Linux-Misc Digest #973, Volume #26 Tue, 30 Jan 01 16:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Looking for email client ("lenny")
best internal modem? (Digital Puer)
Re: How to set KDE as default ? (Markku Kolkka)
SD2 to WAV converter? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
where to find a lot of software ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mounting a floppy.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I wish to RTFM, but where is TFM I need? (Markku Kolkka)
Re: where to find a lot of software ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help me in my linux application dev ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to upgrade to KDE2.0.1 in Redhat6.0? (Harlan Grove)
Re: I wish to RTFM, but where is TFM I need? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Help me in my linux application dev (Dirk Groeneveld)
Re: I wish to RTFM, but where is TFM I need? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: How to upgrade to KDE2.0.1 in Redhat6.0? (OrangeDino)
Problem with Redhat 7 and XFree86-4.01 System freezes for no particular reason!
(Martin Schager)
Problem with Redhat 7 and XFree86-4.01 System freezes for no particular reason!
(Martin Schager)
Re: Upgrading Red Hat 6.0 (Maybe to Slackware) (William Park)
Re: Modem with ESS-1989-Chip ("lordq")
Re: "Login incorrect", not asked for password (Lucien)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to Read CPU Temperature ("Paul Thomas")
Re: best internal modem? (David)
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From: "lenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for email client
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:28:32 GMT
In article <956dlf$te8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm looking for an email-client wich can selectively download messages,
> and is able to show HTML. Anyone knows such a program?
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
The mail system included in mozilla does it all.
www.mozilla.org
NOTE: Beta software
Very useable but does do a disappearing act from time to time.
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From: Digital Puer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: best internal modem?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:37:20 -0800
I have a new Dell 4100 running Win2000. It shipped with a winmodem
that doesn't work with Linux, so I want to replace it.
What is the best internal hardware modem that is most compatible
with Linux (specifically RH 7)?
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to set KDE as default ?
Date: 30 Jan 2001 21:07:50 +0200
Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have RedHat 7, and originally had GNOME, only. I installed KDE 2.0.1
> today, and I like it, but the default login is still GNOME. It give me an
> option to choose KDE, but I would like KDE as default.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop to read:
DESKTOP="KDE"
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SD2 to WAV converter?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:19:05 GMT
Does anyone know of any Linux apps that convert Sound Designer (.sd2)
files to .wav files?
Thanks for any info!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: where to find a lot of software
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:18:04 GMT
Where can I find a lot of software for linux (preferrably rpm's)?
Lunuxberg I know.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mounting a floppy..
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:18:21 GMT
Check your kernel to make sure it has support for floppies. That error
is just telling you that the major/minor number of /dev/fd0 doesn't
match up with a driver...
-- Greg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ish Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> System: RH-6.2
> /dev/fd0 entry hasr major/minor device numbers 2/0
>
> An attempt to mount a floppy with: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt
> produces error:
> mount: /dev/fd0 has a wrong major or minor number
>
> Removal of /dev/fd0 and recreation using: mknod -m 660 fd0 b 2 0
> does not change the situation.
>
> Any pointers?
> - ishwar
>
>
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I wish to RTFM, but where is TFM I need?
Date: 30 Jan 2001 21:20:14 +0200
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I guess there should be a README in with /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
> There isn't. I also groped around in /usr/doc and found a lot of stuff
> that did not discuss these questions. The LDP HOWTO on ppp did not
> discuss these either.
Have you read http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/sysconfig.html ?
--
Markku Kolkka
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: where to find a lot of software
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:21:03 GMT
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/
In article <957412$iud$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Where can I find a lot of software for linux (preferrably rpm's)?
> Lunuxberg I know.
>
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help me in my linux application dev
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:21:33 GMT
hello ,
my name is hemen kapadia.
i am making a remote system monitoring and control application in linux.
Using this application a network admin. will be able to control any
linux box connected to the
network.
I am planing to create it in the following way in C language :
There will be a client part of the application ( only one with the
network admin. )
There will be various servers ( present on each and every box that is to
be administered )
The client is given the ip address of the linux box to be monitored and
the server part of the
application is running on the linux box.
once the connection is established it want to get the list of processes
on that box and if required
to shut down any one process on the remote system.
It should also have the option of shutting down the server completly.
* IF THERE IS ANY PROBLEM WITH THE DESIGN OF THE APPLICATION THEN PLEAS
E
SUGGEST THEM . ALSO I WANT TO KNOW WHETHER THIS IS POSSIBLE OR NOT. *
Also i want to include some security features in the application ;
i will ask for the root password form the user starting the client which
will be compared with the
root password of the system .
* I WANT TO KNOW HOW TO DO THIS .
IF YOU CAN GIVE SOME ROUTINE IN C IT WOULD BE HELPFUL. *
I also want to know if there is any way to execute commands like
"reboot" etc.
from a c program .
Also how to get a list of running processes of a system form a c
program.
It would be better if you could reply personally at :-->
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to upgrade to KDE2.0.1 in Redhat6.0?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:33:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am using the KDE bundled with Redhat6.0. What packages of KDE2.0.1
>I should use and do I need to uninstall the rpm of KDE first?
Start by downloading everything at
http://master.kde.org/~bero/rc2/rh6.2/i386/
You'll also need to update several other RPMs to versions included with
RedHat 6.2. I upgraded my XFree86 RPMs to 6.2 version (3.3.6-20) well
before KDE 2 came out, so I don't know if you'd need to upgrade
XFree86, but I'd bet you do.
As for uninstalling KDE 1.x first, it can't hurt. Note: if you're using
some KDE(1.x)-specific software that's not part of the KDE 'suite' (all
I can think of is kdiff and a few games), you'll need qt and KDE
compatibility libraries. I know they're available on rpmfind.net, e.g.,
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/6.2/i386/qt1x-1.45-3.i386.html
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I wish to RTFM, but where is TFM I need?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:51:49 -0500
lenny wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jean-David Beyer"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have gotten ppp to work by guess and by golly, but I would prefer to
> > not be shooting in the dark as I am now. The "manual" I need pertains to
> > file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0. It contains the
> > following lines at the moment, but I would like to know the definitions
> > of all the items listed (some are obvious to me, but some are a
> > mystery), and also those others that are not there, but might be, in
> > sufficient detail to make intelligent decisions as to what should be in
> > there.
> >
> > PERSIST=no DEFROUTE=yes ONBOOT=no INITSTRING=ATZ MODEMPORT=/dev/modem
> > LINESPEED=115200 ESCAPECHARS=no DEFABORT=yes HARDFLOWCTL=yes DEVICE=ppp0
> > PPPOPTIONS= DEBUG=yes PAPNAME= PEERDNS=no REMIP= IPADDR= WVDIALSECT=
> > BOOTPROTO=none MTU= MRU= DISCONNECTTIMEOUT=5 RETRYTIMEOUT=10 USERCTL=yes
> >
>
> A good place to start is:
>
> man pppd
>
> some of these options are explainet in there.
> also see the networking HOWTO's
> I don know of a "single" document written specifically
> for this file.
So it seems at first. But I looked in those and did not find out the
ones I would need to stop these problems. The features that have been
causing me the trouble are all newer than the documentation, or so it
seems to me.
But I needed to make it stop autoredialing whenever I disconnected and
setting PERSIST=no seems to have done that even though it does not say
so. I disconnect with /sbin/ifdown ppp0. Should I now be doing it a
different way? That is how I have usually done it. If I read the man
pppd, it says, in part:
persist
Do not exit after a connection is terminated;
instead try to reopen the connection.
Now this has been "persist=yes" ever since I can remember, and the
effect is that if I get a hang-up, the system redials after
DISCONNECTTIMEOUT seconds. But it used to permit me to do a /sbin/ifdown
ppp0 and hang up on my ISP. Now it does hang up, but automatically
redials after 10 (RETRYTIMEOUT?) seconds. So I assume I have fixed it
the wrong way. I have not gotten around to see if it will redial after I
unplug the telephone line and reconnect it, but fear that that part
will not work anymore.
PEERDNS is not in man pppd.
I never wanted it to set my name server (actually, the resolver) to use
my ISP's nameservers instead of mine. I wanted it to use my name server
(that would refer to those at my ISP if it could not figure it out by
itself).
These problems all started after installing R.H.L. 6.2.3 as obtained
from VA Linux Systems, the maker of my machine, replaceing R.H.L. 6.0
(also obtained from VA Linux). I cannot say for sure that VA Linux
Systems did not put in these changes, but they had to grope around in
the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts files for a while to come up with a
guess as to how to stop overwriting my /etc/resolv.conf file. If it were
one of their changes, they would have known more about it, or so I would
suppose.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 2:35pm up 1 day, 23:05, 3 users, load average: 2.10, 2.10, 2.07
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From: Dirk Groeneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me in my linux application dev
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:05:31 +0100
Hi!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i am making a remote system monitoring and control application in linux.
How about pouring your energy and skill into webmin (www.webmin.com)?
Webmin is one heck of a remote control system, I doubt that someone will
come up with something significantly better system (a faster one might be
possible though ;-)
> It would be better if you could reply personally at :-->
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ask here - read here.
Dirk
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I wish to RTFM, but where is TFM I need?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:04:00 -0500
Markku Kolkka wrote:
>
> Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I guess there should be a README in with /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
> > There isn't. I also groped around in /usr/doc and found a lot of stuff
> > that did not discuss these questions. The LDP HOWTO on ppp did not
> > discuss these either.
>
> Have you read http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/sysconfig.html ?
>
Not until just now... 8-)
PPP/SLIP items:
PERSIST=yes|no
Here, it does not say what it does, just what values it may take.
In man pppd, it says what it is supposed to do, and that is what it did
in the past, but not what my machine does today. In the past, PERSIST
was always "yes", but now if I have it set that way, I cannot break the
dial-up connection to my ISP: it automatically redials it.
In this file, it says nothing about the PEERDNS or RESOLV_MODS items at
all. Further, there seems to be some kind of demand-dialing (ppp-watch
process) that was never there before that is involved with PERSIST, but
I do not know how that works either. Presumably DEMAND must be defined
somewhere, but I do not see it.
Grrr!
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/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 2:50pm up 1 day, 23:20, 3 users, load average: 2.19, 2.20, 2.12
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From: OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to upgrade to KDE2.0.1 in Redhat6.0?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 04:16:56 +0800
Thanks a lot!
Harlan Grove wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I am using the KDE bundled with Redhat6.0. What packages of KDE2.0.1
>> I should use and do I need to uninstall the rpm of KDE first?
>
>
> Start by downloading everything at
>
> http://master.kde.org/~bero/rc2/rh6.2/i386/
>
> You'll also need to update several other RPMs to versions included with
> RedHat 6.2. I upgraded my XFree86 RPMs to 6.2 version (3.3.6-20) well
> before KDE 2 came out, so I don't know if you'd need to upgrade
> XFree86, but I'd bet you do.
>
> As for uninstalling KDE 1.x first, it can't hurt. Note: if you're using
> some KDE(1.x)-specific software that's not part of the KDE 'suite' (all
> I can think of is kdiff and a few games), you'll need qt and KDE
> compatibility libraries. I know they're available on rpmfind.net, e.g.,
>
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/6.2/i386/qt1x-1.45-3.i386.html
>
>
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From: Martin Schager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Problem with Redhat 7 and XFree86-4.01 System freezes for no particular
reason!
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:13:42 +0100
Hi!
I have a serious problem with my Redhat Linux Distribution (Version 7.0)
When I run XFree-86, (it does not make any differnce if I use Gnome or
KDE2),the entire system freezes. It woudl be "OK" If XFree-86 4.01 had a
bug and crashed, but freezing the entire system is a catastrophy. I was
running KDE2 and the Opera Web-Browser without any problem.
For no particular reason (Screen was blank, because screensaver was
activated), the system froze. (Suddenly no one using a PC in my internal
home network was able to connect to the internet -> thats how I noticed
that the system froze again).
This happend several times in the past days.!!!!!!
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Otherwise I have to return to SUSE Linux 6.3 and XFree86 Version 3.x
This worked fine (except for ocasional crashes of Netscape, which are
normal)
Thanks in advance
Martin
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From: Martin Schager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Problem with Redhat 7 and XFree86-4.01 System freezes for no particular
reason!
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:13:42 +0100
Hi!
I have a serious problem with my Redhat Linux Distribution (Version 7.0)
When I run XFree-86, (it does not make any differnce if I use Gnome or
KDE2),the entire system freezes. It woudl be "OK" If XFree-86 4.01 had a
bug and crashed, but freezing the entire system is a catastrophy. I was
running KDE2 and the Opera Web-Browser without any problem.
For no particular reason (Screen was blank, because screensaver was
activated), the system froze. (Suddenly no one using a PC in my internal
home network was able to connect to the internet -> thats how I noticed
that the system froze again).
This happend several times in the past days.!!!!!!
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Otherwise I have to return to SUSE Linux 6.3 and XFree86 Version 3.x
This worked fine (except for ocasional crashes of Netscape, which are
normal)
Thanks in advance
Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Park)
Subject: Re: Upgrading Red Hat 6.0 (Maybe to Slackware)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:40:15 GMT
Brett Sheeran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi. I have Redhat 6.0 installed on a 1.2GB partition. I think there is about
: 200-300 MB of free space. (Purchasing another hard drive is not an option
: right now).
: I have just been given a copy of Slackware 7.1.
: The options I am considering are:
: 1. Try upgrading Redhat 6.0 to Slackware 7.1
: 2. Trying to get a later copy of Redhat
: 3. Doing nothing
: My questions are:
: Can I upgrade my current installation using the Slackware disk?
: Do I have the space to upgrade to either Slackware or a later version of
: Redhat?
: Any advice would be gratefully received.
: Regards Brett Sheeran
Slackware and Redhat are different distribution, so you won't be able to
upgrade one to the other. So, if you can't get another harddisk, then
install them into separate partitions. 200Mb can hold basic stuffs, ie.
you have to manually select the desired packages from A, AP, D, N, X
series.
--William
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From: "lordq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem with ESS-1989-Chip
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:27:27 +0100
> If this is your model, apparently it doesn't work with Linux currently:
> http://mobilix.org/modem_ci10113.html
yes ... thats my model ... and i have the magazine mobilix has this
information from ... too!!! :-)
thats bad ... but thanx a lot
lordq
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From: Lucien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Login incorrect", not asked for password
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:31:20 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robin Hinde wrote:
> Anybody here have a similar experience, pointers or solution? What am
> I looking for?
If the file /etc/nologin existst, remove it.
See 'man login' for details.
Sucess,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:39:05 GMT
Hmmm, where did UNIX, OS2, and MacOS, come from,
Europe? Further, since Linus has moved here,
Linux is a product of the US too.
You can trash our politics all you want, but I can
see no excuse for attacking our technical
community.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bill Delphenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Withers wrote:
>
> > It is intersting that the US produced
Windows......the country with
> > one-party (two faction) politics has also
given us no choice on the
> > desktop. While politically diverse Europe with
multi-party, proportional
> > systems as the politcal norm, has given us
Open Software and Linux....
> >
> > Sort of the illusion of freedom (US politics)
vs the reality of freedom
> > (European politics - outside Britain).
>
> Sadly ironic, huh?
>
>
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From: "Paul Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to Read CPU Temperature
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:53:30 -0800
Can anyone advise me how to read the CPU temperature?
For an ALI Aladdin5 AGP Chipset, is there a memory-mapped
location that contains this information?
- Paul
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best internal modem?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:01:01 GMT
Digital Puer wrote:
>
> I have a new Dell 4100 running Win2000. It shipped with a winmodem
> that doesn't work with Linux, so I want to replace it.
> What is the best internal hardware modem that is most compatible
> with Linux (specifically RH 7)?
My 3com courier v.everything 56k x2 v.90 ISA works great.
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