Linux-Misc Digest #944, Volume #20 Tue, 6 Jul 99 15:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: first/second/third world (Jim Richardson)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Tim Kelley)
display problem (Brian Jones)
Can not logout from Gnome (Efi Merdler)
Unable to handle kernel paging request? (Jon Skeet)
Re: Unable to handle kernel?? (Peter Caffin)
Re: What is "INIT: Id "s2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"? (Peter
Caffin)
Re: Help Netscape 3.0 needed for Linux (Peter Caffin)
Re: cp/m86 file system originally Re: Accessing dos files from Linux. (Peter Caffin)
Re: printer question (Peter Caffin)
Re: tiny Linux for MCA 286? (Peter Caffin)
Re: Help Telnet (Peter Caffin)
Re: Print Filters (Peter Caffin)
Still an NFS mount problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? ("Bob Taylor")
Re: Incoming IP limiter script on daily basis: @ 300MB RX traffic, (Mark Price)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:45:22 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 22 Jun 1999 06:47:58 GMT,
Richard Kulisz, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>In article <7kmk7h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>John S. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>It is fun to see your misuse of English in the terms that you
>>use to describe the USA. Is it that you don't own a dictionary
>>and are making up usage, or perhaps maybe you know nothing about
>>things that you are talking about?
>
>Of course, you don't need any argument to prove that the USA isn't
>fascist or imperialist because Everyone Knows That, right? Shit,
>only US citizens could swallow that bullshit. Ask citizens of El
>Salvador, Columbia, or even Tahiti whether the USA is imperialist.
>Be prepared with your excuses.
(searches around for an emperor, fails to find one.) welp, the US isn't
imperialist. As for fascism, some segments certainly are, some come
very close, and the republicrats are doing their damndest to bring the
rest of the society to the same point.
>
>>Do you know what being free is?
>
>Do you? Freedom to the likes of you is freedom to destroy, enslave
>and murder. To me it's what's enumerated in the Universal Declaration.
>And nobody who's taken a look at it can say with a straight face that
>the USA upholds a single one of them for even a single day.
>
when did John say that he considered freedom, as the freedom to destroy
enslave and murder? you wouldn't be putting words in his mouth would you?
>> Is freedom what the gov't gives
>>to you, or is it what you demand of the gov't?
>
>You know, I just don't give a damn about "freedom". I care about
>Human Rights. What a radical idea!
>
how do you tell the difference?
>> Are you the same
>>person who chooses not to protect yourself from an insane person
>
>I consider running away a far more effective form of protection
>than fumbling for a gun in order to murder the other person (oh
>right, I'm supposed to call him a "perpetrator" because he's not
>a human being, as we all know).
>
you may consider it so, the facts fail to back up your opinion however,
In fact, they show the opposite.
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Kelley)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 23:04:47 -04-59
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:24:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is especially true in with Microsoft based machines
> as they're supposed to be better due to the wider range of
> crap available for them.
Amen. I was waiting for someone to say that ...
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From: Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: display problem
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:24:55 -0400
Help! I've got an IBM 300GL that has an IBM G70 monitor and a built-in S3
Trio3D video card that wasn't supported well by XFree86. I got sick of
640x480 resolution, so I went out and bought a cheepo Digital Research
Technologies 64bit 3D SVGA card (DRVGA3D-4MB), which has the S3 Virge GX
chipset. I should be able to get 1280x1024 in 16bit color, but when I use
Xconfigurator to try and get just 1024x768 in 16bit, I get junk along the
top and bottom of the monitor, and there's a rectangular blob that's
attached to the mouse pointer. I've tried virtually every combination
from within Xconfigurator, but I can't get a completely clean display at
anything other than 640x480, and Xconfigurator has even crashed the system
a few times while testing the display! Does anyone know how I will ever be
able to get a clean display, or is my card a piece of junk?
Thanks for the advice...
Brian
(please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Efi Merdler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can not logout from Gnome
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:20:06 GMT
Hi
When I try to logout from Gnome the panel closes,but then nothing
happens,I close my WM(WindowMaker),but then again the WM
disappears,but the desktop stays,the only way to close Gnome is by
using Ctrl-Alt <-
Why ?
How can I fix it ?
Thank you
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Unable to handle kernel paging request?
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:23:50 +0100
Hi,
I've had problems with a MIPS linux box running kernel 2.0.34. Every so
often, it crashes with the following symptoms (these are actually the
most recent ones):
o Telnet in is refused
o Existing telnet session was still alive - just about. In fact, it was
running the following script:
#!/bin/sh
echo " " >> load.log
date >> load.log
while true
do
uptime >> load.log
grep Mem: /proc/meminfo >> load.log
uptime
sleep 60
done
The load.log file now contains these entries:
2:16pm up 1 day, 2:36, 1 user, load average: 17.74, 15.59, 14.18
Mem: 131088384 110059520 21028864 25899008 30265344 46493696
2:17pm up 1 day, 2:37, 1 user, load average: 16.25, 15.03, 14.04
Mem: 131088384 119648256 11440128 50204672 30265344 46493696
Mem: 131088384 112377856 18710528 40497152 30265344 46497792
Mem: 131088384 112345088 18743296 40497152 30265344 46497792
Mem: 131088384 112357376 18731008 40497152 30265344 46497792
Mem: 131088384 112332800 18755584 40497152 30265344 46497792
(The load is reasonable for what I'm running, btw.)
When I killed the script, I did a quick "ls" which succeeded and returned
me to the shell prompt. Almost immediately after that the connection was
dropped.
In /var/log/messages I have:
Jul 6 14:17:53 raq kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address 55555559, epc == 800107a0, ra == 800108c0
At this stage I gave the system a hard reboot (having no real
alternative).
Unfortunately this system has no console, so I can't really do a lot when
networking goes down.
So, does anyone have any bright ideas as to how this might have happened
or what I can do to reproduce this easily and/or fix it? If it's any
help, the server I was running uses a lot of file handles and memory...
I've made the following kernel tweaks to rc.local:
# Tune the kernel
echo 16384 > /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max
echo 4096 > /proc/sys/kernel/file-max
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unable to handle kernel??
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:28:12 +0800
Stuart H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> During boot frm floppy, either a RH6.0 or Caldera 2.2 boot disk, it
> de-compresses or loads the kernel then fails giving the error msg
> "unable to handle kernel in dereference module 000000"
> Oops: 000
> CPU: 0
> and a whole whack of hex
This is often the symptom of bad hardware. Things for you to check are:
RAM, CPU fan and I/O controller (particularly if it's an old ISA card).
If you're lucky, it will just be a loose card that needs to be reseated.
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is "INIT: Id "s2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"?
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 00:37:14 +0800
Ian Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim White wrote:
> :INIT: Id "s2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Usually it means that you have a terminal that's not connected when it's
expecting to be.
> If you look in /etc/inittab you'll find a line beginning with "s2". At
> the end of that line is a command. This command is failing to execute
> properly.
Given that most workstations use COM1 and COM2 (s0 and s1), my bet is that
it has been accidentally uncommented out :).
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Netscape 3.0 needed for Linux
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 00:14:56 +0800
A. P. Nwogbaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please, does anyone know of a web site or ftp site where I
> can download netscape 3.0 (not versions 4.x) for Linux.
Visit http://www.altavista.com and search for +netscape +3.04 +rpm.
Hope that helps.
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cp/m86 file system originally Re: Accessing dos files from Linux.
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 00:19:42 +0800
B'ichela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Too bad that does not work with mounting my cp/m-86 partitions.
> only my drdos 7.02 ones. Does anyone have a cp/m-86 file system for linux?
> I am using Personal CP/M86 ver 1.1. it is located on my /dev/sdb2
> partition.
You'll be able to do this with cpmtools, no doubt. It's available as
a tar-ball from Sunsite, and IIRC, there's a .rpm version floating
about somewhere. Some of the commands available are:
NAME
cpmls - list sorted contents of directory
SYNOPSIS
cpmls [-d|-D|-l[-c]] [-f format] image [file-pattern...]
NAME
cpmcp - copy files from and to CP/M disks
SYNOPSIS
cpmcp [-f format] [-t] image user:file file
cpmcp [-f format] [-t] image user:file ... directory
cpmcp [-f format] [-t] image file user:file
cpmcp [-f format] [-t] image file ... user:
NAME
cpmrm - remove files on CP/M disks
SYNOPSIS
cpmera [-f format] image file-pattern ...
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer question
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 00:52:02 +0800
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bad habit, doing user-level stuff as root ;).
>I have a Panasonic KX-1123 dot-matrix printer I use to print 2 part
>invoices with, and I'm trying to do this in Linux using Applix.
>This is *not* a postscript capable printer, and Applix only does postscript.
Investigate Magicfilter. Converts postscript files to data your printer
understands.
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: tiny Linux for MCA 286?
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:01:58 +0800
Slav Inger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a microchannel IBM PS/2 Model 50 i286 (yes, it's an antique) that
> sits around and does nothing. I've heard of Tiny Linux which is
> supposed to fit on a floppy and doesn't need a hard disk.
The size of the Linux won't be the issue so much as the 286's 16-bitness.
Have a go with MINIX, the immediate predecessor to Linux. Failing that,
try the other poster's suggestion of either ELKS or using the box as a
terminal (using either Kermit or some other terminal emulator).
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Telnet
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 00:25:39 +0800
Regione Piemonte Settore Decentrato OO. PP. Cuneo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using Slackware 3.6 (2.0.35 Kernel ver.) and I want to use
> it without monitor, I'm connecting via Win95. Please, anybody knows
> what kind of Terminal Client works best for this job? (the telnet prog
> coming with win95 doesn't work with some programs like minicom or
> color command).
Probably the nicest terminal emulator I've messed around with under Windows
95 is TeraTerm Pro. Very nice freeware. One with terminal emulation that's
a tiny bit better is SCO's Termvision, however, it is commercial software
and a lot of it is geared towards its SCO UNIX operating systems.
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Print Filters
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 00:59:42 +0800
Richard Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a lexmark optra Rn+ laser printer running on a network of unix
> machines. I am using LPRng as the print software.
You might need to do a search of your printer manual and/or your
manufacturer's homepage to see what this printer is compatible with.
> What I would like to do is set up two queues for this printer one for
> draft mode (default) and one for high quality mode. I figured I'd set up
> two queues and run a filter for the low quality one that filters the ps
> file so that it will print in draft mode.
Shouldn't be a problem :).
> What I need to know is where could I find such a filter? Or how else
> could I do this.
Do a search for Magicfilter. This will install a range of filters.
Once you've done that, yes, all you need to do is set up those two
printer queues. What you're after is very doable.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.linx,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Still an NFS mount problem
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:53:53 GMT
Hi all,
The other day I asked if anyone had any idea about the NFS mounting
problem I'm having and thanks alot for the responses! Unfortunately,
none of the suggestions have solved my problem, so I'm going to post
again with some extra info... Ok, here goes again:
I just upgraded our server from Red Hat 5.2 to 6.0 and am having a
problem being able to NFS mount a file system... I have a machine,
running RedHat Linux 6.0, called "server" that has a directory
"/home/test". I would like to be able to mount the dir read-only over
the network from my other similar Linux machine (also RH 6.0), called
"client". As you can see, these machine names have been changed to
protect the innocent. :-)
Some other info: these machines do not share user ids via NIS or
anything, but all of the network operations are fine. That is, my
network connectivity between the two machines is ok in the sense that I
can ping, telnet, ftp, etc. from one to the other & back. On "server",
all of the necessary daemons seem to be running:
[root@server]# rpcinfo -p
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 rpcbind
100000 2 udp 111 rpcbind
100024 1 udp 1023 status
100024 1 tcp 601 status
100011 1 udp 609 rquotad
100011 2 udp 609 rquotad
100005 1 udp 619 mountd
100005 1 tcp 621 mountd
100005 2 udp 624 mountd
100005 2 tcp 626 mountd
100005 3 udp 629 mountd
100005 3 tcp 631 mountd
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
I have also added the following entry in my /etc/exports file:
/home/test (ro)
As you can see, I'm not restricting access to the server from any
particular machine right now because I'm just trying to get this thing
working. I also ran 'exportfs -vr' as well as rebooting and/or directly
starting and stopping nfs services at times to make sure the daemons
have re-read the /etc/exports file correctly... So, as far as I can
tell from the NFS HOWTO, everything should be set up correctly on my
server.
On the client, while logged in as root, I run this command:
mount -t nfs -o ro server:/home/test /mn
but it returns this error:
mount: server:/home/test failed, reason given by server: Permission
denied
At first I also made sure that my hosts.allow and hosts.deny files don't
have any entries in them, so any machine should be allowed to make rpc
calls, as documented in the man pages. In addition, at some point I
have tried all of these other lines in my exports file, one at a time:
/home/test (ro,no_root_squash)
/home/test (rw,no_root_squash)
/home/test (ro,insecure,no_root_squash)
/home/test (ro,insecure)
/home/test (rw,insecure,no_root_squash)
/home/test *.turnstone.com(rw,no_root_squash)
/home/test *.turnstonesystems.com(rw,no_root_squash)
/home/test 1.2.3.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash)
/home/test
(of course, the Ip address above had our actual subnet in it instead)
I have actually tried alot more variations than shown above, and none of
them work... Does anyone out there have any idea why this the client
continues to print out the same permissions error message in all of
these cases?
One interesting thing to note was that I was able to execute the same
'mount' command locally on 'server'. That is, it was able to correctly
nfs mount /home/test locally onto itself at /mnt. Even though this
isn't actually going over the network, I assume that it still goes
through the rpc / mountd / nfs mechanism and thus works on some level.
It just doesn't seem to want to work from my 'client' machine.
Upon advice from some helpful people in this newsgroup, I have also
tried adding different lines to my hosts.allow to try and make sure that
it is not preventing the mount from happening. I have tried all of the
following lines in hosts.allow at different times, one at a time:
ALL: *.turnstone.com
ALL: 1.2.3.0/255.255.255.0
ALL: ALL
(again, the Ip address above had our actual subnet in it instead)
I actually tried more variantions than the ones shown, as I did with the
exports file, but none of the combinations I tried made a difference.
After not getting anywhere trying everything shown above, I decided to
try an experiment with a different machine that I have that is running
RedHat 5.2 machine instead (let's say called RH52). I added this one
line to RH52's export file:
/home/test (ro)
and I am able to mount it from both the 'client' and 'server' machines
no problem! However, RH52 can't NFS mount from 'server' and prints the
same error message as 'client'. So, at this point I am sure there isn't
a problem with the clients from a mounting standpoint. Instead, it
seems that there is some difference either between 5.2 and 6.0 OR there
is some subtle configuration difference between 'RH52' and 'server' that
is preventing the mount from happening on 'server', most likely due to
permission problems.
Does anyone there have any idea what is going on here? I really need to
get this basic functionality working on our server asap. Any info will
be greatly appreciated... thanks!
-Curt
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Bob Taylor")
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:54:58 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith) writes:
> %% De Messemaeker Johan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> dmj> Jon Skeet wrote:
>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> > Exactly *what* do you define WWII as? The war against Germany began
> >> > when Britain and France declared war. As far as I am concerned, WWII
> >> > began when the US declared war on Japan and Germany declared war on
> >> > the US.
>
> >> Presumably this means that as far as you're concerned, any wars in
> >> which the US didn't participate never happened at all. How lovely
> >> it must be to live in a world with a more peaceful history than the
> >> real one.
[snip]
> Maybe you guys should let go of your knee-jerk prejudices WRT the
> intelligence and attitudes of U.S. posters, and try to think more
> carefully about what you read before reacting to it.
>
> Quite obviously the original comment meant that it wasn't a _world_
> war until the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany declared war on the
> U.S. Before that, it was mainly a European war.
Exactly! There were *two* regional wars in progress. Japanese invasion
of China and Germany vs Britian/France. How can this be considered a
WORLD war? Incidentally, a U.S. participation is *not* required for a
world war as is also *any single* nation.
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From: Mark Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Incoming IP limiter script on daily basis: @ 300MB RX traffic,
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:36:50 -0700
ipchains -L -v shows the amount of bytes hit by each rule. You could
probably
use that.
Mark.
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