Linux-Misc Digest #852, Volume #18 Mon, 1 Feb 99 04:13:11 EST
Contents:
Ho do I get linux (Kevin Higgs)
Re: Help! - 3 quick newbie questions (tar, bin, and unmounting) (Stuart Hirons)
Re: Newbie question Cont. (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Help! - 3 quick newbie questions (tar, bin, and unmounting) ("Elf_")
Re: RedHat FTP problem (bgeer)
Re: encrypted file system (Oliver Flimm)
swapon -s returning error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Which files?? (Enkidu)
Re: Mount point won't disappear? (Alexander Viro)
strange file permission (Louis Lam)
Re: Redhat 5.2 & MP3 (Cai Yu)
Re: New to Linux (Bernhard Oemer)
Re: New to Linux (Bernhard Oemer)
Re: JDK 1.1.7... (JiPUSTRADAMUS)
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ("iBoy")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Higgs)
Subject: Ho do I get linux
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 07:05:33 GMT
Hi
where can i get, or download what i need to start using linux, ie the kernel,
gui's etc...
kevin
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From: Stuart Hirons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: Help! - 3 quick newbie questions (tar, bin, and unmounting)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:23:43 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to unmount a filesystem, do
umount <mountpoint>
e.g. if your drive were mounted at /floppy, say
then
umount /floppy
would unmount your disk(zip) drive.
Stu
Preston Crawford wrote:
>
> I have quick three newbie questions.
.
.
.
> Finally, to bring these files home I mounted my internal zip drive. How does
> one "unmount" a drive when they are finished using it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Preston
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie question Cont.
Date: 28 Jan 1999 12:12:10 -0500
Merman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
did you?
--
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paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.0 i586 | at public servers
"And the next time you consider complaining that running Lucid Emacs
19.05 via NFS from a remote Linux machine in Paraguay doesn't seem to
get the background colors right, you'll know who to thank."
(By Matt Welsh)
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From: "Elf_" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: Help! - 3 quick newbie questions (tar, bin, and unmounting)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:29:03 +0100
First: Bin = Binary. A *.bin file is normally a compiled program (like a dos
*.exe or *.com file). What you should do? RUN IT (with "./filename")
Second: Maybe you used the wrong command to untar.gz it. Try "tar -xvzf
filename".
Last: Use the "umount /dev/drivename" command
Hope you got the help you needed :)
Elf_
Preston Crawford skrev i meddelelsen ...
>I have quick three newbie questions.
>
>First of all what does one use to unzip a .bin file? I'm familiar with
>gunzip and tar, but not bin.
>
>Secondly, how long should it take to untar a large file such as StarOffice?
>I downloaded it and brought it home and it sits for quite a while. Is this
>normal?
>
>Finally, to bring these files home I mounted my internal zip drive. How
does
>one "unmount" a drive when they are finished using it?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Preston
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bgeer)
Subject: Re: RedHat FTP problem
Date: 28 Jan 1999 11:00:45 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick G) writes:
>I have recently installed RH5.2 and configured it with Apache and PHP. All
>things considered, for a newbie I thought I did alright. Currently when I
>try to ftp to my system I get "connection refused", maybe this is because I
>didn't install something, I don't know. I have read that using wu-ftpd is a
>great solution but I have been unable to find a recent tarball of this. Does
>anyone know if installing wuftpd will fix the ftp problem and if so, where
>could I download it.
Quite probably...if you are using conventional password support &
wu.ftpd is compiled for Shadow or PAM authentication, you will
experience problems. Recompiling for the type of authentication may
help solve the problem.
Also check that /etc/ftpaccess "class local" either includes your
domain name or a simple "*".
My older Slackware cdrom includes /cdrom/source/n/tcpip/wu-ftpd-2.4.tar.gz.
Using the README file I tracked down wu-ftpd-2.4.2-beta-15.tar.gz.
Here's an excerpt.
For help setting up this server, you can try the following sources:
o _Managing Internet Information Services_, An O'Reilly and Associates
book. This book has many excellent chapters on setting up
anonymous ftp sites using standard ftp servers as well as the wu-ftp
server.
o WU-FTPD FAQs
- Koos van den Hout's FAQ at http://www.hvu.nl/~koos/wu-ftpd-faq.html
- Washinton University at St. Louis' Web Page: http://www.wustl.edu/ftp
o WU-FTPD Resource Pages
- Kent Landfield's Resource Pages: http://www.landfield.com/wu-ftpd
- Academ Consulting Services' Page: http://www.academ.com/academ/wu-ftpd
o The wu-ftpd mailing list. To subscribe, send email with the
message body of "subscribe wu-ftpd" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NOTE: If you are reporting a bug, please be sure to copy your message
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so it will get a tracking number.
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From: Oliver Flimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: encrypted file system
Date: 31 Jan 1999 23:54:09 +0100
Hi,
"Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > - Matt Blaze's Cryptographic Filesystem (CFS) ontop NFS
> > - Transparent Cryptographic Filesystem (TCFS) ontop NFS
>
> Err... doesn't having it over NFS defeat the purpose in some respects?
> (Considering NFS is known to have security holes.) (Not a go at you, just
> making an interesting observation.)
no - at least IMHO. Imagine someone working on his workstation in his
home-directory which he gets via NFS from a fileserver - not such an
unusual configuration in a setup with lots of computers. With CFS or
TCFS the encryption takes place only on his workstation (in memory /
via a virtual mountpoint). The data is transmitted and stored
encrypted on the server. To me that's definetely a pro.
And regarding NFS security holes. Of course there are holes, but you
could also take several measures to make NFS much more secure, eg. using
secure RPC. Furthermore (T)CFS even avoids - as said above -
unencrypted sending of information over the network, which is also one
of the major drawbacks of NFS. So you could consider (T)CFS to some
extent as the 'better NFS' ;-)
> All the best... =)
;-)
Regards,
Oliver
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CipLab, Institutes of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cologne, Germany WWW : http://www.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de/~flimm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: swapon -s returning error
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:53:01 GMT
Hi,
I am having trouble getting my swap spaces to work. My fstab file is ok, I
have created the partitions, etc. When I run swapon -a with no options, the
space is added with a priority of -1. This seems strange to me.
When I run swapon -s I get this:
swapon: /proc/swaps: No such file or directory
I don't think the swap space has ever been utilized. I tried loading my
system, which has 48 mb of ram, with no utilization. Free mem dropped to
less than 1MB, and still no swapping.
Please help me out on this, It is really causing some problems.
thank you very much,
Brad Beck
net admin
Industrial Supply Company
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From: Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which files??
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 20:21:48 +1300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian Dunross wrote:
>
> This is a simple thing, it seems everyone points you to buy a
> CD. Why, I don't understand? FTP'ing files is not that difficult.
> Installing from a partition is not inscrutable, or difficult.
>
You probably need about 30Mb at least to get a decent working system.
The base is round about 660kb by itself. If you feel happy to download
multimegabytes, go for it. If you get charged per Mb by your ISP, or
even by the hour, you would soon clock up the cost of a couple of CDs.
Some distros can be installed directly off the CD, and you are
*guaranteed* that you have a consistent set of packages. Sometimes
you download something only to find that it has a pre-req of
something that you haven't yet got.
Cliff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Subject: Re: Mount point won't disappear?
Date: 1 Feb 1999 02:23:29 -0500
In article <793elv$4df$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
jdn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recently had a temporary partition set up on one of my hard drives and had
>created a mount point for it to use inside RedHat 5.2
So you created a directory and told the kernel to mount root of the
filesystem from your partition over it. Fine.
>More recently, after having finished with the partition, I deleted it, and
>edited my 'fstab' file to get rid of the reference to it.
So the filesystem in the partition had gone and init scripts do not
try to mount anything over the old mountpoint. Good.
>However, I noticed the last time I booted into Linux (having already done
>all changes, shutdown the system, and went to do other things) that when I
>do an 'ls' in the '/' directory, the mount point directory name is still
>listed.
Indeed it is. Why would it disappear? Nothing is mounted over it,
so it's just a normal, honest directory. What's wrong?
> If I try to unmount it, it says it already is unmounted.
Sure nothing is mounted over it. It's just a directory in your root
filesystem and since you didn't mount anything over it there is nothing to
umount.
>I started up X and ran the System Configuration tool through control panel,
>and it correctly showed no listing for the now no longer existing mount
>point.
It exists, but it is not a mountpoint anymore.
>I also checked mtab and it isn't there either (correctly).
Yes, indeed.
>So, where else should I be looking for why Linux still thinks this mount
>point exists and should have a directory name for it?
In any introductory book on UNIX? You had created a directory, it is
absolutely real, when you mount something over it it becomes shadowed by
the root of filesystem you mount, but it's still there. When you umount
the filesystem mountpoint doesn't disappear - it was there before mount,
why would it go away? Nothing shadows it anymore, so everything is back
to the state before mount. If you want to remove it - come on, it's a normal
directory, so rmdir will remove it just fine.
As for fstab and mtab - they are nothing but a database used by the
*utilities* mount, umount, fsck, swapon and swapoff. Kernel knows nothing
about them. fstab keep defaults for those programs, mtab keeps the list of
currently mounted filesystems. That's it. Certainly they have nothing with
the directory that sometime ago had been used as mountpoint.
--
"You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert.
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From: Louis Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: strange file permission
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 03:15:09 +0800
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Could anyone help me delete the following two files? I have an improper
shutdown of my linux and when I brought up the linux box, it
automatically check for problems and fixed them. Below is what I get
from the console.
senna:/users/library/fonts# du -s psfonts
-503837053 psfonts
senna:/users/library/fonts# cd psfonts
senna:/users/library/fonts/psfonts# v
total 1643646579
p-wS-w-r-T 1 24568 50600 0 Sep 23 1914 0861a___.pfb|
s-wS-wx--t 1 43723 root 3542361139 Jan 31 23:27 0862a___.pfb=
senna:/users/library/fonts/psfonts# delete *
bash: delete: command not found
senna:/users/library/fonts/psfonts# rm *
rm: remove `0861a___.pfb', overriding mode 5224? y
rm: 0861a___.pfb: Operation not permitted
rm: 0862a___.pfb: Operation not permitted
Thank you for your help
Linqi
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<TT>Could anyone help me delete the following two files? I have an improper
shutdown of my linux and when I brought up the linux box, it automatically
check for problems and fixed them. Below is what I get from the console.</TT><TT></TT>
<P><TT>senna:/users/library/fonts# du -s psfonts</TT>
<BR><TT>-503837053 psfonts</TT>
<BR><TT>senna:/users/library/fonts# cd psfonts</TT>
<BR><TT>senna:/users/library/fonts/psfonts# v</TT>
<BR><TT>total 1643646579</TT>
<BR><TT>p-wS-w-r-T 1 24568
50600
0 Sep 23 1914 0861a___.pfb|</TT>
<BR><TT>s-wS-wx--t 1 43723 root
3542361139 Jan 31 23:27 0862a___.pfb=</TT>
<BR><TT>senna:/users/library/fonts/psfonts# delete *</TT>
<BR><TT>bash: delete: command not found</TT>
<BR><TT>senna:/users/library/fonts/psfonts# rm *</TT>
<BR><TT>rm: remove `0861a___.pfb', overriding mode 5224? y</TT>
<BR><TT>rm: 0861a___.pfb: Operation not permitted</TT>
<BR><TT>rm: 0862a___.pfb: Operation not permitted</TT><TT></TT>
<P><TT>Thank you for your help</TT><TT></TT>
<P><TT>Linqi</TT></HTML>
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From: Cai Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Redhat 5.2 & MP3
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 15:47:21 +0800
"Sam E. Trenholme" wrote:
>
> >Everytime when I start to play mp3 files using mpg123 or xaudio(
> >http://www.xaudio.com ), it suddenly stop and keyboard is locked also , I have
> >to reboot my machine . It can play CD very well .
>
> I am not familiar with this problem. Have you tried x11amp
> (http://www.x11amp.org)?
>
> - Sam
>
> --
> Email address here: http://www.samiam.org/ssi/mailme.shtml
> Music I write here: http://www.mp3.com/sam http://www.samiam.org/mp3
> Mp3 reviews here: http://www.samiam.org/music
Hi Sam:
I have checked x11amp , and found it use mpg123 also .
I can play .mid , .wav & .au through the correct software .
After one second of playing mp3 file , it is locked .
Is it the problem in AMD-K6/233 or some bugs in kernel ?
I also find this problem in other mail lists .
Regards/Cai
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From: Bernhard Oemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,at.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: New to Linux
Date: 1 Feb 1999 07:44:50 GMT
In at.linux Gaea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm about to install RedHat 5.2 on my p2 450 computer. Is there anything I
> need to know before I install it? I have a 14.4GB HD and I'm going to put
> Linux on a seprate partion.
You need at least one swap and one root-partition (/), but installing
on several partitions reduces the impact of a potetial HD failure. (If
you're unsure and can spare the place, just leave some Gigs
unpartitioned or use them merely as scratch space (for Linux or Win,
doesn't matter) until you know your requirements - you can change the
FS-layout later (even without rebooting, I should mention))
> I would also like to know how do I boot between
> 2 Operating Systems. Can Windows 98 and Linux coexist?
Yes, a boot mamager (lilo) is included.
> BTW, Is this OS easy to learn?
no. This means, you *will* need a book!
cu
Bernhard
--
The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness,
Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why.
man 1 perl|grep -1 virtues
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From: Bernhard Oemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,at.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: New to Linux
Date: 1 Feb 1999 08:03:43 GMT
In at.linux Melancon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Linux has trouble booting if it is beyond the 1024th cylinder. It can
> I've read that and I keep seeing it talked about, but it has not been my
> experience. I currently have my 8.4G drive partitioned with Win98 on the first
> 2 gigs and Linux (RedHat 5.2, FTPed to the vfat partition and installed from
> HD) on the last 6.4. LILO and Linux work perfectly, as does Win.... er...
> Windows loads and works as well as can be expected.
Then you're a lucky guy and no block from the actual Kernel image has
been put behind the magic line. Wait until your HD is full or just
sufficently fragmented, recompile the Kernel, and you get a fair
chance, that it won't work anymore. (been there, done that - although
in the ancient times of the 512MB limit)
cu
Bernhard
--
The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness,
Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why.
man 1 perl|grep -1 virtues
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From: JiPUSTRADAMUS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: JDK 1.1.7...
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:09:51 +0200
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Joe wrote:
> java Hello
>
You're supposed to compile the source before you can execute it.
Compile it with javac Hello.java, and the run java Hello
JP
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From: "iBoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:47:46 +0800
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