Linux-Misc Digest #500, Volume #19 Thu, 18 Mar 99 11:13:12 EST
Contents:
Sendmail doesn't work ("Karl Bengtsson")
Re: printer HP 870cxi setting ? (Benjamin HERZOG)
Re: 10G disk and fdisk/diskdruid problems (Michael George)
Re: upgrade to 2.0.36 kernel (Mark Tranchant)
Route question... ("Janus N. T�ndering")
Where's the db2diag.log file in Linux? ("Toolman")
Re: Two single ide cards (Dr Paul Kinsler)
Re: 10G disk and fdisk/diskdruid problems (The Graphical Gnome)
Re: Disk Druid can't see Logical Partitions (Benjamin Smith)
Re: 10G disk and fdisk/diskdruid problems ("Fredrik Persson")
CD-I (Jim Harvey)
Re: Freecell (DJ Delorie)
Re: accessing cdrom headache (Yoram Benchetrit)
Re: Version of gcc? ("Peck R. Wood")
Re: Linux 2.2.3 and Ultrix 4.3: incompatible NFS? (Georg Schwarz)
Re: Help me, Linux is dying on me!! (Ulf Bohman)
Re: Public license question (Woodrow Sawyer)
Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix (Johan Kullstam)
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From: "Karl Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail doesn't work
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:37:02 GMT
Well I guess the title says it all...
When I installed Redhat 5.0 I left all the automated services on, just to
be sure I didn't mess something up. Now, only two days later, I'm already
having trouble with it.
When I boot Linux, and it lists all the programs starting up, it freezes at
sendmail.... nothing happens.
I can type things, and I can reboot the machine, but that's just about it.
When I start by typing "linux single" at the "boot:" prompt, I can get into
the system, but I don't know what to do next. Could someone tell me what to
do please? How can I stop sendmail from starting automatically? And how do
I fix it if I need that service?
(Just before this error started occuring, I installed Netscape 4.51 and I
also tried to setup a pppd script according to the ISP-hookup HOWTO)
Thanks,
/Karl
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From: Benjamin HERZOG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer HP 870cxi setting ?
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:16:46 +0100
Hello ,
I had the same problem with the same printer. It works for me with the driver
'HP Laserjet', or 'Djet500'.
Try it, and unmark the option 'headers' or somefin. in printtool. Try to change
the options in the dialogbox 'chose a printer', and you'll see it'll work.
But the problem is that the driver is not exactly adapted. So ... when i print
ps files via gs command, and whn i print somefin under X, i always get first a
page with ugly signs on it. Then it prints the good pages.
Another problem because of the little change between drivers is that it can't
print the extreme bottom of the page.
If that can't help you, try with those drivers and tell me more about what you
get.
Benjamin HERZOG
(Si tu parles fran�ais, dis le moi)
Yoram Benchetrit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Might someone explain me how to setup HP 870cxi for printing ?
>
> I have installed Red-Hat 5.2 and used printtool to setup this printer
> but it does not appear in the printer list proposed.
> I have tried all the HP printer with no success, a simple ascci file
> cannot be printed (ugly character are printed instead)
>
> This is my understanding, that this GUI generate an appropriate /etc/printcap
>
> Can someone point me to a location where I can find such /etc/printcap
> for HP870cxi, or anything else I should take care to have my printer work....
>
> Assuming I can set my printer to print ascii file from the command line,
> can someone explain me what needs to be done to print postscript file.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help,
> yoram
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael George)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 10G disk and fdisk/diskdruid problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:27:45 GMT
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Fredrik Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>1) I got confused by the fact that you can have 1MB = 1024 kB OR 1MB = 1000
>kB. This made me think that not even Partition Magic saw the entire disk.
Yes, this is very annoying! I have a 9.1Gb SCSI IBM disk and fdisk only
partitioned 8.6Gb of it. I thought I was getting ripped off for 500Mb until I
did the math. When they sell a disk, 1Gb == 1,000,000,000 bytes, when you
partition a disk, 1Gb == 1024Mb, 1Mb == 1024Kb, and 1Kb == 1024 bytes.
Keeping that in mind will save some of you the embarassment I suffered on one
of the mailing lists... :)
-Michael
--
Reply address is completely bogus. The real address is:
GEORGE <at symbol> MINTCITY <dot> COM
but in lowercase, not UPPERCASE
--
No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it
all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly
the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these
republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it
ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under
every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the
best.
-- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: upgrade to 2.0.36 kernel
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:33:21 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Argh! Read the documentation that comes with binutils!
You need to remove the encaps program (either /usr/bin/encaps or
/bin/encaps). The kernel make process uses its existence to deduce the
version of objdump, which has changed since you upgraded.
Mark.
Geoff Manns wrote:
>
> I'm trying to upgrade my kernel from 1.x.x to 2.0.36 but run into problems
> when compiling the kernel. I upgraded my gcc to version 2.7.2.3 and
> binutils 2.8.1. When compiling the kernel I receive a message saying
> 'illegal option k for objdump'. I believe the objdump file is part of the
> binutils package. Do I need to upgrade to binutil 2.9 to get around this?
> TIA...
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From: "Janus N. T�ndering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Route question...
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:29:06 +0100
Hi!
Is it possible to set up a route (with route) so that all traffic is passed
to a proxy/firewall machine?
And if possible .... how can it be done??
Thanks...
Janus N. T�ndering, Denmark
--
Please remove the two 'X' in my reply address.....
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:16:52 -0500
From: "Toolman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where's the db2diag.log file in Linux?
Couldn't find this log file anywhere? Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong
spot?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr Paul Kinsler)
Subject: Re: Two single ide cards
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:02:44 +0000 (GMT)
Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, cards with 2 IDE channels work fine, but they use 2 IRQs, typically
> 14 and 15, one for each port. Most likely, your cards are configured to
> use the same IRQ, so if you have jumpers, modify one of them. Also, make
> sure they don't use the same I/O address.
Thanks for confirming that.
So now all I need to do is find out from a list of unlabelled jumpers
on an old IDE card which ones do what I want. The newer card has
info printed on it, but nothing about changing irq or io address. :-/
--
==============================+==============================
Dr. Paul Kinsler
Institute of Microwaves and Photonics
University of Leeds (ph) +44-113-2332089
Leeds LS2 9JT (fax)+44-113-2332032
United Kingdom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WEB: http://www.ee.leeds.ac.uk/staff/pk/P.Kinsler.html
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From: The Graphical Gnome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 10G disk and fdisk/diskdruid problems
Date: 18 Mar 1999 13:57:32 GMT
Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Fredrik Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>1) I got confused by the fact that you can have 1MB = 1024 kB OR 1MB =
>>1000
>>kB. This made me think that not even Partition Magic saw the entire disk.
>
>Yes, this is very annoying! I have a 9.1Gb SCSI IBM disk and fdisk only
>partitioned 8.6Gb of it. I thought I was getting ripped off for 500Mb
>until I did the math. When they sell a disk, 1Gb == 1,000,000,000 bytes,
>when you
>partition a disk, 1Gb == 1024Mb, 1Mb == 1024Kb, and 1Kb == 1024 bytes.
The difference is cause by something else.
There is a big difference between a formated and unformatted disk. The
unformatted disk is 9.1 and formatted 8.6.
If it was really the difference in Gb, I should ask a refund, because Gb is
defined as 1024*1024*1024 bytes.
--
The Graphical Gnome ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
============================================
UDDF -> http://www.gnomehome.demon.nl/uddf/index.htm
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From: Benjamin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Disk Druid can't see Logical Partitions
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:21:44 GMT
Sounds like you have one or both of two problems. Firstly, if you have a
large hard drive you need to give Linux some specific information about
it at boot time bia LILO. Look on your drive or in its manual (or the
info section of Parition Magic if you have it) and get the number of
cylinders, heads and sectors. Then pass this information to LILO at boot
time... for example, using my drive geometry I would type this when the
LILO prompt comes up:
linux hda=1557,240,63
If that works for you, you can make this a permanent option for LILO by
adding an "append" line to your /etc/lilo.conf and rerunning /sbin/lilo.
See the man page for lilo and lilo.conf.
Secondly, your problem may be the type of extended partition you have.
Microsoft uses a new extended partition type (they couldn't possibly
stick to standards) which is type f I think. Linux seems to choke on it
in my experience. If your extended partition is of type f, change it to
type 5 using Linux fdisk. Then try disk druid again.
> Peter DeSimone wrote:
>
> Well, I removed the Linux partitions. But Disk Druid still does not
> see any of my logical partitions /hda5 and above for my extended
> partition /hda2.
>
> Under Fidsk, it says the following:
>
> (/hda2) Partition 2 has 2 different, physical/logical endings.
>
> Physical (1023, 254, 63) logical (1231. 254, 63)
>
> So what does this mean? How do I make my existing FAT32 logical
> partitions and the free space visible under Disk Druid, as they appear
> in Fdisk. Fdisk shows the proper blank locations.
>
> Peter
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Peter DeSimone
> Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web Address: Http://www.bigfoot.com/~desimonp
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: "Fredrik Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 10G disk and fdisk/diskdruid problems
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:26:58 +0100
The Graphical Gnome wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>If it was really the difference in Gb, I should ask a refund, because Gb is
>defined as 1024*1024*1024 bytes.
First I just wanted to reply "Oh yeah? Says who??" but that's not good
manners.
MB and GB can be defined in a number of ways.
I'd like to have it this way:
kB = 2^10 = 1,024 bytes
MB = 2^20 = 1,048,576 bytes
GB = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes
However, there are people with another opinion. Check this out:
"According to the IBM Dictionary of Computing, when used to describe disk
storage capacity and transmission rates, a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes in
decimal notation." (I copied that from www.whatis.com.)
Or, even better:
"According to the Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary, a megabyte means
either 1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes. " (What the f**k does it mean
then???) (Same source.)
But the bottom line is; be aware of the problem! It could save you hours and
hours of work to find out why the darned partitioning program won't
partition your harddrive correctly. Ten seconds and a calculator will do the
trick.
/Fredrik Persson
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From: Jim Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.publish.cdrom.software,alt.comp.periphs.cdr
Subject: CD-I
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:26:09 -0600
I would like to know if anyone has successfully ripped the MPEG video
stream from a CD-I disk and copied it to a recordable disk. Will any
software available make an image copy of a CD-I movie to hard drive so
it can be edited?
--
Jim Harvey - Tellabs Operations Inc. - SAT
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:10:05 -0500
From: DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Freecell
Jeffrey L Straszheim wrote:
>
> Howdie
>
> So I think that I can convince my wife to start using
> Linux (and get rid of that darn Win95 partition I've
> hanging around) if only I can provider her with a
> version of the game Freecell that runs on Linux. I
> actually found one with the KDE distribution, but
> guess what: she doesn't like it because the UI is more
> difficult than on windows. (Actually she's right, in the
> windows version it's much easier to move the cards
> around and such.) Anyhow, does anyone know
> where I might find this game?
The Ace of Penguins
http://www.delorie.com/store/ace/
This is what I wrote for *my* wife for the same reason :-)
Full drag-n-drop, plus auto-intelligent shortcuts via
double clicking and spacebar. Includes other windows-clone
games too.
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From: yoramb@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Yoram Benchetrit)
Subject: Re: accessing cdrom headache
Date: 18 Mar 1999 14:51:51 GMT
Hi,
What are /mnt/cdrom permission and owner before doing the mount ?
Is it really/already 700 for user 5379 and group 235 ?
If yes, I would change it to be 755 for user root and group root
Then re-do the mount, and see if this does not change the permission
and owner.
It is possible that you have made a NFS mount or untar something
in /mnt/cdrom from an archive that was containing /mnt/cdrom
with these owner ...
just a guess,
hope this help,
Yoram
PS: you may check that uid 5379 and gid 235
are not in /etc/passwd and /etc/group
Daniel Naughton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> If someone could help me with this one, I'd appreciate it. When I first
> installed RH52, this worked okay, but I may have hosed something up over
> the past few weeks.
> This cdrom mount is driving me nuts. I can mount the cdrom using the
> "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" as root. But is changes the
> owner and read/write permission to this:
> [root /mnt]# ls -l
> total 3
> drwx------ 13 5379 235 2048 Mar 10 21:21 cdrom
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 6 1996 floppy
> Now, when I exit as root, I can't read the directory (cdrom) anymore -
> who is owner 5379 and why does he have control over my cdrom directory?
> :(
> I've tried to execute the mounting as just a user:
> [dan@ dan]$ mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
> mount: only root can do that
> If this helps, my /etc/fstab looks like this for the cdrom:
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,ro
> 0 0
> My only work around is to copy the cdrom onto my hard drive, change the
> read permissions, and then view is as non-root. Thee's got to be a
> better way. Any help would be appreciated.
> Dan Naughton
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From: "Peck R. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Version of gcc?
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:05:07 GMT
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postmaster wrote:
>
> sorry for the typo, it should be 3c905b
>
> postmaster wrote:
>
> > you did not mention which kernel you're using, but if it is 2.0.36,
> > which comes with redhat 5.2, 3c590b is not supported. go to
> > http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/rh52-hardware-intel-12.html
> > for the network cards supported.
What version kernel does work with the 3c905b? I run slackware and
kernel 2.0.35. It seemed to work but would come up in 100baseT instead
of 10baseT. I couldn't get it to switch back.
> >
> > for your question, gcc -v or gcc --version
> >
> > Jason White wrote:
> >
> > > I'm having trouble compiling my kernel for the network card I want to
> > > use (cCom 3c905b). I suspect part of the problem might be the version
> > > of the gcc I'm using. I can't remember what version it is from when I
> > > installed it. How can I find out and how can I upgrade it if need be?
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.3 and Ultrix 4.3: incompatible NFS?
Date: 18 Mar 1999 15:33:33 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz) writes:
>I've just upgraded a PC with RedHat Linux 5.2 installed from kernel 2.0.36
>to 2.2.3. I've noticed the following problem:
...
I now found out that the problems go away when I explicitely set
rsize=8192,wsize=8192 in /etc/amd.conf. Judging from this month's messages
in the am-utils developers' mailing list I assume it's an NFS related bug
in Linux 2.2.X.
--
Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: Ulf Bohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me, Linux is dying on me!!
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:33:54 +0100
>
> > Partition Check:
> > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 <hda5>
>
> One of them, (probably hda4) is the 'extended partition' in which hda5 and
> higher live in.
>
Not probably. It hda4 is the extended partition. If, for example, hda2 was the
extended it would look like:
hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5> hda3 hda4
/Ulf
>
> HTH.
>
> -- Michael "Soruk" McConnell
> Eridani Star System -- The Most Up-to-Date Red Hat Linux CDROMs Available
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amush.cx/linux/ Fax: +44-8701-600807
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,gnu.misc.discuss
From: Woodrow Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:44:55 GMT
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." wrote:
> In article <7cmo28$1kl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Lynn Winebarger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Europe as a whole is under a different regime when it comes to civil
> >matters. I believe, in fact, it's called a "civil law regime". I can't
> >remember what the US's system is called, but it's on different footing.
>
> "Common Law," as in "The Common Law of England," to which all, including
> the King, were subject. While (most of?) the rest of Europe is "Civil
> Code," tracing to the Napoleanic Code, which traces to codes
> published by Roman Emperors, the Common Law has no underlying "code,"
> but came from judges trying to figure out what the law *already* was.
> Roman law, when available, did influence the common law. English
> speaking countries almosty universally are Common Law today.
Except in Louisiana, which, because of its French history has some local
law that is based on Napoleanic Code.
Let's also not forget much of south western United States where state law
is influenced by Spanish law.
YMMV, IANAL.
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix
Date: 18 Mar 1999 09:59:19 -0500
Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> the native Britons weren't Keltae either they were also late
> arrivals.
wtf is a native really? doesn't it simply mean that you were born
there? all you need to do is have lived there since birth... kelts,
picts, angles, saxons, danes &c have all been in great britain long
enough to have offspring.
now for some real fun consider `native american'.
and next i'd like to take up `african american'. what if you are of
african decent yet not american? into what race would you place your
native kennian or congolese? what if you are an arab or afrikaner and
are a naturalized citizen of the united states, are you the wrong sort
of african?
--
johan kullstam
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