Linux-Misc Digest #446, Volume #26 Sat, 2 Dec 00 17:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: Full screen PDF viewer (SKG) (Dave Blake)
Re: POS application? (ag)
Re: passwd protect runlevel 1 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: printing utilities ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Which driver to use? (HomerWelch)
Booting with 576KB conventional RAM ...or less. (Juan)
Volume very low after OSS installation (Yvan Gauthier)
I need a good book on Sendmail ("Lamar Thomas")
Splitting WAV-Files automatically (Stefan Bauch)
Basic questions about gtk-XEmacs (Robert Morelli)
Re: Can't ftp to Linux box from windows ftp client - SOLVED ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I need a good book on Sendmail ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Booting with 576KB conventional RAM ...or less. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: How to uninstall tar.gz's (David Efflandt)
Re: Which driver to use ("chmod")
Re: Problem with nfsd (Mark Post)
Re: bind: Address already in use (Patrick Baer)
Re: Newbie qu: assign variable (Patrick Baer)
wine: How to set DOS environment vars? (eric)
Re: Screen shots. (Gene Wilburn)
Linux install doesn't see my new hard drive ("Beldar")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Blake)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Full screen PDF viewer (SKG)
Date: 2 Dec 2000 16:11:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kyle Parfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ghostview will display PDF much nicer than acroread, but won't print
> very well.
I have yet to find a pdf file that ghostscript 6.3 will not
handle, but that Acroread will. I don't doubt that they exist,
but ghostscript seems to have closed large gaps in its pdf
usage between 6.0 and 6.3. I hardly ever use acroread anymore
on machines that have gs 6.3 installed.
Xpdf, on the other hand, still has its issues.
--
Dave Blake
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From: ag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: POS application?
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 17:19:38 GMT
In article <Fp7W5.29395$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> There hasn't been much in the way of _GPLed_ POS software; the sorts
> of businesses that use such tend to be pretty conservative/"stuffy" in
> outlook, and reluctant to participate in the "if I use this code, I
> must share changes" ethic that the GPL mandates.
>
> There are several POS packages under other sorts of licenses, mostly
> under more traditional "commercial/proprietary" arrangements. You
> might look at the URL below to look for some such...
>
>
Ah - a truly excellent resource. Thanks!
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: passwd protect runlevel 1
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:15:10 +0100
Eric en Jolanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> inittab:
>> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
>> 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
>> 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
>> 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
>> 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
>> # ptb 15/5/00 puts up tty6 only in single user mode, for root login
>> 6:12:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
>> securetty:
>> # ptb 15/5/00 removes all except tty6
>> tty6
> I did this now, and I have some questions that maybe you could answer?
> Whenever I drop to runlevel 1, I get dropped to the shell (I still have bash
> as root shell, maybe I'll restrict that too) When I now run tty, I find that
> I am at /dev/console instead of tty6. I suppose this is normal behaviour,
> but I expected to find myself in tty6. Why is this?
It'll be a function of your init scripts. I can't tell without looking.
You need to read the manual for your init and find out what it does on
a change of runlevel, then read the indicated scripts.
> And is there a way to passwd protect runlevel 1 too? I tried sulogin instead
Again, it's up to your init scripts.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printing utilities
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:19:00 +0100
Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "T. Kalaris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> In the DOS world I used to use a print utility called 4print (or 4prnt?)
>> which would print an ASCII file sideways on a sheet of paper with two pages
>> of text side-by-side. The printer I used was an HP LaserJet. Anyway, does
>> such a utility exist in the Linux/unix world?
> There are several in the psutils package. Ghostscript and a2ps
> can provide the Postscript conversion.
enscript is the other well known one.
I prefered a2ps, or used to before it tried to become everything to all
users.
Peter
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From: HomerWelch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Which driver to use?
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 18:53:23 GMT
WME wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Which driver should I use for the DLink DFE-530 TX.
>
> I tried enabling rtl8139 and the 'via rhine' in the /etc/rc.d/rc.module
> file, but no luck.
>
> Slackware 7
>
> Thanks
> Please post only
Goto
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/adapters/dfe530tx/info.htm
for information and drivers. They seem to have another card
called dfe530tx+. Could that be your problem?
And if all else fails, consult Becker's page at
htp://www.scyld.com/network/
Look on your card for chip names.
Good luck,
--
Homer J. Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Troy, Michigan
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From: Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Booting with 576KB conventional RAM ...or less.
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 20:06:42 +0100
Hi.
I've got a problem. A real one.
About three years ago we bought a killer machine (by thoose days), a
Fujitsu-ICL teamserver M754i, a quad PPro with 512MB RAM . The machine
has been running OK until the moment we needed to upgrade the OS (that
was UnixWare 2.1.2.) in order to install Oracle8i. The option were to
spend lots of money and learning time with Unixware 7 or to install (
tachannn!) Linux. We took the second option.
I've been installing RedHat for several years, so I took the RedHat 7
CD-ROMs tha I had on my table, and I have succesfully installed several
times in dual Pentium machines, and went to install the above mentioned
machine. Installation went fine, but it was unable to boot the OS after
finishing. After sometime discarding possible causes of the problem, I
disabled the SCSI BIOS and got enought memory to boot from the boot disk
made by the installation procedure. It would have been OK (not fine, but
OK) except for the fact that the kernell in the floppy disk was a NON
SMP kernel.
The BIOS told that the conventional memory available was 576 KB, no
matter what options I enabled or disabled in the BIOS. There was no
means to disable the system BIOS shadow on RAM, the only option left to
increase the conventional memory. On the other hand, the kernell, when
it boots, recognizes all the installed memory. I think the problem is
with the boot loader that is unable to fit the whole kernel in memory
due to the low ammount of conventional memory. Do you agree?
>From this point on I've tried several booting options :
- Making a boot disk with the smp kernel installed in the machine.
- Using syslinux instead of lilo.
- Compiling lilo with LARGE_EBDA enabled and making a boot disk.
- Using GRUB instead of lilo
- Using loadlin from a msdos 6.22 disk instead of lilo.
In the best cases the machine frozes after printing "OK, booting the
kernel" in the screen.
In the meantime I've got BootMagic and I'll try it on monday (if I dont
get any better suggestion).
Oh! Iforgot to tell you, I called Fujitsu support (Fujitsu Customer
Services) and I was told that there was no way of disabling the system
BIOS shadowing, that was a feature included in the design of the machine
and, by the way, Linux was not a supported OS for this machine. Good
luck and goodbye.
I would appreciate any suggesions, hints or workarounds to solve or
overcome this problem.
(Crying)
I've tried to cut my veins with a Windows98 CDROM, but it did not work
(even for this). Please help me!
(Serious again)
Thanks in advance.
Juan.
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From: Yvan Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Volume very low after OSS installation
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 19:30:11 -0000
Hi,
I installed OSS. The soundcard works, but the volume is very low. I played
with the mixers I have (Xmixer, Aumix) but it is still way too low. Any
idea? Is there a way to change the default volume settings in RedHat 7?
Thanks,
Yvan
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From: "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: I need a good book on Sendmail
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 19:31:26 GMT
Anyone know of a good book for Sendmail? I am running RedHat Linux 6.2. I
just went out and bought "Sendmail 2nd Ed." by O'Reilly press and I know
that it is a good book, but is it good for a Linux 6.2 system? After all,
the book was published back in Jan. 1997! Is it still DA BOOK to have?
Thanks for your help.
Lamar
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From: Stefan Bauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Splitting WAV-Files automatically
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 20:38:37 +0100
Hi,
I was wondering if there is a tool to cut WAV-Files at breaks
automatically,
so that I can record a complete LP or audio-cassette and then splitt it
up
without recording each single track (for conversion to MP3's...)
Any hints would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Stefan
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From: Robert Morelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Basic questions about gtk-XEmacs
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 12:53:58 -0700
I've compiled and installed the version of XEmacs ported to gtk by William Perry.
I have a few very basic questions concerning its use, some of which may apply
to Emacs, some to XEmacs, and some specifically to the gtk port (or even to
Linux, X, GNOME, ...).
I am using Red Hat 6.2 with GNOME as my desktop. I think it's version 1.1 of
GNOME, but because of a bug or oversight, the GNOME about panel doesn't
mention a version number.
1. Drag and drop for files doesn't seem to work. For instance, there is no effect
when I drag a file from the midnight commander file manager onto any part of the
XEmacs window. How do I set up XEmacs for drag and drop?
2. Cut and paste doesn't work. If I copy or cut a section of text, the text
seems to go into the Emacs kill ring, rather than a system buffer. This means that
I have no way of cutting text from an XEmacs window into another application,
even another instance of XEmacs, or vice versa. How do I get cut and paste?
3. How do I load a tex mode into XEmacs. (This is a basic emacs setup question).
The command
M-x auctex-package
has no effect.
4. How do I customize the colors. Emacs commands like
M-x set-background-color
aren't recognized. Presumably there is a way of setting this through the options menu.
Unfortunately, the options menu hierarchy is so disorganized that I can't find
it if it's there. (By the way, whoever created that menu layout is clearly an
incompetent programmer. Can anyone explain why it remains a part of the
current XEmacs release?) How can I for instance set the background color
to white?
5. Can anyone explain to me in clear terms why Emacs forked with XEmacs,
why the FSF is so upset about XEmacs, and why the XEmacs team won't do
what the FSF wants to resolve the problem? There is a statement by Stallman
on the XEmacs home site, but I don't quite get the point. Even though XEmacs
is released under the GPL, Stallman needs some kind of legal papers from the
authors, and claims that the XEmacs authors refuse to cooperate. What's this
all about?
Any help appreciated.
Robert Morelli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't ftp to Linux box from windows ftp client - SOLVED
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 20:02:15 GMT
Mark,
The firewall I am using is a Ugate 3200 Cable Modem sharing gateway.
You can't "load" any software on it really. The Ugate simply uses NAT
for firewalling. That's it. And it allows you to do virtual servers,
that is, point certain ports to certain internal devices. Other than
that, you can't really configure it. Any clues as to whether an
interal linux server could do this function by itself?
Ryan
> Do you have the ip_masq_ftp.o module loaded on your firewall? This
pretty
> much sounds like what it's designed to do.
>
> Mark Post
>
> Postmodern Consulting
> Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
> To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
>
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: I need a good book on Sendmail
Date: 2 Dec 2000 20:16:56 GMT
In comp.os.linux.admin Lamar Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone know of a good book for Sendmail? I am running RedHat Linux 6.2.=
I
> just went out and bought "Sendmail 2nd Ed." by O'Reilly press and I know
> that it is a good book, but is it good for a Linux 6.2 system? After al=
l,
> the book was published back in Jan. 1997! Is it still DA BOOK to have?
> Thanks for your help.
It's good enough for redhat linux, for more modern sendmail=20
check out www.sendmail.org
> Lamar
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Booting with 576KB conventional RAM ...or less.
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 21:10:52 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> it boots, recognizes all the installed memory. I think the problem is
> with the boot loader that is unable to fit the whole kernel in memory
> due to the low ammount of conventional memory. Do you agree?
You are posting in the wrong forum, Take it to the kernel list.
But no, off the top of my head, 576KB should be fine for the loader,
particularly if it's a bzImage, which loads a bit, decompresses a bit,
loads a bit, decompresses a bit ... Yes, a zImage might have trouble.
> From this point on I've tried several booting options :
> - Making a boot disk with the smp kernel installed in the machine.
> - Using syslinux instead of lilo.
> - Compiling lilo with LARGE_EBDA enabled and making a boot disk.
> - Using GRUB instead of lilo
> - Using loadlin from a msdos 6.22 disk instead of lilo.
That should be the winner, provided it's a bzImage and you have a
loadlin that supports bzImage. Then again, maybe it's worth trying a
zImage with loadlin.
> In the best cases the machine frozes after printing "OK, booting the
> kernel" in the screen.
It looks like it's hitting the bios image in conventional memory, with
result death of bios, and dead machine because the bios is needed for
booting. You'll have to talk to the authors of the kernel boot code.
You might have to edit a bit of the kernels setup.c file that does
the reserviing of memory pages ... but no, you are getting hit before
that, when the machine is still in real mode.
I would guess that if you can boot NT, you might be able to use the NT
loader.
> In the meantime I've got BootMagic and I'll try it on monday (if I dont
> get any better suggestion).
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: How to uninstall tar.gz's
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 20:35:39 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 18:47:57 +0300, Grigory Klyuchnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Flej Ling wrote:
>>
>> I have been setting up Apache, SSL, PHP, GD, MM, libjpeg, wu-ftp, ipchains,
>> ipmasqadm, bison, number4, squid, sqmgrlog, samba, smb_auth, etc, etc, etc,
>> etc, etc, etc.
>>
>> 90% of these I have installed from *.tar.gz files, and 10% from RPM's. I
>> have Redhat Linux 6.0 installed.
>>
>> For RPM's I know how to unistall. But for *.tar.gz packages how can you
>> completely eradicate them without having to hunt for all the various files
>> that have been installed all over the place?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Flej Ling
>
>I think at last item of instalation procedure you type
>% make install
And a well written program will also have 'make uninstall' to remove the
files it installed outside of the install dir (binaries, manpages, etc.).
But if you deleted the source directories or the Makefile does not have
uninstall, you may not know what it installed unless you reinstall it and
make a note of the list of files.
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From: "chmod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which driver to use
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 20:36:21 GMT
I think I have a DE 530, or maybe it's a 528. Either way, my card is an
NE2000-clone. Try this driver.
In article <uC9W5.36949$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "WME"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Which driver should I use for the DLink DFE-530 TX.
>
> I tried enabling rtl8139 and the 'via rhine' in the /etc/rc.d/rc.module
> file, but no luck.
>
> I had another post for that, but still didn't get the right answer.
> Sorry. Slackware 7
>
> Thanks Please post only
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problem with nfsd
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 21:37:11 GMT
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 15:48:58 +0300, Grigory Klyuchnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello,
>I has a problem with NFS server on SUSE Linux 7.0.
-snip-
> Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
>virtual address b041000c
>Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
>Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: *pde = 00000000
>Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: Oops: 0000
This is what is called a kernel oops. Since you are running a 2.2.16
kernel, you should probably upgrade to 2.2.17 before you report the oops to
the kernel development mailing list, and if 2.2.18 comes out soon, you
should probably upgrade to _that_ before reporting it. Once you have
upgraded your kernel, if the problem still exists, then you'll need to have
the ksymoops package installed to 'decode' the oops messages before you send
it to the mailing list. The mailing list address is
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From: Patrick Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: bind: Address already in use
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 22:40:14 +0100
Rick Goh schrieb:
>
> when i tried to start routed always get error msgs:
>
> Executing: /etc/rc5.d/S55routed start
> > Starting routed (RIP) services: bind: Address already in use
> > [FAILED]
>
> how do i solve this problem? thanks everyone!
Are you sure your routed isn't already running? There is one process
already using the port routed wants to occupy! (You can find out which
one using lsof btw.)
later
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From: Patrick Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie qu: assign variable
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 22:45:02 +0100
Lion schrieb:
>
> i'd like to assign the output of sed to a shell-variable
> i'm using sed in that form:
> ifconfig | sed [params]
>
set VARIABLE=`ifconfig|sed ...`
The `s make the shell parse what's inside and then put it into errr, god
I hate putting it in words :)
Example:
echo `echo blah`
will give you:
blah
clear?
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From: eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wine: How to set DOS environment vars?
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 16:58:47 -0500
Hi all,
Does anyone knows how to set DOS environment vars in wine just like
those in my "Autoexec.bat"? something like:
SET Licencefile=c:\blah\licence.txt
SET Installdir=c:\blah
My application needs that information.
Please help! I'm desperate!
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gene Wilburn)
Subject: Re: Screen shots.
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 21:58:41 GMT
On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 21:03:42 GMT, Kyle Parfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey.
>Does anyone know how to do screen shots in kde or gnome? I tried "print
>screen" and pasting
>into gimp and it didn't work.
>Thanks.
>Ykle
A followup question. Does anyone know how people grab screen shots
of installation screens? It would be useful for creating documentation.
How do they do that? What tools do you have available before you've
actually installed anything?
Gene
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From: "Beldar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux install doesn't see my new hard drive
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:59:53 -0500
I just installed a Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 PCI Adapter Card and a Maxtor 30G
hard drive. My machine's original 8G hard drive is still the primary master
on it's IDE interface; there is no slave. I made no changes to this
original configuration. I made the new hard drive the primary master on the
new PCI controller. On the new drive, using fdisk, I created a 4G primary
partition and a 26G extended partition. I defined two logical drives on the
extended partition, 4G and 22G. I formatted each of the new partitions from
Me. Everything is recognized by my system and works fine. I want to
install Linux in the first partition on the new drive, but the Redhat 7.0
install does not list any of the partitions on the new hard drive. I suppose
this is because the new drive is controlled by the new PCI controller, but
that's where my technical expertise (or lack of it) ends. Anybody know what
I can do to get the install to recognize the new partitions. Thanx.
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