Linux-Misc Digest #132, Volume #20 Sun, 9 May 99 20:13:09 EDT
Contents:
changing permissions to a mount point (Mladen Gavrilovic)
Re: HELP I can't connect to my ISP! (Nostradamus)
Re: HELP I can't connect to my ISP! (albi)
SOUND: SB screwed up my modem? (Denis Kholodar)
Hard disk error (Ning Qian)
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Tesla Coil)
Re: ATI and X Server problem (Mladen Gavrilovic)
Re: Please help: error on booting (brian moore)
Re: KPPP and lock up problems. (Otik787)
Re: Long file names in Linux? (brian moore)
Documentation Repository (best way to create) (Justin B Willoughby)
Re: HELP I can't connect to my ISP! (Carl Fink)
Re: Programming crashes my system (Bill Unruh)
Re: Long file names in Linux? (Rod Smith)
Adding a printer to printcap (Teri)
Re: 16bpp vs 8bpp ("Chris Dahler")
Kppp Vs Usernet (Roy Varghese)
Can't boot Win95 after OpenLinux 2.2 install! (Michael Robbert)
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From: Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: changing permissions to a mount point
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 15:58:13 +0000
Greetings all,
I'm running a RedHat 5.0 system with windows 95 and dos also installed.
The win95/dos partitions have mount points at /win95 and /dos
respectively. Everything works fine, except I can't give normal users
write access. I tried it with dos, and it didn't work (the command
worked but ls -l showed users not being able to write to it). I thought
that this may have been because it confused the directory /dos with the
command dos (dos emulator) but even when I type chmod -v 777 /dos, it
says /dos changed to rwxrwxrwx or whatever, but when I type ls -l it's
still rwxr-xr-x. How can I do this so that it works?
Regards,
Mladen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nostradamus)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux.isp,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,nl.comp.os.linux,worldonline.linux
Subject: Re: HELP I can't connect to my ISP!
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 19:59:09 GMT
On Sun, 9 May 1999 21:38:10 +0200, "van Leur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>P.S. Sorry for my bad English. I'm from Holland
Crosspost from now on and post your messages in the nl.* hierarchy in
Dutch pleaz, especially when you *are* Dutch!
Dixi,
Nostradamus
"quos legent hosce versus mature censunto"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (albi)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux.isp,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,nl.comp.os.linux,worldonline.linux
Subject: Re: HELP I can't connect to my ISP!
Date: 9 May 1999 20:12:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anno Sun, 09 May 1999 19:59:09 GMT, schreef Nostradamus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
>Crosspost from now on and post your messages in the nl.* hierarchy in
>Dutch pleaz, especially when you *are* Dutch!
Make that "Dont Crosspost" ...
Followup-To set to nl.comp.os.linux
-- greetings, Albert --
* Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux! (Unknown source)
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From: Denis Kholodar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SOUND: SB screwed up my modem?
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 16:07:45 -0400
Hi,
while configuring my SB sound card I did something to my Internet
Connection. I would appreciate if anybody can help me understand
what to do now. Thanks! Here is what happened:
I configured my sound Sound Blaster AWE 64 PnP --
I did like the book said, found the dev address in DevManager in
Win95 (IO Port, IRQ, 8-bit DMA, 16-bit DMA), used that in Linux,
bingo! it worked: I heard some test message. The problem is that
after that I tried to connect to Internet through my modem and it
doesn't work now -- I even then deleted the new /etc/conf.modules
that was
created when SB was configured and made the empty one as it was
before that,
rebooted, doesn't work (xisp that i use says unknown problem, see
logs).
in /var/adm/messages after
localhost pppd[..]: pppd 2.3.3 started by denis, uid 501
insted of
localhost pppd[..]: Serial connection established (as was before)
I have now
localhost pppd[..]: tcgettattr: Input/output error(5)
To configure SB (in my RH 5.1) I used /usr/sbin/sndconfig that
created the following /etc/conf.modules file:
alias sound sb
options -k sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1,5
thanks a lot.
denis
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From: Ning Qian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Hard disk error
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 21:48:26 +0000
Hi everyone,
I often get the following error messages on the console window and the
system log file:
scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 54
02 5b 00 00 78 00
Current error sd08:03: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Read retries exhausted
scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 1409150, absolute sector 5505725
scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 54
02 bd 00 00 02 00
Current error sd08:03: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Read retries exhausted
scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 1409150, absolute sector 5505725
where "dev 08:03" is my /home partition /dev/sda3. I even re-created
the partition by umounting it,
starting over with "mke2fs -c /dev/sda3", and mounting it back, but I
still keep on getting the
same error message. I also tried "badblockes" in conjunction with
"e2fsck -l" and that didn't help
either.
Could someone please tell me (1) if this is something to worry about,
and (2) if there is a way to fix it?
I am running Redhat 5.1 with kernel updated to 2.0.36-3. I have a wide
SCSI Fujitsu 4.55 GB hard disk
with a / and a /home partitions.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Ning
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tesla Coil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 16:48:33 -0500
On 9 May 1999, Murphy wrote:
> Personally, I could give a rat's ass about whether or not software
> distributes the serial number of my CPU. At worst, it'll have no
> effect on me, at best, if my machine ever gets stolen, I may be able
> to recover it.
Ah, that's one of the better parts of the PSN story. Intel's original
purpose for the PSN was that it would confirm that a CPU *didn't*
belong to you. Whether that was altogether brilliant is almost an
academic question now. Marketing got hold of it, and surmised it
could be used rather to confirm that a CPU *did* belong to you.
Consumers, in reflection upon marketing's past applications of new
technology (spam, telemarketing, junk mail) found this feature about
as advantageous as theft, and called upon Intel to turn the PSN off.
Intel responded by providing (Windows) software to do so, granting
that ability also to the one who steals your CPU. Thus, the PSN now
moreso serves what are dubious afterthoughts to its original design.
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From: Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ATI and X Server problem
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 18:09:15 +0000
I'm not sure about RH 5.2, but my RH 5.0 came with Metro X as an
alternative to Xfree86. I haven't had any problems running metro X with
my Rage II card, so try installing that instead of xfree86.
Regards,
Mladen
JPC wrote:
>
> I�m having a serious problem:
> I have a PC with an ATI RageII-chipset Mach64GT, 4Mb card and a 15"
> monitor.
> I�m using RH 5.2 Linux.
>
> Linux install OK.
>
> But when trying to launch XWindow problems come.
> When trying to autoprobe system crashed.
> When running XF86Setup I have already tried various chipsets: Mach 64,
> Mach 64+, Mach84GT, generic VGA... None of them seemed to work - giving
> an error: can�t connect to XServer.
> Tried also several combinations with monitor parameters - even the
> lowest. Nothing.
>
> Anyone having same problem?
> Can someone please enlighten me on how overcome this situation?
>
> Many many thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Please help: error on booting
Date: 9 May 1999 21:07:13 GMT
On 9 May 1999 13:49:27 GMT,
Andrew_Luke NESBIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd appreciate it is somebody could help me with the error message that
> occurs on booting linux every so often. I'm running kernel 2.0.36 with root
> partition mounted on /dev/hda5
>
> "/dev/hda5 has reached maximal count count, check forced"
>
> What does this mean, and how do I fix it and prevent it from occuring?
It means just what it says.
When you cleanly shutdown, Linux marks the drive as good, and on reboot
knows that it doesn't need to check it, since it was good when it last
looked and nothing untoward has happened.
But it's good to check occasionally: a weird kernel bug -could- have
corrupted the drive in a subtle way and checking it to ensure it's good
is a good thing. So every so often it will force a check of the drive
just because "it is time".
It's not an error.
If you don't like it, don't reboot so much and you'll see it a lot less.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otik787)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,apana.lists.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: KPPP and lock up problems.
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 16:13:34 -0600
In article <9CCC0B5CBA2A9736.349555825138D381.C5F29B59223C7C0F@library-
proxy.airnews.net>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I just upgraded to RedHat 6.0, and tried to run KPPP, well it works, after it
>connects nothing else runs. I can�t start a File Manager window, Netscape, or
>anything.
>
> What is wrong?
>
> Is there another PPP program can use besides KPPP?
>
> Peter
>
>
>
I also have this problem, the only way I've found to get by it is to
start all the programs I'm going to use before I dial out. Very odd.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Long file names in Linux?
Date: 9 May 1999 21:12:53 GMT
On Sun, 09 May 1999 20:30:25 GMT,
Russell Tanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I configure Linux to use long file names? (i.e.- so everything
> does not get cut off at filenum~1)
Linux inherently supports long filenames and doesn't use ~'s for faking
it.
But it sounds like you're asking something different, like how to read a
Windows VFAT disk.
The answer would be to mount the disk as VFAT instead of FAT. FAT
doesn't support long file names: VFAT is a hacked version FAT that
sneaks a second (or multiple) entry into the directory to hide the long
filename.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Subject: Documentation Repository (best way to create)
Date: 9 May 1999 20:39:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
I have been trying to think of was to created a Linux box to be a
Documentation Repository via a web browser. At first I thought about
trying to find a good Word2HTML converter (free/GNU) to run in batch on
the Linux box to convert older and new MSWord Documents to HTML and then
use PHP3 or some type of indexing CGI to access/index these HTML docs. But
I did not find a good converter for Word6 docs that also would convert the
tables from the Word doc.
I had thought about starting out clean and inputing all the data fresh
using MySQL as the backend, but I am not sure I can have the type of
formatting I would like (indents, tabs, bold, etc) and store all this in
MySQL and then be able to retrieve it easily via a web browser. Then the
system would need to be made so documents could be modified easily.
This system would be needed for several hundred of these type of documents.
It would be nice if most every thing could be done via a web browser, ie
adding new documents, removing documents, modifying documents, etc.
These documents may contain large amounts of text (and I would need some
easy way to format it also).
Could some thing like this be done with Apache + MySQL + PHP3 + Perl + ????
I tried looking for a app for this type of thing at freshmeat.net and
MySQL.com and came up with nothing.... Any suggestions would be great....
Thanks,
- Justin
--
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_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Justin Willoughby
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_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ ------ Jesus Is Lord ------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: HELP I can't connect to my ISP!
Date: 10 May 1999 06:38:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 9 May 1999 21:21:11 +0100 Stuart HIrons
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am just doing the same thing, have you checked that there is a /dev/modem
>linked to the correct serial port (/dev/cua2 if you are using COM3)
>If not, then remove any existing /dev/modem and run (as root) ln -s
>/dev/cua2 /dev/modem
Actually, in modern distributions /dev/ttyS2, not /dev/cua2. The cua
devices are being phased out.
The original poster might want to look at the PPP-Howto, visible at
lots of places including www.linux.org and sunsite.unc.edu.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux-redhat
Subject: Re: Programming crashes my system
Date: 9 May 1999 21:37:05 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Iczer One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The following is a Python RSA implementation. According to the US Government
>> posting these 4 lines makes me an international arms trafficker! Join me in
>> civil disobedience; add these lines of code to your .sig block to help get
>> this stupid and unconstitutional law changed.
>> ============================================================================
>> from sys import*;from string import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!=
>> '-',a);d='-d'in a;e,n=atol(p,16), atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d
>> while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce(
>> lambda x,y:(x<<8L) +y, map(ord,s)),e,n): chr(b>>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1)))
>> ============================================================================
>Normally I dont Question About Someone's Sig,but this is a differant case.
>Exactally what is the Above?What Is Pylon Rsa?What does the Above Do when
>run?Sorry About My Ignorance in this matter.
Python is a programming language. RSA is a cryptography system. The aboe
program in Python is supposed to take in an input text message and
output that message encrypted using the RSA cryptosystem.
Cryptography is export controlled (it used to be under ITAR--
international trade in arms regulations-- and thus his comment about
arms trafficer-- but now is under some special Commerce dept
regulations) and anyone exporting cryptography is supposed to get a
license to do so-- or $1000000 dollar fine and 10 years in jail.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Long file names in Linux?
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 23:33:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How would one mount it as a VFAT disk? The only (relevant) filesystems
> that fdisk sees is MSDOS 16 bit < 32M, MSDOS 16 bit > 32M, and Win95
> FAT32. In my fstab, the disk is mounted as type "msdos". I am running
> kernel 2.0.31.
Use the filesystem type vfat, rather than msdos. You'll need to have
support for this in your kernel, though, and it might or might not be
there for you. If not, you'll need to recompile your kernel, or at least
that module.
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Teri)
Subject: Adding a printer to printcap
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 23:43:00 GMT
I am having a problem adding an entry to /etc/printcap for a fax printer.
If I use the original /etc/printcap generated by my distribution (Debian
2.0.34), everything works fine and lpstat -o returns with:
printer lp@ionsvr online. enabled since ....
When I add an entry to printcap and run lpstat -o I get:
printer lp@myname online. enabled since...
printer faxlp@myname online. enabled since...
When I then run lpc reread and then run lpstat -o I get:
printer lp@myname online. enabled since...
Without the 2nd printer that should be there.
Now, if I reboot the linux box with this altered printcap file and run
lpstat -o I get:
Host 'localhost' - cannot open connection to 'lp@localhost' -
connection refused
Host 'localhost' - cannot open connection to 'faxlp@localhost' -
connection refused
The printcap entry I'm attempting to add is:
faxlp|Fax Server
:lp=/dev/null
:sd=/var/spool/fax
:if=/etc/mgetty/faxfilter
:sh
:sf
:mx#0
:lf=/var/log/fax-log
What (probably perfectly obvious) thing am I doing wrong?
Thanks for any help!
Teri
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Chris Dahler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 16bpp vs 8bpp
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 19:42:05 GMT
> I have just changed mobo and have a SiS 6326 installed. Question is, it
> always defaults to 8bpp when I want 16bpp. As I can't user XF86config
> (it hangs the machine), I've had to go back to XF86Config. Got it
> working again but I need to find out where the default bpp is being set.
> All is fine if I enter startx -- -bpp 16.
I'm kind of a newbie myself, but using XF86Setup works much better than
XF86Config for me. XF86Setup is a GUI rather than the text-based XF86Config
program. When you run XF86Setup, you can set which mode you want to be the
default (i.e., 8bpp or 16bpp, etc.), and you can't seem to do that using
XF86Config.
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From: Roy Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kppp Vs Usernet
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 23:54:02 GMT
I noticed a strange problem, when I use 'kppp' to dial out I
get a very slow connection than when I use 'usernet'. For example my
home page is refreshed at 500-600bytes/sec whereas if I dial out with
usernet its typically 4-5K/sec !!
Has anyone else faced the same problem ? I am using a USR 56K v.90
Voice Int Modem.
I cant see anything unusual in the init string for either configuration.
All answers appreciated.
Roy Varghese.
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Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 19:47:43 -0400
From: Michael Robbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Can't boot Win95 after OpenLinux 2.2 install!
I picked up the Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 CD at COMDEX and came home to
install it right away. It installed pretty much without any problems. I
setup LILO for booting between linux and my old Win95 installation, but
when i choose Win95 it says starting Win95 and hangs. Windows is on
/dev/hda1 and linux is on /dev/hda7
I've got the Windows 95 install CD, but it isn't bootable. I found an
old 95 boot disk, but when I boot to it and try to do a sys c: it tells
me that my bood disk is from a different version of windows 95. I tell
it to go ahead and try anyways, but that didn't help. I also tried
running fdisk /mbr, but that only took away lilo and required me to boot
from the linux CD again.
Any ideas on what I can do here? I really need to use some of the apps
that I've got in Win95 and my wife is breathing down my neck about it.
thanks in advance,
Michael "Murph" Robbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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