Linux-Misc Digest #401, Volume #19 Wed, 10 Mar 99 15:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: chown: bug or feature ("J�rgen Exner")
Debian 2.0 & Compaq PS/2 keyboard (Tim Coninx)
MySQL ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problems booting 2.2.2 with loadlin (Grant Ballard)
Re: eth0: Rx frame corrupted (Stu Lewallen)
Re: Can't get PC100 motherboard w/sound to work (Rulecoyote)
planning linux conversion (chas)
Probably Dumb Newbie Linux/NT Question (Euan B)
RedHat: /home/$USER/$USER (a bug?) (Neil Zanella)
Re: Creative Labs Awe32 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: accessing cdrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: KDE in Debian 2.1 ? (John Hasler)
Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
possible hack? (john marten)
Re: Help me with experiment (Anne Williams)
Re: No-Win Modem Situation (Ultinet-Support)
Re: Bizarre "find" process running under owner "nobody" (Dr Paul Kinsler)
VT220 xterm (Jack Holt)
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: chown: bug or feature
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:55:03 -0800
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.development.system Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I thought it had to be
> > "if you are trying to change UID to something other then it is now and
> > you are not owner of inode or SU, then deny access"
>
> You can't give files away. This would have accounting and quota
implications.
Not to mention that probably root would not appreciate gifts of SUID
binaries ;-)))
jue
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J�rgen Exner
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From: Tim Coninx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian 2.0 & Compaq PS/2 keyboard
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:05:13 +0100
Hi,
I tried to install Debian 2.0 on a compaq with a PS/2 keyboard. Installation
went perfect, but when I tried to boot from a boot disk. The keyboard wasn't
working _at all_ .
Are there special modules to install with a ps2 keyboard ??
The strange thing is that, when installing, the keyboard works fine. I suppose
the bootdisk created at install time contains the same kernel, not ?
Tim
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MySQL
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:01:10 +0000
Looking for some nice GUI interfaces for MySQL or some helpful HowTo
pages. Any recommendations?
KJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project
Date: 10 Mar 1999 09:11:43 +0000
gwizz@gwazz.* (Phil Stevens) writes:
> The first three newsgroups are in the comp.* hierarchy, which was
> not exclusive to the UK last time I checked. Pay attention, please.
Well, the original poster of the dollar price sent their article to
uk.comp.os.linux as well as all the others, so presumably they thought
their article was relevant to that newsgroup.
Followups set.
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From: Grant Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems booting 2.2.2 with loadlin
Date: 10 Mar 1999 14:31:41 GMT
Here are my symptoms:
1. I compile the kernel from the 2.2.2 source.
2. Copy the new kernel to /win98/linux/vmlinuz since i use loadlin in DOS
to boot my linux box...dont ask why...jus works better for me.
3. reboot my box and come up to the command prompt in dos.
4. change to the linux directory on c:\
5. type linux at the prompt to execute linux.bat
6. the screen goes blank then at the top says "Uncompressing kernel..Ok now
booting linux."
7. and it just sits there....nothing happens at all....i can boot my 2.0.36
with no problem using loadlin...
Any Ideas?
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From: Stu Lewallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux,comp.os.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: eth0: Rx frame corrupted
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:14:59 GMT
I would start by getting the 2.0.36 source and recompiling.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I just installed Slackware 3.6. Everything seems to work fine, except
> the network communications. When I start something that involves an
> extensive transfer of data over the network, I get loads of following
> message:
>
> eth0: Rx frame 5675 corrupted, status dbc8, cmd ae1e, next 8a23, pbuf
> c702, len 6e3f
>
> after which the system hangs/crashes. The hex numbers are different
> each time the problem occurs.
>
> Some network comms seem to be working, though. E.g. I can open an ftp
> session to a ftp server, log on, cd to another directory. But when I
> actually get the file, the problem occurs. Same with nfs.
>
> I've changed base address and IRQ of the network card, without
> success.
>
> The PC is a Dell OptiPlex 466/Le with 24 MB RAM and an Intel
> EtherExpress 16 network card. The software is Linux Slackware 3.6,
> kernel 2.0.35 (net.i)
>
> Any clues anyone ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Ivan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rulecoyote)
Subject: Re: Can't get PC100 motherboard w/sound to work
Date: 10 Mar 1999 18:13:55 GMT
I gather there might be more than one board
called pc100 . The one I have works with Red
Hat 5.2. I am trying slackware now and have't
tried it with it yet,but with Red Hat it worked
fine if you had the "onboard sound chip"
enabled in bios and disabled the pnp. I am not sure that disableing the pnp is
needed but when I did it the audio adapters were listed at the begining of
boot up with IRQ's. Mine worked with DMA 01 DMA 05 and IRQ 05.
Also I did a search for the 577 mother board and found a site with a manual if
you dont have one. Just search for M577 pc100.
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From: chas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: planning linux conversion
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:40:12 GMT
Our university has decided to search for a commercial administrive system to
replace our aging and faulty homegrown one. As an IS director trying
desperately to keep his finger on the ever changing pulse of the industry, I
have (for a number of reasons) decided to pursue a solution will run on
Linux. If I can't find one, I know there are several vendors that provide
Unix solutions. I doubt I will choose an NT solution, regardless of the
whizbang feature set of the package that requires it.
However, as a newbie who would like to join the Linux community, there are
some very basic things that I do not know. Does software that runs on Unix
also run on Linux? For instance, one of the vendors that we are looking at
has a system that runs on Oracle/Unix. From my uninformed viewpoint, it
would seem a very difficult proposition to port a complex software package
in its entirety from Unix to Linux. However I suppose in a client/server
environment (as opposed to application server) it might be a different story.
Then there is the question of which Linux pool to dive into. I understand
they are all fed from the same source, but choose I still must. And how does
this choice effect what I would install on a workstation? For instance, do I
increase the learning curve because I am trying to learn a flavor that is
better suited for the desktop at the same time I am learning a flavor that
is better suited as a server?
Thanks for your patience
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Charles Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Director of IS (SWAU)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Euan B)
Subject: Probably Dumb Newbie Linux/NT Question
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:13:28 GMT
This has probably been posted 1000's of times before, so apologies to
everyone :-).
Can Linux read/write to a NTFS partion? If so how do I set it up to
do so and do I need any other modules / patches to accomplish this.
I have RH5.0 with Kernal 2.036 (I think).
Sorry if I have wasted anyone / everyones time and thanks for any info
!!
Euan B
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Disclaimer:
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not in any way expressed by GW - Honest
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat: /home/$USER/$USER (a bug?)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:52:15 -0330
Hello,
Every know and then, when I log in, I find that my Red Hat system has
placed an extra directory under /home/$USER called /home/$USER/$USER .
I find this awfully bizarre. Has anyone been experiencing this symptom
on their Red Hat system?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Creative Labs Awe32
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:26:12 GMT
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 18:02:55 GMT, egray7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>dooogh! wrote:
>
>> Have you tried sndconfig?
>
>Can't, don't have any such program. But I have managed to figure out
>how to get some things working properly through an older message I
>found that said to put some "insmod" stuff in the
>rc.d file. That worked. Except for using the AWE32's midi
>system. For that, I need the AWE utils at
>http://bahamut.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iwai/awedrv/ but unfortunately, I
>can't figure out how to
>install it....there are binaries there, but while the awesfx one seems
>to work, the drvmidi doesn't. Think it is set for some other version
>of Linux or something. Can anyone help with doing that?
>
First you must have a properly edited isapnp.conf
file to get the awe32 initialized. There are many
copies floating around to show you what to do,
I can send you a copy if you don't have one.
Second you need to apply the patch to a clean kernel source code.
Do a "make mrproper" in your kernel source directory.
Then unpack the awe patch you got from the above url.
Then run the install script that comes with the patch.
It will find your kernel source code, and patch the sound
files. If it dosn't make sure you have a symbolic link @linux
pointing to your kernel source in /usr/src.
Next you need to recompile your kernel, with sound as
module, and enable low-level drivers for the awe.
You just do the standard kernel compilation.
make dep make clean make zImage make modules make modules_install
Don't forget to run lilo again to install your new kernel .
Then reboot.
To turn sound on "insmod sound"
To turn sound off "rmmod sound"
To check sound " cat /dev/sndstat"
If you want to use fancy soundfont banks, copy
the sfxload utility to somewhere in your path, like /usr/bin.
Then type "sfxload synthgm.sfx" ; which will load the
soundfont bank synthgm.sfx.
You can put this command in your boot.local file to
automatically turn sound on at boot time.
For example, in boot.local put:
insmod sound
sfxload synthgm.sfx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: accessing cdrom
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:26:15 GMT
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:59:28 +1000, "Peter Strong"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>the first of many many q's as Im new to Linux, but how do you access the
>cdrom, and other drives for that matter??
>thankyou :)
>
To mount various devices:
As root:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win95
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /D mounts first partition of second hard
drive
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE in Debian 2.1 ?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:18:12 GMT
I wrote:
> Not for a few hours yet. The release was postponed at the last minute.
Nick Brown writes:
> I note this morning that the FTP paths for the stable/base .DEB files
> point to the ../frozen directories, not ../stable. Hmmm.
My statement above is a bit confusing. Comes from staying up all night
with a sick horse. The postponement was from March 2 to March 9.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:08:24 GMT
Ever hear of nroff?
In article <01be6b02$57011d30$8aea689b@w784749>,
"Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All I'd have to do is to write a program to translate even a simple word
> processing file into a manpage. I'm sure that I could sell thousands.
> Alternately, even a simple X-Window based editor would rake in the dough.
>
> Why doesn't someone else do it?
>
> Norm
>
>
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From: john marten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: possible hack?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:22:10 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yesterday on my linux box (slack 3.0)i got these messages in my
/v/a/messages file:
date frodo in.fingered [pid]: connect from some.strange.domain
date frodo in.telnetd [pid]: connect from some.strange.domain
date frodo telnetd [pid]: ttloop: peer died: no such file
i got like 5 or 6 sets of these. has someone attempted to hack into
my box?
i have 2 questions:
what is ttloop?
how do i fix telnet(d) so it doesn't present a login prompt?
you can reply to me pers. will post summary. thanx!
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 03:42:20 -0800
From: Anne Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me with experiment
I have set up micro distributions for embedded controller boards and
hopefully I'll remember everything I included. My directory tree was
something like this:
\---+-- vmlinuz (stripped kernel with no modules)
|
+-- /bin --+
| +- login
| +- sh (symlink to bash, or ash if space is premium)
| +- bash
| +- hostname
| +- ls
| +- rm
| +- cp
| +- mv
+-- sbin --+- swapon
| +- update
+-- etc --+- inittab (you are going to have to write a custom one)
| +- passwd
| +- group
| +- fstab
| +- HOSTNAME
| +-- rc.d -- rc.? (custom files for runlevels in inittab)
+-- dev -- you will have to use MAKEDEV to create tty's and such
| (this is probably why you got the error you did,
| but I could be wrong)
+ -- var -- log (these are directories to serve as place holders
| +- lib pobably not neccessary but can be handy)
| +- lock
| +- lib
+-- root -- .bash_profile (custom for you prompt and such)
I think Thats everything we put in minus a custom application for data
logging, but I have problably forgotten something.
Anne
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, propsync wrote:
:Hello
:
:I have 2 partitions on my harddrive. The first one has the redhat linux
:distribution on it. On the second partition, I want to create a bare
:bones linux system by copying the necessary files from partition 1 to
:partition 2. My goal is to see just how small I can get the operating
:system. The first thing I did was to create the filesystem (ext2) on
:partition 2. My next move was to add this partition to lilo to enable
:it to boot. The third thing I did was to copy vmlinuz to the /boot
:directory that I created. When I attempt to boot from partition 2, the
:system freezes by saying "cannot find the console" or something like
:that. Can anyone help me by specifying what files I need to copy to the
:second partition to get it to boot?
:
:thanks
:
:
:
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From: Ultinet-Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No-Win Modem Situation
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:28:59 +0200
Ned Carlson wrote:
> One indication that it's a Whinemodem is the price is too good to
> be
> true...WinModems are cheaper 'cause they're missing half the
> parts.
And chews abit of your CPU's resources. Which means that if your CPU
is overloading, your modem will downgrade in communication and perhaps fail at all.
> At some point someone's gonna have to come up with a WinModem
> driver for Linux, since the price of Winmodems is starting
> to drive the other stuff off the market.
I got a legacy modem at my hands. :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr Paul Kinsler)
Subject: Re: Bizarre "find" process running under owner "nobody"
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:00:41 +0000 (GMT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Few times a day I hear my machine (Linux 5.2 RedHat) working hard without me
> doing anything special.]
> Running "top" I can se a very heavy "find" process running, consuming a lot of
> cpu and owned by "nobody".
> Does anybody knows where is the "trigger" of this process? is it some sort of
> a "cron"?, housekeeping work etc.?? Where can I find the files that
> configure and invoke this process (or others??).
Isn't this updatedb being run by cron? (man updateb, man cron)
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:52:22 +0000
From: Jack Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VT220 xterm
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I need to telnet to a VMS machine constantly. It sure would be nice if I
could find an xterm or rxvt style
terminal program that would map all the VT220 keys to the PC keyboard.
Does anyone out there know where I could find one?
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