Linux-Misc Digest #184, Volume #21 Tue, 27 Jul 99 13:13:07 EDT
Contents:
eth0 and 3Com 3c507 NIC card ("J. Guy Stalnaker")
gmc core dump on logout ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Third hard drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
gnome core dump on logout ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CIA assassinations (Phillip Lord)
Re: Cylinder number problem!? (Dave Brown)
Re: Powering down with RH6.0 (Leonard Evens)
help: window titles for fvwm2 with rh 6.0 (btoc)
do these CD-Rs work? (miiHKali)
Re: sound suddenly stops (Patrick M. Geahan)
Re: My Linux box was hacked! ("jdm")
Any way to preserve original modification timestamp? ("Joseph T. Adams")
Re: Linux Removal -> NT Installation problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: End of Input (Leonard Evens)
Re: Need script to convert filenames from UPPER to lower (Frank da Cruz)
Re: Shortcomings of Linux? (Charles E. Taylor IV)
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From: "J. Guy Stalnaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: eth0 and 3Com 3c507 NIC card
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:29:22 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here's the skinny:
Have the 3c507 driver compiled into the kernel. On boot, card is
detected correctly at IRQ 10, Mem 0300, etc. With the card's native
state alterred by its DOS configurator app so that ZeroWaitStates are
disabled and Turbo mode is set to Standard, dhcpcd now communicates with
our dhcp server [when it before did not] and, viola, we have a working
network. Sorta. What happens is that nominal net traffic produces no
problems. If, however, I run a TCP/IP app (same results whether
Netscape inside X or ncftp at the command prompt, for example),
approximately 50-60 seconds after starting up and while the app is
sending/retrieving data, this starts:
eth0: Command unit stopped, status xxxx, restarting -OR-
eth0: Rx unit stopped, status xxxx, restarting.
xxxx is replaced by a variety of four-digit numbers: 0000, a000, a040,
1220, 4040, 5020, and 5220, with 4040 being by far the most numerous
entry. These stopped/restarting messages are repeated hundreds of times
(yes, hundreds, as /var/log/messages confirms: the last command was
repeated 696 [or 739] times). These error messages will actually break
into the console as well as get listed in /var/log/messages.
Anyone have a clue what's going on?
My thanks,
Guy Stalnaker
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J. Guy Stalnaker
DoIT-Emerging Media Tech. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1210 W Dayton St Rm 4212 wk. 608.263.8035
Madison WI 53706 fax 608.263.3846
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: gmc core dump on logout
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:47:04 GMT
I'm running RedHat 6.0 on a Pentium system and
have gmc 4.5.30. On logout gmc dumps core to the
users home directory. I'm logging into gnome,
gdm-1.0.0-35.
If I change the initlevel in /etc/inittab to NOT
start into Xwindows, I do not have this problem.
Eg, I boot, login, and execute "startx".
What's going on?
Thanks,
Mike Tie
Carleton College
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Third hard drive
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:51:04 GMT
Win98 and NT too have this requirement?
S K Ghori.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You are going to hate my answer, but the Win95 drive needs to be
master
> of IDE bus 0 (/dev/hda essentially) to boot Windows. Then install
LILO
> to it. You may have to place a small /boot partition at the beginning
> of the Win95 drive with a kernel in it. I did this with Partition
Magic
> and it works well. Then boot the system from floppy and mount the
root
> fs where ever that ends up to reinstall LILO and setup a /boot mount
on
> the /dev/hda drive.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I have slackware running on a celeron 333. I already have two IDE
hard
> > disks and one CDROM on /dev/hda1, /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdc
respectively.
> > I have no other OS on this machine and lilo uses the MBR to boot
> > straight into linux. Now I wish to add a third HDD (/dev/hdd1) with
> > win95 just to play games that are not available to run on linux. I
> > already have win95 installed (using a different PC) on the new HDD.
I
> > already connected the new HDD to my bus to see if it was seen at
boot,
> > which it was.
> >
> > How to I make lilo offer me a choice of either booting into linux or
> > into windows95?
> >
> > I do not wish to mount the third drive when I boot into linux. I
just
> > want to toggle between a "solitary" slackware box or a "solitary"
Win95
> > PC.
> > Thanks,
> > S K Ghori.
> >
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> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: gnome core dump on logout
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:52:42 GMT
Hi Folks,
I'm running Gnome on RedHat6.0 on a Pentium system. Every time I
logout, I get a core dump in the account. If I change inittab to enter
at run level 3, (i.e. do not start X immediately), I do not have this
problem. I analyzed the core with gdb -c core and it said that the core
was generated by gmc. The gmc I am running is version 4.5.30. Any
suggestions or solutions? Thanks.
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 27 Jul 1999 15:54:31 +0100
>>>>> "MK" == MK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MK> The only difference between bourgeoise man and the poor man is
MK> that the bourgeoise man has more money. Give the poor man money
MK> and you have the very same bourgeoise.
True.
But what if both of them took for themselves freedom?
Perhaps this kind of life changing experience would change them both
for the better.
MK> OK, I live in Europe (in 2003 in EU). If it so much more better
MK> in Europe, why don't you swap your citizenship with some
MK> European? Why are you not moving to Europe if this is so much
MK> better. BTW, I definitely would like to move to US.
Believe it or not many people have an attachment to the
land (not the same thing as the nation) where they were born and they
have lived. I may move from Britian during my life, but its probable
that I will move back. Believe it or not I would rather see Britian
change itself for the better, than move somewhere that already is.
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Cylinder number problem!?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Jul 99 15:19:29 GMT
In article <7njum2$1b9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefan Ehlen wrote:
>...
>There's a lesson I've learned the hard way: NEVER use more then ONE fdisk
>on ONE hard disk!! Simply don't do it, in very most cases you get
>overlapping errors or partition can't be made bootable or are not visible
>from all OS... it's a mere pain!
>
Hmm... interesting statement. I've seen elsewhere (and always followed)
the advice that you should create the partition for a particular OS with
the fdisk that comes with that OS. In other words, use the fdisk that
comes with Win to create that partition, but use the linux fdisk to create
the linux partition. (In fact, I couldn't get linux fdisk to recognize an
"extended" partition created by Win98 fdisk (although it could have been
the MaxBlast software that came with the disk). I had to delete the
partition and recreated with linux fdisk.)
The fact that some disk software can't resist installing EZ-Drive
complicates the situation. If that remapping software gets installed
on the disk, then it has to load each time the disk comes up in order
for the disk locations to make sense.
I agree: "it's a ... pain!"
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Powering down with RH6.0
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:53:45 -0500
Steven E Bourland wrote:
>
> When I first installed RH6.0 and 'shutdown -h now', the machine would
> actually
> power down on its own (I didn't have to hit the power switch). Being
> the lazy boy
> that I am, when I compiled a new kernel (2.2.10) and it quit powering
> down on its
> own, I was quite miffed. I saw earlier posted re: Suse and this problem
> which said
> to add '-p' to the final line in rc.halt. Well, I checked my rc.halt
> and it seems to
> already have the '-p' in there (along with three other switches, which I
> don't recall
> right now as I am at work). The line looked something like:
>
> $eval -i -v -p
>
> (Not super sure I am remember things correctly).
>
> Is anyone else having this occur? Anyone know how to get it back to the
> lazy man's
> situation where I don't have to put all that effort into crawling under
> my table to find
> the silly power button?
>
> TIA,
> Steve
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are you sure you included power management in the kernel you
made?
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: btoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help: window titles for fvwm2 with rh 6.0
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:54:52 -0400
hi,
the notitle command no longer works after going from rh 5.2 to rh 6.0
does anyone know if the syntax has change changed or what? i am getting
the titles now.
in my .fvwm2rc i have
Style "Fvwm*" NoTitle, Sticky, WindowListSkip
Style "FvwmPager" NoTitle, StaysOnTop, NoHandles, BorderWidth 1
Style "FvwmBanner" StaysOnTop
Style "FvwmButtons" NoTitle, StaysOnTop, NoHandles, Sticky,
WindowListSkip,BorderWidth 1
Style "*lock" NoTitle, NoHandles, Sticky, WindowListSkip
Style "xbiff" NoTitle, Sticky, WindowListSkip
--
bye, leon
Leon Haverly Compuwork 770/426-5509 fax 770/514-1079 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marietta, GA 30064 home 770/422-9355 www.compuwork.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (miiHKali)
Subject: do these CD-Rs work?
Date: 27 Jul 1999 15:52:29 GMT
I'm about to buy a CD-R drive, but I'm unsure which one. Does Linux support
Mitsumi CR 4802 TE or HP 8100i?
thanks
--
--
miiHKali
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From: Patrick M. Geahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound suddenly stops
Date: 27 Jul 1999 15:56:07 GMT
Ben Sandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'll be playing a playlist with x11amp, and after a while, usually at
: the end of a song, it stops playing, and all sound on my system stops
: working. The progress bars on x11amp and kmedia seem to either not move
: at all or move very slowly. Rebooting fixes the problem. Any ideas??
: I'm running RH6.0, i586, KDE1.1.1, CS4232 sound, x11amp-0.9-beta1.1-1.
Ben -
I have always had x11amp problems, some like the one you
re describing, some others. Heck, at one point,x11amp simply refused to
play, period. Yeesh. Anyhow, I'd suggest getting another player. If you
just want them to play straight out, I'd suggest getting mpg123 or
freeamp. If you want fancy stuff like playlists and the like, I'd look
into gmp3. I can't recommend it, because I didn't get a chance to install
it last night, but I'll let you know soon. :-)
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USENET Quote of the Week: "I'm still pondering whether i should
pre-emptively register 'I can't believe it's not Jesus' as a name for a
low-calorie communion wafer" - Tanuki on alt.sysadmin.recovery
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From: "jdm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: My Linux box was hacked!
Date: 26 Jul 1999 21:46:17 GMT
Stewart Honsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On 23 Jul 1999 15:50:13 -0400, Paul Anderson wrote:
> >>I have lots of visits from hackers, according to my /var/log/secure
> >>file, but they don't get a connection.
> >>
> >You mean crackers not hackers. Hackers don't try to break into
computers.
>
> Yes they do - they just don't do damage. Instead, many of them (rightly
so!)
> capitalize on their abilities by selling the solution to the problem to
the
> people who own the computer they "hacked" into.
>
> Crackers are the kiddies who crack into computers in order to cause
damage.
>
Hackers are people who like to get computers and software to work, or to do
things they were'nt originally designed to do. Crackers are people who
like to remove copy protection from commercial programs. People who like
to break into computers systems, regardless of whether or not they cause
damage, are infantile punks.
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From: "Joseph T. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.samba
Subject: Any way to preserve original modification timestamp?
Date: 27 Jul 1999 13:13:18 GMT
Is there any way to tell Samba to preserve the ORIGINAL file
date/time when copying to/from Samba shares?
When copying files from an NT box to a Samba share located on a Linux
box, Samba changes the modification timestamp to the current date and
time. This is consistent with the traditional behavior of Unix
programs such as ftp or cp, but it is NOT consistent with NT behavior,
or with the requirements of my application (timestamps are used for
determining when files should be archived, and for various reasons
during system maintenance, files and directories are very frequently
copied from one location or one machine to another).
I've already tried setting the dos filetimes parameter in smb.conf to
True, but this did not help.
The version of Samba is, I believe, 2.0.4, running on Mandrake-Linux
6.0.
Thanks in advance for any and all assistance!
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux Removal -> NT Installation problem
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:44:34 GMT
In article <impi3.5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anders Buch) wrote:
> In article <7md1ni$a6f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Nova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Well, I removed all the partitions from my hardrive in order to
install NT,
> >Inserted the boot diskette for Nt and continued onward.... The
install
> >proceed smoothtly, until.....The restart, Upon the resteart the
Letters LI
> >appeared, a ghostlike reminder of the Linux (or rather LILO) that
once
> >lived on this machine, after the LI appears it freezes.....
> >I reformatted the drive for Fat, and tried NTFS, I created one
single
> >partition for NT, yet the computer continues to give me the LI, and
then a
> >freeze...
> >Can you help to alleviate this problem, All help is greatly
appreciated,,,
> >Thnx,
>
> Your "problem" is that LILO is still sitting on the master boot
record (MBR)
> of your hard disk. For some reason windoze products have the belief
that
> only their boot programs can reside there...
>
> If you have an old dos boot floppy, it might work to boot in dos from
that
> disk and then give the command
>
> fdisk /mbr
>
> This should overwrite the MBR program with Micro$oft's (old?)
version, and
> possibly you can continue from there.
>
> If it works, enjoy your New Troubles!
>
> --
> Anders Skovsted Buch E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 2072 East Hall Phone: (734) 477-9052
> 525 East University Ave
> Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109
>
I have had the same problem. I did a fdisk /mbr and re-booted with the
NT installation cd. I created partitions and the initial completed.
When the machine rebooted to continue the installation, I got the
message "no operating system found" from the BIOS.
Im kind of lost on where to go from that....
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: End of Input
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:31:27 -0500
"David L. Bilbey" wrote:
>
> A friend of mine just installed Linux and is using a boot disk with Lilo
> rather than installing lilo on the mbr. He got an error right after
> "Uncompressing kernel...."
>
> The error read something along the lines of:
> "No more input
> System Halted"
>
> I've never seen this before, has anyone else? Any help will be
> appreciated. Thanks.
>
> bilbey
>
> --
> "There is one question that probably drives just about every vampire
> crazy: `Oh, do you know Dracula?'" --Jack Handey
It would seem that there is something wrong with what is on the
floppy. The error message seems to say that it ran out of input
before it finished loading the kernel.
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Need script to convert filenames from UPPER to lower
Date: 27 Jul 1999 14:32:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christopher R. Carlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have a zipped bunch of files downloaded from a software vendor. All
: the files have UPPERCASE names. But the program that reads them only
: accepts lowercase names. Thus, I must either rename them all by hand,
: one at a time (impossible), or get some command or small script to do
: it.
:
: Since I am not anymore a programmer, I think some script guru can
: provide the needed lines in minutes, where I would require hours to cook
: them up.
:
: Anybody got the answer?
:
There are many, but perhaps the easiest is:
xxu *
where xxu is:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/e/xxu.c
Download it to your computer and:
make xxu
and store it somewhere in your PATH, e.g. /usr/local/bin.
- Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles E. Taylor IV)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: 27 Jul 1999 14:14:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Casper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Probably, much better than the lame attempt
> above. You people are totally cluless. It is pathetic, it really is.
Posting "The Amiga ROOLZ Linux SUCKZ" posts on comp.os.linux.misc will
get you flamed. Just deal with it and move on. :)
Followups moved back into the Amiga playpen.
--
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http://orangesherbert.ces.clemson.edu
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