Linux-Misc Digest #250, Volume #20 Tue, 18 May 99 13:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Funny problem with 'date' (Andrew)
Re: X-SVGA-Server mit CL-GD 5426! (Joachim Wieland)
Re: cant login as root Mysql user in MySQL (FoT)
Re: selectbits.h (Paul Kimoto)
Re: In defence of UNIX man pages (Bev)
Re: Loooking for bzip2-aware tar (Mircea)
Re: fdisk /MBR ??? (William Burrow)
Re: fdformat - Is it defective in RedHat 6.0? (Robert Nichols)
Re: RH6 and Netscape (Jim Henderson)
How to UPGRADE LIBC? (Denis)
SCSI Zip -> Kernel Panic ("J. David Eisenberg")
Re: Red Hat 6.0 - SMP and CPU usage problems (Phillip George Geiger)
Journaling Filesystem Anyone? (Chris Zimmerman)
Calendaring ("Stan Rock")
printing problem (benjamin)
Re: New cable modem means I have a lot to learn (David Kennedy)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Rod Roark)
Video capture card drivers (src) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how do I interrupt boot sequence? (**Nick Brown)
Re: Journaling Filesystem Anyone? (**Nick Brown)
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Funny problem with 'date'
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:36:54 +0100
Reply-To: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I was messing around with 'date' at home lately and came up with the
following messages.....they seemed a little bizarre!
[stardestroyer][andrew] ~ 1:06:12 >cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.2.7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515
(egcs-1.0.3 release)) #1 Thu Apr 29 21:36:51 IST 1999
[stardestroyer][andrew] ~ 1:06:16 >date
Thu May 13 01:06:21 IST 1999
[stardestroyer][andrew] ~ 1:06:21 >date --date yesterday
Thu May 13 01:07:26 IST 1999
[stardestroyer][andrew] ~ 1:06:26 >date --date "1 day ago"
Wed May 12 01:06:30 IST 1999
[stardestroyer][andrew] ~ 1:06:30 >date --version date
(GNU sh-utils) 1.16
[stardestroyer][andrew] ~ 1:06:33 >
Anybody else have the same kind of output? - It doesn't bother me much, as
I don't actually try to find yesterdays date, but the output puzzled me!
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Wieland)
Crossposted-To:
at.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: X-SVGA-Server mit CL-GD 5426!
Date: 18 May 1999 11:52:29 GMT
Hello,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vaclav Stepan wrote:
> There's some problem with mapping the upper 512 K of the graphic
> card memory. If there was no progress, you won't be able to get more
> than 8bpp if you have more than 16 MB RAM. It's all discussed in the
> Cirrus-howto (or something like that).
Yes, that's it. There are different types of that card available. You
probably have one that works with 16 bit if you have less than (I think it
was) 14 MB of memory. These different types are well documented in the
Cirrus X11 Readme file. I've had the same type and upgraded the memory to 16
MB so that I couldn't use the 16 bpp mode anymore but I managed to exchange
cards with somebody else who now uses it for Win 3.11.
Regards,
Joachim
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From: FoT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cant login as root Mysql user in MySQL
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 17:42:35 +0200
> "/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost; failed
> erro: 'Access denied for theb user: 'root@localhost'..."
>
> I have already run the /usr/bin/mysql_install_db .
>
> But i *can* log in as mysql -u mysql.
> What gives? Why cant i login and root?
> Have i missed anything.?
I had the same problem.
Think I've solved by logging in as root@<myhostname> in stead of only
root.
After that I immediatly created another superuser and everything is fine
now.
Do read the manual for creating users and privileges.
Good Luck,
--
FoT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: selectbits.h
Date: 18 May 1999 11:51:33 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7hno07$rh3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Burra wrote:
> Where can I find the header file selectbits.h???
It belongs to glibc2. Your distribution may consign it to the
libc distribution package.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: In defence of UNIX man pages
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 11:19:46 -0700
Juergen Heinzl wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> > [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
IF ANYBODY REPLIES TO THIS, P*L*E*A*S*E don't send me a courtesy copy.
> >In comp.os.linux.misc,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy) writes:
> >:but now I see that the Linux man page has no examples,
> >:while at least 2 other Unix systems I have used do.
> >:In fact, Linux is far worse in this regard
> >:than most Unix systems -- I can't think why.
> > ^other
> >
> >Yes, the Linux manpages are an embarrassment. Take, for example, the
> >manpages for tty(4) or diff(1) on a Linux systems compared with those
> >on a BSD system. It would be laughable if it didn't make you cry.
> >
> >And that's why abandoned Linux for BSD whenever I need to get real
> >work done.
>
> See the Linux documentation project how you can help, though I think
> if man pages are a reason to change the OS you've a real problem.
Erm, if you don't understand something, writing the documentation for it isn't
likely to result in anything useful. I was going to say that that's what
happened, but it didn't -- it was written for people who already understand
but who just need a tiny reminder occasionally.
Somebody else mentioned the goodness of somebody's man intro facility. Just
tried it. First good belly laugh of the day -- much thanks!
> BTW, the info pages (use info, better pinfo) come with a lot of
> examples and if it comes to learn the basic stuff, there are many
> good books available.
Yeah, but so many trees have already died needlessly. The "command --help"
structure (is this universal?) is better in many ways than the man pages; it's
shorter and gives you a hint about what you might want to look for.
Just tried info -- which I have fallen into by accident upon occasion. Spent
a few minutes learning that delete means page up (I NEVER trust the delete key
to do anything I want done, this makes me very uneasy) and a very few other
things. Have hyperlinks made us too impatient? I really don't want to learn
a new word processor in order find out more information about useful commands.
> Thank God I am not sarcastic, else I would say people who get the job
> done can go along even without man pages instead of complaining about
> them and waiting for others to do the job but as I said, I am not
> sarcastic.
Yes, providing there is somebody around you can afflict with questions.
Imagine you come upon a computer screen -- the first time you have ever seen
such a thing -- with a nice helpful C:\> on the screen. What do you do? All
you can do is hit essentially random keys until something gives you some
useful information. Not an efficient process.
> Let the flames start rolling,
No flames, just a bit more whin[ge]ing...
--
Cheers,
Bev
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Of COURSE the Chinese Government is angry. How would you
feel if YOU had invested millions of dollars in a perfectly
good corrupt politician only to have him bomb YOUR embassy?
-- G. Kidd
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Loooking for bzip2-aware tar
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:59:57 -0400
I have GNU tar version 1.12, the one that comes standard with Slackware
3.6, and it does this, via the switch "y" (instead of "x" for gzip).
MST
Michal Szymanski wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a 'tar' version which would support 'bzip2'-compession in
> similar way as it currently supports 'gzip' and 'compress' through
> "z/Z" options.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: fdisk /MBR ???
Date: 18 May 1999 15:21:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 17 May 1999 06:43:52 -0700,
Joachim Feise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've written a tool similar to System Commander ten years back, and I have
>analyzed the
>boot sequences of quite a lot of OSes over the years. Lilo (and Solaris)
>are the only
>systems that I know of that actually write its own code to the mbr.
Of course, you know that Lilo can write to a partition and just use the
active partition thing that DOS does.
Mind you, changing the active partition is a bit more of a pain than
just typing the OS/kernel label you want at the boot prompt....
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Nichols)
Subject: Re: fdformat - Is it defective in RedHat 6.0?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:26:03 GMT
In article <F0203.810$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
William T. Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: It seems
:to me that with fairly high frequency, fdformat
:reports an error, usually of the sort "read xxxx and
:expected yyyy at cylinder zz". This used to happen
:quite rarely, but I notice that I am throwing away
:a lot of floppies these days.
When was the last time you cleaned your floppy drive?
--
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From: Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6 and Netscape
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:18:16 -0600
I had this problem under RedHat 5.2, but the installation from the
RedHat 6 distribution seems to work fine for me.
I did have a wierd problem yesterday while NetScape was up and running,
though - I was changing GNOME's background and after a while the system
locked up (very slowly locked up). Did the same thing through
Englightenment's config, though, and didn't seem to have a problem.
Though now that I think about it, netscape wasn't running when I did the
second time.
I wonder if maybe there's a memory leak in 4.51...?
Jim
Paul Gigg wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> Anyone else out there in Linux Land having trouble with Netscape 4.51
> and RH6. Mine keeps crashing with a 'Bus Error'. There doesn't seem to
> be any pattern as it occurs with both Gnome and KDE desktops.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> PG
--
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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: Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to UPGRADE LIBC?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 12:01:56 -0400
I need to upgrade glibc/libc, the files in these (rpm) packages
obviously conflict with the existing ones (in my RH5.1). I'm all worried about
uninstalling the existing ones, because I don't understand how then Linux is
going to install new ones without any working glibc/libc. Please, help me
understand how to do that if you can.
thank you.
Denis
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From: "J. David Eisenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Zip -> Kernel Panic
Date: 18 May 1999 16:01:05 GMT
Repeatable kernel panic on RedHat 5.2, using Iomega ZIP drive
(no flames, please) on SCSI card.
/etc/fstab has this line:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/pczip vfat user,noauto,suid,rw,dev 0 0
When I do this:
mount /mnt/pczip
I get the following:
====================================================================
scsi device sda:hdwr sector=512 bytes Sectors=196608 [96 MB] [0.1GB]
sdd: write protect is off
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
aha152x target left COMMAND
QUEUE STATUS:
issue_SC:
current_SC:
0x00005dfc: target=5; lun=0; cmnd=(Read (6) 12 70 20 02 00
); residual=1024; buffers=0; phase |send_ident|; in other (COMMAND); next=0x00000
000
disconnected_SC:
on bus: SCSIEQ (); SCSISIG (STATUS); INTSTAT (hi); SSTAT(SELDO PHASEMIS PHASEC
HG REQINIT ); SSTAT(PHASEMIS REQINIT); SXFRCTL0 (CH1 ); SIGNAL(BSY1 REQI ); S
ELID(a0), SSTAT2(SEMPTY ); SFCNT(0); SCSICNT (0), OFFCNT(0), SSTAT4 (); DMACN
TRL0 (16BIT PIO READ ); DMASTAT (DFIFOEMP )
enabled interrupts (ENPHASEMIS ENBUSFREE ENREQINIT)
kernel panic: aha152x panic
in swapper task - not syncing
=================================================
After a reboot, when I insert a different ZIP disk,
I get an "invalid file system", but no kernel panic.
Any ideas? Both disks read just fine under "that other system",
and Norton Utilities finds no bad sectors, no bad anything.
No, I have not recompiled the kernel lately. I've never
compiled it at all; it's just as it came off the CD.
--
J. David Eisenberg http://www.best.com/~nessus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip George Geiger)
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 - SMP and CPU usage problems
Date: 18 May 1999 13:40:17 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: You can check for sure if the kernel is aware of both processors via
: `cat /proc/cpuinfo`. If there are two entries, then it knows they are
: there and the other apps have adjusted their percentages.
Thanks. /proc/cpuinfo has two entries, one for CPU 0 and one for CPU 12.
I guess the Powers That Be decided "200%" CPU usage had to be changed. It
all makes sense now.
Out of curiosity, is there any reason for calling one CPU 0 and the other
12? I would have expected 0 and 1, not 0 and 12.
: When you run xosview, do you get two CPU graphs?
xosview isn't on my system.
Thanks for the info.
--
Phil Geiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Chris Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Journaling Filesystem Anyone?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:19:19 -0500
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Does anyone know of a current project covering a journaling filesystem
for Linux? I think that one of the things that Linux could truely
benefit from is a filesystem with many of the features of say, ADVFS
(from DEC Unix).
Thanks,
Chris Zimmerman
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From: "Stan Rock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Calendaring
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 10:36:30 -0600
I need to know if there is an application on Linux that would allow calendar
sharing. I have a bunch of users running Windows 95/98 using Outlook 97.
Stan
ps Please reply to my email instead of the group.
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From: benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printing problem
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 01:54:35 +0200
Hello ,
I am runing Linux Kernel 2.2.4 and i want to configure my HPDeskjet
870Cxi
I did it, and i can use the printer with the drivers of the Deskjet 550c
or Laserjet. But there is still one problem i can't solve: the margins:
it doen't want to print below 3cm before the bottom of the page;
whatever i do !
Thank you for helping.
Benjamin
runing Linux Kernel 2.2.4
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Kennedy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: New cable modem means I have a lot to learn
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:10:09 GMT
It is actually not that hard. There are many good websites describing
similiar setups.
<<--some peices sniped-->>
The server does not provide Internet access to the clients.
Perhaps it should. As was pointed out you do want to firewall your
internal lan.
I have the same deal (cable modem, linux box, NT workstation clients)
The linux box provides internet access to the clients (linux box is
running a caching name server, I point NT's DNS and default gateway to
the linux box. bam, I am on the net)
>
>I do not intend to run any additional local services (mail, Web, news, etc.)
>at this time. I just want my LANs server to pass packets between the client
>machines and the cable modem.
you might want to disable them from the /etc/inetd.conf to prevent
them from being exploited.
>0. My ISP will provide a dynamically-allocated IP address. Does that mean I
>need to configure my server for DHCP? All the client system will continue
>to have static addresses.
(lets not have the arguement here about this OK??)
It appears that @home's preferred method is DHCP, however, some cable
companies (down to the district level) have some flexibility.
You should be prepaired to use DHCP (either now or in the future) but
it is possible you will get a static IP.
You need to be careful about what version of DHCPCD you use. I think
(correct me if I am wrong) 0.7 was for 2.0.x kernels.
>
>2. IP Masquerading?
>
>3. Firewall? Up to now I haven't had to think much about security, since
>the LAN doesn't have direct Internet access. Now that we'll be constantly
>connected, I'm wondering if I need a firewall. I have an older machine that
>I could use solely as a firewall if needed.
>
Your "linux server" with two NIC's can do both.
Again, I can't remember the URL's but there are some good websites
which describe how to build the rc.firewall file.
>Any information, or pointers to info, on these topics would be gratefully
>received.
>
>Thank you.
>
>***** Steve Snyder *****
>
>
>
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 18 May 1999 16:46:46 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Did any of your guys look at the webbechmark posted by PC
>magazine?Below is the URL
>http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2256617,00.html
> In this, it stated that NT4 and IIS is the best web platform today,
>....
Perhaps it would be enlightening to flip thru a PC Magazine and count
the pages of Microsoft advertising. Also note the astonishing lack
of technical detail.
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Video capture card drivers (src)
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:37:12 GMT
Hi,
I have three years old video capturing board (e.g. Qmotion 200 PCI)
chips are:
Philips SAA 7110 WP
316170 dfd9444v1x 94'
Philips SAA 7187 WP
k5l785 hfd9540v0y 94'
Altera EPM 7032lc44-15t
bd9525
AMCC PCI MATCHMAKER
PARADIGM PDM41256SA15S0
ZORAN
ZR36055PQC29.5
and
ZR36050PQC
Could someone help me to find drivers for this card under linux. I
checked the linux4video web page, but I am not sure that
any of the drivers will work for me. Looks that someone has drivers for
ZORAN chip, but is this is all I need.
I am not shy to start writing a driver for this card, but I need some
pointers and help.
Thanks much
/s
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do I interrupt boot sequence?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:02:58 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you are using syslinux, type at the prompt. If you are using LILO,
press space and you'll get a prompt. You need to type something like
kernel-name single
where "kernel-name" may well be "linux" or "vmlinuz". This boots you in
single-user mode.
Keith York wrote:
>
> I am using Debian linux and it is hanging during startup when it tries
> to load a corrupt program.
>
> How do I interrupt the startup to get a root prompt so I can remove the
> offending line. (I tried ctl c etc but that doesn't stop it.)
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Journaling Filesystem Anyone?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:04:40 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Such a project is under way, I believe, with a guy called Stephen
Tweedie at the head of it.
Chris Zimmerman wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a current project covering a journaling filesystem
> for Linux?
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