Linux-Misc Digest #392, Volume #27 Sun, 18 Mar 01 23:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: ALSA utils compile help... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: XF86Config files (Mathieu Seigneurin)
Re: Text files -- Many into One -- How?? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Text files -- Many into One -- How?? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Free e-mail account question. (Mordak)
Apache 1.3.19 download?? ("Snowy")
Re: Visioneer 4400 USB Scanner (Young4ert)
Re: Text files -- Many into One -- How?? ("The Spook")
Memory required to run uClinux (Bard_64)
Password encryption function? (Paul Harrison)
Re: Password encryption function? (Michael Heiming)
good newsreader? (lop)
Re: Eliminate "pops 'n' clicks" listening to MP3's? ("Flacco")
Re: 10 gig disk in a 500 meg BIOS (Stewart Jenkins)
Re: Text files -- Many into One -- How?? (Elf Sternberg)
Mozilla/Galeon plugins no longer working ("D. D. Brierton")
X Startup Problem (Kyle Christopher Smith)
Text files -- Many into One -- How?? (Ewald Pfau)
Re: Problem of 2.4.2 kernel? ("Andy Walker")
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH not being read on Free Desktop site WorkSpot.COM? ("E")
Re: good newsreader? (raf)
Re: ksh question (Dave Brown)
Re: RPM-Database defect! (j.taimr)
konqueror over ssh leaves processes when closed (David Efflandt)
What is a "server" installation? (Jared Hecker)
Making a hard disk image? (Andre John Mas)
Re: Performance SMTP Server
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ALSA utils compile help...
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:33:46 +0100
In comp.os.linux.setup Kaushik Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While running "./configure" before compiling ALSA utils package, I get an
> error saying that "lex" was not found. How do I fix this?
By installing lex. (usually comes as the flex - fast lex - package)
Peter
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From: Mathieu Seigneurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XF86Config files
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:46:35 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
charlie wrote:
>
> What's the difference between XF86Config and XF86Config-4? Are both files
> used if I have XFree86 4.0.1 installed? If I want to add a second input
> device to get a touchpad and a mouse both work at the same time, do I have
> to add new sections in both of these files?
>
One of those two files is a backup of the other... Look at the XFree log
file (/val/log/XFree86.something.log on my system) : it tells you which
configuration file the server is actually getting loaded.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Text files -- Many into One -- How??
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:41:36 +0100
James E. Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sean wrote:
>> Try the cat command:
>>
>> cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt >bigfile.txt
> There are only a couple of hundred files that I want to copy into one
> file. Is there a solution that doesn't involve having to type out each
> name?
Err .. how were you planning on specifying them! They must have some
kind of pattern to them, no? Or you would have to give the names
individually somewhere, somewhen, whether in a filelist or on the
commandline.
So come clean. What is the pattern? And when you tell us it, tell
yourself it, and write "cat the_pattern > bigfile.txt".
Please go buy a book!
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Text files -- Many into One -- How??
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:42:32 +0100
James E. Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> man cat. Buy a book on it.
> Since I was using the COPY command in DOS, I assumed (incorrectly) that
> the cp command in Linux would have comparible functions.
And what did you assume about the book? That your old dos manual would
cover the unix commands?
Peter
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From: Mordak <kmg_NO-SPAM_5150@.hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Free e-mail account question.
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:54:28 GMT
Hey again Kris,
I downloaded putty and the other clients. I tried them on my Win98 box. The
do work well. Thanks for the heads up.
Mordak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] pecked out:
> Just in followup about Putty... (Ie. ssh for windows)
>
> The really nice thing about Putty in a situation such as
> yours is that it is small enough to keep on a floppy, and
> furthermore, it does not need to be installed anywhere. No
> shared libs (dll) etc. so you can run it off of that same
> floppy. Plus, it has a *very* good xterm emulation, as far
> as I have been able to tell... Better then some other
> commercial ssh clients for win that I have used...
>
> Kris
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Reply-To: "Snowy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Snowy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.infosystems.www.servers,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Apache 1.3.19 download??
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:57:41 GMT
I am looking for the binary of Apache 1.3.19, but I can't find it anywhere?
I went to Apache.org :
http://httpd.apache.org/dist/binaries/linux/
I also tried to look for www.rpmfind.net to get RPM, but couldn't find it.
Can anyone tell me where to download?
Snowy
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Visioneer 4400 USB Scanner
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:46:18 GMT
Thanks for the response. BTW, where do I get the PRIMAX scanner driver for
Linux? Is is part of SANE?
E J wrote:
> Doesn't look good. A big MAYBE. See
> http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html
> I guess you should try the PRIMAX driver and see if it will work.
>
> Young4ert wrote:
>
>> I just purchased a Visioneer 4400 USB scanner from the local Staples for
>> an
>> incredible price (~$15 after a combined of $65 rebates). Unfortunately,
>> when I checked http://www.mostang.com/sane and learnt that such a scanner
>> is not listed under the "Supported Scanners" section and therefore is not
>> supported or usable under Linux OS.
>>
>> The question I would like to ask is if anyone knows of such scanner is
>> supported under Linux OS through other drivers, instead of the one
>> provided by the SANE?
>>
>> TIA.
>
>
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From: "The Spook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Text files -- Many into One -- How??
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:11:03 +0100
James E. Bradley ...
>Sean wrote:
>> Try the cat command:
>>
>> cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt >bigfile.txt
>
>There are only a couple of hundred files that I want to copy into one
>file. Is there a solution that doesn't involve having to type out each
>name?
If the filenames are in a textfile, you might try the command "cat
FileWithNames | xargs cat > OutputFile". The filenames should be separated
by whitespace (spaces, tabulators or newlines) in FileWithNames.
/TRY
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From: Bard_64 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Memory required to run uClinux
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:37:05 +0000
Hello
When using the uClinux port, how much memory would be needed for a
system designed to control an IDE Hard disk.
Thank you
Daniel
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From: Paul Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Password encryption function?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:20:00 GMT
Just a brief question.
Which file in the Linux kernel source code contains the crypt() function? I'm
not even sure if it _is_ called crypt()... just in case, I'm talking about the
password encryption function. Thanks in advance!
--Paul Harrison
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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:36:23 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Password encryption function?
Paul Harrison wrote:
>
> Just a brief question.
> Which file in the Linux kernel source code contains the crypt() function? I'm
> not even sure if it _is_ called crypt()... just in case, I'm talking about the
> password encryption function. Thanks in advance!
> --Paul Harrison
man crypt
will tell you...
Michael Heiming
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From: lop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: good newsreader?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:47:07 GMT
hello
i am searching for a good newsreader running under linux. mainly used
for downloading binaries. so that my win2k comp has not to run the
whole night. (its nearly impossible to sleep next to my comp)
most preferrable would be a programm which runs under console, because
of remote access. (i dont have Xwindows installed and iam not willing
to install it unless it is really needed)
please tell me if there is a prog out there which is good.
thx for your help
lop
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From: "Flacco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Eliminate "pops 'n' clicks" listening to MP3's?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:09:33 GMT
> Try to tune your harddisk, with e.g. hdparm -u 1 -d 1 /dev/hda. (man
> hdparm)
They're all SCSI drives...
> And increasing the buffersize of your mp3 player.
Got that maxed out :-)
> If you are in an
> experimental, kernel-patching, mood, try the low-latency patches from
> <http://people.redhat.com/mingo/lowlatency-patches/>. I have not tried
> those, but <http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/audio/> claims they are
> good for audio applications.
I'm a bit reluctant to experiment with the kernel at this point - any idea
when low-latency might find its way into the kernel proper?
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From: Stewart Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 10 gig disk in a 500 meg BIOS
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:22:24 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rick Griffiths wrote:
>
> Need I even do all this if I am only using Linux? Can I, in other
> words, make the first partition 5 gig and still expect the BIOS to find
> the master boot record in the first 1024 cylinders?
I have a generic 486-66 with the 540 meg BIOS limitation. I am running
Debian 2.1 on the machine. I have two partitions on the machine. Hda1 is
9 gigs and linux swap is 128 megs. Linux installed just fine. The machine
boots up just fine. I don't understand it, but it works. This machine
runs my file server for all the Win machines in the house. No monitor,
mouse or keyboard. It is soon to take over internet routing duties from my
personal machine.
I did nothing special to make this work. I put the CD in the drive, put
the boot floppy in the floppy drive and booted up. The install worked just
as it has on any Pentium I have installed on, just slower. I had to put 32
megs of ram in the thing to get the install completed in less than five
days. After that, I pulled 16 megs from it and it boots and handles its
duties just fine.
--
Stewart...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Elf Sternberg)
Subject: Re: Text files -- Many into One -- How??
Date: 18 Mar 2001 23:29:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"James E. Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Since I was using the COPY command in DOS, I assumed (incorrectly) that
>the cp command in Linux would have comparible functions.
Why would you assume that? If there's one thing Unix is
scruplous about, it's about isolating utility into logical units. Using
one routine to both reproduce files and concatenate files is a violation
of the Way of Unix.
Elf
--
Elf M. Sternberg, rational romantic mystical cynical idealist
http://www.halcyon.com/elf/
Fast food restaurants are like gay bathhouses in San Francisco,
places where people go to engage in high-risk behaviors.
- Greg Critser
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From: "D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mozilla/Galeon plugins no longer working
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 00:00:06 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All of my plugins for both galeon and mozilla have suddenly stopped working.
Everything had been working great, albeit java was slow slow slow. But then in
the past week I did a bunch of upgrades and I've just noticed that none of my
plugins work anymore.
I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.1, and mozilla 0.8 and galeon 0.10.2 both
installed from (rh6) RPMs. Just before I noticed that this problem was
occuring everything was working fine---if I started either galeon or mozilla
from the command line I could see the plugins being registered (and the
java-vm taking an age to get going).
However, last week I installed Ximian red-carpet 0.9.2, and using it I
upgraded my Ximian GNOME installation and upgraded a bunch of stuff in the
Mandrake 7.1 channel. I also installed the Real Player 8.0 from RPM from
real.com. Now the java_vm does not start when I start either mozilla or
galeon, the plugins are not registered at startup, and if I go to a page that
has a flash animation or a java applet on it I am told that I don't have the
plugins installed. But I've checked and they are still there just like they've
always been. I've tried re-installing both flash and java and neither does any
good. I suspect that something (the Real Player 8 RPM) has changed something,
but what? If anyone knows a straightforward fix for this I would be so
grateful.
TIA,
Darren
--
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D. D. Brierton Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb
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From: Kyle Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: X Startup Problem
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:15:07 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I run Mandrake 7.2 and I am having problems with the X server. The
system starts up fine, but I don't get the graphical login screen and I
cannot seem to start X from the console. I've tried typing startx, but
i get the following message: "Fatal server error: Could not open
default font 'fixed'".
Anyone have any ideas as to how I can get the system up and running?
Thank you very much for your help,
Kyle Smith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ewald Pfau)
Subject: Text files -- Many into One -- How??
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:14:29 +0200
"James E. Bradley" <jbradley-at-classicnet-dot-net> wrote:
"EB> In DOS, I can copy several small text files into a single large
"EB> text file with the COPY command, but after reading the man page on
"EB> cp, I don't see how to do it with Linux. How does one do it with
"EB> Linux?? Thanks for your help.
Here, a little detour makes for the direct way.
find . -name 'mask' -exec cat {} >>outfile \;
- or better, if mask is '*':
find . -type f -exec cat {} >>outfile \;
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From: "Andy Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem of 2.4.2 kernel?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:03:33 -0000
OrangeDino wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have compiled and run my linux box with the 2.4.2 kernel for some days
>but I find that I cannot read the long file name in cdr burnt under
>Windoz envirnoment. It work under the 2.2.x kernel which I used before.
>Then I try to re-compile the 2.4.2 kernel to solve this.
>As I re-compile, it cannot "make bzImage" even I use the kernel
>configuration of the one I am using.
>Would this be something wrong with some software in my linux box dealing
>with "make bzImage"?
>And also how to solve the problem of long file name of cdr?
>Thanks for your kindly concern!
>
This is a guess but have you enabled Jouliet extensions while building your
kernel?
I think I'm right in thinking that is to do with Microsoft file names, it
might be worth checking.
Good luck!
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Reply-To: "E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: $LD_LIBRARY_PATH not being read on Free Desktop site WorkSpot.COM?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:46:54 -0500
Hi, has anyone messed around with WorkSpot.com? They let you have a free
desktop account that you can get to via the web through VNC. Anyway, I want
to install X-Chat on my account, but they don't have the latest shared libs
for gtk and such, so I got the proper deb packages, extracted them into my
home directory and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable appropriately, that is:
I put the following shared libs that are missing from their system:
libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => not found
libglib-1.2.so.0 => not found
libperl.so.5.6 => not found
libpython1.5.so.0.0 => not found
libgtk-1.2.so.0 => not found
libgdk-1.2.so.0 => not found
into ~/usr/lib
2) Then did set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/myaccount/usr/lib
3) I run xchat, and still get this message:
./xchat: error in loading shared libraries
libgmodule-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
So, even with gmodule and friends in the directory and of course
LD_LIBRARY_PATH has been set, so I have no idea what could be wrong.....any
ideas???? I hope they haven't modified ld.so to not look at that variable.
I tried the same thing on my own RedHat box and it worked fine. That is, I
temporarily moved one of the needed libs from /usr/ to my home dir, and did
all that. It didn't work until I set the LD... variable to point to my home
dir.
They are using Debian, but as far as I know from the manpages, LD..PATH
should be examined...
Thanks,
e
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (raf)
Subject: Re: good newsreader?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 01:02:14 GMT
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:47:07 GMT, lop wrote:
>hello
>i am searching for a good newsreader running under linux. mainly used
>for downloading binaries. so that my win2k comp has not to run the
>whole night. (its nearly impossible to sleep next to my comp)
>most preferrable would be a programm which runs under console, because
>of remote access. (i dont have Xwindows installed and iam not willing
>to install it unless it is really needed)
>please tell me if there is a prog out there which is good.
>
http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: ksh question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Mar 2001 19:19:25 -0600
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>How do I enable tab completion and command history
>>in the Korn shell?
Korn shell does not do "tab completion". If you use "vi editing"
mode in ksh, then you can do "filename completion" by <Esc>\ to
complete the filename (or command name), but if the name is not
unique, you have to use <Esc>* or <Esc>= to see the file names
which match.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: j.taimr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM-Database defect!
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:15:35 GMT
Orlopp wrote:
> My rpm-database is defect:
>
If nothing else will help,
'rpm --rebuilddb'
perhaps.
--
Jan Taimr
=======================================
The worst computer virus is an end-user
=======================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: konqueror over ssh leaves processes when closed
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 03:27:29 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SuSE 7.1 booted to runlevel 3. When I run konqueror (from KDE2) remotely
over ssh, it starts a bunch of KDE processes on the box it is running
from. If I close konquerer, those processes remain and if I try to close
ssh it hangs saying that there are processes still running over that
connection.
Then I have to open another ssh session to kill off the kde processes one
by one. Just wondering if there was some way to have konqueror
automatically clean up after itself after running remotely?
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Jared Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is a "server" installation?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 03:36:44 GMT
I am thinking about rebuilding my Mandrake 7.2 workstation. I want to
use it for a database server (Oracle and Sybase, possibly Postgres and
MySQL), DNS server, web server and possibly, mail server and proxy
server. I have Mandrake on a lapop now and will use that for a
workstation.
My question is, when one takes the "server" choice during setup, what
is installed (or better yet, where do I look to see what is
installed)?
Also, I was wondering what the consensus choice was for administering
ipchains/iptables firewalls.
TIA -
Regards,
jh
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From: Andre John Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Making a hard disk image?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 03:56:25 GMT
Hi,
I have windows based machine on which I want to install Linux on a
temporary basis (I am borrowing the machine), afterwards I would like to
return the machine to its original state. For this reason I would like
to make a disk image, including all partition information, which I can
store offline and then rewrite once its time to return the computer.
Can this be done, and what are the commands that I need to know?
Thanks
Andre
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Performance SMTP Server
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 03:53:18 GMT
If you like having aprox. 234,348 security holes on your system then go
right ahead!
> May I add sendmail to the list?
>
> --
> Ralf Cirksena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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