Linux-Misc Digest #739, Volume #23 Fri, 3 Mar 00 12:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: print error when 'lpq' is run... (jgiles)
Re: Where, oh where...? (Wallace Barnes III)
Re: Microsoft reinvents the wheel!!! (Julio C. Gutierrez)
Re: print error when 'lpq' is run... (Wallace Barnes III)
NET : xx messag supressed (Sumit Pandya)
Re: Microsoft reinvents the wheel!!! (Steve Lamb)
Panasonic KX-P2135 Printer (Neal Garrabrant)
smbmount on startup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]*NO_SPAM*)
Re: error installing oracle 8.0.5 on linux ("KimJinKwon")
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Gerald Willmann)
Installing NetPBM(20may1999 rel.) (CT)
Re: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests (Marko Stolle)
repeated install failures (BjJbMc)
Re: Error in loading shared libraries (Paul Kimoto)
Re: print error when 'lpq' is run... (jgiles)
Help - startx and linuxconf not executed (cgomulka)
Re: Odd Modem Problem (Modem not responding) (Not a WinModem!) (John Hasler)
Re: Weirdness in /var/log/messages (Josef Drexler)
Re: fgrep command (Luc Bergeron)
Re: mail client for windows with enhanced features running on a linux mail server?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tar Question (Jeff Grossman)
WordPerfect RPMs? (Rick)
New Linux Site (Jude Odu)
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From: jgiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: print error when 'lpq' is run...
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 14:59:42 GMT
thank you.
all of your comments have been done because i've used
the great Linux 'printtool' to set this up...
separately i've tried
'cat test.txt > /dev/lp[012]'
and it always says
bash: /dev/lp0: No such device
i don't see how it's bad hardware because everything
prints fine from Windows 98... and i've confirmed
that this printer is not solely for Windows... WPS.
should i be installing some drivers for this printer ???
jgiles
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Following is based on a SLACKWARE installation and the files may be
> somewhat different, but:
>
> Did you create a spool file? Something like
> mkdir /usr/spool/lpd/some name for your printer
>
> Does it have the right ownership and permissions? If you do not have
> the x (execute permission) nothing will work.
> chown root.daemon /usr/spool/lpd
> chown root.daemon /usr/spool/lpd/some name for your printer
> chmod ug=rwx, o=rx /usr/spool/lpd
> chmod ug=rws, o=rx /usr/spool/lpd/some name for your printer
>
> Did you create the additional files in your spool directory?
> cd /usr/spool/lpd/some name for your printer
> touch .seq errs status lock
> chown root.daemon .seq errs status lock
> chmod ug=rw,o=r .seq errs status lock
>
> Note:
> You use "touch" to create files and establish the creation
> date for files. You need all four of the files
> (.seq errs status and lock). The .seq file will contain the job
> number counter for lpr to assign. errs is the place lpd sends errors
> for logging. status is the file that contains messages that will be
> reported when you type: lpc stat. The lock file is used to prevent
> lpd from trying to print two files on the same printer at one time.
> Do you have these files? Note the "." in the ".seq" file. You can
> only see it if you use ls -a. If you do not have these files then
> create them with the touch command.
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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:18:14 -0500
From: Wallace Barnes III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where, oh where...?
Len Philpot wrote:
> OK - I give.
>
> On Solaris, there's a file: /etc/default/login
>
> It contains several settings, one of which is:
> CONSOLE=/dev/console
> which, if commented allows remote root logins. Uncommented, you must
> login remotely as a regular user and su. In other words, root can only
> directly log in locally.
>
> Where is the equivalent on Linux? Not that I want to do this (due to
> security reasons), but I've been asked and would like to know. I've been
> unable to find it via a (rather empirical) search.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> - Len Philpot -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal)
> ---------------> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work)
> ----- ><> -----> http://www.centuryinter.net/lphilpot/ (web)
The file you're looking for is /etc/securetty. you must put a list of the
tty's on which remote root login will be allowed (i.e. ttyp1 ttyp2 .....
etc )
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From: Julio C. Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft reinvents the wheel!!!
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:21:16 GMT
Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Julio C. Gutierrez" wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is worth reading!
>>
>> Microsoft has been working hard to develop a new technology that will save
>> disk space!! Links to files!!!! Incredible? No!
>>
>> Read it detailed at:
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
>>
>> PS: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!
> Plus, if it works as they saey, namelly automatically, then it will
> delete files of the same name on your harddrive and turn them into
> links.
> Not every file that has the same name, is identical.
Nope, they would use some kind of calculation to see whether the files were
identical in name and content... I guess that MD5 checksums could do the trick.
Will they reinvent also checksums? heheh...
--
Julio C. Gutierrez -- Please remove both X to send email
Penguins live only in cool environments... ;)
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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:24:42 -0500
From: Wallace Barnes III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: print error when 'lpq' is run...
jgiles wrote:
> thank you.
> all of your comments have been done because i've used
> the great Linux 'printtool' to set this up...
>
> separately i've tried
> 'cat test.txt > /dev/lp[012]'
> and it always says
> bash: /dev/lp0: No such device
>
> i don't see how it's bad hardware because everything
> prints fine from Windows 98... and i've confirmed
> that this printer is not solely for Windows... WPS.
>
> should i be installing some drivers for this printer ???
>
> jgiles
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Following is based on a SLACKWARE installation and the files may be
> > somewhat different, but:
> >
> > Did you create a spool file? Something like
> > mkdir /usr/spool/lpd/some name for your printer
> >
> > Does it have the right ownership and permissions? If you do not have
> > the x (execute permission) nothing will work.
> > chown root.daemon /usr/spool/lpd
> > chown root.daemon /usr/spool/lpd/some name for your printer
> > chmod ug=rwx, o=rx /usr/spool/lpd
> > chmod ug=rws, o=rx /usr/spool/lpd/some name for your printer
> >
> > Did you create the additional files in your spool directory?
> > cd /usr/spool/lpd/some name for your printer
> > touch .seq errs status lock
> > chown root.daemon .seq errs status lock
> > chmod ug=rw,o=r .seq errs status lock
> >
> > Note:
> > You use "touch" to create files and establish the creation
> > date for files. You need all four of the files
> > (.seq errs status and lock). The .seq file will contain the job
> > number counter for lpr to assign. errs is the place lpd sends errors
> > for logging. status is the file that contains messages that will be
> > reported when you type: lpc stat. The lock file is used to prevent
> > lpd from trying to print two files on the same printer at one time.
> > Do you have these files? Note the "." in the ".seq" file. You can
> > only see it if you use ls -a. If you do not have these files then
> > create them with the touch command.
>
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> Before you buy.
Make sure parallel printer support is enabled in your kernel. Usually, if
you get a messages stating that /dev/lp... doesn't exist, it's because
it's not loaded into the kernel. Make sure you didn't compile it as a
module ( you can check in the /lib/modules directory tree ). If it was
compiles as a module, load it using 'insmod <the module>'. Good Luck.
-Wally
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From: Sumit Pandya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NET : xx messag supressed
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:30:06 GMT
Hi all,
I'm running linux as a router in my network, apart from ipchains
(firewall) the servers running on my compaq machine are sendmail, and open
ldap. I have two interfaces on that one for internal network and second is
to internet.
Today suddenly i continuesly get the messages "NET: xx messages
supressed". When i rebooted the system all worked fine, problem no longer
exist now. But I'm really intrested what it was ?
Does anybody guide me so that I won't face this problem in future.
Thanks in Advance.
--Sumit
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Subject: Re: Microsoft reinvents the wheel!!!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:45:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Schaumann) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Plus, if it works as they saey, namelly automatically, then it will
>delete files of the same name on your harddrive and turn them into
>links.
>Not every file that has the same name, is identical.
Uhm, no, read the story again. They will check the file against a hash
and if several things, including a checksum of some sort, matches, it'll
assume it is the same file and link.
The problem is, IIRC, when the user wants to make an explicite copy of a
file they cannot since all copies would be turned into links again.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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From: Neal Garrabrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Panasonic KX-P2135 Printer
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:42:10 GMT
I am using a Panasonic KX-P2135 printer; which is a 24 pin color dot
matrix.
Is anyone else using this kind of printer with Linux?
I am having trouble printing (so far)from Star Office, Adobe Acrobat
Reader, and Netscape Navigator with it.
I can print (so far) from the command line, Word Perfect 7, and XessLite
(spreadsheet)with no problems.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]*NO_SPAM*
Subject: smbmount on startup
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 17:41:54 +0100
I'm running Debian 2.2 Potato (Frozen) and smbmount 2.0.6 on Kernel 2.2.14
I'm unable to use smbmount while booting.
I'll get this error: <IPnumber>, no route to host
I've tried mounting in fstab and /etc/rc[2-5].d/S99smbmnt
This workt, only I'll get the error and the drive won't be mounted.
When my comp. has been booted, I'm able to mount the drives.
Any help would be apreciated.
Kind regards,
Marcel
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From: "KimJinKwon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: error installing oracle 8.0.5 on linux
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 00:43:32 +0900
seems like your installation media has some damage. I've tried Oracle 8.0.5
with RHLinux 6.0 and it worked well without any complain.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:89ohd3$f7r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am trying to install Oracle 8.0.5 on Red Hat Linux 6.1 according to
> the documentation at http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/rh61-805.html.
> Every thing goes well upto the actual installation of the software. I
> get the following error after selecting the packages to install and
> pressing install:
>
> Notification
> nlsrtl_common.vrf(1): Start block token when 'End of File' found
>
> Can anybody point me in the right direction, I'm dying to get my hands
> on this stuff.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo
>
>
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system?
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 07:42:14 -0800
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Steve Snyder wrote:
> I will soon be setting up a couple of Linux systems with faily complex
> partitioning schemes. Naturally, I thought of PowerQuest's
> PartitionMagic (PM), which I've never used but which is highly
> regarded.
> I know that PM supports the ext2 filesystem, but PowerQuest's Web site
> also says that the software is shipped on a "Win32 CD". How does one
> use PM on an all-Linux, no Win32 system? Do/can you run it from a
> DOS-formatted boot diskette?
> Any advice on using PM on an all-Linux system would be appreciated.
what's wrong with linux fdisk ??? Honestly don't see why you would need
anything else especially on all-linux systems.
Gerald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CT)
Subject: Installing NetPBM(20may1999 rel.)
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:08:58 GMT
Hi folks,
I'm having trouble installing NetPBM on a linux box(Redhat
6.1). It doesn't have an auto-config option, so that is part of my
problem. But I need to learn this, so if anyone has any tips or
suggestions on how to install NetPBM on a linux box, please let me
know.
Thanks,
CT
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From: Marko Stolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:05:44 +0100
Reply-To: Marko Stolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
> Read the PPP-HOWTO (or the PPP manuals) to find out how to increase the
> time taken to timeout.
I've got the same problem and have set a timeout of 90 - the modem
disconnects about 20s after the CONNECT, so it's very unlikely that's a
timeout problem.
bye
M.
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From: BjJbMc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: repeated install failures
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:12:44 -0500
This may be too general for people to help, but I have nothing else to
give!
I can not install Linux (Mandrake 6.5 OR 7.0) on an older machine I am
trying to set up. It used to work fine with windoze. I get the
installation started, it gets as far as:
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
(floppy etc)
.
.
partition check:
hda: hda1, hda2 <hda5, hda6>
VFS: cannot open root device 16:01
kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 16:01
(wham!)
The HD is new and good. The mainboard is old, a socket 7. The CPU is an
AMD K6/200. The RAM is 128M of 66MHz SDRAM.
The latest thing I did is replace the video card with a known working and
good one. No diff.
Where might this problem come from? As I said, it's likely a definite
answer isn't possible, but anything anyone can suggest will save my blood
pressure.
TIA
James
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Error in loading shared libraries
Date: 3 Mar 2000 11:26:44 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:56:46 +0000,
> Philipp Maier <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>> libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file
>> or directory
> This was a RedHat package you installed... the "6.1" gives it away. RH
> and SuSE seem to have different names for the same libs(!) for reasons I
> only barely begin to comprehend. So, try this:
>
> # cd /usr/lib
> # ln -s libstdc++.so.2.9 libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
I don't think the "6.1" is a RedHatism. The gcc-2.95 that I built
from source has a symbolic link from libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 to
libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: jgiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: print error when 'lpq' is run...
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:18:15 GMT
yes the parallel device support is compiled into the kernel... but
still "no such device" messages with /dev/lp[012]...
jgiles
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Make sure parallel printer support is enabled in your kernel. Usually,
if
> you get a messages stating that /dev/lp... doesn't exist, it's because
> it's not loaded into the kernel. Make sure you didn't compile it as a
> module ( you can check in the /lib/modules directory tree ). If it was
> compiles as a module, load it using 'insmod <the module>'. Good Luck.
>
> -Wally
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From: cgomulka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help - startx and linuxconf not executed
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:21:41 GMT
Yesterday, my Redhat 6.2 box was working fine. Now I boot up, log in as
root, type linuxconf, and nothing happens, just a new line with a
blinking cursor. Same happens with startx command. Any ideas. Thank you.
-Craig
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Odd Modem Problem (Modem not responding) (Not a WinModem!)
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 13:51:11 GMT
Me writes:
> I just installed Debian "potato".
You should post your question the Debian user mailing list. Go to
www.debian.org to subscribe.
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Josef Drexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Weirdness in /var/log/messages
Date: 3 Mar 2000 16:51:05 GMT
And Lo! It was upon the 01 Mar 2000 that Harmon Seaver said unto the
world:
> I just put up a new RH6.1 mail server recently and I'm getting a
> lot of this:
>
> Mar 2 15:03:59 mail inetd[31407]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> Mar 2 15:13:59 mail inetd[31407]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> Mar 2 15:23:59 mail inetd[31407]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> Mar 2 15:33:59 mail inetd[31407]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
>
> in my /var/log/messages. I've never seen this before. Anybody know what
> it means?
You probably have another auth or ident daemon running.
Try "lsof -i :auth", this tells you the pid of the process listening on
that port. Then either disable the other identd, or comment it out in
/etc/inetd.conf
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From: Luc Bergeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fgrep command
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 11:56:00 -0500
Paul Kimoto wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Juergen Heinzl wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luc Bergeron wrote:
> >> How do we use the "fgrep" command in order to search for several
> >> patterns at the same time ? I don't understand the man pages !!!
>
> : -F, --fixed-strings
> : Interpret pattern as a list of fixed strings, sepa-
> : rated by newlines, any of which is to be matched.
>
> $ fgrep 'pattern1
> pattern2' filename
>
> > f(ast)grep is supposed to be, well, faster but less powerful
> > expression while e(xtended)grep understands the most advanced
> > regular expressions.
>
> Hmm, Kernighan & Pike's _UNIX programming environment_ (1984) says
>
> : Why are there three grep programs? fgrep interprets no meta-characters,
> : but can look efficiently for thousands of words in parallel (once
> : initialized, its running time is independent of the number of words), and
> : thus is used primarily for tasks like bibliographic searches. The size
> : of typical fgrep patters is beyond the capacity of the algorithms used in
> : grep and egrep. The distinction between grep and egrep is harder to
> : justify. grep came much earlier, uses the regular expressions familiar
> : from ed, and has tagged regular expressions and a wider set of options.
> : egrep interprets more general expressions (except for tagging), and runs
> : significantly faster (with speed independent of the pattern), but the
> : standard version takes longer to start when the expression is
> : complicated. A newer version exists that starts immediately, so egrep
> : and grep could now be combined into a single pattern matching program.
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanx a lot !!!!
That was over my esperances :o)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mail client for windows with enhanced features running on a linux mail
server?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:51:14 GMT
hi,
thank you for your replies.
well, I don't know outlook. But what I was looking for matches more an
linux mail server, working together with ms outlook for example. So its
possibel to route mails first into the mailbox of the 'boss'. He
critisizes it, send it back until he gives his ok. More eloquent would
be a program reading and saving mails as files directly into directory
structure ...
joni)
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From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Tar Question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 08:24:06 -0800
Hello,
I have a cron job set up to back up my mail files using Tar. Every
morning, I have an e-mail from cron with the subject of:
/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from archive names
How can I make it so it does not notify me of that anymore? I only
want cron to tell me if there is an error. I don't consider that
message an error.
Thanks,
Jeff
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From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WordPerfect RPMs?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 11:58:37 -0500
Are there any RPMs for WordPerfect 8 ?
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From: Jude Odu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: New Linux Site
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 18:05:18 +0100
Hi All,
This is a new Linux site that might interest you;
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* A banner exchange for Linux related sites
* Free Linux email
* Community forum
* Linux auctions
* Large links directory
* Etc.
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