Linux-Misc Digest #632, Volume #20 Mon, 14 Jun 99 16:13:22 EDT
Contents:
Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (david parsons)
Setting up printer (Marko Filipovic)
Re: Windows doesn't detect "Linux disc" ("Gabriele Frankemoelle")
A restet to XDM login? (Jef vd Molengraft)
Re: 2 newbie questions! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far. (Barry Samuels)
Re: LILO hangs at LI - SOLUTION! (Jun Yang)
Printing under Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
dpkg on non debian (and/or non-linux?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Migration from SCO 3.2v4 to Linux ("Pascal Ferrari")
irq 5 prob (filas)
Re: Vmware+SCSI (Uwe Bonnes)
Re: uninstall LILO from DOS ? (Latenar)
Re: linux-newbie (Latenar)
Reattaching orphaned interactive processes (william henry hsu)
Re: Restricted telnet access (Duncan Simpson)
Re: COL225: LILO says: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1137 > 1023)
(Chris Raper)
Re: COL225: LILO says: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1137 > 1023)
(Chris Raper)
Re: Problems with email through a Linux Firewall using ipfwadm, ipportfw (Duncan
Simpson)
GNU g77 & LINUX glibc (Helmut Kindl)
Re: <Q>Logitech bus mice setup (Tim Haynes)
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From: o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s (david parsons)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Subject: Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
Date: 13 Jun 1999 21:11:42 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Don Baccus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I'm merely pointing out that, as behooves us on a Linux newsgroup, when
>>I say "this app is free" I mean much, much more than just "it doesn't
>>cost anything".
>
>Hmmm...don't folks in Linux newsgroups know the difference
>between "free" and "free and open source"?
No.
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From: Marko Filipovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting up printer
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:27:55 +0200
Hello,
I am trying to get my printer working for the very first time. I
compiled printer driver as module and put following line into
/etc/conf.modules:
options lp io=0x3bc,0x3bd,0x3be irq=5.
Trying modprobe lp I get error mesage:
/lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/lp.o: invalid parameter io
After I load this module using "insmod lp" and typing
"tunelp /dev/lp0" afterwards it always says "/dev/lp0 using IRQ -1". But
when I try "tunelp /dev/lp0 -i 5" I get message
"tunelp: ioctl: Invalid argument.
/dev/lp0 using IRQ -1"
So, what am I doing wrong??
TIA,
Marko
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From: "Gabriele Frankemoelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows doesn't detect "Linux disc"
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:27:38 +0200
Hi, Roland!
Thanx a lot for your advice... I did try to follow your hints, unfortunatly
to no avail. fdisk /dev/hdc/ prints me the current partition table of disc
D: which is /dev/hdc1 (boot)* start 1 end 667 ID 83 (Linux native) and
/dev/hdc2 start 668 end 1022 ID b (Win 95 FAT 32) - so there would be no
need to change the ID, am I correct? Or do I have to use IC c - Win 95 FAT
32
LBA, whatever the hell LBA is ;-) When I nevertheless try to change to ID c
I get the error message "Re-read table failure with error 16 - device or
resource busy".
Unter Win 95 (>my PC - >system) D: is listed as "harddisc with filesystem
for MS-DOS-compatibility" - if I try to get into >details it says driver
conflict in config.sys. And when I check that file I can only find drive C:,
but I guess D: should be listed there, too?
Sorry about bothering you - I know this is mainly a Windoofs problem (yet
again!), but I guess there are quite a lot people out there working with
both OS's.
Greetings,
Gabriele Frankemoelle
- Freie Journalistin -
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.tripod.com/gfra/
> try to change the partion ID for the DOS-partition on the second disc
> with Linux fdisk. Login as root and use the command `fdisk /dev/hdb'
> (/dev/sdb for a SCSI-disc) and then type `t' for changing the ID.
> After choosing the correct ID for FAT32 and a `w'(rite) you have to
> reboot and to format the FAT-partition. If this doesn't help you should
> show us the output from the `fdisk -l' command. You can store the
> output via `fdisk -l > filename'.
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From: Jef vd Molengraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: A restet to XDM login?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:30:54 +0200
Hi I'm Jef a newbie to Linux. I've setup linux SuSE 6.1 on my computer
and have the KDE up and runnig. Except for example if I want to change
an Icon picture.. When my computer is browsing for the icons it resets
to the XDM login!
What am I doing wrong!!!!!
Is there a limit for files in one directroy?
Jef vd Molengraft
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2 newbie questions!
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 08:06:15 -0500
I know it's supposed to go in .bash_profile or .tcshrc, but I couldn't find any
of those file any where in my linux directory. 'find / -name .bash_profile
-print' and 'find / -name .tcshrc -print' return nothing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Samuels)
Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:37:16 GMT
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 03:35:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray) wrote:
> BTW, in dselect, after you did <SELECT> and <INSTALL>, did you follow up
> with <CONFIG>? You won't have to do this last step once you start using apt
> but I think it is necessary for the multi-cd method. It might be worth
> doing a complete run in dselect, <UPDATE> <SELECT> <INSTALL> <CONFIG> just
> to make sure everything is up to date.
I tried all sorts of combinations.
> Here are a couple of links you might like:
>
> http://www.debian.org/~elphick/ddp/
> http://www.linuxpress.com/debusered2.html
Many thanks for those.
> The FAQ in you /usr/doc/debian/FAQ is really good too.
I have had a look at that.
> >The screen goes blank from time to time, for about 1 second, when the
> >mouse is moved or a button is pressed, and then the image returns
> >normally. This was happening before the kernel was recompiled and is
> >still happening.
>
> I'm not sure but I guess it would either be apm (ie check your kernel
> config) or the screen-saver or maybe some interaction between the two. I
> don't know if this will help but have a look at "man xset".
Originally I didn't have a screen saver active although I do now and
the problem remains as it did before.
Thanks for your help
Barry Samuels
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From: Jun Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO hangs at LI - SOLUTION!
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:05:39 GMT
I have had exactly the same problem for a long time. Thanks for the
info!
My Linux boot disk is the 3rd drive and thus dparam.com can't probe it.
I used "linear" and it worked:
disk=/dev/hdc
linear
boot=/dev/hdc1
...
Jun
James Youngman wrote:
>
> patman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I eventually tried specifying the geometry...problem was that I had the
> > geometry WRONG!! The key to this is to get the right geometry specs in
> > the /etc/lilo.conf file!!
>
> IIRC you can often just say "linear" and not worry about the geometry.
>
> --
> ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+actually
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Printing under Linux
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 05:43:18 GMT
i own a Canon BJC-4300 and cannot print under linux
(echo "test" > /dev/lp? prints "operation not supported by device")
is this a GDI (windows printer) or should i configure something before
doing the above test (my kernel supports anything that has to do with
printers)
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dpkg on non debian (and/or non-linux?)
Date: 14 Jun 1999 14:10:44 -0500
Reply-To: "J.L.M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Is there a more general-purpose distribution of dpkg?
I'd like to use dpkg on redhat systems, as well as digital
unix and solaris. I have had no initial success with the
source of dpkg provided w/slink.
--
James
http://ssdd.conservatory.com
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From: "Pascal Ferrari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Migration from SCO 3.2v4 to Linux
Date: 14 Jun 1999 07:00:27 GMT
I am changing my old OpenServer 3 for Linux.
On the SCO box I also used the SCO Development System 3.2.4d.
I succeeded in migrating my applications to the Linux box (thanks to the
iBCS2 package provided with the Linux Red Hat distribution).
But one problem remains I want to solve : I developed an Informix 4GL
application on my SCO system that I want to keep going enhancing on my new
Linux machine. For that, I need to use the old Informix development
environment (I4GL v4.10) I had purchased with my SCO system. The
application compiled on SCO runs well under Linux, but recompiling it on
the Linux box does not work.
In fact, my Informix application need to be linked with old Informix
libraries wich are in COFF format.
I guess I have two solutions :
- Either to find out how to migrate all the SCO dev. environment on my
Linux box and use it as is for my future developments. In this case my
Linux box would simply behave as a host for these developments. The problem
is how to migrate the SCO dev. without interferring with the gcc Linux
distribution on the Linux machine.
- Or to use gcc on the Linux box for compiling and linking. But, in this
case, my COFF libraries have to be translated in ELF.
Can anybody give me some advices?
Thank you.
Pascal Ferrari
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From: filas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: irq 5 prob
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:08:29 +0000
i have an irq prob, when loading the kernel it displayer IRQ 5 conflict
detected ( awe device busy or not detected )...... anyone have an idea
???
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From: Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Vmware+SCSI
Date: 14 Jun 1999 07:43:25 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: i own a SCSI CD-RW (Yamaha CRW4260). is there a way to use it inder
: vmware as i need packet writing which isn't supported by linux?
Yes there is a way:
Write the support for Linux and VMWare will use it :-)
Bye
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Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
========= Tel. 06151 162516 ======== Fax. 06151 164321 ==========
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From: Latenar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uninstall LILO from DOS ?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:22:02 GMT
"Itzik S." wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Is there any way to uninstall LILO, after booting DOS, and not from
> Linux ?
>
> 10x,
> Itzik.
I had to do this a while ago when my HD ran out of space and the lilo.conf got
screwed up. The easiest way to do it from under DOS is:
fdisk /mbr
Strictly speaking, this copies dos onto the master boot record, over-writing
LILO. Hope i'm of help.
Latenar
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From: Latenar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux-newbie
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:45:34 GMT
David Eno wrote:
>
> Christopher Boyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > 1. When you install the redhat version 6.0 of linux do you start of with a
> > gui or do have to install your own.
> >
> At install time you can optionally choose to start X windows (X is the gui)
> at boot up. This is new in Red Hat 6.0. If you choose NOT to, you can
> still set it up afterwards, but I'm not sure how.
'startx' should do it if its configured correctly
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (william henry hsu)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin,rec.games.roguelike.angband
Subject: Reattaching orphaned interactive processes
Date: 14 Jun 1999 19:21:07 GMT
I am running RedHat 6.0 and have a question about recovering
orphaned processes. I have a stray (Angband) process for which the parent
terminal session was killed. The process has continued running
(backgrounded) for a week or so, and I would like to reactivate it
(cf. `fg') and save the results.
The process is interactive, and what I need to be able to do
is send "halt" and "save" commands (just a few keystrokes: [ESC],
^X, y, [CR]) to it. I am able to use
gdb <path-to-binary> <pid>
to attach the process to gdb, and can even `continue', but
I don't know how to attach it to the currently running terminal
session.
Any instructions you could provide on how to save an orphaned
process would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill
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William H. Hsu, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Automated Learning Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/bhsu ICQ: 28651394
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Restricted telnet access
Date: 10 Jun 1999 11:09:27 GMT
In <ivy73.530$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Network Administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>> One thing, your /etc/passwd file could be vulnerable for password
>> cracking if you don't implement shadow passwords.
>> It's built-in in the 5.2. YOu only have to enable it but there are
>warnings
>> of course.
>Thanks for the suggestion.
>We do use shadow passwords. The problem has been people creating
>mailing lists using the usernames from /etc/passwd.
This problem can be solved bu giving people a special shell that
chroot()s them to a special area with the normal stuff mostly
read-only or absent and wahtever distilation of the password file you
want. Users along the lines of flezz (purely hypothetical) can be
left out of the list...giving crackers a list of the admin users is not
a good move.
You could edit sendmail.cf so that usernames, other than a few, are
not usable as such---instead people must use aliases which resolve to
those user names, so a list of users is useless as a mailing list (you
probably want the bat book if you decide to do this).
If you do this be sure to plug things like .forward and .procmailrc
files. Procmail needs patching to do this the way I did things.
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Raper)
Subject: Re: COL225: LILO says: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1137 > 1023)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:49:51 GMT
On 11 Jun 1999 19:36:18 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collin W.
Hitchcock) wrote:
>The problem is that you are telling lilo to set things up to load your
>kernel from a disk partition that contains cylinder numbers over 1023.
Sounds logical to me - the disk is pretty big. Strange thing is that I
have been re-building 2.2.5 for a couple of days now and haven't had
this problem before. I always use bzImage and always run /sbin/lilo
but it hasn't ever complained.
>Possible solutions
>1) Put the kernel on a partition with cylinders less than 1024.
Mmm - not an option at the moment.
>2) Make a bunch of copies of your new kernel, try running lilo with
>each one, possibly delete some things you don't need on the partition,
>make more copies of your kernel, keep repeating this till one of the
>copies works, then delete all of the copies except the one that worked
>(eventually one of the copies you make will be entirely below cylinder
>1024).
Ahh - I see, so it isn't the fact that the disk is >1024 cylinders but
that the kernel has been put in an area of disk > the 1024th cylinder?
This make more sense and might explain why it didn't fail before
Thanks
Chris R.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Raper)
Subject: Re: COL225: LILO says: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1137 > 1023)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:49:53 GMT
On 12 Jun 1999 19:00:05 -0500, Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1137 > 1023)
>This begs the question: How many cylinders does *your* kernel have?
AFAIK kernels don't have cylinders - do they? :-\
Thanks
Chris R.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: Problems with email through a Linux Firewall using ipfwadm, ipportfw
Date: 9 Jun 1999 20:50:31 GMT
In <Jhg73.69$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<firewall configuraiton snipped>
>My problem is with email.
>Problem 1.
> All the following are registered to the same IP (Public IP of the
>firewall)
> Our website is registered to public IP (www.ourwebsite.com)
> The following name is registered to the public IP (smtp.ourwebsite.com)
> Our email (smtp.domainname.com) which currently works (our email server)
> I can send email internally to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it works fine I
>recieve the email sent.
> When I try to send it via an outside ISP It gets rejected with the
>following reason.
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
><[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>... while talking to kani.wwa.com.:
>>>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
><<< 501 RCPT VERIFY failed relaying denied!
>554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >... Service unavailable
This is anti-relaying rulesets in sendmail. Do not disable these,
instead edit the list of allowed IPs, which someone suggested was
/etc/mail/ip_allow. IPs listed in this file can relay mail anywere
without this problem. The spammers, using other IPs, can not.
>Problem 2.
> If someone wants to use their local ISP to dial into and check there
>email on our email server (which is behind the firewall on a private IP
>address) a connection cannot be established with the email server. The
>following is an example of the that happens when using OutLook 98as the
>email program and the incoming and outgoing email servers set to
>smtp.domainname.com.
You can not get packet to private IP space over any major internet
interchanges (often a good reason for using much IP numbers). You
could get the firewall do to port forwarding to the email server for
the relevent ports though.
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: Helmut Kindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: GNU g77 & LINUX glibc
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:53:35 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I have a problem with the "trapfpe", that is a small c-routine which
handels the Floating-point Exception.
The routine run quite well up to the point I upgarded my RedHat-LINUX
and my glibc from 2.0.7-29 to
2.1.1-6!
Has anybody an idea who to solve the problem.
Thanx
Helmut
ps: Please send answer to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: <Q>Logitech bus mice setup
Date: 14 Jun 1999 21:06:32 -0000
On 10 Jun 1999 11:24:33 GMT, "Duncan Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> doodled
in uk.comp.os.linux:
>>I tried to use Logitech bus mice on my Linux PC. I used to have serial mouse
>>and it works fine in X Window. The port I used is /dev/mouse->/dev/ttyS1. I
>>tried and this port didnt work out. I want to know what's the correct dev
>>port I should use for Logitech bus mice. Thanks
> I have suich a mouse (3 buttons, with tail). Bus since are not serial
> mice so /dev/ttyS1 is your problem. You need a kernel with bus mouse
> support (modarised or compiled in). I have not got a system in front
> of me to refer to but I think the right device is /dev/psaux (MAKEDEV
> should knows the right numbers if you do not have it---I personally
> use a kernel with the devfs patch applied).
FWIW I'm a very content logitech wheely-rat (cordless mouse) user... and it
seems /dev/psaux is correct :)
~Tim
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