Linux-Misc Digest #860, Volume #19 Fri, 16 Apr 99 01:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: kernel, modules, rc.sysinit and mkinitrd (Stijn Buys)
Re: LILO problem (Matthew Gabeler-Lee)
Anybody have Linux 1.2.13 CD's? ("Tim Hutcheson")
Re: Mount Problem... (Gerald Willmann)
Re: An "interesting" fetchmail problem (marek jedlinski)
Re: Linux Database for commercial project (Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?=)
Re: Kernel w/ SMP (help) ("Anthony J. Gabrielson")
Re: MS Proxy Server and Linux ("Stuart Fox")
Netscape can't send long newsgroup postings (Steve D. Perkins)
Linux filesystem and powerdown (Jahn Otto Andersen)
Re: x11amp (Stefan Hetzl)
dial-out ppp config help.. (ishwar rattan)
Re: compiling kernel (Bob Martin)
Re: Help choosing distribution ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help choosing distribution (Tim Kelley)
Re: Newbie: Can anyone recommend a GUI development environment ? (Dustin Puryear)
Re: Newbie Questions: reading floppies (L J Bayuk)
Samba is broken (matt)
Re: please suggest a smaller WWW browser. (Matthew Bafford)
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From: Stijn Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel, modules, rc.sysinit and mkinitrd
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:30:08 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stephen Thomas wrote:
>
> I recently compiled the 2.2.5 kernel and supporting modules. Previously
> I ran the stock RH-5.2 2.0.36
// cut //
> Comments or suggestions welcome to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Steve
Have you read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes lately?
The kernel docs clearly state that you should upgrade some
software before upgrading to the 2.2.x series.
You should probabely just install new modutils.
--
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"Make him an offer he can't refuse" - Don Corneole
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From: Matthew Gabeler-Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: vmware.for-linux.installation
Subject: Re: LILO problem
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:03:06 -0400
"G. Pollack" wrote:
> I'm trying to set up vmware for Win98 as a guest OS, using the rawdisk
> method. Win98 is on /dev/hda1, and the MBR is on /dev/hda0. When I
> attemp to Power On, lilo writes just 'L' to the screen, and then I get
> the following message:
>
> Attempt to read 1 sector(s) starting at sector 6044173. This is outside
> the allowed range for raw disk '/home/jerry/vmware/win98/win98.hda'.
>
> Can anyone tell me what's wrong, and how to correct it?
This ought to be covered in a faq. It is definitely covered in the lilo
documentation. Lilo is not psychic. It need to know what devices to
boot! Therefore, it needs to read from the linux drive that stuff is
stored on!
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From: "Tim Hutcheson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anybody have Linux 1.2.13 CD's?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:56:21 -0500
Does anybody have an old set of Linux 1.2.13 CD's laying about? I need them
for compatibility with a circa 1995 project that is dependent on certain
artifacts of that release (or closely related version)..
--
Tim Hutcheson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mount Problem...
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:48:07 -0700
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Derek wrote:
> For some reason now when I boot up I am getting a message stating
> "Mount: can't find /proc in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab" The partition is
> there and the info is in the directory but I don't know what partition
> it is (ie hdb10? hdb12?) and its not on my mount list from the
> FileSystem Tool. I was wondering how to get it back on the list for
> mounting.
look at your fstab file (more /etc/fstab), there should be a line like
# <device> <mountpoint> <filesystemtype> <options> <dump> <fsckorder>
none /proc proc defaults
in there. If not, edit fstab as root and add this line. Then you could try
mounting it with the command mount /proc but I have never tried this. Note
that there is no actual device mounted at /proc, so if you have hdbx there
change it. To check if it's actually mounted to mount w/o arguments or
look at /etc/mtab.
Gerald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marek jedlinski)
Subject: Re: An "interesting" fetchmail problem
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:23:05 GMT
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (marek jedlinski) writes:
>
>-> I have just one entry in .fetchmailrc that says:
>-> poll polbox.com protocol pop3 username [me] password [mypass]
>
>-> It's obvious now that fetchmail cannot see the message boundaries with the
>-> "From " headers escaped with the '>' character. So it keeps taking in the
>-> bogus data as part of the message. Then it asks the popserver for the next
>-> message, and again, the message begins correctly with "From " but contains
>-> all subsequent messages with the ">From " lines escaped.
>
>Have you tried telneting to your pop3 server and seeing what happens
>when you do RETR 1? (See RFC-1939 for details. I can mail you a copy
>if you can't find one) The message boundrys should mean nothing to
>fetchmail because it will retrieve each message by number from the
>pop3 server after doing a stat.
No, the possibility occurred to me but I tried the latest version of
fetchmail first (5.0.x) which - as I found - acknowledges and fixes the
problem. The '>' were added to 'From ' lines by procmail, after all, as per
the bit of procmailrc I quoted. Works okay now; thank you!
.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)
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From: Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Linux Database for commercial project
Date: 15 Apr 1999 00:06:37 GMT
Warren Rodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have to set up a back end database for a web site. I want to use linux to
: run the server and I need to select a database for it.
: I had been planning on using Oracle but we have just been quoted $30000
: (Aus) per CPU (We were thinking 2 cpus) and that seems maybe a bit
: expensive.
print reverse 'ORACLE';
ELCARO (spanish for "The Expensive")
: Does anyone have any experience with other databases under linux (redhat)?
I've used PostgreSQL with excellent results for about 4Gb databases. Haven't
had the chance to use it on larger ones.
I've used Oracle and Informix on several Unices over the years. I find Informix
faster and much more stable by a long shot. Tried them on Linux, same thing.
Just my 11.70 Bs (about $0.02 :-)
--
Ernesto Hern�ndez-Novich - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ #9945705
Just another Unix/Perl/Java hacker running Linux 2.2.5
One thing is to be the most popular, and another is to be the best.
Unix: Live free or die! What would yo do without your freedom?
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From: "Anthony J. Gabrielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: wsu.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel w/ SMP (help)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:05:57 -0400
Which kernel are you using?
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Eric Sandall wrote:
> When you go to 'make' the kernel, try 'make oldconfig', I believe that
> reuses your old options....if that doesn't work, the correct way is in
> the README file in /usr/src/linux (or wherever you unarchived your
> kernel source).
>
> --
>
> Eric Sandall
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.wsu.edu/~sandalle/
> ICQ#: 667348
>
>
>
>
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From: "Stuart Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MS Proxy Server and Linux
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 08:59:57 +1200
The only way to do this would be to use the SOCKS proxy in MS Proxy server.
Your linux apps would have to support the socks proxy though
Stu
Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am trying to accomplish a couple of things on a company
> network that connects to the internet through a firewall consisting of
> MS Proxy Server on an NT machine.
>
> The first thing I would like to do is run remote apps from the
> other side of the firewall with an X server on an NT machine here
> (MI/X, to be exact).
>
> The other thing I would like to do if that doesn't work is to
> simply get rid of NT and install Linux on my machine. I am a little
> concerned, however, about being able to get my machine back on the
> Internet through MS's Proxy Server crap.
>
> Does anyone know if there are any good FAQ's, web pages, or
> other resources out there for making Linux and MS Proxy Server get
> along?
>
> Steve
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve D. Perkins)
Subject: Netscape can't send long newsgroup postings
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:01:43 GMT
Has anyone else noticed this problem? I can only get
newsgroup postings to go through (no matter which server they're going
through) when they are only a few lines long. Anything longer than
that, and Netscape just hangs (doesn't lock up, but sits there until I
cancel the send). I'd explain in more detail... but I'm about to hit
the limit! <smile>
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From: Jahn Otto Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux filesystem and powerdown
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:57:24 +0200
I have installed SuSE Linux on a computer that is going to be used as a
web server.
It seems to me that the Linux filesystem is very vulnerable to
powerdowns - much more than Win95/NT installed on a FAT16 disk.
I tried to turn off the computer without umounting the disks, and
repaired the disks with fsck. The result was that several files and
directories were deleted.
My questions are:
- Is there any alternative filesystem for Linux that handles powerdown
better ?
- What can be done to minimize these problems ? (An UPS would of course
be nice, but what else can be done ?).
Regars,
Jahn Otto
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From: Stefan Hetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: x11amp
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:28:17 GMT
Brandon wrote:
>
> hi, I downloaded X11amp in RPM format and this is what i get for error
> messags when i try to install. WHere do I go to check to see what
> versions of these I have?
>
> failed dependencies:
> gtk+ >= 1.2.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libgdk-1.2.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libglib-1.2.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libgmodule-1.2.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libgtk-1.2.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libaudiofile.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libesd.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
>
> thanks
> Brandon
try typing "rpm -q gtk+" (subsitute libgdk, libglib, etc. for gtk+ to
check for the version numbers of the other packages).
Stefan
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:49:08 EDT
From: ishwar rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dial-out ppp config help..
Hello,
Environment is RedHat-5.2 with 2.2.1-SMP kernel. I would like to dial
out to my ISP from this machine. The PPP is enabled/configured as a kernel
option. Will anybody give the config files for dialout-ppp. I have used
ppp to dialout under FreeBSD but this one is a different ball game.
Thanks in advance.
- ishwar
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:49:13 -0500
From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compiling kernel
The defaults supplied by the make config prompts should be the values last
selected. Also you can view /usr/src/linux/.config this contains the current
selected options, .config.old contains the previous option. Of course this
doesn't mean this what the kernel was compiled with since you can run make config
but never run make zImage. look at the boot messages can give some clues as to
what has been selected.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi , I just installed Linux 2.0.36 ( redhat/apollo ) on my micron laptop.
> now i need to rebuild the kernel for apm module , ( suspend /resume ) my
> question , is there a way to find out what options my current kernel is built
> with , see during make config it asks me a lot of questions , anybody know
> how to find out the answer to them , running in memory now , so that i can
> answer it correctly and safly rebuild ?
>
> any help/ idea appreciated.
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Help choosing distribution
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 04:17:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bloody Viking wrote:
>
>> Slackware is great for getting your hands dirty while Red Hat has a nice
>> install. However, with Red Hat, you have to avoid letting it install LILO
>> on the hard drive. Let it make a LILO floppy. Then, at the part where you
...<snip>...
>
>I can't recall ever having a problem with lilo, after installing Red
>Hat, Caldera and Suse at least 60 times. I can't imagine what sort of
>problems you're having ...
>--
>Tim Kelley
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can't remember details now, but when I used RedHat dists in the
past, I learned to be very careful about letting them install LILO on the
hard drive. They may have improved it in recent distributions. I try
other distributions from time to time, but I find myself going back to
slackware myself, (though I once got a slackware distribution with some
weird alternative password encryption software on it).
Debian always looks enticing but then you get into these damned
dependencies or even though you specify an s3virge driver in dselect,
XF86Setup says it doesn't exist or something makes me throw up my hands.
X setup is where redhat really shines, and I've been known to save off
XFConfig files set up by a redhat install for when I installed slackware
over it on the partition.
--
Praeterea censeo Micromolle non esse utendum.
("Moreover, I maintain that Microsoft should not be used." With apologies
to Cato the Elder)
---- Remove "UhUh" and "Spam" to get my real email address -----
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From: Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Help choosing distribution
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 04:29:40 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bloody Viking wrote:
> Slackware is great for getting your hands dirty while Red Hat has a nice
> install. However, with Red Hat, you have to avoid letting it install LILO
> on the hard drive. Let it make a LILO floppy. Then, at the part where you
> to the LILO on the hard drive part, turn off the machine and boot with the
> LILO disk. Get a copy of the kernel and put it on a DOS floppy, and get
> Loadlin from the CD. Then, you can install Loadlin easally on the DOS
> partition to boot Linux.
I can't recall ever having a problem with lilo, after installing Red
Hat, Caldera and Suse at least 60 times. I can't imagine what sort of
problems you're having ...
--
Tim Kelley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: Re: Newbie: Can anyone recommend a GUI development environment ?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:26:51 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:29:27 +0000, Rick Dearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been using Linux (RedHat) for some months now. So far so good. What I
>> would like to do next is to develop some nice X-Windows applications. Now
>> this is the downside of Linux - too much choice!!!!!
>>
>> Can anyone recommend any good GUI development environments for someone with
>> beginner-to-intermediate programming experience (I have used Visual Basic,
>> MUMPS, SQL, Pascal and C).
>>
>> I get the impression that 'serious' work is done under C - would it be
>> worthwhile re-learning this or trying something more simple ? Are there any
>> good starting points or resources I could reference ?
>>
>> thanks once again Linux Community...
>>
>> -----------------------------------------
>> Rob Mason
>> C.M. Informatics Partnership
>>
>> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
>> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
>
>Use C and GTK, check out www.gtk.org, ( GTK also supports C++, Perl, Python )
>Or you could just learn TCL/TK
Also, try reading up on Qt from Troll (http://www.troll.no). It's C++.
Regards, Dustin
--
Dustin Puryear
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: Newbie Questions: reading floppies
Date: 15 Apr 1999 22:36:50 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have linux installed on a separate harddrive on my home computer. I normally
>worked in Windows98, using GVIM to doTeX coding..
>
>I installed Linux to be able to use TeX, composing files, checking errors, etc.
>All my files on disk are basically ascii files. I've read several docs on how
>to mount a floppy. For the life of me I cannot get to the floppy files on disk.
>I get an error saying floppy already mounted, too many...But I still cannot
>even view the files on the floppy. This system is not even reading the floppy.
>Can someone give me a consistant "no-fail" way to mount and view floppies so
>that I can use these files on Linux and use their TeX program?
Assuming these are DOS-format floppies, you might find it easier to use
"mtools" instead of mounting the floppy. Use "mdir a:" to list,
"mcopy a:file tofile" to copy.
See man pages and /etc/mtools.conf to configure it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (matt)
Subject: Samba is broken
Date: 16 Apr 1999 04:28:58 GMT
I am running/attempting to run a samba (v. 2.01) server to win95 machines.
I've a really simple setup -- I am simply sharing a few directories.
For some reason, the win machines can't find me on the network. I know
that there are no errors in the smb.conf file, as my setup used to work.
I am currently running kernel 2.2.3. (Samba didn't seem to work at all under
2.2.5). Any suggestions to get it working would be appreciated.
Thanks ahead of time,
Matt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
"WAR IS PEACE | Matthew Leinhos
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" | Colorado State University
--1984, George Orwell | Computer Science, Mathematics major
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: please suggest a smaller WWW browser.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 05:05:43 GMT
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:53:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lucked upon a computer, and thus typed in the following:
) Hi there, just recycled an old PC with linux (486SX25)
) Plan is just to use it as a web-browsing box. Idea being
) it'll be faster than a windows machine could be.
)
) However I now discover Netscape 4.x takes about 3 minutes
) to load !
So only load it once.
) Dez.
--Matthew
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