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redhat-digest Digest Volume 99 : Issue 956
Today's Topics:
Enlightenment CD Player Problems
Re: rh5.2 to rh6.0 upgrade how-to?
Re: Apache Server
Re: A minor question about RH 6.0
RE: Using Zip and printer -- A brief, general query
port 164 or port 124
Re: [OT] power supplies
Re: [OT] power supplies
Re: Shell Script--Question
Re: /var/spool/mqueue problems
Re: Pipes: is this possible?
Re: [Routing?] Adding Components and Peripherals
Re: Red Hat 6 for Alpha?
misc crap at end of my replies
RE: Remote X Login
FW: FTP, WHY NOT????
Re: Linux Question
Re: Linux Question
RE: [OT] power supplies
Zip/printer -- Pseudo-problem mysteriously solved!
Re: [Routing?] Adding Components and Peripherals
Re: [Routing?] Adding Components and Peripherals
Making StarOffice work with glibc-2.1
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:49:16 -0400
From: "Gerry Doris" <gdo...@home.com>
To: <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: Enlightenment CD Player Problems
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I tried to send this message earlier but it didn't seem to make it???
I can't get sound when playing a music CD using the Enlightenment CD =
player. when I try I get a small window openning that displays the name =
of the music CD and the track being played. The time starts counting =
down...everything that should happen without any sound!!!
I can play sounds (I think they are wav files) in Enlightenment and =
music CD's in Win98 so I believe the hardware is ok.
Am I missing something in the Enlightenment setup or is the CD player =
just broken.
Gerry
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music CD using=20
the Enlightenment CD player. when I try I get a small window =
openning that=20
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time=20
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Enlightenment=20
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:53:02 -0400
From: Dave Reed <dr...@capital.edu>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: rh5.2 to rh6.0 upgrade how-to?
Message-Id: <1999043018...@fourier.capital.edu>
> From: Gnana <qu...@mrna.tn.nic.in>
>
> What is the general way to upgrade rh5.2 to rh6.0?
Stick the boot disk in, turn the computer on. Put the CD in, choose
"upgrade" instead of "install" when it gives you the option.
Always be safe and back up any important files before doing this.
Dave
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:51:10 -0500
From: Paul Pettit <pa...@ccbnpts.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Apache Server
Message-Id: <4.1.199904301...@mail.ccbnpts.com>
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At 09:59 AM 04/29/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Any idea roughly how much disk space I might need to install Minimum RH
>configuration
>Apache server ( to run the Apache server)
>
Do you mean an RH install with Apache or just Apache *after* a install?
I don't think that you can install RH without Apache unless you unselect it
durring a custom install.
The smallest I've seen in disk space usage doing a min install but
including Apache is just under 190M but that depends on what is unselected.
Apache its self is only about 2-3 megs source and compiled binary, or just
under 1 meg as an RPM.
Hope that helps,
Paul Pettit | Opinions and advice expressed are from me
CTO | and are not my employer's.
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much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when
technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose
either to make a difference, or to just hit delete... -- Author Unknown
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:54:20 -0500
From: Steve Borho <sbo...@ststech.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: A minor question about RH 6.0
Message-ID: <1999043013...@ststech.com>
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On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 08:46:01AM +0100, Paul Youd wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Michael Elkins wrote:
>
> >>On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:23:33PM -0400, Statux wrote:
> >> What's the lil name given to RH 6.0? You have how 5.1 was Manhattan..
> >> and 5.2 was Apollo...
>
> >Hedwig
There's an off broadway play called "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" about
a german rock singer who comes to america and has a botched sex change
operation.
Don't know for sure if that's the 'hedwig' that 6.0 was named after,
though.
--
Steve Borho <sbo...@ststech.com>
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:03:57 -0400
From: "Madel, Kurt" <KMa...@USInspect.com>
To: "'redha...@redhat.com'" <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: Using Zip and printer -- A brief, general query
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I compiled support for the Zip Plus and lp in a 2.2.5 kernel, and they both
work fine. However, they don't work at the same time. I mean I can't access
the Zip while I am printing something. However, that probably has more to do
with my printer which is a Win printer (HP 712) and really devours my
system's cpu and memory.
Kurt
can you do also insmod lp?
and printer and SparQ still work?
Does it work if you compile both statically?
Tomy.
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:05:32 -0500
From: "Tony Johnson" <gjoh...@showmaster.com>
To: "Redhat-List (E-mail)" <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: port 164 or port 124
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Does anyone know what port 164 or 124 are used for??
I'm receiving some dns connects from peoples ports 124 and 164...
Tony Johnson
System Administrator
Demand Publishing Inc.
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:11:15 -0400
From: "Dave Teske" <dte...@ordertek.com>
To: <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] power supplies
Message-ID: <032901be933d$386083d0$5c5e...@dteske2.ordertek.com>
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Tony,
Try onsale.com (www.onsale.com), they now have an "At Cost" section that has
really good prices. I know because I work for a midsized VAR and their list
price is less than our wholesale cost. Be aware that they do charge a
transaction fee, but the max is only $10. The navigation blows but I checked
and they do have power supplies.
--Dave
>This is off topic but I want to ask anyway. If you bought a separate power
>supply for your comp where did you get it. I was dealing with zippy.com,
>but they seem to not trust httpsd, and have to fax things back and fourth
>:-)
>
>Anyone know of a good place to buy a 400watt ps/2 power supply?
>
>Tony Johnson
>System Administrator
>Demand Publishing Inc.
>
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:17:13 -0400
From: Paul Mezzanini <paul.me...@saintleo.edu>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [OT] power supplies
Message-ID: <372A01B9...@saintleo.edu>
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Tony Johnson wrote:
> Anyone know of a good place to buy a 400watt ps/2 power supply?
>
By ps/2 I hope you dont mean the IBM machine. <G>
I got a few powersupplies from pcpower and cooling. nice supplies, but
overpriced.
the turbo-cool models are great tho for a really hot (literally) system.
paul
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:14:22 -0500
From: Steve Borho <sbo...@ststech.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Shell Script--Question
Message-ID: <1999043014...@ststech.com>
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On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 11:34:31PM -0400, Robert D. Crawford wrote:
> I am writing a shell script to include in my crontab that will check for a ppp
> connection and, if it exists, will run fetchmail. If said connection does not
> exist, then it will start the ppp connection, then run fetchmail. I know that
> there is a way to do this more efficiently, and more beautifully than what I
> have done, but I wanted all of you to know that I have tried to come up with a
> workable solution by myself first. Here is the script and my problems written
> as comments in the script...
instead of messing with all this, simply put
fetchmail -d 900
into /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and
killall fetchmail
into /etc/ppp/ip-down.local
--
Steve Borho <sbo...@ststech.com>
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:19:28 -0400
From: Paul Mezzanini <paul.me...@saintleo.edu>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: /var/spool/mqueue problems
Message-ID: <372A0240...@saintleo.edu>
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Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> chown root.mail /var/spool/mqueue
>
Been there, done that. Same problem. (another RH box we have here as
root:root, and it works fine. so I decided to try it on this one)
thx
paul
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:16:55 -0500
From: Steve Borho <sbo...@ststech.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Pipes: is this possible?
Message-ID: <1999043014...@ststech.com>
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On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 02:20:38PM -0400, George Lenzer wrote:
> I have a situation where I would like to record audio into my computer using
> something like 'yarec' at a shell. I would like to simultaneously pipe the
> output to an MP3 encoder like 'encoder' or 'bladeenc'. Is this possible?
>
> Here is what I though the command would look like:
>
> 'yarec > temp.wav < bladeenc'
The redirect pipes '<', '>' are for files. If you want to pipe
stdin/stdout through a program, use this pipe '|'
yarec < temp.wav | bladeenc
--
Steve Borho <sbo...@ststech.com>
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:05:23 -0400
From: Eric Wood <er...@interplas.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Routing?] Adding Components and Peripherals
Message-ID: <012901be933c$6a5db700$7377...@CI214744-A.grnvle1.sc.home.com>
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Can you still make FORWARD_IPV4=true even if you don't use routing of
masquerading? Is this option only meant for performance reasons?
-Eric Wood
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Borho <sbo...@ststech.com>
>edit /etc/sysconfig/network to make it look like this:
>
>NETWORKING=yes
>FORWARD_IPV4=false
>HOSTNAME=host.domain.com
>DOMAINNAME=domain.com
>#GATEWAY=192.168.1.254
>#GATEWAYDEV=eth0
>
>Of course, if you're routing or doing IP Masquerading, then
>FORWARD_IPV4 should be set to yes.
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:17:32 -0500
From: Steve Borho <sbo...@ststech.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6 for Alpha?
Message-ID: <1999043014...@ststech.com>
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On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:24:21AM -0400, Mike Johnson wrote:
> Has anyone found a mirror with the Alpha distribution of RH 6? I've looked
> on almost all of them (all the ones in the US and Europe, several in Asia) and
> only one had a directory tree for Alpha. And that one (metalab), only has
> an empty tree, no files. And, of course, I can't get into ftp.redhat.com.
They haven't released it yet. My guess is that they're still bug
fixing it.
--
Steve Borho <sbo...@ststech.com>
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:19:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Reverend <sta...@bigfoot.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: misc crap at end of my replies
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.99043...@circuit.moureaux.com>
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Sorry if you get any of that extra stuff at the end of the messages (or if
the messages are huge)
I totally forgot about the problem... my bad. it's fetchmail (which I
addressed earlier) that needs fixing :/
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:27:29 -0400
From: "Cimarron Ryan" <cr...@mail.wesleyan.edu>
To: <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: Remote X Login
Message-ID: <001601be933f$7cc599a0$7d4e...@jkopecky.stu.wesleyan.edu>
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Or use plain old xdm...
Remember that unless you've tweaked, you won't be able to long in as root
via telnet (you can via xdm).
Cable modems are asynchronous though, aren't they? So using a gui probably
wouldn't be fun, eh?
-----Original Message-----
From: Danyell Wilt [mailto:dan...@ctelcom.net]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 11:27
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Remote X Login
You could install vnc and get your xwindows desktop also.
Danyell
> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, William M. Wise wrote:
>
> > Quick Question...
> >
> > How do I log into my linux box at home (on cable modem) from my linux
> > box at work (on T1).
>
> Just telnet to your ip number. Might have to record your up from work to
> let tcpwrappers/chains to let it come in.
>
> Jeff
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:43:28 -0400
From: "Soffen, Matthew" <mso...@iso-ne.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: FW: FTP, WHY NOT????
Message-ID: <A17D93A46315D1118FF...@msexchange.iso-ne.com>
Thats not entirely true.
Those are ONLY needed if you are doing the specialized user/grop FTPing.
What does the /var/log/messages (and /var/log/maillog) file say ? Does
it say anything about the shell ? (shell not in list).
Is tcp wrappers installed properly (the ftpd in the inetd.conf line) ?
Does the /var/log/messages (and /var/log/maillog) file have ANY messages
about the FTP failing ?
Is FTP actually installed ? (it doesn't do that by default but it still
has the line in inetd.conf).
Matt Soffen
Webmaster - http://www.iso-ne.com/
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> ----------
> From: Tony Johnson[SMTP:gjoh...@showmaster.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 1:53 PM
> To: redha...@redhat.com
> Subject: RE: FTP, WHY NOT????
>
> Do you have /etc/ftpusers /etc/ftpgroups setup?
> If u use proftpd, you may have to clear those files out for it to be
> usable,
> whereas wu-ftpd , you will have to enter the users in there...
>
> Tony Johnson
> System Administrator
> Demand Publishing Inc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sta...@circuit.moureaux.com
> [mailto:sta...@circuit.moureaux.com]On
> Behalf Of Statux
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 5:31 PM
> To: redha...@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: FTP, WHY NOT????
>
>
> Jack Hatfield wrote:
>
> > I am trying to set up ftp on a new httpd server. No matter what or
> where,
> > even with the hosts.allow file populated, I get connection refused.
> >
> > Is there some new trick to ftp in RH 5.2. I notice in inetd.conf it
> is no
> > longer /usr/etc/ftpd it is /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd.
> >
> > Do I need to change this, how do I get, not anonymous ftp, but user
> ftp
> > working??
> > RocNet Monster
> > RocSoft, Inc.
> > 915 Lyttleton St.
> > Camden SC 29020
> > 803 713-3433
> > 888-398-2ROC
> > www.RocWorld.com
> >
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> the ftpd looks up users and passwords in the system password file.
>
>
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:48:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael S. Dunsavage" <mik...@ptd.net>
To: Jeff Mathis <jnma...@geocities.com>
cc: RedHat ML <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Linux Question
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990430154755.7501A-100000@darkman>
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i forgot to mention after u get the @%#%#^%#& and stuff u need to hit
alt+q then enter
--
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----------------------
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
> well
>
>
> i personally use minicom
>
>
> do minicom -s
>
> then go to serial port setup
>
> serial device should be /dev/modem (first u want to link /dev/modem to a
> /dev/cua? (cua0=com1 cua1=com2 etc) ln -s /dev/modem /dev/cua?)
>
> the Bps/Par/Bits should be 115200 so :
>
>
> hardware flow is yes
> software flopw is no
>
> then go to exit
>
> then atdt 5555555
>
> enter log/pass
>
> then ppp
>
> then go to a root shell and run ppp that i have enclosed (put in /bin and
> make it +x)
>
>
> --
> Michael S. Dunsavage
> ----------------------
> http://members.tripod.com/~zer002/
>
> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Jeff Mathis wrote:
>
> > This is my first time using a non MS Windows OS so I dont know really
> > anything about Linux and I need to know how to setup Linux so I can
> > dialup to my ISP. What is the easiest way and does my ISP need to be
> > able to handle any dialup protocols besides TCP/IP?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > One man cannot fight a crowd, but I will force them to fight me. If
> > they beat me they will take notice of me, if they beat me to death
> > they will take great notice of me and I shall have won.
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:46:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: UNIXMAN <jzyg...@alpha.confederationc.on.ca>
To: Jeff Mathis <jnma...@geocities.com>
cc: RedHat ML <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Linux Question
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.99043...@alpha.confederationc.on.ca>
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you can do this as easily as you can with windoze. From X-windows go to
the network configuration under programs, administration. Simply add a
new PPP0 device and nameserver IP then save the configuration. highlight
the PPP0 and click on activate. you can then minimize the network
confirurator and start netscape. you must be root to do this.
hope this helps...
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Jeff Mathis wrote:
> This is my first time using a non MS Windows OS so I dont know really
> anything about Linux and I need to know how to setup Linux so I can
> dialup to my ISP. What is the easiest way and does my ISP need to be
> able to handle any dialup protocols besides TCP/IP?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> One man cannot fight a crowd, but I will force them to fight me. If
> they beat me they will take notice of me, if they beat me to death
> they will take great notice of me and I shall have won.
>
>
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:45:46 -0500
From: "Tony Johnson" <gjoh...@showmaster.com>
To: <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: [OT] power supplies
Message-ID: <003201be9342$0b36fbf0$7153...@showmaster.com>
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ps/2 is a powersupply form factor...
Tony Johnson
System Administrator
Demand Publishing Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: me...@omega.saintleo.edu [mailto:me...@omega.saintleo.edu]On Behalf
Of Paul Mezzanini
Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 2:17 PM
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [OT] power supplies
Tony Johnson wrote:
> Anyone know of a good place to buy a 400watt ps/2 power supply?
>
By ps/2 I hope you dont mean the IBM machine. <G>
I got a few powersupplies from pcpower and cooling. nice supplies, but
overpriced.
the turbo-cool models are great tho for a really hot (literally) system.
paul
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:52:43 -0500
From: Benjamin Sher <she...@bellsouth.net>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Zip/printer -- Pseudo-problem mysteriously solved!
Message-ID: <372A505B...@bellsouth.net>
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-- Dear friends:
While waiting for an answer, I decided to do a little more reading on
this Zip subject and to experiment very conservatively. I have learned
to be very wary and skeptical of any "intuitive" hunches based on the
ignorance of a newbie.
I remembered the episode of the missing /bs storage partition (bs
seeking /bs), when all I had to do, after custom reinstallation of the
master Linux drive hda, was to recreate the /bs drive (which completely
fills my slave Linux drive hdb) and add it to fstab and, bingo, all my
files and data on /bs reappeared out of nowhere.
So, I began by creating a subdirectory /zip under /mnt, namely,
/mnt/zip, which is the first step anyhow. Then the strangest thing
happened. Being in a playful mood, I decided to:
#cd /mnt/zip.
No problem. No error message telling me that there is no such directory
or that I had not mounted it. Of course, the Zip cartridge had been
previously (before this latest reinstallation of my system) partitioned
and formatted and a file system had been created for it. Not believing
my eyes, I decided to go on and copy a file from /etc/ to /mnt/zip. No
problem. I then printed the copied file on screen from the zip drive.
And there it was: the entire file on screen.
I couldn't believe what was happening. I then tried to print to paper
(lpr myfile.txt) from /etc and then printed a file from /mnt/zip. No
problem. I thought I was having hallucinations. I decided to try the
ultimate: to print from the hard drive while SIMULTANEOUSLY copying a
file from /etc to /mnt/zip. Again, no problem. I did this several times
in total disbelief. I was using both modules. Both modules were
apparently recognized by Linux 5.2 (2.0.36 kernel) and then, to top it
all, I was using them both at the same time. And no entry whatsoever for
the Zip drive in fstab. In fact, I wouldn't know what kind of device to
call it or what values to enter for it (defaults or 00). Well, no point
in fixing something that ain't broke.
And no mounting or unmounting. No problem popping out the cartridge or
popping it back in (I just did that again) Now I popped in a new
cartridge, which had never been formatted, etc. as a Linux cartridge.
When I did an "ls" it showed (#cd /mnt/zip, then #ls) the same three
files as the first Zip cartridge did. Fine, I figured that was in the
memory or something like that. But then I copied a file to it from hda:
#cp /etc/inittab /mnt/zip [unformatted cartridge].
#cd /mnt/zip
There was the file "inittab"!
#cat /mnt/zip/inittab.
There it was, the entire file.
#lpr /mnt/zip/inittab
It printed it out on paper.
What is going on?
I had from the beginning assumed that RH Linux 2.0.36 could NOT run both
the printer and the Zip drive without special configuration and
certainly not simultaneously as in Windows (or as in the new Rh 6.0).
That's what the books and the RH manual said. I had therefore set out to
try out different strategies to solve a problem that apparently never
existed in the first place, at least not on my rather humble Pentium
166, making things only worse (by adding an alias scsi_hostadaptor,
adding an sda4 entry in fstab, etc.).
I cannot for the life of me figure out how this is possible unless Linux
recognizes my Zip drive automatically as a default hard drive or
whatever. I haven't the faintest idea except to assure everyone that
every detail is true. I've tested it over and over again. And it always
works perfectly.
I am thrilled, of course, to say the least. But could someone please
explain to me what is going on?
Yours,
Benjamin
(a.k.a Marco Polo)
Benjamin Sher
she...@bellsouth.net
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:59:01 -0500
From: Steve Borho <sbo...@ststech.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Routing?] Adding Components and Peripherals
Message-ID: <1999043014...@ststech.com>
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On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 03:05:23PM -0400, Eric Wood wrote:
> Can you still make FORWARD_IPV4=true even if you don't use routing of
> masquerading? Is this option only meant for performance reasons?
It's a purely functional setting. If FORWARD_IPV4 is set to false,
the kernel will drop all packets it receives which weren't destined to
one of it's IP addresses, ie. it won't route packets between
network interfaces.
If FORWARD_IPV4 is set to true, then the kernel will look the
destination address up in it's routing table, apply any masquerading
and/or firewall rules, then send the packet on it's way.
The reason the switch exists is that, by POSIX definition, no OS
kernel should route packets by default. So the Linux kernel, even if
packet forwarding was compiled in, will not route packets until it is
told to (by cat'ing a '1' in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward). The Red
Hat initscripts do this for you when you set FORWARD_IPV4=true in
/etc/sysconfg/network.
Setting FORWARD_IPV4 to false will not give you any negligeable
performance boost, unless everyone is trying to use your machine as a
router when it in fact can't route.
--
Steve Borho <sbo...@ststech.com>
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:03:22 -0700
From: Gordon Messmer <yin...@eburg.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Routing?] Adding Components and Peripherals
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Eric Wood wrote:
>
> Can you still make FORWARD_IPV4=true even if you don't use routing of
> masquerading? Is this option only meant for performance reasons?
No, it's meant to control whether or not you're a router. I'd leave it
"false" unless you plan to route packets for others.
MSG
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:00:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: "John N. Alegre" <lis...@libros.andante.mn.org>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Making StarOffice work with glibc-2.1
Message-ID: <XFMail.990430...@libros.andante.mn.org>
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I am trying to hack a script that will make StarOffice 5.0 work in a glibc-2.1
envionment. This is following some posts earlier in this list.
Here is what I did.
1. Found a virgin RH 5.2 install.
2. Copied libc-2.0.7 from that intall to /usr/local/olib
3. Made a link in /usr/local/olib from libc.so.6 to libc-2.0.7:
ls -l /usr/local/olib
total 3012
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3070220 Apr 30 14:34 libc-2.0.7.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 30 14:37 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.0.7.so
4. Added /usr/local/olib to my ld.so.config
5. Ran /sbin/ldconfig
6. Wrote this script with 775 permisions:
#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/olib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/local/Office50/bin/soffice
No luck. When I run my script I get:
sh: /usr/local/olib/libc.so.6: no version information available (required by
/lib/libNoVersion.so.1)
sh: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/local/olib/libc.so.6: undefined
symbol: _dl_global_scope_end
What am I missing, all comments welcome.
john
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E-Mail: John N. Alegre <lis...@libros.andante.mn.org>
Date: 30-Apr-99
Time: 14:50:20
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