Linux-Misc Digest #949, Volume #20 Wed, 7 Jul 99 03:13:09 EDT
Contents:
ppp conection problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
automatic sending mail when web site is down (Patrick)
Re: Symantec Ghosting linux partitions (Sultan)
Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - dirty Yank cant pronounce (HCScobie)
Re: e-mail program and resolution in X (Tim Haynes)
Re: MTools cannot access CDROM (Carl Fink)
Re: Can not logout from Gnome (Harry MF Teasley)
Re: first/second/third world (Richard Kulisz)
Re: automatic sending mail when web site is down (Mihaly Gyulai)
unremovable files: how to delete ?! Help ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CIA assassinations (Richard Kulisz)
Re: cp/m86 file system originally Re: Accessing dos files from Linux. (B'ichela)
Re: windows95 and lilo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Tape Backup Solution (coffee)
G'bye, comp.os.linux.* (D.J. Birchall)
Re: Still an NFS mount problem (coffee)
Re: first/second/third world (Jim Richardson)
Re: ls and color (Yan Seiner)
Re: Linux vs Solaris (Georg Schwarz)
Re: CIA assassinations ("Chad Mulligan")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ppp conection problem
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 04:18:55 GMT
Hey all, back with another question.
Ok, I went and set up a dummy acount on my linux system, so I could
mess around without worrying I would harm something by continuing as
root.
My problem is this. I wanted to dial up to my ISP using my dummy
acount, so I went and read through the HowTo on ppp
connections/permissions/etc. Well, I set everything up the way it says
to and I get one error that I can't seem to find help on. I get the
error when I click on Kppp in the KDE menu, and gives me this: "Sorry,
can't create a modem lock file." That's it. I can't seem to find
anything on this in the HowTo's or man pages or anything. I don't know
if I am even 'asking' the right questions or looking in the right
places. Hope one of you can help me out. If there is some
'background' info you need, just ask and I will try to bring you up to
speed on my setup (not knowing what you need, I figured it best to let
you ask first).
Thanks for any help you can give.
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick)
Subject: automatic sending mail when web site is down
Date: 7 Jul 1999 02:58:21 GMT
as a system administrator,
it is better to minitor the system and obtain the system failure
information
as soon as possible
how can i write a script
to send mail to me automatically when
the web site of our company is not responding?
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From: Sultan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Symantec Ghosting linux partitions
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 23:30:49 -0400
The only thing that I think that you would need to change is the hostname
and ip number if the boxes are on the same network,
read this for how I imaged 18 boxes at school :)
www.linuxfreak.com/~pglinux/imaging.html
madhatter
madhatter at linuxfreak dot com
MGR wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to have a DHCP server provide everything a linux system
> requires (ie. hostname, ip number, gateways, dns servers) so that it
> could be cloned using a product such as Ghost?
>
> Is there anything likely to go wrong? We have 65 identical spec'd
> computers and I would like to install Redhat 6 on all of them. If I
> have to them individually I won't bother.
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-= Remove *'s for my real E-Mail =-=-=-=-
> m.g.ross@*herts.*ac.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (HCScobie)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - dirty Yank cant pronounce
Date: 07 Jul 1999 04:56:04 GMT
>Helmer Osell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Yankee cant pronounce Linux. Yankee has to stay with
>> their own product : Free BSD!
Did you forget what a pronoun is? You don't know how to spell French either.
Before you start trying to correct other people, you need to learn English
yourself.
Byte Me!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: e-mail program and resolution in X
Date: 6 Jul 1999 21:04:43 -0000
On 5 Jul 1999 22:21:31 GMT, "duncan corps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
doodled in uk.comp.os.linux:
> I use pine for EMail. Have done for years. I know it's not
> everyone's cup of tea, but I've always found it easy, reliable, capable.
Yup; used to use it for mail (and initially news) but have now moved on to
mutt. Like it lots! :)
Or if you must have graphics, balsa, kmail, tkrat...
> |> Then something about compiling. Is it possible to speed it up? I am using a
> |> 486dx4-100, with 32mb of RAM and a 4mb S3 Virge DX videocard.
>Compiling a program (or any other activity under linux) will go as fast as
>possible. To get more resources for the compilation process you could try
>running as few other programs as possible (no X), installing a faster
>processor, or more memory.
That, and
renice -5 `pidof make gcc`
might do great things for you...
~Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: MTools cannot access CDROM
Date: 7 Jul 1999 02:44:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 06 Jul 1999 09:15:53 GMT MGR <m.g.ross@*herts.*ac.uk> wrote:
>Yet mtools says 'Cannot initialise non-DOS drive H:'. If I 'mount
>/mnt/cdrom' it works fine, so what am I doing wrong?
Almost no CD-ROM has a DOS (that is, FAT) filesystem on it. What
you're doing wrong (if you insist) is trying to use mtools on a
non-DOS disk . . . just like it was telling you. Just mount it.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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From: Harry MF Teasley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can not logout from Gnome
Date: 7 Jul 1999 04:39:31 GMT
Efi Merdler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 ?
delete the .Xauthority file in your home directory. That was suggested to
me, and it worked.
Harry Teasley
--
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worse." -DMP
Visit the AFU archives at www.urbanlegends.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: 7 Jul 1999 05:38:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nonnaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've noticed on the news groups, that some people will try to use lots of
>colorful metaphors to describe others that disagree with them, in place
>of logic
>and thought. Has anyone else noticed this?
Yes, I have. And *some* people use logic and argument then need *something*
with which to amuse themselves.
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From: Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: automatic sending mail when web site is down
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 06:02:10 GMT
In article <7lufod$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick) wrote:
> how can i write a script
> to send mail to me automatically when
> the web site of our company is not responding?
There is a Perl script, called 'NETTEST' which does similar job...
It pings a server and can send e-mail to you, when the server is down.
Source:
http://zorro.pangea.ca/~renec/nettest.html
I hope this helps.
--
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http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gyulai/
Are you ready to work for extra money ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: unremovable files: how to delete ?! Help !
Date: 7 Jul 1999 05:18:45 GMT
I had two hard-disk crashes recently, and the reboot process forced a manual run of
fsck.ext2. When that was
finished I was left with some bizarre files in my /lost+found directory. Even as root
I'm unable to modify
their ownership or permissions, I can't rename them, and I can't remove them. Whatever
I've tried so far just
gets an "Operation not permitted" error message.
I want to get rid of these files but can't figure how. Any suggestions will be vastly
appreciated !
Dave Phillips
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: CIA assassinations
Date: 7 Jul 1999 05:45:34 GMT
In article <7lh398$4df$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Allende was killed in his palace by an ariel bombardment ordered by
>Pinochet. How did the CIA manage to assasinate him then?
Salvador Allende was killed by a CIA assassin; and this is going by
the CIA's own records. The CIA didn't stop assassinating foreign heads
of state until the 70s, under Bush.
It's hysterical when people defend the CIA from actions it's already
admitted its guilt to!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: cp/m86 file system originally Re: Accessing dos files from Linux.
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 21:56:08 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Caffin wrote:
>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:
Does that work with CP/M 86 hard drive partitions? I wanted
something that mounts like a traditional dos/ext2 file system. I knew
someone in Comp.os.cpm was working on a linux filesystem. does anyone
remember who that was?
--
A pearl of wisdom from the y2K newsgroups:
=========================================================================
Y2K appears to be the Baby Boomers mid-life crisis, and it has the
potential to be a dandy.
-- Anonymnous --
==========================================================================
B'ichela
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: windows95 and lilo
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 06:37:53 GMT
Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5 Jul 1999, pico wrote:
>> Besides Linux I make use of windows95. I have installed it 2 times. One I
>> want to keep clean and one I use for testing software. How can I configure
>> Linux (LILO) to make it possible to switch between the 2 installations of
>> windows 95? Just adding both in /etc/lilo.conf doesn't work. I have to
>> change the active partition first before it is possible for LILO to boot
>> that partition. I hope I am clear.
> Older versions of lilo (0.17 and previous) supported a feature called
> rewrite-table which would make the necessary changes to the partition
> table so that the installation you want would be recognised as C: which is
> necessary for Win95 to boot.
> Current versions do not do this and older versions don't work very well
> with large drives.
You are correct about version 17 of lilo, but incorrect about the
current versions. Both versions 20 and 21 of lilo allow the partition
table to be modified during the boot procedure. Version 21 by default
has the rewrite-table option set on; with version 20, you have to
compile lilo with the option set on.
For the details on how to setup lilo and /etc/lilo.conf to boot two or
more versions of DOS/Win9x, see
http://www.wwnet.com/~stevelim/booting.html
--
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Backup Solution
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 00:52:01 -0400
Graffiti wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ashley W Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
> >I have tried to use Taper (the latest version, according to
> >freshmeant--6.9a?), under my Debian 2.1 system, and it segfaults at random
> >occasions (like when typing in the name of the archive). Has anyone seen
> >this problem before?
>
> Nope, never used taper.
> -- DN
Hi,
Ran into the same problem with my HP surestore Dat8 drive. It seg
faulted at random times. As it turned out, Its an incompatability
problem with taper.
To actually do the backup use tar. I tar most all of linux to my tape
drive and it works fine.
--
"Thank Heaven for Holidays. Now I can get some work done"
coffee at indy dot net * ICQ 1614986
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D.J. Birchall)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: G'bye, comp.os.linux.*
Date: 6 Jul 1999 15:18:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well folks, it looks like I won't be being my usual helpful self
here in comp.os.linux.* anymore - or at least not from this address.
As my boss put it in a lengthy memo to me this morning:
When I review your time sheets I find it distressing to see you
spending hours of time a day with "Mail and News"...
I'm also not allowed to use my Linux laptop for work any more.
So, in the interest of spending more time doing the things that he
wants me to do (i.e. generating money), I'm going to have to stop
doing the things I like to do (i.e. being helpful to Linux folks on
Usenet and thus generating goodwill for the company). I hope
everyone won't take this the wrong way, and will continue to think
of DigitalFM as a place where helpful people work. Maybe some
folks who'd like to do business with helpful people will even
remember us when the time comes. :)
But for now, I'm dropping off Usenet from this address, and will
be posting from my personal (home) address instead.
-Dan
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.linx,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Still an NFS mount problem
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 00:46:37 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have also added the following entry in my /etc/exports file:
>
> /home/test (ro)
> 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
put this in your exports file - directory username(rw,no_root_squash)
mine looks like this: /files coffee(rw,no_root_squash)
--
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coffee at indy dot net * ICQ 1614986
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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, 6 Jul 1999 18:56:36 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 6 Jul 1999 11:46:28 GMT,
Richard Kulisz, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>In article <Gsre3.579$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Peter Seebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>side? After a while, all kooks look alike.
>
>On the contrary. Intelligence looks the same but every idiot is different.
>For example, your idiocy is vastly different from any other idiot's I've
>met (and I've met dozens).
Do you still claim that he was President of >Tahiti< ?
(and that the US ousted him from said Island nation?)
--
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: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ls and color
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:54:27 -0400
make sure your terminal type supports color. Seems the standard ANSI
terminal does not. Use xterm-color.
Yan
Brian Pribis wrote:
>
> O.K. This sounds like it should be easy, but I can't figure it out. I
> want my ls to print dir info in color. You know, with execs one color,
> sym links another etc. Well, I have a DIR_COLORS file in my etc dir. I
> tried putting it as .dir_colors for yucks. I restarted my session, and
> nothing. I know the files are set correctly (according to the man
> page), and still nothing. What can I do? It must be my color
> environment is being over ridden somewhere but where? I am using RedHat
> linux. If anyone has any ideas I am all ears. Thank you.
>
> Brian.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Linux vs Solaris
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:29:43 +0200
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Linux just try to type a ^C on a telnet/rsh session while the Linux
> box is writing to a NFS filesystem that is mounted from a Sun.
>
> You will need to power cycle the Linux box ;-)
interesting. Could you please explain hat is going on?
One thing about Solaris: could it be that Solaris's 2.5.1 ftp client
does not know about reger??
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Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:52:35 -0700
Richard Kulisz wrote in message <7luphu$p9b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <7lh398$4df$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Allende was killed in his palace by an ariel bombardment ordered by
>>Pinochet. How did the CIA manage to assasinate him then?
>
>Salvador Allende was killed by a CIA assassin; and this is going by
>the CIA's own records. The CIA didn't stop assassinating foreign heads
>of state until the 70s, under Bush.
>
>It's hysterical when people defend the CIA from actions it's already
>admitted its guilt to!
No: Allende was killed in his palace by an ariel bombardment ordered by Pinochet. How
did the CIA manage to assasinate him then? CNN in a recent series showed the film of
the bombardment.
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