Linux-Misc Digest #423, Volume #18 Thu, 31 Dec 98 21:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: help! mounting cdrom! ("R.A. Wilson")
Re: system lockup (Eduardo Perez)
Re: How To Slow Down System Clock (Cedric Ware)
Re: Infringement of the GPL ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Some X Windows apps not running (Jeff Myers)
Debugging question ("James A. Cleland")
Re: This is a test, this is only a test. If this were a real emergency ........;->
(Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: Pussy shot from behind 1232 (Shaygetz)
Re: Looking for UNIX NT web site (Amanda Maile)
Re: Can't connect if I'm not root (zentara)
Re: When will kernel 2.2 be released? (Horst von Brand)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Darin Johnson)
Re: Am I stupid or am I stupid. PPP. ALMOST!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
fetchmail? (Tanner McCarron)
Re: Deleting /var/log/messages... ("R.A. Wilson")
PATH not working! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Does ESS sound chip on laptop works on RedHat5.2? (Bjoern Smith)
Re: make zImage fails at last step (Dan Nguyen)
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From: "R.A. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help! mounting cdrom!
Date: 31 Dec 1998 16:14:22 PST
> vancaf wrote:
> > I use RHL 5.1 and I want to mount my cd-rom, but I can't...
> > I used command:
> > mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom , only response I get is
> > " mount= fs type iso9960 not supported by kernel".. any solutions?
> Sure. Recompile your kernel with ISO9660 support. According to your
> error message, that file system is not supported by your kernel.
>
=====================================================================
sometimes you have problems in Red Hat if you specify
/dev/cdrom instead of /dev/hdc (or whichever hdx is the
cdrom.)
r.a.wislon
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From: Eduardo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: system lockup
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 20:36:04 +0100
Joe Ringer wrote:
>
> After an uptime of 20+ days my system locked up. I was in X playing a game
> of cards when the screen, mouse and keyboard all stopped responding. I
> couldn't even toggle the leds on my keyboard and wasn't able to get into
> another vc or exit X. I was able to telnet in via another box on my home
> lan only to find X sucking up cpu cycles on the frozen machine. Killing off
> X brought the cpu usage down to ~0 but the system was still frozen locally.
> At this point I reset the box and everthing appears to be ok and the logs
> don't provide any clues.
>
> Whats up? Was there anything else I could have done from the remote box?
Most probably, one of the programs you were running locked up your
console; you just had to kill it.
I think it is very significant that someome posts a message whenever
Linux locks his computer up. I wouldn't dare do that with MS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cedric Ware)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How To Slow Down System Clock
Date: 1 Jan 1999 00:16:25 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
Eddie Atherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I noticed that my date/time was slowly drifting.
[8<]
>How can I either find out why my System clock is gaining, or teach it
>to keep accurate time.
>
>The load on the machine is vey low. It's my cable modem masquerade box
>that also runs SAMBA to provide print and file sharing (again very low
>usage).
If it's on a permanent Internet connection, how about running an NTP daemon
on it? Have a look at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp - I've had problems
with ntp4, but xntp3 works well enough for me, and you may already have it
depending on your Linux distribution. And yes, it did take into account the
leap second which occured 15' ago... :-)
Hope this helps,
Cedric.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Infringement of the GPL
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 00:12:42 GMT
Kenneth Corbin writes:
> Doubt that any company would be foolish enough to try.
Most copyright disputes seem to never see the inside of a courtroom.
> The odds are too high that the courts would uphold the GPL license which
> would effectively release that companies product into the public domain.
Not likely, more's the pity. According to my admittedly amateur reading of
the law the infringer would be ordered to destroy all copies of the
infringing item and enjoined from creating another. If the infringed work
was registered there could be statutory damages. In theory there could be
prosecution for criminal infringement, but of course there is no
possibility that the government would prosecute.
> Rather than initiate some expensive litigation, someone who discoveres
> obvious and incontrovertable GPL code in a propietory product can simply
> post the entire product source to some public forum,...
They and everyone who downloaded the package would be infringing the
copyright on that portion that was created by the infringer. The presence
in the package of some GPL material would be no defense.
--
John Hasler This posting is in the public domain.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will.
Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind.
Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
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From: Jeff Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Some X Windows apps not running
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:51:33 +0000
Victor Danilchenko wrote:
>
> Donald Hurst wrote:
> >
> > Some of the apps in X Windows won't run. For example: Midnight
> > Commander. When I select the menu option, I get the zzZZZ for a few
> > seconds then back to the arrow. It never comes up. This happens with
> > other apps too (WordPerfect for example).
> >
> > I have 64 Meg of RAM with a 125 Meg Swap Partition. My video card is a
> > S3 Virge with 4 Meg. CPU is a Pentium 233MMX. 4.2 Gig Hard Drive.
> > Yes, I am new to Linux. I'm running Redhat Linux 5.2.
>
> The file you are trying to run is actually "tkmc", I believe, to be
> displaced by "gmc" at some point in the future. Try running it from
> command line. I tried, and I got some unresolves symbols in Tk
> library... and I am too lazy to track 'em down. Run "tkmc" from command
> line, and post the output here.
>
> --
> | Victor A. Danilchenko CSCF support |
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] A313, 5-4231 |
> +--------------------------------------------+
> | Quando omni flunkus, moritati. |
I have the same problem.
tkmc: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/lib/libtcl.so undefined symbol: stat
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From: "James A. Cleland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debugging question
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:57:56 -0500
I would like to be able to debug a multithreaded app with gdb. I
installed a patch (gdb-4.17.patch) which was supposed to enable gdb to
handle threads (I really don't know jack about the internals here, so
bear with me). I don't know whether or not I need an updated glibc or
not. Basically, I just don't know anything about this issue.
What I would like are binaries for gdb and whatever else I need to get
into a MT app with gdb.
-or-
Someone to tell me what I need to do to make the afore mentioned
binaries myself (*ack*).
As far as my development env, I'm using stock RH5.1. I think that's
glibc 2.0.7, egcs 1.0.2, gdb 4.17.
Thanks,
James
Oh, by the way, gdb ->info threads doesn't present any info on the new
build with the patch.
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: This is a test, this is only a test. If this were a real emergency
........;->
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:57:23 -0600
Oooppps!
Meant to send this to work, not to this newsgroup. Sorry!
But, blessing still applies!
Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> Just testing the PVCS port of the Lotus Notes system with an email from
> my box here at home.
> Happy New Year to you, each and every one!
> Jerry (The older and uglier one!)
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From: Shaygetz <"s m c q u a l e"@i x.n e t c o m.c o m>
Subject: Re: Pussy shot from behind 1232
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:57:24 -0500
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> <lubricity snipped>
>
> http://www.thesexgallery.com/
>
> bgkcjkyryvfjtcsgbogwscnvo
>
> Is there no way to stop people from using a Linux newsgroup like this.
>
I agree -- he could at least have the courtesy to post
this to comp.os.linux.announce. This group is for general
discussion only!
[E.g.: "Can xv be used to edit pussy shots from behind 1232?"]
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seth McQuale --> "Shaygetz" To reply to to me directly, remove
the spaces in the "Reply to" email address in the header.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: Amanda Maile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for UNIX NT web site
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 11:30:27 +1000
try http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/cgi-bin/siteinfo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Greeting, A little while ago, I visited a web site that if you input a server
> name such as www.dejanews.com that it would return the type of server
> software that they where executing. I believe that I got there from a UNIX-NT
> web site. Does anyone know of that web site?
>
> \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
> Larry Dare
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (zentara)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can't connect if I'm not root
Reply-To: ""
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 20:28:58 GMT
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:53:27 -0500, "Sergei Gerasenko"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I finally got my PPP up and running even with the scripts. But the problem
>now is that I can't do it if I'm not root. My ppp-on doesn't even dial. Of
>course I read the HOWTO on PPP and the section about root privelages. But I
>seem to have done everything I am to do. I checked the permissions for PPPD.
>I made my ppp-on and ppp-on-dialer accessible to other users, but it didn't
>work. When I use wvdial it dials O.K. but then fails to connect and the log
>says that a PPP operation was not permitted. Obviously it has something to
>do with security. When I first ran ppp-on, my log said that a file called
>/var/lock/something for TTYS2 couldn't be created because it was not
>permitted. It seems like one needs to change permissions for more than just
>PPPD and the scripts (pap-secrets and chap-secrets too) to make it work.
>Anybody knows a solution?
>Thank you,
>Sergei
>
Here are a few tips which might do the trick:
1. Try chmod 666 /dev/modem
2. When running wvdial, you must let wvdial write
the chap and pap secrets file. So try setting their
permissions to 666, run wvdial as root once, then
change them back to 600. Wvdial will complain
about them, but if they have been setup right, they will
work.
Also, I have been using wvdial, and the heuristics
it uses dosn't always work. My current isp asks
for your pap twice, and the second time it will
disconnect if a password is sent.
In the wvdial docs, it is said to use
"Stupid Mode= yes" in /etc/wvdial.conf
This tells wvdial to stop the conventional login,
and just send the pap-secrets and starts ppp.
It works. Try it. Alot of isp's take your login name,
then prompt for a password, but expect the pap-secrets,
and will disconnect if sent the password only.
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From: Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: When will kernel 2.2 be released?
Date: 30 Dec 1998 11:15:50 -0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett W. McCoy) writes:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:06:57 -0400, Mat�as Orchard V.
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >TODAY was released pre1!
2.2.0pre1ac2 compiles and works fine (so far... some 8 hours uptime) with
egcs-19981226, binutils-2.9.1.0.19a. Note that the egcs folks finally
outlawed the illegal asm() constraints that were used all over the kernel
for ia32, and Alan's patchset fixes a few last-minute additions to the lot.
--
Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239
Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
From: Darin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31 Dec 1998 14:11:52 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Edstrom) writes:
> It depends on whats being served. If you use NIS and yppasswd
> disappears, you can't even log into your local machine.
I used to put my login in the local passwd file when the network I was
on was less reliable, thus allowing logins even if the NIS server was
down.
This works better on systems that don't grab everything over the
network and systems that don't hang (unlike this SunOS 4 system). Ie,
when I did the trick above, it was on a Linux system that I
administered myself and was connected to the larger network at work.
When the network went kaput, I could still use all the local
utilities, I just couldn't get to any remote files.
--
Darin Johnson
"Particle Man, Particle Man, doing the things a particle can"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: Am I stupid or am I stupid. PPP. ALMOST!!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:29:05 GMT
After reading the 45 replys to this post I felt I had to add my own.
First, Sergei did you get online with your Redhat? I hope the few posts that
where in response to you provided an answer. I also had trouble but switched
to PAP and everything worked. I even have it so anybody can use their account
and get on the net.
Sean, Check your file permissions on all files involved. Make sure they're
executable by everyone. Also, check the allow and deny files.
Erick, why don't you just stay on your MS NGs? They do have them don't they?
I am sure that the programmers who work on Winblows are willing to help you
get things fixed without costing you a cent ( yeah right!). Have you ever
gotten the blue screen of death? Don't let your frustrations out on somebody
who is trying to get help. Your complaints about Linux belong somewhere
else. Are you afraid Linux is going to drive your NT away? Come on, don't
be so petty.
Eb, now, now. ture but cruel.
Mike, I love your signature - reality should be rebooted!
I had W95 on my machine for about one day. It caused more problems than it
was worth. You see my machine is not one from a box; my son and I built our
own machines. It turns out that our mother boards are too advanced and we
have too many boards for W95 to work with 'normally'. I had to reformat my
hd just to get rid of all the things from W95. My son has started having
problems since he added an addon video board. Linux runs fine on both
machines.
By the way I use Slackware because I like to know what is going on inside my
machine. I want control of the machine not me doing what the machine wants.
I unfortunately have to run windows for a couple of home school programs so
my Linux isn't up 24 hours a day. I am working on getting WINE working with
those programs. I would not be able to do that if WINE was a program for
Winblows. The fact that I am a programmer and enjoy this sort of thing makes
a difference.
Well enough of that.
Let's try and get poeple online and not fill up the bandwidth with needless
bits.
--
Douglas E. Neufeld
NASCAR Fan Go DW #??, MW #7
Linux User because MS is a bother.
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From: Tanner McCarron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fetchmail?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:19:25 -0800
I can't get mail. Here is what I see whaen I try to get mail with
fetchmail.
[tannerm@earthlink /]$ fetchmail -c -p POP3 mail.earthlink.net
Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
fetchmail: 4 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[tannerm@earthlink /]$ fetchmail -p POP3 mail.earthlink.net
Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
fetchmail: 4 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reading message 1 of 4 (822 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost
failed: Connection refused
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.earthlink.net
[tannerm@earthlink /]$
Any advice?
Thanks,
Tanner
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From: "R.A. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deleting /var/log/messages...
Date: 30 Dec 1998 11:10:44 PST
>
> > I made the mistake of rm ing the thing once. Not pretty. Fortunatly
> > there was a Unix guru handy to help me out. He told me the proper way
> > was to truncate the file to zero length. Now if I just knew how to do
> > that...
> >
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but why is it a bad idea to simply rm
> the file? I do it all the time on my slackware box, and
> have never had any problems. What distro do you use, and
> what were the problems associated with rm'ing the log
> file?
>
===============================================================
I don't know if there is truly a problem if you rm
the message files, as I believe most daemons simply
create the file if it doesn't exist, but it is very
easy to zero out the file.
cat /dev/null > <message-file>
If you decide to rm it, which completely wipes it,
it wouldn't hurt to recreate it as an empty file.
touch <message-file>
r.a.wilson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: PATH not working!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 19:10:55 GMT
Ok everyone,
I have a weird problem. For whatever reason, the PATH that is listed in the
rc.sysinit is not working! It was working for a long time, and then one day,
all of a sudden it didn't work. I am not sure what I did to the system because
I installed a bunch of software. Anyway, this is what SHOULD be listed as a
Path:
# Set the path
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/scripts
export PATH
If I type this in manually in bash, it seems to work, but not automatically
like it used to. i assume this is because it is being changed somehwere else
in the startup, but where? How can I check?
I am somehwat new to this (used to having just one autoexec in DOS), so i need
some help.
- Steve
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:35:20 +0000
From: Bjoern Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Does ESS sound chip on laptop works on RedHat5.2?
Hi!
According to lots of comments on the net the ESS sound chip often
used in modern laptops should work as a vanilla SB on Linux.
I have a Best Note 1150 (PII266) running RedHat 5.2.
Everything runs perfect except for the sound.
- Booting with stock RH5.2 kernel
- In /etc/conf.modules
alias sound sb
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
- After boot /var/log/messages shows:
...
sb: dsp reset fail
...
- modprobe sb gives:
/lib/modules/preferred/misc/sb.o: init_module: unit or resource busy
sound: unit or resource busy
- At the top of /proc/pci one can read:
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 0).
Vendor id=125d. Device id=1968.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 5. Master
Capable. \
Latency=128. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24.
I/O at 0x3000.
...
(Is this IRQ 5 perhaps...well, I don't know)
- lsmod shows:
Module Pages Used by
nfs 12 5 (autoclean)
serial_cs 1 0
smc91c92_cs 3 1
ds 2 [serial_cs smc91c92_cs] 2
i82365 5 2
pcmcia_core 9 [serial_cs smc91c92_cs ds i82365] 0
nls_iso8859_1 1 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 1 1 (autoclean)
vfat 4 1 (autoclean)
uart401 2 0
sound 15 [uart401] 0
soundlow 1 [sound] 0
soundcore 1 [sound] 3
I've tried re-compile the kernel with sb/sound as none-module according
to all FAQ and hints on the net.
I've also tried compiling with the 2.2.0-p1 kernel, but allways with the
same result :-(
Many thanks in advance for any kind of help!
--
Bjorn Smith Compound Systems AB, phone +46 8 4464260
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://www.compound.se
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.dev.kernel,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: make zImage fails at last step
Date: 1 Jan 1999 00:02:06 GMT
In alt.os.linux Clive DaSilva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I had sort of the same prob compiling the 2.0.36 kernel. something to
: do with the version of gcc compiler which came with 2.0.34. check out
: www.linuxgeek.org as there is something in the news there which
: directs u to a patch for the source code, before u do the make zImage
: thing
The Linux kernel only compiles with the standard gcc. Some people
have the egcs version of gcc which handles thing differently.
--
Dan Nguyen | There is only one happiness in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | life, to love and be loved.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -George Sand
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