Linux-Misc Digest #134, Volume #21 Fri, 23 Jul 99 10:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: Strange problem with passwords in RedHat 6.0 ("Joe")
Re: Does anybody know a short technical guide to ext2? ("hog")
Re: partition magic (John Thompson)
Re: Undo disk format? (John Thompson)
Re: How to use lpr -s switch? -r doesn't work.... (John McKown)
High load average, low cpu usage when /home NFS mounted (Ole Jacob Taraldset)
Re: Offline Newsreading (xcitor)
Re: ISA AWE64 blasts!! during boot. (Zeger Hendrikse)
Re: CIA assassinations (Arkadiusz Danilecki)
Re: CIA assassinations (Arkadiusz Danilecki)
Linux hangs every outward connection (Michael Preminger)
Re: Root Window Fun. (Peter.vanHelden)
Re: Compile kernel --> PROBLEM (Kenny Kim Leung)
Re: Trouble with Compaq Deskpro & RH 6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Did you switch from Windows to Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
G2 Beta (Red Hat Linux User)
Re: _NICs (Rod Smith)
Re: linux and windows98 dual boot system/partition problem ("K.HAIGH-HUTCHINSON")
Is there a 'pseudo-tape' driver for Linux/x86? (Lew Pitcher)
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From: "Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,linux.redhat.devel,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.pam,linux.redhat.sparc
Subject: Re: Strange problem with passwords in RedHat 6.0
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:29:43 GMT
OH LORD......
2 Weeks of messing around - but now I have the solution !!!!!!!
I have installed RH 6.0 for SPARC using shadow password AND md5 password. It
seems, that the encryption of crypt() creates not the same password like
passwd does (perhaps a problem in my pam.d directory in the 'login' and
'other' file - anyone an idea ???).
I disabled the MD5 password encryption in the setup tool, (IMPORTANT: ) set
up the same passwords again with passwd (because otherwise the password
stays the same in /etc/shadow !!!) AND IT WORKED !!!!
Cyrus IMAP is working fine, and now I check qpopper again.....
:-)
Joe
Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
lbHl3.18028$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi,
>
> I'm using RedHat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15 on a SPARCserver 5. The installation
> was downloaded from gd.tuwien.acat in vienna. After compiling the kernel
for
> IP masquerading, I've tried to install a mailserver. Sendmail worked fine
> for the first, but was not very comfortable, when I was out of office. So
I
> decided to install the qpopper POP3 mailserver, because it seems to be one
> of the best (the best?). Installation was very simple, and my first tests
> (telent to server over pop3 port) were successful. But when a user tries
to
> connect, he always get he message wrong password. So I tried different
> configurations (spcial-auth parametor for configure, -DAUTH in makefile)
and
> a lot of the stuff I found in FAQ's and the suggestions people (THANKS!!)
> sent me via e-mail.
> Getting frustrated by beeing unable to get it work in 10 days, I've tried
to
> use Cyrus IMAP server instead. Download, configuration, compile and
install
> were also very simple, the first test (telent.... see above) and the test
> utility imtest shows me, that I'm on the right way. But when I tried to
use
> cyradm the program asked me for a user (I tried root) and a password (as
you
> guessed, tried the root-password). Got the message Wrong Password !! (...
> pwcheck is running, tried several configuration options, bla,bla bla....)
>
> It seems to me (correct me, if I'm wrong) that the pwcheck program
compares
> the password which has been entered in the mail-client with the one who is
> in the /etc/shadow file ( I AM using shadow password file !!).
>
> After adding some debug code (very simple printf commands) in
> pwcheck_getspnam.c (also tried the pwcheck_getpwnam.c version, but the
> passwords which will be compared are that different, so I think this is
the
> wrong way...) I got the following output:
>
> getspnam-Debug:
> Password from /etc/shadow : $1$T1gp7QPv$QeJ278puZM3B.zDIUA.Nk1
> Password generated by crypt() : $1$T1gp7QPv$3gmKod9BErPhayuKWvmLV1
>
> The crypted password from /etc/shadow is O.K. But the password which will
be
> generated from the plaintext password is different from the one in the
> shadow file.
>
> BUT WHY. Don't they use the same mechanism to decrypt passwords ?????
>
> I would be very thankful for EVERY help I get. I'm stuck now, and do not
> know what else to try....
>
>
> a frustrated
> Joe
>
>
>
>
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Reply-To: "hog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "hog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Does anybody know a short technical guide to ext2?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:40:54 GMT
http://www.ext2.org/
Groman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hello.
> I was wondering, if anybody has or knows an URL of
> a short(but complete) technical guide to ext2 file system.
>
> I just wanted to do an excercise, to write a program for dos
> in assembly(I am currently learning assembly) that reads a
> ext2 floppy and gives the file/directory tree.
> I found several guides out there, but non were technical enough.
> "File is represented in an inode" is not enough for me, or
> "Each directory has a several file entry's for each file"
> Entry's how?
> Entry's how long?
> Entry's Where..
>
> well, you know what i mean.
>
> groman. thanx in advance.
>
> p.s. please cc a copy to my e-mail address.
>
>
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partition magic
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:43:23 -0600
Rod Smith wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RaMzEyMe) writes:
>
> [re: Partition Magic]
>
> >>I don't think a downloadable version exists
>
> I don't know if you can buy an ORIGINAL version this way, but as of a few
> months ago, you could get an UPGRADE as a download.
You can purchase it on-line and download it from their
secure web server.
> > Do you know of any partition magic freeware/shareware clones that I could
> > download?
> There's the Ranish Partition Manager,
> http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/. I've never used it, myself.
> From the description, it's not as full-featured as PM, but it's got more
> than FIPS does.
I was disappointed in Ranish when I tried (admittedly over a
year ago now). At that time it didn't support either HPFS
or ext2 partitions so it was not very useful to me. This
may have chaged in the intervening year, though...
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Undo disk format?
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:03:38 -0600
Martin Thiede wrote:
> I just formated my root partition ... :(
>
> Is there some chance to undo a 'quick format'?
> (quick format option from slackware setup tool)
>
> Any help REALLY APPRECIATED !!
You mean "other than restoring from your latest backups?"
I don't think so. Otherwise, it wouldn't be much of a
"format" would it?
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to use lpr -s switch? -r doesn't work....
Date: 23 Jul 1999 10:45:23 GMT
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 04:44:52 GMT, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>Does anyone know how I can use lpr to print using symbolic links (ie: the -s
>switch), and have lpr automatically delete the original file upon
>completion? I can't seem to get any combo of switches to work!
I'm running RH 6.0. On the man page (info lpr), the description of the -r
parameter says: (qouting)
-r remove the file upon completion of spooling. Can not be used with
the -s option, due to security concerns.
My guess is that the security concern is that some nasty person could use
the -r -s to delete a file which they only had read access to. Since the
lpd usually runs as a superuser, this could bypass normal permissions to
a file.
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From: Ole Jacob Taraldset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: High load average, low cpu usage when /home NFS mounted
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:47:16 +0200
I have a PII 450 MHz w/512 MB ram and a clean RedHat 6.0 w/updates. The
/home partition is NFS mounted from and SGI. When I take a look at cpu
usage i kpm/qps most of the cpu is idle (~85%), but load average reports
around 2. Isn't load average a function of cpu usage (only, mostly)? Can
it be that some process is running, but not showing in ps/top/kpm? I
feel that the system response has been reduced quite a bit after
upgrading to RedHat 6.0.
Please email me as well as post to this NG!
Ole Jacob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xcitor)
Subject: Re: Offline Newsreading
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:14:37 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:48:51 +0200,
Hermann wrote
from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Hi everyone.
>
>Is there a good offline newsreader anywhere?
>I need COMPLETE installation instructions if the answer is yes.
leafnode + slrn. Use your fave search engine...
--
Innovation is hard to schedule.
-- Dan Fylstra
3:02pm up 4 days, 18:31, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.21, 0.23
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From: Zeger Hendrikse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISA AWE64 blasts!! during boot.
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:12:35 +0200
> RedHat 6.0. Once in a while during the boot of the Debian/Linux the
> speakers make a loud blast! This is annoying. I couldn't determine the
> exact time of the booting that I have this problem but I believe that it
> could be when I modprob midi in one of my init.d files.
> I'm using isapnp to load SB and RedHat does not have this problem. Does
> anyone have similar experience?
I had this problem as well.
I think it is caused by inserting the sound modules using insmod (at
boot time). I replaced the insmod command by modprobe sb, and added some
lines to my /etc/conf.modules, so that my modules are only loaded when
needed automagically. If necessary, I can look up the related
conf.modules entries at home and post them here. Now I do not have this
annoying blast (which can be _very_ loud) anymore.
Kind regards,
Zeger.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arkadiusz Danilecki )
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 23 Jul 1999 11:20:30 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim Richardson wrote:
>On 21 Jul 1999 13:56:17 GMT,
>You would seem to have a computer, (unless you are borrowing one) which
>makes you rich compared to 3/4ths of the world, so you will be sending most of
>your money to deserving families in the 3rd world, yes?
>
Yes I have computer. I work quite hard to get it because i camo from
poor family (in poland there was not like in other countries low, middle and
upper class but inteligency, workers, peasants (farmers?) and bloody
capitalistic pigs (;-) ). Inteligency: that were lawyers, teachers etc.
It was ,,uncertain element'' and everything was first tyo workers, then to
farmers and if sth was left, it comes to intelligency. So everything i get in
life i get with hard work without help from family, government etc.
And yes, i am sending money to third world. I participate in many
actions organizated in poland . I send money to poor in poland. Not many, and
maybe not so much i could. But all i learned until now in life is that poor
people share with others, and rich never if they can.
But i said sth that if you get your money by yourself it's ok; But I
don't thindk is right that someone has everything in world just because he was
born in good family, and other will work whole life and get nothing. As said
my uncle : director of CPN is 20-years old boy, cousin of one of the directors
in capital. He earns 20 000 zlp in month., My uncle earns 500 zlp in month.
When he stays in night he can get 1000 zlp. Monthly he must pay 500 for
his home, 300 for food. What chances he has to achieve standard of life of
this 20-years -old boy ? What chances his children have to achieve education?
Without help - no chances. He is poor, his children will be poor, his
grandchildren etc.
A.D.Danilecki ,,szopen''
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arkadiusz Danilecki )
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 23 Jul 1999 11:23:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel Catudal wrote:
>For the record I am not born in a rich family. My father had 14
>children and we were very very poor. I worked hard to pay for my
>college and university education, I had no one to help me. I worked
>on tobacco farms in the summer, worked night shift cleaning up floors
>and doing other creasy jobs during the winter and still managed to get
>good grades and am now a successfull electronic engineer.
it seems that in USA pay more than in poland for cleaning floor, working
in farm etc.
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From: Michael Preminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux hangs every outward connection
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:41:54 +0100
HEllo!
I am running RedHat 6.0 on a 400Mhz double processor, 256MB SCSI
machine,
The machine runs database applications, and I have a php script
searching extensively in a MySQL database.
I suspect that the php script runs too slowly, and this may or may not
be associated with my problem:
While running this script I have twice experienced that the machine
hangs up.
It reacts normally to ping, but every attempt at communication (telnet,
ftp) fails. Even the console screen gets black!
Has anybody experienced this problem? What can be the cause?
--
Michael Preminger
Forsker / Research Scientist
Avdeling for journalistikk,
bibliotek- og informasjonsfag /
Faculty of Journalism, Library and
Information Science
H�gskolen i Oslo / Oslo College
http://www.hioslo.no/~michaelp
Pilestredet 52, N-0167 Oslo
Voice: +47-22452778
Fax: +47-22452605
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter.vanHelden)
Subject: Re: Root Window Fun.
Date: 23 Jul 1999 11:49:59 GMT
Crimson Maw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I need a command that can display JPGs on the root window for X11R6. Xli
: dosen't work and xpmroot only works for XPM files ARGH!
xli -onroot, xloadimage -onroot
Peter
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From: Kenny Kim Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Compile kernel --> PROBLEM
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 20:34:45 +0800
Tried that. Didn't work either.
Well...
Theo van Niekerk wrote:
>
> You must go to the the subdirectory first, and then run make dep in this
> directory
> ie cd /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot
> make dep
> make zImage
> ...etc
--
Everything is not as it appears to be.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Trouble with Compaq Deskpro & RH 6
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:22:21 GMT
In article <7l7tun$h0o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings, all.
>
> I recently installed RedHat 6.0 on a Compaq Deskpro here at work, and
> I've run into a strange and annoying problem.
>
> Usually about once a week (it seems to have this strange affinity for
> Friday afternoons, but not consistently), the machine will simply
> freeze---completely. It will not respond to keyboard or mouse input,
> and I cannot telnet in from another machine on our network to reset
the
> thing remotely. (Normally, telnet communications work fine.) About
the
> only thing I can do is hit Reset and reboot; ctrl-alt-del is not an
> option.
>
> I've done some searching on deja.com, and I've seen several messages
> dealing with Compaq keyboards freezing on boot. I have a Compaq
> keyboard, but I don't think that's the problem: it's never frozen on
> boot, and ALL input seems to be blocked when this happens.
>
> Any ideas? There's nothing in the logs to indicate what the problem
is.
>
> I'm running a custom kernel built off RedHat's 2.2.5-22 source. FWIW,
> ethernet card is an Intel EtherExpress100 Pro (or whatever; it uses
the
> eepro100 module), and the video card uses the Mach64 chipset. There's
> some sort of sound HW on the motherboard, but I haven't tried to get
> that to work yet, so I don't have any sound drivers running. Other
than
> that, it's a fairly standard PC: IDE hard drive, etc.
>
> The possibility of flaky hardware has occurred to me, but this never
> happened when I was running NT4 on this machine---don't get me wrong,
I
> had plenty of crashes under NT, but never like this.
>
> If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. I'm getting tired of
> waiting for fsck to check my 6G drive on bootup...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
I probably have the same problem on my compaq deskpro EP/SB (with a
PII/400 processor) It sometimes just blocks when booting linux. I tried
different linux implementations SuSE 5.3, SuSE 6.1 and even an older
Redhat and all react the same. I noticed that when I make a warm reboot,
or when the connected printer is switched on before the computer, it
will always fail to boot. When I make a cold boot and all periferal
devices are switched off, then the chances to boot correctly are aprox.
50 %. I noticed that the blocking happens when decompressing the kernel
(the first three lines when booting). I could check this by using
SHIFT-PGUP during booting. If the display is moving, then everything is
working OK. If it is stale, then it is already blocked. This litle trick
allows me to shut off the machine in time before it starts to mount the
HD partitions and saving me from a "forced check" the next time it is
booting. This is a temporary solution, and like Richard I would like to
find out how to solve this annoying problem.
Michele
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Did you switch from Windows to Linux?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:41:24 GMT
In article <zusj3.216$nE.9982@ultra>,
"Brad Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If so, I'm writing a magazine article about operating systems and I'd
like
> to hear from you. Drop me a line at:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks.
>
>
I'm an MCSE so I needed to get multi-OS experience, so I picked up a
copy of Caldera OpenLinux 2.2. It's a great alternative to Windows. I
predict it to be the next great OS, once there becomes more apps
available.
-Jason
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Red Hat Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: G2 Beta
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:13:23 -0500
Hi, Anybody got the Real G2 Beta to work including audio? Also, I have
lost the link to the dl page, would someone please post it.
Thanks,
Robert A. Ober
INFO
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
713-665-8925
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: Re: _NICs
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:22:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7n9035$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee) writes:
>
> The following are more problematical on Linux:
>
> Netgear FA310TX Revision D* with Lite-On PNIC chip (tulip driver,
> cheap) -- works in a computer with an Intel 430TX based
> motherboard, but not in a computer with a VIA MVP3 based
> motherboard
> CNet Pro110B with ASIX 88140 chip (tulip driver, cheap) -- does not
> work at all even though it is recognized by the tulip driver
Problems with Tulip clone chips can usually be remedied by updating to
more recent Tulip drivers. I've used both Linksys (Lite-On PNIC chip)
and NDC SOHOware (Macronix chip) Tulip clones in a system with a
motherboard holding a VIA VP-2 (?) chipset, and the Linksys in a system
with a VIA MVP-3-based motherboard with no problems after updating the
drivers.
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
Author of _Special Edition Using WordPerfect for Linux_, from Que
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From: "K.HAIGH-HUTCHINSON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: linux and windows98 dual boot system/partition problem
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:21:14 +0100
Daniel Forester wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc David Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> start from scratch? Wipe it all; do the DOS fdisk, and set your
> partitions (mainly for win.) there; install windows, then install linux.
> Just a suggestion...
>
> --
>
We wanted to put Linux and Win95 on a new disk.
We wanted a small C partition, a linux /boot and then half the disk
win95 and half the disk linux.
Problem was, the person installing win95 found the machine insisted on
formatting the whole disk as a C drive.
Finally got it working by creating a tiny C: partition. No other
partitions at all, format C:, then create linux partition, then create
other dos partition, format it, install win95, and last of all, complete
partitioning and install linux.
Works fine now.
I have not checked to see what size partitions windows95 thinks it has.
Kathy HH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Is there a 'pseudo-tape' driver for Linux/x86?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:24:34 GMT
It has occurred to me that, although the standard backup utilities assume tape media,
other media might be substituted with good results. Specifically, tape drives and media
are currently expensive commodities, while CD-R/CD-RW drives and media are relatively
cheap. It would be nice to be able to use the magtape tools ('mt') against a CD-R or
CD-RW
device (i.e. multitrack CD-R where magtape would provide tape 'files': think "mt -fsf"
against a CD-RW device).
Has anyone seen a driver (or other software) that would cause a CD-R or CD-RW drive to
look like a tape drive to the magtape tools?
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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