Linux-Misc Digest #380, Volume #20 Fri, 28 May 99 10:13:07 EDT
Contents:
midnight commander behaving strange ("jeroen")
Re: Netscape 4.6 .rpm, .deb? was, Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits (John Thompson)
Re: Display X on TV? (Peter Caffin)
awk in vi on Redhat 5.2 (Phil Berry)
Re: ip forwarding (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: Linux vs. NT performance / Mindcraft results (Dennis Clark)
Re: core dump ("D. Vrabel")
Re: Large CD-ROM file errors...? (Mark Tranchant)
Re: core dump (Mark Tranchant)
Netscape and selfdefined MIME types ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RedHat 5.2 install. SMB and FTP options dont work. ("Avnish Gupta")
kernel error at boot (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: Does this OS exist? (bowman)
Re: rpm not working (Tom Fawcett)
makemake? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
COMMERCIAL SOURCE CODE ENGINEERING TOOL FOR C,C++ and JAVA (Janos Koppany)
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From: "jeroen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: midnight commander behaving strange
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:36:57 +0200
I have just installed the 2.2.9 kernel into my S.uSE 6.0 sustem. (previous
kernel 2.0.38). Quite often but not always the mc crashes and dumps a lot of
'strange' character on the console, when I try to quit mc. (F10)
I have not had this problem before. I wonder anybody can help me. It is
quite anoying to wreck a terminal once in a while. I can't really see a
patern in the crashing behaviour of mc.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.6 .rpm, .deb? was, Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 21:42:47 -0600
Michel wrote:
>
> Matt O'Toole wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone seen Netscape 4.6 rpms or debs yet? Where? I'm too lazy to
> > install it otherwise... plus, it's nicer to have it packaged and ready for
> > an easy upgrade or uninstall if necessary..
> >
>
> The US version is only available in libc5 for both 4.51 and 4.6
> and they are tar.gz files
I just saw this in linux.redhat.announce yesterday:
New netscape packages are available. While these are not
specifically security updates, among the changes listed
are 'Fixes to improve security'; therefore it is recommended
that users update to the new packages.
SPARC packages will become available when SPARC binaries are
available from Netscape.
Red Hat Linux 6.0:
==================
i386:
rpm -Uvh
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386/netscape-common-4.6-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386/netscape-communicator-4.6-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386/netscape-navigator-4.6-1.i386.rpm
Source rpm:
rpm -Uvh
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/SRPMS/netscape-4.6-1.src.rpm
Red Hat Linux 5.2:
==================
i386:
rpm -Uvh
ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/netscape-common-4.6-0.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh
ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/netscape-communicator-4.6-0.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh
ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/netscape-navigator-4.6-0.i386.rpm
Source rpm:
rpm -Uvh
ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/SRPMS/netscape-4.6-0.src.rpm
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Display X on TV?
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:12:46 +0800
Oliver D. Bedford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Caffin wrote:
>> I think he knows that the resolution limitations are 640x480 on a PAL set
>> and 640x440 on NTSC. This is in the PSC1106 Mini-HOWTO. His question
> Yeah, I know that. ;-)
Actually, as a followup to this, I've managed to tweak the resolution
under X11 to 640x535 on my PAL TV. I've added the new modeline to the
Mini-HOWTO.
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From: Phil Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: awk in vi on Redhat 5.2
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:33:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can someone explain what is failing to happen here?
When I try to edit a DOS file -- ie one with \r\n at the
end of each line -- in vi I do not see the ^Ms at the end
of the line, but I know they are there! This is presumably
a vi issue. However, when I use this command at the
colon prompt:
:%!awk '{sub("\r","");print}'
I expect the file to become a Unix file. But it doesn't. Why?
On Redhat 5.2 this fails but I also work on Slackware 3.4
and it works. There seems to be something about the vi
setup, or am I wrong? Something is clearly not working as
I expect because this works:
awk '{sub("\r","");print}' DOS_file > /tmp/temp.$$
mv /tmp/temp.$$ DOS_file
So what is going on? Any help would be appreciated.
TIA
Phil Berry
For Linux training see: http://193.63.48.62:8080
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: ip forwarding
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 10:38:25 GMT
On Wed, 26 May 1999 16:36:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having a lot of problems getting ip forwarding to work with COL
>2.2. I am hoping someone can help. :) Okay, I checked three things. Is
>[root@comm dustin]# ipchains -L
>Chain input (policy ACCEPT):
>Chain forward (policy ACCEPT):
>Chain output (policy ACCEPT):
Try:
ipchains -A forward -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Clark)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded
Subject: Re: Linux vs. NT performance / Mindcraft results
Date: 25 May 1999 15:15:02 GMT
BobX ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Linux is only a TOY, and NT is a total JOKE. You guys should check out
: Solaris.
: if you guys are driving hardware not supported under Solaris, the
: hardware is too new (ergo not tested), or is bad.
Arrr! I thinks I smells a TROLL!
DLC
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| Dennis Clark |
| Be well, Do good work, stay in touch -- Garrison Keillor |
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: core dump
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:10:57 +0100
On Fri, 28 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Getting familure with Linux (RH 5.2), tried to
> look at the memory allocation in memory. I found
> "/dev/mem" and tried to read the file with 'joe',
> It was unreadable. Exited 'joe' and got a report
> of 'dump' or core dump'. I found "core" file in
> my root directory. Illedgable with any editor I
> use. "core" file is greater than 5 megs.
>
> Question:
> 1. What did I do wrong?
> 2. Is this file a 'core dump' of /dev/mem?
> 3. Is it necessary to do any repairs to
> /dev/mem?
> 4. How should I do any repairs, outside of
> reloading RH.
> 5. Just what is 'core dump'? I remember the
> statement from back in the 60s. But then
> we had 'magnetic cores'.
Core dumps are the process images dumped to disk by the kernel when the
process receives a fatal exception (eg Segmentation fault etc).
I your case the core file is from the editor joe.
Just delete it.
David
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Large CD-ROM file errors...?
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:47:37 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Was this done on the same machine (i.e. the same CDROM drive)
> as the one running Linux? The fact that it takes a long time to
> read this cd in windows might suggest that it
> is more or less defect. Maybe some drives are better for error
> correction,
> maybe windows allows for more retries...
>
> I have seen many examples of problems with homeburned cd's, some won't
> be read by some cdrom drives, and some will.
>
Yes, all read attempts were on the same machine. Linux read the
truncated first 16MB very quickly (for my machine) to disk, with no
problems and no apparent retries. tar unarchived it quite happily up to
the cutoff point, so there was no data corruption.
It didn't sound defective. I have had disks that force retries, and you
can hear the lens tracking backwards and forwards. This disk just read a
bit, waited for a bit, read a bit more, etc. I monitored the file system
read/write with System Monitor - it was "pulsing" at about 500KB/s
briefly about once every two seconds, and eventually (20 minutes later)
completed successfully - StarOffice installed perfectly. CPU utilization
was at 100% throughout the operation. My Windows CD-ROM performance is
usually better than that, holding a steady 800KB/s or so, rather than
the 60KB/s of this transfer.
Mark.
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: core dump
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:52:38 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Getting familure with Linux (RH 5.2), tried to
> look at the memory allocation in memory. I found
> "/dev/mem" and tried to read the file with 'joe',
> It was unreadable. Exited 'joe' and got a report
> of 'dump' or core dump'. I found "core" file in
> my root directory. Illedgable with any editor I
> use. "core" file is greater than 5 megs.
>
> Question:
> 1. What did I do wrong?
Don't look at /dev/mem. It's a device file, not a real file. What you
are trying to to is load the contents of memory into an editor, which
will, of course, change those contents...
The core dump is a copy of the important bits of memory dumped by the
kernel after joe went haywire. Just delete it.
If you want memory information on a high level, use the command "free".
On a per-process basis, look at the manual for "ps", or run "top".
If you're just looking around do this as a normal user, not root. You'll
save yourself grief.
Mark.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,netscape.public.general
Subject: Netscape and selfdefined MIME types
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 11:18:25 GMT
Hi there,
I'm trying to define a MIME type for DVI-files under LinuX. However,
when I click on a link the application (xdvi) starts up but doesn't
actually open the file. Is there a standardized parameter for program
calls or does it depend on the program itself ? How do I tell the
application to open the clicked file ?
TIA
Bernhard
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From: "Avnish Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 5.2 install. SMB and FTP options dont work.
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 17:51:49 +0530
I am trying to install Red Hat Linux 5.2 using the following options:
SMB option:
I have shared the cdrom on a WIN98 machine giving read only access to
everyone. The IP address of this machine is 192.168.103.50. and the name is
xyz. After using supplemental disk and partitioning i configured my network
adapter. For network configuration i chose the following options:
IP Address: 192.168.103.144
Netmask: 255.255.255.0 (same as that of WIN98 machine)
Default Gateway: 192.168.103.144
Primary Nameserver: 192.168.103.144
Domain Name: pqr
Host Name: abc.pqr
Secondary Name Server: None
Tertiary Name Server: None
SMB Server Name: xyz
Share Volume: cdrom
Account Name: None
Password: None
After this configuration i get the message "I could not mount that directory
from the server". The only way to come out of this is Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Ping to Linux machine gives the following output:
Pinging 192.168.103.144 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.103.144: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.103.144: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.103.144: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.103.144: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.103.144:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms
What could be wrong?
FTP option:
I have a WINNT 4.0 machine (Name: def, IP address 192.168.103.254, Subnet
Mask 255.255.255.0) which is a FTP server. Its cdrom is made a Virtual
Directory with name /cdrom. I have allowed read only anonymous access to
this.
After using supplemental disk and partitioning i configured my network
adapter. For network configuration i chose the following options this time:
IP Address: 192.168.103.135
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.103.135
Primary Nameserver: 192.168.103.135
Domain Name: pqr
Host Name: abc.pqr
Secondary Name Server: None
Tertiary Name Server: None
FTP Site Name: 192.168.103.254
Red Hat Directory: cdrom
i didnt choose the option "use non-anonymous FTP or a Proxy Server"
After this i was prompted for the list of packages to install and i chose
everything.
I got the message "I cannot get file
cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/setup-1.9.2-1.noarch.rpm: File not found on Server". When
i clicked OK i got the message "I m having trouble getting %s. Should i keep
trying?" I selected No. This time i got the message "I cannot get file
cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/filesystem-1.3.2-3.noarch.rpm: File not found on Server".
And so on. The only way to come out of this is Ctrl+Alt+Del.
When i used the follwing command "dir setup*.*" on my cdrom using my WINNT
4.0 machine i got the following list of files:
setup-1.9
setuptool-1.0-1
and the command "dir file*.*" gave me the following results:
file-3.25-2
filesystem-1.3
fileutils-3.16-10
When i use "ftp 192.168.103.254" from my WIN98 machine which i mentioned in
the SMB option i can login using the following information:
User: anonymous
Password: none
Here i can browse all my directories. I used the following command "cd
/cdrom/redhat/rpms" and it worked well. It also displays the list of rpm
packages using the command ls. But here also the same names are displayed
which i saw using the command "dir *.*" on my WINNT machine.
Pinging my Linux machine from my WINNT machine gives the following result:
Pinging 192.168.103.135 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.103.135: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.103.135: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.103.135: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.103.135: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
What could be wrong?
I am not a regular visitor to newsgroups so please cc at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanx in advance.
Avnish Gupta
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Subject: kernel error at boot
Date: 28 May 1999 11:59:33 GMT
Hi,
at boot time I get this kernel message:
May 26 12:17:47 [hostname] kernel: Error seeking in /dev/kmem
May 26 12:17:47 [hostname] kernel: Error adding kernel module table
entry.
My kernel is a custom 2.2.3 on a redhat 5.2 installation. I have had it
since two months but I don't remember seeing these errors. I also use the
smbfs and 3c59x loadable modules. These services work correctly.
The system comes up and seems to work as it should, but only apparently...
some operations as root do not work (possibly other stuff). For instance,
httpd does not seem to respond to connections. Nothing in the log files.
If I open an xterm, su root, then open another xterm, this hangs. All
programs that need to open a window hang likewise if run as root, but
otherwise seem to work fine (e.g. emacs -nw works but emacs does not).
When such things happen I see a "[date] [hostname] kernel: khm" in the
logs and on the console. I had no luck in finding out what this error
means.
On possibility is that I screwed up permissions on some files, I did a
"chmod [something] /* " instead of "chmod [something] ./*" roughly when
the problems first appeared, and it went on a few seconds before I
interrrupted it. Then I did a rpm --setperms `rpm -qa` to repair the
thing. This wouldn't affect my kernel since it is not installed as an rpm
package. But I don't know where to start to find out is some permissions
are wrong, given the symptoms I see and the fact that I don't understand
the boot and log errors...
I would really appreciate some help since I pretty lost here.
Thanks to everyone,
Stefano
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From: bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does this OS exist?
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 06:59:20 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The closest that fits the above are DOS (but not 32-bit/protected mode)
DOS, using dpmi, runs 32 bit protected. See www.delorie.com for the gcc
port.
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm not working
Date: 28 May 1999 08:55:28 -0400
sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How does one install the following RPM: exmh......src.rpm? When I use
> rpm -i exmh...., I get a return but nothing else -- no comments, no new
> files, no error message.
man rpm and search for the build and recompile options.
-Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: makemake?
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 13:01:50 GMT
I'm new to linux programming and was attempting to use
code crusader, however I keep getting the error that
makemake wasn't found. What exactly is makemake and where
(or should) I get it?
Thanx
Travis
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