Linux-Misc Digest #737, Volume #21 Thu, 9 Sep 99 07:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Donal K. Fellows)
Re: Printer setup (Leonard Evens)
Xscreensaver under Gnome problem ("Hugh")
Re: LiL- (Leonard Evens)
Re: moving directories to new partition (Jon Skeet)
DTC 3520 SCSI card (fred smith)
Re: Linux viruses? (Jon Skeet)
Re: Please help - is this logging problem timezone related? ("Sam")
Re: fd open limit? (Jon Skeet)
Re: Getting Error to many open files (Jon Skeet)
please help b4 my head bursts (kev)
Is there a program that returns (guesses) the keyboard type? (Klaus Zeitler)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Donal K. Fellows)
Re: Connection Linux-Microsoft (George Vlahoulis)
Re: Two internal modem and a serial mouse, how can I make them to work? (John
Thompson)
Re: DHCP Configuration (George Vlahoulis)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: 9 Sep 1999 09:26:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:51:30 +0200, Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Around the corner lives a hacker with a terminal
>> And on his Web page is a GIF of RMS
>> He likes to keep his Sun workstation clean
>> It's a clean machine...
>
> To be a clean machine, shouldn't that be a PNG of RMS? :-)
Doesn't scan. Getting the rhythm right is *crucial* with parodies of
lyrics!
Round the corner lives a hacker with a terminal,
On his Web page is a text by RMS.
He likes to keep his Sun workstation clean;
It's a clean machine...
(Making up this sort of thing is great for after a few beers.)
Donal.
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Donal K. Fellows http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- The small advantage of not having California being part of my country would
be overweighed by having California as a heavily-armed rabid weasel on our
borders. -- David Parsons <o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer setup
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 01:49:40 -0500
Timothy wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I was just wondering - how does one set up the printer on Red Hat 6.0?
> I've got an Epson Stylus 850, but the Espon site does not have any Linux
> drivers, so what should I do? Thanks.....
>
> Tim
Run printtool. It allows you to select filters for specific
printers. Many of the Epson printers are supported. If
the 850 is not specifically listed, try the closest approximation.
I think that the only Epson inkject printers not supported
at present are the Photo Stylus printers as opposed to the
Color Stylus printers.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Hugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xscreensaver under Gnome problem
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:55:59 -0500
I am running RH-6, and using the Xscreensaver under Gnome. Recently, the
screensaver has been giving me error messages
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
error: can't open display :0.0
Xscreensaver: child pid 29704 (slip) exited abnormally (code 1)
This appears to be a minor inconvenience, unless there is something
drastically wrong.
I would like to know what is going on and how to correct it.l
--
Hugh A. Duguid, Professor
Hopkinsville Community College
P.O. Box 2100
Hopkinsville, KY 42241-2100
(502) 886-3921 x 149
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
nullius in verba
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LiL-
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 01:40:25 -0500
aaa wrote:
>
> I recompiled my kernel an now when I boot up I get lil- and no lilo.
>From the Lilo User's Guide:
LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by
a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the
map installer.
But this may be misleading. See below.
> My
> linux partition is on the first partition of my second hard disk. How can I
> wipe this clean and re-install lilo? I tried after booting with a floppy to
> run lilo but the result was the same after rebooting. Is it possible to run
> fdisk /mbr from my win partition somehow aiming it at my second hard disk?
>
You don't say what you tried to do, so it is not clear what is
wrong. But here are some comments.
The MBR for the second disk should contain the partitioning
information for that disk. Putting lilo there won't do any
good unless you use lilo in conjunction with another boot loader
(such a Partition Magic's Boot Magic) on the first disk. But
putting lilo in the MBR of the second disk should not mess up
the partition information; it just won't allow you to boot from
the second disk. If you can boot from a floppy, then it may
not be necessary to do anything to the MBR of the second disk,
since probably the partition information is okay.
If you are using lilo as your boot loader, you need to put it
somewhere on your first disk. The default for a dual boot
machine with Windows is the MBR of the first disk. The
first line of lilo.conf should be
boot=/dev/hda
(or sda for a SCSI disk).
Alternately, if you have a Linux primary (non swap) partition
on the first disk, you can put lilo there and make that the
active partition on the first disk using the Linux fdisk.
> thanks
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: moving directories to new partition
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:47:56 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 8 Sep 1999 01:34:54 GMT, Justin B Willoughby wrote:
> >
> >Bob Tennent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> >> On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 23:31:11 GMT, Ted wrote:
> >> >I just cleared a partition from my hard drive, so now I have two ext2
> >> >partitions, and I want to move the /home and /misc to the new partition.
> >> >How should I go about doing that?
> >> >
> >> I've seen reports that cp -a /home/* /newhome will work, but I use
> >>
> >> cd /home; tar cvpf - * | ( cd /newhome; tar xvpf - )
> >
> >Does this copy the .* (dot) files?
>
> You're right. You have to
> tar cvpf - /home | (cd /somewhere; tar xvpf - )
> to put a copy of /home under /somewhere.
No you don't - just do tar cvpf . instead of of tar cvpf *
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DTC 3520 SCSI card
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:55:10 GMT
Does anybody know if it's possible to make Linux (RH52) recognize
and work with a DTC 3520A SCSI card? It claims to emulate an Adaptec
151x card. Neither of these has obvious support in RH52, though for
Windoze if you specify an Adaptec 1515 it (seems to) work.
Thanks!
Fred
--
---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
The Lord detests the way of the wicked
but he loves those who pursue righteousness.
============================= Proverbs 15:9 (niv) =============================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.virus
Subject: Re: Linux viruses?
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:24:50 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Scott Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > A dummies guide to why Linux doesn't have virus programs is at
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~simpson3.
>
> A real "dummies guide", it appears:
>
> File Not Found (Error 404)
>
> Sorry, the web page or file that you requested was not found on
> this server. Please check that you typed the URL correctly. If
> you are following a link, then you may wish to notify the web
> page's author that it is invalid.
I suspect you included the "." at the end of simpson3. Take it away and
the page appears properly.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help - is this logging problem timezone related?
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:20:17 +0300
Reply-To: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hallo,
Worked like magic!!!! Myself I'm amazed that even linuxconf relies on this
symlink...
Otherwise thanks a lot.....much obliged.
Charles E Taylor IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I run RADIUS on the box and I've noticed that the time indicated on
radius
> > logging information is 3 hours behind. A check on the messages file
shows
> > that though named & sendmail logs have the correct time, any SYSLOG
records
> > are 3 hours behind.
>
> This might sound silly, but try making a symbolic link "zoneinfo" in
> /usr/lib to /usr/share/zoneinfo
>
> I had to do this to make several programs (like FTP logging and WABI)
> report the time correctly.
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Charles E Taylor IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Visit me on the web!
> http://orangesherbert.ces.clemson.edu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: fd open limit?
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:37:31 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I run a 2.2.11 linux kernel on my database machine.
> I'd like to increase the number of open file.
> I know that I can change it in fs.h, limit.h but this is ambigous.
> Can anybody give me some tips or informations?
Well, what size do you want to increase it to? You can increase it to
1024 (if it's less than this) without a kernel recompile, by looking at
/proc/sys/fs/file-max. I believe that increasing it over 1024 may be
pointless, but I'm willing to be corrected :)
Beyond 1024 (or whatever the hard limit is), you would have to recompile
the kernel, but there's a caveat: unless you recompile your libc, you're
likely to run into problems as the limit on select fields (for instance)
is likely to kick in. I once recompiled the kernel and had plenty of file
handles, but various apps broke. If this is okay for your system, then go
ahead - I just wouldn't recommend it.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Getting Error to many open files
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:39:42 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Know how to fix this in Solaris. How to I up the amount of
> open files Linux Red Hat 6.0 can have?
See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
(This is for a 2.2 system.) You can increase the limit to 1024 using
/proc/sys/fs/file-max
Beyond that is tricky - I've just made another post with a bit more
detail in; have a look at that.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: please help b4 my head bursts
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 11:14:57 +0100
Hi,
Linux thinks there is nothing on the floppy disk in my floppy drive,
when in actual fact there are some very important files on it which I
need, like, now, if not sooner.
I realise this is some sort of cacheing problem. I've tried to 'touch' a
new file on there in the hope that this would force it to re-read the
disk, but instead I just got "touch: /mnt/floppy/tmp: Read-only file
system". According to the options for this drive (and yes, it is
mounted) it is _not_ read-only.
What is going on? How do I read the disk? Why is it so unnecessarily
un-intuitive ?
TIA,
Kev
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From: Klaus Zeitler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is there a program that returns (guesses) the keyboard type?
Date: 09 Sep 1999 11:47:30 +0200
I'm working in a mixed environment with Linux, SUN and HP machines,
and quite a few different keyboards (101,104 keys, US and unfortunately
also German layout).
As long as I used mainly one workstation I simply used xmodmap in my
.xinitrc for the keyboard attached to this workstation to adjust this
keyboard to my liking.
I'm wondering if there's a program that I can use in my .xinitrc that
makes an (educated) guess of the keyboard type, so that I can
use the appropriate xmodmap automatically.
Cheers Klaus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: 9 Sep 1999 10:15:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frankly, I've never understood why someone who knows nothing about
> Unix would want to use Linux. It's one thing if they *want* to learn
> or are looking for a cheap way to brush-up on development skills, but
> if you actually like the MS way of doing things you will be sorely
> disappointed with Unix or Linux. Just my opinion, but I'll slip my
> asbestos gloves on anyway.
Most people don't care about *any* operating system. So long as they
can get done the things they want to do (email, write a document, play
a game, etc.) they'll be happy.
I suppose it is a bit like the way that I'm really not too fussed
about what airline I fly with or what airplane I fly in. So long as
the safety, comfort and convenience issues are handled, I don't care
if it is United or BA or KLM or Quantas or whoever, and nor do I care
if the plane was made by Boeing or Airbus.
Donal.
--
Donal K. Fellows http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- The small advantage of not having California being part of my country would
be overweighed by having California as a heavily-armed rabid weasel on our
borders. -- David Parsons <o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Vlahoulis)
Subject: Re: Connection Linux-Microsoft
Date: 9 Sep 1999 10:25:19 GMT
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:40:59 +0200, Marco Fortunato Scienze Fisiche
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> I have 2 PC the 1st Linux, the 2nd Microsoft Win 98. I have config the 2
>ethernet card but the telnet, on Win 98, can't find the Linux on other PC
>The Linux ver is RED HAT 6.0
Have you installed TCP/IP on win98?
Have you specified a gateway for TCP/IP in win98?
Are you trying to telnet to the hostname or IP address? Try IP address.
Is all OK with Linux network configuration?
Check, check and check again. :-)
We could use with a bit of more info as well.
gv
>
>thanks write me
>Guguy
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two internal modem and a serial mouse, how can I make them to work?
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 18:25:14 -0600
Humphrey Zhang wrote:
>
> I'm using Linux Mandrake 6.0. Standard serial dum driver was built into
> the kernel.
> The serial mouse uses ttyS0, USR uses ttyS1 and the Zoom, ttyS2. The
> mouse and USR
> are using standard settings. Each time the system boot, the settings are
> automatically the
> following, ignoring my line in rc.local, which read "setserial
> /dev/ttyS2 irq 2 port 0x3e8
> uart 16550":
> Device Special irq port
> mouse ttyS0 4 3f8
> USR ttyS1 3 2f8
> Zoom ttyS2 4 3e8
>
> apparently there is a conflict in IRQ.
Yup. Your mouse on ttyS0 and your Zoom modem on ttyS2 are
both trying to use IRQ4. Reconfigure one or the other to
use a different IRQ. If you can use a PS/2 mouse instead of
a serial mouse, these use IRQ12 by default and would
therefore be a cost effective way to keep both modems and
still use a mouse.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Vlahoulis)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: DHCP Configuration
Date: 9 Sep 1999 10:33:34 GMT
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:20:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am running Redhat Linux 5.2 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. I have been
>trying to configure DHCP on this machine. I seem to be having all sorts
>of problems, trying to get any common commands in the IP stack to
>execute. For example, ping is not recognized. Do I need to rebuild the
>kernel or is there something I can configure ?
Yes did it a while back, as an exercise, and it worked just fine.
All you need is about about ten lines and you get a very simple but working
setup. Install the dhcp server RPM and read the HOWTO.
As for ping not working its possibly a path problem. can you execute
/bin/ping? is so then that is it. else you better reinstall the package
its part of.
>Please let me know if somebody has successfully installed DHCP services
>and what I may be doing wrong ?
>
>Thankyou,
>Ashish Consul
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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