Linux-Misc Digest #644, Volume #20 Tue, 15 Jun 99 13:13:10 EDT
Contents:
modules/ppa ("Jens Pfeiffer")
Re: Reattaching orphaned interactive processes (Steven Harrison)
Repartition EXT2 without data loss? (Joe Robertson)
RedHat 6, won't login on a Toshiba Tecra 8000??? ("Sergio D�az")
Re: kernel patch 2.2.10 (V. L. Simpson)
Re: Microsoft FrontPage� 2000 Server Extensions for Linux... (Phil Howard)
Re: GNU g77 & LINUX glibc
backup on CD? (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: Repartition EXT2 without data loss? (Brent)
Re: making linux go away (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: gcc compile error, please help (Leonard Evens)
Funky Colors with Netterm ("Bill Weedon")
RH 5.2 Kernel 2.0.36 module problems (Salman Ahmed)
Re: Looking for PGPA graphing software (Erik Reuter)
Re: Repartition EXT2 without data loss? (Rod Smith)
Re: HELP! kernel screwed up! (CompWiz)
Removing jammed modules? (Allin Cottrell)
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From: "Jens Pfeiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modules/ppa
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:28:04 +0200
hi!
i've got a problem with the modules in linux kernel 2.2.9, running a dld
6.01.
when using modprobe to load the ppa (iomega zip drive) module, i always get
the
error message that the device or resource is occupied, even when i unload
the
lp module. the lp module loads fine with modprobe. if i load parport,
parport_pc and then ppa, using insmod, it works fine. i assume a missing
dependency. is it possible to create one? how can i change the order of the
modules to be loaded? this is how my /etc/conf.modules looks like:
alias net-pf-3 off
alias net-pf-4 off
alias net-pf-5 off
alias block-major-22 off
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 off
alias sound es1371
# added these two lines:
options parport_pc io=0x3BC,0x378 irq=7,5
options lp parport=1
when reading the man pages for depmod, i saw an argument 'pre-install module
command'. can i use this one? what command do i have to add?
hoping your support and best wishes from mainz/germany
jens
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From: Steven Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin,rec.games.roguelike.angband
Subject: Re: Reattaching orphaned interactive processes
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:30:20 -0700
I believe that Unix's ancestor, Multics had the built-in ability to
reattach to an orphaned process...
I could be wrong though...
On 14 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In article <7k3kn3$kmp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>william henry hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am running RedHat 6.0 and have a question about recovering
>>orphaned processes.
>
>If you use "screen", it becomes trivial to detach/reattach
>running processes.
>
>I believe you need something like ttysnoop to do what you want.
>
>
--
Steven Harrison
Network Services Engineering
Verio, Bellevue.
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From: Joe Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Repartition EXT2 without data loss?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:30:57 -0500
Greets.. I am running a server with a moderate amount of users.. we have
installed disk quotas, but unfortunately we have put everything on 1
partition. That means that any user who is over his/her quota, once
expired, will not be able to receive any more e-mail, because the quota
affects the mailbox size as well.
Therefore, I would like to reduce this filesystem by about 1GB, and move
/var to a new filesystem, without quotas. Is this possible, and how? I've
fooled around in fdisk, but I'm afraid to do anything.. there's no
clear-cut path on this issue(as far as fdisk mans go).
Please Cc an e-mail reply.
Thanks!
Joe
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From: "Sergio D�az" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6, won't login on a Toshiba Tecra 8000???
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:16:55 GMT
I just installed redhat 6.0 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000, the
install process went well and there were no probles at all.
>From the first time it booted, when I get to the login screen
my keyboard stops responding. I can't key in anything at all.
I think its my keyboard, but maybe the whole thing died?
I don't think so, because I see the HD working once in a while.
Any suggestions???
- Sergio
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (V. L. Simpson)
Subject: Re: kernel patch 2.2.10
Date: 15 Jun 1999 02:44:59 -0500
Tony Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I got error when applying this patch. Any idea?
> -------
> patch: **** malformed patch at line 1764: \ No newline at end of file
Same thing. It's broke I suppose. How do you patch a patch? 8-\
Vance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Howard)
Subject: Re: Microsoft FrontPage� 2000 Server Extensions for Linux...
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:16:55 GMT
On 8 Jun 1999 14:37:20 GMT Duncan Simpson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| In <01beb0ce$3bea3970$24921e18@obi-wan-kenobi> "test" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| >http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/
|
| >ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/frontpage/fp40.linux.tar.Z
| >ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/frontpage/change_server.sh
| >ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/frontpage/fp_install.sh
|
| >Get those files and you're set...
|
| >USENET support...
| >Installing and administering UNIX server extensions for FrontPage:
| >news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.frontpage.extensions.unix
|
| This assumes you have a normal environment. Given that front page is
No, this assumes you have a naive environment copied right out of the
"Unix for Dummies" book. A "normal" environment would be one where the
sysadmin has a clue. She wouldn't have to be the most sophisticated
admin to figure out that sometimes you have to change things to make
them work more securely.
--
Phil Howard KA9WGN
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: GNU g77 & LINUX glibc
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:21:06 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Komar) writes:
> Helmut Kindl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : 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.
>
> Hi,
> I have heard that the __setfpucw routine was removed from gclibc 2.1.
Yes, that is correct. Either roll your own replacement (the
functionality had better be there in some form) or use the
backward compatibility libraries.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: backup on CD?
Date: 15 Jun 1999 16:00:35 GMT
Hi,
I would like to know if there is any good software for scheduled (cron)
backup on CDs that e.g. keeps track of how many has been written and mails
you when to change the disc or things like these...
thanks a lot for your help,
Stefano
--
Stefano Ghirlanda, Zoologiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet
Office: D554, Arrheniusv. 14, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 164055, Fax: +46 8 167715, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Support Free Science, look at: http://rerumnatura.zool.su.se
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From: Brent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Repartition EXT2 without data loss?
Date: 15 Jun 1999 16:00:19 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Joe Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Therefore, I would like to reduce this filesystem by about 1GB, and move
: /var to a new filesystem, without quotas. Is this possible, and how? I've
Yes, it's possible. I do not know of any unix utility that can do it, however.
PowerQuest's Partition Magic (Win32) v4 can resize/manipulate ext2 partitions.
So if it's feasible, you could bring the system down, pull out the drive,
connect it to a windows box, and use Partition Magic on it.
It would be nice if Powerquest would make a Linux version!
-Brent
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:25:55 GMT
In article <7k3p9g$3s5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Sowden wrote:
>I read the responses, just flames. The problem is you are asking a valid
>question. I also need to know how to remove Linux from a hard drive, as I
>am installing a new copy (caldera) and it doen't discuss in the newbie part
>about installing over an existing linux os.
>
>Can someone please take our requests seriously.
If you've the right lilo version ... lilo -u or lilo -U <device>, see
man lilo what's the difference..
[...]
Cheers,
Juergen
--
\ Real name : J�rgen Heinzl \ no flames /
\ EMail Private : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ send money instead /
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc compile error, please help
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:58:46 -0500
Paul Kimoto wrote:
> [posted and e-mailed]
>
> It is not necessary or even desirable to post the same question to
> a series of newsgroups. If you want to do that, please cross-post
> instead, i.e., send one message to several groups _at the same time_.
>
[Etc.]
I will be guilty of what I am complaining of, but let me suggest that
the the hypercritical tone so often present in political and similar
newsgroups has been invading this one. If one is annoyed by a
post, it is easy enough to ignore it. Let's stop being so judgemental!
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Bill Weedon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Funky Colors with Netterm
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:47:33 -0400
Reply-To: "Bill Weedon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm using Netterm 4.2 from my Win98 box to login to a networked linux box.
There's something funky going on with the colors. Every time I do an "ls",
I get different colors. Often, I can't even see the text because it blends in
with the background color. What I really want is a single background color
and a single foreground color that I can select. I have tried changing
Netterm's
background colors, but it works for a while, then the "ls" and other UNIX
commands mess it up again. Any suggestions?
Bill W
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From: Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: RH 5.2 Kernel 2.0.36 module problems
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:28:35 -0400
I am running RedHat 5.2 w/ kernel 2.0.36 (w/ updated to Apr. 99).
After reading HOWTOs, related posts on the major NGs, and
articles on various Linux sites,I decided to recompile my kernel.
My motivation was to learn more about Linux and also to get APM
support enabled so that I could poweroff my system, and to remove
some of the stuff that I didn't need (SCSI, sound support, etc.).
I followed the instructions to build the kernel and these are the steps
that I took :
(verified that the asm, linux, and scsi symlinks in /usr/include point to
the corresponding dirs in the kernel source tree)
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
make xconfig
make dep clean zImage modules
cd /lib/modules
move old modules to another dir
make modules_install
edited /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the new zImage which I copied into
/boot. Copied the new System.map into /boot and setup the
symlink from System.map to System.map-2.0.36.
I followed this procedure on my RH 5.2 machine at work and
some of the features that I configured as modules were :
- ethernet support was configured as a loadable module
- support for the NE2000 PCI and ISA cards was configed as
a module
- loopback device support was configed as a loadable module
(/lib/modules/2.0.36/block/loop.o)
- support for the CD-ROM FS (ISO FS) was configed as a
loadable module (/lib/modules/2.0.36/fs/isofs.o)
After updating the system loader/boot map (lilo -v), I rebooted
the system. The new kernel booted fine but it had a message
saying that "Delayed eth0 initialization". There was also a message
about not finding the file .rhkvmtag.
So, I did the following :
cd /lib/modules/2.0.36
cat /proc/version > .rhkvmtag
Rebooted, and that message about not finding .rhkvmtag was gone.
However, my ethernet card was not initialized and of course the
network was not setup.
To fix this, I recompiled the kernel this time compiling in support for
Ethernet and the NE2000 cards into the kernel and upon rebooting
my ethernet card was configured properly and I could access the network.
Here is my question (finally!): why is the ethernet module
not loaded up automatically ? Also, I can't mount any CD-ROMs
or ISO image files without insmod'ing the appropriate modules
first ?
I thought the whole purpose of setting up these things as loadable
modules was to have these modules load up automatically on
demand (by kerneld). BTW, kerneld is running on my machine. I
just can't figure out why I have to insmod the isofs.o and loop.o
modules to mount CD-ROMs and ISO images because that defeats the
whole purpose of configuring things as modules!
Can someone please explain to me what I am doing wrong, any steps
I missed during the kernel compile process, etc ?
Also, what features (besides support for the root FS) ABSOLUTELY
have to be compiled into the kernel ? At work, I am using an NE2000
ethernet adapter to connect to our LAN, at home I use PPP to
dial into my ISP.
Any information on this matter is going to be greatly appreciated.
I would like to upgrade the kernel to one of the 2.2.x ones, but I
will hold off on that until this current problem with 2.0.36 is
resolved.
PS : I tried doing a "depmod -a" and even a "depmod -a -v 2.0.36"
after "make modules_install" but even then I couldn't mount CD-ROMs
and ISO images without first doing an insmod on the respective modules.
--
Salman S. Ahmed
ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik Reuter)
Subject: Re: Looking for PGPA graphing software
Date: 14 Jun 1999 21:46:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:35:53 GMT, G. Pollack
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Erik Reuter wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to obtain a copy of a program called PGPA which plots
>> functions of one variable but with multiple parameters which can be
>> varied interactively.
>
>How about gnuplot?
>
How do you get gnuplot to put up a scroll bar or slider or other widget
and replot the graph in realtime as the widget/parameter is manipulated?
--
"Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/e-reuter/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Repartition EXT2 without data loss?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:44:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7k5taj$qmm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Joe Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Therefore, I would like to reduce this filesystem by about 1GB, and move
>: /var to a new filesystem, without quotas. Is this possible, and how? I've
>
> Yes, it's possible. I do not know of any unix utility that can do it, however.
> PowerQuest's Partition Magic (Win32) v4 can resize/manipulate ext2 partitions.
> So if it's feasible, you could bring the system down, pull out the drive,
> connect it to a windows box, and use Partition Magic on it.
>
> It would be nice if Powerquest would make a Linux version!
The CD actually does include a Linux partition, and in that partition are
disk images for an OpenDOS floppy with the DOS version of the program.
Therefore, there's no need to pull the hard drive; just create the boot
floppy, bring the system down, boot with the boot floppy, and use that to
repartition the drive.
There's also an upgrade to 4.01 on PowerQuest's web site. Unfortunately,
AFAIK there's no way to update the emergency floppies unless you've got a
system running Windows. If you DO have a system running Windows, though,
you can update the boot floppy and use version 4.01 on it. (You'll
actually update the Windows-based boot floppy creation utility and create
a new boot floppy, which will then boot the DOS part of Windows rather
than OpenDOS.)
One caveat: *ANY* utility that mucks around with low-level data
structures on a hard disk IS INHERENTLY DANGEROUS! DO NOT use Partition
Magic unless you've first backed up your data! Somebody posted just a
couple of days ago about PM trashing his ext2 partition. PM USUALLY
behaves itself pretty well, but don't take this for granted!
--
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: CompWiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP! kernel screwed up!
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:35:48 -0400
I'd suggest getting a rescue disk such as Tomsrtbt, at http://www.toms.net/rb
, download the scsi module, and load lilo again.
Ding-Jung Han wrote:
> I must have been sleeping.. I deleted vmlinuz and System.map from /boot
> (RedHat 6.0) in the process of rebuilding new kernel (2.2.10). I still
> have them under /, I tried to boot in NT and use Explorefs (a utility to
> read/write ext2 file systems) to copy the files under /boot -- still
> couldn't boot (yeah I know I have to rerun lilo...).
>
> I also tried to boot from RH boot+rescue disks -- but no SCSI modules are
> loaded so I can't mount / (/dev/sda8).
>
> Now I'm really stuck -- help!
>
> Ben
--
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================================================================
Monday, June 14, 1999
1200 bps used to seem so fast
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From: Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Removing jammed modules?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:39:14 -0400
Every now and then I end up with a uselessly jammed kernel
module in place. It's always associated with trying to mount
some device or other -- due to whatever random burp the
modular driver doesn't initialize properly. Then the device
is not mounted, and the module can't be removed by the usual
means (rmmod or modprobe -r). For instance right now I have
the module for my parallel port zipdrive stuck (most of the time
it works fine):
waverley:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
sd_mod 15868 0 (autoclean) (unused)
parport_pc 5624 1 (autoclean)
ppa 9052 1 (uninitialized)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
parport 6820 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc ppa]
scsi_mod 36804 1 (autoclean) [sd_mod ppa]
My question is, When this happens is there any way to force
the module out and reload it (e.g. by messing with /proc)?
The only way out that I have found is rebooting, but that's
tedious (and should only be for Windoze!).
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
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