Linux-Misc Digest #832, Volume #19 Tue, 13 Apr 99 07:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Who understands /etc/pam.d ???? (Mark Nielsen)
Re: 2.2.5 ppp (hellraiser)
Re: ZDNET or c-net for Linux? (Ben Short)
Virtual CDs (Lee Howes)
Re: Acrobat Reader 3.0 (Mark Nielsen)
Error code 30 on Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Auto-fallover with Linux - How To... ("Walter Klomp")
Re: Acer Aspire monitor ("William B. Cattell")
Linux for a large server, what to be aware of? (Dave E Martin XXIII)
Re: RPM utility under Windows? (Cy Kurtz)
Re: ZDNET or c-net for Linux? (J. Peterson)
Re: I could use a simple /etc/ntp.conf file (David Steuber)
Re: Is there a RockRidge driver for NT? (Robert Heller)
"unknown interrupt" in Red Hat 5.2 (bencecil)
Re: Can't boot compiled image 2.0.36 with Loadlin : Help ! Help ! Help please !
(Nguyen-Dai Quy)
problem moving tmp (Gerald Willmann)
Re: A weird clock problem (brian moore)
Re: what's the best browser for linux? (Thomas Zajic)
X11Amp (MrLoke)
Re: Laser printer, which one will in Linux (Bob Tennent)
Re: 2.2.5 ppp ("Spud")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Nielsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Who understands /etc/pam.d ????
Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:11:23 -0400
Doesn't rsh need an allow file in the home directory of the user?
I don't ever use it, so I have forgotten it over time.
Mark
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jon Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to remotely run a shell on my Linux box.
>
>I can rlogin, ftp, telnet, ping, but I can't "rsh hostname command".
>
>The /var/log/message file tells me:
>
>Apr 12 13:34 hostname PAM_PWDB[1391]: 1 authentication failure
>
>Does anyone understand the PAM authentication stuff enough to explain to
>me why I can't rexec to my Linux box?
>
>I'm running RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36) on a Pentium II/333Mz/32Meg machine.
>
>Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Jon
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From: hellraiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.5 ppp
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:23:46 -0400
right now on my 2.0.35 kernel it says that i have ppp vesrion 2.2.0...
doh... know where i can get the new version?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Subject: Re: ZDNET or c-net for Linux?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:40:49 +1000
In article <7eu93j$sof$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Is there a ZDNET or c-net type home page for linux? I mean a page with the
> latest linux news, software, opinion columns etc.
>
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try http://www.freshmeat.net and http://www.slashdot.org
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From: Lee Howes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Virtual CDs
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:07:48 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have heard that the ability to create virtual CDs is built into RH5.2
however I do not know how. Could someone please explain if I am correct
and secondly (and this is mostr important) how to do it.
Thank you, Lee Howes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Nielsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 3.0
Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:22:28 -0400
Don't know. I install it and explicity have it execute the command
/usr/local/Acrobat3/bin/acroread
and it works fine.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Stefan Rabanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've just installed acrobat reader 3.0 in the recommended directory
>/usr/local/Acrobat3 (my distribution: RedHat 5.1, my kernel: 2.2.3) When
>I tried to run it I first got some error messages concerning various
>libraries. I put symbolic links to the libraries in the directory
>/usr/local/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/lib. After that I got the
>messages: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>Can anyone give me advice?
>
>Stefan
>
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>Ernst Moritz Arndt-Universitaet, 17487 Greifswald
>http://www.uni-greifswald.de/~dt_phil/rabanus.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Error code 30 on Linux
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:29:51 GMT
To my delight, I was able to run RM/Cobol on Caldera Open Linux. However if
the Cobol program involves opening or accessing file, it always give me File
Status 30! Can anyone tell me what is the problem? Any suggestion and
valuable advise will be deeply appreciated.
REGARDS
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From: "Walter Klomp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Auto-fallover with Linux - How To...
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:32:43 +0800
Hi,
I am trying to implement an auto-fallover system with 2 Redhat linux boxes,
using rsync...
There used to be clusterd on ftp.ssc.com which basically runs on both
servers and takes action (starting and stopping programs) when one of them
goes down...
Does anybody have an idea where this program went ? It's no longer there,
and a web-search yields nothing but parallel processing application, which I
am not looking for...
If anybody out there has a working example of 2 servers taking over
eachother services in case of a hardware failure, which he/she wishes to
share with me, please let me/us know.
Any help very appreciated.
Walter Klomp
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Acer Aspire monitor
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 04:01:22 GMT
Timothy Stack wrote:
>
> Does anyone have Linux running on an Acer Aspire? I installed it last week
> and I've been playing around with the graphics configuration file. I can't
> seem to find the right configuration in order for my monitor to display
> 1024x768. I have an ATI Rage II card with 4MB. It recognizes everything
> except the resolution setting so the only setting I can see is 640x480.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Tim Stack
I'm running RH5.2/kernel 2.2.3 on an Acer Aspire P120/64Mb RAM/1Mb
VRam/ATI Mach64 chipset. The monitor I'm using is Acer's 15" 7156G.
When installing Linux I accepted the defaults for an SVGA monitor
(1024x768 @70Hz).
The book I have from Acer has several different monitor models spec in
it. Let me know which model your monitor is and I'll check its specs.
BIll
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From: Dave E Martin XXIII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux for a large server, what to be aware of?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 04:10:28 GMT
I am involved with a company that puts together new servers for clients. In
the past we have typically used SCO Unix or Windows NT, and sometimes
netware. I would like to see us start offering Linux, and we have a customer
which is amenable to the idea. I would like some info regarding the
following:
If we put together a dual pentium xeon server with the ICP (but open to
suggestions) SCSI controller and 3 18 or 33 gig drives in a raid-5 array,
somewhere around 512 meg memory, and a 100 base T ethernet (probably a 3com
something or other?), what issues should we be aware of?
In particular: can ext2fs handle a 50 gig filesystem reliably? In the event
of sudden power fail? How long would a fsck take? (we would really prefer
to avoid a bunch of little filesystems)
Can linux's NFS handle >4gig filesystems and/or files? what about samba?
How do the above two questions apply to Coda (and is coda even ready for this
sort of thing yet?)
What would be an appropriate linux supported backup device for something this
large (they have a DLT tape drive on the present server we may scavenge if it
will work)
This system will be serving approx 15 unix (SGI Irix presently, possibly Sun
and others later) machines via NFS and an approximately equal number of
mswindows PC's using either NFS or samba (they currently use NFS with their
present server) These numbers will possibly go up over time. There is a
potential issue with an application (IDEAS Master Series, a CAD package) that
has server-based licensing. I haven't investigated how this actually works
yet, and hope it won't be a stumbling block)
Basically i'm hoping that linux is up to the task and I won't end up with egg
on my face
A couple of nagging questions i've got not specifically related to the above:
Is anything been/being done about the 127 meg swap size limitation (I would
prefer one large swap area to 10 little ones)
Some linuxes seem to have trouble detecting memory beyond 64 meg without a
lilo parameter, others seem to do it just fine; whats the status of this? It
doesnt seem to be related to the kernel version (I had a 2.1.121 system that
couldn't do it, and a 2.0.36 system that could on separate partitions on the
same system (different linux distributions))
Anything else I should be aware of?
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From: Cy Kurtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RPM utility under Windows?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:17:02 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christophe Zwecker wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Now, is there something available that will let me
> >untar an archive so I can reduce it to floppy-sized
> winzip can do that
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have you tried 'split'?
It worked great for me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Peterson)
Subject: Re: ZDNET or c-net for Linux?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 02:50:14 GMT
http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/linux/
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I could use a simple /etc/ntp.conf file
Date: 12 Apr 1999 14:03:46 -0400
Thanks for the help, guys.
It looks like I would be better off waiting for ADSL to become
available (providing the price is right) before I get xntp set up.
Currently, I have rdate called from cron once per day. It is rather
surprising, and annoying, to see how much the clocks drift in that
time.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a RockRidge driver for NT?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 04:04:28 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
In a message on 12 Apr 1999 14:15:35 +0100, wrote :
A>
A> In comp.os.linux.misc Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A> > There has to be a RockRidge driver for NT somewhere, or some way to
A> > mount this CD in NT where I will get full length file names.
A>
A> I've been unable to find such a beast in the last 18 months; however
A> I'd be glad to be proven wrong :-)
There is one (totally nasty) solution:
1) get a cheap '486 with CD-ROM drive.
2) get two EtherNet boards, one for above box, one for your NT box
3) install linux w/ samba on the cheap '486
4) export the CDROM mount point read-only w/ guest privs on the
'486 / Linux box. Put the NT box and the '486 in the same
workgroup.
5) put the cd in the linux box's CDROM, mount it under Linux,
and mount it as a network drive on the NT box.
And there you are.
(you can even install the hfs module and mount MacOS CDs and
read them on the 'NT box.)
Yes, this is a total overkill solution, but '486's are probably
cheaper than any commercial RockRidge driver for NT, which is most
likely the only thing that is out there, if anything is.
A>
A> --
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A> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A>
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From: bencecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "unknown interrupt" in Red Hat 5.2
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 19:41:48 +1000
Howde people,
I am receiving "unknown interrupt" messages, followed by a lock up on my
Red Hat 5.2 (Kernel 2.0.36) system.
I have 3 networked PCs.
450 pentium (win95)
150 pentium (win95)
100 pentium (hopefully file and print server - Linux)
-- all have PCI network cards detected and working OK.
It (the Linux box) runs fine by itself, but when I boot one of the win95
machines and try to connect to the network, the error emerges.
Any advice would be extremely helpful.
Ben
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From: Nguyen-Dai Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't boot compiled image 2.0.36 with Loadlin : Help ! Help ! Help please
!
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:43:51 +0200
Nguyen-Dai Quy wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I use RH-5.2. Yesterday, I tried compile my Kernel 2.0.36.
> I done:
> $ make menuconfig
> $ make dep
> $ make clean
> $ make modules
> $ make modules_install
> And I look for zImage in the dir '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'.
> I use LOADLIN for booting from Win95's partition.
> I copied new 'zImage' to this partition and boot ...
>
> ... not an Image file
> Please enter name of kernel image file followed by optional command line
> parameters for Linux...
>
> I don't understand why ?
> I try copy this image (zImage) to diskette by using :
> $ cat zImage > /dev/fd0
> or
> $ dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0
>
> And I can boot from this diskette !!!
>
> Anyone can explain me why ? With the same 'zImage' but I can't boot from
> hard disk !!!
>
> My Loadlin can boot with the old image (2.0.36 RH-5.2 updated).
>
> Please help me !!!
> Thank you very for your help.
>
> PS: If possible, I hope receive your ideas at my address e-mail.
>
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Add : I already done : make zImage !
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem moving tmp
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:18:08 -0700
I tried moving tmp to its own partition and that in itself is no problem.
Simply copied everything in tmp with cp -a onto the partition and then
mounted it at /tmp. But afterwards I get a strange problem: for every user
who logs in I get two bash processes. Pine complains that another process
is accessing the mailbox (the second bash?). When I try to kill the second
bash which shows clearly via ps aux I get unknown PID. Could anyone tell
me what's going on and how to get around this problem. Thanks,
GErald
ls -al /tmp gives
total 7
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 1024 Apr 12 18:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Apr 12 18:12 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Apr 11 10:01 .X11-unix
srwxrwxrwx 1 anne anne 0 Apr 8 16:38 .axnetipc
srwxrwxrwx 1 gerald gerald 0 May 6 1998 .axsc1
drwxrwxrwx 2 gerald gerald 1024 Apr 5 19:37 .cdaudio
srwxrwxr-x 1 gerald gerald 0 Feb 24 09:34 01070aaa
srwxrwxr-x 1 gerald gerald 0 Feb 7 1998 01865aaa
drwxrwxr-x 3 gerald gerald 1024 Feb 9 14:30 lyx_tmp18490aaa
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 May 5 1998 tksysv
-rw------- 1 root root 327 Apr 8 11:06 tkt0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: A weird clock problem
Date: 13 Apr 1999 05:02:07 GMT
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 13:02:47 +0000,
Martin DiViaio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having a weird clock problem with my laptop running RedHat 5.2 and
> the 2.0.36 kernel.
>
> When ever I leave the maching idle, eight minutes later the clock will
> stop.
>
> The only thing I am using that might be clock related are APM support
> and Real Time Clock support in the kernel and an X/AfterStep app called
> asclock (not as root.) Only root is able to set the clock.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?
Yep, your CPU is napping (which it should do on a laptop).
There are two (well, more, really) clocks in Linux: one is the obvious
hardware clock, the other is a software clock. The software clock gets
incremented 100 times a second at each interrupt. Since reading the
hardware clock is relatively slow, when you call the various functions
to get the time, it uses the software clock.
The problem here is that your laptop is entering 'standby' mode, and in
the process, putting the CPU completely asleep. (Normally standby just
does some power reductions to conserve power without knocking out the
CPU, but some laptops are weird. Actually, they all are.)
Since your CPU is comatose, it's not going to care about the timer any
more, and those 100'ths of seconds will merrily roll past it. That's
sort of against the point, eh?
So how to fix it?
See http://www.wpi.edu/~jmhill/LinuxPage/apmdoc1.html for what to do (a
simple kernel patch that makes standby mode act more like suspend mode
in dealing with the clock).
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From: Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what's the best browser for linux?
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:47:52 GMT
David Efflandt wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:40:34 -0400, Charles Coombs
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [ ... ]
> >Is the answer Netscape 4.5x series or have that not fixed the bugs
> >(which I can list some other time if you want).
> I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that 4.08 in Linux is
> similar to 4.5 in other OS's.
Umm ... no. The version numbers are the same regardless of platforms.
Both the 4.0x and 4.5x series are available for Linux, and there�s a
4.08 for Windoze as well.
Thomas
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From: MrLoke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X11Amp
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:02:42 +0200
What exactly do I need to use X11Amp, rpms tar balls etc.. ?
I'm rather new to Linux, using RedHat 5.2 with kernel 2.2.5 on a Pentium
II.
And I hate installing useless garbage.
I am sorry if this has been discussed before.
Thanks in advance
MrLoke
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From: r d t@c s.q u e e n s u.c a (Bob Tennent)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Laser printer, which one will in Linux
Date: 12 Apr 1999 11:28:36 GMT
On 12 Apr 1999 06:42:22 GMT, Jeremy L. Buchmann wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc henk van der knaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: I intend to buy a laser printer. The following brands are available here:
>: Hewlett Packard, Canon, Oki, Brother (These are the main names)
>: Can anybody, please, advise me which one works particularly well under
>: Linux?
>
>If you have the money, get one that understands Postscript. That saves A
>LOT of trouble!
If one gets a printer that is supported by ghostscript and have
a distribution with a printer-setup tool, it's not much trouble.
Bob T.
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From: "Spud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.5 ppp
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 05:42:24 GMT
Heehehehe, this was a change in kernel 2.2.x. Slackware linux comes with
both pppd 2.2 and 2.3. However, it comes with pppd as a sym link to
pppd2.2.x. Kernel 2.2.x requires pppd2.3.x, so you need to change the link
that pppd points to. Luckily, Slackware 3.6 comes with both versions of
pppd, i forget what dir they are in.
>i successfully installed kernel 2.2.5 using slackware 3.6. everything
>installed fine, the modules and all, but ppp acts weird. i've compiled
>the kernel MANY times... each time i select the networking options
>required for ppp, but half the time ppp installs and half the time it
>doesn't (wtf?). when i run pppd (if ppp support installs) it connects
>to my isp and immediately disconnects... it said that modprobe couldn't
>find 'module ppp-compress-21' (the message comes right after my remote
>and local ip's were verified... then the ppp link disconnects). on
>2.0.35 pppd worked fine. what's going on?? if you want to see my my
>configuration files for pppd, just ask.
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