Linux-Misc Digest #746, Volume #19 Mon, 5 Apr 99 02:13:09 EDT
Contents:
READ THIS ("Robert Smith")
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... ("Stuart Fox")
Re: Strange RealAudio problem with IP masquerading (Scott Sykes)
RPM Troubles... (DMDx86)
binary for mod_fastcgi.so? (Doug Lerner)
Re: About Redhat Distribution (Enkidu)
RealPlayer 5.0 under RedHat 5.2 -- problems ("Karsten M. Self")
cerco email ("Polox")
Re: SuSE 6.0 and ppp (Muzh)
Re: backup .tgz file > 2gb ("Kevin Kultgen")
Re: How do you hang up pppd? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... ("Stuart Fox")
Modifying the path (Easy quest) ("No Spam")
Re: New Microsoft News (John Brock)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? ("Stuart Fox")
cdda2wav (Curt Hesher)
Re: What is the best Linux to install? ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
LILO - Win98 Boot problem ("TonyG")
Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform" (Peter Samuelson)
Audio in Linux ("Mathew Joseph")
Re: SuSE 6.0 and ppp (Bill Unruh)
Re: RPM Troubles... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
non-root /tmp, Re: /tmp screws up printing if moved? ("Cameron Spitzer")
ASUS XG-DLS, Intel MS440GX, Supermicro S2DG2, or Iwill DGL200? (Michael Hucka)
Re: hackers (insomniac)
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From: "Robert Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: READ THIS
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 20:23:04 -0400
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From: "Stuart Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:38:18 +1200
>
>My linux boxes don't crash, no excuses, no waffling, they just don't.
>
So what exactly do your Linux boxes do when a disk controller fails -
magically keep working?
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From: Scott Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Strange RealAudio problem with IP masquerading
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 19:52:30 -0700
Rohan Oberoi wrote:
> Would appreciate any suggestions...
>
> I have an RH5.2 (2.0.36) system running very nicely on a Compaq
> Prolinea 486. It's set up to do IP masquerading to allow three other
> machines to connect to the internet via a cable modem.
>
> The problem is with RealAudio. ".ram" files that contain references
> to pnm:// URLs -- I haven't found one that works yet, and I've found
> many that don't (all the audio files on news.bbc.co.uk, for example).
> They all give "Connection to server has timed out".
>
> All other RealAudio files, including the channels on the main
> RealAudio screen, seem to work just fine from the three client
> machines (Win boxes) on the local class C network. (I've noticed
> .ram files beginning with ftsp:// that work fine, for example.)
>
> Here's the setup I have:
>
> # 1. Kernel networking options:
> CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
> CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
> CONFIG_INET=y
> CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y
> CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
> CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
> CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
> CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y
> CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
> CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW=y
> CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y
> CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y
> CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
> CONFIG_IP_ROUTER=y
> CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
> CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
>
> # 2. /etc/rc.d/rc.local startup script:
> /sbin/ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.1
> /sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.0
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio
> /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
> /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
> /sbin/ipautofw -F
> /sbin/ipautofw -A -r udp 6970 7170 -c tcp 7070
> # (I guess the ipautofw is not really necessary -- but I'm trying
> # everything ... and yes, /sbin/ipautofw does exist...)
>
> I'm not seeing anything in /var/log/messages that would indicate a
> problem, and lsmod gives:
>
> DEFAULT:[~] lsmod
> Module Pages Used by
> ip_masq_raudio 1 1
> ip_masq_ftp 1 0
>
> I don't know enough about what distinguishes pnm:// .ram files from
> other kinds of RealAudio content to figure out why they're failing...
> if anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them.
>
> If you're replying by email, please remove the obvious from my
> address.
>
> Regards,
> Rohan
>
>
Are you linking to those file types via Netscape?
If so that maybe not set up... I am having similar problems as I have
Realplayer working but it is not linking to Netscape properly
Tell me what is says in your applications setup for realplayer in
Netscape... Please?
Good luck!
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DMDx86)
Subject: RPM Troubles...
Date: 5 Apr 1999 03:45:24 GMT
Recently I have installed an RPM package, but after I decided I did not
like the
package, I attempted to de install it with Glint. It claimed that the package
was not
installed! A query and a verify reported that it was indeed properly installed
(I could
run the program as well). I then tried doing it manually with RPM (rpm --erase)
and
I get the same message about it not being installed. As a last resort, I did a
rpm
--rebuilddb then tried the above once more, but it did not acheive any thing at
all. I
am running Red Hat 5.2 on a Linux 2.2.5 kernel. If you have any answers, I'd
appreciate to hear them.
Thank you.
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From: Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: binary for mod_fastcgi.so?
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 11:39:21 +0900
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anybody have a link for a downloadable executable for
mod_fastcgi.so (no longer included with Apache 1.3) to run under a
Pentium-based Linux box? I am unable to compile the source with apxs.pl.
Thanks!
Doug Lerner, Tokyo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About Redhat Distribution
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 13:23:44 +1200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"���@�@" wrote:
>
> After you install RedHat, is it a must that rpm should be use to
> install all other software?
>
No, unless you are replacing or updating a package which was already
installed by RPM. Things could get confusing otherwise.
Cliff
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From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RealPlayer 5.0 under RedHat 5.2 -- problems
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 03:47:43 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm having trouble with rvplayer 5.0.0.35 on a RedHat Linux 5.2 system,
i686, 2.0.36 kernel. Installed from the RH 5.x RPM at Real.com's site.
I _can_ play audio on the system as confirmed by catting an au file to
/dev/audio.
When I attempt to play a file, or open a URL, the rvplayer status bar
indicates it's playing, but I get no sound. Clicking on the
forward/reverse buttons will generate a momentary burst of sound, ditto
when I close rvplayer.
I seem to recall running into this problem before, under a different
version of rvplayer, about a year ago. I don't recall how I solved the
problem.
I've tried running this under both WindowMaker and TWM, with and without
the WindowMaker CD Player dock applet (WMRack) running. I don't _think_
I've got a KDE or Enlightenment audio server running, but if someone can
tell me what to look for I'll check (esd isn't running, kaudio doesn't
appear to be).
I've also tried downloading the 2.2.2 patch mentioned in several Usenet
posts. Doesn't seem to do anything.
(http://www.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/)
Lib dependencies all check out OK via 'ldd'.
Audio card is an Ensoniq AudioPCI, I'm running 4-Front's OSS sound
driver for it:
cat /proc/pci (partial):
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq AudioPCI (rev 0).
Slow devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=104. Min
Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
I/O at 0xff00.
cat /dev/sndstat:
OSS/Linux 3.9.2f (C) 4Front Technologies 1996-1999
License serial number: xxxxxxxxx
Options: APCI
This copy of OSS is licensed to Karsten Self
Build: 2.0.36
Card config:
Ensoniq AudioPCI / Sound Blaster PCI at 0xff00 irq 9
Audio devices:
0: Ensoniq AudioPCI (DUPLEX)
1: Ensoniq AudioPCI (playback only)
Synth devices:
Midi devices:
0: AudioPCI
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: Ensoniq AudioPCI
Problem has also been submitted to Real's tech support.
TIA
--
Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
Welchen Teil von "Gestalt" verstehen Sie nicht?
web: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
SAS/Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html
8:03pm up 6 days, 10:01, 7 users, load average: 0.39, 0.51, 0.41
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From: "Polox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cerco email
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 02:49:07 +0200
Qualcuno mi dice come sapere le e-mail degl'utenti del mio stesso provider ?
Grazie.
--
==============**************================
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Muzh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.0 and ppp
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:18:56 +1200
pppd must be setuid root to work.
Do a ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd.
It should read something like =
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root dialout 116020 Jan 20 17:03 /usr/sbin/pppd
Note the s in the permissions; also chgroup to dialout (must be root to
do this)
To setuid root, do a chmod u+s /sbin/pppd.
"Jaro B." wrote:
> =
> Hello, my question:
> =
> it is possible under SuSE 6.0 to start the ppp-up-script as
> 'normal'-user (not as root)? My 'normal'-user is in the
> dialout-group, the pppd is executable for all, but it does
> not work! The error message:
> /usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege.
> (pppd check the root-user? Under SuSE 5.3 not at all!)
> =
> Any suggestion are wellcome!
> =
> J.B.
> =
> --
> =
> **************************************************************
> Jaroslaw Br=FCst
> eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (job)
> **************************************************************
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From: "Kevin Kultgen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: backup .tgz file > 2gb
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 04:34:48 GMT
Try:
tar cvf <dir> - | rsh <targetmachine> "(cd <target dir>; tar xvBpf -)"
It may need to be altered for local use and Linux. It works under Solaris.
I haven't had the need to use it under Linux yet.
The concept is to tar it up and send the result across the network where it
is promptly untarred.
Kevin Kultgen A+
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jens Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi,
>
> i want to copy the content of one hardisk to another harddisk, the
> second disk is smaller than the first one, because of this i have to
> compress the files. the problem with gzip an tar is, that the .tgz file
> will become bigger than 2gb and linux can't handle this (the system runs
> with an intel cpu). i think the easiest way ist to copy and gzip the
> files the same time, but i've no idea, how i can do this. i've tried
> afio -cZ, but i've got only errors.
> any ideas?? or knows somebody a packer for linux like arj, that can
> start a new file after a specified size??
>
> thx,
>
> jens
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: How do you hang up pppd?
Date: 5 Apr 1999 04:35:39 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tonny Sejr Kromann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>You can make a script containing the command:
>"kill `ps aux | grep pppd | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'` "
killall pppd
is easier.
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From: "Stuart Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:25:29 +1200
>
More often the patches get put
>into the next release and we have to pay for them!
Crap - heard of a service pack????
>
>> >>> 3. A properly configured NT box will not Blue Screen, and will be as
>> >stable
>> >>> as a well configured Linux box.
>
>Yes - as long as you don't let a user on it - because one lowly user can
>screw up the system by clicking on "upgrade" on one lowly program.
>
Again crap
1. You don't let users log in to a server - they don't need to and if you
let them, you are probably being a little stupid as an admin
2. If a user does (which you can of course restrict on NT) an ordinary user
won't have rights to make modifications that will bring the server down e.g.
apply a service pack, upgrade an application
3. Most users wouldn't be able to find out how to upgrade an NT box - they'd
still be looking for the Word icon.
>Some asshole = user
Or a stupid admin - and there are plenty (in both MS and Linux camps). My
motto: Trust No One
>
>If you let them near the computer, they can/will do things simply
>because they can, and there is nothing you can do about it except do
>backups. Even if the system has no floppy there is still a strong
>possiblilty that the user can/will put something into their area that
>the system will load and subvert your careful setups.
>
So why would you let your users near a server.
>Windows is for techies - the problem is that it doesn't have any way of
>distinguishing a casual user from the chosen administrator. That's what
>things like 'root' on a Unix/Linux system is for. The user should
>_NEVER_ have access to root - or the things it can do - except through
>carefully crafted SETUID type programs, and should never need it. The
>problem with the Windows programming paradigm is that it has no true
>concept of such priviledge.
You obviously have no idea of NT - there is a user called "administrator" -
you may have heard of it. Also, a group called administrators. They have a
set of rights that users don't have...
You may be confused with Windows 95 which is not worth defending
Stu
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From: "No Spam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modifying the path (Easy quest)
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 03:55:22 GMT
How can we add something to the path. I installed java and I would like all
my users to be able to use it without having to go to /usr/local/jdk117...
What I am doing is: I have a .profile file for every user with the path
modified there, but what if I have a 100 users (i don't).
I tried /etc/ld.so.conf, but doesn't work.
On the other hand, what if I want only certain groups with groupid 200 for
example to access to that directory.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brock)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: New Microsoft News
Date: 4 Apr 1999 22:46:12 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mykool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use Linux on a daily basis, but I
>still use NT for certain things that. I like microsoft and linux.
This reminds me of a great cartoon I saw last year. It shows a
cocktail party where one guest is saying to another "Personally I have
the greatest respect for both Ken Starr and Bill Clinton". The caption
is "guaranteed conversation stoppers".
--
John Brock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Stuart Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:34:10 +1200
I'm confused - what exactly is so complicated about Windows. If they are
intimidated by WIndows, what chance do they have with Linux????
>First, it's the opaque complexity of the Windows environment. It's
>intimidating. It's a very poor environment for beginners. Second,
>it's the old conundrum about the more help people get, the more they
>expect. I remember reading a physicist's account, in another forum,
>of how nobody in his department seemed capable of configuring emacs;
>they were always after him to edit their .emacs files for them. We're
>talking about physicists! The fact was, they just were used to having
>him do it for them.
Just because they're physicists, doesn't mean they will be able to use a
computer any better. They will have a certain set of tasks that they need
to achieve on their machine, and anything else will probably not interest
them.
Stu
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From: Curt Hesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdda2wav
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 03:23:41 +0000
I'm trying to rip some songs from CD and I'm getting the first second of
the following track at the end of the current track. I'm using cdda2wav
(cdda2wav-0.9beta10-1) and I'm using the command:
cdda2wav -x -B -O raw -D /dev/sga
I've tried different cdrom drives, and differnt formats (raw and wav).
These drives are on an adaptec AIC6360 scsi2 controler (came on the
CT1770 Sound Blaster 16.) My CDROM drives are an IBM CR-503-B and a
Matsushita of the same model number. If anyone has an idea of what is
wrong please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install?
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 22:17:26 -0500
TurboLinux is by far the easiest to install and configure. No Doubt
About it.
Diane Adams wrote:
>
> Roberto Alsina wrote:
>
> > In article <Lw4N2.65$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 05:54:49 -0700, Paul Bary wrote:
>
--
Michael H. Collins < Linux: The Official OS >
http://www.linuxlink.com < For The New Millennium >
Powered by TurboLinux 2.2.3 Fear the Penguin
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From: "TonyG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO - Win98 Boot problem
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:11:36 +1000
Hi all,
I have been modifying lilo.conf so that Windows98 would be the default boot
OS, however in the process I have managed to corrupt the Win98 boot sector.
I can no longer boot into Win98 or access the C drive from Linux or from a
DOS boot disk. I have tried the FDISK /MBR command but have the same
problem. The SYS command also does not recognise the C drive as a valid DOS
disk.
Is there any solution besides reformatting and re-installing Windows98?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Samuelson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform"
Date: 4 Apr 1999 23:17:44 -0500
Reply-To: Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Jeremy Crabtree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> Okay...I was really hoping for a way to past from, say, tty1 (an
> actual console, not an XTerm) to someplace in X.
I thought about this some time ago. (I am quite adept at thinking of
ways to implement features I am likely never to get around to acting
on. Sometimes I think I am the ultimate hacker wannabe.)
One way to do this would be to provide an API within gpm -- or possibly
a helper app -- that would bridge the X selection and the gpm
selection, keeping them in sync as one changed. I originally thought
it would involve simply signalling gpm to open such-and-such an X
display, and would be pretty simple. Then I started thinking and began
to foresee problems:
- getting permission to connect to the X server. Have to have an
easy way to pass GPM the right MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 or whatever.
- handling a server reset, i.e. user logs out and/or back in. This
is why gpm can't just connect at startup time.
- this only complicates the issue gpm already has to deal with, to
wit: deciding when to use the mouse and when to ignore it.
Currently it has to suspend operations when you switch to a VC with
X in it. The gpm/X incest I'm proposing would make it worse.
> Again, I was hoping for something that would work on a regular
> console, and paste into X...a pipe dream, I know, but still...
Not a pipe dream, more likely something on the lines of sockets....
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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From: "Mathew Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Audio in Linux
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 23:25:08 -0000
Hi,
I got a Cyrix MII 300 machine with an onboard ES 1869 Audiodrive sound card.
I have installed Redhat 5.2 Workstation installation class in my machine
along with Windows 98.
When I try to configure the sound card using sndconfig, I get the following:
"A PnP Sound card was found in your system. The details are model ES 1869
Plug and Play Audiodrive."
When I give OK, it says it will play a sample sound. But it does not play
the sound and the following error comes up:
/lib/modules/preferred/misc/sb.o:
init_module:Device or resource busy
Sound:Device or resource busy
Then it goes into manual configuration. After this also, the above is
repeated.
On boot up also I see a message that the resource is busy.
How can I configure my sound card in this case ?
Thanks and Regards,
-Mathew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.0 and ppp
Date: 5 Apr 1999 04:38:32 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaro B.) writes:
>not work! The error message:
>/usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege.
>(pppd check the root-user? Under SuSE 5.3 not at all!)
You are using the name option to pppd on the command line (eg in the
script you ae running). The name option can only be used by root. Do not
use it. Use the user option instead.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RPM Troubles...
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 05:16:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (DMDx86) wrote:
> Recently I have installed an RPM package, but after I decided I did not
> like the
> package, I attempted to de install it with Glint. It claimed that the package
> was not
> installed! A query and a verify reported that it was indeed properly installed
> (I could
> run the program as well). I then tried doing it manually with RPM (rpm
--erase)
Are you sure your typing the package name correctly. It should be as it
appears in rpm -qa
Perry
> and
> I get the same message about it not being installed. As a last resort, I did a
> rpm
> --rebuilddb then tried the above once more, but it did not acheive any thing
at
> all. I
> am running Red Hat 5.2 on a Linux 2.2.5 kernel. If you have any answers, I'd
> appreciate to hear them.
>
> Thank you.
>
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From: "Cameron Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: non-root /tmp, Re: /tmp screws up printing if moved?
Date: 5 Apr 1999 02:08:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Obviously you've fogotten about virtual memory and disk caching under
>Linux. Basically what happens is that any RAM which is not being used
>for the kernel, applications and data is used as disk cache. Under this
>situation it is possible to create a file, write to it and then delete
>it without that file EVER being written to disk. So why do you need
>use a RAM disk for /tmp???
I don't need a RAM disk, but I'd like to have spoolers, editors,
mailers, etc., use some other file system besides / (root) for their
temporary files. The root file system ought to contain little more
than booting and crash recovery software. That way, I'm fairly sure
not to lose anything in a sudden power failure. If any old user process
is likely to have files open for writing at any random time,
then root's superblock on disk is probably out of sync with the one
in disk cache. That was the reason root and /usr were two different
file systems to begin with.
Ideally, there's a third partition; call it /varspool. At boot time,
init.S mounts root and /varspool read-only, and checks them.
If they're okay, they're remounted read-write, and /tmp is made a
symlink to /var/spool/tmp. If root is clean but /varspool is not,
/tmp is a directory. I never saw a Linux distribution that does it.
Cameron
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From: Michael Hucka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: ASUS XG-DLS, Intel MS440GX, Supermicro S2DG2, or Iwill DGL200?
Date: 04 Apr 1999 22:03:58 -0400
If any of you have put together Linux systems with any of the following
motherboards, would you be kind enough to share your experiences? I'm
shortly going to be ordering hardware for compute servers for our workgroup,
and it would be extremely helpful for me to learn more about these boards.
I'll post a summary of the replies.
The boards I'm interested in are:
ASUS XG-DLS
http://www.asus.com/products/Specs/MB/xg-dls-Spec.asp
Intel MS440BX
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/workstation/MS440GX/
Supermicro S2DG2
http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/440GX/S2DG2.htm
Iwill DGL200
http://www.iwillusa.com/products/dgl200.htm
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GENESIS Development Group, Division of Biology, Caltech
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From: insomniac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hackers
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 15:17:20 GMT
"David Z. Maze" wrote:
>
> Not a network question at all, and I've never heard of the kingston.*
> heirarchy. Followups set to comp.os.linux.misc.
>
> 4bbkt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 4bbkt> I'm not much of a hacker but I do use Linux. I'm running
> 4bbkt> RedHat5.2 and I'm on a LAN connected though cablemodem by an
> 4bbkt> old 486 with Slackware96. I'm up late working and I notice
> 4bbkt> things are getting slow. I run top and I see that user:nobody
> 4bbkt> is running find with PRI 20!!! All of a sudden there's another
> 4bbkt> process running "make whatis". I killed that and some other
> 4bbkt> processes including an instance of gawk, I then literrally
> 4bbkt> pulled the plug on my cablemodem. I looked in /var/log but I
> 4bbkt> can't find anything. What, if anything,can I do to trace this
> 4bbkt> hacker?
>
> You didn't find *anything* in, say, /var/log/messages? When things
> like this happen on my system, I usually get messages from the cron
> daemon. So to disable this massive security hole I...
>
> *coughs*
>
> Oh, sorry. To "trace this hacker", you should look at the source for
> the cron package, and probably files in /etc/cron.*. It's a Feature.
>
> What's really going on: there's a reasonably standard program called
> 'locate' which can find a file somewhere on the system. Once a day,
> it needs to create a database of every file installed, so it can find
> things quickly. (Compare 'locate file' with 'find / -name file';
> which one is quicker?) There's also a reasonably standard program
> called 'man', which has as a utility a program called 'whatis'.
> ('whatis whatis'?) This also has a database, which needs to be
> updated once a day.
>
> On my system, I've got cron jobs like this set to run at 5:25 each
> morning, a time when I'm fairly unlikely to be awake. Yes, some of
> these jobs (especially 'updatedb', which updates the locate database)
> generate jobs with a lot of disk activity that run as 'nobody'. Don't
> worry about it (or do, if you want, but look at what cron is doing in
> this case); it's perfectly normal.
>
> --
> David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/
> "Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?"
> "Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
Thanks, mine usually does it at 1:03 AM, when I'm usually awake. Now I
know how to change it :)
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