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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><A NAME="tips"><IMG ALIGN=MIDDLE ALT="" SRC="../gx/twocent.gif">
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More 2¢ Tips!</A></H1> <BR>
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Send Linux Tips and Tricks to <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">
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gazette@ssc.com
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#stracke">
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Re: Running Your Own Domain Over a Part Time Dialup
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</a>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#delorie">
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Boot SCSI with IDE Disk Too
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</a>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#ven">
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TAG: ifconfig Reports TX Errors on v2.1.x Kernels
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</a>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#devries">
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Triple booting
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</a>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#sumner">
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Searching CD-ROMs
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</a>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#hopital">
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Searching Multiple CD-ROMs
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</a>
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<li>ANSWER: <a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#hammel">
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Does Linux have multimedia support?
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<li>ANSWER: <a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#bloechl1">
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Linux and UNIX
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<li>ANSWER: <a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#omegaman">
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Linux and UNIX
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<li>ANSWER: <a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#greene">
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Help Lotus Notes
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<li>ANSWER: <a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#bloechl2">
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Intellimouse
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<li>ANSWER: <a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#bloechl3">
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Does Linux have multimedia support?
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<li>ANSWER: <a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#bloechl4">
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IP Masquerading
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</a>
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<li>ANSWER: <a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#bloechl5">
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Netscape help
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<li>ANSWER: <a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#david">
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TX errors with 2.1/2.2 kernels
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</a>
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<li>ANSWER: <a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#jensen">
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Wheel Mouse under Linux
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<li>ANSWER: <a HREF="./lg_tips37.html#bavendiek">
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Re: I have two ideas for articles
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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Re: Running Your Own Domain Over a Part Time Dialup
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 15:41:52 -0800<BR>
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From: John Stracke, <A HREF="mailto:francis@netscape.com">
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francis@netscape.com</A>
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If all you need is the ability to telnet into your Linux
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box, there is a simpler way (assuming your ISP gives you a
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Web site with CGI). First, create a script on your site
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called "updateIP.cgi":
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#!/bin/bash
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echo $REMOTE_ADDR >latestIP
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</PRE>
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and another called "telnet.cgi":
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#!/bin/bash
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echo Location: telnet://`cat latestIP`
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echo
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(Don't forget to make the CGI scripts executable.) Set up a
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cron job that will do "lynx -source
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http://www.example.com/~foo/updateIP.cgi >/dev/null 2>&1"
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every 15 minutes (or whatever). (Replace
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http://www.example.com/~foo/ with the URL of your site, of
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course.) Now you can set yourself a bookmark for
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"http://www.example.com/~foo/telnet.cgi"; when you go to it,
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your browser will be redirected to the telnet: URL and will
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(should) fire up a telnet session.
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No need to pay somebody for Dynamic DNS or a domain name.
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If your ISP doesn't support CGI, you can probably hack up
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something with FTP instead.
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<P>
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--<BR>
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John (Francis) Stracke
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<a name="delorie"></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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Boot SCSI with IDE Disk Too
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</H3>
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:08:18 -0500<BR>
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From: "DJ Delorie"<A HREF="mailto:dj@delorie.com">dj@delorie.com</A>
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<P>
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Another way to make it boot SCSI first is to install the IDE drive
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on the *secondary* IDE controller, not the primary. Whether this
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works or not depends on the BIOS and the SCSI card.
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<P>
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--<BR>
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DJ
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<a name="ven"></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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<font color="navy">
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TAG: ifconfig Reports TX Errors on v2.1.x Kernels
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</H3>
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:42:49 +0100 <BR>
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From: Michel van de Ven,
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<A HREF="mailto:michelv@unit4.nl">michelv@unit4.nl</A>
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my 0.02 euro:
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This is a problem with the net-tools used. The /proc/net format changed
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during 2.1.x development and old net-tools just can't grok it. The 2.1.x
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Documentation/Changes file states version and location of the net-tools
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you need to get correct results: for 2.2.0-pre4 it's v1.49.
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It's generally a Good Thing to check Changes after patching the kernel
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tree. There are more things you need to consider when running a 2.[12].x
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kernel on a 2.0.x distribution, and Changes has the details.
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Linux Gazette is a useful piece of work. Thanks!
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<P>
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--<BR>
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Michel van de Ven
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<a name="devries"></a>
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Triple booting
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</H3>
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:22:14 +1000<BR>
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From: "peter deVries", <A HREF="mailto:brisbane@cox.com.au">
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brisbane@cox.com.au</A>
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<P>
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I read your article about booting linux and NT. I have a triple booting
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solution for you. I read this in the Jan99 PC@uthority so I can't claim the
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credit on this much
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I recently saw a suggestion for triple booting NTFS, FAT32 and linux. Well
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here's a quick tip: Linux can be put into the NT boot menu. To do so, run
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lilo to create a boot sector of your linux partition, then run:
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<PRE>
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dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/dev/hda/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
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</PRE>
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Replace /dev/hdc1 with your linux partition and /dev/hda/ with your
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mountpoint of your "C:" drive under NT. This copies your linux boot sector
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to a file which NT reads as C:\BOOTSECT.LNX. Then append C:\boot.ini with
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<PRE>
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c:\bootsect.lnx="linux"
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</PRE>
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Reboot, and linux should work off the NT boot menu.
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<P>
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this is the article I saw word for word and found that it didn't work so
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here is a version that does.
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I did this before converting Win98 to FAT32
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First make sure that the "C:\"partition is mounted
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<PRE>
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mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98
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</PRE>
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then reference it /mnt/win98 in the place of the /dev/hda1, so the line
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should look like this
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<PRE>
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dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/mnt/win98/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
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</PRE>
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I found that is worked.
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<P>
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--<BR>
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Peter deVries
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<a name="sumner"></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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<font color="navy">
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Searching CD-ROMs
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</H3>
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:18:15 +0200<BR>
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From: Reuben Sumner, <A HREF="mailto:rasumner@iname.com">
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rasumner@iname.com</A>
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<P>
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Here is a two cent tip that I have been meaning to submit for a long long
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time now.
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<P>
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If you have a large stack of CD-ROMS, finding where a particular file
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lies can be a time consuming task. My solution uses the locate program
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and associated utilities to build up a database of the CDs' contents that
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allows for rapid searching.
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<P>
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First we need to create the database, the following script does the
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trick nicely.
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<PRE>
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#!/bin/bash
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onedisk()
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{
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mount /mnt/cdrom
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find /mnt/cdrom -maxdepth 7 -print | sed "s;^/mnt/cdrom;$1;" > $1.find
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eject -u cdrom
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}
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echo Enter name of disk in device:
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read diskname
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while [ -n "$diskname" ]; do
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onedisk $diskname
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echo Enter name of next disk or Enter if done:
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read diskname
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done
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echo OK, preparing cds.db
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cat *.find | sort -f | /usr/lib/findutils/frcode > cds.db
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echo Done...
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</PRE>
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Start with no CD mounted. Run the script. It will ask for a label for
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the CD, a short name like "sunsite1" is best. It will then quickly scan
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the CD, eject it and prompt for another. When you have exhausted your
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collection just hit enter at the prompt. A file called cds.db will be
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done. To make it simple to use copy cds.db to /var/lib (or anywhere
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else, that is where locatedb is on my system). Now create an alias like
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<PRE>
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alias cdlocate="locate -d /var/lib/cds.db"
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</PRE>
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Now if I type "cdlocate lyx" I get
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<PRE>
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debian20_contrib/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/text/lyx_0.12.0.final-0.1.deb
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debian20_contrib/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-m68k/text/lyx_0.12.0.final-0.1.deb
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debian20_contrib/debian/hamm/contrib/source/text/lyx_0.12.0.final-0.1.diff.gz
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debian20_contrib/debian/hamm/contrib/source/text/lyx_0.12.0.final-0.1.dsc
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debian20_contrib/debian/hamm/contrib/source/text/lyx_0.12.0.final.orig.tar.gz
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lsa3/apps/wp/lyx-0.12.0-linux-elf-x86-libc5-bin.tar.gz
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lsa3/apps/wp/lyx-0.12.0.lsm
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lsa3/apps/wp/lyx-0.12.0.tar.gz
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lsa4/docs/french/www.linux-france.com/lgazette/issue-28/gx/lyx
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lsa4/powertools/i386/lyx-0.12.0-1.i386.rpm
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lsa4/powertools/SRPMS/lyx-0.12.0-1.src.rpm
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openlinux12/col/install/RPMS/lyx-0.11.32-1.i386.rpm
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openlinux12/col/sources/SRPMS/lyx-0.11.32-1.src.rpm
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suse53/suse/contents/lyx
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</PRE>
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In order to prevent locate from warning you that the database is old try
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touch -t 010100002020 /var/lib/cds.db to set the modification date to
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January 1 2020.
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<P>
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--<BR>
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Reuben
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<a name="hopital"></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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<font color="navy">
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Searching Multiple CD-ROM
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</font>
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</H3>
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:55:51 +0100 (CET)<BR>
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From: JL Hopital, <A HREF="mailto:cdti94@magic.fr">
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cdti94@magic.fr</A>
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<P>
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My English is terrible,so feel free to correct
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if you decide to publish...
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<P>
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Hello,i am a French linuxer and here is my two cent tips.
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If you have many CD-ROMs and want to retrieve
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this_file_I'm_sure_i_have_but_can't_remember_where,
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it can helps.
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<P>
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It consist of 2 small scripts using gnu utilities:
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<B>updatedb</B> and <B>locate</B>.
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Normally 'updatedb' run every night, creating
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a database for all the mounted file systems and 'locate'
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is used to query this system-wide database.But you can
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tell them where are the files to index and where to
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put the database.That's what my scripts does:
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<P>
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The first script (addcd.sh) create a database for the
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cd actually mounted.You must run it once for every cdrom.
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<P>
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The second ( cdlocate.sh ) search in the databases
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created by addcd.sh and display the cdname and full path
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of the files matching the pattern you give in parameter.
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So you can search for unmounted files !
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<P>
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To use:
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<ul>
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<li>create a directory and copy in it the 2 scripts
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<PRE>
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mkdir /home/cdroms
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cp addcd.sh cdlocate.sh /home/cdroms
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</PRE>
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<li>mount the first cdrom you want to index
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<PRE>
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mount /mnt/cdrom
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</PRE>
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( if your mount point is different , you must adapt
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the script )
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<li>run addcd.sh with a fully descriptive name for
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this cdrom as parameter (this description will
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be used as part of the database name ,don't use space):
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<PRE>
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./addcd.sh Linux.Toolkit.Disk1.Oct.1996
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</PRE>
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It will take some time to updatedb to create the
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databases specially if the cdrom contain many files.
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<li>umount the cdrom and go to step 2 for all
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the cdroms you want or every time you've got
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a new one(I have more than 70 databases created
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this way).
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<li>you can now use cdlocate.sh,to retrieve files
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<PRE>
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./cdlocate.sh '*gimp*rpm'
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</PRE>
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</ul>
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Beware that locate's regular expressions have some
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peculiarities, 'man locate' will explain.
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<P>
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Hope this help and happy linuxing !
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---Cut here------------------------------
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# addcd.sh
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# Author: Jose-Luc.Hopital@ac-creteil.fr
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# Create a filename's database in $DATABASEHOME for the cd mounted
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# at $MOUNTPOINT
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# Example usage: addcd.sh Linux.Toolkit.Disk3.Oct.1996
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# to search the databases use cdlocate.sh
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CDNAME=$1
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test "$CDNAME" = "" && { echo Usage:$0 name_of_cdrom ; exit 1 ; }
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# the mount point for the cd-ROM
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MOUNTPOINT=/mnt/cdrom
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# where to put the database
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DATABASEHOME=/home/cdroms
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updatedb --localpaths=$MOUNTPOINT --output=$DATABASEHOME/$CDNAME.updatedb && \
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echo Database added for $CDNAME
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---Cut here--------------------------------
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# cdlocate.sh
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# Author : Jose-Luc.Hopital@ac-creteil.fr
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# Usage $0 pattern
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# search regular expression in $1 in the database's found in $DATABASEHOME
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# to add a database for a new cd-rom , use addcd.sh
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test "$*" = "" && { echo Usage:$0 pattern ; exit 1 ; }
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DATABASEHOME=/home/cdroms
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cd $DATABASEHOME
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# get ride of locate warning:more than 8 days old
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touch *.updatedb
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CDROMLIST=`ls *.updatedb`
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for CDROM in $CDROMLIST
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do
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CDROMNAME=`basename $CDROM .updatedb`
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locate --database=$DATABASEHOME/$CDROM $@ |sed 's/^/'$CDROMNAME:'/'
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done
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</PRE>
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<P> <hr> <P>
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<H4><font color="maroon">
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Tips in the following section are answers to questions printed in the Mail
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Bag column of previous issues.
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<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="hammel"></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
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Re: Does Linux have multimedia support?
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</font>
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</H3>
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:08:23 -0600<BR>
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From: Mike Hammel, <A HREF="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org">
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mjhammel@graphics-muse.org</A>
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<P>
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Don Cramer wrote:
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<blockquote> <font color="navy">
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I was wondering if Linux now has, or will support any of the multimedia
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formats supported by Windows, such as AVI, JPG, WAV,
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MOV, etc?
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</font></blockquote>
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Yes, all of these are supported in various ways. Animated formats (AVI,
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MOV, animated GIFs, etc) are supported through the xanim program, along with
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a host of other tools (xanim just has the widest range of animation format
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support). Xanim also has support for playing some types of audio embedded in
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the video file (such as audio that accompanies an AVI file). Sound formats
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(WAV, AU, etc) are supported via the "sox" program (that plays these
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formats) and the Linux sound drivers (which you can get either in the Linux
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distributions or a commercial version which supports a wide range of sound
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cards and is available from 4Front Technologies for about $20US). Static
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formats for graphics images (JPEG, GIF, TIFF, TGA, etc) are supported by
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lots of tools: the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, which is similar
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to Photoshop), xv (which is like LView), ImageMagick and NetPBM (which are
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both a collection of graphics viewer/manipulation tools). There are lots of
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tools for viewing/listening to multimedia files. You can try the Linux
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Multimedia Pages (I've forgotten the URL but I think its listed on SSC's
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Resources pages) and my Linux Graphics pages at
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www.graphics-muse.org/linux.html.
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<P>
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Multimedia on Linux is probably not quite what you're used to on Windows as
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far as how you use them, but the support for most of the well known and well
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used formats is available. What you can't do (at least I doubt you can) is
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run multimedia programs from CDs that are Windows specific programs. Those
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programs won't run (well, they might under WINE but I've never tried them)
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but their support files may be readable by some of the Linux/Unix programs
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I've mentioned above.
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Re: Linux and UNIX
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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:48:17 -0800<BR>
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From: Drew Bloechl, <A HREF="mailto:cheezh@mindless.com">
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cheezh@mindless.com</A>
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<P>
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The distinction between Linux and UNIX is, at this point, only in name.
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UNIX is a trademark of the X/Open Group and requires a fee for branding
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a product as a flavor of UNIX. Some vendors have considered getting
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UNIX certification for their particular brand of Linux, but I haven't
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heard of any of them actually doing it.
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Linux does, however, support the POSIX standards and others required for
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the UNIX branding, so it could be considered a flavor of UNIX even if it
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isn't quite official.
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--<BR>
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
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Linux and UNIX
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</font>
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</H3>
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Date: 06 Jan 1999 09:44:02 -0600<BR>
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From: Omegaman, <A HREF="mailto:omegam@cmq.com">omegam@cmq.com</A>
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<P>
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you asked:
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<blockquote> <font color="navy">
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I am a 2nd year computer science student. I have looked everywhere
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for the answer and found only basic answers. My question is what
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exactly is the difference between Linux and UNIX, excluding size and
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speed. I would appreciate it if you could just send me a few of the
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differences.
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</font></blockquote>
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<P>
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For all intents and purposes Linux *is* Unix -- ie. it is another unix
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variant. UNIX is not a single operating system, anyway. It is now a
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brand managed by the Open Group. That means that Operating System
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vendors (or Linux distribution vendors) may apply for Unix
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certification and branding. They pay money and TOG runs a bunch of
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tests and basically says, "ok, that's unix."
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<P>
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Of course, there are other relevant standards, such as POSIX. No
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standard fully covers the differences between branded or unbranded
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Unix implementations.
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<P>
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My question to you is, which unix variant are you referring to? There
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are so many, Solaris, HP-UX, Digital Unix, AIX, SCO, and BSDI, to name
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some common ones. SCO is sometimes thought of as the main UNIX as it
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is the direct descendent of AT&T's original System V source.
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<P>
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Of course, the BSD (Berkeley) derived variations play a pivotal role
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in Unix history as well. All of the Unix variant's mentioned above
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including Linux incorporate functionality and ideas from both primary
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Unix flavors as well as incorporating their own ideas.
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<P>
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System V (SCO) style unix, for example, has a different boot structure
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than BSD. Most recent Linux distributions use System V style boot
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scripts. But Linux systems also incorporate BSD style printing
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mechanisms. The GNU command-line tools used on Linux systems are much
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enhanced and extended versions of their System V and BSD
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counterparts. GNU ls has many more options than what many unix
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vendors may ship. To further confuse the issue, GNU tools can be used
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to replace vendor-supplied commands if desired.
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<P>
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Are we having fun yet?
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<P>
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Your best bet is to read up on Unix history to understand why unix
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(small u) is not one Operating System but a family of Operating
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Systems with similar characteristics. Filesystem structure and
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permissions, basic commands, process sheduling, boot method and dozens
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upon dozens of other characteristics add up to define an OS as "unix".
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Linux falls quite handily into this family despite the lack of
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(expensive and arguably meaningless) Open Group unix branding.
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<P>
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See Unix Guru Universe for some more info http://www.ugu.com/<BR>
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Also see the geek-girl site for some more history and info
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http://www.geek-girl.com/unix.html
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<P>
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-- <BR>
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Omegaman
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<a name="greene"></a>
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
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Re: Help Lotus Notes
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</font>
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</H3>
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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 10:07:34 GMT<BR>
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From: Anthony E. Greene, <A HREF="mailto:agreene@pobox.com">
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agreene@pobox.com</A>
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<P>
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In your letter to Linux Gazette #36, you wrote:
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<blockquote> <font color="navy">
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I have a Linux box, with SuSE, and a Lotus Notes server. I
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want to e-mail the status of my workstation to another user that
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belongs to the Notes Network. Does anybody know how to do
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that, or just the concepts to do this?
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</font></blockquote>
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<P>
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Just pipe the output of a command to mail. For instance, I have a cron job that mails a weekly status report to the members of my workgroup. This helps remind the boss that the Linux box is stable and doing useful work.
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<P>
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Assuming you want to do something simple like uptime, the command line would look like:
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<PRE>
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/usr/bin/uptime | /bin/mail -s "Uptime Report" me@my.address
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</PRE>
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The script I run is a little more complex because it gathers statistics from various logs:
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<PRE>
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#!/bin/bash
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#
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# Script: wsr (Weekl;y Status Report)
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#
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# Purpose: Summarize the relevant activity of the server for the past week.
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#
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# Author: Anthony E. Greene agreene@pobox.com
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#
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echo " "
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echo "Uptime"
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echo "------"
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/usr/bin/uptime
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echo " "
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echo "Mail Transactions"
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echo "-----------------"
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MAILSENT=`/bin/grep -c "stat=Sent" /var/log/maillog.1`
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MAILRCVD=`/bin/grep -c "from=" /var/log/maillog.1`
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MAILCOUNT=$[$MAILSENT+MAILRCVD]
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MAILRATE=$[$MAILCOUNT/24/7]
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echo "$MAILCOUNT ($MAILRATE transactions per hour)"
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echo " "
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echo "Web Documents Served"
|
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echo "--------------------"
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WEBCOUNT=`/bin/grep -c " 200 " /var/log/httpd/access_log.1`
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WEBRATE=$[$WEBCOUNT/7]
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echo "$WEBCOUNT ($WEBRATE transactions per day)"
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echo " "
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# End of Script
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</PRE>
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The cron job is:
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|
<PRE>
|
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/usr/local/sbin/wsr | /bin/mail -s "Weekly Status Report" staff
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</PRE>
|
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The "staff" email address is a sendmail alias that points to the actual email addresses of the members of the workgroup. As long as outgoing mail works, this will do what you need.
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<P>
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--<BR>
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Anthony E. Greene
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<a name="bloechl2"></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
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Re: Intellimouse
|
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</font>
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</H3>
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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:53:15 -0800<BR>
|
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From: Drew Bloechl, <A HREF="mailto:cheezh@mindless.com">
|
|
cheezh@mindless.com</A>
|
|
<P>
|
|
There's a program called <B>imwheel</B> that supposedly does this in XFree86,
|
|
although I haven't tried it myself.
|
|
Its homepage is http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel/
|
|
and the freshmeat appindex for it is
|
|
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/08/15/903164189.html
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Drew
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<a name="bloechl3"></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
|
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Re: Does Linux have multimedia support?
|
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</font>
|
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</H3>
|
|
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 12:03:26 -0800<BR>
|
|
From: Drew Bloechl, <A HREF="mailto:cheezh@mindless.com">
|
|
cheezh@mindless.com</A>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Well, the short answer is "yes." :)
|
|
There are a number of Linux applications that can view and/or edit these
|
|
types of files.
|
|
<P>
|
|
The Gimp ( http://www.gimp.org/ ) can edit almost every graphics format
|
|
known to man, and could be considered a good alternative to Photoshop.
|
|
You can see quite a few others at
|
|
http://core.freshmeat.net/appindex/x11/graphics.html
|
|
<P>
|
|
In regards to the video formats, XAnim ( http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/ )
|
|
can view most of these without any problem.
|
|
<P>
|
|
As for sounds, there are a plethora of programs for doing almost
|
|
anything you could think of that involve sounds. For starters, take a
|
|
look at http://core.freshmeat.net/appindex/console/sound.html and
|
|
http://core.freshmeat.net/appindex/x11/sound.html for a few of the
|
|
available sound apps.
|
|
Have fun.
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Drew
|
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<a name="bloechl4"></a>
|
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
|
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
|
|
Re: IP Masquerading
|
|
</font>
|
|
</H3>
|
|
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 12:08:58 -0800<BR>
|
|
From: Drew Bloechl, <A HREF="mailto:cheezh@mindless.com">
|
|
cheezh@mindless.com</A>
|
|
<P>
|
|
There's another HOWTO at
|
|
http://eunuchs.org/linux/ip_masq/ip_masq_content.html
|
|
I haven't tried setting up IPMasq myself, so I'm not sure how much this
|
|
good this will do, but I hope it helps a bit.
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Drew
|
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<a name="bloechl5"></a>
|
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
|
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
|
|
Re: Netscape help
|
|
</font>
|
|
</H3>
|
|
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 12:16:45 -0800<BR>
|
|
From: Drew Bloechl, <A HREF="mailto:cheezh@mindless.com">
|
|
cheezh@mindless.com</A>
|
|
<P>
|
|
This one's pretty easy.
|
|
If you're lucky, your settings are only corrupted. This is fixed by
|
|
removing the ".netscape" (or just "netscape", without a leading dot, I'm
|
|
not sure which offhand) directory from affected users' home directories.
|
|
<P>
|
|
If Communicator itself is broken, you can remove the /usr/local/netscape
|
|
directory and reinstall Netscape from the .tar.gz file that I assume you
|
|
downloaded. If you installed it from an RPM or some other sort of
|
|
package, I would read the manpage for the package manager and remove it
|
|
using rpm or dpkg or what have you.
|
|
Good luck.
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Drew
|
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<a name="david"></a>
|
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
|
|
TX errors with 2.1/2.2 kernels
|
|
</font>
|
|
</H3>
|
|
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:33:23 -0800 (PST)<BR>
|
|
From: David, <A HREF="mailto:david@kalifornia.com">
|
|
david@kalifornia.com</A>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I noticed in your mailbag several letters talking about errors on network
|
|
devices.
|
|
<P>
|
|
The correct answer is to upgrade the net-tools package. The format of
|
|
many /proc files has changed. In particular, those used by ifconfig. I
|
|
recommend browsing through linux/Documentation/Changes for everyone. I
|
|
would even suggest it be mandatory reading. =)
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
David
|
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<a name="jensen"></a>
|
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
|
|
Wheel Mouse under Linux
|
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</font>
|
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</H3>
|
|
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 20:46:58 +0100<BR>
|
|
From: "Torben D. Jensen", <A HREF="mailto:tdj@hco.kol.ou.dk">
|
|
tdj@hco.kol.ou.dk</A>
|
|
<P>
|
|
This appeared in Jan '99 issue:
|
|
<P>
|
|
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
|
|
From: James Jackson<BR>
|
|
Does anybody know how to enable the wheel on an Intellimouse under Linux?
|
|
(Red Hat 5.2)
|
|
</font></blockquote>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I am sending this to gazette as well, because it might be of general interest.
|
|
<P>
|
|
Look at
|
|
<P>
|
|
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
|
|
<P>
|
|
He might be able to help you.
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Torben
|
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<a name="bavendiek"></a>
|
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
|
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Re: I have two ideas for articles
|
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</font>
|
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</H3>
|
|
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:04:58 +0100 (CET)<BR>
|
|
From: Gerd Bavendiek, <A HREF="mailto:bav@rw.sni.de">bav@rw.sni.de</A>
|
|
<P>
|
|
You wanted to get rid of "Start" in fvwm95. Edit your .fvwm95rc like
|
|
this:
|
|
<PRE>
|
|
*FvwmTaskBarAutoStick
|
|
# here I changed Start to Linux
|
|
*FvwmTaskBarStartName Linux
|
|
*FvwmTaskBarStartMenu StartMenu
|
|
*FvwmTaskBarStartIcon mini-exp.xpm
|
|
*FvwmTaskBarShowTips
|
|
</PRE>
|
|
You might want to have a look at an article I wrote a few months ago:
|
|
<P>
|
|
<A HREF="http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue21/fvwm.html">
|
|
http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue21/fvwm.html</A>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Regarding the virtual desktop issue, have a look into your
|
|
/etc/X11/XF86Config. In the screen section look for the keyword
|
|
virtual. Change it to
|
|
<PRE>
|
|
Virtual 0 0
|
|
</PRE>
|
|
to switch off the virtual screen.
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Gerd
|
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<center>Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 37, February 1999</center>
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