Linux-Misc Digest #789, Volume #20 Fri, 25 Jun 99 18:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Looking for Laptop "power" utility for linux (Doug DeJulio)
Re: Did anybody compile Glade in Solaris? (Gerald Willmann)
at vs. cron: what's the diff (bruce)
New FAQ needed for SB-AWE (Rick Nelson)
Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (Ed Avis)
Palm Pilot software ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: Wrong major or minor number mounting /dev/scd1 (Zeger Hendrikse)
Re: LILO setup help? (Kevin Breit)
Re: LILO setup help? (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: partition table overwritten, machine still running. What to do? (Julius
Longauer)
Re: at vs. cron: what's the diff (Jim Wygralak)
help for linux process (john xu)
exiting Gnome caused core dump (bruce)
Re: NT the best web platform? ("Scott MacDonald")
Win98 partition mounted, not writable (Lee Allen)
LILO setup help? (Kevin Breit)
Re: kill not kill (john xu)
Re: running ppp as non-root (lyte)
Future Domain ISA SCSI card in Linux (Kelvin Leung)
Re: Mounting dos file system (Scott Lanning)
Re: Win98 partition mounted, not writable (Kevin Breit)
Connection accept speed limit? (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Docbook? Linuxdoc? Re: Documentation issues. (Richard Kettlewell)
Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (Peter Seebach)
Re: execve() broken? (NF Stevens)
Re: at vs. cron: what's the diff (William Burrow)
Re: Recommendation needed for Tape Backup drive (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: xdiff / graphical merge utility? (Juergen Heinzl)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug DeJulio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Looking for Laptop "power" utility for linux
Date: 25 Jun 1999 12:07:10 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Dell Inspirion 7000 on which I am running RedHat 5.2. I have a
>Windows partition as well. When I am running Windows, I can use the
>utility which came with it for monitoring my battery power, etc.
>However, when I am running Linux, I have no idea of how much power is in
>the battery.
>
>Are there power utilities for Linux?
Yeup.
Make sure you have a kernel with advanced power management support
compiled in to it. You should probably also run "apmd". Then you can
use plenty of tools to access the battery information, or just access
"/proc/apm" yourself to make your own tools.
--
Doug DeJulio | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HKS, Incorporated | http://www.hks.net/~ddj/
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Did anybody compile Glade in Solaris?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:00:17 -0700
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Guillermo wrote:
> I have installed the solaris 2.6 in a Sun sparc. Besides I have
> installed the gcc, make, perl5, bash, gzip, tcl, tk,... all packed in
> solaris format (very easy)
in case you haven't noticed, this is a linux ng, not solaris
Gerald
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From: bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: at vs. cron: what's the diff
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:49:37 -0400
At 1st glance, these seem redundant. Is there any reason I shouldn't
remove the atd package & just use cron?
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From: Rick Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: New FAQ needed for SB-AWE
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:48:48 -0400
I have problems installing my soundblaster, as do a lot of other people.
Lord knows Creative isn't helping us out, and the FAQ/How-to is outdated
for the kernel. I'm not demanding or anything, but I think a new FAQ is
needed because there's a lot problems.
My speakers 'click' in Netscape, but I can't hear anything else.
And sndconfig mysteriously disappeared from my computer even though I've
had Linux for only 24 hours.
Just MHO
Rick
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From: Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:40:11 +0100
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>It's important to remember that O'Reilly books are not adequate as
>documentation for free software, because documentation must come with
>the software, as Tom Christiansen so aptly points out. Freely
>distributable software must therefore come with manuals distributable
>on the same terms. I don't know whether Tom's Perl manuals are free
>or not; Tom, can you clarify that?
In fact, even the Perl online documentation is not free in the GNU
sense, take this example from perlfaq(1):
>Author and Copyright Information
>
>Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
>All rights reserved.
>
>Bundled Distributions
>
>When included as part of the Standard Version of Perl, or as part
>of its complete documentation whether printed or otherwise, this
>work may be distributed only under the terms of Perl's Artistic
>License. Any distribution of this file or derivatives thereof
>outside of that package require that special arrangements be made
>with copyright holder.
I don't think this matches the DFSG, because it restricts how you can
distribute the file. If you wanted to fork Perl (such that your
version would no longer be the Standard Version), you would not be
allowed to distribute documentation with it. This is from Perl
5.004_05, maybe things have been cleaned up for 5.005.
(I fully understand why the authors did this - I know that some people
had been copying chunks of the documentation and publishing them
without giving credit. But it does stop the docs being free.)
--
Ed Avis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Palm Pilot software
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:49:40 +0000
Okay, I'm rather new at this, but I just received a Palm Pilot III and
want to get it working on Linux. I'd prefer not to have to do anything
with Windows. Any recommended software packages? What have others
found to work best? Also, any thing in my kernel (2.2.10) that needs to
be enabled?
Thanks.
KJ
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From: Zeger Hendrikse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wrong major or minor number mounting /dev/scd1
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:38:48 +0200
Zeger Hendrikse wrote:
> Dear Linux-experts,
>
> Yesterday I have installed my CD-RW (Philips CDD-3610).
> I have burned 1 CD-RW succesfully. However, after a reboot
> I was unable to mount my /dev/scd1 anymore:
>
> mount: /dev/scd1 wrong major or minor number.
After removal of the line
append "hdd=ide-scsi"
from the /etc/lilo.conf, everything worked fine again.
However, this line was recommended in one of the
howto's. Just don't do it! Everything works fine without it.
Zeger.
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Subject: Re: LILO setup help?
From: Kevin Breit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:45:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer) wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Breit wrote:
> >Currently I use a boot disk to boot into Linux. But I want to get LIL=
O going
> >so it will bootup straight into Linux unless I ask otherwise off the H=
D. Does
> >anyone know of any really good/detailed or something like that help fi=
les or
> >docs?
>=20
> Look at http://judi.greens.org/lilo/.
> Tell me what's missing.
>=20
> Cameron
It's pretty good. But I'm kind of looking for step by step instructions.=
It
covers it pretty well, I think.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: LILO setup help?
Date: 25 Jun 1999 19:13:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Breit wrote:
>Currently I use a boot disk to boot into Linux. But I want to get LILO going
>so it will bootup straight into Linux unless I ask otherwise off the HD. Does
>anyone know of any really good/detailed or something like that help files or
>docs?
Look at http://judi.greens.org/lilo/.
Tell me what's missing.
Cameron
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From: Julius Longauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: partition table overwritten, machine still running. What to do?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:23:05 +0200
Helge Hafting wrote:
>
> A (dumb) mistake with dd overwrote the partition table on /dev/hda
> The machine is still running fine, but shutting down is not
> the thing to do right now.
>
> Any tips on how to recreate it? the lilo docs suggested
> that lilo keeps a backup, but it was obviously from before
> partitioning. (only zeroes)
>
> Looking at /proc/partitions gave me the sizes for the
> partitions. But not their starting points on the disk.
> Surely the kernel knows as it still uses the filesystems, but
> is getting this info possible?
>
> I wanted to just run cfdisk and recreate the three partitions
> with correct size. But the first one (NT) had a size that
> wasn't a whole number of cylinders. (64 sectors less,
> which corresponds to the number of sectors in a single track)
> cfdisk won't create that size, it rounds to the nearest
> number of cylinders. So this approach is out.
>
> Norton diskedit and a dos boot disk will let me write whatever
> I want, but then I need to know the exact starting points - which
> I haven't been able to find in the running system.
>
Try 'fdisk -l' or 'fdisk -l -u'.
Julius
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Subject: Re: at vs. cron: what's the diff
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Wygralak)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:29:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 1st glance, these seem redundant. Is there any reason I shouldn't
>remove the atd package & just use cron?
'at' is for scheduling a job to run ONCE at some time in the future.
'cron' is for scheduling a job (or jobs) to run on a regular, repeating,
basis.
--
==============================================================================
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | line will be assumed to be spam and will be filtered
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From: john xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help for linux process
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:49:32 -0500
Hello:
I have an Apache web server 1.3 on Intel machine with Redhat 5.2.
When I do "ps ax", I found there 15 httpd processes running on this
machine.
807 ? S 0:00 httpd
808 ? S 0:00 httpd
809 ? S 0:00 httpd
810 ? S 0:00 httpd
811 ? S 0:00 httpd
812 ? S 0:00 httpd
813 ? S 0:00 httpd
814 ? S 0:00 httpd
815 ? S 0:00 httpd
816 ? S 0:00 httpd
822 ? S 0:00 httpd
823 ? S 0:00 httpd
884 ? S 0:00 httpd
885 ? S 0:00 httpd
I am not sure it is correct or not because I only have one web server
and
one virtual host. Anybody can tell me if ther are something wrong and
how
to fix it?
Also, my cgi script keeps send me hundreds emails each day with
the same date(April 1, 1999). Even I changed cgi code subject
text and that subject keeps not being chaged. I don't know what
happended in my web server. Hope some experts give me some suggestions
how to find what
causes the problem.
Thanks in advance.
PS: Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I won't miss your email.
==============================================
John
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Minneapolis, MN 55421
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From: bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: exiting Gnome caused core dump
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:52:58 -0400
RH6.0
Every time I exit Gnome using Ctl-Alt-Backspace, my system core dumps.
No big deal, but is there a better way to quit X?
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From: "Scott MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 03:55:33 -0300
I apologize I did get it back wards, I am a Linux user now I have to
actually start thinking for myself again. :)
Darren Winsper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 03:21:59 -0300, Scott MacDonald
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A My Cdrom can read 24X on the inner section of the disk and 12X on the
> > outer. I don't see how hard drives wouldn't be the same. 2.7X faster
could
> > be created by this fact. I don't belive this was the only factor
though.
>
> I think you mean the other way round. CAV drives get faster as you
> move outwards.
>
> --
> Darren Winsper
> http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/darren.winsper/
> Shame there isn't much there yet though.
> Skiier: Avalanche looking for a place to happen.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Subject: Win98 partition mounted, not writable
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:44:02 GMT
I have mounted my Win98 partition as follows:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98
I can then access all of the files just fine, but the directories and
files are not writable.
dir -l /mnt/win98
shows
drwxr-xr-x
the subdirectories are the same.
the 'mount' command (without parameters) shows the partition is
mounted as rw.
As root, if I
chmod 777 /mnt/win98
or
chmod 777 /mnt/win98/subdir
and then
dir -ld /mnt/win98 /mnt/win98/subdir
the permissions are still drwxr-xr-x
What's happening? How can I fix it?
This is Caldera OpenLinux 2.2
-Lee
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From: Kevin Breit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO setup help?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:45:48 GMT
Currently I use a boot disk to boot into Linux. But I want to get LILO g=
oing
so it will bootup straight into Linux unless I ask otherwise off the HD. =
Does
anyone know of any really good/detailed or something like that help files=
or
docs?
Kevin
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From: john xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kill not kill
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:57:00 -0500
Haven't you tried "kill -s 9 pid?"
ZioBudda wrote:
> Hi, I'm making a new php3-admin program. In a module of this program I
> must to exec some root's program like kill or addpassword. Now my problem
> is: kill not kill the proces.
> I have copied /bin/kill to /myhome/padmin/kill; I have set to +s
> //myhome/padmin/kill but when I exec it (kill -9 pid) it return me that It
> can not to kill process. I have tried it like root user with the same
> result. Why this?
>
> Non pensate al futuro ... usate il gerundio!!!
> --
> Michel <ZioBudda> Morelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://ziobudda.enter.it
> Italian Linux FAQ http://ziobudda.enter.it/FAQ/
--
==============================================
John
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From: lyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: running ppp as non-root
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:06:26 -0400
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scable wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Can anybody out there tell me how to make a ppp interface available to
> non-root users in RH6.0?
> The Red Hat FAQ page on this question was not very helpful. Thanks.
Just setuid the pppd daemon and it should work. You know that this isnt a
good idea anyhow. Just connect to the net as root and the use another
user to do whatever it is that you do.
--
Joey Olson
#RedHat OnLine
http://www.thecomputergallery.com/redhat
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<p>Can anybody out there tell me how to make a ppp interface available
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<br>non-root users in RH6.0?
<br>The Red Hat FAQ page on this question was not very helpful.
Thanks.</blockquote>
Just setuid the pppd daemon and it should work. You know that this isnt
a good idea anyhow. Just connect to the net as root and the use another
user to do whatever it is that you do.
<pre>--
Joey Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#RedHat OnLine
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelvin Leung)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Future Domain ISA SCSI card in Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:02:35 -0700
Hello,
I got a Future domain ISA 18X00 SCSI in my RH 6.0 system. I have tried to
locate the drier for it but no success. My system is a RH 6.0 with kernel
2.2.5. Since 2.0.36 to 2.2.6, I don't see any support for this SCSI card.
Can some one give me a hint if you know it. Thanks.
Kelvin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mounting dos file system
Date: 25 Jun 1999 17:11:37 GMT
Douret Patrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: /dev/hda5 /mnt/dos vfat
: auto,,rw,async,noexec,umask=007,uid=0,gid=500
:
: When trying to read / copy file as root, it works fine.
:
: But when I am logged as a usual user (which as gid=500), I can read
: files from that filesystem. But, I want to copy a file to this file
put "user" between the commas in your fstab file.
--
Scott Lanning: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://physics.bu.edu/~slanning
"How can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man,
that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental
psychic forces in the individual?" --Albert Einstein
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Subject: Re: Win98 partition mounted, not writable
From: Kevin Breit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:50:10 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen) wrote:
> I have mounted my Win98 partition as follows:
>=20
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98
>=20
> I can then access all of the files just fine, but the directories and
> files are not writable. =20
> dir -l /mnt/win98=20
> shows=20
> drwxr-xr-x
> the subdirectories are the same.
>=20
> the 'mount' command (without parameters) shows the partition is
> mounted as rw.
>=20
> As root, if I
> chmod 777 /mnt/win98
> or
> chmod 777 /mnt/win98/subdir
>=20
> and then
> dir -ld /mnt/win98 /mnt/win98/subdir
> the permissions are still drwxr-xr-x
>=20
> What's happening? How can I fix it?
>=20
> This is Caldera OpenLinux 2.2
>=20
> -Lee
This is just a guess. But I think you could try mount -t vfat /dev/hda1/
/mnt/win98 rw or something like that. Make sure the rw is somewhere in t=
here I
guess.
Kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Connection accept speed limit?
Date: 25 Jun 1999 15:58:49 -0500
I have a web server set up to handle static images and backgrounds
only and it gets about 1.5 million hits a day most of which happen
in about a 3 hour window. Since there is no cgi the machine sits
at a load of .25 or less most of the time with no obvious problems.
However, at fairly random intervals it looks like accepting
connections becomes extremely slow. 'Netstat -an' shows a lot
of connections in SYN_RECV state compared to ESTABLISHED.
Killing the server and restarting seems to fix the problem for
a while. I've used squid in reverse proxy mode and apache
serving local copies with the same problem, so I don't think
it is at the application level. I've used several kernels from
2.2.3 to 2.2.10 and eventually the same thing happened with
all of them. Could this be related to the code that is supposed
to prevent SYN attacks? How can I tell if I really do have
a SYN attack going on and fix things if I don't?
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Docbook? Linuxdoc? Re: Documentation issues.
Date: 25 Jun 1999 09:14:41 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer) writes:
> Peter da Silva wrote:
>> Texinfo is a really annoying documentation system. [...] If you
>> must use hypertext docs, at least make them HTML so you can view
>> them in lynx or a GUI browser that doesn't suck.
Have you tried texi2html?
> One of the reasons the LILO mini-HOWTO is out of date is that I have
> never seen any documentation about the Linuxdoc format. I've
> written other HOWTO maintainers and they have told me they couldn't
> find any, either, and just imitated other HOWTOs.
The Debian sgml-tools package contains some documentation on Linuxdoc
- if you don't have a Debian system yourself you can either unpack the
source archive with gzip/tar or the binary package with ar/gzip/tar.
Start at http://www.debian.org/ .
The Debian package cites http://pobox.com/~cg/sgmltools/dist/ as the
location of the upstream source.
--
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:22:50 GMT
In article <7kvt9n$9tu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Before this goes too far, I agree that the unix command line is far more
>powerful than any widespread GUI thats available. I was merely objecting to
>your statement:
>"And programs whose documentation is available only through a GUI are
> undocumented."
>It's a self-contradictory statement, for starters. Perhaps you meant to say
>something like "A program whose documentation is available only through a
>GUI is just as bad as if that program were undocumented". But you didn't
>say that.
Idiomatically, it's perfectly correct; it's a short form of the same
statement. Statements of the form "X which is A is not X at all" are idiom
for "really awful X, so much that it might as well be non-X".
>Hell no. Windows is a piece of crap, but there's no reason than unix cannot
>be operated without a command line.
But there is a reason that documentation which cannot be accessed from the
command line stays inferior, even if there also exists a cool GUI
documentation browser.
-s
--
Copyright 1999, All rights reserved. Peter Seebach / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: execve() broken?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:42:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow) wrote:
>I had opportunity to poke at chroot(8) recently, in fact, suggesting it
>to someone else as a potential solution to their problem. After
>receiving a complaint that it didn't work, I gave it a test, and sure
>enough, chroot(8) is pretty darn useless.
>
>It turns out with some testing, that chroot(2) works as expected. A
>quick test of execve(2) in ordinary circumstances also works. But, once
>one is chroot(2)ed to a directory, execve(2) becomes useless -- unable
>to find the executables in question, even though they are sitting right
>there in the path.
>
>Some testing on an OpenBSD box showed that things worked as expected,
>so I suspect a bizarre Linux kernel bug, though I'll take other answers
>that lead to a working execve() in a chrooted environment.
Until you provide some actual error messages which may help diagnose
the problem I will make a wild guess that the problem is shared
libraries. If your binaries use shared libraries they will need to
have the libraries and the dynamic linker (ld.so) and the configuration
file (ld.so.conf) in their correct places under the chrooted directory.
Note that anonymous ftp uses a chrooted directory and works fine
on linux systems.
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: at vs. cron: what's the diff
Date: 25 Jun 1999 20:35:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:49:37 -0400,
bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 1st glance, these seem redundant. Is there any reason I shouldn't
>remove the atd package & just use cron?
For the bazillionth time, at is for batch jobs and cron is for scheduled
jobs that are likely repeated.
at -f recompile_something 4:00 # recompile something at 4am, a one off
00 04 * * * recompile_something > /dev/null 2>&1
# recompile every morning at 4am
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.inux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Recommendation needed for Tape Backup drive
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:44:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Clarence Riddle wrote:
>I use old SCSI archive 150 and 525 meg internal drives with tar. Works
>great and is cheap at flea markets.
[...]
>> I'm using a Tecmar (Wangdat) 3400 and tar. Works for me.
[...]
Guess I'd not go for a frive from the flea market, a DAT drive here. In
general ... DAT :: drives are more expensive, tapes are cheaper. QIC ::
drives are cheaper, tapes are more expensive. QIC is considered to be
more robust, at least if it is not some noname thingy, but at work I'd
two DAT's (one Linux, one a HP) and until I left they never caused me
trouble (5 - 7 backups a week).
[...]
Cheers,
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: xdiff / graphical merge utility?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:44:43 GMT
In article <UOMc3.1861$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, T.E.Dickey wrote:
>Juergen Heinzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>what's wrong with tcl/tk?
>> Some do not have it ... like I 8)
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>I'm running tkdiff against several versions of tcl/tk. (And since it's
>available on slackware/redhat/suse/etc, it's unlikely that he's unable to
>have a precompiled version unless he simply chose to not install it).
You just named it ... no distribution. This is Wild North England here
where men still build their systems from scratch while the women are busy
shooting at the salespeople from M$ ;-) ... and I'm not in Tcl/Tk, that
is all and to install Tcl/Tk just to be able to run tkdiff ...
Cheers,
Juergen
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