Linux-Misc Digest #450
Linux-Misc Digest #450, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 23:13:09 EST
Contents:
Mandrake 7.2: standby no longer viable option ("Robert Watkins")
Re: LILO vs. loadlin (John in SD)
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. (MH)
Re: command to lowercase all file name in current directory (Bill Unruh)
ssh to linux/unix from windows ("ThanhVu Nguyen")
Re: real player 8 (* Tong *)
Trouble with Epson Stylus Color ("Gregg Black")
Re: Trouble with Epson Stylus Color (Hal Burgiss)
Re: ssh to linux/unix from windows (Dances With Crows)
Re: Trouble with Epson Stylus Color ("J. E. Garrott Sr")
Re: Shutdown permissions (Steve Smith)
Re: restricted bash shell question (anthony stuckey)
Re: real player 8 (Jim)
[Tomcat] how to add a new context (SolarisCert)
Re: ssh to linux/unix from windows ("ThanhVu Nguyen")
Re: real player 8 (Carl Fink)
Re: real player 8 (Jim)
From: "Robert Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.2: standby no longer viable option
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:17:03 GMT
I used to use "standby" quite frequently as a means of letting my laptop
rest while not in use (under Mandrake 7.0). Now, after having upgraded to
Mandrake 7.2, resume is somehow called five seconds after a call to
standby. (I would like to avoid suspend if at all possible: the power
switch has failed three times in three years on this machine (Gateway
Solo 2300), and I want to avoid using the switch as much as possible.)
The following is from the syslog, following the command 'apm -S' from the
command line (as root):
Mar 25 18:50:47 localhost apmd[1663]: User Standby
Mar 25 18:50:52 localhost apmd[1663]: Standby Resume after 00:00:05 (98% unknown) AC
power
Does anyone know
1] why resume is called and by which process? 2] how I can control the
behaviour of ampd so that standby is once
again useful?
Thanks,
-- Robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: LILO vs. loadlin
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:32:41 GMT
Why not use LILO as your boot manager?
suggested lilo.conf: (lilo 21.2 or later REQUIRED)
===
boot=/dev/hda
prompt
timeout=50
lba32 <-- you WILL need this line; you have big disks
default=Win98 <-- use whichever default you like
disk=/dev/hdc <-- these two lines may, or may not, be needed
bios=0x81 <-- "
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc1
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=Win98
===
I assume that your BIOS makes drive /dev/hdc1 available as 0x81.
--John
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:45:50 +0200, "Taavi Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>#the questions are marked with '***' (three asterisks)
>#the other stuff is here only to make the message longer ;)
>
>My computer was/is running W98SE (oem), and I installed RH7 on top of it,
>conf. as follows:
>
>/dev/hda1 -- W98 -- fat32 -- 10GB
>/dev/hdb -- CDROM -- iso*
>/dev/hdc1 -- Linux -- ext2fs -- 20GB
>/dev/hdd5 -- file archive -- fat32 -- 2GB
>+swap
>
>When I started the install, I switched drives for BIOS to boot to Linux (on
>/dev/hda - the only option available - referred to as drive C: in BIOS) ,
>where I planned to install LILO(for more information look at the table
>below) and everything worked fine, until I tried LILO to boot W98, then it
>hanged, saying booting windows...
>
>The trouble seemed to be, that W98 would only boot as /dev/hda (primary
>master), so I switched the drives back. Now, not wanting to install LILO in
>/dev/hda (it being a windoze drive and all), I set up W98 to display boot
>menu with choices, which OS to boot - using loadlin.exe to boot Linux.
>Command to invoke Linux is as follows: "shell=c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe
>c:\loadlin\vmlinuz2 mem=128M root=/dev/hdc1 ro"
>
>*** The questions are: "If I installed LILO on /dev/hdc1 (currently on
>/dev/hdc (MBR) as installed since the drive was /dev/hda), booted to Linux
>using loadlin.exe, would it first run LILO (for kernel testing etc.) and use
>the kernel image defined there, or would it still use the kernel image on
>/dev/hda1 (W98 drive - for loadlin.exe to find it)? Would it be worth the
>hassle, or should I just copy a new compiled kernel image to the appropriate
>directory on /dev/hda1 and rewrite the startup menu?"
>
>TABLE1:
>"which drives were where" aka 'changelog'
>===
>at first i had only w98
>---
>/dev/hda1 -- W98 -- fat32 -- 10GB
>/dev/hdd -- CDROM -- iso*
>/dev/hdc5 -- file archive -- fat32 -- 2GB
>===
>bought a hd and installed rh7
>---
>/dev/hda1 -- Linux -- ext2fs -- 20GB
>/dev/hdb5 -- file archive -- fat32 -- 2GB
>/dev/hdc1 -- W98 -- fat32 -- 10GB
>/dev/hdd -- CDROM -- iso*
>+swap
>===
>switched the drives back
>---
>/dev/hda1 -- W98 --
Linux-Misc Digest #449
Linux-Misc Digest #449, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 19:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Partitions and Sizes (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE! (Scott Alfter)
Re: sc spread sheet (Andreas Hinz)
Xfree86 SiS620 onboard (Gonzalo)
Re: Partitions and Sizes (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Is there an "Annoyance eliminator"? ("japhilp")
vmware 2.0.3 (Dan)
Re: Tandy Model 100 as linux terminal (James Campbell Andrew)
Re: sc spread sheet ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Log history.. (Michael B)
Recompile kernel for sound on Debian ("Aubrey Kilpatrick")
Re: Partitions and Sizes ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Partitions and Sizes ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: X Startup Problem ("Eil")
Re: Help please! My root partition's supper block dead (John Todd)
Re: KDE (John Todd)
Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. ("AK")
Losing my confidence in GNU/Linux... (MH)
Re: restricted bash shell question (Dave)
Re: restricted bash shell question (Dave)
From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitions and Sizes
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:11:30 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tim Thompson wrote:
> Can any one give me some advice on what partitions to set up and the size
> they should be? From reading the info on the web, there seems to be lots
> of conflicting information, but so far I plan to set up the following,
>
> /200mb
> /usr 850mb
> /var 50mb
> /boot 10
> /home320
> Swap 64mb
>
> My main concern is that the /home partition is not the correct size. The
> book I am using says that you do not need this partition, but a lot of the
> stuff on the web says that it is worth setting up and that it should be
> "set according to your needs." As I am new to this I do not know what my
> needs will be!
>
> I intend to run Linux on a stand-alone lap-top, single user. I have 64mb
> memory and 1.5gb hard-disk.
>
> Thanks
>
Why so many partititons ? One for swap (100MB), one / (700-900MB) and one
/home should be enough for your 1,5 GB -disk
Cheers
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Using S.u.S.E. 4.3 and SuSE 7.1
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE!
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:17:18 -
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>Hun wrote:
>>
>> If you consider only the web browser, Yeah! still there is
>> no Web browser like IE. Especailly, when you visit M$
>> friendly web site.
>>
>IE doesn't work properly with www.microsoft.com! Visit it
>with IE, and much of the time it only renders the banner!
You must have a badly-damaged IE install or a really old (<3.0) version of
IE for it to be doing that. About the only time I run into problems with
www.microsoft.com is when I've reinstalled WinNT on some old box and need to
patch/update it, and in that case, IE can be downloaded on another machine
and burned to CD-R so it can be installed. Once that's done and the
latest/greatest version is installed, everything else goes pretty smoothly.
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Subject: Re: sc spread sheet
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:28:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Mcclain wrote:
>
>I've tried under RedHat 6 and Slackware 7 but fail like so.
>
>rh6:~/dld_pkgs/sc621> make
>
Hi,
try this:
http://downloads.excite.ca/linux/files/sc-7.6.tar.gz
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Andreas Hinz
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From: Gonzalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xfree86 SiS620 onboard
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:30:04 -
Hi, well I've a problem with the xf86config in Slackware 7.1, I can't run
xwindow with more than 256 colors...
I've a Sis620 onboard... and I dunno the clockchip.. so I skip that in the
configuration...
Please if u can help me! I'll appreciate it!
thanx!
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: Partitions and Sizes
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:40:13 GMT
In article <99lik7$2rn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Thompson wrote:
>Can any one give me some advice on what partitions to set up and the size
>they should be? From reading the info on the web, there seems to be lots of
>conflicting information, but so far I plan to set up the following,
>
>/200mb
[-]
64 should do.
>/usr 850mb
[-]
Quit
Linux-Misc Digest #448
Linux-Misc Digest #448, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 15:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: command to lowercase all file name in current directory (Dave Brown)
Re: Swiching between Linux and Windows
Re: Newbie Question about GUI ("The R")
Re: Best E-mail Client? (Grant Edwards)
Re: slave ypserv ("Peter T. Breuer")
PC98 Keyboard ("Floppy")
Help for playing VCD under linux! (OrangeDino)
Help please! My root partition's supper block dead (Bosco Yip)
Re: how to search filesystem for a file? (David E. Fox)
Re: how to search filesystem for a file? (Grant Edwards)
Re: Help please! My root partition's supper block dead (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Re: Text files -- Many into One -- How?? (David E. Fox)
Re: Controlling access to portfw ("The Spook")
Realplayer + how to add one's own bookmarks? (Peter Petersen)
Re: Newbie Question about GUI (raf)
gnoRPM Fix?? (Jim)
OMS requires glib but doesnt find it (G Tselentis)
sc spread sheet (Mike Mcclain)
Re: system-assigned groups (Michael Heiming)
Re: programs mysteriously segfaulting and exiting (David)
Re: Help for playing VCD under linux! ("Alex Chan")
Partitions and Sizes ("Tim Thompson")
Re: Partition Table (David Griffith)
Re: Is there an "Annoyance eliminator"? (David Griffith)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: command to lowercase all file name in current directory
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Mar 2001 00:35:13 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, kellyboy wrote:
>What is bash command to lowercase all file in current directory... ??
>...
>how do I do that to *all* file in current directory??
>
How about a perl program:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# fixcase.pl file1 file2 ...
for (@ARGV){
$ucn = $_;
tr/A-Z/a-z/;
rename($ucn,$_);
}
After typing the above in an editor, save, make executable, run:
./fixcase.pl FILE*TXT
will change all the uppercase filenames matching to lower case.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
--
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swiching between Linux and Windows
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:30:08 -
There are pros and cons to all of the solutions posted here.
1. Loadlin is another boot loader. To the best of my knowledge it will not
let you run Windows without rebooting.
2. VMWare is the only one which will allow you to run Windows and Linux
without reinstalling one or the other. Some people say it is too slow and
too expensive. It also takes alot of resources.
3. Win4lin installs in you Linux system and you will not be able to run
you old Windows apps without reinstalling them also. It does not access
your current Windows file system. It actually allows the new install to
run in an ext2 file system. You will not have access to most of you
peripherals. However, you may find it will meet your needs.
Hope this was helpful,
Mark
arasu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have Linux Redhat and Windows 98 on the same computer in two
> different hardisks.
> I wish to switch over from Linux to Windows98, and Windows to Linux
> wihout
> shut down or log out. Can any one inform me how to configure this?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -arasu
>
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "The R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question about GUI
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:30:18 GMT
How do I do this?
what command do I run?
"Lee Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:23:16 GMT, Bart Friederichs wrote:
> >The R wrote:
> >
> >> How do I start the GUI ?
> >kdm, gdm or xdm start a GUI login screen. when you put this in your
> >rc.local startup script, it will load automagically.
> >
> >
> Personally, I'd alter the /etc/inittab from init 3 to init 5:
>
> Change:
>
> id:3:initdefault:
> to
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> init 3 is mulituser without X
> init 5 is X11
>
> Lee.
> >
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:31:35 GMT
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:29:37 +0100, John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was thinking of ease of use compared to say Adobe InDesign, Pagemaker,
>GoLive which I've done good things in despite some bugs, or Quark
>Express which costs more.
I don't think LaTeX (or any other mark-up language) is well
suited for doing things like magazine or newspaper layout where
there is a very irregular structure and you want to manually
place most of the objects.
>>Yes. There are several packages that do that. DocBook is one.
>
>Do they have a web site ?
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Now I am depressed...
at
visi.com
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Fr
Linux-Misc Digest #447
Linux-Misc Digest #447, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 11:13:01 EST
Contents:
default path ("lenny")
Re: switchdesk problem... (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: switchdesk problem... ("lenny")
System crashed again, when dialing my ISP, as usual. (Jean-David Beyer)
Umlaute (Denis Can)
Re: slave ypserv (Christoph Kukulies)
Re: default path ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Question on FIPS ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: MGA400 + DRI in XFree 4 (Alex Fitterling)
Re: MGA400 + DRI in XFree 4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: where to set harddisk geometry (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: Newbie Question about GUI (Lee Webb)
kernle 2.4.2 and XFree 4.0.1..big mess (Lorenzo)
Problem setting up USB - hotplug_path not found (Billy Bob Jameson)
Re: Question on FIPS (Steve)
Re: default path (Steve)
Re: iptables under 2.4.2 (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Re: Umlaute (Thomas Zajic)
From: "lenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: default path
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:09:46 GMT
Where do I set the default path used at startup.
Thanks.
Lenny
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: switchdesk problem...
Date: 25 Mar 2001 12:58:56 GMT
ed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ I
[prefer kde and used switchdesk to select kde. I logged out and used
[startx again but gnome is now my desktop manager. I tried to find a
[ file
[that I could edit to get back to kde but am having no luck. Can
[ anyone
[point me to an .rc file or another file that I can access to cure the
IIRC...
do a locate gdm or locate kdm
there'll be an xdm in the same spot, and it symlinks to either one
maybe all you need is to make it point back to kdm. Or edit it
somebody with RH correct me if I'm mistaken
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
--
From: "lenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: switchdesk problem...
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:20:30 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'm running rh7 and initially installed it with kde as my default
>desktop manager. I then used switchdesk to change to gnome to try it.
> I
>prefer kde and used switchdesk to select kde. I logged out and used
>startx again but gnome is now my desktop manager. I tried to find a
> file
>that I could edit to get back to kde but am having no luck. Can
> anyone
>point me to an .rc file or another file that I can access to cure the
>
>problem? thanks in advance...
>
>Ed
>
Ed:
I use Rhat and can set the desktop in the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop
DESKTOP="KDE" should get you back.
--
From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System crashed again, when dialing my ISP, as usual.
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:03:54 -0500
My system crashed again this morning when dialing my ISP. This is when
it always crashes (i.e., when it crashes, it crashes calling my ISP;
it by no means crashes every time).
My /var/log/messages had this to say:
Mar 25 06:07:01 valinux ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem
at 115200
Mar 25 06:07:01 valinux kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of
the University of California
Mar 25 06:07:01 valinux kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
Mar 25 06:07:01 valinux kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Mar 25 06:07:01 valinux kernel: registered device ppp0
Mar 25 06:07:01 valinux pppd[5804]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Mar 25 06:07:19 valinux named[630]: ns_forw: sendto([64.59.192.1].53):
Network is unreachable
Mar 25 06:07:28 valinux pppd[5804]: Serial connection established.
Mar 25 06:07:28 valinux pppd[5804]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 25 06:07:28 valinux pppd[5804]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Mar 25 06:07:31 valinux kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Mar 25 06:07:31 valinux kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module
registered
When things work, it says this instead:
Mar 25 06:38:10 valinux ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem
at 115200
Mar 25 06:38:10 valinux kernel: registered device ppp0
Mar 25 06:38:10 valinux pppd[1337]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Mar 25 06:38:25 valinux PAM_pwdb[1348]: (su) session opened for user
root by jdbeyer(uid=500)
Mar 25 06:38:37 valinux pppd[1337]: Serial connection established.
Mar 25 06:38:37 valinux pppd[1337]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 25 06:38:37 valinux pppd[1337]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Mar 25 06:38:40 valinux kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Mar 25 06:38:40 valinux kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module
registered
Mar 25 06:38:40 valinux pppd[1337]: local IP address 208.225.67.131
Mar 25 06:38:40 valinux pppd[1337]: remote IP address 208.225.64.55
Am I correct in inferring that there is a bug in pppd? It does not
seem to be a simple cracker problem as tr
Linux-Misc Digest #443
Linux-Misc Digest #443, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 08:13:04 EST Contents: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 3 of 6) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Crossposted-To: news.answers,comp.answers Subject: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 3 of 6) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:04:37 GMT If LILO doesn't work, and if the machine has MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows, you may be left with a computer that won't boot. This can also happen on an upgrade to your Linux distribution. Re-installing LILO is the last thing that the installation does. So it is vitally important when installing or upgrading Linux on a dual boot machine, to have a MS-DOS or Windows rescue disk nearby so you can FDISK -MBR. Then you can go about using LOADLIN.EXE instead of LILO. This config.sys file is one possible way to invoke LOADLIN.EXE and boot MS-DOS or Linux. [menu] menuitem=DOS, Dos Boot menuitem=LINUX, Linux Boot [LINUX] shell=c:\redhat\loadlin.exe c:\redhat\autoboot\vmlinuz vga=5 root=/dev [DOS] STACKS = 0,0 rem all the other DOS drivers get loaded here. This creates a menu where you can directly jump to LOADLIN.EXE before all of the MS-DOS drivers get loaded. The paths and options are peculiar to one machine and should be intuitively obvious to the most casual observer. See the LOADLIN.EXE docs for options. They are the same as LILO, and options are just passed to the kernel, anyhow. [Jim Harvey] 4.14. How Can I Boot Linux from OS/2's Boot Manager? 1. Create a partition using OS/2's FDISK.EXE (Not Linux's fdisk). 2. Format the partition under OS/2, either with FAT or HPFS. This is so that OS/2 knows about the partition being formatted. (This step is not necessary with OS/2 `warp' 3.0.) 3. Add the partition to the Boot Manager. 4. Boot Linux, and create a file system on the partition using mkfs -t ext2 or mke2fs. At this point you may, if you like, use Linux's fdisk to change the code of the new partition to type 83 (Linux Native)--this may help some automated installation scripts find the right partition to use. 5. Install Linux on the partition. 6. Install LILO on the Linux partition--NOT on the master boot record of the hard drive. This installs LILO as a second-stage boot loader on the Linux partition itself, to start up the kernel specified in the LILO configuration file. To do this, you should put boot = /dev/hda2 (where /dev/hda2 is the partition you want to boot from) in your /etc/lilo/config or /etc/lilo.config file. 7. Make sure that it is the Boot Manager partition that is marked active, so that you can use Boot Manager to choose what to boot. There is a set of HOWTO's on the subject of multi-boot systems at the LDP Home Page, http://www.linuxdoc.org/. 5. File Systems, Disks, and Drives 5.1. How Can I Get Linux to Work with My Disk? If your disk is an IDE or EIDE drive, you should read the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/README.ide (part of the Linux kernel source code). This README contains many helpful hints about IDE drives. Many modern IDE controllers do translation between `physical' cylinders/heads/sectors, and `logical' ones. SCSI disks are accessed by linear block numbers. The BIOS invents some `logical' cylinder/head/sector fiction to support DOS. An IBM PC-compatible BIOS will usually not be able to access partitions which extend beyond 1024 logical cylinders, and will make booting a Linux kernel from such partitions using LILO problematic at best. You can still use such partitions for Linux or other operating systems that access the controller directly. It's recommend that you create at least one Linux partition entirely under the 1024 logical cylinder limit, and boot from that. The other partitions will then be okay. Also there seems to be a bit of trouble with the newer Ultra-DMA drives. I haven't gotten the straight scoop on them--but they are becoming a very common problem at the SVLUG installfests. When you can get 8 to 12 Gig drives for $200 to $300 it's no wonder. [Jim Dennis] 5.2. How Can I Undelete Files? In general, this is very hard to do on unices because of their multitasking nature. Undelete functionality for the ext2fs file system is being worked on, but don't hold your breath. There are a number of packages available which instead provide new commands for deleting and copying which move deleted files into a `wastebasket' directory. The files can be recovered until cleaned out automatically by background processing. The Midnight Commander file manager provides an undelete facility that uses Ext2 file system library functions and an undelete directory for each file system. Commercial distribution packages of MC may or may not have this feature enabled, so be sure to look in the source code distribution for instructions on how to enable the undelete fea
Linux-Misc Digest #445
Linux-Misc Digest #445, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 08:13:04 EST
Contents:
Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 5 of 6)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Crossposted-To: news.answers,comp.answers
Subject: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 5 of 6)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:05:30 GMT
"bilbo.bag-end.com." This and other modifications apply mainly to
recent versions.
Prior to version 8.7, sendmail required that the FQDN appear first in
the /etc/hosts entry.
Finally, FEATURE configuration macro options like nodns,
always_add_domain, and nocanonify, control how sendmail interprets
host names.
The document, Sendmail: Installation and Operation Guide, included in
the doc/ subdirectory of Sendmail source code distributions, discusses
briefly how Sendmail resolves Internet addresses. Sendmail source code
archives are listed at: http://www.sendmail.org/
[Chris Karakas]
8.9. How Do I Switch Virtual Consoles? How Do I Enable Them?
In text mode, press the left Alt-F1 to Alt-F12 to select the consoles
tty1 to tty12; Right Alt-F1 gives tty13 and so on. To switch out of X
you must press Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc; Alt-F5 or whatever will switch back.
However, If you have a non-PC compatible system, please see the note
below.
If you want to use a VC for ordinary login, it must be listed in
/etc/inittab, which controls which terminals and virtual consoles have
login prompts. The X Window System needs at least one free VC in order
to start.
[Note: The key sequence is actually Ctrl--Meta-- FN. On PC compatible
systems, the right and left Alt keys are really synonymous with the
keysymbols Meta_L and Meta_R. If the binding is different, you can
determine what keys produce Meta_L and Meta_R with xkeycaps or a
similar application.]
[David Charlap]
8.10. How Do I Set the Time Zone?
Change directory to /usr/lib/zoneinfo/. Get the time zone package if
you don't have this directory. The source is available in
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/admin/time/.
Then make a symbolic link named localtime pointing to one of the files
in this directory (or a subdirectory), and one called posixrules
pointing to localtime. For example:
$ ln -sf US/Mountain localtime
$ ln -sf localtime posixrules
This change will take effect immediately--try date.
If the system uses Red Hat-style configuration files, the respective
time zone info files are /usr/share/zoneinfo and /etc/localtime.
The manual pages for tzset or tzselect describe setting the time zone.
Some programs recognize the "TZ" environment variable, but this is not
POSIX-correct.
You should also make sure that your Linux kernel clock is set to the
correct GMT time. Type date -u and check that the correct UTC time is
displayed. ("The Computer Has the Wrong Time.")
8.11. How Do I Get Dial-up PPP to Work?
This information is mainly for people who do not have a wrapper
utility like kppp or pppconfig, or are not able to get those utilities
to work correctly. If you need to manually configure PPP to dial in to
your ISP, you will need the following information:
* The port that your modem is connected to: /dev/ttyS0-/dev/ttyS3,
which correspond to COM1-COM4 under MS-DOS.
* The phone number of your ISP's data connection.
* The user name and password that your ISP gave you.
* The IP addresses of the primary and possibly secondary Domain Name
Service that you will use when dialing in to the ISP. This assumes
that you will not be using a DNS that you installed on your
system.
When you have all of this information, make sure that the programs
pppd and chat, at the very minimum, are installed correctly. In most
current distributions, they are installed in the /usr/sbin/ directory,
and you will need to be logged in as root to use them. In addition,
the following programs are also useful for configuring network
connections, determining network status, and diagnosing problems:
/sbin/ifconfig, /sbin/route, /bin/ping, /usr/sbin/traceroute.
These are the basic steps that you need to follow to configure PPP.
You must be logged in as root.
* Make sure that the serial port and modem are operating correctly.
Using a program like minicomm or kermit, you should be able to
send AT commands to the modem and receive the OK string in
response from the modem.
* Enter the primary and possibly secondary Domain Name Server IP
addresses in the /etc/resolv.conf file, using dotted quad
notation, with the nameserver label. For example:
order hosts,bind
nameserver 196.182.101.103
nameserver 196.182.101.104
The nameserver addresses in the example above are examples only.
They don't correspond to actual network hosts.
The first line, order hosts,bind, tells your networking software,
when it resolves network domain addresses, to first look in the
/etc/hosts file, and then use the bi
Linux-Misc Digest #444
Linux-Misc Digest #444, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 08:13:04 EST Contents: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 4 of 6) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Crossposted-To: news.answers,comp.answers Subject: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 4 of 6) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:05:02 GMT 7.3. Netscape Crashes Frequently Netscape shouldn't crash, if it and the network are properly configured. Some things to check: * Make sure that the MOZILLA_HOME environment variable is correctly set. If you installed Netscape under /usr/local/netscape/, for example, that should be the value of MOZILLA_HOME. Set it from the command line (e.g, "export MOZILLA_HOME="/usr/local/netscape"" under bash or add it to one your personal or system initialization files. Refer to the manual page for your shell for details. * If you have a brand-new version of Netscape, try a previous version, in case the run-time libraries are slightly incompatible. For example, if Netscape version 4.75 is installed (type "netscape --version" at the shell prompt), try installing version 4.7. All versions are archived at ftp://ftp.netscape.com/. * Netscape uses its own Motif and Java Runtime Environment libraries. If a separate version of either is installed on your system, ensure that they aren't interfering with Netscape's libraries; e.g., by un-installing them. * Make sure that Netscape can connect to its default name servers. The program will appear to freeze and time out after several minutes if it can't. This indicates a problem with the system's Internet connection; likely, the system can't connect to other sites, either. 7.4. FTP or Telnet Server Won't Allow Logins. This applies to server daemons that respond to clients, but don't allow logins. On new systems that have Pluggable Authentication Modules installed, look for a file named, "ftp," or "telnet," in the directory /etc/pam/ or /etc/pam.d/. If the corresponding authentication file doesn't exist, the instructions for configuring FTP and Telnet authentication and other PAM configuration, should be in /usr/doc/pam-. Refer also to the answer for "FTP server says: "421 service not available, remote server has closed connection."." If it's an FTP server on an older system, make sure that the account exists in /etc/passwd, especially "anonymous." This type of problem may also be caused a failure to resolve the host addresses properly, especially if using Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP). The simple answer to this is to list all relevant host names and IP addresses in the /etc/hosts files on each machine. ( Refer to the example /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf files in: "How Do I Prevent Sendmail from Pausing for Up to a Minute at Each Command?.") If the network has an internal DNS, make sure that each host can resolve network addresses using it. If the host machine doesn't respond to FTP or Telnet clients at all, then the server daemon is not installed correctly, or at all. Refer to the manual pages: inetd and inetd.conf on older systems, or xinetd and xinetd.conf, as well as ftpd, and telnetd. 7.5. How Do I Keep Track of All My Bookmarks in Netscape? This probably applies to most other browsers, too. In the Preferences/Navigator menu, set your home page to Netscape's bookmarks.html file, which is located in the .netscape (with a leading period) subdirectory. For example, if your login name is "smith," set the home page to: file://home/smith/.netscape/bookmarks.html Setting up your personal home page like this will present you with a nicely formatted (albeit possibly long) page of bookmarks when Netscape starts. And the file is automatically updated whenever you add, delete, or visit a bookmarked site. 7.6. The Computer Has the Wrong Time. There are two clocks in your computer. The hardware (CMOS) clock runs even when the computer is turned off, and is used when the system starts up and by DOS (if you use DOS). The ordinary system time, shown and set by date, is maintained by the kernel while Linux is running. You can display the CMOS clock time, or set either clock from the other, with /sbin/clock (now called hwclock in many distributions). Refer to: man 8 clock or man 8 hwclock. There are various other programs that can correct either or both clocks for system drift or transfer time across the network. Some of them may already be installed on your system. Try looking for adjtimex (corrects for drift), Network Time Protocol clients like netdate, getdate, and xntp, or NTP client-server suite such as chrony. Refer to: "Where Can I Find Application XXX? (Was: Has Anyone Ported/Compiled/Written XXX for Linux?)." 7.7. Setuid Scripts Don't Seem to Work. That's right. This feature has been disabled in the Linux kernel on purpose, because setu
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Linux-Misc Digest #446, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 08:13:04 EST
Contents:
Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 6 of 6)
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$ setenv TERM console
for csh or tcsh.
Some programs use /usr/lib/terminfo instead of /etc/termcap. For these
programs you should upgrade your terminfo package, which is part of
ncurses.
The same is true for X terminal displays. If your distribution sets
the TERM to something strange like xterm-24-color, you can simply
reset it to a generic value from the command line:
$ TERM="xterm"; export TERM
10.3. INET: Warning: old style ioctl... called!
You are trying to use the old network configuration utilities. The new
ones can be found on
ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/Networking/PROGRAMS/NetTools/ (source only,
I'm afraid).
Note that they cannot be used just like the old-style programs. See
the NET-2 HOWTO for instructions on how to set up the old-style
networking programs correctly. Even better, see the NET-3 HOWTO and
upgrade your networking software.
10.4. ld: unrecognized option '-m486'
You have an old version of ld. Install a newer binutils package that
contains an updated ld. Look on tsx-11.mit.edu in
/pub/linux/packages/GCC/ for binutils-2.6.0.2.bin.tar.gz.
10.5. GCC Says, "Internal compiler error."
If the fault is repeatable (i.e., it always happens at the same place
in the same file--even after rebooting and trying again, using a
stable kernel) you have discovered a bug in GCC. See the GCC Info
documentation (type F1-i in Emacs, and select GCC from the menu) for
details on how to report the error. Make sure you have the latest
version, though.
Note that this is probably not a Linux-specific problem. Unless you
are compiling a program many other Linux users also compile, you
should not post your bug report to any of the comp.os.linux groups.
If the problem is not repeatable, you may be experiencing memory
corruption. Refer to the answer: ("Make Says, "Error 139."")
10.6. Make Says, "Error 139."
Your compiler (GCC) dumped core. You probably have a corrupted, buggy,
or old version of GCC--get the latest release or EGCS. Alternatively,
you may be running out of swap space. Refer to: ("My Machine Runs Very
Slowly when I Run GCC / X / ...")
If this doesn't fix the problem, you are probably having problems with
memory or disk corruption. Check that the clock rate, wait states, and
refresh timing for your SIMMS and cache are correct (hardware manuals
are sometimes wrong, too). If so, you may have some marginal SIMMS, or
a faulty motherboard or hard disk or controller.
Linux is a very good memory tester--much better than MS-DOS based
memory test programs.
Reportedly, some clone x87 math coprocessors can cause problems. Try
compiling a kernel with math emulation ("How Do I Upgrade/Recompile My
Kernel?") no387 kernel command line flag on the LILO prompt to force
the kernel to use math emulation, or it may be able to work and still
use the '387, with the math emulation compiled in but mainly unused.
More information about this problem is available on the Web at
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/.
10.7. Shell-Init: Permission Denied when I Log In.
Your root directory and all the directories up to your home directory
must be readable and executable by everybody. See the manual page for
chmod or a book on Unix for how to fix the problem.
10.8. No Utmp Entry. You Must Exec ... when Logging In.
Your /var/run/utmp is screwed up. You should have
/var/run/utmp
in your /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/*. See, ("I Have Screwed Up My
System and Can't Log In to Fix It.") Note that the utmp may also be
found in /var/adm/ or /etc/ on some older systems.
10.9. Warning--bdflush Not Running.
Modern kernels use a better strategy for writing cached disk blocks.
In addition to the kernel changes, this involves replacing the old
update program which used to write everything every 30 seconds with a
more subtle daemon (actually a pair), known as bdflush. Get
bdflush-n.n.tar.gz from the same place as the kernel source code ("How
Do I Upgrade/Recompile My Kernel?") and compile and install it.
bdflush should be started before the usual boot-time file system
checks. It will work fine with older kernels as well, so there's no
need to keep the old update around.
10.10. Warning: obsolete routing request made.
This is nothing to worry about. The message means that your version
route is a little out of date, compared to the kernel. You can make
the message go away by getting a new version of route from the same
place as the kernel source code. ("How Do I Upgrade/Recompile My
Kernel?")
10.11. EXT2-fs: warning: mounting unchecked file system.
You need to run e2fsck (or fsck -t
Linux-Misc Digest #440
Linux-Misc Digest #440, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 08:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: JAVA programming an System clock ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Best E-mail Client? (John Beardmore)
Re: Best E-mail Client? (John Beardmore)
Re: Newbie Question about GUI (Bart Friederichs)
Re: Gnome installation question... (Bart Friederichs)
ALSA Problems 2 (Grahame Kelly)
Re: Tandy Model 100 as linux terminal (Stefan Braun)
Re: I did 'dd if=/boot/mbr.b of=/dev/hda' :-((( (Pat Heuvel)
Re: Shutdown permissions (Yvan Loranger)
system-assigned groups ("Laurie")
Re: Partition Table (Yvan Loranger)
Question on FIPS ("Tim Thompson")
Re: Shutdown permissions ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Is there an "Annoyance eliminator"? (Andrew Purugganan)
From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: JAVA programming an System clock
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 00:27:36 +0100
Thomas G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a way that if you are programming a java file or writing an html file in it,
> all the tags get a specific color. Also when you press ctrl-x ctrl-e, Emacs
> automatically starts to compile the program you wrote and shows the
> compiler-error messages in a second lower frame in emacs. I figured out they
> did this by using some scripts. No use asking them how to do it. They never
> have time to explain. Does anybody know how to do this?
emacs people will be able to tell you which magic to put in your
.emacsrc. But why bother? Just steal someone elses magic. Their
config file is not likely to be read protected!
> Second, I've updated the aaa_base from the SuSE 7.1 updates, but now my
> system clock gets set 3 1/2 hours off everytime I start Linux. Does anybody
> know how to fix this?
At startup add three and one half hours to the sysclock with date, then
save it to bios with hwclock -w --utc. And next time don't confuse your
machine. Make sure that whatever startup scripts you use know that the
bios keeps utc.
Alternatively, set your timezone correctly. Repeat that bit of your
system setup, or just change the link in the /var/lib/zoneinfo directory.
Peter
--
From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:29:37 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Beardmore wrote:
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dowe Keller
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>>On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:20:17 GMT, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>In a world with LaTeX, SGML and Texinfo, why do some people still
>>>insist on doing things the *HARD WAY*?
>>
>>The LaTeX world sounds like rather hard work compared to WISIWIG.
>
>I've written technical reports and academic papers in both Frame and LaTeX.
>LaTeX is far less work as far as I'm concerned. From what I've seen of
>MS-Word, it's a piece of shit toy next to Frame. At least Frame generates
>half-way decent output (not as good as LaTeX).
Yes. Please don't mistake me for a Word advocate.
I was thinking of ease of use compared to say Adobe InDesign, Pagemaker,
GoLive which I've done good things in despite some bugs, or Quark
Express which costs more.
>MS Word output looks awful: equations are painful to look at; no kerning; no
>ligatures; broken tables of contents; broken indexes; broken paragraph
>numbering and cross references. MS-Word is purely for amateurs who don't
>care if thier work looks like crap.
Yes, but it does get a little less buggy with every release !
>Equations in Frame are little better (but still not good enough that I'd
>want my name on the same page), and it gets most of the other stuff right.
>
>>Does SGML offer a tidy way to author for the web and paper from the same
>>'source code' ? If so, where do you start ?
>
>Yes. There are several packages that do that. DocBook is one.
Do they have a web site ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
--
From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:37:14 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johan Kullstam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>but things like ms-word are *not* WISIWIG. there is a lot of
>formatting which changes font, margins &c. all of this is invisible
>since you don't see it on the page. it's lots of fun working around
>these unseen land mines.
On most simple office applications most will find it wisiwig enough.
On the other hand, try changing print device with a big document, and
watch the entire thing get reformatted ! That sucks, amongst other
thing, and drove me to Adobe Pagemaker.
Adobe Pagemaker has the resource leak from hell, which Adobe don't seem
to want to fix - presumably with a view to making users switch to
InDesign.
Linux-Misc Digest #442
Linux-Misc Digest #442, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 08:13:04 EST Contents: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 2 of 6) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Crossposted-To: news.answers,comp.answers Subject: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 2 of 6) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:04:07 GMT If you want to participate in kernel development, make sure that you sign on to the linux-kernel mailing list to find out what people are working on. Refer to the answer: "What Mailing Lists Are There?" There is a story about the features of the 2.4 series kernels at http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html. 3.2. Where Can I Get the HOWTO's and Other Documentation? Look in the following places, and the sites that mirror them. * http://www.linuxdoc.org/ * ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/OS/Linux/doc/HOWTO/ * ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/ * ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/ For a list of Linux FTP sites, refer to the answer for: "Where Can I Get Linux Material by FTP?" If you don't have access to FTP, try the FTP-by-mail servers: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], or: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A complete list of HOWTO's is available in the file HOWTO-INDEX at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html. The mini-HOWTO's are indexed at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/mini.html. A search engine at the Linux FAQ Home Page, http://www.mainmatter.com/, allows you to search LDP HOWTO's, the Linux FAQ, man pages, and Network Administrator's Guide. In addition, translations are available from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations/ and mirrors worldwide. The HOWTO's and other documentation have been translated into the following languages: Chinese (Big5) (zh) Croatian (hr)French (fr) German (deHellenic (el)Indonesian (id) Italian (it) Japanese (ja)Korean (ko) Polish (pl) Slovenian (sl) Spanish (es) Swedish (sv) Turkish (tr) Additional documents are always in preparation. Please get in touch with the coordinators if you are interested in writing one. Contact and submission information is at http://www.linuxdoc.org/mailinfo.html. There is also a LDP HOWTO page at http://howto.tucows.org/. The Guide Series produced by the Linux Documentation Project is available from http://www.linuxdoc.org/. Please read them if you are new to Unix and Linux. The Linux Mobile Guide is an expanded version of the Linux-Laptop-HOWTO. The URL is: http://home.snafu.de/wehe/howtos.html. And, of course, a number of people have written documentation independently of the LDP: * Linux Administrators Security Guide, by Kurt Seifried. http://www.freek.com/lasg/. * Newbie's Linux Manual. http://www.linuxdoc.org/nlm/. * One-Page Linux Manual. http://www.powerup.com.au/~squadron/. * Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition. http://rute.sourceforge.net/. * Short beginners' manual for Linux. Also available in Dutch. http://www.stuwww.kub.nl/people/b.vannunen/linux-man.php3. * Virtual Frame buffer HOWTO, by Alex Buell. http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk/programming/prog.html. * X11 & TrueType Fonts, by Peter Kleiweg. http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/. Documentation for kernel developers is on-line: http://kernelbook.sourceforge.net/. To find out about Linux memory management, including performance tuning, see Rik van Riel's Web page at http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/. The Linux Consultants HOWTO has a directory of Linux consultants at http://www.linuxports.com/. Gary's Encyclopedia lists over 4,000 Linux related links. Its URL is http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html. There is also a FAQ specifically for the Red Hat Linux distribution, at http://www.best.com/~aturner/RedHat-FAQ/faq_index.html. And the Home Page of this FAQ is http://www.mainmatter.com/. 3.3. Where Should I Look on the World Wide Web for Linux Stuff? In addition to the Linux Documentation Project Home Page: http://www.linuxdoc.org/, there are many pages that provide beginning and advanced information about Linux. These two pages provide a good starting point for general Linux information: Linux International's Home Page, at http://www.li.org/, and the Linux Online's Linux Home Page at http://www.linux.org/. Both of these pages provide links to other sites, information about general information, distributions, new software, documentation, and news. Documentation for kernel developers is on-line: http://kernelbook.sourceforge.net/. The tutorial, Unix is a Four Letter Word..., is located at http://www.linuxbox.com/~taylor/4ltrwrd/. It is a general introduction to Unix operating systems and is not Linux specific. Additionally, here is a certainly incomplete list of Web pages devoted to Linux: * AboutLinux.com: http://www.aboutlinux.com/. * Adventures in Linux Programmin
Linux-Misc Digest #441
Linux-Misc Digest #441, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 08:13:04 EST
Contents:
Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 1 of 6)
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Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
This is the list of Frequently Asked Questions for Linux, the free
operating system kernel that runs on many modern computer systems. The
kernel source code documentation says that Linux "aims for POSIX
compliance." Linux uses mostly free, GNU system utilities and
application software, although commercial programs are available also.
Originally written for 386/486/586 Intel/ISA bus machines, Linux
versions exist for nearly every hardware platform in existence that is
capable of running it. (Please refer to the question, "What Is Linux?"
below.) This FAQ is meant to be read in conjunction with the Linux
Documentation Project's HOWTO series. ("Where Can I Get Linux Material
by FTP?" and, "Where Can I Get the HOWTO's and Other Documentation?")
The INFO-SHEET and META-FAQ also list sources of Linux information.
Please read them, and, "You Still Haven't Answered My Question!"
before posting to a Usenet news group. You can also get Postscript,
HTML, and SGML versions of this document. ("Formats in Which This FAQ
Is Available.")
1. Introduction and General Information
1.1. What Is Linux?
1.2. Where Do I Start?
1.3. What Software Does Linux Support?
1.4. Where Can I Find Application XXX? (Was: Has Anyone
Ported/Compiled/Written XXX for Linux?)
1.5. Does Linux Run on My Computer? What Hardware Is Supported?
1.6. What Ports to Other Processors Are There?
1.7. How Much Hard Disk Space Does Linux Need?
1.8. How Much Memory Does Linux Need?
1.9. How Much Memory Can Linux Use?
1.10. Does Linux Support Universal System Bus Devices?
1.11. Is Linux Public Domain? Copyrighted?
1.12. Is Linux *nix?
2. Topics of Current Interest.
2.1. How Do I Cope with Anti-Linux FUD?
2.2. Should I Upgrade to the 2.4.0 Kernel? Now?
2.3. Should I Use the Red Hat 7.0 kgcc Compiler?
2.4. What Resources Are There for Linux DeCSS and Other Open
Source DVD Software?
2.5. Where Is Information About Electronic Privacy Laws that
Affect ISP's?
2.6. How Is the DocBook Version of the FAQ Produced?
3. Network Sources and Resources
3.1. Where Can I Get the Latest Kernel Version?
3.2. Where Can I Get the HOWTO's and Other Documentation?
3.3. Where Should I Look on the World Wide Web for Linux Stuff?
3.4. What News Groups Are There for Linux?
3.5. What Other FAQ's and Documentation Are There for Linux?
3.6. Where Can I Get Linux Material by FTP?
3.7. I Don't Have FTP Access. Where Do I Get Linux?
3.8. I Don't Have Usenet Access. Where Do I Get Information?
3.9. What Mailing Lists Are There?
3.10. Where Are Linux Legal Issues Discussed?
3.11. Where Can I Find Out About Unmaintained Free Software?
3.12. Are the News Groups Archived Anywhere?
3.13. Where Can I Find Out About Security Related Issues?
3.14. Where Can I Find Linux System Specifications?
4. Compatibility with Other Operating Systems
4.1. Can Linux Share My Disk with DOS? OS/2? 386BSD? Win95?
4.2. How Do I Access Files on My DOS Partition or Floppy?
4.3. Does Linux Support Compressed Ext2 File Systems?
4.4. Can I Use My Stacked/DBLSPC/Etc. DOS Drive?
4.5. Can I Access OS/2 HPFS Partitions from Linux?
4.6. Can Linux Access Amiga File Systems?
4.7. Can Linux Access BSD, SysV, Etc. UFS?
4.8. Can Linux Access SMB File Systems?
4.9. Can Linux Access Macintosh File Systems?
4.10. Can I Run Microsoft Windows Programs under Linux?
4.11. Where Can I Get Information about NFS Compatibility?
4.12. Can I Use True Type Fonts with Linux?
4.13. How Can I Boot Linux from MS-DOS?
4.14. How Can I Boot Linux from OS/2's Boot Manager?
5. File Systems, Disks, and Drives
5.1. How Can I Get Linux to Work with My Disk?
5.2. How Can I Undelete Files?
5.3. How Do I Make Backups?
5.4. How Do I Resize a Partition (Non-Destructively)?
5.5. Is There a Defragmenter for Ext2fs, Etc.?
5.6. How Do I Format and Create a File System on a Floppy?
5.7. Does Linux Support Virtualized File Systems Like RAID?
5.8. Does Linux Support File System Encryption?
5.9. I Get Nasty Messages about Inodes, Blocks, and the Like.
5.10. My Swap Area Isn't Working.
5.11. How Do I Add Temporary Swap Space?
5.12. How Do I Remove LILO So My System Boots DOS Again?
5.13. Why Can't I Use fdformat Except as Root?
5.14. The
Linux-Misc Digest #439
Linux-Misc Digest #439, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Mar 01 05:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: *Good* Office software for linux??? (Grant Edwards)
Re: Best E-mail Client? (Grant Edwards)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: *Good* Office software for linux???
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 04:17:28 GMT
On 25 Mar 2001 02:49:46 GMT, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>The import filters aside, it's IMO definitely the best office
>>suite for Linux. (Like I said, I haven't tried the new Corel
>>Office/Wine combo, but I don't have high hopes for it.)
>
>It's faster than StarOffice
My Grandmother is faster than StarOffice. And she's been dead
for 10 years. :o
>and has a better UI to my taste, but the implementation is so
>buggy as to make it unusable (for me). Their port of
>PhotoPaint isn't half-bad, though.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 04:21:12 GMT
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 03:11:06 GMT, Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >In a world with LaTeX, SGML and Texinfo, why do some people still
>> >insist on doing things the *HARD WAY*?
>>
>> The LaTeX world sounds like rather hard work compared to WISIWIG.
>
>but things like ms-word are *not* WISIWIG. there is a lot of
>formatting which changes font, margins &c. all of this is invisible
>since you don't see it on the page. it's lots of fun working around
>these unseen land mines.
Some of them are pretty severe. A friend of mine spent a
couple days trying to get a drawing with cross-hatching to
print in a legible way -- it never did, even though it looked
fine on the screen. Unless your printer has the same
resolution as your display, nothing is ever WYSIWYG. The
original Mac had a 72 dpi display and 72 dpi dot-matrix
printer. That was pretty close to WYSIWYG.
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From: "John Spindler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:22:30 -0600
Reply-To: "John Spindler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm new to linux and an having some basic problems with red hat 6 getting
out of KDE without logging off. Any suggestions?
Also trying to install hitech C compiler. Copied all the necessary files
into a directory but I don't understand how to get the program install from
KDE. No luck with RPM
Any help will be appreciated.
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: KDE
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Mar 2001 05:30:39 GMT
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:22:30 -0600, John Spindler staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I'm new to linux and an having some basic problems with red hat 6
>getting out of KDE without logging off. Any suggestions?
More information, please. And is this RedHat 6.0, 6.1, or 6.2? Anyway,
under RedHat Linux, things work like so: The machine starts up in
runlevel 5 (X enabled) and displays a graphical login window using gdm,
kdm, or xdm. You specify a username, a password, and a preferred
session type (GNOME, KDE1, KDE2, fvwm2, fvwm95, blackbox, etc) and you
get that particular window manager/desktop environment until you log
out, at which point the xdm/kdm/gdm screen comes up again. This is
normal behavior... what precisely do you want?
>Also trying to install hitech C compiler. Copied all the necessary files
>into a directory but I don't understand how to get the program install from
>KDE. No luck with RPM
Hitech C compiler? Hoo boy. What does it do that gcc doesn't do? gcc
is the standard compiler under Linux; you s
