Linux-Misc Digest #454, Volume #19 Sun, 14 Mar 99 16:13:13 EST
Contents:
RH 5.2 and ppp script for concentric.net ("gifford")
Re: What is the best Linux to install? ("Lord Scruff, High Lord")
Re: Help me, Linux is dying on me!! ("Karl Bengtsson")
Hylafax 4 note compiling ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: memory usage help (Juergen Heinzl)
Bus Error with http requests ("Michael Roark")
Re: rvplayer doesn't work after kernel 2.2 upgrade (mike)
Re: ls /floppy/dos: returns weird stuff...viri??? (Wayne D. Hoxsie Jr.)
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From: "gifford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 5.2 and ppp script for concentric.net
Date: 14 Mar 1999 10:57:25 PST
I'm using RH 5.2 and am able to dial my ISP using minicom. With ppp, I get
disonnected shortly after dialing in. Does anyone have the correct script
and connection procedure for concentric.net. Concentric tells me I do not
need pap, but I'm beginning to doubt them.
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From: "Lord Scruff, High Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install?
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 07:20:57 +0000
IMHO, the best one is typically the first one you can get your hands on.
Lord Scruff, HLDA
Richard wrote:
> I am trying to install the newest and the best linux on
> 100+ workstation. What would be the best one to choose
> in terms of standard, support, and setup?
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks in advance
> Richard
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From: "Karl Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me, Linux is dying on me!!
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:13:15 GMT
> You can pick up kernel upgrades for RedHat 5.0 from any one of the redhat
mirror
> sites. I think that 2.0.36-3 is available for RH5.0. This kernel will
> definitely read FAT32. I used it for months before going to 2.2.1. Make
sure
> you read the upgrading instructions carefully before attempting a kernel
> upgrade, for instance you want to do "rpm -ivh" NOT "rpm -Uvh". It's
easy and
> painless if you are careful.
Actually the problem I was having involves the fact that Linux won't boot
at all, so getting a kernel upgrade is probably not the best solution right
now...
/Karl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hylafax 4 note compiling
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 14:40:05 GMT
Has anyone successfully compiled Hylafax v4.0pxx unde Linux? I keep getting
the following error messatge:
SendFaxJob.c++:496: no matching function for call to `SendFaxClient::sendZData
(int &, unsigned char (FaxClient::)(fxStr &, fxStr &), fxStr &, fxStr &)'
FaxClient.h:273: candidates are: FaxClient::sendZData(int, unsigned char
(FaxClient::*)(fxStr &, fxStr &), fxStr &, fxStr &)
make[3]: *** [SendFaxJob.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/hylafax-v4.0pl1/util'
and also loads of error messages for libfaxutil.a, such as:
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../util/libfaxutil.a', needed by `faxrm'.
Stop.
I have tried compiling different iterations of the v4.0pxx software (and does
that take time do download and do!!!!), but to no avail.
If anyone knows whenther there is a probvlem with my environment, or simply if
this software is broken, please let me know!
Thanks,
Brad
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: memory usage help
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:15:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jack wallen wrote:
>could someone explain the following:
>
>i have 48 mbs of ram running red hat 5.2 (2.0 kernel) with AfterStep.
>if i have, say, just two eterms running and i run 'top' or 'free' it
>says that out of 46800 mem i have only 700 available. what gives? why
>is this number so low? are 'free' and 'top' valid checks for free ram?
>and if so where is all of it going? according to top the numbers don't
>add up.
Kernel memory aside Linux uses a lot of memory for buffers ... if available,
that is and as soon as you start some more things up the buffers usage
will go down. It is a simple "it's there, let's make some use of it"
strategy.
Cheers,
Juergen
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From: "Michael Roark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bus Error with http requests
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:54:57 -0500
I am runnning RedHat 5.2 on an AMS Tech laptop. The drive is half Win95 and
half Linux (1.5 gig apiece). Everything seems to work find, but I cannot
make an http request from any application. If I use Netscape, I get a core
dump. If I use lynx, the app quits quietly (best I can tell). If I use the
browser built into KDE, I crash KDE entirely.
I have plenty of RAM, plenty of swap, and plenty of disk space to spare. I
don't really know where to start to troubleshoot the problem.
Any suggestions? Has anyone seen this?
Thanks,
Michael
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rvplayer doesn't work after kernel 2.2 upgrade
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 14:52:32 GMT
Your fix worked, thanks. Do you know if this can be applied to the
pluggin as well?
Mike
Bob Schreibmaier wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Has anyone else had this problem?
> >
> >After upgrading my kernel to 2.2 (I
> >went to first 2.2.1 now 2.2.3)
> >rvplayer doesn't work.
> >The utility starts up no problem but
> >when I try to play any rm file I
> >get:
> >
> >****audio: write error: 384 bytes
> >errno: 0
>
> I had a similar problem with rvplayer. Turns out it may be fixed
> by a patch to the rvplayer binary. If you do this, be absolutely
> certain to copy your original rvplayer binary, just in case.
>
> Here's the three lines you need to type to "fix" rvplayer:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=657586 conv=notrunc
> dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=665986 conv=notrunc
> dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=702554 conv=notrunc
>
> With any luck you should now have a working rvplayer!
>
> Bob
>
> --
> +--------------------------------------------------------+
> | Bob Schreibmaier K3PH | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
> | Kresgeville, PA 18333 | ICBM: 40o55'N 75o30'W |
> +--------------------------------------------------------+
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wayne D. Hoxsie Jr.)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: ls /floppy/dos: returns weird stuff...viri???
Date: 14 Mar 1999 19:37:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
SpAmEnOt wrote:
>Latly when I look at a dos diskette from linux I'm getting some odd looking
>stuff in the output. Well, actualy only on the ones that have been in my
>A: drive while dos was running since I replaced ms dos 6.2 with caldera's
>DrDos 7.02 (from CD). Though I can't say for sure that there wasn't
>something else at the bottom of it... But the only disks that this doesn't
>happen to were put away BEFORE then. The rest of them have been in and out
>of my A: drive so much that I can't determine when this happened...
>
>Shortly after I Noticed the strange output I tested that dos was activly
>doing this as follows:
>
>
>I mounted a blank (dos formatted) disk, and looked at it with ls. It
>appeared completely blank. I unmounted and removed the diskette. I then
>shutdown. Next I booted dos. Then I replaced the diskette and did a "dir A:"
>which also said the disk was empty. I removed it. executed loadlin, and
>loged back in. But when I replaced and remouted that same disk that had
>looked empty before I let dos do the "dir A:" command now looked like this:
>
>
>
>dirksore:~# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy/dos
>dirksore:~# ls /floppy/dos
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/�<�msdos.5.0: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/��м.�x: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/�|�m�.�g: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/� |�|�.&|: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/|�i|�k|.�: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/�u
> �: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/prq�:.��: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/;|s�6.|�: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/non-syst.em: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/eplace a.nd: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/ady
>: No such file or directory
>dirksore:~# umount /floppy/dos
>dirksore:~#
>
>OR was it this one???
>
>dirksore:~# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy/dos
>dirksore:~# ls /floppy/dos
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/�4�ibm.3.3: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/�g�+.|��: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/t�w}�j.2��: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/6
> |���<|.�7|: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/<|s�<|.p�n: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/tem disk. or: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/and stri.ke: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: /floppy/dos/
>disk b.oot: No such file or directory
>dirksore:~# umount /floppy/dos
>dirksore:~#
>
>
>Can anyone tell me what I'm looking at???
I'm not sure why, but I'm pretty sure what you're looking at is the
actual boot sector of the floppy. I suppose that it is possible that is
is some sort of boot sector infector type virus. The boot sector has
pointer tables that tell the OS where to look for the root directory and
these may have been corrupted by a boot sector virus.
This is pretty much pure speculation though.
(binary characters in this post prevent PGP signing from working
properly.)
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