Linux-Misc Digest #854, Volume #19 Thu, 15 Apr 99 11:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: about rpm under slackware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HP CD-Writer on NT (Jim Henderson)
Re: Can I read an HP-UX backup tape? (Markus Wandel)
Re: Linux-compatable modem list (Dan Schaertel)
Kernel Traffic #14 Is Out ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Ran out of input data (Palitha Weerakkody)
Re: Couple of quick questions (James Stevenson)
Re: microsoft bus mouse ("Louise Kevin")
Re: Linux for a large server, what to be aware of? (David Steuber)
Re: Running process without control terminal (David Steuber)
Re: Named Pipes (David Steuber)
Re: coredump wit free() (Antoine Leca)
Problem with ext2 filesystem (Reine Stenberg)
Re: redhat 5.2 and memory (Franky Van Liedekerke)
Howto upgrade gcc in linux (�|��������)
Strange shell redirect problem (David Martin)
Re: Compilation fails (Paul Olofsson)
Able to access CDROM in root but not is user (Chas Samuels)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: about rpm under slackware
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:02:59 GMT
James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I actually don't want to put rpm on my Slackware sysytem but, I spent
> hours downloading a database only to find out that you have to have rpm-2.5.5
> installed to install the database. So I downloaded the source for rpm-2.5.5, and
> try to complie it and it bitches that I don't have gettex installed on my
> machine and refuses to compile! Anyone know where I can get gettex?
You can grab a precompiled .tgz of rpm from ftp.rpm.org
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From: Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HP CD-Writer on NT
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:36:05 -0600
What I've done to get LFN support in Linux is create the image with Rock
Ridge extensions. It's a bit lengthier process when using the Adaptec
software, but it can be done.
The process I used was the process Adaptec had on their website as a
"use at your own risk, we've had people tell us this works but we've not
tried it" sort of thing.
Basically:
1. Use mkisofs to create an ISO9660 disk image. mkisofs supports Rock
Ridge extensions with the proper command line parameters/config file.
(man mkisofs for more info, I don't have it handy right now).
2. Mount the DOS partition of your system and copy the disk image to
that partition.
3. Reboot the machine under Win9x/NT
4. Start the Adaptec Easy CD Creator software. Under the "File" Menu,
there is an option to use an image file. This option (in 3.5) supports
2 file types, CIF and ISO - use the ISO format.
5. Burn the disc.
This is with a single machine; with two machines, it's that much easier
because there's no reboot necessary (duh!). Just get the image over to
the NT machine.
Jim
Jason Bailey wrote:
>
> 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
--
Jim Henderson
Novell Support Connection SysOp - http://support.novell.com/forums
Homepage at http://www.bigfoot.com/~jhenderson (email instructions
located here)
Please note that as an NSC SysOp, I do not provide support for Novell
products on a personal basis - if you need help with a Novell product,
please post a reply in the public newsgroup or visit the Novell support
forums at the URL above.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I read an HP-UX backup tape?
Date: 15 Apr 1999 12:51:06 GMT
When trying to read 8mm or DAT tapes from non-Linux systems, the magic bullet
for me has been:
mt setblk 0
It has to do with the physical block size on the tape. I don't know what it
does exactly, it just works.
Markus
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From: Dan Schaertel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Linux-compatable modem list
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:22:00 -0400
Eric Bryant wrote:
>
> For an extensive list of Linux-compatable modems and/or to see if your
> modem is a "winmodem," check here:
> http://www.grapevine.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and follow it to
> "big list" at
> http://www.grapevine.net/~gromitkc/19990412b.html
I checked out the links but was unable to determine if the Lucent modems
are compatible with Linux. I have a Sony V220 desktop that came with a
Lucent modem. Does anybody have nay experience with Sony and Linux?
What do you think the chances are that it will work?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kernel Traffic #14 Is Out
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:25:11 GMT
You can read issue 14 at http://www.kt.opensrc.org/kt19990415_14.html
The latest issue is always at http://www.kt.opensrc.org/latest.html
Here's this week's table of contents:
General
Stats For This Week
Threads From linux-kernel
1.is it just me getting $($F$b$i$($^$;$s$G$7$g$&$+!#
2.Address spaces on a i386 - Getting Confused
3.OT:fault tolerant nfs HOW?
4.Still no ISDN connection :(
5.Bug? ISDN stops working with 2.2.5ac2
6.NFS Problem
7.Linux 2.2.5 won't boot?
8.Segfault in syslogd
9.aic7xxx driver update
10.Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (fwd)
11.Linux 2.2.5ac5
12.[RFC] Trapping/tracing kernel stack overflows
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From: Palitha Weerakkody <"palitha"@melbpc.org.au (Palitha Weerakkody)>
Subject: Ran out of input data
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:20:16 +1000
Hi All,
I'm using RH5.2. I down loaded new kernal 2.2.5
and managed to install. after reboot, system halted.
It say " Loading Linux
Uncompressing Linux
Ran out of input data
system halted"
Any one have seen this problem, I can boot my old kernal as normal.
Please let me know.
Thanks
Palitha
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Stevenson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Couple of quick questions
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 02:04:19 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
to see what ports are open on your linux machine try at a shell
netstat -t -n -a |grep LISTEN
you can also use tcpdump to debug things
man tcpdump
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:34:55 -0500, Aaron Dershem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I downloaded a small program from AT&T called VNC. It's an X server that
>has a client that can run on Windows (among other OSs) boxes and display the
>X session - they also has a Java client. It's pretty cool (tested it on a
>machine other than my home on). The problem I have is that I can't use it
>on my Linux server at home! It uses TCP port 5900+ for its listening port.
>When I try to connect, I can't. How do I check which ports I can make a
>connection to? Also, which configuration file to I change to allow/disallow
>TCP connections on specific ports?
>
>Another, unrelated question: How do I change the default path for all
>users? I use the set command to see the path, but I can't figure out how to
>change it.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Aaron Derhsem
>
>
--
Check Out: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/james/
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Louise Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: microsoft bus mouse
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:29:52 +1000
FYI you might find this interesting. I usually get irregular &
unpredictable mouse response under X on RH5.2 however if I can get an Xterm
running and run XF86Setup I can "Apply" microsoft mouse settings and this
will normally get the Mouse working OK. I may have to apply the mouse
settings three or four times but it works out in the end. Before I do this,
moving the mouse gives the pointer a warp attack where it flicks about on
the screen and it thinks that the left button is depressed all the time!
--> Try XF86Setup.
Mark Nielsen wrote in message <7f2t9h$d30$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Just from general experience, if you don't need the serial port, use
>serial mice. Bus mice can cause problems sometimes. I always use serial
>mice.
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, budman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>Bart,
>>The problem you are having with red hat linux 5.2 and configuring a bus
mouse is
>>identical to mine, except that in my case I have a PS/2 mouse. I have a HP
Vectra
>>VL (Pentium) computer and I know there is no problem with the mouse or the
>>m/board, yet I cannot get any mouse response. Linux runs okay otherwise. I
have
>>checked the settings in the configuration file, checked the installed
drivers, and
>>recompiled the kernal, but to no avail, even though everything appears to
be
>>correct.
(SNIP)
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux for a large server, what to be aware of?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 02:13:35 -0400
Dave E Martin XXIII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> 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?
Some minor (depending on your actual needs) limitations in ext2 that I
have run across are the 2GB file size limit on 32bit architectures
which is well known and easy enough to design around and a performance
problem when you put many thousands of files in the same directory.
The latter is not likely to bother you unless you try to run a large
news server.
-> Is anything been/being done about the 127 meg swap size limitation (I would
-> prefer one large swap area to 10 little ones)
You can put one swap partition on each disk. Or can you have multiple
swap partitions on the same disk now? Anyone?
-> 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))
This shouldn't be a problem. The 2.0.36 kernel and the 2.0.35 kernel
with SuSE 5.3 both find all my memory (I am only running 128MB). It
may be a distribution issue, but when I pulled down 2.2 series kernels
from kernel.org, there was no problem.
That pretty much covers what I know. I haven't played with NFS yet.
My drives on each machine are only 8.4GB and 6.4GB. They are each
formated with three partitions: /, /boot, and swap.
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
If you don't, I won't see it.
A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that
your wife will give you for free.
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running process without control terminal
Date: 14 Apr 1999 02:40:52 -0400
Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> For a process parented by a process that has a controlling terminal, the
-> real task is to get rid of the controlling terminal. To do this, the
-> process executes a number of system calls that (ultimately) divest the
-> process of it's controlling terminal.
man nohup
<the short answer :)>
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
If you don't, I won't see it.
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Named Pipes
Date: 14 Apr 1999 02:34:52 -0400
Friedemann Baitinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> David,
-> you may want to try my modification of the perl script you posted. The
-> main difference is that the output of the fortune command is now
-> assigned to the variable via backticks quoting which prevents the output
-> to be sent directly to STDOUT as you already stated and also I have
-> added a 'sleep 1' at the end of the loop because in many cases it just
-> happened that the loop ran twice per 'cat .signature'. Although I'm not
-> sure what the 'select' construct is intended for I assume that the idea
-> was to make sure that the loop just runs once per 'cat .signature' but
-> as I said, at least on my machine it didn't work until I added the
-> 'sleep 1'.
Thanks. I'll try that. It neve occured to me to sleep. The select
was there to make sure the print was flushed. It didn't make a
difference and was still in the code when I posted it.
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
If you don't, I won't see it.
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
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From: Antoine Leca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.lang.c,fr.comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: coredump wit free()
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:51:29 +0200
[follow-up to the poster to avoid flame war in the groups]
[This is to the French people:
Desole pour le francais, et encore plus pour les accents, mais
je ne peux pas ecrire en francais.
Rough translation: sorry for not writing French, but it is inappropriate.]
Kenny McCormack ha escrit (ecrivit, scribit, schreib, etc.) :
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Michal Novotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > I am using ...
> ....
> > Sorry, I cannot speak French ! Could you post messages only in English ?
> >Thank you.
I am also sorry, but I do speak French, I am reading this from a French-speaking
group, so I do not understand why James should post *only* in English.
The message is cross-posted: it looks like both you and James do not notice it.
> Amen.
>
> Given that the original poster was posting from Czechoslovakia in English,
> it seems odd to get replies in French.
You are confusing the answer to which *you* are responding (which indeed
comes from Czech Republic, not Slovakia, and states *Michal* do not understand
French), with the original post, which was send by "Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Hoerni"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in article <news:7f1of0$g23$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, which is AFAIK
a French-speaking writing from France (Wanadoo is much like AOL for the U.S.A.)
And no, I do not see why it is odd for a French-speaking person to write
French in a French-speaking group. Even if it lives from Czech Republic or
Slovakia.
> It seems clear to me that replies in languages other then English ought to
> be either:
> 1) Privately emailed
> or 2) posted (exclusively) to groups whose name begins with fr.
The second is a correct option for an answer in French.
But the knowledge of French people might be worthwhile to the whole world,
I think: in order to achieve that, one may provide translations of everything,
or they may beg a pardon, explain they are unable to translate, and ask
for someone more capable to translate for the benefit of everybody (Martin
Ambush provides the translation in <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
I will not repeat its job here; thanks anyway to him for doing so).
An answer in any language outside French or English is completely inapropriate
here, unless you know the poster and what for a language he speaks (and
you send private e-mails): even if Breton or Catalan are languages used in
France, I expect a post done in such languages in fr.* to begin a flame war
much like this one.
Also, please note that a number of people do not pay attention to the groups
when they are posting.
fr.* Netiquette urges people to set up the Follows-up field when cross-posting.
It is a pity it have not be done here.
Antoine
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From: Reine Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Problem with ext2 filesystem
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:07:13 +0200
I have a problem with three ext2 devices:
disk1: /dev/md0 is 2 RAID0 9GB disks
disk2: /dev/md1 is 2 RAID0 9GB disks
disk3: /dev/sdd is 1 9GB disk
When I run df on disk1 or disk2, free_space is 868MB less then
total_space minus used_space.
When I run df on disk3, free_space is 434MB less then total_space minus
used_space.
When I run df on a SGI O2 which has mounted these disks (NFS) is sums up
correctly.
I have no idea what is causing this problem and would be very thankful
for any help!
//Reine
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From: Franky Van Liedekerke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: redhat 5.2 and memory
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:20:08 +0200
thanks, I just found it as well looking in all howto's. I don't have a manpage for lilo
though...
Franky
Peter Herttrich wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.setup Franky Van Liedekerke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I have a compaq proliant 5000with 128Mb of memory. Now I have redhat
> > linux 5.2 installed on it but linux only seems to detect 16Mb of memory.
> > This is what I see in /var/log/messages on boot time:
>
> > Memory: 14402k/16384k available (756k kernel code, 384 reserved, 588k
> > data)
>
> > Has anybody any idea how I can address all the memory?
>
> > Franky
>
> add the following in lilo.conf
> append="mem=128M"
>
> and man lilo ;-)
>
> --
> _____________________________________________________________________________
> Microsoft has been doing a really bad job on their OS.
> Linus Torvalds
> _____________________________________________________________________________
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (�|��������)
Subject: Howto upgrade gcc in linux
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:49:52 GMT
I am using RedHat Linux 5.1. The install gcc version is 2.7.2.
I want to ungrade it to gcc 2.8.1. I have download the gcc's
source file gcc-2.8.2.tar.gz. I believe what I should do to install
this version is:
1. ./configure
2. make
3. make install
The file INSTALL says that gcc will be install in the directory of
/usr/local/bin. But I find that the original gcc is located at
/usr/bin. Are the above procedure is correct?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Martin)
Subject: Strange shell redirect problem
Date: 15 Apr 1999 10:37:58 GMT
WHilst attempting to catch STDIN and STDOUT from a perl script running from
the command line, my STDOUT appears to have vanished.
Running the command from the command line gives me the expected results on
screen.
redirecting STDERR works fine, I find it in the target file.
redirecting STDOUT doesn't. The output just disappears thought the target file
is created.
Symptoms are teh same in both bash and tcsh.
Any ideas?
..d
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From: Paul Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compilation fails
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:40:04 +0000
NF Stevens wrote:
>
> Paul Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >Thanks for the answer. In configure I find the line
> >
> >ac_unique_file=x11amp/main.c
> >
> >and that file exists:
> >/tmp/x11amp-0.9/x11amp/main.c
> >
> >But the errors described above says that configure can not find the sources in or
>.., ie
> >the only two directories it tries are "" and "..". But even if I replace "" with
>the real
> >directory it still can't find the sources.
>
> The configure script should be looking in "." or ".." so either the configure
> script is corrupt or you have a problem with sed or test. Two options you
> could try are giving configure a full path, i.e.
>
> /tmp/x11amp-0.9/configure
>
> or specify the source directory directly, e.g.
>
> ./configure --srcdir=/tmp/x11amp-0.9
>
> Norman
Thank you for your answers. The problem was sed. I installed it again and it worked
perfectly.
Paul
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas Samuels)
Subject: Able to access CDROM in root but not is user
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:51:26 GMT
The subject pretty well sums it up. When I reinstalled RH 5.2, the audio
wouldn't play at all. I set it up using Setup and it worked. While still in
root, I accessed the CDROM drive and audio OK. I attempted to access it as a
user and the CD drive would not activate.
The cdrom file in the /dev directory reads out lrwxrwxrwx so it would seem
that the user should be able to execute it. I may be confused with some of
the Linux lingo and perhaps what I'm looking at but I'm new at this and we all
gotta learn if we're gonna use this booger.
So, any help you could give me to resolve this problem would be appreciated.
And, I thank you in advance.
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