Linux-Misc Digest #783, Volume #19 Thu, 8 Apr 99 06:13:11 EDT
Contents:
vmware and 'sub-optimal' system (Walter Strong)
Re: Emacs; is there a third way? (Michael A. Powe)
Re: hackers ("M.C. van den Bovenkamp")
Re: ip-up alternative? (oak)
Netscape Messenger hangs up when not connected, why? (Christian Wolf)
RAID PERC/2 problem (AAC-364 vs AIC-7897 ?) [Dell PowerEdge 6300] (Conrad Sanderson)
Checksum Error in NVR... (Grand Poobah of PRAM)
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (who?)
Re: Enlightenment,audio with non-ESD Apps (Jeremiah)
Stopping news? (Doug Lerner)
newsfeed ? (:P)
Re: Java Runtime Environment v1.2-pre1 problems (Linux)... :< (Crashoveride)
Re: free computer12 ("Dru")
Re: ftp and telnet on redhat 5.2 (Bill Simpson)
Re: free computer (Fedor Solodovnik)
Re: SCO compatibility?
Re: ftp and telnet on redhat 5.2 (Bill Simpson)
Re: message in /var/log/messages (John Thompson)
Re: Stopping news? (Andreas Schyman)
Re: Simplest startup desired (Andreas Schyman)
Re: Stopping news? (Andreas Schyman)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Subject: vmware and 'sub-optimal' system
Date: 8 Apr 1999 07:09:51 GMT
www.vmware.com will tell you that a PII350 with 128 meg ram is the
recommended minimum, but it works beautifully on my p200, 48 meg ram
running slak and the best window manager out there (unashamed and
perhaps debatable plug for flwm).
There's one win app that I needed to run which the wine team hadn't
implemented libraries for (it's French and obscure) so I thought I'd see
what vmware would do on my machine. Not only does it boot Win95 in an
xwindow, but it runs the app I needed and Word97, and an ftp session to
my *nix host, all at the same time at a performance level comparable to a
486/100 with, say, 16 or 24 meg ram. Did I mention that I had Emacs
running on the side, with three open xterms? This thing isn't the drain
that they claim it is. It's actually a lot easier on resources than
wine.
It's an incredible piece of work. Ironically, I was finally able to
delete my windows partition only after 'installing' windows through
vmware. Vmware isn't wine, they aim to do two very different
things (the first runs a guest os, the second will eventually run win
executables _without_ any trace of windows itself). If you _must_ run
certain winapps, or just want to test your python freezes for
portability, don't let the PII350 disclaimer stop you from trying it
out.
And if you're migrating to this post from one of the other vmware threads
with a sanctimonius tone about how vmware offends your sense of *nix
purity, you're welcome to your point of view and you can post whatever
and wherever you like (of course), but stick it just the same.
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Subject: Re: Emacs; is there a third way?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Powe)
Date: 08 Apr 1999 00:23:34 -0700
<@worldonline.nl> writes:
> The distributions of Linux that I have used thus far
> all claim that the X- and non-X versions of emacs
> can not coexist; you either have the one or the other.
> This presents a considerable problem to me and my wife;
> she, due to her visual handicap is forced to use the non-X
> version, whereas I use many Xwindows applications, and find
> it therefore a nuisance to part with X-emacs.
Don't know exactly why this should be so, except that some elements in
your .emacs file might be incompatible with one version or the other.
For example, there are some variables used in Xemacs that are not
present in GNU emacs. I think this problem can be avoided with some
conditionals. I know I certainly have always had Xemacs & GNU emacs
both working on this box. I don't like Xemacs & don't use it,
however. I just use GNU emacs when I'm in X.
mp
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From: "M.C. van den Bovenkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: kingston.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: hackers
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:21:55 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I run top and I see that
> user:nobody is running find with PRI 20!!! All of a
> sudden there's another process running "make whatis". I
> killed that and some other processes including an instance
> of gawk, I then literrally pulled the plug on my
> cablemodem. I looked in /var/log but I can't find
> anything. What, if anything,can I do to trace this
> hacker?
Sounds like 'updatedb' running. Look in your assorted crontabs
(especially root's) for it. It's updating the 'locate' database. 'man
updatedb' and 'man locate' will be enlightening...
Regards,
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Lucent Technologies Nederland.
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Tel.: (+31-35-687)2724
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From: oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ip-up alternative?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 07:33:10 GMT
I tried
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e /usr/local/bin/vim &
in ip-up but I never saw anything.
I'm doing this all as root. By the way, I'm sure
short scripts are okay to post...so I guess I'll put that dial.sh
script somewhere in ppp-on?
Thanks!
-Tony
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From: Christian Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape Messenger hangs up when not connected, why?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:55:30 +0200
Hi,
I use Netscape Messenger to read my email using a POP3 server, I am
connected via ethernet. But when I try to launch Netscape Messenger
without connection at home it's blocked for some reason. ONly the
Messenger part, I don�t have any problems using the NS Navigator.
I am running SuSE 5.3 and KDE, Netscape 4.5, and I use a DLink 660
PCMCIA Network card.
Does anybody know what could be the problem? Does Netscape try to get
some connection even if I don�t try to get my Email? There is no
online/offline mode in the Linux Version of Netscape ...
Please send answers per email,
Thanks,
Christian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Conrad Sanderson)
Subject: RAID PERC/2 problem (AAC-364 vs AIC-7897 ?) [Dell PowerEdge 6300]
Date: 8 Apr 1999 07:59:37 GMT
We've just purchased a new DELL PowerEdge 6300 (Quad Pentium III)
and a PERC/2 controller. It has 3 x SCSI disks and a SCSI cd-rom.
We cannot install RH 5.2 on it - the install stops when we attempt
to run Disk Druid or fdisk - it says that no drives have been found.
We've tried the updated RH 5.2 install disk images from Dell with
no success.
It seems that the PERC/2 controller is not the AMI MegaRAID one,
but one based on the Adaptec AAC-364. Looking at the board we've
also found two AIC-7897 chips.
Choosing AIC-7xxx for "other SCSI devices" doesn't work. Could this be
because the CD-ROM already uses the module or the chip to talk to in
this case would be AAC-364 ? There doesn't seem to be a driver
for it.
We can of course hook the SCSI disks directly to the "normal" SCSI
controller and bypass the PERC/2 card, but then we'd lose the RAID
functionality.
Does anybody know any way of getting the PERC/2 controller working
with Linux ?
--
Conrad Sanderson - Microelectronic Signal Processing Laboratory
Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grand Poobah of PRAM)
Subject: Checksum Error in NVR...
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 08:12:18 GMT
I returned forma long trip to the Pacific to find my linux box giving
this erro. I'm not sure exactly what it means-can anyone point me to
documentation on this and how to fix it? It's quite disconcerting to
see this everytime I start up the dumb term in my bedroom.
(I've got an old dumb term there so that I can log in and check my
mail without getting out of bed. Lazy, I know....)
--
"HMC #3: As observed in Scream, saying "I'll be right back" is a great
way to ensure that you'll never be back. Sharks can smell blood, dogs can
smell fear, and psycho killers can hear a mediocre character actor say
"I'll be right back" from 800 feet away during a thunderstorm. "-Stomptokyo.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (who?)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Date: 8 Apr 1999 08:35:58 GMT
Rod Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > wizard wrote:
: >>
: >> On top of adding value the strengthen the Linux code base by
: >> setting things like RPM free.
: >>
: > RPM is a good package manger, but it is *not* essential. I've been
: > running Linux for years without it.
: True, but that wasn't the claim, either. The claim is that Linux is
: strengthened by RPM. I agree with that statement.
: >> The other key item that everyone overlooks is the large amount
: >> of effort the people at RedHat, Suse and others put into driver
: >> development. If that does add value I don't know what does.
: >>
: > This is a fiction. Redhat do *not* develop drivers.
: I did a grep on some directories in my 2.2.3 kernel source tree (the
: subdirectories under the drivers directory, to be precise). There were
: several hits on "redhat," all in e-mail addresses of kernel developers.
: Now, perhaps Red Hat itself isn't officially supporting this development,
: but their people are certainly involved in it.
stupid comment, but I cant help but chastise poor english, which I am a
master of (poor english for those not following very closely).
that do, it should be does.
ok, I just realised i should change my editor
jeremy
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremiah)
Subject: Re: Enlightenment,audio with non-ESD Apps
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 08:31:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alex Arsenault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly:
> I'm trying to use GQmpeg with the ESD in enlightenment. I'v try to
> launch GQmepeg with "GQmpeg | esdcat" ,like they says on their site, but
> it dosen't work. Any ideas about how to pipe sound to ESD?
There is a version of mpg123 which was hacked to give output
to ESD. You can find it at:
http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/mpg123-0.59p-esd.tar.gz
You'll have to compile it yourself, of course...
Good luck,
Brian
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From: Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Stopping news?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:28:31 +0900
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anybody know how to stop news from starting up on reboot on Redhat Linux?
I want to use Port 119 for some other news server software I have.
Thanks!
Doug Lerner, Tokyo
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From: :P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newsfeed ?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 06:08:49 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anyone can give me newsfeed ?
my server is located in malaysia
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From: Crashoveride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.lang.java.machine,comp.lang.java.misc,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.java.developer
Subject: Re: Java Runtime Environment v1.2-pre1 problems (Linux)... :<
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 23:11:54 -0500
Idea Man wrote:
> I untarred the new JRE-1.2-pre1 to /usr/local/java and I added the
> /usr/local/java/bin to my PATH variable. I am using Redhat Linux 5.9
> (Starbuck) with kernel 2.2.3 and Glibc 2.1. What does the following error
> mean?
> =================================
> # java
>
> *** panic: GC: getStickySystemClass failed: java/lang/ref/Reference
> CLASSPATH may be incorrect
> SIGABRT 6* abort (generated by abort(3) routine)
> stackpointer=0xbffff5a0
>
> Full thread dump Classic VM (Linux_JDK_1.2_pre-release-v1, native threads):
> "main" (TID:0x410df1e0, sys_thread_t:0x81435d8, state:R, native
> ID:0x400) prio=5: pending=java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
> Monitor Cache Dump:
> Registered Monitor Dump:
> utf8 hash table: <unowned>
> JNI pinning lock: <unowned>
> JNI global reference lock: <unowned>
> BinClass lock: <unowned>
> Class linking lock: <unowned>
> System class loader lock: <unowned>
> Code rewrite lock: <unowned>
> Heap lock: <unowned>
> Monitor cache lock: owner "main" (0x81435d8) 1 entry
> Thread queue lock: owner "main" (0x81435d8) 1 entry
> Dynamic loading lock: <unowned>
> Monitor registry: owner "main" (0x81435d8) 1 entry
> ===========================================
I am not exactly sure, but you might try upgrading to kernel 2.2.4, I have
had similar errors, and I upgraded, now I don't have them anymore.
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From: "Dru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,com
Subject: Re: free computer12
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:08:44 +0100
Now that's what I call spamming
Dru
Richard Taylor wrote in message <7egtrl$5u4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Um, Dell is more than 5 years old.
>webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:7eg4vf$bsp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Free Computer at http://giveaways.arecool.net
>>
>> DELL IS GIVING AWAY 500 FREE PENTIUM 500 Computers to celebrate their 5th
>> anniversary.
>>
>> Hurry and if you are one of the first 500 people you win a new
computer!!!
>>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 09:07:34 -0500
From: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp and telnet on redhat 5.2
> Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
> >I am used to slackware system, but have just set up redhat 5.2. With this
> >machine I can't ftp in or out.
> >
> >ftp to the machine from outside:
> >421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> >
>
> The FTP daemon is either not running, or configured not to accept remote
> connections. Check /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/ftpaccess (or similar).
The ftp daemon is running because I can grab files via ftp from outside (I
was wrong before, see below).
I looked at inetd.conf and it seemed fine.
Does host.allow or hosts.deny have something to do with it?
> >ftp from the machine to get filename from outside:
> >connection gets established, but when try to get filename,
> >local: filename: permission denied
>
> IIRC, it means that you're trying to *save* the file you are retrieving
> into a space that you do not have permission to use. It's (effectively)
Yes, sorry for dumb mistake.
Bill
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From: Fedor Solodovnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.vms,comp.periphs.printers,comp.software.year-2000,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: free computer
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:28:23 +0100
This is a good idea how to distribute viruses !!!!!!!!
webmaster wrote:
>
> Free Computer at http://giveaways.arecool.net
>
> DELL IS GIVING AWAY 500 FREE PENTIUM 500 Computers to celebrate their 5th
> anniversary.
>
> Hurry and if you are one of the first 500 people you win a new computer!!!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCO compatibility?
Date: 8 Apr 1999 08:32:06 GMT
Is it possible to run applications for SCO Xenix System V on Linux?
Ed Weinberg
wrote:
> Where can I find info on running programs compiled for SCO 5.X on
> Linux?
Can this be done?
>
> CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be appreciated.
>
> -- Ed
Weinberg,
> Detel, Inc., An Internet Presence Provider
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 08:00:05 -0500
From: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp and telnet on redhat 5.2
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Marv Nachatelo wrote:
> Check the /etc/inetd.conf file and make sure ftp is correct.
> ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
Thanks for your help. Yes it is correct.
I wonder if it has to do with hosts.allow and/or hosts.deny? (Or is that
for telnet or what?)
Bill
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: message in /var/log/messages
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 19:44:29 -0600
Howard Mann wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Here is an excerpt from my /var/log/messages :
>
> Apr 5 20:20:27 localhost -- MARK --
> Apr 5 20:40:27 localhost -- MARK --
> Apr 5 21:00:27 localhost -- MARK --
> Apr 5 21:20:27 localhost -- MARK --
> Apr 5 21:40:28 localhost -- MARK --
>
> This has recently appeared. Does anyone know what this might mean?
>
> ( I obviously do not know what the 20 min periodicity implies )
The new versions of syslogd log this "-- MARK --" entry
during periods of inactivity so you can see that the daemon
was still active during that time.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Andreas Schyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stopping news?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 15:53:01 +0000
Doug Lerner wrote:
>
> Does anybody know how to stop news from starting up on reboot on Redhat Linux?
>
You could either use some sysinit-editor. There is one available in the
RedHat's control-panel if you installed that. Otherwise you'll find the
init-scripts in the /dev/rc.d folder and you could edit them by hand
commenting out the undesired daemon.
Andreas.
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From: Andreas Schyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Simplest startup desired
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:03:57 +0000
Bob Hall wrote:
>
> I am looking for a simple startup version of Linux having only features
> similar to WIN31/WIN95. I will need a good book for installation. Any
> suggestions?
I suggest you take a look at Mandrake (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/)
which basically consist of the RedHat-distro (http://www.redhat.com/),
which is widely popular and one of the easiest to install, and KDE
(http://www.kde.org/), which has a look and feel making it easy for
people used to the Windows-environment. Also, during the install you
will get the option to choose a workstation-installation which will
install and set up your computer in a useful way.
For the dual-boot question I suggest that you take a look at The
Linux-DOS-Win95-OS2'' mini-HOWTO
(http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2.html) and
some of the other HOWTO's at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/.
Good luck,
Andreas.
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From: Andreas Schyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stopping news?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:12:33 +0000
Andreas Schyman wrote:
> init-scripts in the /dev/rc.d folder and you could edit them by hand
Ofcourse it should be /etc/rc.d. Sorry about that.
Andreas.
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