Linux-Misc Digest #477, Volume #25 Fri, 18 Aug 00 04:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: KDE menus (Trevor Brown)
Re: 1) Fvwmrc and 2) mv command ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: LDAP client ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
xfstt fonts tools? (Myint)
Re: Help! reboot command doesn't work ("Stefan Viljoen")
Re: Changing Linux drive from slave to master (David Efflandt)
Re: kernel 2.2.16-3 'make bzImage' compile error in (jinp)
Re: Upgrading an enternal USR Courier V.Everything *without* (E J)
Re: kernel 2.2.16-3 'make bzImage' compile error in (Joe Mazz)
Re: KDE menus (Koos Pol)
Re: perl, informix and linux (Koos Pol)
Re: neighbour table overflow?! (brian moore)
NPR report mentioning Linux and OpenBSD (Pat McCann)
Re: Memory question (Javier Hijas)
HELP: Mandrake 7.1 Won't Complete Boot (Roy A. McCoy)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Brown)
Subject: Re: KDE menus
Date: 18 Aug 2000 03:53:31 GMT
That's just it, there isn't a "remove" option available -- only view and
copy.
Trevor
Ingemar Lundin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: ?
: right-click on item you want to remove in the KDE menueditor and chose
: "remove"
: /IL
: "Trevor Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
: news:8ngrrv$6dp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: > Hi:
: >
: > I'm trying to remove menu items from the K menu, but I can't seem to find
: > any way to do it. Even under Panel - Edit Menus. I can add items, but
: > don't find a way to remove menu items.
: >
: > --
: > Trevor
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Trevor
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 1) Fvwmrc and 2) mv command
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:21:12 -0500
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Tom Kralidis quoth:
~~ Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:40:00 -0400
~~ From: Tom Kralidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc, comp.unix.questions
~~ Subject: Re: 1) Fvwmrc and 2) mv command
~~
~~ "Gastlogin Internet-Cafe Muenchen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
~~ news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
[ snip ]
~~ > I would like to is run a single command to rename all files to the same
~~ > basename but without the .bak, so the resulting files would be named:
[ snip ]
~~ > Something like:
~~ >
~~ > mv -[whatever basename minus the .bak] *.bak
~~ >
~~ > Any advice would be much appreciated!
~~
~~ Just to throw in a csh/tcsh example for the mv command:
~~
~~ % foreach i (*.bak)
~~ ? mv $i $i:r
~~ ?end
~~ %
~~
~~ the :r strips the extension.
[ snip ]
Or, shell independent, but longer:
perl -we 'for (<*.bak>) { s/.bak$//; rename "$_.bak", $_ }'
perl -we 'for (<*.bak>) { $f = $_; s/.bak$//; rename $f, $_ }'
Perl is a lovely language!
anm
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LDAP client
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:29:26 -0500
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Andrew quoth:
~~ Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:59:40 GMT
~~ From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: LDAP client
~~
~~ Hi
~~ I am looking for a LDAP client for XWindow.
~~ I use RH
Netscape Communicator.
anm
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From: Myint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xfstt fonts tools?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 04:29:42 GMT
I installed xfstt. I through in .TTFs that I used in MS Windows.
Installation went ok.
1. I open up kde-editor and select font. I can see all the fonts I through
in but when select any one of my fonts, the preview window show nothing but
a blank. Why?
2. It also show some other fonts that are not in /font/truetype/. Where
they come from?. I can not locate anywhere.
3 What's the difference beween the .ttf fonts I copied in and other fonts
that I can not locate.
4. Is there any font design tools for what ever font type that xserver
accept?
All the help rendered is appreciated.
Myint.
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From: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help! reboot command doesn't work
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 06:38:52 +0200
ken grieve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8nh1ff$8fk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> try "init 6" without the quotes.
>
> Regards
>
> Ken
On my SCO Unix servers at work, "init 0" (without quotes) works fine...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Changing Linux drive from slave to master
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 05:27:27 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:38:25 -0400, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> I presently need to install Linux on my slave drive and will
>probably use Lilo on my MBR. Some time later, I want to
>Use that drive, as master or as the sole drive on the system.
>The drive will have Win95 on it also. How can I make the change
>and still have Lilo boot the system from the MBR?
Just before you make the change, make a boot floppy with your current
kernel: cp /boot/vmlinuz /dev/fd0
Then use rdev to tell it the new root partition: rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda2
(or whatever your / is).
Actually you might want to make sure you have floppies for both old and
new locations so you can test it out first and make sure that you are
doing it right. Then just before making the swap, edit your /etc/fstab
file for the new partition locations. Change the jumpers, Boot from the
floppy, change lilo.conf settings and run 'lilo'.
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From: jinp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.16-3 'make bzImage' compile error in
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 02:08:39 -0400
Go to linux directory instead of linux-2.2.16 may help. and start from
begining!
Joe Mazz wrote:
> I am running Redhat 6.2 linux (kernel 2.2.14) and encountered a problem
> while trying to patch it to 2.2.16-3,
> following instructions at
> http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-037-05.html and
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/kernel-upgrade/.
>
> First I updated RPM itself as instructed on the Redhat site via:
> rpm -Fvh rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm
> Then I downloaded the RPMs and unpacked them:
> rpm -Uvh kernel-headers-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
> kernel-source-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
> rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm kernel-ibcs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
> kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
> Man page conflicts with the previous kernel-pcmcia package required:
> rpm -ivh --force kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
> Then after 'cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.16' I find:
> #make xconfig -- OK
> #make dep -- OK
> #make clean -- OK
> #make bzImage -- *** PROBLEM!!! ***:
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o
> scripts/split-include
> scripts/split-include.c
> In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36,
> from scripts/split-include.c:26:
> /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [scripts/split-include] Error 1
>
> Therefore I seem to have the same error reported by H.T. Leung on
> linux.sources.kernel.
> A solution offered by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "By simply making the symlink from /usr/src/linux-2.2.16 to
> /usr/src/linux, you will resolve this."
> does not work for me. The RPM source code installation had already
> moved the softlink
> to point to the new source directory tree, as you can see here:
> #ls -l /usr/src
> total 12
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 13 21:25 linux ->
> linux-2.2.16
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Aug 13 21:26 linux-2.2.14
>
> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Aug 13 22:15 linux-2.2.16
>
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 22 05:04 redhat
> but I still get this errno.h compile error.
>
> I suspect that another critical softlink is missing that got zapped
> during the process.
> Surely other folks have encountered this same problem...
> Would someone please kindly post a complete solution for this
> compilation error? Thanks.
>
> -Joe
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading an enternal USR Courier V.Everything *without*
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:07:20 -0700
Why don't you and your modem go to a friend's place with Windows? Download the
flash upgrade and download it to your modem.
Another option is to try to use dosemu or wine (DOS emulator or the windows
emulator) on your linux box to run the flash upgrade
download to your modem.
Robert Heller wrote:
> Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> In a message on Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:39:44 -0400, wrote :
>
> TL> Robert Heller wrote:
> TL> >
> TL> > I have a 33.6/28.8 USR Courier V.Everything and I would like to upgrade
> TL> > it to a V90 (56K) modem. The problem: I *don't* have MS-Windows
> TL> > installed on my computer. Since a full version of MS-Windows costs
> TL> > $189, with the added cost of the modem upgrade of $60 == ~$250, this
> TL> > makes about $250. Which happens to be close to the cost of a *new*
> TL> > modem... I can either buy a copy of MS-Windows, install it on my 345meg
> TL> > C: drive (presently containing MS-DOS 6.2 and is mostly full of old .tgz
> TL> > files) or buy a new modem. Yuck.
> TL> >
> TL> > Does there exist a version of the upgrade program for Linux? Does
> TL> > anyone what the upgrade *actually* program does? This is an
> TL> > *external* RS232 serial modem. What can a *MS-Windows* program do with
> TL> > the serial port than Linux cannot?
> TL>
> TL>
> TL> Nothing, if you knew what to do.
> TL>
> TL> Why not just prevail upon someone you know who DOES run
> TL> windows to do the flash for you? Once it's done, it's done,
> TL> and you can put the modem right back where it and you will
> TL> be most happy..
>
> Yeah I can do this, but it is just *irksome* that USR has done this.
>
> Note: for all of the upgrades *short* of the V90 upgrade, I can use
> minicom, since the flash download uses XModem to download the new
> firmware. *I* thought USR/3Com was enlightened, but not quite...
>
> I *could* see USR/3Com using a https://... site to take my CC# and then
> let me download a V90.xmd file that I can flash into the modem, but it
> does not work that way for some reason. I cannot understand why, other
> than stupidity...
>
> TL>
> TL> --
> TL> Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> TL> Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
> TL> job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com/Linux
> TL>
>
>
> --
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From: Joe Mazz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.16-3 'make bzImage' compile error in
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 06:17:36 GMT
Thanks to Rick and others who replied by email to my post.
Here is a brief follow-up in case anyone else stumbles on this or a related
problem.
After encountering similar problems during the 'make' portion of other
package builds using RPM,
I found that simply repeating the initial installations by adding "--force"
to the rpm command did the trick.
I don't understand why the dependency environment was not correct for
'make bzImage' without this,
but that was definitely the my situation, anyway. So here is what worked
for me:
rpm -Uvh --force kernel-headers-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
kernel-source-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh --force kernel-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
kernel-ibcs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
cd /usr/src/linux
make xconfig -- made my choices and saved
make dep
make clean
make bzImage -- IT WORKED! No need for manually hacked in softlinks, etc.
Cheers,
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koos Pol)
Subject: Re: KDE menus
Date: 18 Aug 2000 06:01:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 18 Aug 2000 03:53:31 GMT, Trevor Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| That's just it, there isn't a "remove" option available -- only view and
| copy.
|
| Trevor
|
|
| Ingemar Lundin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| : ?
| : right-click on item you want to remove in the KDE menueditor and chose
| : "remove"
|
| : /IL
|
For the system menu's, you need to be logged on as root.
Koos Pol
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koos Pol)
Subject: Re: perl, informix and linux
Date: 18 Aug 2000 06:10:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 17 Aug 2000 17:20:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| I've been trying to install the perl module DBD-Informix on my trusty
| Linux machine so I can chat with an Informix server on another machine.
| To do this the module install program insists I have esql or sdk
| installed. There don't appear Linux versions of these available.
Yes, there are. http://www.informix.com/informix/products/tools/ and click
"Download client SDK". (Take any version. Client SDK's are fairly independend
of the Server's version nummer.)
| Anyone know a way around this? Can I force the silly install program to
| do the install anyway? The whole requirement seems silly to anyone that
| has no plans on accessing a local Informix server.
DBD::Informix uses the API from the client SDK to get to the Informix
functionality. Whether it's a local or remote database, without SDK the
module is brain dead.
Koos Pol
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: neighbour table overflow?!
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 06:25:50 GMT
On 17 Aug 2000 16:53:33 GMT,
Peter Bismuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm getting an error message 'neighour table overflow', it looks
> like it is causing some network services to fail. Most of the problem
> went away when I turned off NFS (removed it from the boot sequence).
>
> I'm getting this when I try to telnet into my mail server:
>
> [myname@mymachine myname]$ telnet 192.168.0.31 25
> Trying 192.168.0.31...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No buffer space available
>
> Anyone know how I can fix this?
Make sure you have a loopback interface defined.
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
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Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd
Subject: NPR report mentioning Linux and OpenBSD
From: Pat McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Aug 2000 23:28:17 -0700
I got a big laugh out of last night's National People's Radio report
on the big Linux meeting. They played an example meant to give the
flavor of Linux-geek-speak with all the usual technobabble.
The funny part was that said he was working on getting something
working on OpenBSD and never mentioned Linux. It apparently went
right over the news editor's head. The report was all about
Linux with this exception, of course.
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From: Javier Hijas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory question
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:58:47 +0200
Where can I get that article?
Arlan Lucas de Souza wrote:
>
> Hi Javier
>
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Javier Hijas wrote:
>
> > Thanks, I do know and understand that text, but what I really want to
> > know is the exactly sort of memory these commands are about, not to
> > understand them.
>
> The free, ps, top and others commands use the term 'memory' to refer the
> RAM memory installed at your computer. Some amount of this memory is
> used for processes and others for disk buffering (i.e disk information is
> copy to memory to speed the CPU work).
>
> The free command, for example, uses the terms buffer, cache and shared to
> identify each memory part properly. Read the article "Tips for Optimizing
> Linux Memory Usage" for a better description on each term.
>
> > (I am sorry, my English is not too good, and perhaps I don't explaing
> > properly what I mean)
>
> No matter! I'm a brazilian and my English is worse. Let me know if you
> don't undertand me.
>
> Good luck,
> Arlan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roy A. McCoy)
Subject: HELP: Mandrake 7.1 Won't Complete Boot
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:00:25 GMT
I've just installed Mandrake 7.1 on my system but it will not complete
the boot process. The system is setup for dual boot (Windows/Linux)
with Bootmagic. Linux starts to boot, stops and ask me to enter the
runlevel (a bit strange since I indicated during install that I wanted
it to start with the GUI). After I type "5", I get the following:
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
INIT: no more processes in this runlevel
The bootup stops at that point. Nothing else happens. I've tried
entering 1 and 3 for runlevels but the results are the same.
My system:
200 MHZ Pentium
64 MB RAM
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 video card
3COM 3c59x ethernet card
SB AWE32 Sound card
Linux on its own 2.4 GB drive
If possible, please email any squggestions.
Roy
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