Linux-Misc Digest #538, Volume #19 Sun, 21 Mar 99 00:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: linux x-window screen settings???? (Charon)
knews: How to stop downloading all groups every time? (Nick Dreyer)
reboot necessary after fdisk befor mke2fs will work? (Nick Dreyer)
Re: Create *.tar.gz (Enkidu)
Is there a "modem activity light" for X (Nick Dreyer)
Re: Problems with upgrade to 2.2.3 (Jeff Japes)
Network configuration question (Michael Paul)
Free Linux TUX Stickers (Matthew)
Re: Help with remote session (Keith E. Jennings)
Re: License question ("No Spam")
Re: Uninstall ("William H. Pridgen")
Re: Linux SLEUTHS! HELP! (Dan Nguyen)
Libc for RedHat (Meister)
Re: Linux SLEUTHS! HELP! (Keith Keller)
Re: Netscape "from" weird (Michael McConnell)
Re: What's going on with comp.os.linux.announce? (Michael McConnell)
Re: Libc for RedHat (Tommy Willoughby)
dwww still does not handle #place_on_page html tags (Nick Dreyer)
Re: file does/doesn't exist?????? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Screen blanking stops modem! (HELP) (jiva)
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From: Charon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux x-window screen settings????
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:14:26 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi there all...
>
> I am using redhat 5.2 and needed to now how the heck configure x-windows to
> run on my machine by with my screen at 800 by 600 at least, because now i am
> using it at 600 by 480 (i think)and evrything is to big, it is quiet
> difficult to work with that resolution.
>
> I'd appreciate very much if someone could help me with this.
>
> YAYO
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
I'm using RH 5.1, but you might want to try Xconfigure or XF86Setup
(seems to have more options) if they're on your system.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Dreyer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: knews: How to stop downloading all groups every time?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 03:20:21 GMT
I just installed the knews newsreader on my Debian (slink) system.
When starting knews this message appears on the terminal window from which it
is launched:
knews: Couldn't determine domain name. Posting will not be possible.
Once knews is up and running, it displays
Connected to server; reading active file...
and takes about 3 minutes to pick up all newsgroups from the server.
Next time I go into knews, the groups get down loaded again. Why are they not
being saved?
Finaly what does the message about not finding domain name mean? Clearly the
news server is found, since it keeps downloading all the group names, and I
can ping it of course also.
Please tell me what I am missing? Thanks in Advance for any suggestions, |\|.
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Hey you know something people? They won't go for no more
I'm not black, but there's a whole lotsa times Great Midwestern hardware store
I wish I could say I'm not white. Philosophy that turns away
(1965, Frank Zappa in Trouble Every Day From those who aren't afraid to say
-> Freak Out) What's on their mind -- The left
behinds
Of The Great Society.
(1965, Frank Zappa in Hungry
Freaks, Daddy
-> Freak Out)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Dreyer)
Subject: reboot necessary after fdisk befor mke2fs will work?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 03:23:55 GMT
Funny thing the other day. I have to admit this was the first time I
consciously went through all the command-line steps to format a Linux
partition, so maybe this is expected behavior; it just seems a little odd to
me . . .
After creating a 2GB linux primary partition /dev/hda4 (the two others are
DOS/FAT, one is OS/2 boot sector, on first 2GB of 4GB IDE drive) with fdisk I
could not get mke2fs to format the thing until a reboot. (My Linux resides on
hdc, booted via OS/2 boot manager on hda.)
Am I missing something here, or is this just some fluke occurrence?
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Hey you know something people? They won't go for no more
I'm not black, but there's a whole lotsa times Great Midwestern hardware store
I wish I could say I'm not white. Philosophy that turns away
(1965, Frank Zappa in Trouble Every Day From those who aren't afraid to say
-> Freak Out) What's on their mind -- The left
behinds
Of The Great Society.
(1965, Frank Zappa in Hungry
Freaks, Daddy
-> Freak Out)
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From: Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Create *.tar.gz
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 15:09:22 +1200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tina wrote:
>
> How do I create a tar archive? I have a heap of files I
> would like to put into a single archive: filename.tar.gz.
> How do I do that? I've read the tar --help screen but that
> didn't make me any wiser ;)
>
You should try "man tar". It will give you a lot more information!
Of course, it may still not make you any wiser.. it's pretty
obtuse.
Cliff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Dreyer)
Subject: Is there a "modem activity light" for X
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 03:33:46 GMT
I find it helpful to be able to see if anything is passing through the modem,
but with an internal device, the only way would be via some kind of software
monitoring program. Does something like this exist for X that would show at
least receive and transmit acitvity on some kind of virtual lights?
Thanks in advance for any ideas,
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From: Jeff Japes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with upgrade to 2.2.3
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:29:56 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I just installed Linux-Mandrake 5.3 on my home computer, and then I used the
> RPMs at the Linux-Mandrke ftp site to upgrade to kernel 2.2.3. Since doing
> so, however, I have had some problems:
<snip ethernet card probs>
> 2. Whenever I try to automount a floppy or cd, I get an error message, "You
> must specify the filesystem type." Under 2.0.36, the automounter worked
> fine, and it would autodetect the filesystem type. I checked etc/fstab and
> it still lists the filesystem type as "auto," just like it did under the
> previous kernel.
> 3. last, does anyone know how to get my Linux side to see my windows (fat32)
> partition? I can mount it, and it shows up as the correct size, but I get
> the error message "filesystem type (msdos | umsdos | vfat) is not supported
> in this kernel."
I think 2 and 3 are related here. The problem seems to be that the
kernel you have installed does not include support for msdos/windows
filesystems. This is usually compiled in to the kernel (or as a module)
when you create your new kernel.
As for how to fix it? Well you could compile a new kernel from source.
Or maybe there is another version of the kernel with support available.
I have 0 experience of RPM kernels so i won't comment.
Jeff
--
Jeff Japes
http://www.wylm.demon.co.uk/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Paul)
Subject: Network configuration question
Date: 21 Mar 1999 03:33:16 GMT
I've decided that I'm going to install a Linux system from scratch for
the learning experience of it. I've made a boot/root disk set to
get the system running with, but I'm having trouble with programs like
ftp and telnet, which I need in order to download software.
When I try to run ftp from this rootdisk, I get a message saying
"ftp: ftp/tcp: unknown protocol". When I try to run ping, I get
"ping: unknown protocol icmp".
I have an /etc/protocols file that lists tcp, udp, and icmp, among
other things. (I just copied the one from my Debian installation.)
Do I need to do something to make the system read the file? Or am I
still missing something?
Please send any replies to my email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I
unfortunately don't get to check usenet as often as I'd like.
--
Mike Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.worldaxes.com/paul_fam
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:06:36 +0000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith E. Jennings)
Subject: Re: Help with remote session
Date: 20 Mar 1999 15:49:56 GMT
David Z. Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: You have to be running an X server, but if your local xhost succeeded
: than you must be. :-) Try running the program not in the background;
: does it produce any error messages?
actuallly I tried it again and the problem raised it head when I
exported the DISPLAY variable. I got "scandalous:0.0 not a
valid identifier" or some such nonsense. Now I know my machine
won't be listed on any kind of DNS or whatever, but I still should
be able to run remote sessions (shouldn't I???)
thanks
keith
--
Keith E. Jennings
THE Funkomatic
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From: "No Spam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: License question
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:08:35 GMT
> > Are we allowed to sell distributions of Linux?
>
> Yes, but you have to be careful to not include any proprietary
> software your distribution may include. Many of the Linux
> distributions come with some amount of non-free software. The
> documentation should spell out any restrictions on the non-free
> components of the distribution.
I think as a slackware user, I would say netscape is the only program that
might need extra checking. But I know for example that software like
wordperfect or mysql need a special license for that.
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From: "William H. Pridgen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Uninstall
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 22:27:48 -0600
Karl Bengtsson wrote:
>
> David Stillie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i inl�gg
> <7cv506$a5f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > I'm giving a computer to my Grandmother so she can surf the net, and I"d
> > like to uninstall Linux and return to Windoze. But can't seem to get rid
> of
> > the thing! Please help!
>
> Just boot from an old Windows bootdisk (which has your cd drivers on it)
> and run fdisk to remove all partitions. Create one new partition using 100%
> of availible space. Reboot and install from the CD (or disks, if that is
> what you have). At least, that's what I did last time I had to get rid of
> Linux.
>
> /Karl
It might also be necessary to run "fdisk /mbr" from DOS.
--
Bill Pridgen
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Linux: Platform for a new millennium
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux SLEUTHS! HELP!
Date: 21 Mar 1999 04:32:09 GMT
In alt.os.linux kj0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
: (Can the system record when someone presses the off or reset button?
: I realize this is unlikely, but I thought I'd ask anyway.)
Here's a hardware solution. Since the off and reset buttons are
mechanical, open up the case and disconnect them. These machine
should be running all the time, so turing them off shouldn't be a
problem. If the terminal locks up you should be able to login
remotely to reboot. If you actually need to turn off the machine,
perhaps your motherboard as APM stuff to turn off the power on a
halt. If all else fails pull the plug.
Almost forgot, in your /etc/inittab disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL reboot.
Amd maybe dust for finger prints.
--
Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -La Rochefocauld, Maxims
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From: Meister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Libc for RedHat
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 16:46:54 +1200
Greetings,
does anyone know where I can download the latest version of libc for Red
Hat linux?
LinuxQuake requires it :)
thanks in advance,
============================================================
Greg Trounson Student
University of Otago
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New Zealand
============================================================
I don't suffer from insanity - I enjoy every minute of it
( To email, change 'mz' to 'nz' )
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From: Keith Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux SLEUTHS! HELP!
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:49:44 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Better yet, if you can afford the down time, simply
remove that machine for a day or two, and tell
user X that it's in for repairs. That will force
him/her to use a different machine, and you can
see what happens.
If you can't afford the down time on the machine
in question at all, remove it and set it up in
a locked room where X can't get to. Disallow
incoming telnet/rlogin sessions, so that your
grumpy user can't wreak havoc remotely.
It may be possible to track X's processes using
a crontab entry that greps ps for this particular
user; maybe something like 'ps u |grep X'? Have
the output sent to an account on another machine.
(There may be more efficient ways of getting
this info.)
Good luck....
--Keith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ted Staberow wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I don't think you are looking for a technology solution but rather a
> policy solution. If X uses the same machine for every session (this
> seems to be the case based on you description) have him use a different
> machine. Tell him somthing like "We have been having problems with that
> machine and are not sure of it's stability. Could you use another one
> this time?" Be prepared to move any data or account info he needs to the
> other machine. If the problem moves with him, record it. If moving him
> is not a difficult thing, have him work on a different machine for every
> session. Keep track of the crashes.
>
> --
> Ted Staberow
> Prairie Networking, Inc.
>
> We Like GNU Ideas.
>
> kj0 wrote:
>
> > I'm the acting (and *not* *terribly* *knowledgeable*) sysadmin in an
> > academic lab. We have a small farm of linux boxes for running long
> > (usually overnight, but often multi-day) computation jobs.
> >
> > We're having a truly bizarre problem. Quite frequently, this one of
> > our linux boxes, call it A, mysteriously dies in the middle of the
> > night (we know the approximate time when this happens because one of
> > us has a demon that periodically checks the status of all the machines
> > on the network and reports when machines go down). Looking at the
> > times on A's '/var/log/messages' file after the "crashes", we notice
> > that invariably it is the same one user (we'll call him X) who shows
> > up as doing stuff on A, although there is typically a lag of 2-3 hours
> > between the crash times and the time of first activity, at least as
> > recorded in '/var/log/messages'. X has a history of resenting sharing
> > equipment, and resorting to passive-aggressive methods to discourage
> > others from using his favorite pieces of equipment. But he's sneaky,
> > and always leaves himself room for deniability. We think that this
> > time he wants to discourage others from running long jobs on "his"
> > machine by making it effectively unstable.
> >
> > We really don't have much recourse (other than installing secret video
> > cameras to catch him red-handed), but we would like to collect the
> > strongest circumstantial evidence that we can about this, in case we
> > have to present formal charges against X.
> >
> > Any advice on how to do this would be most appreciated.
> >
> > (Can the system record when someone presses the off or reset button?
> > I realize this is unlikely, but I thought I'd ask anyway.)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > KJ
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From: Michael McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape "from" weird
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:23:48 +0000
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Martin Soderstrom wrote:
> I recently installed Netscape 4.08 in hopes of centralizing my
> browser/mail/news under Linux. Everything is working pretty good, but
> for some reason my "From:" id is not what I entered in the Identity
> preference.
>
> I entered the usual [EMAIL PROTECTED], but when I post, my address is
> being listed as Martin Soderstrom <"name"@domain.comIncoming mail
> sepoprver:>
>
> Anybody know what this is all about?
Netscape's attempt at an anti-spam measure? ;-)
-- 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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From: Michael McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's going on with comp.os.linux.announce?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:29:59 +0000
On 21 Mar 1999, Gary Johnson wrote:
> Christopher R. Carlen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I just looked at it, and every message is repeated four times. Do other
> > people see this too?
>
> Yes, I've been watching them accumulate at about one set a day since
> Thursday, I think. My news server is in Oregon.
I'm seeing it too. My newsfeed is from Demon Internet, UK.
-- 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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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:02:44 -0800
From: Tommy Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Libc for RedHat
Meister wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> does anyone know where I can download the latest version of libc for Red
> Hat linux?
> LinuxQuake requires it :)
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Dreyer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: dwww still does not handle #place_on_page html tags
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 03:26:31 GMT
I am not sure if this is even a bug. Could not find reference in bug reports,
so maybe my setup of dwww (version 1.4.3.4-0.2 just upgrade with debian 2.1 --
"slink") is not configured correctly, but the following annoyance has been
with me ever since I first started using dwww many months ago:
Reference tags in html docs of the form
<A HREF="#somewhere">somewhere_on_a_page</A>
throw you out to the directory containing the html document. As the following
conversion created by dww illustrates, the reason seems to be a badly formed
URL, since the actual name of the file is missing:
________________________________________________________________
If original file /usr/doc/lynx/lynx_help>Lynx_users_guide.html contains:
<li><A HREF="#Help"></A>
________________________________________________________________
then dwww creates:
<A HREF=
"http://home/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/doc/lynx/lynx_help/#Help"></A>
Since #Help is not a file in the directory, but rather a tag in
Lynx_users_guide.html, a browser like lynx throws you into the directory
instead containing the html document.
This is quite annoying, as you don't know until you follow links what's going
to happen, and if you are thrown out of the file, it is hard to reorient
yourself. I realize dwww is a workin-progress and that whatever generates the
cgi script may have a hard time figuring out the file name, but fixing this
problem sure would make this otherwise great tool (dwww) so much more useful.
Thanks for whatever suggestion you might have.
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Hey you know something people? They won't go for no more
I'm not black, but there's a whole lotsa times Great Midwestern hardware store
I wish I could say I'm not white. Philosophy that turns away
(1965, Frank Zappa in Trouble Every Day From those who aren't afraid to say
-> Freak Out) What's on their mind -- The left
behinds
Of The Great Society.
(1965, Frank Zappa in Hungry
Freaks, Daddy
-> Freak Out)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: file does/doesn't exist??????
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 05:14:06 GMT
why is it insecure? right now, i have to admit, i have it at the very
beginning of my path for every user including root (not a problem for
now because I'm not on a network with my linux machine).
On 20 Mar 1999 22:24:27 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>>i may use windows, but i'm not stupid, i added "." to my path the day
>>i installed linux. any other ideas?
>
>And you may have added it wrongly.
>Try using the full path name to the command
>/usr/local/wp8/wp
>say to see if it works.
>Or try
>./wp
>when you are in its directory. If they work, but wp does not then . is
>NOT in your path
>(echo $PATH)
>
>PS having . in your path is considered insecure. If you have it put it
>at the end of the path, not the beginning. For root, do not have it at
>all
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From: jiva*@humboldt1.com (jiva)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Screen blanking stops modem! (HELP)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 05:04:18 GMT
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999 22:06:52 +0000, Nicholas Pappas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
You might check your BIOS for power management options. It might be possible
to have it monitor the com port and not 'sleep'. Or in any case disable power
management
> I was wondering if anyone might be able to give me an idea as to why
>this happening.
>
> I just installed Red Hat 5.2 and have very little 'extras' set up --
>screen savers included. My screen still blanks out after (about, or
>quicker then) 10 minutes of inactivity, and when this happens my modem
>seems to enjoy just stopping.
> The connection is not lost (unless dropped by my ISP) and the
>download normally resumes as soon as I un-blank the screen. I have
>found that this is mainly a problem in Netscape Navigator, as I can
>sometimes get my ftp program to continue -- but it too has stopped
>responding when the screen goes out.
> I have a 56K PCMCIA modem in a desktop reader. I get a great
>connection and very good speeds through the modem, it is just this darn
>blanking problem that irks me.
>
> If anyone has any insight on this I would be very interested in
>hearing them! Or, if someone can tell me how to turn off that blanking
>program I might be able to forget about it. :)
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Nick
>
>
"Goodbye" said the fox to the Little Prince. "And now here is my secret,
a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can rightly see,
what is essential is invisible to the eye"
jim bilderback -- please remove the * if you'd care to email.
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