Linux-Misc Digest #8, Volume #21 Sun, 11 Jul 99 21:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX ("Anthony W. Youngman")
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? (Eric Iverson)
Re: SB16 PnP troubles (Michael McConnell)
Re: accessing c:\My Documents dir on a linux mount (Mark Weaver)
Re: UML software for Linux? (Father O'Brien)
Free ppp access (abenage)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? (Stephen E. Halpin)
3COM Impact (Jerry Reutlinger)
Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX (Gergo Barany)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: tar always thinks it is 1969 ("Frederick W. Reimer, Sr.")
Re: tar always thinks it is 1969 ("Frederick W. Reimer, Sr.")
Re: accessing c:\My Documents dir on a linux mount (Gergo Barany)
anyone using Matlab and Wine?? (Ronald Haynes)
HD Recovery Suggestions Requested ("Patrick Shomo")
Re: 3COM Impact (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: Can Linux read FAT32 partitions (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: HELP. Can only login as root. (John Coppens)
Re: SB16 PnP troubles (John Coppens)
Re: tar always thinks it is 1969 (Kaz Kylheku)
Re: What good are portmap, routed, and atd? (Gus Hartmann)
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From: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 11:32:12 +0100
Reply-To: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adrian Burd
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> One should never update SuSE. One should always re-install SuSE
>> completely.
>
>
>Curious...why is that? I ran the updates from 5.* to 6.0 and 6.0 to 6.1
>and have not found any problems.
>
I upgraded from 5.2 to 6.0 - it deleted libc5.
Bearing in mind libc5 wasn't even on the (single, not set of) CD, that
meant that EVERY non-SuSE executable on my system broke :-(
--
Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk
Trousers with a single hole in their waistband are topologically equivalent
to a doughnut. These sugarcoated trousers have yet to catch on at fast-food
outlets! (SuperStrings by F. David Peat)
If replying by e-mail please mail wol. Anything else may get missed amongst
the spam.
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From: Eric Iverson <[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 18:22:59 -0400
> > 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.
Sure there is; adopting the Common Hardware Refernce Platform
(CHRP) means that others (mostly IBM and Motorola) pay for
Apple's hardware R&D. Apple can concentrate on doing what they
do best, and other manufacturers can expand the CHRP market.
Before CHRP we had Apple in the awful position of doing
their own R&D and that of the cloners, and watching
Power Computing put out better faster cheaper machines than Apple can.
But Apple killed clones and CHRP, so we have less competition.
We also now have somewhere around 5-10 times more BeOS
users on PC than on PPC. I've bought my last Mac, that's for sure,
though I'd rather have Mac OS be the other OS on my machine.
--Eric
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From: Michael McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB16 PnP troubles
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 10:30:41 +0100
On 11 Jul 1999, Dave Brown wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Wyles wrote:
>>I may be way oversimplifying what you are trying to do, but
>>I installed a SB16 Pnp on a Rh 5.2 box by typing
>>
>>sndconfig
>>
>>and answering the prompts for IRQ, DMA, etc.
>
> Hmm... when I do that in RH 5.2, it says it's detected a
> Vibra/16 (another name for SB16 PnP), and asks me know
> questions about IRQ, DMA, etc. It says it's going to
> write a new isapnp.conf file. It also asks me if I can
> here Linus' voice (which I can).
>
> Now, when I reboot, it says that it can't use the second dma
> channel. So all I get is SB8 sound (which handles Linus'
> voice just fine). But when I "cat /proc/dma", only
> SB 8 is listed, not SB 16. (Should be on dma 3).
It seems there are (at least) 2 versions of the Vibra 16. I've got one of
those things...and it quite happily lets me set a 16bit DMA. And it uses it
too.
Mind you, I'm using ALSA as my sound subsystem since I use fullduplex a lot
which the OSS drivers in the kernel don't let me do (well, wouldn't when I
was running kernel 2.0.36)
-- Michael "Soruk" McConnell [Red Hat 6.0 Available!]
Eridani Star System -- The Most Up-to-Date Red Hat Linux CDROMs Available
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amush.cx/linux/ Fax: +44-8701-600807
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From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: accessing c:\My Documents dir on a linux mount
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:01:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 7 Jul 99 18:36:15 GMT, Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I presume that Windows is trying to force everyone to use a graphical
> >interface.
>
> Actually, in Windoze you can access file and directory names containing
> whitespace from a command prompt within a DOS window. You just need to
> put the filespec in quotes. (Such as "C:\My Documents" in this case.)
>
> --
> Roger Blake
> (remove second "g" from address for email)
Good grief! I just wish I could access my primary hard drive at all! I
can't even get it to mount. Always tells me it is busy, or can't mount,
or to many files systems mounted already. It's getting to be a pain.
Mark
--
There's nothing in this world absolute except God and His mercy.
Go after Him with all that you are and obtain His mercy!
It will change you...
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From: Father O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UML software for Linux?
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 18:45:11 -0700
Nicolas Weidmann wrote:
> I am looking for a UML software (like Rational Rose) which would run on
> Linux, would be able to generate C++ and reverse-engineer C++.
Based on the fact that a decent piece of this kind isn't available even
on the commercially-prominent windows platform, I say don't hold your
breath on finding it for free linux.
--
len
if you must email, reply to:
len bel at world net dot att dot net (no spaces, ats2@, dots2.)
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From: abenage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Free ppp access
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:40:13 GMT
Does anyone know of any free ppp dialup isp's in the Ft. Lauderdale, FL
area? I'm sure many of you have heard of netzero, the free dialup isp
for users of windows, but I am wondering if there is anything like that
for linux.
Thanks
Aaron
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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?
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:37:42 -0700
Paul D. Smith wrote in message ...
>%% "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> cm> You did know that the US Navy and Marines were very active in
> cm> china in this period. The Japanese sank the US Gunboat Panay in
> cm> 1937. Roosevelt imposed massive economic sanctions against Japan
> cm> as a result.
>
>Of course. There was an undeclared Naval war against Germany, too. I'm
>talking about official declarations of war.
>
> >> Between Dec 7, 1941 and Dec 13, 1941, all those countries (and more)
> >> declared war on Japan, and in addition the U.S., the Central American
> >> countries, Cuba, and a few others declared war on Japan _and_
> >> Germany/Italy.
>
> cm> German and Italy declared war on the US not the other way.
>
>??? You're saying the U.S. _didn't_ declare war on Germany and Italy on
>Dec 11, 1941? I think you should revisit that.
You should revisit that. One of the greatest ironies of that war is the only treaty
that Hitler actually honored was his mutual defense pact with Japan. Hitler declared
war on the US in response to the US declaration of war on Japan, and ordered il Duce
to do the same.
>
>--
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Management Development
> "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen E. Halpin)
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 23:38:01 GMT
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:23:02 -0700, "William Edward Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>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.
Intel has been producing RISC chips (i960) for many years, and they
are extremely popular in the embedded space.
>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.
Keep in mind that each of those CISC instructions can expand
to multiple RISC instructions, and the RISC instructions
themselves are likely to be larger than their CISC equivalents.
Opening the microengine may result in lower performance because
you need more memory bandwidth to carry the RISC instruction
stream to the microengine.
>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...
Most people dont define "runs circles around" as "runs slower
than." Look at the SPEC results:
Machine SPECint95 SPECfp95
550MHz Pentium III (Intel SE440BX-2) 22.3 15.1
550MHz Pentium III Xeon 512K (Dell PW 610) 24.3 16.8
450MHz PPC750 G3 (IBM unspecified) 21.4 13.8
466MHz PPC750 G3 (IBM unspecified) 21.8 12.6
375MHz PPC604e (IBM unspecified) 15.9 10.1
200MHz PPC630 Power3 (RS/6000 43P Model 260) 13.2 30.1
466MHz Alpha 21264 (Compaq DS10) 24.6 47.9
The PowerPC looses outright across the board and the Power3 (which
is not of the IBM/Motorola collective) looses by nearly two to one
on integer performance. If you want cheap CPU power, the Alpha at
the bottom of the list (which is the SLOWEST of the new Alpha
machines) starts at $3,500. Its reported that the top end Alpha
chips should be at 750MHz within two months.
>- Bill Woody
> The PandaWave http://www.pandawave.com
-Steve
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From: Jerry Reutlinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3COM Impact
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 18:54:15 -0400
DOes anyone have a command sequence for the 3COM Impact ISDN TA
I would like to set it up to receive calls for a PPP connection.
Everything 3COM publishes is for WINDOS.
thanks jerry reutlinger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX
Date: 11 Jul 1999 23:32:18 GMT
In article <Cc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adrian Burd
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> One should never update SuSE. One should always re-install SuSE
>>> completely.
>>
>>
>>Curious...why is that? I ran the updates from 5.* to 6.0 and 6.0 to 6.1
>>and have not found any problems.
>>
>I upgraded from 5.2 to 6.0 - it deleted libc5.
>
>Bearing in mind libc5 wasn't even on the (single, not set of) CD, that
>meant that EVERY non-SuSE executable on my system broke :-(
That had to happen sooner or later. A short, painful transition period
is a lot better than a long, painful one.
Gergo
--
For 20 dollars, I'll give you a good fortune next time ...
GU d- s:+ a--- C++>$ UL+++ P>++ L+++ E>++ W+ N++ o? K- w--- !O !M !V
PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP+ t* 5+ X- R>+ tv++ b+>+++ DI+ D+ G>++ e* h! !r !y+
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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?
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:45:10 -0700
Anthony Ord wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On 09 Jul 1999 13:47:07 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul
>D. Smith) wrote:
>>%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord) writes:
>> >> Hmm. So you're saying that without any participation by any
>> >> country on one side of the world, it's still a _world_ war? Nice,
>> >> very nice.
>>
<trimmed cnuk stuff>
>
>What if all the top X military and economic powers were all
>in Europe? According to your definition a European War would
>then become a world war.
>
>But, let's go with your definition.
>
>Q. When was the First World War?
>
>A. Sometime in the Napoleonic Era.
>
>Regards
>
>Anthony
I have to disagree with you Anthony, the first world war was in the 1750's between
King Louie and King George. The Brits and Frogs were fighting on about eight fronts
in this war. Theatres included India and Micronesia (mainly naval engagements), The
middle east and mediterranean, the north atlantic, the carribean and the colonies
including Canada. In the US this is referred to the French and Indian War.
>--
>-----------------------------------------
>| And when our worlds |
>| They fall apart |
>| When the walls come tumbling in |
>| Though we may deserve it |
>| It will be worth it - Depeche Mode |
>-----------------------------------------
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From: "Frederick W. Reimer, Sr." <[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 19:53:08 -0400
Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> (I wish people would quote in order and append quote characters. I'm still
> getting used to vi from QEdit so re-ordering it is as yet a PITA :> ).
>
> On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:08:47 -0400, Charles Sullivan wrote:
> >>>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.
>
> >>Have you tried looking at the bios date? sounds like bios.. but I could very
> >>well be wrong...
>
> >No, that date/time is what Linux bases all its times at, i.e., t = 0.
>
> You sure about that? My BIOS date/time is the correct, current time; and
> I saw no mention of setting my BIOS clock to *NIX 0.
No, but all Unix time is based on seconds since the Epoch (Jan 1, 1969 0:00)
Seems I'm off by one second, but look at other branch of thread for my answer.
Thanks,
Fred
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From: "Frederick W. Reimer, Sr." <[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 19:57:20 -0400
Julian Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is what I see:
>
> miel:/tmp$ date
> Sun Jul 11 12:37:14 BST 1999
> miel:/tmp$ tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.12.64010
>
> Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
> miel:/tmp$ tar --label="test" -cvvf test.tar /etc/issue
> V--------- 0/0 0 1970-01-01 00:00 test--Volume Header--
> tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
> -rw-r--r-- root/root 27 1999-07-11 12:16 etc/issue
> miel:/tmp$ tar tvf test.tar
> V--------- 0/0 0 1999-07-11 12:37 test--Volume Header--
> -rw-r--r-- root/root 27 1999-07-11 12:16 etc/issue
> miel:/tmp$ exit
>
> The date printed during creation is indeed (time_t)0, but when viewing the
> archive contents the date on the volume header is correct...
>
> Hope this helps,
> Julian
Yes it did. I already figured out what what "wrong" but I'm wondering about
that one second.
In my "real" tests I was actually backing up the whole system with
--newer-mtime="`cat /etc/.LASTINC`" and a BUNCH of files started zipping by. I
noticed that they were "old" files with dates before my newer date. I didn't
notice until recently that they were all directories. Seems that tar may need
to save the directories to the tar file so that if can traverse them even if
they are "older" than the specified date. Since this takes up minimal space,
it's not a concern to me.
I wan kinda wondering about the date/time you show for the initial output. I
get a date/time one second before you. I also noticed that the date was only on
the create and the verify step has the correct date. I supposed this is a
harmless bug in tar, but with no lasting effect.
Thanks,
Fred
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: accessing c:\My Documents dir on a linux mount
Date: 11 Jul 1999 23:29:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Weaver wrote:
>Good grief! I just wish I could access my primary hard drive at all! I
>can't even get it to mount. Always tells me it is busy, or can't mount,
>or to many files systems mounted already. It's getting to be a pain.
Post the exact command you try to use to mount the drive and the output
it produces, then we might be able to help. Also, if you have a custom
kernel, make sure FAT or VFAT support is included. Also post any entries
in your /etc/fstab that might be of interest for that partition.
Gergo
--
For 20 dollars, I'll give you a good fortune next time ...
GU d- s:+ a--- C++>$ UL+++ P>++ L+++ E>++ W+ N++ o? K- w--- !O !M !V
PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP+ t* 5+ X- R>+ tv++ b+>+++ DI+ D+ G>++ e* h! !r !y+
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From: Ronald Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: anyone using Matlab and Wine??
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:26:22 -0700
Hi, I am attempting to use Matlab under Wine.
I was browsing the web site of someone who has achieved
this recently, I got the link from the winehq site
which appears to be down. Does anyone have a
link to this site, or does anyone know how to
get around the license manager problem?
Thanks,
R Haynes
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From: "Patrick Shomo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: HD Recovery Suggestions Requested
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:12:50 -0400
To the informed,
This is the second darn Quantum Drive (4.5 GB SCSI Viking II, SCA
connect) to go in a few weeks.
I recovered pieces of the first from a Solaris box (it was used for
Solaris). The second drive was in my personal computer (running Linux, of
course) and had not been backed up for a few days when it died. I need a few
files, so here are my questions:
I'm booting from another SCSI disk and all is well. When I attach the
bad disk, the system does not make it through a boot. I hot-swap in the disk
after a successful boot and don't know where next to go. In Solaris I can
try a "drvconfig" to have the system probe for devices w/out a boot. This
usually does not hang the system and allows me to create the appropriate dev
entries to go after the disk. How do I do this in Linux?
If this does not work, can I manually create device entries to get at
this thing with dd, et al.
What type of recovery procedures (other than proper backups) are there
for dead SCSI disks?
Thanks for the help,
Pat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: 3COM Impact
Date: 12 Jul 1999 00:08:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jerry Reutlinger wrote:
>DOes anyone have a command sequence for the 3COM Impact ISDN TA
>I would like to set it up to receive calls for a PPP connection.
>
>Everything 3COM publishes is for WINDOS.
Complain to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But promise you won't forward his reply to Microsoft, he's afraid they
might step on him if he does anything for their competition.
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Can Linux read FAT32 partitions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:23:31 GMT
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 12:38:59 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
>> vfat works in fstab and mount for FAT32 filesystems
>> since 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 I believe...
>And after mounting, you can not only read from the file system,
>but (as root) you can write to it.
Actually, I had the same thoughts when trying to mount my HPFS partitions.
>From looking at the man pages (mount, fstab, and all references from them), I
found this;
/dev/hda6 /os2e hpfs rw,umask=0 0 0
The "umask=0" is the important factor. Now I can write to any and all
of my HPFS partitions as any user.
I'm sure (judging from the man pages) that I could change that to prevent
search/execution, read, write, etc.. for owner, group, or users; but I'm
not fluent enough in filemodes to do something like that.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP. Can only login as root.
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:42:13 -0300
Hi...
Check the privileges of the /lib directory. A while ago I installed
something and access to the /lib was changed, and only root could
log in. Just in case, check owners/groups of /bin _and_ /lib
Hope this helps
John
Wmjmick wrote:
>
> I recently installed Red Hat 5.0 on my PC. Everything seems fine, but it only
> lets me login as "root".
>
> I've tried creating several alternate user names/passwords using the User
> Configurator in the X Control Panel, but then after logging off, these same
> names/passwords don't work when I try to login at the "localhost login:"
> prompt.
>
> I've also tried "adduser" to create user names. Logins with these
> names/passwords are also unsuccessful, even though they subsequently appear in
> the User Configurator as valid users.
>
> Everything I read says I should avoid perusing the system as "root", since I
> could do some damage. Anyone have any ideas?
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From: John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB16 PnP troubles
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:45:09 -0300
Hi Dave.
I used the isaPnp package. With the dump program I obtained the possible
variations of the installation. I edited the generated file, then with
the actual install program it gets activated. Worked for everything
on the SB16 card... Interpretation of the conf file does take a little
patience.
John
Dave Brown wrote:
>
> Every now and then, I just can't resist trying to get my
> SB16 PnP card to work in Linux. I happen to be trying
> in Slackware with a 2.0.35 kernel, but I've not had much
> better luck with RH 5.2 or SuSE 6.1. (Each seems to
> take a different approach to the problem.) Web pages
> with sound are still silent for me. I can't seem to get
> past square one.
>
> If I compile the kernel module with dma set to 1,5, then when I
> load the module, /proc/dma shows 1 for SB8 and 5 for SB16;
> except that the card seems to be retricted to 1,3. (That's
> the way it seems to work in Win95). And putting the
> second DMA at 5 in isapnp.conf seems to be ignored. I can
> play some .wav sounds, but not others. (Maybe some are
> 8 bit files, and others are 16 bit files?)
>
> If I compile the kernel module with dma set 1,3, then when I
> load the module, it says there's a dma conflict. (Even though
> /proc/dma only shows "1, SB8 and 4, cascade".
>
> Whereas I've read over the Sound HOWTO, and a PnP web page, I still
> find this whole area very confusing. ...And marvelling at how at
> least one other operating system has managed to deal with sound
> cards "rather effortlessly" whereas Linux handles sound in a way
> to baffle the experts--like me :)
>
> (I ignored sound for a lot of years, but just knowing that it works
> in Windows and I can't make it work in Linux has bugged the heck out
> of me for the past year.)
>
> Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku)
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: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:16:21 GMT
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:53:08 -0400, Frederick W. Reimer, Sr.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You sure about that? My BIOS date/time is the correct, current time; and
>> I saw no mention of setting my BIOS clock to *NIX 0.
>
>No, but all Unix time is based on seconds since the Epoch (Jan 1, 1969 0:00)
>
>Seems I'm off by one second, but look at other branch of thread for my answer.
Off by a year; it's Jan 1, 1970. In time zones that are west of the Prime
Meridian, the epoch translates to a Dec 31, 1969 date.
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From: Gus Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What good are portmap, routed, and atd?
Date: 12 Jul 1999 00:48:40 GMT
Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From reading the man pages, it seems I don't need any of these, so I
> eliminated them from the startup scripts and killed the processes. No
> problems so far, but is there something I'm missing?
Probably not. I frequently turn off as many services as
possible.
> BTW, I've gone through the startup scripts and inetd.conf, and I'm
> amazed at how much stuff is running that's unnecessary. Security aside,
> something like 30% of my system resources was being consumed by stuff
> which I never used....
The daemons started by init, are using system resources, but this
is not true for services in inetd.conf. The inetd process listens on
several ports, and only forks off the appropriate daemons when a
connection is made. These should still be turned off for security
reasons, but having a cluttered inetd.conf doesn't cause any performance
degradation unless those daemons are hit frequently.
--
Gus
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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to
pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
--Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.lynx
Subject: XXX CONTENT 56645
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Date: Sunday, 11 Jul 1999 16:33:02 -0600
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