Linux-Misc Digest #122, Volume #21 Thu, 22 Jul 99 10:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: problem with boot from rescue disk (Tom Fawcett)
Re: Gnome and redhat 6.0 problem???? (Tim Barber)
Re: Red Hat vs. Mandrake (Artur Swietanowski)
Re: Print queue stuck? (toby)
Re: slackware 4.0 - glib2? (Thomas Zajic)
Spanning Compressed Image (Edward Ned Harvey)
Inheritance vs. Evolution? [Re: Marx vs. Nozick] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Oracle 8 DB & Linux 6.0: mount points ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CIA assassinations (Jay Maynard)
Re: CIA assassinations (Jay Maynard)
Re: Spanning Compressed Image (Jon Skeet)
animated desktop snapshots (Neil Zanella)
Re: My Linux box was hacked! (Clifford Smith)
Video card problems ("Noah Roberts (jik-)")
Hot Swap Software (Jon Corbett)
Re: SuperGuru ran mkswap on 2gig ext2 filesys (gus)
Graphic interface for mySQL? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with boot from rescue disk
Date: 22 Jul 1999 07:27:54 -0400
sunchange lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi:
> i make a rescue disk following BOOTDISK-HOWTO.it includes a kernel and
> a compressed image file.but when it boot my computer,it says:
> ...
> RAMDISK:found compressed image at block xxx
> VFS:Mounted root filesystem (ext2)
> INIT:...
> ...
> while open UTMP file :no such file or directory
> while open UTMP file :no such file or directory
> while open UTMP file :no such file or directory
> while open UTMP file :no such file or directory
> ...
>
>
> what's the matter?what is UTMP files?
Toward the end of Section 4 is this note:
4.6. Some final details.
Some system programs, such as login, complain if the file
/var/run/utmp and the directory /var/log do not exist. So:
mkdir -p /mnt/var/{log,run}
touch /mnt/var/run/utmp
-Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Barber)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Gnome and redhat 6.0 problem????
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:40:43 GMT
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:16:17 GMT, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got a problem for the gnome under redhat6.0. After the
>installation finished, all the nice background
>images disappeared under the gnome configuration program(e-conf). Is
>there anyone know which
>particular rpm package I should install in order to get back those nice
>background images??? Thanks a lot,
>later.
>
You might want to upgrade your Gnome packages first. There were some
bugs in the Gnome install under RH 6.0
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From: Artur Swietanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Red Hat vs. Mandrake
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 14:00:54 +0200
David Eno wrote:
>
> I've heard that Red Hat and Mandrake were very similar. (...)
> How closely related are the two distributions?
Go to http://www.linux-mandrake.com and read there.
Regards,
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Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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From: toby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Print queue stuck?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:34:20 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know much about how SuSE sets up its rc directories (Been with
RedHat for 3 years). Try this: /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart Sounds like the
daemon isn't running at all. I'd clear that print queue too as you may have
to buy a bunch of toner if the queue is chock full.
toby
Andy Johnson wrote:
> I have recently installed SuSE 6.1 and compiled a kernel (2.2.7) for my
> machine. The modules and hardware seem to work, because I can cat
> >/dev/lp0, type a few lines, control-L control-D and get a
> (stair-stepped) printed page. However, when I lpr a file, it just sits
> in the queue. What do I have to do to get this going?
>
> Andy Johnson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: slackware 4.0 - glib2?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:04:25 GMT
[ e-mail CC'ed ]
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:11:20 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
> I was just wondering if someone could confirm for me whether slackware
> 4.0 is a glibc2 or glibc1 based system? I've looked at the filelist and
> it does come with glibc2 but I've compared the XSVGA server from the
> slackware dist against the same XSVGA server from xfree86 and the server
> from the slackware dist is glibc1 (ie libc5)
Slackware 4.0 is still libc5 based.
> Since the dist comes with glibc2, albiet some of the s/w being glibc1
> based, can I still make glibc2 my DEFAULT C library and have the rest of
> the system run w/o any problems?
It comes with "official" glibc2 _runtime_ support, and "inofficial"
glibc2 _runtime-and-compile_ support (in the /contrib dir). To make
glibc2 the default libc (for self-compiled stuff), you'll need the
latter package. If you need/want a completely glibc2 based Slack 4.0,
you'll have to recompile everything in Slack's /sources dir after
installing the package.
Shouldn't be necessary though - I did a fresh install of Slack 3.6
recently, and have the base system running with libc5, while all the
self-compiled stuff is glibc2. Of course I had to recompile some libs
(gtk, Qt, ...) with glibc2 in addition to the already existing libc5
ones to make self-compiled apps depending on these (KDE, ...) work
with glibc2, but that's not too hard. Now I have, for example, Slack's
original gimp package running with the libc5 gtk+ libs, and a self-
compiled glibc2 KDE running with re-compiled glibc2 Qt libs, all
under Slack's original libc5 XFree86.
Works Fine For Me[tm], and I'd also expect this to work on Slack 4.0
without any problems.
HTH,
Thomas
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From: Edward Ned Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Spanning Compressed Image
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:21:12 -0400
I want to compress files, and span the compressed image(s) across several
disks. g(un)zip and tar don't seem to have the capabilities to do that.
Can anybody suggest how to do this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Inheritance vs. Evolution? [Re: Marx vs. Nozick]
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:31:56 GMT
The discussions on whethe humans are animals or not reminds me of the
general question of inheritance:
Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7n31fu$19s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Face it. We're a product of life on this planet, not something
>freaky that's unrelated to life around us. Face it, the
>bacteria in your gut think your pretty much part of nature :-)
The antithesis was -- "we are not animals", or earlier in the day:
"yes, we are something special!"...
Since this seems to be a conflict between different beliefs concerning
evolution, I would like to ponder another step of evolution: the
'appearance' of life itself ( or even organic chemistry on the whole).
The evolution of living organisms looks absolutely ridiculous from the
point of view of an anorganic chemical -- it consists of loads of
things that are absolutely (?) instable, one could say, that this is
'degradation' in terms of the chemical stability of an anorganic
environment. Yet, in spite of their instability, as far as chemistry
goes, have life forms managed to survived, somehow.
Based on that, let's ask ourselves -- is a living organism something
else than a heap of chemical substances?
I think, the same should hold for the development of human society:
people say all sorts of things about the genes etc. and what that
means from a biological (ecological) point of view. Yet there seems to
be a new sort of stability in human society that is not found easily
in natural ecosystems. And I think this has something to do with a
more or less consiencous approach to life. So the system that
guarantees stability and reproduction of the human species differs
fundamentally in the principals that it is based on from the system
the was taking care of other life forms (nature).
And yet, this doesn't free us of being a bunch of chemical elements or
biological organisms.
---
and I don't know what the atoms in the DNA of my left brain cell
think, but I'm dead certain that I think something else.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Oracle 8 DB & Linux 6.0: mount points
Date: 22 JUL 1999 13:33:45 GMT
Has anyone done the mount points? I've created four directories hoping
to use the command "mount" somehow to make them work, but I don't really
know what I'm doing so obviously it's not working. I'm using a bash shell,
by the way.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raquel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Maynard)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:39:10 GMT
On 22 Jul 1999 06:43:20 GMT, Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Who says I don't need that extra car or second home on the lake
>>or that ski trip or whatever else I choose to buy with what I have?
>You *don't* and that's that.
You, sir, are the fascist. You want to dictate who can do what based on your
own prejudices and beliefs, and you believe that that control should be
total. You want to lower the entire world to your own level, rather than
allow others to succeed.
I can see that your arguments are completely unsullied by any speck of
reality. You also insist that redefining words is an acceptable means of
argument. Trying to reason with you is thus utterly pointless. Good day,
sir.
*plonk*
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Maynard)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:42:14 GMT
On 22 Jul 1999 06:43:20 GMT, Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Who says I don't need that extra car or second home on the lake
>>or that ski trip or whatever else I choose to buy with what I have?
>You *don't* and that's that.
You, sir, are the fascist. You want to dictate who can do what based on your
own prejudices and beliefs, and you believe that that control should be
total. You want to lower the entire world to your own level, rather than
allow others to succeed.
I can see that your arguments are completely unsullied by any speck of
reality. You also insist that redefining words is an acceptable means of
argument. Trying to reason with you is thus utterly pointless. Good day,
sir.
*plonk*
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Spanning Compressed Image
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:50:47 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I want to compress files, and span the compressed image(s) across several
> disks. g(un)zip and tar don't seem to have the capabilities to do that.
> Can anybody suggest how to do this?
I usually use head and tail to split a large file across disks, then cat
to recombine them afterwards.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: animated desktop snapshots
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:18:52 -0230
Hello,
I am looking for a program that allows recording of the desktop or part of a
desktop in a similar fashion in which xv and ee can take snapshots of a
desktop. I would like to be able to move windows, launch programs, type,
display some output, move the pointer, etc..., and record all of that as
either a sequence of jpgs or better as a movie clip that can be seen with
software like realplayer from realnetworks.
If you know of such a program or if you would be interested in the development
of such a program then please let me know.
Thanks for your help,
Neil Zanella
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Clifford Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: My Linux box was hacked!
Date: 22 Jul 1999 13:04:46 GMT
In comp.security.unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: i just installed tcpd over telnet and finger, and all those fun
: programs. but whenever i telnet to localhost, i get into an identd war
: with myself. any ideas why that is? the identd looks up the owner of
: the identd, ad infinitum.
: jon
Well, if you had bothered to read the docs, you would know that identd
should _NOT_ be wrapped, b/c that starts bouncing identd requests back and
forth and the connection never really gets anywhere..........
rtfm :)
--Clifford Smith
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Subject: Video card problems
From: "Noah Roberts (jik-)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Jul 1999 03:07:25 -0700
I have a Diamond Viper PCI 2M which IS supported by XFree86 with the
XF86_9000 server. I have gotten this card to work to its full
capacity in my P150 NEC, but it pukes in my P60 which is were I *need*
it.
The error I get is:
[snipped normal messages]
(--) P9000: PCI: Weitek P9000 rev 3, Memory @ 0x10000000
' I/O @ 0xd000
(--) P9000: Vendor/Chipset is viperpci (Diamond Viper PCI)
(--) P9000: Autodetection of video RAM is not yet supported.
Explicitly specify VideoRAM in XF86Config file.
*** None of the configured devices were detected.***
Fatal server error:
No screens found
etc. etc
scanpci gives me:
PCI says configuration type 2
PCI probing configuration type 2
[snip irrelivants about other devices]
pci bus 0x0 slot an 0xc700, vendor 0x100e device 0x9001
Weitek 9000
STATUS 0x0400 COMMAND 0x0003
CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x03
BASE0 0x10000000 addr 0x10000000 MEM
BASE1 0x0000d001 addr 0x0000d000 I/O
In the P150 (the one it works in) I get totally different memory and
IO addresses, and it is PCI configuration type 1. Same X server, same
version, same configuration. Both _HAVE_ the Videoram specified. I
have tried setting up the kernel to bypass the BIOS on PCI
initialization by setting it to "Direct" and configing in all three of
those other things about PCI in General Setup.
The BIOS has that PCI slot enabled, I have tried a couple of the
available IRQs, and I might have tried one of the "Latency timings"
besides "default". There are no jumpers that I can see on the PCI/ISA
board, only 2 on the entire motherboard that are somewhat near the
CPU.
Other then using the P9000 server all I can really get is SVGA at some
very small res at 8bpp or vga16 which is actually better if you can
believe it.
Any help or ideas would be really really cool. This is a good card, I
want it to work right.....otherwise I have to waste it aas a vga16
because I have nothing else to put in this PC and my ATI is on the
motherboard in the P150. I have read the PCI howto...it was
absolutely useless to me....the video how to was no help either. I
have asked XFree86 and they suggested it was maybe a PCI BIOS
problem....any ideas, please....
Both PCs actually have a Phoenix BIOS, course the one is slightly
older....the card's BIOS seems to initialise just fine on both...I
don't think there is any way to get in and adjust THAT though...if
there is let me know.
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:54:38 -0400
From: Jon Corbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hot Swap Software
i am looking for Hard Drive Hot Swap Software for Linux....Any
Suggestions?
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuperGuru ran mkswap on 2gig ext2 filesys
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 14:05:28 +0100
AFAIK, mkswap creates it's own "filesystem" on the partition, ready for
the swap blocks which come it's way. Because swap is trashed, the
"filesystem" can be very minimalistic, only enough is required to block
the data in addressable places, as the addresses themselves are stored
in the memory allocation table in the kernel.
I would hold little hopw of recovering your data other then by doing
hexedits ........
As for swap space, and sqap partitions, AFAIK, the 2.2.x series allows
for unlimited swap partition sizes, only there is still the combined
limit of 4gig RAM and swap.
All the best
gus
Ken Corson wrote:
>
> I've always considered myself somewhat of a UNIX guru, until now...
>
> I had a healthy 2 gig ext2 filesystem (2072385 1k blocks) living at
> /dev/hda3. In my haste to create some badly needed swap space, I ran
> mkswap to create a swap partition over /dev/hdb3...
> trouble is, the crazy fool system did what I was typing , not what I was
> thinking (I'm yearning for one of those newfangled neural input
> devices-but I suppose a keyboard must suffice for now :)
>
> I am trying to develop a proper course of recovery. I did NOT swapon
> /dev/hda3, nor can I remount this partition as ext2. I've tried "e2fsck
> -n /dev/hda3" :
>
> e2fsck 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
> /dev/hda3 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
> <followed by many>
> Free inodes count wrong for group #250 (2048, counted=2035).
> Fix? no
>
> Directories count wrong for group #250 (0, counted=2).
> Fix? no
> <for groups 0-251>
> /dev/hda3: 11/518144 files (472.7% non-contiguous), 67565/2072385 blocks
>
> I've been a long-time Linux user, and I would like to contribute a
> change to hopefully prevent anyone else from engaging in this type of
> problem. The software combination I run is:
> kernel 2.2.10 , glibc-2.0.7pre6 , egcs-1.1.2 , e2fsprogs-1.14.tar.gz ,
> and util-linux-2.9i.tar.gz (for mkswap)
>
> I have the impression that Linux cannot use swap partitions greater than
> 128M. Of course this is UNIX, so the system will do what you command.
> Nevertheless, I would like to augment mkswap to have some extra logic to
> warn the user first if they try to mkswap on a partition with the
> incorrect type code (not 82), or with more than 128M of space. Of course
> it is valid to run mkswap on a file, or even if the space does exceed
> 128M. This is assuming that swap partitions really cannot exceed 128M.
>
> First though, I would like to get my data back. Any suggestions are
> appreciated (I already plan to 'read the source' for mkswap, to see what
> I did). I am a stickler for finding the most efficient solution to a
> problem, unless great learning can be derived from a more expensive
> route...
>
> I am troubled by the 11/518144 files report. I am comforted by the fact
> that mkswap only ran for well under 1 second. I had thousands of files
> on that filesystem. I have experimented briefly by repeating this
> process on a 1G throw-away partition. Prior to running mkswap, the file
> count appears correct. After running mkswap, the file count is reduced
> to 11, and debugfs refuses to open the (corrupted) filesystem.
>
> I will bestow LINUX/TSG certification on anyone with an effective
> solution (a "Truly Super Guru") :)
>
> Ken
>
> Long Live Linux! Hip Hip Hurrah. Hip Hip Hurrah. Hip Hip Hurrah.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Graphic interface for mySQL?
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:52:02 GMT
Hello world!!!
I'm trying to find a graphic interface to administer mySQL tables.
Exists it? Where can I find it??
Thank you!
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