Linux-Misc Digest #949, Volume #18 Mon, 8 Feb 99 03:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Samba Question (Peter S. Frouman)
Re: connection speed of modem (James Rosinski)
Re: Connecting to the Internet (Tommy Willoughby)
Re: glibc 2.0.6 now error compiling kernel (Paul Kimoto)
Lilo: 3 Systems cause trouble? (Eric Wick)
Re: BIOS settings for PnP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
su (to nobody) ... (Patrick)
Re: Time Synchronization (Bob Hauck)
Lost /usr partition. Please help!! ("Juhani Vanhala")
Re: first unix port to x86 (Tim Smith)
Re: Resizing of DOS-Partition (Sebastian Henkel)
LUGOD - Linux User Group of Davis - Meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 9 (William Kendrick)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter S. Frouman)
Subject: Re: Samba Question
Date: 8 Feb 1999 06:11:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 02:06:06 GMT, Trey Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>fine (I can ping either one from the other). I can "see" the Linux
>box from the NT box, but I can not access it. I try to "explore" the
>Linux box from the NT box, and it asks for a username and password
>(note that my windows name & pw match the one I use on the Linux box).
>I type in the name & pw anyway, and NT tells me that "The account is
>not authorized to log in from this station". How do I fix this? I
This might be the common problem of the NT/Windows box sending encrypted
passwords by default and the Samba server not being configured to handle
them. If this is the problem, there are two possible solutions:
1. Configure Samba to use encrypted passwords. See the following:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/textdocs/ENCRYPTION.txt
2. Configure NT to use plain text passwords. The samba website has a
registry file that details the neccessary modifications:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/NT4_PlainPassword.reg
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-Peter Frouman | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zippy says:
Everybody gets free BORSCHT!
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From: James Rosinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: connection speed of modem
Date: 07 Feb 1999 23:19:40 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try installing "pload", available from www.engr.utk.edu/~mdsmith/pload.
It displays graphically the current upload/download rates over a ppp
connection. The output format is very similar to "xload".
Jim Rosinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Steve Weigand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yeah, but that's not really the best way to figure out what your
> modem's current speed is, is it? I mean, my 56K modem sometimes
> connects initially at, say, 40Kbaud, then steps up to 50Kbaud.
> Sometimes the line deteriorates, so it may drop down to 28.8Kbaud.
> Etc.
>
> I wish there was a way to send "ATI6" to my modem (which should query
> the modem's stats) *while* using PPP. But as I understand it, such a
> thing would be difficult to implement without the possibility of losing
> packets. Any ideas?
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From: Tommy Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connecting to the Internet
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 06:39:52 GMT
Richard W. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Recently loaded Red Hat 5.2 and am trying to configure dial up. I can
> connect to my ISP but the PPP connection is not going thru, I get all
> those swigly characters but ALT-Q does nothing. I have done the
> resolve.conf file, ppp options file, I get a login prompt so I don't
> need PAP or CHAP. Have I missed configuring a file? Any replies
> would be appreciated via e-mail or to this newsgroup is fine. I am
> able to get on the net from Win98.
What is ALT-Q supposed to do? "all those swigly characters" are
probably your ppp connection. What software are you trying to run?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: glibc 2.0.6 now error compiling kernel
Date: 8 Feb 1999 01:49:19 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newsgroups trimmed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Piot Lee wrote:
> I have just installed glibc on my linux box that has kernel 2.2.1. I
> now wanted to recompile the kernel, cause I changed glibc after having
> changed the kernel. Now I get all the time error messages, when I try
> to run
> make menuconfig
> it says something that my curses.h causes problems.
... because you have to recompile the ncurses libraries for glibc.
> Then I tried to reinstall glibc, because I thought this would solve
> the problem, but even this installation stops now with an error.
[...]
> Anybody has any idea what to do?
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/glibc-2.0.6/ctype'
> gcc -B/usr/src/glibc-2.0.6/compile/ test_ctype.c -c -O2 -Wall -Winline
> -Wno-paro
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target
> `/usr/src/glibc-2.0.6/compile/libc.so.6', n.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/glibc-2.0.6/ctype'
> make[1]: *** [ctype/tests] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/glibc-2.0.6'
> make: *** [check] Error 2
^^^^^
This is the result of "make check", not "make" [the libraries].
Did you (re)move /usr/src/glibc-2.0.6/compile/libc.so.6?
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Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Wick)
Subject: Lilo: 3 Systems cause trouble?
Date: 8 Feb 1999 06:39:35 GMT
Hello,
i've just configured the Lilo for 3 primary Partitions.
1. IBM-Dos7
2. Win95
3. Debian2.0
The Linux starts already well but the 2 Oldies makes trouble. Lilo switch the
bootable OS to C: and the other to D: but the Bootloader seems to resist in the
MBR and not the Partitionsector. So only the System with the last "sys c:" from
a System-Bootdisk will work, the other says "No system".
Any Ideas and comments? Is there a FAQ to read about this?
Bye!
Eric Wick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: BIOS settings for PnP
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 06:50:14 GMT
I asked a similar question in this newsgroup. The answer by James Moss
may interest you. My posting was entitled Disable bios PnP on
dual-boot machine, Feb 3.
The short answer is that Windows does rely on this to allow it to
dynamically figure out IRQs and memory resources for your various
devices at each boot.
You can defeat this behavior and set the values for each device
yourself in the device manager. The key is to uncheck the box-- for
every device I think-- that says something like "use automatic
settings." Only good if your hardware configuration doesn't change.
This way you make Windows live without PnP.
The other possibility is to make Linux live with it. As I understand,
that's what the isapnp tools are for. They are installed by default
with some distributions.
"Clue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, I've read that in order to run Linux properly with everything working
>properly, the PnP aware option in the BIOS must be turned off. Would that
>(turning off the OS PnP aware) affect other operating systems on my
>computer? (namely Windows 9x)
>Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks
>
>
>
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From: Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: su (to nobody) ...
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 07:43:52 +0100
Hi!
If i find the following line in my /var/log/messages
Feb 8 06:53:15 myhost su: (to nobody) root on none
does that mean that a user nobody used su to log in as root?
or does this only mean he/she/it attempted to.
Who has got the right to log onto a linux box as nobody?
I understood it was only some daemons(httpd) which ran as nobody.....
Patrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: Time Synchronization
Date: 8 Feb 1999 04:40:51 GMT
In article <79khr8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
autodata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. How do I configure the Linux box (server on our LAN) to get the time
> from a time server via the Internet?
Use rdate or ntp.
> 2. How can I get the WinXX machines on the lan to sync to the Linux
> server?
> BTW ... the Linux server is running RH 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36). The
> network is running Samba 2.0.
Samba supports NET TIME just fine. I would advise you to keep
using it. Set the Linux clock by one of the above methods and
then have the clients sync using NET TIME as before.
--
21:30:00 up 71 days, 9:18, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00
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From: "Juhani Vanhala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lost /usr partition. Please help!!
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:24:31 -0800
Please, someone tell me this mess can be fixed.
I have currently Win98 and Linux in my PC. I have two HDs, which both have
several partitions:
hda: 216Mb FAT16
807Mb FAT32
1.4Gb Linux Ext2
hdb1: 133 Mb Linux /root
hdb5: 4Gb Linux /usr
hdb6: 1.5Gb Linux /home
hdb7: 125Mb Linux swap
hdb8: 2.2Gb FAT16
Don't as why I have mixed Linux and Win partitions to both disks. There is a
long history with various OS configurations that resulted to this
combination.
Now to the problem: I wanted to get rid of the 2.2Gb FAT16 partition on
second disk. I used Win98 fdisk, which told me that I have one 2.2Gb logical
drive E: in my extended partition. I told fdisk to delete that drive. Fdisk
told me: "Done, reboot your computer" I did that, and to my surprize 2.2Gb
partition did not go anywhere. This is where I started getting nervous, and
booted to Linux. Yes, you quessed right, Linux complained at boot that hdb6
superblock is messed up, use 'e2fsck -b 8193' to attempt recovery. I choosed
to boot to single user mode and did what boot error suggested. However, this
'e2fsck -b 8193' did not help at all, since it gave the same error what I
got in the boot. I did not attemps to mount any partitions to avoid further
data loss.
Since Linux is now badly crippled, I went to Win98 to see what is wrong with
my partition table. I used "Ranish Partition Manager" and Power Quest
"Partition Information Program" to get two reports out. See "Appendix A" and
"Appendix B"
To me it looks like that fdisk wiped out the fist Ext or EPBR entry from the
partition table, which to my understanding is hdb5. My quess is that during
boot Linux assumed that the first logical drive it finds from hdb must be
hdb5. However, since the original hdb5 was not there anymore, Linux
interpreted hdb6 as hdb5. Of cource hdb6 then was not what Linux expected
and that is why it complained about that. Do you think I got that right: It
is actually hdb5 that is messed up, not hdb6 as Linux claims?
The next step would be to figure out how to fix this mess. I would think I
need to punch in proper Start and End info for the missing partition. I'm
sure the free space reported by both of these tools is my missing hdb5, but
I'm not sure what numbers should I give for all the entries in the table.
I'm also not sure which tool should I use for the job. Any pointers in that
area would be most wellcome.
I would REALLY hate to loose my Linux setup after two month intensive fine
tuning with the system. It was running SO well now. So, please, help me out.
Thanks,
Juhani
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APPENDIX A:
Ranish Partition Manager Version 2.38 Beta 1.6 November 26, 1998
HD 2 (129) 8,063M [ 1,027 cyls x 255 heads x 63 sects = 16,514,064
sects ]
Problems File Starting Ending
Partition
# Type Row System Type Cyl Head Sect Cyl Head Sect Size
[KB]
0 MBR Master Boot Record 0 0 1 0 0 1
0
1 Pri Unused 0 0 2 0 0 63
31
2 Pri 1 Linux ext2fs 0 1 1 16 254 63
136,521
3 Pri 2 Extended 17 0 1 1,026 254 63
8,112,825
4 � Log Unused 17 1 1 526 254 63
4,096,543
5 � Ext Extended 527 0 1 718 254 63
1,542,240
6 � Log Linux ext2fs 527 1 1 718 254 63
1,542,208
7 � Ext Extended 719 0 1 734 254 63
128,520
8 � Log Solaris x86 719 1 1 734 254 63
128,488
! 9 � Ext Extended 735 0 1 1,023 254 63
2,321,392
! 10 � Log DOS FAT-16 735 1 1 1,026 254 63
2,345,458
11 Pri Unused 1,027 0 1 1,027 242 63
7,654
Partition table details:
Problems Starting Ending Starting Number of
Ending
# Type R FS Cyl Head Sct Cyl Head Sct sector sectors
sector
0 MBR FF 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1
0
1 Pri 00 0 0 2 0 0 63 1 62
62
2 Pri 1 83 0 1 1 16 254 63 63 273,042
273,104
3 Pri 2 05 17 0 1 1,026 254 63 273,105 16,225,650
16,498,754
4 � Log 00 17 1 1 526 254 63 273,168 8,193,087
8,466,254
5 � Ext 05 527 0 1 718 254 63 8,466,255 3,084,480
11,550,734
6 � Log 83 527 1 1 718 254 63 8,466,318 3,084,417
11,550,734
7 � Ext 05 719 0 1 734 254 63 11,550,735 257,040
11,807,774
8 � Log 82 719 1 1 734 254 63 11,550,798 256,977
11,807,774
! 9 � Ext 05 735 0 1 1,023 254 63 11,807,775 4,642,785
16,450,559
! 10 � Log 06 735 1 1 1,026 254 63 11,807,838 4,690,917
16,498,754
11 Pri 00 1,027 0 1 1,027 242 63 16,498,755 15,309
16,514,063
Problems with partition 9:
Invalid layout of extended partition chain
Problems with partition 10:
Invalid layout of extended partition chain
Boot sector doesn't have valid information
Partition records exactly as they appear in MBR (EMBR):
Starting Ending Starting Number of
# HD FS Cyl Head Sect Cyl Head Sect sector sectors
(0,0,1):
1 00 83 0 1 1 16 254 63 63 273,042
2 00 05 17 0 1 1,023 254 63 273,105 16,225,650
3 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(17,0,1):
1 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 00 05 527 0 1 718 254 63 8,193,150 3,084,480
3 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(527,0,1):
1 00 83 527 1 1 718 254 63 63 3,084,417
2 00 05 719 0 1 734 254 63 11,277,630 257,040
3 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(719,0,1):
1 00 82 719 1 1 734 254 63 63 256,977
2 00 05 735 0 1 1,023 254 63 11,534,670 4,642,785
3 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(735,0,1):
1 00 06 735 1 1 1,023 254 63 63 4,690,917
2 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Detailed information about each partition:
--- Partition 2 ---
Type: Linux ext2fs CHS=(0,1,1) 136,521 k 273,042 sectors
Print info function is not available for this file system.
--- Partition 6 ---
Type: Linux ext2fs CHS=(527,1,1) 1,542,208 k 3,084,417 sectors
Print info function is not available for this file system.
--- Partition 8 ---
Type: Solaris x86 CHS=(719,1,1) 128,488 k 256,977 sectors
Print info function is not available for this file system.
--- Partition 10 ---
Type: DOS FAT-16 CHS=(735,1,1) 2,345,458 k 4,690,917 sectors
Volume Label: NO NAME
System id: MSWIN4.1
File system: FAT16
Cluster size: 64k (128s)
FAT size: 72k
Drive number: 128 Exp: 129
Starting sector: 63
Expected value: 11,807,838
Number of sectors: 4,690,917
Expected value: 4,690,917
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APPENDIX B:
Partition Information Program
May 12 1997 - DOS Version
Copyright (c) 1994-1997, PowerQuest Corporation
==============================================================
Disk 1: 1027 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track.
The BIOS supports INT 13h extensions for this drive.
====================== Partition Tables ======================
Partition ----Begin---- ------End----- Start Num
Sector # Boot Cyl Head Sect FS Cyl Head Sect Sect Sects
======= = ==== === ==== ==== == ==== ==== ==== ======= =======
0 0 00 0 1 1 83 16 254 63 63 273042
0 1 00 17 0 1 05 1023 254 63 27310516225650
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 1 00 17 0 1 05 1026 254 63 27310516225650
273105 1 00 527 0 1 05 718 254 63 8466255 3084480
8466255 0 00 527 1 1 83 718 254 63 8466318 3084417
8466255 1 00 719 0 1 05 734 254 6311550735 257040
11550735 0 00 719 1 1 82 734 254 6311550798 256977
11550735 1 00 735 0 1 05 1023 254 6311807775 4642785
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
11550735 1 00 735 0 1 05 1023 254 6311807775 4642785
11807775 0 00 735 1 1 06 1023 254 6311807838 4690917
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
11807775 0 00 735 1 1 06 1026 254 6311807838 4690917
========================================================================
Disk 1: 8056.0 Megabytes
========================= Partition Information ========================
Volume Partition Partition Start Total
Letter:Label Type Status Size MB Sector # Sector Sectors
============= =============== ======== ======= ======= = ======= =======
Linux Ext2 Pri 133.3 0 0 63 273042
Extended Pri 7922.7 0 1 27310516225650
EPBR Log 0.0 None - 273105 63
Free Space Log 4000.5 None - 273168 8193087
EPBR Log 1506.1 273105 1 8466255 3084480
Linux Ext2 Log 1506.1 8466255 0 8466318 3084417
EPBR Log 125.5 8466255 111550735 257040
Linux Swap Log 125.511550735 011550798 256977
EPBR Log 2267.011550735 111807775 4642785
E:NO NAME FAT16B Log 2290.511807775 011807838 4690917
Warning #113: Logical starting at 11807838 overlaps enclosing extended
volume.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Smith)
Subject: Re: first unix port to x86
Date: 7 Feb 1999 20:56:04 -0800
Nick Zentena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>When did that come out? I have a "True Blue" copy of PCIX that's
>>dated 10/83. It's System III and runs on the 8088 (yes, an XT)
>
> Wasn't that actually Xenix?
No. It had no connection whatsoever to Xenix, other than being based on
licensed Unix source code.
--Tim Smith
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 07:49:58 +0100
From: Sebastian Henkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Resizing of DOS-Partition
That was what I tried first. But the system said, it was 0% deframented. And when
I looked at it with fips I just got 180MB of the free 600MB, as some blocks where
left over and couldn't be moved. Then I was given the hint to use Norton Utilities
for that purpose and that totally backfired. Norton Utilities puts the least used
blocks at the end of my hard disk. And I haven't figured out yet, how I can move
the free area to the end of my disk.
Perhaps somebody now of a tool, that can move blocks on a hard disk.
Keith schrieb:
> On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 09:16:05 +0100, Sebastian Henkel
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem with my WIN95 PC and installing Linux.
> >
> > There is a nice tool for resizing my old partions on my LINUX CD called
> > fips. But in order to do any ersizing, I need to sort all blocks on my
> > harddisk in front of the partition. Unfortunatly I have run Norton
> > Utilities3.0 to defrag my partition. This program optimized my partition by
> > moving all my files that are not used very often to the end of my disk. Now
> > I can't use fips. Unfortunatly I have no CD-Writer or ZIP drive and my
> > partition is 2.1GB large with 600MB free.
> > Having a seperate 400MB harddisk I would like to have the full 1GB for Linux
> > while keeping my original WIN95 partition.
> >
> > Can anybody give me any hint of what I can do or tell me of a program that
> > can reshuffel my blocks?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Sebastian
> >
> >
>
> If you have MS-DOS you should run defrag. If you have a windows
> swap disk you should delete it before running defrag.
>
> --
> Keith
> ------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.teleport.com/~kew/simtelnet1999
> A list of the Latest uploads to SIMTEL.NET
> finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Kendrick)
Crossposted-To:
ucd.life,ucd.comp.questions,ucd.cs.club,ucd.cs.programming,ucd.cs.ugrad,ucd.cs.grad,ucd.general
Subject: LUGOD - Linux User Group of Davis - Meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 9
Date: 8 Feb 1999 07:22:46 GMT
The third meeting of LUGOD, the Linux User Group of Davis, will be held at
Steve's Pizza (314 F Street, Davis, 530-758-2800) on Tuesday, February 9,
at 6:30pm.
LUGOD is a group of Linux Operating System enthusiasts from and around Davis,
California. Our goal is "to geekify the poulace, and have fun doing it."
Or, in other words, to increase general awareness of the Linux Operating
System, increase our own awareness of what Linux is capable of, and what
we're capable of doing with Linux, and enjoy ourselves while we're at it.
Anyone who uses Linux (or any other flavor of Unix), wishes to use Linux,
or is interested in what this whole "Linux Revolution" is about, is invited
to join us. As are people who simply like computers, or are interested in
eating pizza.
Topics for this week's meeting will include:
* Avenues for recognition (ASUCD, City of Davis, etc.).
* What membership should consist of.
* Should we join GLUE (Groups of Linux Users Everywhere)?
* Should we inform Linux magazines that we exist? Local newspapers? TV!?!?
Among other things.
For more information, please visit our website: http://www.davis.com/lugod/
(space donated by Mother.com).
Thank you, and see you Tuesday!
-bill!
Unofficial LUGOD secretary
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