Linux-Misc Digest #995, Volume #20 Sun, 11 Jul 99 03:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Samba---SWAT ("Joseph S. White")
Re: Hard disk troubles (wine)
Re: Help with printing! (Ken Arromdee)
Re: New Login (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Speeding up booting? (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Children's Software (Chris Mahmood)
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? (BENSON TODD KENNETH)
Re: My Linux box was hacked! (Silviu Minut)
Re: New Login (Dave Brown)
Re: SB AWE64 problem ("Prasanth Kumar")
Re: tar always thinks it is 1969 ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: kppp and Netscape (Can't connect) (Paul Wilkins)
Re: Help on boot disk (William Lamp)
Postscript printer prob (Carsten Aulbert)
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? ("William Edward
Woody")
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? ("William Edward
Woody")
Tweaking Linux / Becoming 'guru' (Chris Harshman)
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? (Father O'Brien)
PPP CHAP/PAP - Red Hat 5.2 (Chriseli de Rama)
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From: "Joseph S. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba---SWAT
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 21:57:26 -0600
Hi All,
I'm using Redhat 5.2 server/w Samba-2.0.4b and it works
fine, but I cannot seem to get SWAT to come up in my
browser. Note: I'm running netscape on the Samba machine.
I've setup inetd.conf and service as explained in the SWAT
doc's. I have Apache running and and can connect to the
Apache "It Worked" opening page, the moral of that is httpd
seems to work fine.
In netscape I type http://localhost:901/.
Also tried http://servername:901/.
Plus many different combos, Netscape always reports 'Refuse
by localhost:901/.' or what ever else I type in there.
The documentation (swat.8.html) say's to send this command
after making all the changes to conf files:
'kill -1 PID' (PID is the process ID of inetd daemon). Once
you send that command does does that kill and start a new
inetd deamon? Read 'man kill' not much help there. Can't
find any docs on SIGHUP.
Any Idea on how to get SWAT to come up in Netscape, and/or a
little help on SIGHUP would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Joe
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.nmia.com/~jwhite
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From: wine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard disk troubles
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:38:10 +0100
Matthew W. Roberts wrote:
>
> Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that now when I first start the
> system I get the following error:
>
> Warning... fsck.ext2 for device /dev/hda1 exited with signal 11
>
> fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note
> that the file system is currently mounted read-only. ...
>
> Give root password for maintenance. ...
>
> Matt
>
Sig 11 is normally an indication of a hardware fault, usually in RAM.
Get a good test program and check your memory setup.
Keith Matthews Spam trap - my real account at this
node is keith_m
Frequentous Consultants - Linux Services,
Oracle development & database administration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Arromdee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help with printing!
Date: 11 Jul 1999 02:57:16 GMT
I solved my first problem (enscript is on my system and will do the appropriate
conversion), though my second is still a problem.
--
Ken Arromdee / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee
"I have never seen the inside of the building at Microsoft where the top
executives hang out, but I have this fantasy that in the hallways, at regular
intervals, big red alarm boxes are bolted to the wall. Each contains a large
red button protected by a windowpane. A metal hammer dangles on a chain next
to it. Above is a big sign reading: IN THE EVENT OF A CRASH IN MARKET SHARE,
BREAK GLASS." -- Neal Stephenson
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Login
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 07:07:50 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
adduser or useradd, I can't remember which it is on Redhat.
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Speeding up booting?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 07:06:29 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The short answer is that Linux/Unix weren't really designed to
be rebooted. You can always cut down on the number daemons
started. Also, having several small partitions instead of one
huge / speeds up fscking and mounting quite a bit. It's a good
idea anyway b/c it make upgrades easier.
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Children's Software
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 07:11:26 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vi, gcc, awk and sed...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BENSON TODD KENNETH)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: 11 Jul 99 04:48:46 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolf Johnny van der Zwart) writes:
>Well whoever is to blame...I decided that I'm not going to bye a G3.
>If recently discovered BEos and liked it right away. But learning that
>it could not run on the G3 an it does on certain PPC my mind was made
>up.
>I liked AppleOs as well but now I run at least 3OSses on my INTEL/AMD
>machines and that also what I want to do with a G3, make full use of
>one machine.
>Sorry for Apple but I think more people feel that way.
>Rolf.
>On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 18:41:04 +0200, Frederic Marchand
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Don't get too frustrated. I've heard 'legitimate' (whatever that means) rumors
that Intel will start adopting RISC technology (read: G3 processor set) over
the next few years. How they will legally do it I'm not sure, but their next
release 'supposedly' will handle some Reduced Instruction Set calls. We'll
see.
Todd
>>"F. Heitkamp" wrote:
>>>
>>> I think Apple cut a deal with Motorola and IBM to only promote Apple
>>> operating systems and Apple hardware for desktop PowerPC systems.
>>> Why else is there not PowerPC clone MB suppliers? Surely there are
>>> enough BeOS and Linux users that would purchase these MBs? They might
>>> end up being somewhat pricey, but there seem like there would be a
>>> market for them. I talked to a fellow demostrating BeOS at a computer
>>> show, and he said it was primarily Apple that killed BeOS on PowerPC.
>>
>> I think that Steve Jobs and Jean-Louis Gassee are not in really good
>>terms and that's it.
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: My Linux box was hacked!
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:03:03 -0400
>
If I read this well, he's replaced just about every single vital program with a hacked
version, right?
> SUB = chfn chsh inetd login net-tools-1.32-alpha passwd \
> procps-1.01 rshd sysklogd-1.3 tcpd_7.4 fileutils-3.13 cron3.0pl1 psmisc
> findutils/lib findutils/find
> SHADOWSUB = inetd net-tools-1.32-alpha procps-1.01 rshd sysklogd-1.3 \
> shadow-961025 tcpd_7.4 fileutils-3.13 cron3.0pl1 psmisc findutils/lib
> findutils/find
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: New Login
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Jul 99 05:02:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Mahmood wrote:
>adduser or useradd, I can't remember which it is on Redhat.
>-ckm
>
useradd is the "low-level" command, which requires all the options and
parameters thereto... adduser was a script that created the user, the
home directory, etc. RH seems to have decided to exclude that in
recent distributions. As best I can tell, the only "high-level" tool
for creating a new user is linuxconf.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: "Prasanth Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB AWE64 problem
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 03:52:13 GMT
One thing to check is that the sound mixer is set to a reasonable value on
the appropriate channels.
Gene Karaffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:01becb34$8ef4d320$ccd04f0c@genekaraffa...
> I have read all the HOWTO's, recompiled the kernel, and other procedural
> things & it still won't work with linux apps. cdplayer works ok.
>
> sndconfig gives all the right answers - can even hear Linux's speech.
>
> dmesg shows that the card is recognized. cat /dev/sndstat has blanks in
> the "installed drivers" and "Card config" lines, but all subsequent lines
> have the expected info.
>
> The isapnp.conf file has all the same resources as DOS/Win95.
>
> What could the problem be?
>
> Thanks GK
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: tar always thinks it is 1969
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:08:47 -0400
No, that date/time is what Linux bases all its times at, i.e., t = 0.
llornkcor wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
wow, man, that's cozmik!!! :o)
Have you tried looking at the bios date? sounds like bios.. but I could very
well be wrong...
"Frederick W. Reimer, Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>For some reason the tar shipped with RedHat 6.0 (with all updates
>applied) seems to think it is always the epoch or more precisely
>1969-12-31 19:00. This is causing quite a problem with using -newer
>and/or -after. I'm not absolutely positive this is the case, but it
>seems to always want to archive files older than what I specify. Plus,
>the timestamp on the volume lable, if you include one, is always the
>date listed above.
>
>Is this a known bug? Can someone try the following and let me know what
>the date is on the volume header?
>
>tar --label="test" -cvvf test.tar /etc/issue
>
>I always get:
>
>V--------- 0/0 0 1969-12-31 19:00 test--Volume Header--
>tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
>-rw-r--r-- root/root 65 1999-07-01 03:31 etc/issue
>
>What's the deal with that? The info page says the date on the label is
>supposed to be when tar opens the output file...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Fred
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From: Paul Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.windows.x.kde,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: kppp and Netscape (Can't connect)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 03:46:16 +1200
Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\" wrote:
> I'm able to dial out and connect to my ISP with kppp, but, when I
> start Netscape, or any other program that uses the internet, I get a
> can't connect error message. It seems that I may not have a
> permission or path set properly. I have read books and Howto's and
> still can't resolve this. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm
> overlooking. Thanks.
Have you taken a look at the message log to see what Linux tells you
about why it can't connect?
/etc/log/messages or /var/log/messages
What does it say in relation to the connection problem?
Paul Wilkins
--
Proudly sent with Linux
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From: William Lamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help on boot disk
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:19:01 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forgive me for contacting you directly & feel free to trash this without
replying.
However, I have a situation that doesn't seem to match any that I have
read on the net.
I want to try LINUX on a system that already has Win-98 & DOS 6.22
installed. I am using Boot Manager. The system has 2 hard drives.
Windows boots from the first HD and DOS from the second. From what I
went through earlier, Windows has a "feature" that allows it to see
partitions that are not FAT16 or FAT32 formatted. This would throw the
current disk mapping completely out the window (NO pun intended) if LILO
was installed on a hard drive. I can combine and add new partitions to
keep the currently installed programs "happy".
Can LILO be installed in the same partition as DOS 6.22? (Read a
reference to it being installed in an NT partition.)
Is it possible to ignore the below 1024 barrier if Boot Manager calls
LILO with LILO only set to load LINUX?
Is it possible to install it only on a floppy?
I plan to use Red Hat 6.0.
I must admit that I am puzzled by the terminology but as I was able to
figure out OS/2's install on the previous machine believe I am learning
it.
Any other suggestions, hints, warnings, etc. will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance (or if you are too busy, thanks for taking the time to
read this.
Bill
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From: Carsten Aulbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Postscript printer prob
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 08:03:16 +0200
Hi folks,
I think I have a problem with a HP LJ 4000 (Postscript, Duplex). I use
SuSE 6 and kernel 2.2.9 and when I install the printer as a postscript
1200dpi printer under yast, it seems to work quite fine, but if I try to
print something out it does not print the very last page.
If I print only one page it shows (in German: "BEREIT" (READY/ONLINE)
changing with the message "DATEN EMPFANGEN" (GOT ALL THE DATA YOU WANTED
ME TO RECEIVE)) and 2 of the 3 LED are turned on (Ready and Data). If
you want to receive a page now, you have to print an empty page (or
sometimes even two). I called HP, but they dont have a clue about linux,
they just said press the START-button (is it windows???) then everything
should be perfectly ok.
Of course nothing was ok, it doesnt work that way. So, what is wrong
here? I checked both the computers setup (par. port is /dev/lp0) and
then printers setup, both seem ok.
Finally, if you try to print via samba, it works fine, due to
unforeseeable reasons.
HELP!
Cheers
Carsten Aulbert
(Please mail me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@com) without the @com of
course.
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From: "William Edward Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:15:50 -0700
Odd H. Sandvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> > My boss hates Steve Jobs and I have yet to figure out why...
>
> There are many reasons to hate Steve Jobs. Personally I hate
> him for killing CHRP and BeOS PPC.
Both are inevitable decisions.
Killing CHRP and clones makes sense because at this stage
of the game Apple makes it's money selling hardware. There
just wasn't a viable business model to allowing other
hardware manufacturers to eat Apple's lunch without
expanding the market.
And not supporting the BeOS PPC--well, think about it:
what Be wanted was for Apple to actively help Be bring
it's OS up on the theory it will help Apple sell more
hardware. Apple, on the other hand, just pulled all of
it's engineers off MkLinux--which arguably sells more
hardware than Be would. (MkLinux is Unix on the Mac
hardware--a favorite with universities.) Why should Apple
move those engineers over to Be to help them, when it's
already pulling engineers to work on the MacOS X
software?
Besides, it's not like Be couldn't download and
examine the LinuxPPC code to figure out how to access
the various drivers on newer Macs such as the iMac
and the Blue and White G3s. Besides, you've got
to wander how the LinuxPPC people figured the
hardware out in the first place. I mean, how can a
bunch of unfunded hackers on their spare time figure
out what a bunch of professionals working for Be
couldn't?
Nah; Steve Jobs didn't kill BeOS PPC. Be just
decided it wasn't worth supporting, given the lack
of engineering support they were getting from Apple.
- Bill Woody
The PandaWave
(Who isn't supprised Apple didn't want to do Be's
homework.)
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From: "William Edward Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:23:02 -0700
BENSON TODD KENNETH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> Don't get too frustrated. I've heard 'legitimate' (whatever that means)
rumors
> that Intel will start adopting RISC technology (read: G3 processor set)
over
> the next few years. How they will legally do it I'm not sure, but their
next
> release 'supposedly' will handle some Reduced Instruction Set calls.
We'll
> see.
Easy.
The current generation of Pentium IIIs (as well as earlier Pentium II
systems) already use a RISC kernel. In order to make the Pentium
backwards compatable they have shoehorned on top of the RISC
kernel a "CISC" unit which interprets 80x86 instructions and feeds
them to the RISC kernel. (Basically, the Pentium IIIs emulate the
80x86 instruction set in microcode software on a RISC kernel.)
It wouldn't be that difficult conceptually to open up the RISC
kernel so that people could write code that directly executes
there, rather than in the microcode emulation layer. The only
real difficulty is the fact that the 80x86 instruction set is
really an 8-bit microcontroller instruction set--how you mix
true RISC instructions with 8-bit microcontroller instructions
remains to be seen.
If this doesn't give you a good glimpse into why the IBM/Motorola
Power architecture runs circles around the Pentiums, even though
Intel has thrown much more R&D money at the problem than IBM
and Motorola, I don't know what would. OTOH, the Pentium RISC
kernel must be a serious kick-ass kernel if it's able to
simulate an 8088 at the speeds it does...
- Bill Woody
The PandaWave http://www.pandawave.com
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From: Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux
Subject: Tweaking Linux / Becoming 'guru'
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:13:47 -0500
Can anyone recommend good reading (O'Reilly titles,
URLs, whatnot) with respect to tweaking Linux for
performance? I've been a systems administrator for
4 years now, and I think I've performed ably.
My boxes don't crash, are always available, and
are hacker-resistant. =)
But now I'm being called upon to provide "enterprise-
class" performance out of Linux machines, in general
and in specific circumstances (e.g., tweaking the
kernel to provide specialized performance gains in
areas such as file I/O).
Where might I begin to fill my brain with such information?
I'm not a coder, but I know how to code when necessary.
(No, not `./configure ; make ; make install` - when I
need something done and I can't find software to do it,
I write it. However, it's not always the best optimized
or the prettiest code you've ever seen ;)
For example, say you were on the team responsible for
tweaking a Linux box to go head-to-head against
an NT server for a rematch of the Mindcraft benchmarks.
Where might you turn for tips/tricks/advice?
Many, many thanks in advance!
- Chris
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From: Father O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 02:17:13 -0700
BENSON TODD KENNETH wrote:
> Don't get too frustrated. I've heard 'legitimate' (whatever that means) rumors
> that Intel will start adopting RISC technology (read: G3 processor set) over
> the next few years.
Unless I'm missing something, you're a bit behind the times. Pentiums
all (but especially P6 and up) are very risk'ish, so they've already
'adopted' this technology.
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From: Chriseli de Rama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP CHAP/PAP - Red Hat 5.2
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:28:05 -0700
I apologize for turning to the newsgroup for getting help on how to
connect to ATT Canada using a linux box but I have tried their Tech
Support and they are clueless on linux. I just switched to ATT and I had
no trouble connecting to my old ISP with the ppp-* scripts.
Problem #1 with ATT: ppp-on script doesn't work after configuring it to
ATT specs. /var/log/messages indicate I only reach up to ppp0 <-->
/dev/cua1 and then my modem hangs up. Oh, I also get the "PPP line
discipline successfully unregistered" message on the /var/log/message
file.
Problem #2 with ATT: when connecting manually to ATT using minicom,
computer gets disconnected after entering password.
After an excruciating interrogation with an ATT Techie, I have finally
received a pertinent information (I think). The techie said they use PPP
CHAP. He would not tell me if they use NT servers because he assured me
that the information would not affect the connection process.
I'm now having trouble setting up CHAP/PAP PPP with the HOWTO-PPP. Is
there anybody here that can give me tips on how to setup CHAP/PAP or has
successfully established a connection with ATT with their linux PCs?
Thank you very much for your help in advance.
Chriseli
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