Linux-Misc Digest #6, Volume #19 Sat, 13 Feb 99 04:13:11 EST
Contents:
Further details: excerpt from /var/log/messages (Klaus Bernpaintner)
Re: Linux Printing Problem (Brian McCauley)
Re: Data for NOT using MS-Exchange. (Matt Corddry)
Re: Can Linux share modem with Windows? (Bjoern Frantzen)
Re: Low disk space (Simon Heath)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Kinkster)
Re: FreeBSD / Linux project (Alexander Viro)
limited access.... (concord)
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From: Klaus Bernpaintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Further details: excerpt from /var/log/messages
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 02:49:03 -0500
Here's more info. The following is the relevant part from /var/log/messages
when I successfully boot from a floppy:
Feb 13 01:42:03 MAY-21-174 syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Feb 13 01:42:03 MAY-21-174 kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Cannot find map file.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Loaded 184 symbols from 10 modules.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Memory: sized by int13 088h
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max
63)
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure
at 0x000fd9e0
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at
0xfd9f0
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at
0xfda11
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Probing PCI hardware.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 231.83 BogoMIPS
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Memory: 62932k/65536k available (748k kernel code,
384k reserved, 1264k data)
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for
Linux 2.0
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for
NET3.034
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Linux IP multicast router 0.07.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel:
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using
exception 16 error reporting.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc
version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options
enabled
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver
installed.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K
size
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3840A, 3681MB w/76kB Cache,
CHS=935/128/63
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: hdc: Pioneer CD-ROM ATAPI Model DR-A12X 0100, ATAPI
CDROM drive
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: scsi : detected total.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Partition check:
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
[This is where it bails out when I try to boot from hd. It then outputs:
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:06
Kernel Panic: VSF: Unable to mount root fs on 08:06
...and stops; but when booting from floppy it goes on...]
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
found at PCI 15/0
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: (scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are
correct.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: (scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device
termination
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: (scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A
when prompted
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: (scsi0) during machine bootup.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO)
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419
instructions downloaded
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x
(EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.2/3.2.4
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Vendor: MICROP Model: 4110-09TBCU0322L Rev:
HT01
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI
SCSI revision: 02
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
lun 0
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset
15.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors=
2053880 [1002 MB] [1.0 GB]
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Adding Swap: 66540k swap-space (priority -1)
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu
Savolainen 1993-1996
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: OSS: OPL3-SA chip not found
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu
Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: OPL3 not detected ff
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: sysctl: ip forwarding off
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for
NET3.035
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address
00 60 8c b2 c7 60, IRQ 9.
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: 3c509.c:1.16 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Feb 13 01:42:04 MAY-21-174 kernel: eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Printing Problem
Date: 11 Feb 1999 18:02:14 +0000
dmalcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was careful to make the spool directories identical.
> I have made all of the permissions and owners identical.
> If I run 'lpr -Pdans-hp /etc/printcap' , I get an error reported in
> /var/log/syslog that says:
>
> Feb 10 14:31:59 ns2 lpd[136]: cannot execv /usr/lib/lpd/filter-dm
>
> I can by hand goto /usr/lib/lpd and do:
> cat filter-dm | chop | filter-dm
> and it will work perfectly. I should mention that filter-dm is command
> file (text)
Does it have:
#!/bin/bash
On the top line?
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 23:53:05 -0800
From: Matt Corddry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Data for NOT using MS-Exchange.
George--
We ran exchange 5.0 with the latest service pack on an NT4/SP3 machine
here for almost a year. Towards the end of that period, it was crashing
randomly at least once a week, and there were a number of cases of
messages simply disappearing (never being delivered). The hardware is
stable, since it's been used for other purposes with zero problems. The
hardware required to handle only 20 connections was a dual-P-133, 80M
ram, and a 4G SCSI drive. Compare this to cases where people serve 400+
POP3 clients off a P-100 with 32M ram and a couple IDE hard drives
running Linux -- you can see which solution scales, which should be
important to you.
Also keep in mind that any company running exchange with over 50
employees is normally forced to hire full-time exchange admin(s),
whereas Linux running a POP3 server requires next to no administration
(say, 1 day per month avg).
Another key weakness of NT is it's dependance on MS-everything. While we
were running exchange, I felt like I was dodging bullet after bullet
with regards to bugs and compatibility issues. A recent example: One of
our clients is running Outlook98 on WinNT. I setup a new workstation,
with NT4wks and the new SP4. After he spent 5+ hours on the phone with
MS tech $upport, they finally divulged that outlook98 (the most recent
version of outlook) has issues and doesn't work properly with Service
Pack 4 (the most recent version of NT). It seems like this should have
been tested before either product was released, but as the saying goes:
Microsoft isn't a software company, they're a marketing company.
Let me know if you need more details to help you in your fight ;)
-matt
George Farris wrote:
>
> I work for a local Collge that has about 1400 PC's and many
> students and staff. I've been advocating Linux for a while
> and we actually do have a few Linux servers and are going to
> offer an intro course in the Fall.
>
> The problem is, the powers that be are thinking of going to an
> Exchange server for email and I'm looking for all the ammunition
> I can get (besides cost) for NOT using Exchange. I want to write
> a formal response with an alternative solution using Linux. At
> the very least, I would like to see the mail system stay on the
> VAX where it currenty is.
>
> Any and all pointers, data, experience, URL's is greatly
> appriciated.
>
> Thanks in advance. I'll post results when I get them.
>
> --
> ======================================================================George Farris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bjoern Frantzen)
Subject: Re: Can Linux share modem with Windows?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:32:38 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nonet@chain <nonet@chain> wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I have Linux, but my LAN pals have Windows. They won't change.
>To convince them, I'd like to let them share my modem through
>Linux, something Windows can't do.
>
> Can this be done? Suggestions? Starters?
pluto>rpm -qf /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Windows-Modem-Sharing
howto-5.2-2
This is on a RedHat 5.2 system, but the file should be available on the net
too.
--
Bjoern Frantzen - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Heath)
Subject: Re: Low disk space
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 21:22:09 GMT
>> >Folks,
>> >I hope someone can help me..
>> >I installed Red Hat 5.2 a few days ago and I've been having trouble with disk
>> >space.. I have a 1.4gb partition as / of which about a gig should be free..
>> >except it isn't.. I deleted a >900mb file earlier (a log file from mars_nwe
>> >which I had had starting on boot) which naturally helped, but the space never
>> >fully became available again..
>> >
>> >I trapped the output from du and df as follows:
>> >446340 total
>> >Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
>> >/dev/hda1 1388895 1380996 0 100% /
>> >
>> >This is after having a bit of a cleanup (fingers crossed...)..
>> >I reckon only 450000 or so blocks should have been used..
>> >Does anyone have any hints as to what to look for to reclaim this space??
>> >Any help would be much appreciated...
>> >Barry
>>
>> AIUI, when fsck finds an orphaned file (ie, data with no filename or position)
>> it copies it to /lost+found/
>> perhaps you should check there?
>>
>> SammyTheSnake
>
>This is a problem with df not updating on a regular basis. I have the same
>problem with my xdm-error_log, it gets up to a gig or more in a matter of
>days. When I delete it, its gone, but df doesn't update until reboot. I
>don't know why. You have the space again, it just isn't being reported.
>
This could be because the process writing to the offending file still has
the file open. When you delete it it will not show up with an ls, but the
space will not become free until the process closes the file. The file can,
I believe, still increase in size, taking more disk space, after you have
deleted it if the process continues to write out data.
Simon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kinkster)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 08:23:49 GMT
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 22:56:01 -0800, David Masterson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>David Kastrup wrote:
>> While I don't think (as some) that Microsoft should be forced to ship
>> Netscape as well at the option of Windows customer, they *should* be
>> forced to make all necessary information for doing that publically
>> available so that Netscape as well as other browser vendors have a
>> chance to compete with Internet Explorer on Windows. And this should
>> be controlled tightly to ensure they don't hide important APIs, making
>> the task more or less undoable for people not into the secret.
>
>Here's an idea. If you grant that Microsoft has a (near-)monopoly in
>OS, then, as a remedy, why not remove that monopoly in a way that keeps
>the government out of the computer OS business and maintains open
>competition. My idea would be to give control of the OS over to 3 (or
>more) separate companies (one of which may be owned by MS) and have
>those companies compete with each other. In other words, each would
>have a complete copy of the OS (and the engineering know-how to support
>it). To differentiate themselves, they would then have to move their
>copy of the OS in new and innovative ways. Yet, they would have the
>engineering knowledge to incorporate innovations from the other
>companies into their copy of the OS. In so doing, they would open up
>new opportunities for getting into the MS-Windows universe.
I believe it was Robert Bork ( the former Supreme Court nominee) that
suggested that idea. The only difference was that MS itself would be
broken up into 3 companies all with the same rights to Windows, IE,
Office products etc. That's basically what they did with Standard Oil
and I think it would _really_ promote some competition and innovation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD / Linux project
Date: 13 Feb 1999 01:27:33 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A long time ago, there was this thread about FreeBSD vs. Linux. Then
>some days later, someone changed the title of the thread to "why don't
>they merge?" The whole idea, though impractical, was that the two camps
>should stop duking it out and "merge". Let's take this idea and think
>it out awhile...
Erm... At first you could try to unify OpenBSD and NetBSD <ducks>
You see, in some kind of sense all of them *are* merged. We use the
same software. In some kind of sense they should never merge, since
there is no place for two kernels on one system (OK, Mach is Mach, but...)
and there are people who should never meet on a maillist or the inevitable
resulting flamewar will make a.n.t.USA look like a nunnery.
What is really needed (and AFAIK quite welcome by all teams) is
good propagation of bug reports, since bugs are most likely shared. We would
all benefit from good unified repository for bug reports + team that would
check the relevance of bug in one system to the rest of the pack. That, and
propagation of fixes. No, I'm not volunteering for such work ;-<
BTW, even for unrelated pieces of code this would be more than useful.
In some kind of sense bugs are more natural than standards. That is, nearly
everyone who tries to implement foo makes the same bug bar. Almost all fixes
for bar introduce the same bug baz. It is quite visible in case of TCP/IP
stacks, but it's true for other pieces of kernels too. I really believed in
it when I (1) caught a bug in Linux unix_gc() (== 4.4BSD unp_gc()) that
produced a big mess in case of cyclic dependency graphs; (2) rolled a fix;
(3) found a bug in it (it missed listen queues); (4) fixed it too; (5) looked
into FreeBSD kernel and found that twin of original bug used to be there and
had been fixed in '91, that fix was similar to the first version of Linux
fix I wrote and... also missed listen queues. Rolled a patch for FreeBSD and
submitted it, indeed (kern/8498). Still not fixed, BTW.
If somebody is ready to do this work on regular basis it would be
more than welcome by everybody. Merging teams? What for? There is a big
part of bug reports/discussions that are relevant to only one of the systems
and they would be pure noise for 'merged' team. Try to subscribe *both* to
debian-devel and freebsd-hackers and see what will happen. Oh, add linux-kernel
to the same set. And don't use procmail. If you want pure hell add debian-bugs
too.
--
"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: concord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: limited access....
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 08:52:02 +0000
!!!HELP!!!
I have installed RH5.1, KDE1.1pre2, and am running kernel 2.0.34.
Last night I opened up a command window [alt+F2 from within KDE] and
typed the following:
shutdown -r 20:08 The system is shutting down
It was 20:06 at the time. I was logged in as superuser and several
other users at terminals outside the GUI but at the same machine. Sure
enough the machine shutdown and rebooted faithfully at 20:08, just like
my Linux book said it would!
Now whenever I try to log in as anyone other than the superuser I
receive the message that the system is shutting down and then that the
log-in is incorrect. If I log in as root I get the message that the
system is shutting down but I'm nevertheless allowed to log-in. I've
tried:
shutdown -c
but receive the message that no shutdown <pid> is found.
Is there a file that I can delete/change to allow me to once again use
the system normally?
Any help is of course greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Frank
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