Linux-Misc Digest #298, Volume #21 Thu, 5 Aug 99 13:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problems connecting to ISP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What format to burn an Install CD? ("John Hawley")
Re: Maximal Number of Concurent Process (Julius Longauer)
root pw problem - URGENT ("J. Guy Stalnaker")
Re: mount theory, lost space, and other sundry cack (Floyd Davidson)
Re: What format to burn an Install CD? (Rod Smith)
Re: Newbie in Houston (Walter B Kulecz, PhD)
Re: VMWare (Windows on Linux)? ("Brian D. Jones")
Re: Failed Kernel Compile: System is too big (David Mcilroy)
daemon: cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux driver for 3Com NIC: ("Rainer H�nel")
mkisofs (Torsten Blank)
Re: Linux has finally crashed (Marco Anglesio)
Redirect Standard Out to Com 1. (Ben McCormack)
Re: failure installing StarOffice (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Maximal Number of Concurent Process (Julius Longauer)
Re: Visioneer 6100B Color Scanner ("Dr. Darren M. Crotchett")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems connecting to ISP
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 12:25:03 GMT
Use the KDE PPP dialler that comes with it. Use PAP authentication,
this is probably why you can't establish a connection.
In article <c9Zp3.25198$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Michael Reuvers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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: "John Hawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: What format to burn an Install CD?
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 07:59:02 -0500
Hello,
Say, I've downloaded the RedHat 6.0 distribution tree and would like to put
it onto a CD for installs. I've successfully burned a CD, but can't get
the install process to work.
* I used X-CD-Roast 0.96e with image type Rock-Ridge + Win95/NT onto a CDR.
*The root contains:
/doc
/dosutils
/images
/misc
/RedHat
/base
/instimage
/RPMS
* I can read the CD from both NT and Linux.
* When I boot my test machine from a RedHat6.0 floppy and ask it to install
from CD, it opens the device but sticks at the blue "Welcome to Red Hat
Linux" screen. Doing an alt/F3 the last 2 lines read:
* error in exec of second stage loader
* error: Permission denied
Doing an alt/F4 shows these 2 lines:
<7> ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet level 3
<7> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
* I've tried to compare the file permissions on this CD to an official one
and they seem the same. Group and Owner are root.
*** Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
-John Hawley
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From: Julius Longauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ch.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Maximal Number of Concurent Process
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 16:00:01 +0200
Peter Neff wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> where can I define the maximal number of concurent processes on a linux
> system?
>
The maximal number of tasks is defined by the macro
NR_TASKS in 'include/linux/tasks.h'
Julius
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From: "J. Guy Stalnaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: root pw problem - URGENT
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 09:13:38 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all,
On a Slackware 3.0 system, the root password suddenly no longer works.
Only two individuals have root access to this system and neither of us
have changed it. The box is running (that is, it's been up for some
time--boots into X) and we have just discovered that now we cannot make
a telnet connection to the system as root, nor can we login to a new
terminal as root. Keep getting invalid password error. We don't whan
to shutdown -r if we'll be unable to get back in.
Have tried:
1. deleting encrypted root password entry in /etc/shadow and replacing
with nothing. Result: cannot login.
2. deleting encrypted root password entry in /etc/shadow and replacing
with *. Result: cannot login.
3. to give someone root user/group access, tried changing user/group
entries in passwd for the two logins we have (his and mine). Result:
cannot login.
4. used pwunconv to move shadow pw entries into /etc/passwd and tried 1.
and 2. agian. Result: cannot login.
Any help is thankfully appreciated.
Guy S.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: mount theory, lost space, and other sundry cack
Date: 5 Aug 1999 12:51:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"W.G. Unruh" wrote:
>> The new partition will be mounted over the old contents,and
>> those old contents will be inaccessible (but still there and
>> taking up disk space.) Of course you can do this to test
>> things out to make sure that you did not screw upbefore you
>> erase all of your old work. Then once you are sure, umount
>> /home rm -r /home/*
>
>This could be dangerous advice, particularly to a new user of
>Linux. Think of what the following minor typo (as root) could
>do rm -r home/ *
So what would you have him do? Leave the old /home directory
there forever?
After all, *any* "rm -r" command is dangerous if you make a
simple typo. Try "cd / home;rm -r *" or from anywhere do
"rm -r / home".
There is no substitute for being _exceedingly_ careful with rm
commands.
Floyd
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Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: What format to burn an Install CD?
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 13:20:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <7oc1ml$l86$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"John Hawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Say, I've downloaded the RedHat 6.0 distribution tree and would like to put
> it onto a CD for installs. I've successfully burned a CD, but can't get
> the install process to work.
>
> * I used X-CD-Roast 0.96e with image type Rock-Ridge + Win95/NT onto a CDR.
>
> *The root contains:
> /doc
> /dosutils
> /images
> /misc
> /RedHat
> /base
> /instimage
> /RPMS
>
> * I can read the CD from both NT and Linux.
>
> * When I boot my test machine from a RedHat6.0 floppy and ask it to install
> from CD, it opens the device but sticks at the blue "Welcome to Red Hat
> Linux" screen. Doing an alt/F3 the last 2 lines read:
> * error in exec of second stage loader
> * error: Permission denied
> Doing an alt/F4 shows these 2 lines:
> <7> ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet level 3
> <7> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
>
> * I've tried to compare the file permissions on this CD to an official one
> and they seem the same. Group and Owner are root.
>
> *** Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
You're probably missing execute permissions on some important files.
(Many of the ftp sites with the files have this wrong, too.) See my web
page for more information:
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith/rhjol.html
--
Rod Smith
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http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
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From: killspam@wkulecz$pam$uck$.bigfoot.com (Walter B Kulecz, PhD)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie in Houston
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 13:51:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>On Mon, 02 Aug 1999 04:33:17 GMT, Jacque Colbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Do you know of a Linux Users group in Houston?
>
>Looks like there are a couple in your area:
>
>http://www.linux.org/users/groups/usa/texas.html
>
>I recommend Redhat 5.2 rather than 6.0 as I feel it's better to be a little
>conservative when installing a server. You can probalby find a book with a
>copy of 5.2.
Whatever distribution you choose, be sure you get the latest security
updates and apply them before putting your box live on the net.
I recomend redhat over slackware for the relative ease of the rpm
system for updating the bits and pieces as new vulernablities are
found. Redhat has a good track record of providing security updates
for 4.2, 5.2, and 6.0. I'm still using 4.2 and see no real benefit to
changing although I've played with 5.2 and 6.0. The GUI stuff has
improved greatly but this isn't used much on a server.
--wally.
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From: "Brian D. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VMWare (Windows on Linux)?
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 10:05:54 -0400
I've been running VMWare for a number of weeks now on a few IBM 300GL's
(366MHz, 64MB ram...), and it is truly a remarkable product. The advantages of
being able to run Windows are apparent, and being able to replicate VM's is
great as well.
However, be warned that the product is not yet perfect. Though it has only
happened to me twice, VMWare can freeze up the entire system, such that you
can't even ping your machine! Others have had this problem as well, documented
in several threads on vmware.for-linux.misc (news.vmware.com news server).
This is a bug that VMWare will hopefully iron out soon, and people have found
ways around it. Bottom line, VMWare detracts from the overall stability of
Linux, but it is still an amazing (and very young) product and it's benefits
clearly make it worth the detractions (IMHO).
brian
Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
> A friend sent me a link to VMWare's home page. They have a seemingly nice
> solution where Windows98 can run atop Linux. I am *most* tempted to act on
> this, since my company has software that must run under Windows. Right now
> I have a Linux box running my network and a separate Windows box, but it
> would be great to combine the two. As I understand it, multiple Windows
> sessions can be running in different windows, and the Windows "hard drive"
> is merely a file.
>
> Plus, there's the satisfaction of knowing that I'm running a cranky OS on
> top of a solid OS, so if (or should I say 'when') my Windows session
> crashes, I can simply restart it.
>
> I just ordered a 450MHz K6-2 w/ 256MB of RAM and am strongly considering
> this approach. Before I jump into this too far, I would like to hear from
> others who have used VMWare's product and see what their opinions of it are
> in terms of stability.
> --
> Boisy G. Pitre
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Pager: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Mcilroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Failed Kernel Compile: System is too big
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 10:10:22 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kgb wrote:
> and then, last, but not least:
>
> 3.) make zImage
> ... purrs along niecly, going good, going good.....
>
> <vomit> goes gcc:
>
> System is 546kb
> System is too big.
> Error [1]
> exiting: /usr/src/linux-2.2.10/arch/i386/boot
> Error [2]
Your kernel is too large? Try make bzImage.
I've answered this at least 3 times lately (past week); use deja.com first to
search for this stuff.
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: daemon: cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 14:09:27 GMT
when sending our newsletter to our subscribers (about
4000 emails) I get this message in the logs:
sendmail[207]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon: cannot fork: Resource
temporarily unavailable
and the perl script that sends the messages out via sendmail
terminates.
What is wrong? Do I need to change settings with sendmail
or under linux? I am using:
SuSE Linux 6.1 (i386) - Kernel 2.2.5
I am sending the emails through a 128k connection, so many
of the messages get queued up.
I got a lot of too many open file messages before - but I do a:
"echo 12000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max" now to set the maximum to
12000 and since I didn't get the too many open files error anymore.
Thanks for you help!!!!!!!!
oliver
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From: "Rainer H�nel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux driver for 3Com NIC:
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 14:48:35 GMT
There can be another soution, why the PCI Card is reporting INT 0.
When you have an old motherboard, you have to assign the interruptnumber in
the BIOS Setup. This was by the an old socket 5 Motherboard my problem
Helmut
Vidar Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Wilson) wrote:
> >Are you sure these files work... As I have installed both on my Linux
> >server and it has problems. It keeps getting an IRQ 0 for my NIC???
>
> Any help in http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/irq-conflict.html ?
>
> [...]
> The solutions
>
> If the card is reporting IRQ0 or IRQ255, that indicates the
> card has not been assigned an interrupt. There are two
> likely fixes: either the BIOS does not have enough IRQ
> lines available for PCI devices (e.g. all are assigned to
> "legacy" ISA devices instead of "PnP"), or the BIOS has a
> "PnP OS" setting that must be disabled. Yes, this is
> confusing: the "PnP OS" setting is bad (it really means
> "Windows OS?"), but the PnP IRQ assignment is good.
>
> If the card is reporting a valid IRQ, but that IRQ is being
> used by another device you have an interrupt conflict. The
> easiest and generally best solution is to put the
> conflicting device on another IRQ line. This can only be
> done through the PCI BIOS setup. Unlike ISA cards, PCI
> cards have no way of setting their own IRQ. That is done
> at boot time by the PCI BIOS, and the BIOS reports its
> selection
>
> [...]
>
> And moore. Look for machine/motherboard trouble there and in
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
>
> >It's really odd. As I've compile the module a couple of times in
> >different as described in the file and always get the same result.
> >
> >Has anyone got it to work... and if so could you please tell me how,
> >or send me the *.c program you compiled.
>
> Look into the 3c59x.c for your nic. Something like
>
> static char *version =
> "3c59x.c:v0.99Kb 5/7/99 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html\n";
>
> and down ....
>
> {"3cSOHO100-TX Hurricane", 0x10B7, 0x7646, 0xffff,
> PCI_USES_IO|PCI_USES_MASTER, IS_CYCLONE, 128, vortex_probe1},
>
> (It would not help you if i compiled the driver. I guess that part is
> done well if no errormessage. So i guess it is a pci-irq-matter.)
>
> >>>Does anyone know where I can get the Linux driver for 3Com's
> >>>OfficeConnet 3CSOHO100-TX Fast Ethernet NIC ?
>
> Do 3com have several '3CSOHO100-TX'?
>
> Mvh Vidar Andresen
>
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From: Torsten Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mkisofs
Date: 05 Aug 1999 17:05:57 +0200
Hi!
If i try to create a multisession CD with mkisofs 1.12-b5 i get a
segmentation fault while creating the directory entries for the third,
or fourth session. Every session consists of many small files, so i
think, that limitations for the directory size, or the number of files
could be the reason. If i tar all the files, and then create the
session, everything works fine. Is there such a limitation? Is there a
'#define' in the source which i can raise?
Greetings Torsten Blank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Anglesio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Linux has finally crashed
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 16:03:47 GMT
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:11:32 +0100, Jon Skeet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Isn't there some new file system on the horizon using B-trees which is
>journalling and yet faster than ext2fs?
Reiserfs, which I believe is based on balanced trees. I'm not sure if it
implements journalling, though. Check out www.freshmeat.net for info.
m.
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | for which it regards itself a therapy. <
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From: Ben McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redirect Standard Out to Com 1.
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 16:47:55 +0100
Hello
I need some help!!
Is it possible to re-direct the standard output to one of the com ports
and then connect a vt100 or vt220 terminal. This would mean that i could
run our single board computers without a graphics card and save some
money on the cost of graphics cards.
Any help would be great
Ben McCormack
Nortel Networks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: failure installing StarOffice
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 15:40:31 GMT
On Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:54:42 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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?
You _are_ running the setup script from within X, aren't you?
Start X, start an xterm, and run it from there. Note that if
you use 'su' or 'sudo' to run it as root, you'll have to
export the DISPLAY variable (ie. 'DISPLAY=:0.0 ./setup' with
su, or 'DISPLAY=:0.0 sudo ./setup' with su).
> 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?)
No, that's alright - /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin
are not supposed to be in a normal user's path, as they hold
binaries that are only needed for system maintenance to be
used by root (and usually require root privileges to run
anyway). If you absolutely want to be able to run these
binaries as a user, just adjust your path accordingly (but
be prepared for a few "Permission denied" messages).
HTH,
Thomas
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From: Julius Longauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ch.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Maximal Number of Concurent Process
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 18:24:59 +0200
Jon Skeet wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In ch.comp.os.linux Peter Neff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > where can I define the maximal number of concurent processes on a linux
> > > system?
> >
> > To my knowledge, this is a kernel compile-time parameter (MAX_PROC or
> > MAX_TASK), but I can't tell you where.
> >
> > Alternavitely, on a per-user basis there is also a limit (man ulimit),
> > that you can set upto MAX_TASK through ulimit (bash) or limit (*csh)
>
> Just a quick addendum: I don't know about other distros, but mine (RH 5.1
> I believe) doesn't have a real man page for ulimit - just one claiming
> that it's an unimplemented system call. However, "help ulimit" (from
> within bash) is rather more useful.
ulimit is a builtin command of bash and not a standalone application. So
you won't find a man page for its own. you should rather consult the man
page of bash or the bash reference manual or - like you - run 'help'
which
is another builtin displaying informations about builtin commands.
Julius
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From: "Dr. Darren M. Crotchett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Visioneer 6100B Color Scanner
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:42:53 -0500
NO. Scanners have to be SCSI. I have a 6100B and have to use it in
Windows.
Habibie4m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I am in need of a scanner and found an inexpensive one: Visioneed 6100B
> Color Scanner. It is available at the local Office Depot for US$60
> (after the rebate). The question is if this scanner will work under
> Linux OS.
>
> Can anyone please respond?
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> PS. Remove "4m" from e-mail address to enable reply.
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