Linux-Misc Digest #934, Volume #19 Fri, 23 Apr 99 11:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux is dead ("Rufus V. Smith")
Re: Can't read JPEG files sometimes (Jedi Master Yoda)
Re: Ethernet Card not recognized during installation (Jedi Master Yoda)
Dual boot problem (Dramen Mendra)
RAID Level 1 errors, need advice... (Dan Warren)
Who's knocking at my door? (Adrian Silveanu)
An updatedb problem (Jozef Dodziuk)
password length (Penguin Head)
Re: Linux on Compaq ARMADA 6500 (Markus Blatt)
Re: I want an OS written ("Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein")
Re: high-availability redundant server systems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Increasing file descriptors. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Who's knocking at my door? (Mihaly Gyulai)
Re: Login prompt....grrrrrr. (Mihaly Gyulai)
Re: word processing, what to use? ("D. Vrabel")
column-width and grep (peter)
Re: Voodoo Banshee and XF86_SVGA (Dave Fraser)
Re: Unix 2 Linux (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Acrobat Reader 4.0 is out... (Richard Kaszeta)
Re: enabling XDM (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Re: Big Hard Drive and Dumbass BIOS (Marc Mutz)
ditto max professional and ftape-4.02 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Rufus V. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is dead
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:01:52 -0400
Keven R. Pittsinger wrote in message
<7fjq63$ldh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <7fgc8s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren
Greer) writes:
>>>On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:51:27 GMT, "*** No Spam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>-->I have been a Linux user/fan for 2+ years now. Recently I heard some
bad
>>>-->news from one of my friends. I heard that M$ is working on an M$ Linux
and
>>>-->they are going to release their crappy products for Linux, except that
the
>>>-->program will only run if you have the M$ Linux kernel. So I think very
soon
>>>-->we'll kiss our good old linux goodbye.
>>>-->
That was a misinterpretation.
Actually, to show their support for Linux, and recognizing some deficiency
in
ease-of-use, they have volunteered to port "Microsoft Bob" over to Linux.
I don't have the URL handy, though...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jedi Master Yoda)
Subject: Re: Can't read JPEG files sometimes
Date: 21 Apr 99 13:51:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20 Apr 1999 19:00:13 GMT, Markus Wandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saw fit to expound:
>My Linux box sometimes gets into a state where it cannot read JPEG files.
>When this occurs, any tool that uses the shared JPEG library bombs. I don't
>know of a way to clear it up without rebooting.
For what value of 'bombs'? SIGSEGV?
Do you have more than one version of libjpeg installed? It could be a
library clash. Does 'strace' have anything useful to contribute?
JMY
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jedi Master Yoda)
Subject: Re: Ethernet Card not recognized during installation
Date: 21 Apr 99 14:01:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:40:41 +1000, Geoff Macumber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saw fit to
expound:
>Hi guys & gals,
>
>I'm new to Linux but have played over the years with Aix, Hpux, Dgux and
>SCO. I am trying to load Redhat 5.2 onto a machine that is bits and pieces.
>All is OK except when I try to get the installation to recognize my NE2000
>clone. I have a DOS utility to set the IO and IRQ but no matter what
>settings I use the installation says that it cannot find the device anywhere
>on the system.
>
>What am I doing wrong or what have I not done?
If you have NE2000 support compiled as a module, you need to specify
the IO port setting on the insmod command line, like this:
insmod ne io=0x220
I should think your DOS setup utility only changes the card's settings
while DOS is running, so you will need to discover the factory settings
by trying a few different values (I think the range is something like
200-300, in tens).
When you get the correct io value the NE module will report a successful
initialisation. Put the correct insmod line in your startup scripts.
If on the other hand you compiled the NE support directly into the kernel,
you will need to set the right values in the kernel config (I won't say
how because your kernel may vary).
If you don't have NE support either in the kernel or as a module, then
you need to!
JMY
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From: Dramen Mendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual boot problem
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 02:08:05 -0400
Hi group, I run win98 and linux from the same drive ( 6gb split in half)
and everything runs fine except that windoze is picking up the -a flag
that linux assigns to the drive ( i think fsck does this) and so
winblows is interpreting this for drive a and assigning it to drive c.,
which I can see in system properties applet. If linux occupies one
partition then windows assigns one 'a' to drive c, if I seperate linux
on say three partitions then windoze assigns three letter a's to drive c
The annoying thing about this is that everytime I have to run a program
like Norton anti-virus it automatically searches drive a: when scanning
any files or dirs on drive c. I hope that someone might know about this
because I would hate to put linux back on my slower and much smaller
second hd which I now use for backup. I never encounter this problem
when running linux from a different physical drive only when sharing
with windoze. I realize this is just another defect in the winshaft os
and I get so annoyed that I have often wanted to blow windows away
completely, but I do still use it for other programs. I've tried
deleting the entry in the windows registry and even made a bat file to
erase the entry on boot but windows keeps assigning the letter 'A' as
soon as any program accesses the drive again. Thanks for any help
given.
remove the obvious from address to reply directly.
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From: Dan Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RAID Level 1 errors, need advice...
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:00:27 -0500
Can someone decipher these messages for me? My RAID 1 device has worked
smoothly for 6 months but suddenly has given me errors and I don't
completely understand what they mean. Is one of my drives failing? Is
it just bad sectors? Why doesn't the RAID device just mark the sectors
bad and keep going instead of disabling the drive? Interestingly, it
seems to disable just after the SCSI tape backup starts. ??? Thank you
in advance
Dan Warren
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is the setup:
Pentium 350 / 128 Mb SDRAM
Adaptec 2940UW
2 Seagate ST34520W 4.5Gb SCSI-2 hard drives
Red Hat 5.2 (2.0.36)
Raidtools-0.5beta1
Errors:
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id
15, lun 0
, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 41 af 45 00 00 26 00
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: Current error sd08:11: sense key
Medium Error
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: Additional sense indicates Unrecovered
read er
ror
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:11, sector
4304682,
absolute sector 4304745
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: RAID1: Disk failure on 08:11,
disabling device
.Operation continuing on 1 devices
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: raid1: 09:00: rescheduling block
2152341
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: md: updating raid superblock on device
08:01,
sb_offset == 4441856
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: md: updating raid superblock on device
08:11,
sb_offset == 4441856
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: raid1: 09:00: redirecting sector
2152341 to an
other mirror
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From: Adrian Silveanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Who's knocking at my door?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:27:04 -0500
Hi,
Does anybody know of a program for Linux or if it comes with
Linux that would tell me the IP address of any computer that
tries to ping, ftp, telnet, etc. my computer?
The reason that I ask is because I have noticed activity
on my network card LED indicator and could not find a process/program
that would explain the activity. I am certain that it wasn't
Netscape checking my e-mail.
Thank you,
Adrian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jozef Dodziuk)
Subject: An updatedb problem
Date: 21 Apr 1999 16:25:15 GMT
On my Red Hat 5.2 system updatedb does not put all of the information
about files in /var/lib/locatedb.
Here is an example:
hodge:~/data$locate rvplayer
/etc/X11/wmconfig/rvplayer
hodge:~/data$which rvplayer
/usr/bin/rvplayer
"Which" finds the executable /usr/bin/rvplayer but "locate" does not.
Also, /var/lib/locatedb is much smaller than the same file on a comparable
system where things work as they are supposed to.
If updatedb is run either from cron or from the command line,
/var/lib/locatedb gets updated but the new file is still does not contain
all the information.
Any suggestions for fixing this would be welcome.
--
Professor Jozef Dodziuk
Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
Graduate School and University Center of CUNY
33 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel.: (212)-642-2459
Fax: (212)-642-2585
WWW: http://hodge.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/dodziuk/jd.htm
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From: Penguin Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux
Subject: password length
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:14:39 GMT
Hello
Is there a way to change the minimum password length from the default? If so,
how would one do that?
Regrads,
PH
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:28:11 +0200
From: Markus Blatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Compaq ARMADA 6500
Look at:
http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html
or
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
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From: "Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: I want an OS written
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:24:24 +0200
Rene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7fkmls$n96$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Linux OS disk at home that does just this. It's made by some
> Italian. Don't remember the name , sorry! Actually, there are quite a few
> Micro-Linux around.
> Web-Browsing is with Lynx, however. I doubt a GUI style browser can fit on
a
> single disk. Nowadays, computers come with far too limited ROM (remember
> Atari ST - everything did fit on a disk!).
Thanks to X... maybe a svgalib-based browser would do the trick? Browsers
don't need a complex GUI in the conventional sense (lots of dialogs,
controls and other gizmos), maybe some basic rendering engine can be ported
easily.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: high-availability redundant server systems
Date: 23 Apr 1999 00:35:23 PDT
Check out Slashdot discussion:
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/04/08/2124242.shtml
It has all the info you need.
subhas--at--pobox--dot--com
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Derek Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> can anyone direct me to a source of information on this topic?
>
> I'd like to set up a redundant server that was either hot or warm
> swappable with the primary server.
>
> In the application I have in mind, I will have file service (via
> samba) and print services.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> d.
>
> --
> Derek Shaw
> Business Information Systems
> Victoria, BC.
> voice: 250-885-2021 fax: 250-386-4060
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Increasing file descriptors.
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:28:32 GMT
Hi,
This has helped....thanks for all those who have replied here!! Muchly
appreciated...
- Trevor
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Trevor --
>
> I've never tried this, but I suppose you could do
>
> echo "FILE_DESCRIPTORS" > /proc/sys/kernel/file-max
>
> where FILE_DESCRIPTORS is the number of allowable file descriptors you
> desire. To see the current setting, do
>
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-max
>
> I believe it is 1024 by default. If this works, you might want to stick this
> command in your boot-up scripts.
>
> Hope this helps,
> -jason
>
> (to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
>
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From: Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Who's knocking at my door?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:30:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Adrian Silveanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
>
> Does anybody know of a program for Linux or if it comes with
> Linux that would tell me the IP address of any computer that
> tries to ping, ftp, telnet, etc. my computer?
> on my network card LED indicator ...
The LED on your network card is not for showing you activity TO
or FROM your PC, it just shows _ANY_ activity on LAN...
'Telnet' or 'ftp' trying you can check maybe in /var/log/messages
file...
--
Mihaly Gyulai
http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gyulai/
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From: Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Login prompt....grrrrrr.
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:25:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) wrote:
Please don't do that with '/etc/gettydefs', it's not recommended for beginners
to play with ...
I have mine untouched, but my login is what I wanted :
eduard login:
With the file /etc/sysconfig/network modified...
---
Mihaly Gyulai
http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gyulai/
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: word processing, what to use?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:56:43 +0100
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Tyson Ackland wrote:
[snip request for wordprocessors]
> > Some other choices:
> >
> > LaTeX
> > LyX
> > groff
> > SIAG office Pathetic Writer
> > WordPerfect
> > Applix Words
>
> vi?
Since when was vi a word processor? vi is only a text editor.
David
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter)
Subject: column-width and grep
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:46:21 GMT
when working on a big terminal with 110 colums per line. lets say I do a
ps and get the whole display used.
#ps aux
<snip>
root xxxxx 0.0 1.1 1688 728 ? S Mar 17 0:00
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
(output in one line !!!)
but when performing
#ps aux | grep root
root xxxxx 0.0 1.4 1688 728 ? S 14:25 0:00
/usr/local/samba/bin/
the output is truncated to 80 columns per line
wenn grep for smbd itseld I get no output so it seems the grep-input is
already truncated.
so it seems I have some terminal-settings wrong ! but which ?
thanks
peter
=================
pilsl@
ANTISPAM
goldfisch.atat.at
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From: Dave Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86
Subject: Re: Voodoo Banshee and XF86_SVGA
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:18:11 +0000
Matthew Bloch wrote:
>
> Is using the _FBDev driver faster than the unaccelerated Voodoo Banshee
> driver I'm using at the moment (by Daryll Strauss)? It goes horrendously
> slowly when scrolling colourful backdrops in Netscape.
>
No, its a lot slower on my system - the FBDev server scrolls horrendously
slowly when scrolling text! Opaque resizing a netscape window is comical :)
Are you using the latest SVGA server? I'm sure I read it had some acceleration
implemented now. I got it setup last night, and its a big improvement on the
FBDev setup I had, even if it is noticeably slow.
- Dave
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unix 2 Linux
Date: 23 Apr 1999 09:02:29 -0400
Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A newbie dares to ask: I really enjoyed reading the postings
> about Linux-to-Unix. I remember reading somewhere that Unix-to-Linux
> is less difficult. Will old Unix software (commercially produced,
> ie. Enable) run on Linux? The more options you give me, the better!
i am not familiar with enable. if all you have is a binary, you will
probably need to use a similar processor to run it. i.e., if enable
is compiled for m68k, it'll be hard to run it on a i386 linux box.
that said, there's some support for interoperability with unix flavors
running on the same hardware. i386 linux can run sco binaries with
ibcs(?). i wouldn't be surprised if sparc linux could do sunos4
binaries &c.
i don't know if this helps any but there it is...
--
johan kullstam
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From: Richard Kaszeta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 4.0 is out...
Date: 23 Apr 1999 08:43:21 -0500
Gisbert Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> There is acrobat 4.0 out. There is only a prerelease for linux
> available now, but it works more or less. Hopefully they will make a
> full realease (with language support). Maybe, if many enough
> downloads of the prerelease will occur :-) ?
> http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/acrrwhatsnew.html#linux
I can't seem to actually get a 4.0 version out of this. The link
takes me to an info form, which I fill out and it takes me to another
form that only offers me 3.02 for Linux.
How do I get 4.0?
--
Richard W Kaszeta PhD. Candidate and Sysadmin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Subject: Re: enabling XDM
Date: 23 Apr 1999 09:51:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nuno Donato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have RedHat 5.2 with XDM installed, but it doesnt runs when Linux
> starts.
> How can I enable it?
Log in as root. cd to /etc. Open inittab with your favorite editor. Go
to the line where it says:
id:3:initdefault:
Change the 3 to a 5. Save it off. Next time you reboot, you'll come up
in xdm. For now, though, soon as you save off the inittab, type init 5.
Keven
--
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==============================================================================
Science-Fiction Adventure
In Reavers' Deep
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:57:48 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Big Hard Drive and Dumbass BIOS
John Precious wrote:
>
> I've accidentally bought a 13Gb drive, when my BIOS will only support an
> 8.4Gb drive (doh!). Creating a FAT32 partition beyond the 8.4Gb limit
> causes the computer to hang at boot time....
>
> Is it possible to use the spare space in Linux? If so, how do I make an
> ext2 partition and format it? Also, if I have my /usr directory on my
> root filesystem, how would I change things so that it is on the newly
> created partition? Is it just a matter of copying everything over to the
> new partition and chaging fstab to mount it in /usr?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Dave
You should be able to access the whole of the drive's capacity under
Linux, bacause Linux does not rely on the BIOs but insetead uses its own
drivers to access the drive. BIOS is only needed for booting.
bottomline:
Split your /(root)-partition into /(root), /usr /home, etc and make sure
that /(root) lies entirely in the frist 8GB (shouldn't be too much a
problem - 100MB is more than enough for /). All of the other partitions
are accessed via Linux alone, no BIOS involved, so they'll work just
fine.
Marc Mutz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ditto max professional and ftape-4.02
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:44:08 GMT
I accidently posted this message in comp.os.linux.networking instead of here.
Here is the manual cross-post. :-)
In article <7fobf7$fa5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to get a Ditto Max to work under Linux. The tape drive is
> connected to the iomega 4Mb/S PNP tape controller (PnP device). For some
> reason I cannot get ftape to work with the device. Here is how I setup my
> isapnp to support the tape controller:
>
> /etc/isapnp.conf:
>
> (CONFIGURE IOM0040/-1 (LD 0
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x0210))
> (INT 0 (IRQ 6 (MODE +E)))
> (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> I am unsure how to edit ftape-4.02/MCONFIG under the tape hardware section.
> It does not mention the tape controller that comes with the Ditto Max. I
> tried both setting FDC_DEV=1 and then I tried 82078_DEV=1, making sure the
> addresses/irq's matched. Here is my output upon running ./modules/. insert:
>
> Initialization of ftape-internal failed
> Can't locate module parport
> Initialization of trakker failed
> Initialization of bpck-fdc failed
>
> and here is the output of lsmod after I run the script:
> [root@backup modules]# lsmod
> Module: #pages: Used by:
> zft-compressor 4 0
> zftape 20 [zft-compressor] 0
> ftape 34 [zft-compressor zftape] 0
> nkfs 3 2
>
> If I run listtape:
>
> [root@backup ftape-4.02]# /usr/local/bin/listtape
> ftmt: /dev/ntape: No such file or directory
> No cartridge present.
>
> What the heck should I do? I am totally confused. ftape obviously supports
> the hardware (it even came with a sample isapnp.conf for the 4mb controller
> card), but I can't figure out how to configure it via MCONFIG. Perhaps I am
> missing something entirely? Any help would be greatly apprecitated.
>
> ---
> Dustin Puryear
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dustin Puryear
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