Linux-Misc Digest #289, Volume #21 Wed, 4 Aug 99 17:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: Boot sector/SCSI driver viruses and CD AutoRun (was Re: Linux and Viruses - Not
the same old question) (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Files in lost+found can not be deleted. ("Juergen Bachsteffel")
Portuguese Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Distributions (steffen)
linux in portuguese ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux PGP5 ("Shamsuddin, Amir")
conf.modules (Gordon Haverland)
failure installing StarOffice ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Database program ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Creating a Boot Disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Multiple users with linux-version Netscape (Arnoud de Geus)
East Hawaii Group? (Bruce Meier)
Re: Files in lost+found can not be deleted. (Perry Pip)
Getting NTP to reset CMOS clock (Yousuf Khan)
Re: howto show baudrate? ("Marc Marais")
Re: Need good Linux equiv to Win95/98/NT4 find text in file function (J.H.M. Dassen
(Ray))
Re: mount theory, lost space, and other sundry cack (Leonard Evens)
Re: Problems connecting to ISP ("Michael Reuvers")
Re: Changing the Hostname (Sean)
Problems with Bru. RedHat (Ole W Saastad)
Chat with me (ChatTiAmo)
Porting Appl from Solaris to Linux (Devesh Mistry)
Re: Kppp/pppd probs (Hugh Lawson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Subject: Re: Boot sector/SCSI driver viruses and CD AutoRun (was Re: Linux and Viruses
- Not the same old question)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 18:45:52 GMT
[Sorry if this appears in duplicate -- my news server gave an error
the first time I tried to send it.]
Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucius Chiaraviglio),
> In a message on Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:05:17 GMT, wrote :
>LC> In addition, on other types of media, MacOS needs to load a
>LC> SCSI driver (not sure if this applies to IDE hard disks, but wouldn't
>LC> be surprised if it does) for the media and drive before it will mount
>LC> the media (Microsoft isn't the only company to come out with brain-
>LC> dead ideas). [. . .]
>
>My *guess* about MacOS needing to 'load drivers' from the media
>probably stems from a (mis-)feature that MacOS seems to share with
>MS-DOS -- the lack of a uniform I/O sub-system. Both MacOS and MS-DOS
>use an 'ac hoc' device driver system -- each *device* gets its own
>driver and there is no such thing as 'classes' of devices. Eg.
>instead of layering the SCSI system into a controller-level driver with
>high-level *general device class drivers*, each SCSI device gets its
>own driver.
This makes seems to be correct for MacOS, Windows 95/98, and
Windows NT, but DOS (including Windows 95/98 MS-DOS mode) isn't that
smart -- it just loads whatever drivers you tell it to in CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT (with the addition of DBLSPACE.BIN or DRVSPACE.BIN if
you have a compressed volume and with the addition of HIMEM.SYS,
SETVER.EXE, and IFSHLP.SYS if you are using Windows 95/98 MS-DOS
mode). You are free to have it use one driver for all removable media
other than floppies, but it won't necessarily work properly (sometimes
not at all) (had plenty of aggravation trying to set this up right).
I thought that MacOS was supposed to have a more uniform I/O
subsystem than DOS, but I guess that is just an illusion due to DOS
having so little I/O subsystem at all. :-P
> LinuxPPC is likely built just like LinuxX86: there are
>drivers for SCSI boards (eg an AIC-7xxx driver for Adaptec-ish 2940
>type boards), which are loaded by kerneld or at boot time (from a
>initrd) -- based on install options (hardware sensing or manual
>configuration) and then sd, st, sr, and sg drivers for hard disks
>(fixed and removable), tape drives, CD-ROM drives, and generic SCSI
>(catch-all for odds and ends, like CDRs CDRWs, scanners, etc., that use
>user-mode "drivers" via generic SCSI interface commands). Under Linux,
>Zip, Jaz, Syquest, and ANY other 'disks' (removable or not) are just
>disks and use the high-level sd driver over the driver for the
>interface board. [. . .]
So in other words, it shouldn't pay any attention to any
executable code on anything other than the boot volume unless
specifically told to.
>I think MacOS does issue an Enq command (MS-DOS probably also does), but
>probably does not use the results in the same way as Linux does. MacOS
>and MS-DOS probably use the vendor and model strings to find a driver
>based on vendor and model, which is really dumb, since this information
>is really not meant for this.
I don't think DOS is doing this unless a SCSI driver does it
then chooses some helper driver. On the other hand, I think MacOS and
Windows 95/98/NT do this just as you said, with Windows being stupid
enough that it often fails to find a driver automatically even if one
of the ones it already has happens to match the one it needs.
> Linux does not use the vendor and model
>info for anything but for documentaional purposes (except for some
>*older* devices with broken firmware which mis-report flag bits or just
>don't behave as they ought to). [. . .]
How is an extra non-standard but necessary feature (like
setting the software "write-protection" on Zip, Jaz, SparQ, and ORB
cartridges) handled (I mean internally, not the Zip/Jaz Drive HOW-TO
instructions for the user)?
By the way, I tried to find a LinuxPPC newsgroup, but it
doesn't look like my news server has any knowledge of one.
Lucius Chiaraviglio | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Juergen Bachsteffel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Files in lost+found can not be deleted.
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:43:55 +0100
Hi!
After a 'fsck' I had some crazy files in 'lost+found'. I want to delete the
files.
But when I try 'rm'. I always get: Operation not permitted.
I do have root-rights.
My 'lost+found' directory:
total 1105552526
?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1810643
srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1810644
?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1810647
srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1810648
?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1822931
srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1822932
?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1822935
srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1822936
?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1841351
srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1841352
srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1874128
srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1876192
srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1919372
?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1919375
srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1919376
Thanks!
CU Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Portuguese Linux
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 18:54:59 GMT
Where I search a portuguese linux ?
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From: steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Distributions
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:04:25 -0500
eze wrote:
>
> which is the most easy to install linux's distribution?
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
i'm also a fan of suse linux. i installed it on several computers
without having major problems even with real exotic scsi controllers and
so on. it is also runnig fine on my laptop. the email support is amazing
and the manual is pretty good for beginners and covering the most
important issues for the start.
steffen
p.s. on 8/6/99 suse will start shipping the new version with the a lot
of new and updated programs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linux in portuguese
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 18:51:57 GMT
I want a linux in portuguese.
It�s exist ?
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From: "Shamsuddin, Amir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux PGP5
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 20:22:47 +0100
Hi all,
Could someone point me to a linux e-mail client which supports pgp5
encryption? I have so far failed to find anything useful. (Most only
support pgp 2.6.2 )
Thanks,
Amir Shamsuddin
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From: Gordon Haverland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: conf.modules
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 13:21:55 -0600
Hi!
I'm adding hardware to a machine running mostly a SuSE 5.3
linux on a K6, the kernel is 2.0.36 patched for the
SYM53C8xx SCSI driver (not the NCR53C8xx).
The system has a number of disks, CD's, etc. and what I am
adding is a second (Buslogic) SCSI controller to take an
external SCSI zip and a scanner. The root filesystem will
be on the Intraserver (Symbios 53C8xx) card I already have.
Anyway, I've compiled a kernel, and have the Symbios support
compiled in (not a module). It's time to get conf.modules
in order. The existing conf.modules (from the SuSE install)
has an entry for the NCR53C8xx in it. Should this be commented
out and replaced with an entry for the buslogic controller,
the SYM53C8xx, or both?
Thanks
Gordon Haverland
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: failure installing StarOffice
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:54:42 -0400
Hello.
Need a little help here. I'm trying to set up my RH v. 6.0 system and
ladling on StarOffice (from the apps cd). When I get as far as initiating
the setup routine, I get the following error message (paraphrased):
"_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno -111
setupbin: cannot open display ":0"
check "DISPLAY" variable as well as permissions (etc., etc.)"
I need a little clue here. What does setup want me to do to satisfy it?
A weird phenomenon I can't help but mention. All of a sudden I can't
invoke fdisk ('command not found'). I copied it to /sbin as root and now I
can invoke it as root. I thought I was able to invoke it before without
the absolute path and also as 'user'. Just wondering. (Somehow a path is
messed up?)
Thanks!
Felmon
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Union College / Schenectady, NY
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OS/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Database program
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 19:15:26 GMT
Is there a linux equivalent to Access or SQL ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Creating a Boot Disk
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 19:09:34 GMT
I'm new to Linux, but was able successfully install RH5.2 on my laptop.
At the end of installation I skipped the step that creates a boot disk
in case something happens to boot partition. Linux is up and running
OK.
How can I create the Boot Disk at this point?
Thanks,
Vlad.
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From: Arnoud de Geus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple users with linux-version Netscape
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 22:16:57 +0200
Zach Wiener wrote:
> Hello. Is it possible to create multiple users with the linux version
> of Netscape without having to login and out all the time for each
> individual user?
no
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From: Bruce Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: East Hawaii Group?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 00:27:55 -1000
Aloha,
Is there a user group in East Hawaii?
Thanks,
Bruce Meier
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Pip)
Subject: Re: Files in lost+found can not be deleted.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 17:37:35 GMT
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:43:55 +0100, Juergen Bachsteffel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>After a 'fsck' I had some crazy files in 'lost+found'. I want to delete the
>files.
>But when I try 'rm'. I always get: Operation not permitted.
>
>I do have root-rights.
>
>My 'lost+found' directory:
>
>total 1105552526
>?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1810643
>srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1810644
>?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1810647
>srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1810648
>?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1822931
>srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1822932
>?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1822935
>srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1822936
>?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1841351
>srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1841352
>srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1874128
>srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1876192
>srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1919372
>?rw---s-w- 1 15585 46381 4294967295 May 4 1916 #1919375
>srwsrwSr-T 1 173 45843 4294967295 Jul 12 1994 #1919376
>
Use the debugfs tool:
man debugfs
You will probably need to run it from a bootdisk as the filesystem must be
unounted.
Perry
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From: Yousuf Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting NTP to reset CMOS clock
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 19:23:58 GMT
My Linux PC's clock is several seconds ahead of actual time. I have
ntpdate come up during boot to set the OS clock to the right time and
date, and xntpd runs during the course of the session to keep the clock
in sync, but as soon as I restart the machine, the OS clock gets set by
the local CMOS clock until these utilities come on and set the time
properly. I'd like the CMOS clock to get reset by these utilities so
that it too has the right time of day.
Oh, and BTW, I do have the CMOS clock set to Universal Time Coordinate
like they suggested in the HOWTO's, so that Linux can reset the time
automatically.
Yousuf Khan
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From: "Marc Marais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: howto show baudrate?
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:52:50 -0700
Ari Vaisanen wrote in message ...
>
>gus wrote:
>> If you use chat to connect, set the debug level on, and send the results
>> to a log file. Then parse the log file for the connect speed.
>>
>> gus
>>
>
>It seems that i got debuglevel in /etc/ppp/options file already and i
>suppose that the log file is in a file called debug in /var/log dir.
>
>I parsed that file but found no connect speed.
>
>Here is a extract.
>
>
[snip]
>
>/Ari
>
I use the following in my ppp options (/etc/ppp/options) file when starting
pppd:
chat -r <report file> -f <chatscript file>
My chat script file:
TIMEOUT 5
"" ATZ
OK ATX0M0\\V1Q0E1S0=0&C1&D2S11=55
OK ""
TIMEOUT 60
"" ATDT5941049
REPORT CONNECT
ABORT "NO CARRIER"
ABORT BUSY
ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
ABORT "LINE IN USE"
CONNECT ""
ogin: <username>
assword: <password>
Note the \V1 in the AT init string - this instructs your modem (hopefully it
works on yours) to display detailed connect info.
Read the man page for chat it has all the info you need.
The report file will contain the CONNECT string from the modem which you can
then parse to determine your connect rate TX/RX etc...
The following script will parse the report file and email the CONNECT string
to marc:
cat /tmp/chat.report | mawk '/CONNECT/ {print ("Subject: CONNECT "$6"\n")}'
| sendmail marc
My ppp options file (/etc/ppp/options):
/dev/ttyS0 115200 crtscts
modem
ipcp-accept-remote
ipcp-accept-local
demand
idle 600
holdoff 30
defaultroute
connect '/etc/ppp/connect'
The /etc/ppp/connect script (last line) contains the chat command followed
by the command to parse the report file for the connect speed.
My system:
Linux 2.2.6 (with ppp-on-demand enabled)
chat 1.17 (from chat man page)
pppd 2.3.7
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Need good Linux equiv to Win95/98/NT4 find text in file function
Date: 4 Aug 1999 19:35:34 GMT
Lucius Chiaraviglio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cd start_directory
> find . -type f -exec fgrep -l 'search text' \{\} \; | more
It's somewhat faster to use
find ...start_directory -type f | xargs fgrep -l 'search text' | more
HTH,
Ray
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount theory, lost space, and other sundry cack
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 09:56:06 -0500
Matt Arnold wrote:
>
> William Wueppelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> described how to add
> a new drive by saying:
>
> > 1. mount the new partition under a temporary point like /mnt
> > 2. copy /home to /mnt using the -a (archive) option
> > 3. verify that the contents have been copied (unmount the partition
> > and remount it and then check)
> > 4. delete the contents of /home (but not the directory itself)
> > 5. add a line to /etc/fstab that mounts the partition under /home
> > 6. reboot, or better yet, just unmount the partition from /mnt and
> > remount it on /home.
>
> The above excerpt clearly describes how to add a new drive to increase the
> amount of available space to your linux system. But I still have one
> nagging question. What happens if we skip step 4? What happens if we don't
> delete the original content?
I think you need to get some concepts straight. Any partition
of a disk with Linux files would have a Linux filesystem on it.
You can mount that filesystem on any mount point (directory)
in another filesystem that is already mounted (such as /).
If your original home was not a filesystem, but a subdirectory of
/ in /'s filesystem, then it will be covered, up as you note,
when you mount the new filesystem to which you copied the
contents of home. So to recover the space in /, just delete
it before you mount the new filesystem on /home. Or if it
is already mounted, login as root, umount it and delete it.
cd /; rm -rf home; mdkir home
should do it. Just make sure you don't have the new filesystem
containing the copied directories and files mounted. And don't
make any typing errors since rm -rf will recursively remove
everything in the directory given as argument. Above all
don't use any wildcards in your command. If for some strange
reason, you find you can't umount the new home, even logged
in as root, reboot single user by using
linux single
at the LILO boot prompt. Then it won't be mounted.
> It seems any filesystem with more than the single mount point of /
> COULD potentially contain unreachable files. How can I prove there is none
> of this unreachable space on my filesystem
The command
mount
without arguments will tell you which file systems are mounted
where. It is unlikely you have more than two or three. There
are certain filesystems like / and if they are separate filesystems
/usr, /etc, /var, /boot, which you need even as root. Any
other filesystem can be umounted if you are logged in as root
or won't be mounted if you boot single user, and if there are
files in the mount point, you can remove them. I suspect you
have only / with usr,etc,var,boot subdirectories and not separate
mounted filesystems. But if say usr is actually a separate
filesystem, while it is highly unlikely there is anything it is
covering up, I can suggest one method for being sure.
1. Boot using a rescue disk or even an installation floppy.
For RH5.1/5.2/6.0 you should have a boot floppy which allows
you to go into rescue mode and use a rescue floppy. This provides
you with a version of the system in a ramdisk. You can also do
this with an installation floppy if you let it proceed far enough,
but short of actually installing anything. At a certain point,
Alt-F2 will give you a bash prompt.
2. Mount the / filesystem on some mount point which you might
have to create in the ramdisk with mkdir. Then just look as
usr (or whatever) to see if it has any files in it. This
is assuming usr is a separate filesystem. If it is a directory
in /, which is the usual situation, you wouldn't even be bothering
with this, and of course there would be files in usr. At this
point you could remove those files.
>
> And, yes, I'm a newbie. I tried to RTFM and FAQ's, but I failed to find
> where this situation was described. Thank you for any help anyone can
> offer.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
I include some directions for a related problem which you might
find helpful. It doesn't address what you are concerned about,
but contains some general instructions about using an installation
disk for rescue. They were posted originally by Cameron Spitzer.
=================================================================
Get any Linux rescue disk. Debian Rescue, the Red Hat installation
floppy, the SuSE boot disk, the Slackware boot floppy.
(For example, you could use your Microsoft system to run RAWWRITE.EXE
off your Linux CD and make a new installation floppy.)
Boot the floppy and get a shell. In most cases this involves running
the installation script but not letting it go far enough to
write anything, and switching to another virtual console.
(Alt-F2, Alt-F3...)
Run "fdisk -l" to see the partition table. This will jog your memory
as to where you installed Linux. You need the device name of the
root partition. While you're at it, redirect it to your printer or
just copy the numbers down in case you ever do something bad to your
partition table. (You can just type the numbers in again to restore
it.)
Reboot the installation floppy. This time, read the messages that
preceed the boot prompt, which is usually "LILO boot:" or
"Syslinux boot:" Now, instead of just hitting Enter for the default
kernel behavior, explicitly invoke the kernel of your choice, specifying
the partition to mount as root. For example, if the bootkernel on
the rescue floppy is named "linux" and you installed your root file
system on /dev/hda3, type this
linux root=/dev/hda3
at the boot prompt, and hit Enter. This tells the loader on the
rescue floppy to boot the rescue floppy's kernel, but mount
your previously installed Linux instead of the installation system.
If your system has no weird devices in the boot path, that the rescue
kernel doesn't recognize, your Linux will come up like an old friend.
Just for luck, run fsck (or e2fsck) against each Linux file system
partition. They should all be "clean."
--
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Michael Reuvers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems connecting to ISP
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:36:17 -0600
UPDATE
Went back...tried it again...
First time I tried it again I didn't get the "locked message", but got the
"serial line is not 8 bit clean...". So I tried adding "lcp-max-configure
30" to my options, figuring my ISP takes awhile to respond.
Second time, it connected! But then the modem hungup for no apparent reason.
Connected 0.7 minutes (Woohoo). *Sigh*
More as the saga continues.
...Mike
Michael Reuvers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:...
> I just recently down loaded Redhat Linux 6.0 from one of their mirror
sites.
> I installed it with very little problems (woohoo). I found where to setup
my
> Internet connection in "Linuxconf". It dials but never successfully
> establishes a PPP connection. I checked my system logs. The only problem I
> can find is this :
>
> "Device modem is locked by pid 7894"
>
> The pid number changes depending on how many times I try. If someone had
> some suggestions on how to solve this problem it would be most
appreciated.
> Thanks!
>
>
> ....Mike
>
>
> *Note: If you haven't guess yet, I'm a newbie with Linux but fairly
computer
> proficient.
>
> :)
>
>
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing the Hostname
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 10:16:55 -0800
RH has a simple systems tool called network configuration.
Log in as root, start X Windows, click on Network
Configuration(icon looks like a network), and the hostname
is the first tab. Also try 'man host' or 'man hostname'.
If your on a network and you use DNS or NIS you have more
configuration to do and I don't know the specifics for
updating these databases.
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From: Ole W Saastad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Bru. RedHat
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 22:31:53 +0200
gina.uio.no 51>uname -a
Linux gina.uio.no 2.0.33 #25 Wed Sep 30 21:04:02 CEST 1998 i586 unknown
gina.uio.no 52>
Red Hat 5.0
The Bru program will not run:
[root@gina ole]# bru -t -f /dev/ftape
bru: [E134] internal error 100 - failed self consistency and portability
checks
[root@gina ole]#
This is a known bug someone told me, but I do not know how to fix
this. Is there a patch for this or should I try replacing something
else.
Tar works very well with ftape, and TR-2 tapes.
The libc files are as follows:
gina.uio.no 60>ls -l /lib/libc*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3019339 Nov 9 1997
/lib/libc-2.0.5.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 16 18:35 /lib/libc.so.5 ->
libc.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 23 1998 /lib/libc.so.6 ->
libc-2.0.5.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 23 1998
/lib/libcom_err.so.2 -> libcom_err.so.2.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6233 Oct 15 1997
/lib/libcom_err.so.2.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 182204 Nov 9 1997
/lib/libcrypt-2.0.5.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 23 1998
/lib/libcrypt.so.1 -> libcrypt-2.0.5.so
gina.uio.no 61>
I do not want to mess to much with the libs. I run Star Office 5.0 and
this
is sensitive to changes in the libs.
Ole
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ChatTiAmo)
Crossposted-To:
rec.skydiving,alt.rush-limbaugh,rec.music.tori-amos,alt.politics.libertarian,comp.os.linux.setup,rec.autos.sport.nascar,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.c,rec.gardens
Subject: Chat with me
Date: 4 Aug 1999 14:34:36 GMT
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From: Devesh Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Porting Appl from Solaris to Linux
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 16:44:44 -0400
Hello everybody !
I was wondering has anyone familiar with porting an application from Sun
Solaris to Linux?
I have to port an application written in c++ that has
- IPC's (shared memory, semaphores & message queues)
- Threads (pthread)
- Rogue Wave Libraries.
Porting IPC's and threads, i guess should not be a big problem (??), but
not sure about Rogue Wave libraries.
Will appreciate any help, pointer, site references.
thanks a lot in advance.
devesh
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From: Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,ch.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.windows.x.kde,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Re: Kppp/pppd probs
Date: 04 Aug 1999 16:18:59 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (RHS Linux User) writes:
>
> I am using kppp at home on my RH 6.0 machine, as well. I found the
> same problem and only found out later that my isp (actually my
> university) requires a different login script with a couple of
> 'hidden' steps after kpp logs in and gives the password. This is
> because my uni is set up to handle MS dialup accounts and dosen't
> really support unix all that well, officially anyway.
>
I don't know if this always works, but.... I deal with such problems
by dialing up with a modem program like minicom, loggin in, and
writing everything down.
--
Hugh Lawson Greensboro, North Carolina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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