Linux-Misc Digest #886, Volume #18 Wed, 3 Feb 99 19:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: kernel panic 2.2 (Simon Quinn)
Re: Java in NS4.5 not working (Kaustav Bhattacharya)
Re: Apache SIMPLE (Security Quest) (lany)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: How do I change password from perl script? (Per Steinar Iversen)
Re: MP3 Encoder for Linux (Ian Hay)
Re: egcs RPM problem (James Tappin)
Re: How to make it run faster? (mcryptic)
Re: How to make it run faster? (Declan)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ("Kenneth I. Cramer")
Re: How to make it run faster? (Richard Thomas)
Re: Zip Disk: Win 95 OK, Linux not happy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux 2.2 upgrade pack for Red Hat 5.2 available ("Jeff Shultz")
Re: Setting up Pine [loses ppp while fetching newsgroup list < / > ] (Stefan Davids)
Re: Clock Skew (Glen Turner)
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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 15:35:34 +0000
From: Simon Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel panic 2.2
You haven't compiled in the ide driver.
Joshua Udall wrote:
> Partition check:
> hdc: dirver not present
> VFS: cannot open root device 16:01
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount fs on 16:01
>
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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 22:36:59 +0000
From: Kaustav Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Java in NS4.5 not working
As a followup to my original posting: here is an error I get when an
applet tries to start:
Unable to start a java applet: Can't find 'java40.jar' in your
CLASSPATH. Read the release notes an install 'java40.jar' properly
before restarting.
Current claue for CLASSPATH:
/usr/local/lib/netscpae/plugins:/usr/bin/plugins:/home/kozzey/.netscape/plugins
Anything wrong with that class path?
--
Kaustav Bhattacharya
http://www.kozzey.dircon.co.uk/cam.html
http://redhotcountry.co.uk
ICQ: 665226
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From: lany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Apache SIMPLE (Security Quest)
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 10:06:54 -0500
So if Apache files are now on your Win95 partition (vfat fs), how are you planning on
setting file/owner perms?
Lany
Wael Sedky wrote:
>
> I found an even better solution. It turned out that my directory has to be a
> descendent of /var/lib/apache/htdocs. So now I renamed my "index.html" soft
> link to "myweb" (or whatever). Everything is cool. I'm worried about
> security though, because that's on my win95 partition.
>
> Wael Sedky wrote in message ...
> >
> >I tricked the system by doing the following. I got rid of there default
> >index.html file (I renamed it), then I created a symbolic link named
> >"index.html" to my root directory.
> >
> >Do u see anything dangerous here?
> >
> >P.S. It works
> >
> >
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:43:36 -0800
Larry wrote in message ...
[...]
>Sweden hates us, England hates us, ad-infinitum. The only reason we are
>still allies with some of them is because thier only alternative is to be
>alied with countries like Red China,
>the Soviet Union, [...]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Obviously this guy is a left-over from the cold war.....
jue
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Per Steinar Iversen)
Subject: Re: How do I change password from perl script?
Date: 3 Feb 1999 16:06:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2 Feb 1999 18:47:11 GMT, Karl Renaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I usually use BSD UNIX, but I am trying out linux. To automate
>certain procedures I need to be able to set a persons password
>from a perl script. The following works fine on BSD but is
>not working on my RedHat 5.2 Linux and I don't understand why!
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>$PASSWORD="testit123";
>$USERNAME="test";
>open(PWD,"|/usr/bin/passwd $USERNAME");
>print PWD "$PASSWORD\n";
>print PWD "$PASSWORD\n";
>close (PWD);
>exit;
>
>It looks like the passwd program is getting extra stuff sent to it
>besides the passwords that I am printing to the pipe.
>
>Is there another technique?
Yes, (for Redhat at least) pipe the username:password
pair into chpasswd(8)
-psi
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From: Ian Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MP3 Encoder for Linux
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:43:36 -0500
Jens Reinsberger wrote:
>
> Steve Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SH> Hello,
>
> SH> I was wondering what people are using these days to encode MP3 files
> SH> under Linux. I was using the 8hz encoder several months ago, and liked
> SH> it a lot, but now I see they've pulled it off their website due to
> SH> possible problems with Fraunhauer(sp?) :(
>
> I user bladeenc for linux. Sorry for that but I don't know the URL to get
> it from.
Nor do I, but I do know that entering "Blade Encoder" into Altavista
turned up the author's page on the first hit. I got it from there a few
days ago.
I.
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Ian R. Hay <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Toronto, Canada <http://www3.sympatico.ca/ian.hay/>
Linuxing about since June 21, 1998 <Redhat 5.1 - 2.0.35>
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From: James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: egcs RPM problem
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 15:46:27 +0000
Michael wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Im running RH 5.0, and found out The ecgs fortran compiler was not
> installed.
>
> I have tried to rpm ecgs1.0.3, and got the following:
> # rpm -U egcs-1.0.3a-14.i386.rpm
> /lib/cpp conflicts with file from gcc-2.7.2.3-8
> /usr/bin/protoize conflicts with file from gcc-2.7.2.3-8
> /usr/bin/unprotoize conflicts with file from gcc-2.7.2.3-8
> /usr/info/cpp.info.gz conflicts with file from gcc-2.7.2.3-8
> /usr/man/man1/cccp.1 conflicts with file from gcc-2.7.2.3-8
> error: egcs-1.0.3a-14.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> What's safest and fastest to do if I am not to loose my C compiler?
> Do I get them back by just rpm -e gcc, and retry ecgs?
WOrking from memory (my copy of Maximum RPM is @home and I'm @work).
1) Looks like it's refused to install -- so your original gcc should be
undamaged.
2) There is an option to install in a location other than the standard
one. I think it's --prefix. It only works if the package is relocatable.
so you could do something like rpm -ivh --prefix=/opt/egcs (say)
then make sure /opt/egcs/bin was ahead of /usr/bin when you want egcs.
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From: mcryptic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: How to make it run faster?
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 15:01:17 GMT
In article <7987g2$klq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"RAZOR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey guys :-)
> I have my second puter that is 486/66mhz ,16 mb ram with Redhat 5.1
> installed. My swap partition is 65 mb, and I'm running AnotherLevel
> X-Windows (w95 look). So X-Windows is running kinda slow. Even programs in
> control panel are running slow(or any other basic programs).Although I read
> everywhere that Linux is bringing back to life all that old machines, even
> freaking Winblows is running faster on this puter.
> What is the way to increase performance? I mean without hardware upgrades
> and increasing swap partition (I don't have any more space). I have Redhat
> 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 releases, may be I should install v5.0? Or may be another
> windows manager?
> Dudes, ANY, ANY tips are appreciated, especially from dudes who have the
> same puter. :-)
> Thanx in advance
>
>
Do you have any more computers around? If you do you can cluster multiable
computer together so its like having a 120mHz computer(or more)if you have
two clustered. I took 4 486 and clustered them for a combined mHz of about
215mHz, but it still won't be as fast as a normal 200mHz computer.
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From: Declan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: How to make it run faster?
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:56:44 -0500
that site doesnt seem to exist!
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dave wrote:
>RAZOR;
> Checkout the January 99 Linux Gazzette at http://wwwssc.com/lg/ The
>article Linux on a Shoestring gives some tips running linux on older
>slower machines.
>
>RAZOR wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys :-)
>> I have my second puter that is 486/66mhz ,16 mb ram with Redhat 5.1
>> installed. My swap partition is 65 mb, and I'm running AnotherLevel
>> X-Windows (w95 look). So X-Windows is running kinda slow. Even programs in
>> control panel are running slow(or any other basic programs).Although I read
>> everywhere that Linux is bringing back to life all that old machines, even
>> freaking Winblows is running faster on this puter.
>> What is the way to increase performance? I mean without hardware upgrades
>> and increasing swap partition (I don't have any more space). I have Redhat
>> 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 releases, may be I should install v5.0? Or may be another
>> windows manager?
>> Dudes, ANY, ANY tips are appreciated, especially from dudes who have the
>> same puter. :-)
>> Thanx in advance
>
>
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From: "Kenneth I. Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 16:48:31 -0700
"Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" wrote:
>
> G'day...
>
> > > (The parts couldn't fit together well enough and the machine would lock
> > > up.)
> >
> > Ahhh - just like Windows on Intel. :}
>
> Heheh... not quite... Babbage engine was *ahead* of its time and well
> designed. (It wasn't the designers thought it was the manufacturers...)
>
> Windows on the other hand wasn't/isn't well designed. =)
>
> All the best...
>
> Michael.
I might be wrong, but the way I remember learning it was that Babbage
designed the difference engine, but lost interist before it was built.
It was built and used during his lifetime. He became distracted from
his difference engine by his analytical engine, which was much more
complex, and was far more than the adding machine that the difference
engine was.
IIRC the analytical engine was almost a fully functional mechanical
computer, and was even to some degree programmable. The problem was
that while the design was very good, manufacturing technology was not up
to the requirments of the Analytical engine. It couldn't be built at
the time because the technology to make precise enough parts did not
exist for anything but a proof of concept type model.
The difference engine design was in use for a very long time with little
variation. The analytical engine was finally made within the lifetime
of most people here, but more out of intellectual curiosity rather than
out of any need to, as such a machine would have little practical use
now.
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From: Richard Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: How to make it run faster?
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:28:10 +0000
Try putting a dot between the 'www' and the 'ssc' :-)
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Declan wrote:
>
>
> that site doesnt seem to exist!
>
> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dave wrote:
>
> >RAZOR;
> > Checkout the January 99 Linux Gazzette at http://wwwssc.com/lg/ The
> >article Linux on a Shoestring gives some tips running linux on older
> >slower machines.
> >
> >RAZOR wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey guys :-)
> >> I have my second puter that is 486/66mhz ,16 mb ram with Redhat 5.1
> >> installed. My swap partition is 65 mb, and I'm running AnotherLevel
> >> X-Windows (w95 look). So X-Windows is running kinda slow. Even programs in
> >> control panel are running slow(or any other basic programs).Although I read
> >> everywhere that Linux is bringing back to life all that old machines, even
> >> freaking Winblows is running faster on this puter.
> >> What is the way to increase performance? I mean without hardware upgrades
> >> and increasing swap partition (I don't have any more space). I have Redhat
> >> 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 releases, may be I should install v5.0? Or may be another
> >> windows manager?
> >> Dudes, ANY, ANY tips are appreciated, especially from dudes who have the
> >> same puter. :-)
> >> Thanx in advance
> >
> >
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Zip Disk: Win 95 OK, Linux not happy
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 16:16:42 GMT
In article <795uo7$8te$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ball@chain () wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a zip disk, and it works OK in Windows 95 (though the
> mouse gets jumpy during disk access). I combined a kernel
> for zip use (copied ppa.h and ppa.c into /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi)
> and did "make dep clean bzdisk"
>
> I still can't insmod or do anything in the HOWTO to verify.
> I've been over the HOWTO step-by-step. I even reinstalled
> Linux from scratch after formatting my drive, and took
> a pencil to check off HOWTO steps one by one.
>
> No luck.
>
> Right now, I have a small win95 partition I ONLY use for
> zip disk access (and fstab the files over to linux). Has
> anyone else had trouble? 2.2.1
>
> Thanks
>
Did you compile IDE Floppy as module or built-in? Did it work before you
installed 2.2.1?
I also have a problem with 2.2.1 not reading the zip drive, but I think I may
have figured it out: I'm using RedHat 5.2 and I noticed when I do a dmesg
I get some interesting results:
Partition check:
sda: sda4
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
hdd:<3>ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
unable to read partition table
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,68)
hdd:<3>ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
unable to read partition table
attempt to access beyond end of device
16:44: rw=0, want=1, limit=0
FAT bread failed
The interesting thing is line 2. Linux uses sdax devices for scsi disks, but
I don't have any scsi disks, only a scsi CD-RW. The zip device used to be
/dev/hdd4, but I think it may have changed to sda4 (unless my CD-RW changed
to from scd0 to sda4), since I believe linux treats IDE zip drives as scsi
devices (somewhere in it's code). do a dmesg|more and check this for
yourself. If you see a scsi device, try mounting the zip using the scsi
device instead of the "other" device. I'd try it, but I'm at work and my
problem is at home :)
Hope this works. Tim.
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From: "Jeff Shultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.admin.isp,linux.redhat.announce
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2 upgrade pack for Red Hat 5.2 available
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 15:43:34 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: "Jeff Shultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Unfortunately, at 3:45pm Pacific Daylight Savings... The link text was there,
but it wasn't actually a hyperlink. Looks like either the announcement was a
bit ahead of reality, or they found something wrong and pulled it.
On 2 Feb 1999 06:45:28 GMT, James Bourne wrote:
>We have posted the i386.rpm, src.rpm, and patches on our WWW site at
>http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/ for several packages needed to
>upgrade a stock Red Hat 5.2 system to Linux 2.2 series of kernels. These
>should work on Red Hat 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 but were compiled under Red Hat 5.2
>and kernel 2.2.1.
>
>Packages include are:
>
>ipchains-rhcn-1.3.8-2.i386.rpm
>modutils-rhcn-2.1.121-1.i386.rpm
>net-tools-rhcn-1.50-1.i386.rpm
>procinfo-rhcn-16-1.i386.rpm
>util-linux-rhcn-2.9h-1.i386.rpm
>
>Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Regards,
>Jim
>
>--
>James Bourne | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Affinity Systems Inc. | WWW: http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca
>Everything Unix | Linux: The choice of a GNU generation
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From: Stefan Davids <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up Pine [loses ppp while fetching newsgroup list < / > ]
Date: 03 Feb 1999 23:56:16 +0000
>>>>> "joseph" == joseph a philbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
joseph> Thanks for your opinion of pine... Since you seam to be
joseph> familiar with it AND with tin,slrn etc... Maybe you can
joseph> provide me with A hint as to which TEXT BASED <<no x >>
joseph> news reader makes it easy to mark whole threads <<without
joseph> actualy opening the individual messages>> for downloading
joseph> to a user owned file (NOT A ROOT OWNED SPOOL) where a user
joseph> can then read edit and delete the file at will while
joseph> offline???
Someone else mentioned Gnus' agent mode (Although I run Innd so I
haven't tried this myself). This is certainly worth looking at and I
believe behaves like the Windows' Agent so you mark headers for later
downloading if they look interesting. Then you can read/reply offline
at your leasure and upload your replies later. I'd be surprised if it
didn't have a key combo for marking whole threads at once.
slrn's slrnpull is slightly different (someone correct me if I'm wrong
since I've never used this myself!) and will download everything in
selected newsgroups for later reading/replying offline.
joseph> I'm not anything like a linux expert, but I can do this
joseph> with my unix login at work with something they call trn
joseph> (which is probably a commercial program) the file from
joseph> which I clipped the quotes from your folow-up to my
joseph> artical (when not at work I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED]) was
joseph> automaticaly saved in $HOME/News/Comp.os.linux.misc
joseph> because thats the news group I was "in" when I told trn to
joseph> save selected threads...
Well if all you want to do is read through news groups online saving
whole threads for later then almost anything will do this. I have trn
on my machine (assuming it's the same one you're talking about) and
it's GPL AFAIK.
joseph> I have the slackware 3.5 distribution on CD <which comes
joseph> with lots of packages... But I'm not experianced enough to
joseph> recognize what package to install which newsreader <the
joseph> name of which I likely wouldn't recognize as a news
joseph> reader> nor where it would have been installed if I had
joseph> had the forsight to have installed the right
joseph> package...
Sure. I don't know off hand myself since I don't run
slackware. Anything you have installed should be in your path so try
typing trn and see if anything appears :-) If not have a look on
freshmeat or just do a web search for trn or one of the news readers
I've mentioned that you want to try out.
Stefan
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 10:29:09 +1030
From: Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Clock Skew
Yap Yin Onn wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I keep getting the below message when ever I try to compile my kernel no
> matter v2.2 or v2.0
> "make[1]: *** Warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be
> incomplete."
> Please help.....
You have a file with a last modified time that is greater than
the clock.
Easiest fix is:
make clean
touch /tmp/fred
find . -newer fred -print -exec touch {} \;
rm /tmp/fred
make as usual
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