Linux-Misc Digest #842, Volume #19 Wed, 14 Apr 99 04:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: compiled Kernel 2.0.36 & LOADLIN : HELP ! HELP ! (Anthony Campbell)
Re: HP CD-Writer on NT ("Jim Ross")
Re: FTP or telnet scripting? (Jim Richardson)
Re: WordPerfect 8 Installation (Jim Richardson)
Re: Emacs W3 browser? (Jim Richardson)
Re: coredump with free() in C language (Christophe Spada)
Re: Acrobat Reader 3.0 (Armando Ortiz)
Re: Palm Pilot interface for Linux? (Christopher Browne)
Re: NFS Questions... (L J Bayuk)
Re: Solved Re: RealPlayer problems ("Karsten M. Self")
Re: compiled Kernel 2.0.36 & LOADLIN : HELP ! HELP ! (Michel)
Re: Who understands /etc/pam.d ???? (Ian Westcott)
Re: PPP problems dialing up (Silviu Minut)
Re: Installing Oracle8 on RedHet 5.2 (Niklas Lofgren)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Subject: Re: compiled Kernel 2.0.36 & LOADLIN : HELP ! HELP !
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 06:20:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 13 Apr 1999 21:35:11 -0500, Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>--------------30CFCF48AE4E7AAD14A38565
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>Nguyen-Dai Quy wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I use RH-5.2. Yesterday, I tried compile my Kernel 2.0.36.
>> The compiling is OK and I obtain 'zImage'.
>> 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 !!!
>>
>> Thank you very for your help.
>>
>> PS: If possible, I hope receive your ideas at my address e-mail.
>>
>
>Try running lilo from the console prompt. Did you update you lilo.conf to the new
>file?
>
>look at the attachment file to see how I do my lilo.conf
>Keep in mind that for me lilo is not on the mbr since I use the OS/2 manager
>but the menu for the kernels should be the same.
>
>first after I compiled the kernel I did :
>cp bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5
>
>If my kernel would have been bad all I would have to do is type old and it would
>boot on the old kernel. The first one is always the default.
>
>
This is beside the point, since the original poster says he was using
loadlin.exe, not lilo, and IMO he is right to do this; it avoids all
problems arising from bad kernels since you just use the old kernel
instead.
Not sure why he experienced difficulty booting from HDD but not from
floppy.
Things to check: 1. Is loadlin looking at the right kernel image on the
HDD?
2. Try recopying the kernel to HDD, since perhaps it became
corrupted in the process.
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone)
Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
------------------------------
From: "Jim Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HP CD-Writer on NT
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 02:19:58 -0400
Jason Bailey wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>At work I have an HP CD-Writer Plas 7200 series attached to an NT 4.0
>server (service pack 4). I have been trying to use Adaptec Easy CD
>Creator to copy some Linux files onto a CD. Problem is that Linux sees
>all the files as MS-DOS 8.3 files. Anybody know a way around this with
>out connecting the CD-RW to a Linux box?
>
>Any Light that can be shed would be extremely appreciated!
>Jason
>
I'd like to make the distinction.
Are you saying Easy CD doesn't see the long file names or
are you saying that even in a Bash shell and X program don't see the
long file names.
Assuming Linux doesn't even see long file names then you need to mount your
NT partition as either VFAT or NTFS to get long file name. It likely is
mounted as msdos. I assume you're using Wine to run EasyCD is that right?
Are you using Redhat? If so cabaret is easy to unmount and remount your
drive.
I have Easy CD and an HP 7200 too and have heard it can work under Linux but
I haven't worked on it.
If you have much trouble that my be something to look at.
One other thing on a different though.
Usually a great program called Explore2fs is at
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
I can read and write Linux ext2 partitions from Win95/NT.
I have transferred files from NT into Linux so that is one way to retain
long file names.
Jim
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: FTP or telnet scripting?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 01:48:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 17:27:21 GMT,
marek jedlinski, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>(RH 5.1)
>
>I've looked at the manpage for the plain old ftp client, and it does
>mention "macros" but doesn't really document them, so I'm stuck. I'm
>looking for a way to run simple unattended ftp or telnet sessions -
>basically to automatically a few files from my ISP's shell account (also
>running on RH Linux, btw). Just connect, chdir, get and close. Telnet would
>be nicer because I could also zip files before transfer. Is there anything
>that can do that? Can the basic ftp client run non-interactively?
>
>TIA,
>
>.marek
>
>
>--
>General Frenetics, Discorporated: http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/
>"This seems like a case where we need to shoot the messenger." (Charlie
>Kaufman on Cypherpunks list)
>
autoexpect should fit the bill, man autoexpect for details.
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, because a cpu is a terrible thing to waste."
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 Installation
Date: 14 Apr 1999 01:48:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 17:49:23 -0400,
Ranjit Solomon, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>Hi,
>
>I am a newbee and trying to install WordPerfect 8. I downloaded the 7
>files and untar them When I run the Runme, I get this message
>
>"Did you unzip and untar files you downloaded ?"
>
>if I type "y" - Error: Nothing to install.
> "n"- Please refer to the Readme file if you have
>questions.
>I can't get pass these error messages.
>
>I would be very much appreciate if someone could help.
>
>Thanks
>
>Ranjit.
>
IIRC
If you d/l with netscape, the files may allready be unzipped, (although
NS doesn't change the file ext when it does this,) do a
$> file filename.tar.gz
to make sure that they are zipped files.
Then, despite what the directions say, do not unzip and untar all the files,
just the first one. the script expects the files to be tarzipped up (all but
the first one.) it's a pain, and corel deserves a boot to the head for this.
but, such is life. (they deserve kudoes for making it avail in the first
place though. )
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, because a cpu is a terrible thing to waste."
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: Emacs W3 browser?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 01:48:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11 Apr 1999 20:06:36 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>
>Does anyone have users that are using the Emacs W3 browser, (its a
>browser that is written in elisp, so runs under emacs,) on a
>consistent basis? There is a new version, 4.0, that supports tables,
>style sheets, etc. Stable?
>
>Is it ready for prime time?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>--
>
>John Conover, 631 Lamont Ct., Campbell, CA., 95008, USA.
>VOX 408.370.2688, FAX 408.379.9602
>[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www2.inow.com/~conover/john.html
>
I use it myself sometimes, if I allready have emacs fired up, and I don't
want to remote netscape from the server, then I use W3, it's fine, not as
much eyecandy as NS, but stable and W3 complient :)
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, because a cpu is a terrible thing to waste."
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 01:08:07 +0200
From: Christophe Spada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,fr.comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: coredump with free() in C language
"Fr�d�ric Hoerni" wrote:
>
> hello,
> I am using a Toshiba Tecra 750 CDT laptop with Linux RedHat 5.2.
> I get a COREDUMP after free() (not everytime).
> Is it because of the linux version, or the laptop ?
>
Sorry but i think it is because of the developer :)
Somewhere, you probably free twice the same part of the memory after
writing something after the first free or something like that ....
> Thanks
>
> Olivier Deramat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:16:40 -0700
From: Armando Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 3.0
Stefan Rabanus 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)
I just installed Adobe Acrobat 3 and it worked just fine...you probably
need updated libs...
I'm using COL v1.3 with Kernel v2.0.35...don't know what my libs versions
are...I'm too lazy to check... But when I get a chance this weekend, I'll
come back and post them...
Armando
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Palm Pilot interface for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:48:14 GMT
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:33:18 GMT, Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I hate to ask this because I think it will be a 'no', but
>is there a PIM or like program that will sync with my
>Palm Pilot under Linux?
"Sync"? Not fully.
But there do exist various utilities that can get and manipulate data
from your PalmPilot.
See the URL below for links to a number of such utilities...
--
"What's wrong with 3rd party tools? Especially if they are free? What
the **** do you think UNIX is anyway? It's a big honkin' party of 3rd
party free tools." -- Bob Cassidy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/pimsunix.html>
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: NFS Questions...
Date: 14 Apr 1999 00:23:54 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have a small network with 2 SuSE 6.0 Linux boxes (jamjar and pastrami)
>and an RS/6000 (rs6k).
>
>(1) As far as I can tell I've set up NFS server software in the same
>way on jamjar and pastrami (using YaST). However when pastrami or rs6k
>try to mount jamjar, they get
>
> mount: RPC: Program not registered
>
>What does this mean?
Probably means rpc.mountd isn't running on the jamjar. Use
"rpcinfo -p hostname" with hostname=each machine. Linux systems
should have mountd and nfsd registered.
>(2) I can read pastrami but not write to it. If I specify -w (or -o
>rw) in the mount command, it accepts it, but still won't allow writing.
>The /etc/exports file on jamjar specifies (rw,no_squash_root).
>I've had no problems setting up rs6k for rw access.
>
>How do I get rw access to a Linux nfs server?
You do mean no_root_squash, not no_squash_root, right?
Read/write should work OK; look for something wrong in /etc/exports,
also use "showmount -e" to check the exports. If you're still stuck,
try posting more info (NFS server version, exports file, mount command).
------------------------------
From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Solved Re: RealPlayer problems
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 06:38:39 +0000
bill massena wrote:
>
> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, you wrote:
> > bill massena wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for going through your download scenario; I had selected "Linux 5.x" for
> > > the OS instead of "LInux ELF" as you did.
> > >
> > > However, when I run rvplayer, the pull-down menus aren't working right. When
> > > I select "View", the menu pulls down, but the "Preferences" tab doesn't select;
> > > nor does control-P activate it. This is true of all the menu-bar items...
> > >
> > > Pull-down menus are working on other windows under both KDE and fwvm2, so I
> > > don't know what might be causing this.
> > >
> > > /Bill
> >
> > Toggle your numlocks key.
> > --
> > Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
> > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
> > Welchen Teil von "Gestalt" verstehen Sie nicht?
> >
> > web: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
> > SAS/Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html
> >
> > 10:03pm up 6 days, 20:07, 9 users, load average: 0.64, 0.52, 0.43
>
> I tried both numlock settings without effect. How could the setting affect
> pulldown menu operation?
X Windows uses the concept of modifier keys. Pressing any of <shift>,
<alt>, <ctrl>, <meta>, or toggling <numlock> or <caplock>, may alter the
effect of other operations (other keypresses or mouse button presses).
The old numlocks key hat trick is a problem that's tripped me up with
rvplayer -- I don't know where Real got its GUI toolkit, but I wish
they'd take it back. Try the other keys and let us know what works.
Response redirected to newsgroup.
--
Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
Welchen Teil von "Gestalt" verstehen Sie nicht?
web: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
SAS/Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html
11:03pm up 8 days, 21:07, 10 users, load average: 0.26, 0.43, 0.42
------------------------------
From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compiled Kernel 2.0.36 & LOADLIN : HELP ! HELP !
Date: 13 Apr 1999 21:35:11 -0500
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
==============30CFCF48AE4E7AAD14A38565
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Nguyen-Dai Quy wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I use RH-5.2. Yesterday, I tried compile my Kernel 2.0.36.
> The compiling is OK and I obtain 'zImage'.
> 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 !!!
>
> Thank you very for your help.
>
> PS: If possible, I hope receive your ideas at my address e-mail.
>
Try running lilo from the console prompt. Did you update you lilo.conf to the new file?
look at the attachment file to see how I do my lilo.conf
Keep in mind that for me lilo is not on the mbr since I use the OS/2 manager
but the menu for the kernels should be the same.
first after I compiled the kernel I did :
cp bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5
If my kernel would have been bad all I would have to do is type old and it would
boot on the old kernel. The first one is always the default.
--
Tired of Windows' rebootive multitasking?
then try Linux's preemptive multitasking
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
==============30CFCF48AE4E7AAD14A38565
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii;
name="lilo.conf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="lilo.conf"
boot=/dev/hdb2
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb2
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-3
label=old
root=/dev/hdb2
read-only
==============30CFCF48AE4E7AAD14A38565==
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Westcott)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Who understands /etc/pam.d ????
Date: 14 Apr 1999 02:35:34 GMT
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!
Are the usernames you're using the same on both machines?
I'll explain the fields in /etc/pam.d/rsh:
auth required /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so
# This line requires that a valid .rhosts file be set up on the server. See
# rcmd(3) for a better explanation. The format for a .rhosts file is:
# hostname.domainname username
auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
# This denies access if the /etc/nologin file exists.
account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
# This validates the password that was sent.
session required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
# This writes a record of the login in various log files.
I strongly suggest you not use rsh at all, but install ssh instead.
--
Ian Westcott Rakarra@IRC
ez042914 --or-- itlm013 @peseta.ucdavis.edu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
"Demon's blood and dragon fire, falling on my wings.
Racing to the battle in the sky and ancient gods are
calling me I hear them when they sing,
of all the heroes who wait for me to die."
------------------------------
From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: PPP problems dialing up
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 02:51:39 -0400
Eric Marquez wrote:
> Going by the PPP-HOWTO file I was able to test pppd with minicom but
> after configuring the ppp-on, ppp-on-dialer, ppp-off.
> When I issue the command
> pppd debug file options.myserver /dev/ttyS1 115200\
> >ppp-on &
> pppd: unrecognized optoin 'ppp-on'
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Something's wrong in what you're saying, but nevermind. If you got your modem
to work properly, then configure ppp using netcfg.
>control-panel then click on network configuration.
This is will automatically create the ppp scripts you need.
Exactly how to do this is described in the RH manual. It is on the RH CD,
look for a directory called rhmanual.
This is the best reference, because it is specific for RH.
------------------------------
From: Niklas Lofgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Oracle8 on RedHet 5.2
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 08:53:24 +0200
I did look at http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/index.html
but it didn't help. I also checked my CD mount and it's not noexec.
But i did an ugly workaround! Here it goes:
Copy the orainst library from the CD to a directory on disc.
Rename oratab.sh and orainst.
cat org_oratab.sh and copy the contents to the clipboard.
vi oratab.sh (empty file) and paste the original contents.
Same thing for the orainst file.
chmod 777 orai* same for orainst
Voila! It works and you can choose the "Install from CD-ROM" option.
But you have to run orainst from disc...
Thanks for your time! Much appreciated.
Regards
/Niklas
Niklas Lofgren wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to install Oracle8 from CD but I can't run any .sh files.
> I have installed Oracle on severel other Unix dialects, bot this one
> beats me :)
> Below is an example of me trying to run oratab.sh as root.
> The same error occurs when I try to run orainst.sh as the oracle8
> user...
>
> [root@tgmlinux /mnt]# ls -la
> total 5
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Mar 18 15:55 .
> drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Mar 18 15:09 ..
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Mar 18 15:54 cdrom
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 6 1996 floppy
> [root@tgmlinux /mnt]#
>
> [root@tgmlinux orainst]# sh oratab.sh
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> 'ratab.sh: syntax error near unexpected token `in
> 'ratab.sh: oratab.sh: line 29: `case ${N}$C in
>
> [root@tgmlinux orainst]# env
> USERNAME=root
> ENV=/root/.bashrc
> HISTSIZE=1000
> HOSTNAME=tgmlinux.ifsab.se
> LOGNAME=root
> HISTFILESIZE=1000
> MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
> TERM=vt220
> HOSTTYPE=i386
> PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:n
>
> HOME=/root
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PS1=[\u@\h \W]\$
> USER=root
> OSTYPE=Linux
> SHLVL=1
> _=/usr/bin/env
> [root@tgmlinux orainst]#
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.misc) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Misc Digest
******************************
