Linux-Misc Digest #561, Volume #26 Sat, 16 Dec 00 12:13:02 EST
Contents:
Can this be done? (Young4ert)
Re: Embedded SQL databases for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 170 (Sebastian Kollmann)
Re: fetchmail problem (Michael Heiming)
Re: mpeg layer 3 wavs (Rick Pasotto)
Re: Does this cd-rom burner work w/ Linux? ("Jason Byrne")
Re: Read-only filesystem (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: help on com, ports, IRQs? (Jean-David Beyer)
Mouse problem Loading X ("Buck Turgidson")
Re: LILO-Problem after adding a HD (John in SD)
Re: LILO-Problem after adding a HD ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: It's me that needs the upgrade (a bit long) ("Garry Knight")
Re: Accessing linux filesystem from Windows ("Garry Knight")
Re: Find? really? ("Garry Knight")
pine and spam mails ("Sudhakar R.")
Mandrake 7.2 error (new install) (Don Hinds)
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can this be done?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:10:51 GMT
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Hi,
I am trying to write a simple RPM script for Wine package (be it sed,
perl, awk, etc.) to capture linked files in some directories and
recreate such links on other directory. For instance, the Wine package
produces a lot of linked files in its lib directory as shown in the
attachment (not to mention the bin directory where a lot of linked files
are linked to wine file). In order to package Wine using RPM, I should
be able to recapture the linked files and create such linked files after
the Wine RPM package is installed.
I am a no expert in sed, perl, awk, or any other script guru. I am
hoping someone here can help me to write or come out with such a
script. TIA.
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PS. Remove "4" from e-mail address should you want to reply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Embedded SQL databases for Linux
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:58:53 GMT
jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am looking for a database to use for project that I am working on. I
> am trying to find an embedded database that supports SQL. I have looked
> into Berkeley DB but there is no SQL support. What else is available?
> So far, I have found very little. Thanks.
"Small" and "SQL" are, to this point in time, pretty much mutually
exclusive.
The problem _appears_ to be that once you build the SQL parser, you've
got enough of a body of code that there's little point in _not_ moving
on to something "less-than-embeddable."
There are several directions you might go in:
a) There are DBs based on or similar to Raima
<http://www.raima.com/>
<http://www.dbstar.org/>
Look also for "MetalBase" and "Typhoon," pretty old and
not-much-maintained "free" options...
b) There are all sorts of table/key systems like Berkeley DB that
don't provide the sophistication of the SQL language but which are
readily embeddable.
<http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/nonrdbms.html>
c) Some commercial RDBMSes provide SQL support and _are_ targetted to
the "embedded" market. Empress, Sybase, Interbase, and Solid have
been billed this way.
There may soon be a suitable "open source" release of Interbase...
There are also some plans to attach "embeddable" data stores to both
MySQL and PostgreSQL; the basic idea is to hook in the "control" side
as libraries, and replace the present "heavyweight" data stores with
something lighter. There has been mention of the notion of having
Berkeley DB be the embedded data store...
--
(reverse (concatenate 'string "ac.notelrac.teneerf@" "454aa"))
<http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/>
Rules of the Evil Overlord #119. "I will not attempt to kill the hero
by placing a venomous creature in his room. It will just wind up
accidentally killing one of my clumsy henchmen instead."
<http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
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From: Sebastian Kollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 170
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:06:42 +0100
Cokey de Percin schrieb:
>
>
> Correct. RH 7.0 should have it; RH 6.2 does as I'm running it and I have
> a AcceleRAID 250. Note that the driver is a 'block' driver, not a SCSI
> driver. The normal install should find it if the hardware setup is correct.
>
> Note that if you're using it for a RAID level, then you need to set up the
> raid configuration BEFORE you try to install your OS. I used the onboard
> configuration to set up my RAID 5 and then installed Linux on it.
Sorry, but the installation supports only the old Mylex controllers with
U2W/SCSI and not U160/SCSI controllers. So I'll need to create a RedHat 7 Setup
or Driver Disk with a new patched kernel that I have build before, but I don't
have any idea how to do that. I need any specs for RedHat Driver Disks and how
to create them.
If someone out there has any idea, please don't wait to tell me!!!!! I need
that computer as soon as possible.
Greetings, Sebastian.
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:07:12 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to use fetchmail on a dial-up connection. Everything's set up
>correctly, but when it downloads the messages and deletes them from the server, the
>mail never shows up on my system-at least not anywhere I can find it. Am I missing
>something in .fetchmailrc? Where should it be dropping these messages. I assumed
>/var/spool/mail/joeuser, but it just ain't there. I'm running SuSE 6.3. Help!
>
> ef
Hello,
AFAIK you have to run sendmail -q
That will drop/deliver the mail from your /var/spool/mqueue/ to
/var/spool/mail/<username>
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Pasotto)
Subject: Re: mpeg layer 3 wavs
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:30:43 GMT
On 16 Dec 2000 00:26:08 GMT in comp.os.linux.misc, Dances With Crows
wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:02:39 GMT, Rick Pasotto staggered into the
> Black Sun and said:
> >Is there a linux program I can use to convert? sox evidently won't do
> >it.
>
> Read the man page for mpg123, paying particular attention to the -w
> option.
It's not listed. (It does however show up with 'mpg123 -h'.)
> If these are long files (> 10 seconds or so) use gogo or
> bladeenc or lame to turn the PCM wavs into MP3s and go from there.
Thanks.
> Oh yes, if you are going to be using .signature files, remember the
> McQuarrie convention. Delimiter is "-- " not "--", length not to
> exceed 4 lines of not more than 80 characters each.
My delimiter *is* '-- ' and the sig changes on every post. Some ideas
cannot be easily expressed in two lines. IOW, FU, MYOB.
--
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has
existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization."
-- Mikhail Gorbachev
Rick Pasotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does this cd-rom burner work w/ Linux?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 07:52:00 -0800
"Shawn Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:91eifj$s7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am just wondering if anyone has this working w/ RH 7. I am just
> checking before I buy one.
>
> Hewlett-Packard 12x8x32 SCSI Internal CD-RW Drive 9600i
I agree with the other reply... this shouldn't be a problem... and one step
easier than an IDE/ATAPI drive.. since you're already dealing with SCSI.
btw... the key to getting burners to work is usually 'cdrecord' - do a
search for it on http://freshmeat.net, check out the homepage, download the
source, read the documentation, etc... There are links off the cdrecord
page for everything you ever wanted to know about cd-burners and related
projects.
- Jason
>
> --
> Take Care,
> Shawn Smith
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Read-only filesystem
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:02:03 -0500
Peter Mitchell wrote:
>
> I have a system that I want to be able to switch off without halting.
>
> I imagine that if I can mount the root filesystem read-only this will do
> the trick,
I suppose that will do the trick for the partition that contains (only)
the root file system. But it will still get upset about all the other
file systems. So you will need to figure out how to handle those. Why
not have an "on-off" button that causes shoutdown -h now to be executed?
If the box has a UPS on it, have the on-off switch between the UPS and
the wall, so the UPS can cause a controlled shutdown.
> BUT I would also expect that some things will complain at
> having nothing to write to.
In a really well-configured system (mine is not one of them), the root
partition can be mounted read-only.
> Presumably I can mount these with a ramdisk.
Your system could still write to the other partitions. /tmp and /var
come to mind. It will not need to do much writing if it gets a sudden
power failure. If you are running normally, depending on what you are
running, you will need writable partitions and these will get screwed up
if you just power down without doing shutdown -h now (or equivalent).
>
> Questions.
> 1. How do I make the filesystem stay in read-only mode instead if
> switching to read/write after it has been checked?
I do not know the right way, but somewhere in one of the startup
scripts, you could use the mount command to remount it read-only.
>
> 2. What directories do I need to put on ramdisk besides (presumably)
> /var and /tmp.
>
> Peter
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 10:55am up 11 days, 19:43, 2 users, load average: 2.04, 2.08, 2.08
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help on com, ports, IRQs?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:13:53 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> OK, I have installed Radhat 6.2 on my P-120 (debian's gone because lynx
> would not work on it). SO now do appear to have some primitive X
> windows stuff that comes up when I type "startx" from the root.
>
> But I have no mouse, and that makes it very hard.
You should have configured your mouse when you were installing it. The
installation program specifically asks you about it if it cannot figure
it out by itself. My mouse, for example, is not a serial mouse, so it
does not use a COM port at all. (Uses a PS/2 port.) The install program
automatically figured out what port it was on and its IRQ.
> I try to configure
> the mouse from the command line with "/usr/sbin/mouseconfig" and the
> command does work in that a window comes and ask me to choose a mouse
> (I have tried a number of names, Microsoft compatible, etc)
This should not be all that difficult. My mouse has a label on it that
says what it is. "Logitech OEM Mouseman" Yours probably does too.
> but I have
> a problem with the com nunber: I don't know where any of my hardware
> is, i.e., what COM number it is in, or what IRQ;
Look at the back of your computer where the mouse plugs in. You should
be able to figure out what serial port (if it IS a serial port) it is
plugged into. Typically COM1 (i.e., /dev/ttyS1). You may need to refer
to the instruction manual for the mother board in your computer if the
mouse plugs right into the edge of the mother board. If you had
installed Red Hat Linux correctly, it would even have made the link
/dev/mouse to your actual port.
> same thing goes for
> the modem, when I try to configure it: what COM number is it? THe
> comptuer has to tell me what COM number it is, right?
Wrong. You tell the computer which it is when you configured the modem
(with the little dip switches on the modem board). Actually, unless your
computer was screwed up, you do not even need to look at the modem board
because the system detects this at bootup. You do have to answer the
questions the installation program asks you correctly.
> How do I make teh
> computer tell me what COM number the mouse and modem is in?
> Or do I arbitrarily choose what COM number each one gets?
That will not work. If you do tell the system the COM numbers and IRQ
numbers, you have to be right.
> That doesn't seem to be working...
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
I think your best bet is to reinstall Linux, but to read the
installation manual first. Since you are installing Red Hat 6.x, the
name of the manual is "Red Hat Linux 6.0 Installation Guide". (Yours
probably says 6.2, of course.)
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 11:00am up 11 days, 19:48, 2 users, load average: 2.22, 2.15, 2.10
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From: "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse problem Loading X
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:37:42 GMT
I haven't used X in a number of months. Now I need to install a new version of
Oracle. When I run X, I get a message saying :
Fatal server error:
Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory).
I checked /var/log/messages, and it appears to be detecting the mouse (or at least the
port) upon boot. Can anyone suggest any
other places to look? Thanks for any help.
Dec 16 11:06:55 localhost kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Dec 16 11:06:55 localhost kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ enabled
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: LILO-Problem after adding a HD
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:41:21 GMT
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:44:33 GMT, "Tauno Voipio"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>"John in SD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> If this is the problem, then use the LILO options:
>>
>> disk=/dev/hda
>> bios=0x80
>> disk=/dev/hdb
>> bios=0x81
>> disk=/dev/sda
>> bios=0x82
>>
>> to get LILO in step with the BIOS setup.
>>
>> Remember, LILO uses BIOS calls to load the system. If the BIOS assigns
>device
>> codes in a creative manner, LILO cannot guess what they are. TELL lilo
>what
>> they are.
>>
>
>Except that many BIOSes refuse to support other drives than 0x80 and 0x81.
>There is little help of the drive 0x82 if the LILO cannot use it through the
>BIOS.
Then that drive is not bootable with any BIOS based bootstrap.
>
>Tauno Voipio
>tauno voipio @ iki fi
>
>
LILO version 21.6 (04-Oct-2000) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
patches at ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: LILO-Problem after adding a HD
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:47:23 GMT
"John in SD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >Except that many BIOSes refuse to support other drives than 0x80 and
0x81.
> >There is little help of the drive 0x82 if the LILO cannot use it through
the
> >BIOS.
>
> Then that drive is not bootable with any BIOS based bootstrap.
>
Exactly. That's what I tried to tell.
Microsoft products do not care - they boot from the first disk always (NT
and followers read ntldr from the first disk and thereafter it's a totally
different story without BIOS).
If Microsoft does not care - neither do the hardware manufacturers. Pity.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: "Garry Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: It's me that needs the upgrade (a bit long)
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:50:10 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Over the last 6 months or so, I
> have woken up to the existence of other OS's and in particular Linux.
> Reading and following Linux ng's, FAQ's and 'How to's' I realise what
> I have been missing and frankly my appauling ignorance of reality. I
> feel like the Frog at the bottom of the well, who thinks that the blue
> disc above him, is the whole outside world. Now that I have been
> exposed to the real world, I recognise just how vast it is.
Welcome to the light!
> Just some examples of : What the hell are they taking about!
[snip]
Most of what you're asking about is, in one way or another, part of
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) and I suggest
that you find a good book on TCP/IP for beginners. The "Dummies" book
will take you part of the way, but you'll probably want something
meatier if you start getting interested in the subject.
You really need to understand the basics before some of the possible
explanations can make sense. For example:
> you can use eth0 for the dhcp thing and ppp0 for your dialup two
> separate entities two separate ip's
eth0 is the device via which Linux talks to your network card, DHCP is
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (the method a server uses to
assign IP addresses to nodes on a network), ppp0 is the device used to
communicate with the Internet via your modem, and so on. Now, how much
wiser are you? Just giving you definitions of the terms doesn't give
you the wider background in which the terms are used.
You might also check out the Networking-Overview-HOWTO, although the
HOWTOs usually assume a certain level of prior knowledge.
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Garry Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing linux filesystem from Windows
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:50:09 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <wDC_5.7174$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Rod
Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Sswitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> what I'm hoping might exist is a Win95 program that can mount
>> and access (read-only) Linux filesystems.
>
> I know of two such programs:
>
> - Explore2fs (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm)
> - fsdext2 (http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk)
There's also the ext2tool utilities which work from the DOS command
line, which is useful for batching jobs.
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Garry Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Find? really?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:50:10 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "MH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Can someone please explain why the following command does NOT locate
> the files specified on the local filesystem?
>
> find / -xdev -name *.txt
It works for me using Mandrake 7.2 (GNU find version 4.1). Maybe it's
just the version that came with your distro. Try it again as:
find / -xdev -name *.txt -print
--
Garry Knight
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From: "Sudhakar R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pine and spam mails
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:52:42 -0500
Is there anyway to block addresses in pine or do we have to use a mail
filter program. If so, can you please send me directions on how to get
started with mail filtering and blocking undesireable addresses.
-sudhakar
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Mandrake 7.2 error (new install)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Hinds)
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 17:01:49 GMT
I just installed Mandrake 7.2 and it went smoothly. But when I boo (Kde) t I get
8 vertical bars, eqach showing the left edge of a full screen.
If I try to boot any other way i get this error sequence
Aiee, killing inerrupt handler
Kernel panic .....
In swapper - not syncing
and it stops booting right there.
Any ideas? Compaq 7470, Trident Blade 3D (video), AMD K6-3D 533, 20G (5G
allocated to Linux), 64M
thanks
Don
--
Don Hinds
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/eritrea/117/
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