Linux-Misc Digest #677, Volume #19 Wed, 31 Mar 99 20:13:09 EST
Contents:
Is there a utility to image-copy a Linux disk? ("Warren Odom")
Re: Magic sysrq key (Rob Komar)
Re: setting up a routing table (Brian McCauley)
Libraries hosed (Yan Seiner)
Epson Stylus Color II + Samba 2.0.3 (Redhat 5.9 Linux) = no print ("ICeeQueue")
Re: Closing Dell Latitude Cover Crashes Linux (taniwha)
Re: Newbie: Can't uninstall Linux ("Troy Wolf")
Re: Need help disabling screen blanker ("Thomas S. Urban")
Keystrokes (was Re: Help with .tar.gz) (Hal Sadofsky)
Web-Browser on Sparc-Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Why does my Epson Stylus Color II keep spitting out garbage?!!$%@*& ("GTK+")
Re: Help with .tar.gz ("the krneki")
Re: I killed my Linux box (Bill Voight)
Re: Help with .tar.gz ("Henry Ostrowski")
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (NF Stevens)
Re: modem ttys0 problem (bfei)
Re: linux killed modem! (Robert Heller)
Re: exchange client that runs on LInux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Computone ALC Communications Controller with Red Hat Linux 5.2? (Chriseli de Rama)
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From: "Warren Odom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is there a utility to image-copy a Linux disk?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:29:07 -0600
Sorry if my ignorance is showing, but I just want to make a more-or-less
image copy of my Linux disk, for disaster recovery (and do it quickly).
Sort of like DISKCOPY on DOS, but it would be nice if it let me copy to a
different size disk. Or it wouldn't even have to be a block-for-block image
copy, as long as the same software could restore it to the original disk, in
the original format, on demand.
Does such a utility come with Linux, or is such available elsewhere?
Thanks for any info -- Warren
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Komar)
Subject: Re: Magic sysrq key
Date: 30 Mar 1999 18:07:42 GMT
NF Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I crashed X yesterday evening and tried to recover using the new
: sysrq key facilility in 2.2.x kernels. It all seemed to work,
: except that I could not swap back from graphics mode to text
: mode, so I eventually had to reboot.
:
: When I checked /var/log/messages after rebooting there are
: entries for the disk sync, killing all processes on the
: terminal etc. There is even one from mgetty saying it
: got an invalid character in the login name.
:
: Am I missing something? Is there a way to force the screen
: from graphics to text mode?
Did you try forcing the keyboard out of raw mode (Alt-SysReq-r)
before trying to change to a virtual console? I'm not sure
if it works, and hopefully won't have to find out anytime soon ;).
Cheers,
Rob Komar
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: setting up a routing table
Date: 30 Mar 1999 18:53:12 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> We have two offices, A and B. I would like both A and B to have Internet
> access. Both offices will have dynamically assigned IP addresses through PPP.
> Also, the two offices will need to have a TCP/IP network going between them.
> I plan on using PPP for this also because of the ease of setup. So, we have a
> PPP link going from A to B also (the link should be able to be initiated by
> either).
>
> I assume I need to setup a routing table with each machine in both A and B.
No. You could set up the tables on every machine but usually clients
on a LAN just have a permanent route set to their default gateway
(router). It is up to the router to decide what to do next. If your
link A-B is handled by the same router as you link to the internet
that is the end of the story as far as the clients are concerned. If
there are separate routers then the default router can use ICMP
redirects to inform the client that it should be using the other router.
> If the address is not in the table (not in A or B), the data will be sent
> over the Internet PPP link. This means if A has data not meant for any
> machine in A, then looks in the table and determines it does not go to B, it
> will go to the Internet. Also, if group B has data and the address does not
> belong to group A, then send it over their Internet link.
That is all correct.
> Also, I would like to enable Windows Networking over this link, as in having
> SAMBA setup in both A and B. So, group A could print to group B's printers (a
> cheap way to fax). Any problems with this? Anything to keep in mind?
Samba on A and B won't do the job unless one is defined as the WINS
server and all the clients know about it.
If you have NT servers you can set up mutliple redundant WINS servers
but Samba won't work this way because Microsift have not realeased the
WINS replication protocol.
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Libraries hosed
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:46:37 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RH 5.1
All right! I finally figured out what's causing the xterm windows to
fail and the login to bomb. Somewhere I got a bad bunch of libraries
installed in /lib. Now here's the weird thing:
I copied a fresh library to /lib (I forget which one) and xterm came
up. Then I ran ldconfig to regenerate the cache and xterm quit working.
So what can I do to get fresh libraries installed? Will the RH update
hose any of my config? Can I just install the libraries off the CD? If
so, How?
This is my production server, so I can't really afford to play around
with this thing.
Any help at all will be greatly appreciated; I have spent way too much
time on this already :-(
Thanks
Yan
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From: "ICeeQueue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson Stylus Color II + Samba 2.0.3 (Redhat 5.9 Linux) = no print
Crossposted-To:
linux.samba,linux.redhat.misc,comp.protocols.smb,comp.os.linux.networking,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,comp.periphs.printers,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:10:32 GMT
Hello all...
I'm having difficulties printing to my Samba networked printer from my
Windows NT Workstation SP4. The printer is physically connected to my
Linux box, and is /dev/lp0 and lpd is running and everything. Below is my
SMB.CONF file that SWAT has created for me:
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from ******
# Date: 1999/03/30 14:03:35
# Global parameters
netbios name = Server
server string = Samba Server
update encrypted = Yes
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
printcap name = /etc/printcap
os level = 65
preferred master = Yes
dns proxy = No
hosts allow = 192.168.0.
[root]
comment = Root directory
path = /
read only = No
[cdrom]
comment = CD-ROM
path = /mnt/cdrom
read only = No
[wwwroot]
comment = WWW root
path = /home/httpd
read only = No
[Epson Stylus Color II]
path = /tmp
print ok = Yes
==================
I can see the shares and use the mounted directories, and I added the
printer with "Epson Stylus Color ESC/P2" driver from Windows NT 4.0. The
Linux printtool I configured as "Epson Stylus Color - any". I also tried
the Uniprint driver but that didn't work.
If anyone can help me, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you. :)
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From: taniwha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Closing Dell Latitude Cover Crashes Linux
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:30:17 +0000
Is there a chance that your system does a save-to-disk when
you close the cover and when you repartitioned for Linux
you trashed part or all of the DOS partition that the save
to disk is done to? - you could be writing over your
swap or something causing running programs to be corrupted
Paul
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From: "Troy Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Can't uninstall Linux
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:38:22 -0600
Simply use a "zero-filling" utility. These utilities write a zero to EVERY
position on the hard drive. Zero-fill utilities are usually part of the
hard drive manufacturer's utility disk. These can be downloaded freely from
Quantum, Western Digital, Seagate, etc websites. A generic utility that I
use is called wipe.exe. It is a DOS utility. Make a DOS bootable floppy
and place wipe.exe on it. Search for "wipe" on http://www.shareware.com.
-Troy Wolf
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<7du72s$lj2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I installed Red Hat Linux and now need to install DOS on that machine. I
have
>reformatted the disk, but each time the machine boots, Linux comes up. I
have
>even deleted all of the partitions, and unless the DOS floppy is in the
>machine, Linux boots.
>
>HELP!
>
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From: "Thomas S. Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help disabling screen blanker
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:53:38 GMT
Desmond Coughlan wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James S. White) writes:
>
> > How does one go about disabling RedHat's blanking of the screen?
>
> If you mean in console mode, it's in /etc/login.defs (or at least in
> Slackware it is). If you're asking about X: sorry, don't know.
>
if you're asking about X, check out the xset command man page
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Sadofsky)
Subject: Keystrokes (was Re: Help with .tar.gz)
Date: 31 Mar 1999 12:22:39 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Thomas S. Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>You are of course completely correct in that it is a matter of
>preference. I prefer it my way because I am lazy and I can enter
>
>zcat package.tar.gz | tar tvf -
>
>to see what's in the package - most create their own directory,
>but some don't and will clutter up your pwd. Then 7
>keystrokes: <up-arrow> 4 x <left-arrow> <backspace> <x>
>gives me:
>zcat package.tar.gz | tar xvf -
>to do the unpacking. I'm sure I could do it faster if I
>knew the emacs key bindings available for the history
>editory in tcsh, but I'm not so lazy that I want to
>learn anything new ;)
Well, if your preference is _really_ for fewer keystrokes,
tar tzvf package.tar.gz
saves 8 keystrokes out of what you typed above, and for unpacking
<up-arrow> <CTL-A> 6 x <right-arrow> <backspace> <x> requires
two more, for a net savings of 6.
Hal Sadofsky
Save Keystrokes! Collect them! Trade them with your friends.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Web-Browser on Sparc-Linux
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:49:29 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everybody,
I'm looking for a Web-Browser that I can use on an Sparc Station 5 that is
running on Sparc-Linux (Redhat 5.2).
Is here anybody, who can give me a hint, what is the best one to use on
such a system?
The bad thing is that one can't compile Netscape by himself. :-((
Bye
Ralf
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From: "GTK+" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why does my Epson Stylus Color II keep spitting out garbage?!!$%@*&
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs.printers,linux.samba,linux.redhat.misc,comp.protocols.smb,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:06:09 GMT
Help me please!!!! Whenever I turn on my printer, and lpd is running on
my Linux machine that it is hooked up to, it just spits out garbage
forever. How do I clear the memory on the printer so that it doesn't spit
out all this crap anymore?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Also, I was wondering if anyone knew how to correctly use Windows NT
Workstation 4.0 (SP4) as the client for my Samba 2.0.3 shared printer. I
have Zenographics SuperPrint 5.0 installed on the NT Workstation, and it's
supposed to allow network printing.
UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The least help I could get is HOW TO CLEAR the memory
on my Epson Stylus Color II inket printer!!!! Please help me I need to
use the printer to print out my TAX RETURNS BEFORE APRIL 15!!!
Thanks to anyone who can help me! :)
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From: "the krneki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with .tar.gz
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 02:25:37 +0200
Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Thomas S. Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > zcat users-guide-1_0_4_tar.gz | tar xvf -
>
> The exact syntax seems to be determined by personal preference. I, for
> one, prefer `tar -zxvf users-guide-1_0_4_tar.gz`. It seems that little bit
> more simple and quick.
in most cases is the most simple method use of Midnight Commander
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From: Bill Voight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: I killed my Linux box
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:04:28 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forgot to mention that /bin/sh in RH5.0 is really just a link to bash.
Wonder if that's part of the problem?
BV
Nadine wrote:
> Something went horribly wrong when I tried to install StarOffice 5.0 the
> other day.
>
> I'm running RedHat 5.1 (upgraded here and there) and KDE 1.1. StarOffice
> needed some glibc libraries that it supposedly couldn't find on my pc.
> Since that glibc .tar file that came with the program was to be
> installed in a StarOffice subdirectory, I thought what the hey, install
> it anyway.
>
> 1. From an X Windows terminal I run /bin/sh to then run the script that
> installs the libraries (as is said in the readme).
> 2. The libraries don't install successfully, and the shell stops
> recognizing commands.
> 3. I can't even exit X properly, and when I press ctl-alt-backspace it
> comes back to a command line login instead of kdm.
> 4. Try to shutdown:
> /bin/shutdown: file not found
> 5. I do the forbidden: press the power button.
>
> Needless to say, nothing cleared up magically when I rebooted. The
> normal Linux boot messages scroll up the screen, until it gets to this:
> Partition check
> hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>
> Then nothing. Blank. You enter commands and there's no reaction, not
> even an error message. I tried to use RedHat's rescue disk and get
> nothing but an error message, too.
>
> So, what do I do? Should I start looking for an upgrade disk? Is all my
> data loss (well, the stuff that wasn't backed up yet?) Please help me.
>
> Sob. Sob. Boo-hoo.
>
> --
> Nadine
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.dsuper.net/~anacaona
> http://www.chenpeyi.com/tww
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Best damn mammy portrayals this side of the Atlantic!!!
> --- paraphrasing Ms. Watching:
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From: "Henry Ostrowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with .tar.gz
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:28:21 +1000
I asked for help. And I got it about .tar.gz Now how do I cancel the
message?
Henry Ostrowski wrote in message <7ds8k9$n30$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>I hope someone can help me. I am new to linux and am determined to beat it.
>I cant seem to unzip a [ .tar.gz ] or [ -tar.gz ] file I am doing
>(( gzip -d users-guide-1_0_4_tat.gz | tar -xvf- )) and the only result I
>get is that the .gz disappears off the file.
>Henry
>
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:14:39 GMT
Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Useability for whom? The unix philosophy is that a little
>> learning up front will pay huge dividends in the medium
>> and long term.
>
>The Unix philosophy???
>
>Making software unintuitive doesn't make it better and doesn't endow
>the user with additional skills. It's just poorly designed from the
>user's point of view.
However making software intuitive _can_ make the software
less efficient or effective. There is also that little matter
of what "intuitive" really means. The analogy I like is that
of someone going to a foreign country. They can either take
a lot of pictures with them and when they want to buy something
pull out the right picture and point to it while waving some
money. Or they can learn the language and ask for what they
want. Pretty pictures may be more "intuitive" but learning
the language is, in the long run, much more efficient.
>
>Why do Unix people get so needlessly defensive all the time?
Robustly presenting out point of view is not "being defensive".
> Much
>Unix software suffers from poor usability - not all of it, just a
>lot of it. Now you're telling me that's a good thing? You don't hear
>me say how stable Win 95 or Win 98 is compared with Linux? What's
>the point in denying the truth?
That's because Windows' instability is a demonstrable fact. The
optimum trade-off point between intuitiveness and power is,
however, a matter of preference.
Norman
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From: bfei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.question,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: modem ttys0 problem
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:00:29 -0500
GEE!! Dopey me.. my bad.. I forgot the case sensitivity!! I guess I overlooked the
uppercase. Guess still have a little DOS/WIN95 in my blood... ;)
Thanks though..
Bill Unruh wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bfei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]I have a problem configuring my external modem in my linux box. I know
> ]i'm suppose to configure my modem to use /dev/ttys0 (com1). Whenever i
> ]do a setserial to /dev/cua0, i get the status of that device. However,
> ]whenever I try to set the configuration or get the status of /dev/ttys0,
>
> That is ttyS0, not ttys0, whichis something else entirely. The case of
> letters is crucial in Linux as in all Unixes.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux killed modem!
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:42:12 GMT
bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Wed, 31 Mar 1999 07:02:03 -0600, wrote :
b> i finally put mandrake on my home cyrix box. it is w98/linux. after i
b> set up modem using kppp it dialed out once and then it wouldn't work
b> again. i rebooted and went thru set-up but kept getting modem not go. i
b> booted to w98 and it too said modem not working. re-installed
b> modem...ditto. its an internal x2 clone with ti chip. not a winmodem. i
b> guess i got spoilt running linux at work on network and thought modem
b> wouldn't be an issue. now i'm wondering if it was some config setting or
b> something or just a hinky modem. i don't want to keep putting modems in
b> there and having them die. i got the modem list from
b> www.o2.net/~gromitke/winmodem.html, but i'm still concerned that i'll
b> assassinate a new one. suggestions! thanks, bg
Get a good external modem, like a US Robotics.
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b> (_)/ (_)
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b>
b>
b>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: exchange client that runs on LInux
Date: 30 Mar 1999 22:54:47 PST
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> fyi:
> Why not use the mail assistant to forward the mail to your linux box??
Exchange does such forwarding in a braindead way. At work, I forward
my mails from my Exchange account (using Inbox/Outbox assistant) to my
account in a unix server from which I use fetchmail to pull my mails
to my linux desktop. The problem is that when I finally receive the
emails in my email client program, it looks like the mail came from me
(my Exchange address) because Exchage mangles the email header to
remove the info about the real sender and replace it with my own
address. So if I reply, it will be sent to me :-( I don't know
of any good solution to this super-annoying problem.
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From: Chriseli de Rama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Computone ALC Communications Controller with Red Hat Linux 5.2?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:11:48 -0800
hi all!
is there anyone in this group who has successfully installed (and has been
satisfied running) an ALC Communications Controller from Computone on a
Red Hat Linux 5.2 machine? i am currently looking over a Wyse Series 6000i
Model 665 server and thinking of replacing its SCO Unix 3.2v4.2 with Red
Hat 5.2 and then convert it into a print/fax server. if so, could you
please tell me what driver you've used?
thanks! :-)
chriseli
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