Linux-Misc Digest #320
Linux-Misc Digest #320, Volume #26 Wed, 15 Nov 00 23:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Creating PDF (acrobat) files ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help... X Windows runs at a crawl.. Be my mentor,, Please
Rogue Find? (Bill Boman)
creating default route kills network interfaces (Dustin Puryear)
Re: Rogue Find? (Robert Lynch)
help off topic, perl problem (Robert Schweikert)
Re: help off topic, perl problem (Jason)
Re: dynamically add/remove ide HD ? (Jason)
Re: ppp dialup does not work (Bill Unruh)
Re: Getting system to re-read conf.modules (Vilmos Soti)
Scanner card ("Anton Vorster")
Re: waiting 5 minutes for route results (Vilmos Soti)
Re: mounting multi-session CDRom?? (Dances With Crows)
Booting problems [was: Help!] (Dances With Crows)
Re: dynamically add/remove ide HD ? (Dances With Crows)
Re: the relation between Linux and GCC (Hartmann Schaffer)
Clipboard in Linux? (Vivek Narayanamurthy)
Re: Upgrading kernel (From 2.2.14-5.0 to 2.2.17) (Hiroyuki HIKITA)
Paul Allen's latest venture is looking for engineers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Clipboard in Linux? ("Jan Schaumann")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Creating PDF (acrobat) files ?
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 01:04:34 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Schaumann) wrote:
if you have it in tex-format, do teh following:
latex foo.tex
dvips foo.dvi
ps2pdf foo.ps
(there might be shorter way for the tex-thing).
If you use the PostScript fonts in LaTeX you can get
pretty good results. Have a look at the PDF files on
http://www.qsl.net/ve7ldh/thesis.html for some samples.
Lasura Halliday VE7LDH"Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..." - Hospital/Shafte
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help... X Windows runs at a crawl.. Be my mentor,, Please
Date: 16 Nov 2000 01:03:41 GMT
Also, I installed a new 'microcrap wheelmouse' on my box lately.
I found out how to set it up using 'mouseconfig'. It works on the
console, but not in 'X'. It jumps around the screen and acts like it
was on coke or something. DOes anybody know what's up with this ? I
don't care about if the wheel works, I just want to get my fucking
mouse working so I don't have to quit X windows every time.
You can also try the xset command:
xset m 5 2
should give a more manageble mouse speed.
the first number is the acceleration value
and the second is the threshold.
"m" is mouse
-Kyle
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From: BB (Bill Boman)
Subject: Rogue Find?
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 00:22:20 GMT
After 5-10 mins of being booted up my SuSE 6.4 Linux runs "Find" on
its own accord. Whether or not I'm connected to the net or running X
seems not to matter.
What makes this happen? What is it looking for? Can it be stopped?
Just curious to know whether anyone else has experienced this.
BB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: creating default route kills network interfaces
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 01:33:25 GMT
Recently, I worked with a friend to [try] and resolve a very odd problem. We
have a Linux-based router with two NIC's that have the interfaces eth0 and
eth1. The interface eth0 is for the internal network 192.168.1.0/24, and
interface eth1 is for access to the Internet.
We can bring both interfaces up using static IP addresses. Once the
interfaces are up we can ping both. However, if we establish a default
route then we can no longer ping either the eth0 or eth1 interface,
but we can ping the loopback address.
I have verified that a route is created to 192.168.1.0/24 over interface eth0,
and so a default route should not affect a ping to either the interface
or to any address on 192.168.1.0/24--yet, for some reason it does.
We tried using both real and fake gateway addresses on both the local
and external networks as the default route gateway just to see what happens.
Everytime both interfaces become inaccessible. However, once we tear down
the default route then the interface are again accessible.
The NIC's are DLink's, although I'm not sure how that will affect
the situation.
Anyway, I am a bit lost as to why this is happening. Any ideas?
--
Dustin Puryear $email = "dpuryear"."@usa.net";
Integrate Linux Solutions into Your Windows Network
- http://www.prima-tech.com/integrate-linux
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From: Robert Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Rogue Find?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:40:46 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Boman wrote:
After 5-10 mins of being booted up my SuSE 6.4 Linux runs "Find" on
its own accord. Whether or not I'm connected to the net or running X
seems not
Linux-Misc Digest #320
Linux-Misc Digest #320, Volume #25Wed, 2 Aug 00 18:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Detecting new size of partition in Windoze ("Scott Swaim")
SuSe 6.1 questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Detecting new size of partition in Windoze
How to insert degree symbol in Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lp problem (Alvaro Palma Aste [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Need help on RedHat kernel upgrade (David Coppit)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Mouse pointer customisation - KDE menus (Steve)
Slackware 7 locking up in X (Paul Mathis)
Re: Oh no! (blowfish)
Re: How to insert degree symbol in Linux? (Dances With Crows)
From: "Scott Swaim" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Detecting new size of partition in Windoze
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:49:02 -0500
From what I can gather the fat table does not get resized. The fix that I
have found is the set the partition type to Linux and then format it in
Linux. Then changed the type back to win98 and format it in win/dos. This
should correct the problem.
Scott Swaim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Simon Lemieux" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi,
first, I know this should go to a windows newsgroup, but since it's a
linux
program that caused this, I thought that you guys might have had the same
problem.
I had 3 partitions on my HD, a 1G for windows, 256mg for swap and the rest
for
linux (about 4.5G)... and soon realized that I needed more space for
windows,
so I backed up linux and erased its partitions and erased windows
partition too,
making a 2G partition at the same place windows used to be, and remade the
others within the rest of the HD...
I reinstalled linux, restored my backup and everything is perfect except
for one
thing... When I load windows, it doesn't recognize the new size of its
partition... I used fsck to do all that job...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SuSe 6.1 questions
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:37:01 GMT
Hi
Two questions. I have a self-built machine with Intel Pentium 200 MMX
and SiS 4MB Video Card.
I have two questions.
I have successfully installed the Linux OS. I have a 13 GB disk and
created a Linux native FileSystem with 5 GB. There is a swap partition
with 128MB which I think is enough for my use (with 64MB memory).
Is it possible to install FreeBSD in the rest of the space and still use
LILO to load FreeBSD?
Also, what should be the monitor type that I should select for IBM
monitor 7029. I bought it a few years back (15" monitor), but when I
use XFree86, not all colors are visible and the K desktop does not
display some icons and text at all. Without the graphics mode, the
displiay seems fine.
Thanks
Regards
Venkat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Detecting new size of partition in Windoze
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:59:11 -0400
Get a program called "ghost",
and tell it to "dump partition to image file"
Then go about resetting the partition. use dos's fdisk and make the 2 gig
partiton.
then use ghost and dump to partition from image file.
Just make sure you either have
a) another hdd on the same computer with dos accessable partition to store
the image file in.
or
b) another partition on the same hdd that is accessable to dos
"ghost" is a dos program :)
The thing with linux fdisk and dos partitions, is that dos has some extra
stuff that linux's fdisk does not put in, and it says that, somewhere in
the man pages for fdisk.
Another thing keeps nagging at me: when you restore a backup of windows,
does it do a high level back up or a low level one ?
You backed up on a 1 gig partition.
you restored onto a 2 gig partition.
Simon Lemieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi,
first, I know this should go to a windows newsgroup, but since it's a
linux
program that caused this, I thought that you guys might have had the same
problem.
I had 3 partitions on my HD, a 1G for windows, 256mg for swap and the rest
for
linux (about 4.5G)... and soon realized that I needed more space for
windows,
so I backed up linux and erased its partitions and erased windows
partition too,
making a 2G partition at the same place windows used to be, and remade the
others within the rest of the HD...
I reinstalled linux, restored my backup and everything is perfect except
for one
thing... When I load windows, it doesn't recognize the new size of its
partition... I used fsck to do all that job...
I asked the question on a windows related newsgroup they told me to _buy_
a good
partition utility; I don't have the cash and I think fsck is very good,
isn't
it?
They also told me I should simply reinstall windows; that I won't do... I
don't
want to go through that painful process!
Linux-Misc Digest #320
Linux-Misc Digest #320, Volume #21Sat, 7 Aug 99 13:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Have you heard? ("Byron")
Re: Linux reference OR bOOK (Ray)
load balancing between intensive processes on SMP box (Matthew Zenkar)
Full-screen debugger for Linux? ("Steve Snyder")
Re: Converting from vfat to fat32 ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Linux assembly, etc (Kaz Kylheku)
Re: currencies (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Must root and swap partitions be primary? (fred smith)
Re: mounting problems ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Undo Partition ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: What I think of linux. (Jeff Workman)
Where to get ICQ ("c64")
Re: let the Holy War commence... (Hz back!)
Re: Help!!! Sound Card OPTi 82C924 (David Pace)
Transfering Bootdisk Image to be used with loadlin ("c64")
Re: why do I lose my entire system at restart, how to minimize loss? (Hz
back!)
Re: Marx vs. Nozick (Hobbyist ©)
DDS-3 SCSI Tape Drive + Red Hat 6.0 (Fitz Siapno)
Re: GNOME log-out (Leonard Evens)
From: "Byron" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Have you heard?
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 15:14:34 GMT
Perhaps I am different in this way
The way I see it, I am doing Microsoft a favor by attacking this site.
Several people I know are making this into a "bigger dick" contest; to see
who can do the most damage, etc. This is what Microsoft wants people to do.
Personally, I would rather do nothing to assist Microsoft and let them debug
and stress-test their own damned code. It seems that no matter what,
Microsoft has a knack for insisting that users do its bug-hunting and beta
testing for it. I do not intend to participate.
--
None of my opinions stated here are intended
to speak for or represent my employer. After
all, I'm supposed to be working.
Justin B Willoughby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:7oeuor$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
[Cross Postings Reduced]
Oystein Viggen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
"Nathan Neal" wrote:
Microsoft challenges hackers to break into Windows 2000
In a controversial move, Microsoft Corporation has made one of its
Windows
2000 Servers on the Internet available to hackers, inviting people to
attempt to break in. The goal: To make Windows 2000 as industrial
strength
as possible. The company says it is looking for any "magic bullet"
attacks
that can kill it, and has asked hackers to follow some simple rules so
that
they can determine the validity of any attacks. Since the server went
online
Tuesday morning, it has yet to be hacked.
^^^
That's probably correct. It has crashed several times since then,
though... :)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/08/05/1248205mode=thread
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2309474,00.html?chkpt=hpqs014
[Microsoft to hackers: Crack this! But Windows 2000 test server appears
to have crashed without any help.]
- Justin
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_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ Justin Willoughby
_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ http://justinw.net
_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ Jesus Is Lord
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: Linux reference OR bOOK
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 15:01:37 GMT
On Fri, 06 Aug 1999 08:45:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 01 Aug 1999 13:14:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Rod Smith) wrote:
I have. O'Reilly tends to leave their books for years without updating
them, so they lose relevance over time. For instance, the O'Reilly book,
what about linux in a nutshell ?
i was thinking of buying it.
It's a command reference, and I don't imagine the commands would
change that much.
Plus, it's just been updated to a third edition. Additionally,
sometime this month they're releasing "Running Linux" (supposedly a
very good book, from all that I hear) in a new edition. I think they
may be catching on to that fact that they need to update their Linux
line. :-) Now, if they'd just update some of the books in their
multi-volume set devoted to X. There aren't any good, recent books
out there devoted to X Window, and one is really needed. O'Reilly's
are on the order of 6 years old, or so. sheesh!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Zenkar)
Subject: load balancing between intensive processes on SMP box
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 14:00:46 GMT
Hi,
I am wondering if there is some sort of automated tool that does load
balancing in SMP linux for computationally intensive processes?
I have RedHat 6.0 and I am running the 2.2.5-22 Ker
Linux-Misc Digest #320
Linux-Misc Digest #320, Volume #20 Sun, 23 May 99 16:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Why MS anti-linux group won't work (long) (Christopher B. Browne)
kppp can't resolve addresses (newbie q) (Vic Rosenthal)
Re: is there any OpenSource video app projects ? (Hans Lambermont)
Re: WORDS OF WISDOM!! Upgrading RedHat 5.1 to 2.2.X Kernel (Rob Bos)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Christopher B. Browne)
My Windows is dead...and I need it!! ("Steven K.I")
Re: make install (Matthew Bafford)
Q: freezing up? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hi, am having trouble with cpio-2.4.2 on S.u.S.E. 6.0 (Juergen Heinzl)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why MS anti-linux group won't work (long)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 18:54:14 GMT
On Sun, 23 May 1999 09:09:35 -0700, Pan [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted:
II. Linux relies on a different business model than past OS and/or
software vendors.
A. Whereas Mac, Caldera's DR-Dos and OS/2 relied on M$ for some portion
of their business operations, there is NO reliance on microsoft for
development of either core component software or OS. This alleviates
the "indian/cavalry syndrome" that every other company that competed
with Microsoft in the past has faced. Those companies relied on M$ to
supply either the operating system (borland, corel), or a core component
in the suite of tools (mac, caldera, OS/2), and the result was not
unlike the indians who bought bullets and weapons for their war against
the federal army from the U.S. government because they lacked the
resources to manufacture them on their own.
There *is* a weakness to this argument, which is that Linux has grown to
popularity due to the ability to cheaply deploy it on "PC" hardware, whose
design and production has resulted from the widespread deployment of MSFT
software.
In other words, you can get a cheap Linux box because it is also a cheap
WinTel box, and it's the WinTel folks that spent the money to get it
designed and deployed to market.
The argument would be stronger if there was substantial quantity of hardware
being deployed by and for the Linux community.
A "for instance" that would be interesting to see happen is the F-CPU
project; it would be quite valuable to have a CPU developed by and for
deployment with free software. (Note that nothing stops it from *also*
running other OSes and software.)
B. The community of users is more self-reliant than past models.
Whereas DR-Dos, OS/2, and Mac relied on selling OS's to client-type end
users, the primary Linux community consists of developers and
sys-admins. Because these users have a generally higher skill-set in
relation to "the average user", in a way that is unprecedented outside
of the academic model, end-users themselves can contibute to the
improvement and long-term success of the OS and its core suite of tools
(and are indeed, many times more likely to do so).
This has been the case in the context where users were previously UNIX
users, and knew at least enough C to fiddle with Makefiles to get things to
run and be installed.
As the "community" grows, it is not clear that that self-reliance will
continue, or whether there is a "core group" that will represent a
diminishing proportion of the population.
Assuming a constant set of "competent core people" requires assuming that if
a million new users get added that they're effectively "witless cattle" that
can *never* learn *anything;* that's certainly not entirely true, but I
suspect that there may be some truth to it.
III. The world has changed
A. the open source model, Linux in particular, can and will succeed
because the users themselves control access to information in a way that
people in the past did not. Anyone with a Linux box (and the
proficiency to use it) can pass data on to the world at large. The FUD
tactics which worked in the past, simply because M$ could outspend their
competitors on marketing, are simply less effective in a world where
people need not rely on a media that is controlled by corporate
America. Under Linux, the users themselves can send and receive
information in a way that was not possible in the past.
Again, this is true to the extent to which people have "proficiency."
There is not a clear model available to predict the growth of "proficiency"
to go along with the growth of population of users.
B. Linux is a social phenomenon. For every dollar that M$ spends on
FUD marketing tactics to hammer Linux down, the more people will rally
around Linux and the open-source model. Linux is a counter-culture that
is based, in part, on a rejection of Micro$oft. The bigger and more
threatening that people perceive Micro$oft to be, the more people will
rally around an alternativ
Linux-Misc Digest #320
Linux-Misc Digest #320, Volume #19Fri, 5 Mar 99 16:13:16 EST
Contents:
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Linux Versions (Ed Young)
compiling QT for KDE?? (chips)
Re: S.u.S.E. 5.3 and Matrox Millenium G200 AGP (R Mercado)
Re: best offline newsreader? (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Where to find suse rpms? (ANDREW R. POST)
Re: Partition Magic? (Daniel Ganek)
passwd file locked (Mike)
Re: StarOffice anyone?? (chips)
Re: Linux Programs (John Hasler)
Re: Newsreader for Linux (Johan Kullstam)
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows ("bob")
Re: Shooting (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Partition Magic? (Dave Hopton)
Re: The Almost Free Linux Project (Bill Unruh)
Re: ATI Mach64 + PC2TV (Jason Kircher)
Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion (NF Stevens)
Re: Linux no Brasil (Johan Kullstam)
Mwave For Linux Project
From: Johan Kullstam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: 05 Mar 1999 13:24:36 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony D. Tribelli) writes:
Restarting BIOS would change various BIOS variables so saving some of
these would make sense. I know the reset technique has been used quite a
bit, I'm only questioning the notion that there is an undocumented reset
instruction in the x86. The various methods of resetting the CPU I'm aware
of involve I/O instruction or descriptor table instructions.
there's always the old tried and true method of physically grounding
the reset pin. a little bit of logic between an output port and the
reset and you could do it from software.
--
johan kullstam
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From: Ed Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Versions
Date: 5 Mar 1999 19:17:05 GMT
Helmut Nachbauer wrote:
Hi,
I would like to try linux - yes ! but ...
there are different linux versions like S.u.S.E, Debian, RedHat
furthermore with various Version-numbers ...
Please help me !
With which Linux Product should I start ?
What are the major differences between the miscellaneous products ?
thanx a lot !
cu, helmut
If you have a friend who runs Linux and likes his distribution,
I suggest that you get what he recommends. He is likely to be
the one helping you over the first initial hard spots that are
hard to ask questions about on the net. You will have fun with
any of the better known distributions. They are all pretty good...
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From: chips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: compiling QT for KDE??
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 12:31:05 -0500
I'm in the process of trying to install KDE for RedHat 5.2 Linux. I've
been trying to follow the documention to the letter, but have run into a
dead end. Here's where I'm at...
*I have unpacked the qt-1.43.tar.gz archive to /usr/local
*Renamed the qt1.43 dir to qt
*created .profile in my home directory and set all the evironment
variables per the instructions at ftp://ftp.troll.no/qt/INSTALL
*I am now at the point to compile the library and (following the
directions) went to the dir /usr/local/qt and typed make
linux-g++-shared. When I do this I keep getting an error output that
reads...
./propagate configs/linux-g++-shared
cmp: /LICENSE: No such file or directory
cmp: /LICENSE: No such file or directory
$QTDIR must be set to $PWD (usr/local/qt)
Please read INSTALL
make: *** [linux-g++-shared] Error 1
I keep re-reading the INSTALL, but can not figure out what's wrong. Any
suggestions??
Thanks,
Craig Shields
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From: R Mercado [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: S.u.S.E. 5.3 and Matrox Millenium G200 AGP
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 14:59:49 +
Hi
I installed SuSE 5.3 last November with the Matrox G200 AGP. I just saw that the two
files needed are still sitting in my hard drive. These files are available from
XFree
The files needed are
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1129748 Oct 28 18:40 xmatrox.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1131036 Oct 28 18:40 xmatrox.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root35999 Oct 28 18:40 xsuseconfig.tgz
xmatrox.rpm and xmatrox.tgz are the same thing but packed differently.
You need the xsuseconfig to replace xconfig86 and this new config program did the
magic: just run it the same way as xf86config is run.
R.Mercado
Allen wrote:
Yes you will need to upgrade to Xfree86 3.3.3.1, but I don't know the steps for
S.u.S.E., as I'm going through much the same thing, and I'm running Red Hat 5.2.
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:26:02 +0800, "Chan, Siu-Kei" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I currently upgrade my VGA card to Millenium G200 AGP (8MB SGRAM version). I
have S.u.S.E 5.3 installed and I would like anyone who can tell me what do I
need t
