
> > > Why?
> >
> > What command do you use?
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From: Eric Quere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: ide disk, not detected (2.2.6 and 2.2.13) is there a fix ?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:01:57 GMT
Hello,
I want to share my second hard disk between Linux and BSD.
Unfortunately I've a small (at least, I hope) problem: the second
hard disk is not detected when the kernel boot.
I have seen :
on RH 6.0 (linux 2.2.6) and SlackWare 7.0 (linux 2.2.13)
hda: IBM-DJNA-351520 , 14664MB w/430kb , CHS=...
hdb: CD-ROM CDU4011, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: CR-4802TE, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 : BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 BIOS SETTING hda=DMA hdb=DMA
ide1 : BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00F BIOS SETTING hdc=DMA hdd=DMA
In the bios a set every hard disk on LBA not CHS
If it can help, I put what OpenBSD's Kernel detect :
(on OpenBSD 2.4 2.5 2.6)
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <IBM-DJNA-351520>
wd0: 14664MB , 16383 cyl, 16 head , 63 sec , 512 bytes/sec ...
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba adressing (430 Kb cache)
and
wd1 at wdc1 drive 1: <WDC WD102AA>
wd1: 9787MB , 16383 cyl, 16 head , 63 sec , 512 bytes/sec ...
wd1: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba adressing (2048 Kb cache)
My mother board is an Abit BH6
I hope someone got a solution.
Thank you by advance.
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From: Michael McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: logs to floppy + eject for security?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:53:13 +0000
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, BjJbMc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you think its a good, or a hairbrained idea, to have log files
> and/or important system info, written to floppy and ejected at some
> point during a suspected attack? No hacker can ever get one's ejected
> floppy to reload itself!
>
> Now, I may be really naive, but I thought this might be another neat
> trick. Or would it result only in a lot of floppy ejection!?
I'd love to know how to get my floppy disc to eject itself.
For those who have zip drives, it's probably a lot easier to eject one of
them - and the writes are far faster.
-- Michael "Soruk" McConnell [Eridani Linux 6.1A available]
Eridani Linux -- The Most Up-to-Date Red Hat-based Linux CDROMs Available
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eridani.co.uk Fax: +44-8701-600807
"No. 'Eureka' is Greek for 'This bath is too hot.'" - Dr Who.
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