Linux-Misc Digest #778, Volume #21 Sun, 12 Sep 99 19:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best Linux Distro? / Best GUI? (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Comments on some of the comments in this URL?
http://www.federaltimes.com/topstory.html (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: HOW TO SEE A SHARE DRIVE ON A NETWORK (John McKown)
Re: fetchmail help... (John McKown)
Re: Rescuing the console from an X lockup (Matthias Benkmann)
Re: SO 5.1 burps my HD ("charles blackburn")
Re: Chat and simple dialing of modem (Bill Unruh)
Re: Any way StarOffice can decently run on 32M ? ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: I WANT TO CASCADE BUT I CANT!!! ("Thread Extender ver. 2.3")
Re: Any way StarOffice can decently run on 32M ? ("John G. Sandell")
Problems w/ Mandrake 6.0 and KDE? (dis)
Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0 (kristian ragndahl)
Redhat 6.0? (Roman Zydra)
Re: HELP FTP won't UnShut! ("Christopher R. Thompson")
Willows Twin (3.1.13) anyone installed yet? (Nails)
Bad superblock; corrupted filesystem on loopback device ("Ryan T. Rhea")
Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0 (Hal Burgiss)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:40:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snips]
>
> Other comments... :)
>
> In article <7rc27j$3rp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
-- snip --
> > No, cars took over because they were better technology, even though
> > they were *not* as user-friendly, at least not according to the
> > standards of the day.
>
> According to your reasoning, the reason cars took over was better
> technology. Therefore, by your reasoning, Windows - being the
> dominant end-user platform, at least in the PC world - is therefore
> the superior technology
So far, so good, but try to have a clue as to what Windows took over
from. Hint: Regardless of your fantasies to the contrary, Windows did
***NOT*** take over from UNIX -- it took over from DOS. And yes, as
flakey as Windows is, it's still technologicaly superior to vanilla DOS.
> while Linux is an outdated, outmoded, obsolete tool chewing
> hay at the roadside while the world passes it by.
And here's where your "reasoning" falls apart. Linux *is* strong in the
server market, which *is* still dominated by UNIX, claims from Redmond
to the contrary notwithstanding. UNIX never did compete in the PC
desktop market because, until recently, no PC could run the damned thing
very well. WHich is to say that UNIX never did compete with Windows.
You would have us believe that Windows took over from UNIX? LOL! NT is
fighting like a dog to take over the Server market, but UNIX is just too
stable, and NT just isn't.
> You're actually a Windows advocate, aren't you?
Try to be real . . .
Curtis
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Best Linux Distro? / Best GUI?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:13:27 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Thu, 02 Sep 1999 15:01:10 -0400...
..and Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TNC wrote:
>
> > Here's a little flamebait for you all. What is the best distro and GUI
> > combo? By "best" let me explain. I'm a very experienced Linux
>
> I think GNOME is prettier than KDE. KDE is little more complete,
> as it has its own web browser. But GNOME is better looking than
> KDE.
:)... Actually, we've got a couple things resembling a GNOME Web
browser, but nothing of Konqueror's quality.
> As for window managers, I like WindowMaker; it's pretty nice
> looking. I thought Afterstep was pretty nice also, but it seemed
> a little too quirky. So now, I'm using WindowMaker 0.60.0.
> Isn't Enlightenment kind of like WindowMaker in that it has a
> NextStep like user interface?
Enlightenment's user interface is infinitely configurable. It can look
like NeXT, but it can also look like Star Trek. Enlightenment's
default look is a bit like Windows 95's interface made of dull metal
and without the taskbar. Very pretty.
[schnibble]
> KDE is pretty nice, but it looks a little too plain-jane.
That's changing enormously with the new icon set (they redid about a
thousand icons in high colour), Qt 2.0's themability and the K Theme
Manager. For the last year, KDE has been working on KDE 2.0
(that's what a developer told me), the 1.1.x stuff was really only
superficial maintenance compared to what they are going to release as
2.0.
The KOffice demonstration surely made my ears flap at LinuxTag.
> Also,
> I don't even use half of those apps that KDE has as part of its
> distro, such as kmail and krn. So, I like something simple, yet
> good looking, but not as simple as fvwm2. WindowMaker and
> Enlightenment seem to fit those criterion.
Maybe try XFCE some day. It's really neat (and I did the German
translation:). <URL: http://www.xfce.org>
> But, to each his own, and that's one of the nice things about
> X11. I'm not going to force anyone to use WindowMaker/GNUStep,
> and no one's going to force me to use KDE or GNOME. There's a
> wide range of GUIs available to fit individual needs, which is
> what's so great about X's "mechanism not policy" policy. Who
> knows, maybe there's some nut out there who think twm is great
> looking window manager. ;&)
There are a lot. <g>
mawa
--
> Aber sonst geht es dir noch gut, oder? X11 ist gegenueber dem NICHT
> NETZWERKFAEHIGEN WINDOWS-ANSATZ die bei weitem ueberlegene Technik.
Soetwas braucht eh keiner. Wer hat schon mehrere Rechner vernetzt.
-- Jost Boekemeier
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Comments on some of the comments in this URL?
http://www.federaltimes.com/topstory.html
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:39:09 GMT
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:14:46 GMT, Anthony Ord
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:59:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B.
>Browne) wrote:
>>>I agree with the government's move. However, I'd be disappointed if other
>>>OSS OS's such as FreeBSD are being overlooked (the more users you have,
>>>the more bugs that can be found). I think, though, that they will be
>>>taking a look at Open and/or FreeBSD. I guess they would choose based on
>>>where in the government the machine is being used. For high-security
>>>applications, I think OpenBSD would be the best choice. (I don't run
>>>OpenBSD, so I don't know).
>>
>>In the long run, more security than that may well be necessary. I surely
>>expect that MSFT is looking at their code, even if they're not considering
>>adopting the security models involved.
>>
>>But that's "in the labs," and is only tenuously connected to anything that
>>gets sold.
>
>The labs are a sub-division of Marketing?
I won't answer that directly, but will rather ask a question that may
evoke the answer (in Lisp, this is called a closure :-))...
Is MICROS~1 best categorized as a company that does research, and then
tries to sell what is developed?
Or is MICROS~1 better categorized as a marketing organization with a
sharp group of intellectual property lawyers that, once it had some
money built up, bought researchers away from other organizations to
undermine production of competing technologies?
>>The *real* point here is that Microsoft isn't going to really concentrate
>>on *real* security until there is both:
>>a) A market of would-be purchasers that actually understand computer
>> security, and
>>b) People making product marketing decisions at MSFT that actually
>> understand computer security.
>
>No. Microsoft will only allow real *costly* security when the lack costs them
>money. Serious money.
I agree that that is most realistic scenario likely to result in MSFT
doing more patches to provide a greater semblance of security than is
available now.
I also agree that the scenario I describe above, of Microsoft truly
and seriously implementing system that are "really" secure, is vastly
improbable, and would contend that the two conditions I described as
prerequisites are indeed prerequisites for "serious security."
Since those prerequisites are unlikely to enter the minds of MSFT
Marketing or of the VARS that resell MSFT products and thus are MSFT's
customers as primary considerations, this represents sufficient
unsatisfied requirements so as to prevent the widespread deployment of
"secure" MSFT systems.
>I think the comments
>
>"Microsoft software products have been the target of numerous computer
>viruses.
>
>One of the best known was the Melissa virus that struck thousands of
>government and nongovernment computers in March by exploiting vulnerabilities
>in Microsoft Word 97 and Microsoft Word 2000. In June, another virus called
>ExploreZip targeted vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98 and
>Windows NT. " and
>
>"� The government will buy $2 billion worth of software in 2000, according to
>Federal Sources Inc., of Fairfax, Va., a market research company."
>
>say quite a lot.
Indeed they do.
>Also, possibly more importantly, they will drop this costly security when they
>believe they will no longer be drained financially by its loss. Remember when
>MSDOS came with it's own virus protection? Expensive, and how quickly did it
>disappear?
>
>>If you consider that the people that MSFT actually sells to today are the
>>marketing reps at PC manufacturers and the marketing reps at computer
>>retailers, you will understand why I am terribly skeptical that they
>>are likely to sell truly secure systems any time soon.
>
>Especially with the low expectation of service that many people have.
Agreed.
>>The *only* way they'd be likely to have any Real Security wash over into
>>their retail products would be if they had an organization like unto the
>>IBM Federal Sales Division, with security requirements sufficiently
>>stringent that it mandated writing software to satisfy the needs of
>>government security, as opposed to the more usual:
>> "We've got this Windows NT product here; let's sell it to them."
>>where the government purchasers get whatever tenuous bits of security
>>actually survive once you install MS Office on Windows NT.
>
>Even a refusal by the US Government to buy anymore M$ software until they had
>been recompensed for Mellisa etc would send a powerful signal. It would be
>brown-trouser day at Redmond.
Indeed.
--
VERITAS AETERNA -- DON'T SETQ T.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: HOW TO SEE A SHARE DRIVE ON A NETWORK
Date: 12 Sep 1999 21:42:52 GMT
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:15:32 GMT, Joao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Joao Pinto
What you want is Samba. try http://samba.org . The latest release is 2.0.5a.
What Samba does is allow your Linux system to appear to be a Windows NT
file and print server. Neat! I have only just started working with Samba
and am not really good at it yet. You might want to see if you can buy
a book. I got one entitled "Teach Yourself SAMBA in 24 hours"
published by SAMS. ISBN is 0-672-31609-9. It comes with a CD containing
Samba 2.0.3. I ordered it from http://fatbrain.com . It appears from
your address that you are in Portugal (.pt). I don't know if you can
get this locally.
You English is very good. Much better than I could do in Portugese!
I hope this was of some help to you,
John McKown
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: fetchmail help...
Date: 12 Sep 1999 21:42:50 GMT
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:38:57 +0100, Ted Wager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi..
>I wonder if someone could send me the stanza for fetchmail..I have read
>the manpages and
>cribbed ideas from various books but my isp will not accept it...
>If my fetchmail address is pop3.cwcom.net usrname foo passwd bah What do
>I put...
>I have tried all combinations but the isp keeps asking for a username
>and after a while drops out
>with "user unknown".
>I can telnet to pop3.cwcom.net 110 and see I have mail but fetchmail
>will not connect to get it...
This is my .fetchmail file. It is in my home directory:
poll pop.prodigy.net
protocol pop3
username mememe
password mypass
nokeep
You might want to invoke fetchmail as:
fetchmail -a -v -v
That's is two -v . I guess that's for -very -verbose or some such.
I hope this is of some help to you,
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Benkmann)
Subject: Re: Rescuing the console from an X lockup
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:30:23 GMT
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 10:40:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Once in a blue moon X windows crashes or locks up the console. This
>happened to me yesterday when vmware took it down causing the console to
>lock up completely and no key combination would take it back to text mode.
>Luckily I have a dumb terminal connected to the PC too and could still log
>in but neither X nor vmware were still running. I managed to free the console
>in the end by switching run levels using init but is there a cleaner way
>to do it?
You could try starting and exiting a new X session. This should put
the console back to a defined state. MSB
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From: "charles blackburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: SO 5.1 burps my HD
Date: 12 Sep 1999 21:29:27 GMT
> Here's what "free" shows:
>
> total used free shared buffers
cached
> Mem: 63416 62188 1228 27812 1308 27692
^^^^^^^^^ That may be why 1.2 Meg (if not less)
FREE?????
--
Charles Blackburn
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The opinions stated in this message may not necessarily be
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Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Tony Green wrote:
> >
> > But how much free memory do you have when SO is open. Just 'cause your
not
> > doing anything - there may be system activity which causes paging - on
the other
> > hand I may just be mad.
>
>
> >
> > Steve Gage wrote:
> >
> > > Tony Green wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I assume your looking for an answer other than 'AlkaSeltza'? :-)
> > >
> > > No, the AlkaSeltza is for me :-)
> > >
> > > > Perhaps its paging out - what level of free memory do you have?
> > >
> > > Well, since I have only 64 megs of RAM, simply loading SO definitely
> > > hits the swap. But I don't think that's what's causing this syndrome.
If
> > > I simply launch SO and do nothing else, it will burp every 10 seconds
> > > for as long as SO is running.
> > >
> > > - Steve
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Steve Gage wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > Whenever I run StarOffice 5.1, my hard drive gives a little
"burp" every
> > > > > 10 seconds. Does anyone know what it's doing, and, more
importantly, how
> > > > > I can stop it? It doesn't sound like a big deal, but it's
actually quite
> > > > > annoying.
> > > > >
> > > > > TIA,
> > > > >
> > > > > Steve
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Chat and simple dialing of modem
Date: 12 Sep 1999 21:14:35 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am trying to use the 'chat' command to simply dial a phone number and
>the man chat does not describe it very well. Can anyone help me dicern
>how I tell it where my modem is....send the ATDT string and the the
>number.
chat reads stdin and writes to stdout. That's it.
chat '' AT OK ATDT5553987 </dev/ttyS1 >/dev/ttyS1
(assuming your modem is on ttyS1)
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any way StarOffice can decently run on 32M ?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:53:58 -0400
It runs, err, "okaaaaay" with my 64MB of RAM at home... but
takes an ETERNITY to start up on my office machine with 48MB. I
can't even imagine running it on 32MB of RAM. A real shame,
too... getting away from bloatware like this is one of the
reasons I switched from MS-Windows to Linux in the first place.
Even Microsoft Office's monster applications function better than
this, and on a *16MB* machine!
Steve
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From: "Thread Extender ver. 2.3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.questions,rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata,alt.horror.werewolves,alt.fan.karl-malden.nose
Subject: Re: I WANT TO CASCADE BUT I CANT!!!
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:02:28 -0500
"Rev. Meowatilla Al' Rashad" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.questions, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Why?
> >
> > <sarcasm>doesn't windows have everything you need?
> > and I've heard it's as stable as a rock!</sarcasm>
> >
> > And my $ .02 to you.. post to every news group that
> > your server permits, you get better responses to your
> > answers then, and the whole world gets to know you better too..
> > ain't that great!
> >
> > Jayan
>
> You're an idiot, Jayan.
>
> Thanks.
D00d how do u gte isspel 2 werk rite in L1NUX i cna nevre
git it too chekc my speling adn it is awlays leeving my
speling erors in. hepl plez.
Thnaks.
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From: "John G. Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any way StarOffice can decently run on 32M ?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:03:56 -0400
"Steve D. Perkins" wrote:
>
> It runs, err, "okaaaaay" with my 64MB of RAM at home... but
> takes an ETERNITY to start up on my office machine with 48MB. I
> can't even imagine running it on 32MB of RAM. A real shame,
> too... getting away from bloatware like this is one of the
> reasons I switched from MS-Windows to Linux in the first place.
> Even Microsoft Office's monster applications function better than
> this, and on a *16MB* machine!
>
> Steve
Tried StarOffice (I think 5.1) on a 32MB machine - forget it.
John Sandell
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From: dis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems w/ Mandrake 6.0 and KDE?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:57:45 -0500
I moved from RH 5.2 w/ KDE that I downloaded from kde.org to Mandrake 6.0 w/
KDE installed at setup. I kept having a problem with my root acct locking up
when in KDE. It would happen at various times (nothing consistent). Also,
emacs was exiting with an errot message: Error 11 Segmentation Fault (core
dump). I finally concluded that Mandrake sucked, went back to RH 5.2 and had
no ploblems with either emacs or the KDE that was on a supplemental disk (wish
I had seen that before I spent 3 hours downloading it earlier). Anyway, I
decided to upgrade to the KDE version on the Mandrake disk and now I'm having
the same problems, not just w/ KDE but also w/ emacs. Has anyone else
experienced something like this? In order to upgrade KDE I had to upgrade
several libs, like ncurses, libstc++ and qt, amoung others. Is there some fix
for this? Thanks for any help.
derik
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: kristian ragndahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0
Date: 12 Sep 1999 20:43:28 GMT
>>>>> "HB" == Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
HB> Have you by any chance gotten NS to recognize more than one
HB> point size? All I get is 12pt with ttfonts, which I suspect
HB> it is picking up up from the default-point-size as defined in
HB> /etc/X11/fs/config. Seems to work OK elsewhere ...
You could specify any font/fontsize in your ~/.Xdefaults
--
kristian ragndahl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roman Zydra)
Subject: Redhat 6.0?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:17:05 GMT
Hi,
Does anybody know where to find a complete RedHat 6.0 distribution for
download as zip or rar or arj file?
Thanks
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From: "Christopher R. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HELP FTP won't UnShut!
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:29:49 -0700
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M. Buchenrieder wrote:
>
> "Christopher R. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Help! I ftpshut my sever and now I can't get it started again. What do I
> >do?
>
> [...]
>
> RTFM. "man ftpshut" will tell you.
>
> Michael
> --
> Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
> Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
> Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
YRTFM. FYI rm /etc/shutmsg seemed to work. No thanks to you.
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ftpshut(8) ftpshut(8)
NNaammee
ftpshut - close down the ftp servers at a given time
SSyynnttaaxx
ffttppsshhuutt [ --ll min] [ --dd min] _t_i_m_e _[
_w_a_r_n_i_n_g_-_m_e_s_s_a_g_e _._._. _]
DDeessccrriippttiioonn
The command provides an automated shutdown procedure that
a superuser can use to notify ftp users when the ftp
server is shutting down.
The _t_i_m_e is the time at which will bring the ftp servers
down. It may be the word `now', indicating an immediate
shutdown, or specify a future time in one of two formats:
_+ _n_u_m_b_e_r or _H_H_M_M_. The first form brings the ftp
servers
down in _n_u_m_b_e_r minutes. The second brings the ftp servers
down at the time of day indicated, using a 24-hour clock
format.
Ten minutes before shutdown, or immediately if is timed
for less than ten minutes, new ftp access will be dis-
abled. This time may be adjusted through the -l flag.
Five minutes before shutdown, or immediately if is timed
for less than five minutes, all current ftp connections
will be disconnected. This time may be adjusted through
the -d flag.
The _[ _w_a_r_n_i_n_g_-_m_e_s_s_a_g_e _._._. _] will be
formatted to be 75
characters wide. knows about the actual string length of
the magic cookies.
The following magic cookies are available:
%s time system is going to shut down
%r time new connections will be denied
%d time current connections will be dropped
%C current working directory
%E the maintainer's email address as defined in
ftpaccess
%F free space in partition of CWD (kbytes)
[not currently supported on all systems]
%L local host name
%M maximum allowed number of users in this
class
%N current number of users in this class
%R remote host name
%T local time (form Thu Nov 15 17:12:42 1990)
%U username given at login time
RReessttrriiccttiioonnss
You can kill the servers only between now and 23:59, if
you use the absolute time for
1
ftpshut(8) ftpshut(8)
SSeeee AAllssoo
shutdown(1), ftpaccess(5)
2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nails)
Subject: Willows Twin (3.1.13) anyone installed yet?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:47:05 GMT
I downloaded Willows twin, did all the right install procedures(after
the initial prompts) ./configure "make" but when it came to "make
install" i got the following message "Install of Willows Twin not yet
supported"
I`m a little confused as to what this means when up to that point
everything seemed o.k
Can anyone help??
Paul
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From: "Ryan T. Rhea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bad superblock; corrupted filesystem on loopback device
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:44:35 +0000
I have an encrypted filesystem that I use with the loopback device. Due
to a power failure, I am unable to mount the ext2 filesystem. It
contains very important data that I need to recover. It is encrypted
with the rc6 cipher. After successfully running losetup to associate
'/dev/loop4' with the encrypted file (/etc/cryptfile), here is the
message I get from mount:
[root@garcia ryan]# mount -t ext2 /dev/loop4 /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop4,
or too many mounted file systems
So next I try e2fsck and dumpe2fs:
[root@garcia ryan]# e2fsck /dev/loop4
e2fsck 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while trying to open /dev/loop4
[root@garcia ryan]# dumpe2fs /dev/loop4
dumpe2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
dumpe2fs: Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/loop4
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
I gather from the messages something is foul with the superblock. I
tried running the '-r' (repair) option with e2fsck. I also tried the
'-b' (alternative superblock) option with 8193 and 16385 as the
superblocks. I got those from the man page - I don't know if there are
other superblocks I could try. Maybe there is a way to report
superblocks... Or a way to repair the superblocks?
Anyway, like I said I really need to recover this data - even if just
by moving it off the filesystem. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Ryan T. Rhea
Winthrop University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 Sep 1999 18:59:49 -0500
On 12 Sep 1999 20:43:28 GMT, kristian ragndahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>>>> "HB" == Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> HB> Have you by any chance gotten NS to recognize more than one
> HB> point size? All I get is 12pt with ttfonts, which I suspect
> HB> it is picking up up from the default-point-size as defined in
> HB> /etc/X11/fs/config. Seems to work OK elsewhere ...
>
> You could specify any font/fontsize in your ~/.Xdefaults
>
Same deal. Won't display true type in anything but 12 pt, no matter what
is specified in .Xdefaults. Actually the little box that has point size
says '0'. After reloading Xdefaults via xrdb, and restarting
netscape.
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Hal B
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