Linux-Misc Digest #841, Volume #23 Mon, 13 Mar 00 22:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Redhat booting & 386/387 Coupling problem (John Girash)
Re: ZOOM DualMode 56k ISA Faxmodem Model 2919 (The Scotts)
[Q] I/O Benchmark in Linux (Kim Tae-hyoung(M2000))
Re: crond resetting? (Ken Williams)
Re: NFS and non-private IP address (L J Bayuk)
Re: Want: Port scanning reporting software (Bob Tennent)
Re: Want: Port scanning reporting software (Bob Tennent)
Re: Toshiba 1605CDS (Rod Smith)
Re: Red Hat install problem (John Zumsteg)
Re: video player (Mark J. Tilford)
Re: xmms plays nothing, sound is working (Mark J. Tilford)
Re: ZOOM DualMode 56k ISA Faxmodem Model 2919 (Dennis Fenton)
Re: crond resetting? (Jan Schaumann)
Re: Salary? ("Darren Ward")
Re: Problems posting announcement of GNUware SourceIT! to freshmeat.net (Christopher
Browne)
Caldera Going Public, IPO Date??? (Adam Mansfield)
Re: Incremental backups with tar to harddisc (Robert Heller)
Re: Tar - GZIP (Robert Heller)
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From: John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat booting & 386/387 Coupling problem
Date: 13 Mar 2000 20:48:47 -0500
Eric Hankinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I just recently upgraded my computer, and decided to use my smaller hard
: drive to install RedHat Linux 6.1. I tried to use the general install (just
: press <Enter> when the initial screen appears) however, right after Linux
: probes for my processor, it then checks for 386/387 Coupling. It replys '
: Failed: Trying to reset' and goes into an endless loop because it keeps on
: failing. I got around this by telling the installer to go into 'Expert mode'
: It then installed correctly, but now that it's installed, it tries to do
: that same check. What gives? I'm guessing there might be a hardware problem,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: or possibly a bug, but it's agravating since I don't recall ever seeing this
: particular check before on other Linux machines I've setup. Then again, this
: is the first PIII Linux box I've setup.
: My hardware is as follows:
: - Pentium III 550e (overclocked to 733MHz)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is anyone else seeing a potential connection here? Could be worth testing.
jg
p.s. I don't recall seeing a 2.x kernel that *doesn't* check 387 coupling.
But that's going from (wetware) memory only.
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:07:47 +0000
From: The Scotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZOOM DualMode 56k ISA Faxmodem Model 2919
Suggest reading the modem and setserial Howtos.
Bob Scott
"Bill B." wrote:
>
> basiaclly how do i get the darned thing working? i have Redhat 6.1
> Standard and a full installation. any and all help would be greatly
> appreciated. thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim Tae-hyoung(M2000))
Subject: [Q] I/O Benchmark in Linux
Date: 14 Mar 2000 10:48:20 +0900
Hi!
I need some I/O benchmark programs running on Linux.
What I want to do is to test the raw I/O performance
of md or LVM in Linux.
I have tried the program 'Bonnie'. But the result is
very strange.
Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: Re: crond resetting?
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:41:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan Schaumann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ken Williams wrote:
>>
>> If I change roots crontab, do I need to do a kill -HUP <crond pid> of does it
>> see the changes right away?
>
>If you change the crontab by using "crontab -e", it updates the
>cron-daemon itself.
How do I do it manually?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: NFS and non-private IP address
Date: 14 Mar 2000 01:56:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I got the following in /usr/var/messages:
>
>Mar 13 09:51:14 stiegler6 nfsd[357]: exports file has anon entries, but
>host
>Mar 13 09:51:14 stiegler6 nfsd[357]: has non-private IP address
>192.12.144.26!
>Mar 13 09:54:04 stiegler6 mountd[374]: exports file has anon entries,
>but host
>Mar 13 09:54:04 stiegler6 mountd[374]: has non-private IP address
>192.12.144.26!
>
>Our company is NOT connected to the Internet. We have an very old ( 10
>years) installation of some DEC Ultrix boxes. At that time, they had
>been configured with addresses 192.12.144.xxx. For us this makes no
>problem. At the moment, I can not change their addresses.
>I installed a linux box with two NIC's. one in the 192.12.144 network
>and the other in the 172.16 (as suggested in RFC1918).
>The linux box has some NFS exports but the Ultrix boxes can not write.
>See error message above.
>
>What can I do, to let the linux nfsd allow write operation ?
The messages above are not directly related to the problem you are
having writing. They are just warnings; nfsd/mountd don't care if
you are using private or public IP addresses (except for the warning).
I could be reading it wrong, but I think these only occur with the "-p"
option to nfsd and mountd. Are you using "-p"? Do you have anonymous
(hostname-less) entries in /etc/exports? If possible, always put hostnames
or netgroup names on each export line; don't export to "any host"; also
don't use -p.
Be aware that if you do export to "any host", the default options are
changed to read-only and all-squash. This could be the cause of the problem
you are seeing. Fix it by putting hostnames in, or overriding the options
if you must.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Want: Port scanning reporting software
Date: 14 Mar 2000 01:59:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:42:00 -0600, Leonard Evens wrote:
>
>I got portsentry, but it looked as if I would have to do some work
>to figure out how to use it. Can you either give me or refer me
>to some simplified default instructions?
>
I installed the rpm and the defaults seem to work just fine.
I now have about 60 sites blocked, all done automatically.
But the config files are well commented if you want to adjust
the settings, or unblock trusted sites.
Get the rpm here:
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/portsentry-1.0-4.i386.rpm
Bob T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Want: Port scanning reporting software
Date: 14 Mar 2000 02:06:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:33:04 GMT, George Dau wrote:
>
>And how about some info on putting rejected routes back in, so I
>can get in to my box again? It is headless, and remote, and now I
>can't telnet to it anymore :-|
Check out the following config file:
/etc/portsentry/portsentry.ignore
Bob T.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Toshiba 1605CDS
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:17:39 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8ajl15$dcv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Goofy root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> He's probably lying because it didn't work for me, too. I tried it in
> a desktop with WinModem, Linux neither work.
I don't appreciate being called a lier.
Understand that not all software modems are alike. The one in my Compaq
Presario 1200-XL106 does work with the Lucent driver I obtained from
http://www.linmodems.org. This driver won't work with non-Lucent software
modems, and in fact it's not even guaranteed to work with other Lucent
modems -- another board or laptop might have a different model, or have
conflicting hardware of one variety or another. There could also be
software differences like different kernels (the Lucent driver I've got
works with a 2.2.14 kernel, but not with the 2.3.x kernels I've tried, for
instance). OTOH, other software modems do have drivers, but of course
those don't work on the Lucent models.
If you still believe I'm lying, come to Boston and I'll show it to you in
person. In the meantime, lay off the false accusations.
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Bob Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi-
>>
>> I tried Rod's suggestion and it didn't work for me.
>>
>> The ./ltinst command returned and error, and the
>> boot-up sequence produced an error message
>> when trying to load the driver.
>>
>> -Bob
>>
>> Rod Smith wrote:
>>
>> > [Posted and mailed]
>> >
>> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> > Bob Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > >
>> > > Linux does not recognize the internal modem (if you get
>> > > it to do so, I would appreciate help in this area).
>> >
>> > If I'm not mistaken, the Toshiba laptop line uses Lucent software
> modems.
>> > There are drivers for this; check at http://www.linmodems.org. I
> got the
>> > one that came on my Compaq Presario 1200-XL106 working without too
> much
>> > difficulty.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > http://www.rodsbooks.com
>> > Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
>>
>>
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:16:28 -0800
From: John Zumsteg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat install problem
This could be, but...
1. I've installed using the default Workstation install, the default
Server install, both of which should set up the root, swap and other
partitions (and seem to do so); and several custom installs, all with
the same result. If I use the boot disk and do a rescue, I get a "kernel
panic: No init found" error. I've installed Linux before and so I doubt
that I would have, on multiple installs, made the same mistake when
partitioning the drive (though anything's possible!).
2. I tried installing SuSE and, on booting it, also got a "kernel panic:
No init found" error.
If I run a rescue disk from the boot: prompt, I get
VFS: Insert floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER.
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: loading 1440 blocks [1 disk] into RAMDISK [it chugs for a
while]
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
Warning: unable to open initial console
Kernal panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernal.
...at which point the machine's dead.
My humble (and definitely non-expert opinion) is that the install
routine finds the scsi drive just fine, but the boot routines do not.
And I'm far from expert enough to figure out why.
Thanks for your help.
Chris Lowth wrote:
>
> I suspect you have confused it about which partition is root
> (etc). Could you list the answers you give to the install screens - paying
> particular attention to the partitioning of the drives, making file
> systems, etc - anything hard disk related. Ideally - let's see the lot!
>
> This *should* be a trivial one.
>
> Chris.
>
> snip my tale of woe...
> My Real e-mail address is (roughly):
> chris
> <AT> lowth
> <DOT> com
> (Silly over-parnoid anti-spam measure)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark J. Tilford)
Subject: Re: video player
Date: 14 Mar 2000 02:23:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:46:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello
>
>I didn't find any good video player. Do you know
>a good one which plays all kind of avi, mov, mpeg ?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Sacha
xanim plays most avi, mov formats (but not those using Sorenson codec).
I can't remember the web page, but a little search should find it.
mpegtv (available at www.mpegtv.com) supports all mpeg files.
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Mark Jeffrey Tilford
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark J. Tilford)
Subject: Re: xmms plays nothing, sound is working
Date: 14 Mar 2000 02:25:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 12:59:23 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have xmms-1.0.1-1. I've been upgrading gnome's and many packages
>now I found out it stopped working. It launches, and seems it plays
>but I hear nothing. It also looks it parses the file too fast.
>
>What could have been ?
>gnome-core, gnome-audio ? I've always used rpm to install things so
>I don't know what could have been. And going back to the CD packages
>will be a pain.
>
>I tried to install latest gnome but I couldn't because it complains
>it needs the package windowmanager. That I couldn't find.
>
>Please help me .
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
Check the installed input / output filters.
--
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Mark Jeffrey Tilford
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dennis Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZOOM DualMode 56k ISA Faxmodem Model 2919
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:23:47 GMT
No doubt about it, there's a HOWTO for just about everything in the Linux
world. But, the reason it seems to me that we have newsgroups is so that
people with pertinant knowledge can share it. If I have to wade through
reams of HOWTOs every time I want to know something I'll soon lose
interest in Linux.
The Scotts wrote:
> Suggest reading the modem and setserial Howtos.
>
> Bob Scott
>
> "Bill B." wrote:
> >
> > basiaclly how do i get the darned thing working? i have Redhat 6.1
> > Standard and a full installation. any and all help would be greatly
> > appreciated. thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: crond resetting?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:28:24 -0500
Ken Williams wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan Schaumann
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Ken Williams wrote:
> >>
> >> If I change roots crontab, do I need to do a kill -HUP <crond pid> of does it
> >> see the changes right away?
> >
> >If you change the crontab by using "crontab -e", it updates the
> >cron-daemon itself.
>
> How do I do it manually?
/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart
(in RH)
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann
http://jschauma-0.dsl.speakeasy.net
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And
vice versa.
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From: "Darren Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:42:53 +1100
"Donovan Rebbechi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On 12 Mar 2000 21:12:09 GMT, Joseph T. Adams wrote:
> >But then, Texans would consider New York to be a small state. :)
>
> Well if one goes on population alone, you could even count NYC as a
> "small country".
Australia has only a population of a little more than 18 Million people in
total with 90% on the east coast and most of that in the two largest cities
of Sydney and Melbourne, but looking at the size of it would you consider it
small ;-)
Going back onto a Linux thread though we're still waiting for formalised
training and exams for the various Linux Quals to become wide-spread and
that is hindering Linux rolling out in a major way in Australia.
When that happens more corporates will take Linux more seriously and so
demand and hence salaries will increase....
I'm actually designing a national roll-out for a client with no Windows in
it at all as every test we performed on scale failed miserably but Linux
passed most of them (except the 2 Gig file size limitation :-( )
Darren
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Problems posting announcement of GNUware SourceIT! to freshmeat.net
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:44:42 GMT
Freshmeat is intended to provide links to *software packages.*
"history
freshmeat started back in September 1997 as a quick and dirty HTML
page for personal purposes (i.e. to keep track of current versions of
software used on Linux systems shipped to customers). As the interest
in my little non-public page grew, I published a preliminary static
HTML page on a homepage server of my ISP. Updates were done by editing
the HTML file in a shell and that was pretty much it. No back issues,
no searching capabilities, no nothing."
What it amounts to is a database of links to the latest versions of
software packages.
"GNUware SourceIT1" is a CD containing a bunch of "tarballs."
There's no merit whatsoever to Freshmeat listing your collection; your
collection is not the authoritative source for any of the software.
There *is* merit to Freshmeat listing the software packages that are
on your CD, and it is likely that they have virtually all of them
listed.
Quite frankly, I can't see any reason to buy your CD over, say:
a) Debian source packages
b) Red Hat source packages
c) The FSF source CDs
Any time that I want to refer to sources "en masse," it makes a whole
lot more sense to FTP them directly from the respective authoritative
source sites. (I seldom see that happen.)
Any time I want to refer to sources for some individual package (which
*does* happen), it *still* makes more sense to FTP the sources
directly from an authoritative site, directly from the authors.
And on those occasions when I need sources that don't need to be
recent, the "give-away" of TSX-11 archives CDs that I got a couple
years ago as a freebie from LinuxMall seem to do the trick.
I'm afraid I don't see the value in your product
--
First Rule of Computer Security
- Only forbid that which can be made impossible.
- Facilitate the possible.
- Have the wisdom to explain the difference.
-- Mark Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: Adam Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Caldera Going Public, IPO Date???
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 03:03:00 GMT
Does anybody know when Caldera is going public?
There's some information at
http://www.redherring.com/ipo/2000/0310/ipo-critic031000.html?id=yahoo
And their symbol is CALD. But the volume and price are both still 0, so
they haven't begun trading yet.
Any info???
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Incremental backups with tar to harddisc
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:53:15 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland),
In a message on 13 Mar 2000 13:20:18 GMT, wrote :
JB> Hi,
JB>
JB> I'm trying to use tar to backup a small server's /home directory. The
JB> idea is to make one main backup then use incremental ones from then on.
JB>
JB> At the moment the system tars up /home every night, bzip2s it then shoves it
JB> across to another machine via NFS. This backup can then be burned to a CDR
JB> when it's convenient.
JB>
JB> But at 100-200MB a backup it'd soon get very tedious. So, incremental
JB> backups would make life much easier. But, how do you do it? The Guide on
JB> www.linuxdoc.org is primarily for backing up to tape drives, which I would
JB> have got but we didn't have the budget.
tar cares not if the backup device is a tape or an archive on disk.
do a man tar:
Under OTHER OPTIONS:
-g, --listed-incremental F
create/list/extract new GNU-format incremental
backup
This is what I use. Normally I do the backups to tape, but my tape
drive has been misbehaving lately, so I've been doing incrs to a
compressed file on a Zip drive:
sauron.deepsoft.com% more Backup/DoBackupZ.csh
#!/bin/csh -fe
#~heller/Backup/WaitForTape.csh
cd /
cp -fv /home/BackupLists/BackupDates /home/BackupLists/BackupDates.todays
tar --create --verbose --listed-incremental /home/BackupLists/BackupDates \
--gzip --file /ZipE2fs/week$1.tar.gz --exclude ZipE2fs --exclude usr \
--exclude dos --exclude slack30 --exclude proc --ignore-failed-read \
.
tar tzvf /ZipE2fs/week$1.tar.gz |& tee /home/BackupLists/week$1.list
#mt -f /dev/st0 offline
(I just copied the script from the one used for tapes, changed the
archive name, added --gzip and --exclude ZipE2fs (mount point for the
Zip Drive as an ext2 fs) and commented out the tape specific commands.)
JB>
JB> So, question 1 is how do I go about doing incremental backups to a tar
JB> archive on a harddisc (with the main backup being on a CDR in a drawer
JB> somewhere), and question 2 is, is there a better way of doing this
JB> in the first place?
JB>
JB> (there is reasonable harddisc space via nfs, we have a CD-R drive, any
JB> ideas?)
JB>
JB> JB
JB>
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tar - GZIP
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:53:26 GMT
Dav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:31:52 GMT, wrote :
D> Hello all,
D> Just a super newbie Q for anyone who can spare the time...
D> I have a file that tar doesnt want to work on, or so it seems
D> its the ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz
D> i tried tar xvf ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz
D> as well as tar xvz ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz
D> nothing works....please help!
There is nothing magical about there being three letters. Try:
tar xzvf ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz
x -- eXtract
z -- g[un]Zip
v -- Verbose
f -- File
D>
D> Jav
D>
D> --
D> Posted via CNET Help.com
D> http://www.help.com/
D>
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