Linux-Misc Digest #412, Volume #19 Thu, 11 Mar 99 11:13:29 EST
Contents:
Making a bootdisk for rescue purposes (Igor Zlatkovic)
Netscape on Linux -- Bookmark bug? ("Benjamin Sher")
suid root... (Jean-Yves TOUMIT)
Re: Modem Init String (Matt Willis)
Re: Matrox Mystique G200 AGP under XFree86 (lee stone)
Re: who problems (Rick Lim)
RealPlayer G2 + WMP -- Yes! ("Benjamin Sher")
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (John Burton)
Unwanted "failure" message at boot time (Charles Packer)
Re: Help,Modem (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: More bad news for NT (Jim Henderson)
Re: scsi harddisk cache ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mud Crashes (Andreas Mohr)
Re: UTMP-file? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: More bad news for NT (Harry)
Re: HD BACKUP (Andi Vontobel)
Re: problem with an libc5-application on RedHat5.2 (Mark Tranchant)
Re: termcap.h missing (Mark Tranchant)
Changing video mode (non-X) (Joerg Sprankel)
Re: Running Unix apps on Linux (Rod Smith)
"sorry, I don't recognize your terminal" (Walter Strong)
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From: Igor Zlatkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Making a bootdisk for rescue purposes
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:07:45 +0000
Hi there.
I�m new on Linux and am doing something wrong.It is up to you folks to
tell me what it is.
I made a bootable floppy for rescue purposes. The boot floppy is a
ext2fs floppy, with lilo and a few modules needed by the kernel (scsi
driver, for example). I made another floppy that contains the image of
the root filesystem that must be loaded into the ramdisk. The lilo on
the floppy has the load_ramdisk=1 option.
OK. Now: The kernel is 2.2.2. It has ramdisk and initrd support compiled
in. (it is the same kernel that boots the machine from the disk). It
boots, loads scsi module (initrd), continues, and then stops with the
following message:
"VFS: Insert the root floppy and press enter", or similar. I do that and
see kernel panic, cannot mount root.
What the kernel is trying to do, is mounting an ext2fs filesystem on the
floppy. (If I give it an ext2fs floppy in place of ramdisk image, it is
mounted and kernel continues). The kernel doesn�t even think of taking
the compressed image from the floppy and loading it into the ramdisk. It
just wants an ext2fs floppy to mount it as the root filesystem.
What I expect is the message: "VFS: insert the floppy to be loaded into
ramdisk and press enter", or similar, and when I do that, "Compressed
image found on block 0", or similar. After all is over, there should be
a ramdisk mounted as the root filesystem and the image from the floppy
should be there.
I suppose that there is some option that I missed when I compiled the
kernel.
What should be done in order to make it work as expected, or where
should I look for documentation about this?
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From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape on Linux -- Bookmark bug?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:01:47 GMT
Dear friends:
I am very curious to know whether the AUTOMATIC name sorting function (Edit
Bookmarks, View, Name) works in Linux. It does NOT work in Netscape 4.x or
Communicator 4.5 and has not worked in Netscape since Netscape 3.04, when
it worked just fine. This, in my opinion, cripples Netscape's bookmarks.
Who enjoys organizing thousands of bookmarks by name MANUALLY? Even IE can
do that. I still can't believe that Netscape has not fixed this bug in
nearly two years, and I and others have written to them many times
concerning this. Has anyone in Linux noticed it and, if so, since Netscape
is open source, has any Linux hacker managed to fixed it? Would it be easy
to fix it?
--
Benjamin Sher
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jean-Yves TOUMIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: suid root...
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:22:55 +0000
Hi all!
I'm experiencing some problems with suid root'ed files.
BTW : my distrib. is RedHat 5.2, kernel 2.2.2 (I downloaded the updates
for the new kernel and the other updates for XFree333 and so on...
Here's the problem :
I have installed shadow on my linux box. Everything seems ok except for
xlock.
I've looked at altavista and found a page (in german) on the suse web
site telling to do the following:
chgrp shadow /etc/shadow
chmod 640 /etc/shadow
chown root.shadow /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock
chmod 2755 /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock
As there was no shadow group, I created one before doing this.
But still, xlock doesn't accept the passwords and is still running as my
login (not as root).
For other purposes, I often need to have a root top running (to kill a
CGI I'm testing) so in my home
directory, I have copied top as "toproot" and set the following:
chmod 550 toproot
chmod u+s toproot
chown root:mygroup toproot
When I start "toproot" under my account, it is run as root (which is
normal).
I tried to do the same thing with xlock but xlock still runs as my
account (and not root)!
By the way, another script (sh script) (to make backups) has to be root
also and I try setting the same permissions than on "toproot" but it is
not launched as root either!
What am I doing wrong there? Why does "toproot" work and not the others?
--
Jean-Yves TOUMIT
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http://rfv-pc28.insa-lyon.fr
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From: Matt Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem Init String
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:23:27 +0000
You can talk to the modem using minicom. But...
It sounds like you are new to ppp etc. If so, this can be a difficult
thing to set up. The easiest way to get your modem working is to use a
dialer like ezppp, gnome-ppp, or xisp.
- Matt
Cengiz Oezcan wrote:
>
> Hi modem gurus,
>
> my ISP tells me that I have to send a certain init string to
> my modem and even gives me the sring. Can somebody please
> tell me ho to send an init string to a modem in linux?
> (I run suse 5.2)
>
> TIA
>
> Cengiz
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From: lee stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Matrox Mystique G200 AGP under XFree86
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:26:31 +0000
it's not there kyle!
Kyle Fink wrote:
>
> <snip>
> Try our free
> demo at: http://www.xig.com/support/demo2.html.
>
><snip>
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From: Rick Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: who problems
Date: 11 Mar 1999 13:26:33 GMT
I have a WHO problem on a new webserver PII 450mhz 128M 8Gig,
if anyone is logged in on the serial port then who gets part
way through the listing and hangs, if that same user is on
the console instead of the serial port then who works ok.
I'm using RH5.1
Anyone got any ideas???????
In comp.os.linux.misc asdf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hello there, I'm having problems with the "who" program, It works in very
: strange ways, such as:
: 1. only right after bootup, the first login.
: 2. after exiting from 1st login, "who" does nothing, "who
: /var/run/utmp" does nothing, "who /var/log/wtmp" does nothing.
: 3. once it told me that there was 3 root's logged in (no network or
: tty's open) even when there was only one.
: What can be the problem? I upgrading my system (Slackware 3.5) to a sort of
: Frankensteined system (Linux-2.2.3, glibc-2.1, and all newer packages). I
: upgraded the "who" that came with Slackware, to the one found at
: ftp.gnu.org. Can someone help me?
--
The wealth of reality, cannot be seen from your locality.
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From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RealPlayer G2 + WMP -- Yes!
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:28:22 GMT
Dear friends:
I received an official response from RealPlayer that Real G2 will be
available for Linux "soon."
Meanwhile, Microsoft has announced that the Windows Media Player will be
available in several weeks for Unix (with a specific reference to Linux,
believe it or not!). See
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/download/unix.htm
--
Benjamin Sher
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web & Index
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/msy/s/h/sher07/index.html
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:31:37 GMT
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes:
>
> > On 10 Mar 1999 16:38:51 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >...
> > >MS doesn't want to do business on unix. it could interfere with its
> > >windows sales. if i could run ms-office on solaris, then i could make
> > >a solid case to my boss to get rid of my pc running microsoft windows
> > >and get me a sparcstation on my desktop.
> >
> > but why can't you run staroffice, or corel WP suite, or applixware, and
> > still make that solid case to get rid of the PC right now?
> > It's compatible with office?
>
> it's not all *that* compatible. my documents tend to be chock full of
> equations and figures. straight text is done ok. tables survive
> usually. figures maybe. equations, not a chance. i'd love to use
> AMS-LaTeX but the US DoD requires all documentation be submitted in
> `MS-Word 6.0 for Windows' format.
>
Yup! I find it interesting that the Department of Justice is after
Microsoft for their "Monopoly", but the rest of the Federal Government
(DoD & NASA in Particular) is busy *increasing* the monopoly by
*requiring* electronic communications use an MS Office document format
(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc), and of course MS Office only runs on
Windows...;-)
Go figure...;-)
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Packer)
Subject: Unwanted "failure" message at boot time
Date: 11 Mar 1999 13:33:46 GMT
I installed Red Hat 5.1. When I boot Linux from my boot
floppy, I get
hostname: Host name lookup failure
and then the login prompt. The previous Linux I have experience
with is Slackware 2-something. I don't recall having to deal
with this then, but it was several years ago...
Incidentally, when I execute the hostname command from the keyboard,
it says
localhost.localdomain
What's going on? The answer must be too secret for "Red Hat
Linux Secrets", the weighty tome that came with the distribution
floppy, because I couldn't find anything therein about this
problem.
I hate to have a "failure" of any kind blight my morning when
I turn on my computer. How can I get rid of that useless
message?
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Help,Modem
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 22:17:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collin Park) writes:
>[posted & mailed]
>Allan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: I'm using RedHat 5.0 ,I've got my modem all set up.
>: 2 Problems
>: The first is that I've got pulse lines and not tone lines,can anyone
>: teach me how to set my modem to dial on pulse?
>I had this exact problem! Arrived at the hotel, connected
>the computer to the phone line, and ... the phone expected PULSE
>not TONE.
[...]
Add
ATDP
to your dial script. Or use minicom, and send
atdp&w
to your modem.
Michael
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From: Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:48:49 -0700
whistler @twcny.rr.com (Paul E Larson) wrote:
> Dang.... somebody better explain that to Novell then, Netware5 has a GUI on
> its server, based on something called fvwm2. By the way the workstation based
> sysadmin tools are a lot easier to use.
And fvwm2 isn't required on the NetWare 5 console to make the system
run. Your point is?
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: scsi harddisk cache
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:39:41 GMT
And if it's off, does anybody know how to turn it ON
under linux ? Something similar to EZ-SCSI for windows..
best,
Anton
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rene Windiks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> does anybody know, how one can check if the disk
> cache of a (scsi) harddisk in enabled or disabled?
> Does exist a linux tool for this?
>
> Best regards,
> Rene Windiks.
>
> --
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From: Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mud Crashes
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:09:26 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm running an LP mud on RH 5.2 96megs of ram on a P166 with a 3.2gig IDE
> hard drive. My mud keeps crashing with an error message of "segmentation
> fault" does anyone have any ideas why??
man strace
--
Andreas Mohr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: UTMP-file?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:44:23 GMT
On 05 Mar 1999 23:55:43 -0800, Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Armin Wenz) writes:
>
>> when starting emacs and doing the first keystroke I get an
>> errormessage like:
>> while opening UTMP-File: No such file or directory
>>
>> Lately I got the same Error when booting from my Boot-Disc
>>
>> Can anybody tell me, what this UTMP-File is and where it should be -
>> or better, what does this Error-messi (really) mean?
>
>NOTICE: Please request help on comp.os.linux.help or one of the other
>linux newsgroups, leaving this one for miscellaneous discussions.
>I, for one, am only answering couple of help requests at most per day
>on this newsgroup, just for the opportunity to post this notice.
It may be that his ISP, like mine, doesn't carry the
comp.os.linux.help newsgroup at all. Too bad if he needs help 'cause
he doesn't have anywhere to ask if he follows your suggestion.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Development Services
Toronto Dominion Bank
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 07:30:24 -0500
> Just curious: what exactly *do* you advise using NT for? Taking
> out file/print serving and corporate DB seems to take out the bulk
> of NT "as a server" installations :-)
Actually, while I wouldn't advise NT for the corporate database, I'd
not have any problem recommending it for a departmental DB. NT's
performance and scalability may not match that of AS/400s and Unix
systems, but it's easy to program with Visual Studio.
However, I'd definitely recommend NT is on the client, where NT4
should be used in place of Windows 98, and this requires a few NT
servers acting as domain controllers.
The reason I said I wouldn't recommend Linux for corporate DBs is
that I'd never gamble my business on a platform that's not supported
by a Fortune 500 vendor. If your Linux system goes belly up and you
can't fix it, who do you call? With HP and IBM offering Linux
support, though, things may change.
Harry
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From: Andi Vontobel <"andi.vontobel(RxExMxOxVxE)"@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: HD BACKUP
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:11:02 +0100
Jack Cheng wrote:
>
> Hello, I'm using a 3GB HD with RH 5.2, the HD not enough for me right now, so
> I need to change the HD from 3GB to 10GB.
Why to change? Don't you have the possibility to built in a 2nd
Harddisc?
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with an libc5-application on RedHat5.2
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:35:18 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Start it from a terminal window to see any messages produced.
If you're able to, strace it ("strace <command>") and see if you can
work out why it crashes from that output - perhaps a library it can't
find...?
Mark
Michael Hammann wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am running RedHat 5.2 with Kernel 2.2.3 and have installed all
> product-updates I could find on the RedHat-ftp-update-Server. Now
> I have a CAD-application (MicroStation95) using libc5 and it was
> running well for several weeks on RedHat. But since some days it
> don't runs anymore. At startup of the application I hear my HDD
> working for a short time, that's it, no errormessage (I can't find
> anyone). The same binary is running well started from my parallel
> installed SuSE-6.0-Linux.
>
> Is there anyone, who have an idea, how I can solve this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael.
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: termcap.h missing
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:36:48 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A.G. wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> Can't compile procinfo:
>
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -c procinfo.c -o procinfo.o
> procinfo.c:28: termcap.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [procinfo.o] Error 1
>
> Any idea what's missing in my system?
>
termcap.h, at a guess! You need to install either termcap or ncurses.
Mark.
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From: Joerg Sprankel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Changing video mode (non-X)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:01:51 +0100
how can I change the video mode (standard 80 cols x 25 lines) on my
RH5.2 system ? I want to use something like 132*40. I am currently not
using X-Windows (on this system).
Thanks
Joerg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Running Unix apps on Linux
Date: 11 Mar 1999 15:19:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <01be6ba2$9cdc2660$7be94dd8@sher07>,
"Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear friends:
>
> Could someone please direct me to an article explaining very briefly how it
> is possible to run Unix applications on Linux? Is it easy, more or less
> automatic? A one-paragraph answer will be sufficient for the time being.
> Very curious.
The question you've asked is imprecise, so the answer will vary depending
upon precisely what you want to do:
- If you want to take the source code to an existing Unix program and
recompile it for Linux, this will probably be fairly easy, but it
depends on the details of the source code.
- If you have a binary for a program for another Unix running on x86
processors, you may be able to do it, but it depends on the exact Unix
variant for which the program was written.
- If you have a binary for a program for another Unix running on something
other than an x86 processor, forget it; it won't work.
Remember, "Unix" isn't some single OS like Windows 95. Unix comes in many
different variants running on many different hardware platforms, so saying
"a Unix program" isn't really all that much more informative than saying
"a program."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Subject: "sorry, I don't recognize your terminal"
Date: 11 Mar 1999 00:46:46 GMT
That's what I get when I try to telnet to my account from the console.
It also adds that it can't recognized my "linux" console. Now, I have no
problem telneting in from within an Xterm, so my question is... What kind
of terminal does Xterm present itself as being, and how can I convince a
console telnet session to present itself as such? VT100 emulation would
be ideal. I tried changing a terminal setting in /etc/profile, but that
didn't seem to make a difference.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Walter
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