Linux-Misc Digest #807, Volume #23 Fri, 10 Mar 00 15:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: crazy fdisk output (Nico Beuermann)
Re: how to bind to port < 1024 (OT) (Tim Hockin)
Re: Windows95 32 GB drive size limitation (Brian Hetsko)
Re: how to bind to port < 1024 (OT) (Ivan Martinez)
Re: staroffice (Karel Jansens)
Re: best way to make BACKUP image of hard drive (Lew Pitcher)
Re: how to bind to port < 1024 (OT) (Ron Natalie)
Re: LIL- (LILO boot error) (Leonard Evens)
Re: RedHat boot problem (Leonard Evens)
Re: best way to make BACKUP image of hard drive (mircea)
How to connect to ISP
how do I insert a background image in x window (Andrew Wong)
Re: fetchmail oddity - only fetching a few messages at a time (Thomas Zajic)
Re: best way to make BACKUP image of hard drive (Bob Tennent)
Re: how to bind to port < 1024 (OT) (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Salary? (Donal K. Fellows)
Re: Salary? (Donal K. Fellows)
Re: Salary? (Donal K. Fellows)
permissions problems while untarring apps? (BjJbMc)
Re: graphical ftp client? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Boot up Sequence. ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: Nico Beuermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: crazy fdisk output
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:44:58 +0100
Charles Sullivan wrote:
> Nico Beuermann wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Charles Sullivan wrote:
> >>
> >> The difference in reported HD geometry is no doubt due to
> >> your bios having LBA enabled. This is generally a good thing
> >> and you should go with it.
> >>
> >> (With LBA, the manufacturer's HD geometry is remapped so there
> >> are a greater number of logical heads and fewer logical cylinders -
> >> the objective being to keep as much of the HD space as possible
> >> below the 1024 cylinder boundary.)
> >>
> >> The version of fdisk you are using is normally able to comprehend
> >> this. Did you in any way attempt to force the system to use
> >> the manufacturer's HD geometry - this might confuse the issue.
> >>
> >The BIOS settings were changed not always consistently with the plugged
> HD.
> >Could this be the reason?
> >
> >> I'm unfamiliar with the Suse distributions, but assume your kernel
> >> version is 2.2.0 or highter.
> >You�re right. Kernel 2.2.10, glibc2 and so on.
>
>
> I'm not sure what you are saying - did you change something in
> your bios HD setup? (My bios automatically recognized my HD
> by manufacturer and model - I never attempted to change anything.)
Yes I did.
But now my Bios does that for me automatically, too.
--
Nicolai S. Beuermann
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: how to bind to port < 1024 (OT)
Date: 10 Mar 2000 17:59:45 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc thomas park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I was just wondering if anybody knew of a way to bind a socket to a port
: < 1024 when running as an *unpriviledged* user?
nope -it is specifically designed so you CAN'T do that. Make your app run
as root, or be SUID
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Tim Hockin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This program has been brought to you by the language C and the number F.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hetsko)
Subject: Re: Windows95 32 GB drive size limitation
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:30:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:15:06 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Lu)
wrote:
>
>I'm posting this to the Linux group because Linux people may have more
>insight into the implementation of Windows95 and FAT32.
>
>
>Windows95 OSR2 has a 32 GB drive size limitation, per Microsoft Knowledge
>Base article Q246818. Does anyone know what "32 GB" really means in
>byte count, so that I can partition my 36 GB drive in such a way that the
>last FAT32 partition just reaches the boundary. I tried 32 * 1024 * 1024
>* 1024 = 34359738368, but this seems too large, as my first partition
>gets corrupted when the last FAT32 partition gets written near the
>maximum boundary. The number 32 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 = 32000000000 may
>be workable, but does not make sense in light of the binary nature of
>file system pointers/counters. Thanks for any insight. I don't want to
>go to Windows98 because it is unstable and incompatible to a lot of my
>apps.
one gigabyte is 2^30 bytes so I would say 32 GB is 64^30 bytes...
whatever that is in decimal I have no idea... do it on a high overflow
level calcuator and you should be able to get a good approximation.
Hope this helps.
Brian Adam Hetsko Yet each man kills the thing he loves
Class of 2001 By each let this be heard,
Lehigh University Some do it with a bitter look,
Computer Engineering Some with a flattering word.
Delta Sigma Phi The coward does it with a kiss,
Kappa Kappa Psi The brave man with a sword
Drum Major - Marching 97 -O. Wilde
http://www.lehigh.edu/~bah3 "Life is a tragedy for those who feel;
and a comedy for those who think."
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From: Ivan Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: how to bind to port < 1024 (OT)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:08:47 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You are the inquisitor of this newsgroup, Paul ;-) ;-) ;-)
Paul Lutus wrote:
>
> > Apologies in advance, as this is a UNIX-centric question.
>
> You know your post is off-topic. Why did you post?
>
> Please post to an appropriate newsgroup.
>
> --
>
> Paul Lutus
> www.arachnoid.com
--
Ivan Martinez (Rodriguez)
Bch in Computer Science - MSc student
http://www.student.dtu.dk/~u990873
"Got fabes?"
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Subject: Re: staroffice
Date: 10 Mar 2000 18:23:41 GMT
Thomas Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yes, this is unfortunate. Especially for those of us who like to
> segregate our work onto different desktops by task. But SO is so far
> the best option for those us us who like to work via a task based
> system of organization. That is, you start at your calendar/PIM, go
> to a task or topic, and then everything is launched from there
> (related documents, sreadsheets, etc...). I really haven't found
> another desktop environment that allows this to be done efficiently.
>
You obviously have never used OS/2's Workplace Shell, then. It applies
those StarOffice tricks to any application.
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
========================================================
"How to make God laugh?"
"Tell Him your plans."
(paraphrased from "Foundation's Fear" - Gregory Benford)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: best way to make BACKUP image of hard drive
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:22:41 GMT
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:19:28 GMT, Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm not so sure my Pop would jump at spending $750 on a home network. :)
I'm not sure _I'd_ jump at spending $750 to back up a $300 home
network server (surplus 486DX4/80 w 16Mb ram and 6.5Gb hd).
What I did was buy a reasonably priced CDRW drive, and a pile of CD-RW
disks. I back up to cdrom, and use TOMSRTBT with the backup CDROM to
perform recoveries from. Fortunately, I've not had to recover my
system, but the process worked fine when I reorg'ed my HD's
partitions, and reloaded from the recovery CD.
>> I hate to state the obvious, but a SERVER with NO BACKUP?
>>
>> Tape drives are a lot cheaper than data or the time it would take to rig
>> something that may not work..
>>
>> You can tarball the whole file system, but why not just get BRU and a
>> tape drive? Less than $750 US at today's prices.
>>
>> --Yan
>>
>> Luke wrote:
>> >
>> > After I get a server tuned and running perfectly, I would like to make
>> > an image of the disk so that if anything fails or if it gets cracked
>> > I'll have a good starting point. I don't have any backup devices (tape
>> > drives, cdr, etc...), only a few other win98 computers on the lan.
>> > Could I just put the entire filesystem into a tarball and ftp it to
>> > another computer? How would one restore this if you had to wipe out the
>> > hard disk? Any other better solutions for a simple situation like this?
>
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant
Toronto Dominion Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Ron Natalie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to bind to port < 1024 (OT)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:10:39 -0500
thomas park wrote:
>
> So far, I've thought of writing an SUID wrapper, or making the server
> itself SUID and then relinquishing root priviledges after bind'ing.
This really has nothing whatsoever to do with C++ (you shouldn't have
posted it there).
You should seriously consider using the inet daemon to do the binding
and then invoke your program rather than exposing you to a whole lot
of potential security holes inherent in setuid scripts that you sound
like you are not prepared to deal with.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: LIL- (LILO boot error)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:10:28 -0600
Steve Gage wrote:
>
> "-=sandy=-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:<952695951.236184730@mxgate>...
>
> >
>
> > >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/map without running
>
> > >the map installer.
>
> > >
>
> > >You might try removing the lilo package and then reinstalling
>
> > >it.
>
> > >
>
> >
>
> > ive had it happen 2 or 4 time. all times caused by incorrectly configured
> or
>
> > incampatible hardware.
>
> > causes ive seen were: faulty FAST PAGE/EDO memory,
>
> > BIOS didnt support the size of hard disk being used.
>
> > installing it one one computer then moving the disk to another computer
>
> > (althought that was related to my second reason)
>
> I've just had this happen to me. I have LILO in the Linux boot partition,
> not the MBR. I get there via the win2k boot manager. All was working well
> until I recompiled my kernel and ran LILO to get things squared away. On the
> next boot, I got LIL-.
>
> What command exactly is the "map installer"?
>
> - Steve
The map installer is /sbin/lilo.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat boot problem
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:07:40 -0600
Rob Harper wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Having compiled a new kernel 2.2.5-15 (keeping old one of course), when
> booting up it boots fine until "Finding Module dependencies" then it
> just freezes. This happens on the old kernel too!!
>
> Anybody know what's going on?
>
> Cheers, Rob
Did you make the modules and install them?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best way to make BACKUP image of hard drive
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:21:31 -0500
Luke wrote:
>
> I'm not so sure my Pop would jump at spending $750 on a home network. :)
>
Search freshmeat for a utility called backburner; it's a set of scripts
designed to facilitate backups. I regularly use it to backup my disks on
CDRW, but it can easily adapted to ftp out the result.
MST
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to connect to ISP
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:30:20 GMT
I just installed Corel Linux. And I have no clue how to connect to my ISP.
I have been using Netzero on Windows box. How can I connect to Netzero or
any other free ISP's from Linux?
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Andrew Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how do I insert a background image in x window
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:30:22 GMT
How do I insert a background image in Red Hat 6.0. I can change the color
by usng "xsetroot" just to change the color, how about the background
image? Please help.
Thanks in advance
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: fetchmail oddity - only fetching a few messages at a time
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:27:28 GMT
On 9 Mar 2000 20:04:08 GMT, Donald Brady wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. No there is not trace of any limits in the rc
> file. I used the gui to configure it and launch fetchmail with no
> args, i.e. fetchmail &.
I don't know if running 'fetchmail &' works properly - if you want to
run it in the background, use 'fetchmail -d <seconds>' instead. Anyway,
for debugging purposes, I'd suggest to use 'fetchmail -v -v' instead,
and see if there's something sucpicious in the output.
HTH,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: best way to make BACKUP image of hard drive
Date: 10 Mar 2000 18:34:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 20:52:53 GMT, Luke wrote:
>After I get a server tuned and running perfectly, I would like to make
>an image of the disk so that if anything fails or if it gets cracked
>I'll have a good starting point. I don't have any backup devices (tape
>drives, cdr, etc...), only a few other win98 computers on the lan.
>Could I just put the entire filesystem into a tarball and ftp it to
>another computer? How would one restore this if you had to wipe out the
>hard disk? Any other better solutions for a simple situation like this?
>
Buy another hard drive ($200) and copy the whole filesystem
to it. Keep it unmounted (or use a removal rack ($20) and carry it off site).
If disaster strikes, just (insert it and) boot it up.
Bob T.
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: how to bind to port < 1024 (OT)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:50:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You are the inquisitor of this newsgroup, Paul ;-) ;-) ;-)
In comp.lang.c++ he is, but he's highly skilled (judging from his
answers) and he may flame me any time he wants to! ;-)
/A
--
# Andreas K�h�ri, Uppsala University, Sweden
#
# Hello Echelon!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: 10 Mar 2000 10:15:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's all well and good, but what's public transportation like in
> the UK? In the suburban areas of the US you're lucky if it exists.
> In most places, it doesn't.
For all people's complains, public transport in the UK is not too bad
in urban and suburban areas. 'Course it is spotty in rural areas, but
that is hardly surprising. The UK, and particularly England, is far
more densely populated than the US, so it is far easier to make buses
and trains profitable...
Donal.
--
Donal K. Fellows http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- The small advantage of not having California being part of my country would
be overweighed by having California as a heavily-armed rabid weasel on our
borders. -- David Parsons <o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: 10 Mar 2000 13:10:39 GMT
In article <RYdx4.21$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Matthias Warkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Seriously: The standard of living here in Germany is rather higher
>> than in the United States. As for salaries, they aren't necessarily
>> lower, if they're lower, that's usually compensated by a much lower
>> number of workhours per week and per lifetime.
>
> My roommate is German, and this is what he thinks. He's appalled by
> the cost of living here, and by how hard people work. (Notice my
> choice of words.)
The range and availability of other work-related benefits also seems
to be greater on average in Europe than in the US. Plus, the shorter
hours worked makes a really big difference to your *current* quality
of life. "You expect me to put in over 80 hours a week? In that
case, I expect you to take a long walk off a short pier..."
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] (Donal K. Fellows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: 10 Mar 2000 13:23:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The US (again, from what I hear) seems to have a vastly superior
> communications infrastructure, overall. Though some parts of Europe
> are pretty well wired, or linux and cryptography software might not
> be so widespread today. :)
The infrastructure is rather patchy on both sides of the Pond. For
different reasons of course (low average density vs. monopolies) The
real key difference is the availability of capital for tech startups.
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: BjJbMc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: permissions problems while untarring apps?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:12:26 -0500
Hi,
Now and then, while untarring or gunzipping a file of
type xx_tar.tar, xx_tar.gz and some others, the operation
will quit and I am informed it's not allowed to e.g. set owner to 0 or
another high-priority number. "set" means chmod, chown, chgrp. I've seen
various combos.
So, I assume the tarball was made from files with permissions
not compatible with my own machine. This sounds a little odd, but
it's all I can think of.
Is this so, and how can I get around it?
TIA
James
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: graphical ftp client?
Date: 10 Mar 2000 13:23:40 -0500
> Hello, I couldn't install kftp. Do you recomend any other graphical ftp
>client?. Thank you.
>--
>Ivan Martinez (Rodriguez)
>Bch in Computer Science - MSc student
>http://www.student.dtu.dk/~u990873
>"Got fabes?"
>
Try wxftp-0.4.4-2.i386.rpm or gftp, get them at www.linuxlinks.com. Wxftp
is like ws-ftp for windows, but I think it has a little ways to go, it's basic
and seems fast. Gftp is a little nicer, but an older version seems slow and
crashes. The newest version of gftp I think is much better, but I've only used
it a couple times.
-John
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Boot up Sequence.
Date: 10 Mar 2000 19:43:09 GMT
Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:> and also praisie it, for an IT lecture, on Operating Systems by the
^^^^^^^ precis?
Peter
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