Linux-Misc Digest #904, Volume #23 Mon, 20 Mar 00 07:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: xmms problems after upgrade ("Gil F.")
Re: Do you hate vi? (Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Norb=E4ck?=)
Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course. (Brad)
Re: rcp/rsh examples (Andy)
Re: rcp/rsh examples (Andy)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Paul Black)
RPM/CPIO-Problem (Soeren Stuckenbrock)
Re: rcp/rsh examples (Koos Pol)
Re: how to change screen resolution (Rick Miller)
Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course. (Rick Miller)
displaying server uptime via html ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course. PROGRESS!! (Brad)
Re: Bootdisks, rdev, and root filesystems...aargh! (Ron Gibson)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Norb=E4ck?=)
Re: Specify order of files written in CD (James Pearson)
Re: IMAP 4.5 w/Maildir -> Can't Efficiently Handle Big Maildirs (>4096)? (Villy
Kruse)
Re: lilo won't boot w2k on scsi (Robert Heller)
Re: Linux keeps crashing...? (long) (cll)
Re: rcp/rsh examples (Andy)
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From: "Gil F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xmms problems after upgrade
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:47:48 +0400
Jesse,
Try and get the xmms binary from linuxmafia.org., then install with
pkgtool.
Hope that helps.
Gil
"Jesse F. Hughes" wrote:
>
> Hey ho.
>
> I upgraded to Slackware 7.0 last night, and my xmms no longer works.
> I have xmms 1.0.1 and I installed pretty much *all* of the
> distribution.
>
> Since then, xmms gives me nothing but "Segmentation fault". I have
> recompiled it a dozen times, even going so far as deleting the source
> tree and re-installing it. Everything in the configuration looks
> okay.
>
> I'm clueless how to find out what's wrong. How do I even start
> looking? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Jesse Hughes
>
> "You see 300 of something, anything, and you go `[Man], that's a lot of
> stuff.'" -- Jim Bigler, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Norb=E4ck?=)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 20 Mar 2000 09:40:46 GMT
20 Mar 2000 02:52:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Chiglinsky) ->
> I write my C and lisp code in "emacs".
I use vim.
> I write my Unix config file in "vi".
I use vim.
> I write my DOS config files in "edit".
I use vim.
> I write my Windows config files in "notepad".
I use vim.
> I write my large (heh) Windows config files in "wordpad".
I use vim.
> I write my papers in "Word".
I use vim.
> Did someone say _one_ editor is best? Slap them.
So go ahead and slap me.
Did I mention that I use vim to answer usenet posts?
n.
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From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course.
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:35:33 +1100
Hi all
I had win98 on the first hard drive and linux (redhat 6.0) sitting
happily on the second of my PII300. Lilo would do it's thing during
bootup and default me to Linux. This was good as I am trying to spend
more and more time there.
However, work commitments meant me getting my head around Win2000, so i
dumped Win98 and install the behemoth 2000. Of course, it trashed Lilo.
I made a boot disk and a rescue disk (rescue.img) and started up the
machine. I thought i was pretty good getting to that point, but alas, it
was not to be.
I was presented with a # prompt. I could not find Lilo. I got the
feeling that what I was looking at was the contents of a ramdisk that
had been loaded from the floppies. (Am i close to the mark here?)
Please tell me how do i reinstall Lilo? I do not want to have to
reinstall Linux, again!
Thanks
Brad
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy)
Subject: Re: rcp/rsh examples
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:06:20 GMT
Hi everyone,
thanks to all who responded.
Still not got rcp working.
rlogin works fine (except as root).
To reiterate my setup:
>I'm trying to move some files between two RedHat linux boxes (both
>Intel, from 6.0 to 6.1). I want to use rcp to maintain the ownership
>and modes of the files and I also want to copy a large directory
>hierarchy (i.e. I need the -p and -r switches).
>
>I've tried using a variety of rcp command lines but none let me in.
>Reading the docs on both rcp and rsh don't help and wasn't able to
>find anything of much use.
>
>I have full access to both systems.
When issuing the rcp command I get "permission denied" which means I
guess I need to add hosts to some file somewhere ?
Anyway, referring to my servers as A and B (with IP addresses a.a.a.a
and b.b.b.b) both have /home/andy directories, a user "andy" with same
password on both systems could anyone please let me know what files I
need to place where to copy the file, "test", residing on
a.a.a.a:/home/andy and owned by user "andy"
to b.b.b.b:/home/andy
and what the rcp command should be (I think I have the command right
but confirmation would be nice).
I guess the basic command (from a telnet console on A and already cd'd
to /home/andy) would be something like:
rcp ./test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home./andy
I have tried various permutations on the above and all that don't
issue syntax errors return "permission denied".
Any help, suggestions or advice on where to look would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Andy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy)
Subject: Re: rcp/rsh examples
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:10:37 GMT
Hi alla again,
>
>rcp ./test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home./andy
This is a typo, should read:
rcp ./test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy
It's Monday :-)
Cheers,
Andy.
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From: Paul Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:19:14 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Norb�ck) wrote:
>
> 20 Mar 2000 02:52:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Chiglinsky) ->
> > I write my C and lisp code in "emacs".
> I use vim.
>
> > I write my Unix config file in "vi".
> I use vim.
>
> > I write my DOS config files in "edit".
> I use vim.
>
> > I write my Windows config files in "notepad".
> I use vim.
>
> > I write my large (heh) Windows config files in "wordpad".
> I use vim.
>
> > I write my papers in "Word".
> I use vim.
s/vim/emacs/
> Did I mention that I use vim to answer usenet posts?
I use vim to clean my toilet.
Paul
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From: Soeren Stuckenbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM/CPIO-Problem
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:30:06 +0100
Hi there,
I just built a RPM-Archive. When I try to install it I get the following
error:
unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Missing hard link
Well, it worked for a long time and now that I want to build a new
version of a package it fails.
But I don't see any difference to previous runs.
Any idea?
Soeren
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koos Pol)
Subject: Re: rcp/rsh examples
Date: 20 Mar 2000 10:21:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:06:20 GMT, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| When issuing the rcp command I get "permission denied" which means I
| guess I need to add hosts to some file somewhere ?
Do I recall correctly I already answered your post?
It is vital that you get running "rsh somemachine ls" first. If you can get
successfully this far, you have overcome a lot of problems. Pinpoint your
attention on the file ~/.rhost on somemachine. We can't do anything for you
unless you have "rsh somemachine ls" running successfully.
Koos Pol
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From: Rick Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to change screen resolution
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:53:38 GMT
run XF86Config or XF86Setup
Mohd Nazri wrote:
> hi,
>
> as u can see my subject is.....
> i'm newbies... help me please.
>
> thanx in advance.
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From: Rick Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course.
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:55:29 GMT
Check your boot and rescue disk for /sbin/lilo
Gotta hate it when windows trashes the mbr
Brad wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I had win98 on the first hard drive and linux (redhat 6.0) sitting
> happily on the second of my PII300. Lilo would do it's thing during
> bootup and default me to Linux. This was good as I am trying to spend
> more and more time there.
>
> However, work commitments meant me getting my head around Win2000, so i
> dumped Win98 and install the behemoth 2000. Of course, it trashed Lilo.
>
> I made a boot disk and a rescue disk (rescue.img) and started up the
> machine. I thought i was pretty good getting to that point, but alas, it
> was not to be.
>
> I was presented with a # prompt. I could not find Lilo. I got the
> feeling that what I was looking at was the contents of a ramdisk that
> had been loaded from the floppies. (Am i close to the mark here?)
>
> Please tell me how do i reinstall Lilo? I do not want to have to
> reinstall Linux, again!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: displaying server uptime via html
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:48:58 GMT
does anyone know how to display the server uptime on a web page, other
than the "server-status" directory?
is there a simple character command for it that can be placed in any
html doc. on the server itself?
please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks a lot!
-eric
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From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course. PROGRESS!!
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:37:37 +1100
I have not given up. I just read about the 'mount' command and now i am
poking around in my linux drive. I found lilo in the sbin directory and
lilo.conf in the etc directory. I went to the sbin directory and typed
./lilo
I said 'Unable to find /etc/lilo.conf.
Arrrrr. of course not, because of the ramdisk. lilo.conf is really at
/mnt/lin/etc/lilo.conf (lin is the mount point I made for the mount
command).
So, I made an etc directory in the ramdisk and copied the lilo.conf to it. I
tried again ./lilo
This time it said "unable to find /boot/boot.b.
Once again a made a new directory on the ramdisk and copied this boot.b file
to it.
One more go ./lilo
Now message is "Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0100"
I have not given up. I would really like it however if someone could save me
from the misery of this situation..
Thanks again
Brad
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Bootdisks, rdev, and root filesystems...aargh!
Date: 20 Mar 2000 11:06:25 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) stated with conviction:
> Sorry... While lilo or syslinux might make working with RAMdisks a bit
> easier, there's no pressing need to use it. All is explained in the
> Bootdisk-HOWTO:
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO.html
> (Besides, being able to mutter weird-looking rdev incantations has more
> Hack Value, y'know!)
I'll agree with this. I've got an ULTRA66 card and no stock kernel will
boot it. I also tried every one of the rescue disk scripts and none of
them suceeded in making a bootable rescue set.
It took me about 3 hours of muddling through the BOOTDISK-HOWTO but I
made a nice rescue set with PICO editor on it for emergency
modifications.
You'll need loopback device, ramdisk, and initrd support in the kernel.
Get that done and the whole process is pretty nifty.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Norb=E4ck?=)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 20 Mar 2000 11:10:28 GMT
Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:19:14 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Black) ->
> I use vim to clean my toilet.
So you agree that vim outperforms emacs on at least one thing?
I sometimes use emacs too. But always with viper-mode. And never to
clean my toilet with.
n.
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From: James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Specify order of files written in CD
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:20:13 GMT
In article <8au6ha$3d9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
GG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've a special requirement where my data files must be recorded
> in specific orders in CD. Foe eg.
> /root/mydir/d
> /root/mydir/c
> /root/another/b
> /root/mydir/a
> /root/another/a
> /root/m
> /root/a
>
> How do i achieive this? I checked "cdrecord" and "mkisofs" but i don't
> see any option for this. One possibility could be,
> "mkisofs -o cdimg file1 file2 file3"
>
> but how do i feed a list of 30 files to mkisofs?
>
> Are you aware of any such program?
> Is there a commercially available software that can do that?
> Please email your reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" also.
You can't do this with mkisofs as it stands ... however, I have been
working on code that will add this capability to mkisofs (well, mkhybrid
actually, but as they are now almost the same, this is not a problem).
The code is still being worked on, but you are welcome to try it out.
The patch to cdrecord v1.8.1a02 is available from:
ftp://ftp.ge.ucl.ac.uk/pub/mkhfs/sort_patch1.8.1a2a.tar.gz
Instructions are included with the tar file.
James Pearson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: IMAP 4.5 w/Maildir -> Can't Efficiently Handle Big Maildirs (>4096)?
Date: 20 Mar 2000 11:37:13 GMT
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 01:26:16 -0800, David E. Weekly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running a Linux box as my mail server running qmail and a patched
>version of the IMAP 4.5 server that supports Maildirs. I have a lot of mail:
>my Maildir has 5086 messages in it to be precise. Recently (i.e., in the
>last 500 messages or so) retreiving mail has become *painfully* slow.
>Looking at "top," I find that imapd is choking the CPU, taking 97% of the
>CPU just to open a mail message. Huh? Wasn't a Maildir supposed to solve
>this? Or is this a fundamental filesysem problem? What might be going on? (I
>have plenty of memory and imapd is only using 2Mb -- it's not a swapping
>issue.)
>
Directory operations gets a bit slow if when a directory contains a lot
of entries. There has been quite a lengthy discussion on this subject
on comp.mail.imap, if you are interested.
Villy
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo won't boot w2k on scsi
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:49:53 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
In a message on Sun, 19 Mar 2000 23:19:53 GMT, wrote :
e> Hi,
e> I'm trying to build a Linux / Windows 2000 system. I've
e> successfully installed W2K (with NTFS) on a SCSI disk (SCSI device 0)
I don't think LILO can boot a NTFS system. You need to install Windows
2000/NT so that its C: is a FAT16 file system. If you need to have the
Windows 2000/NT to be pure NTFS, you you *have* to use the NT
bootloader. You *can* add Linux as an option (even making it the
*default*) to the NT bootloader. Install LILO in the boot sector of
the Linux root filesystem and then copy the sector (dd if=/dev/hda1
bs=512 count=1 of=lilo.img) to the NT side (i.e. via floppy or via a
FAT16 file system), and reference this file in boot.ini.
e> which boots flawlessly when the bios is configured to boot in the order,
e> "SCSI, A, C". I also have an IDE (primary master) with Red Hat Linux
e> 6.1 which boots properly when the bios is configured for boot sequence
e> "A, C, SCSI". Lilo is installed on this drive and boots Linux. However
e> I have not successfully configured duel boot on this system. I would
e> like to have the bios boot to the IDE and then use lilo to select either
e> Windows or Linux. I modified /etc/lilo.conf to include the windows
e> partition /dev/sda1. It now looks like this:
e>
e> boot = /dev/hda
e> prompt
e> default = linux
e> vga = normal
e> read-only
e> map=/boot/map
e> install=/boot/boot.b
e> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
e> label = linux
e> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
e> root = /dev/hda1
e> other = /dev/sda1
e> label = win
e>
e> When I run install lilo, the only error message I get says
e> /dev/hdb (the zip drive) reports inconsistent size information. (When I
e> disconnect the zip drive, this message goes away but my problem
e> persists.) In either case, it says both "linux" and "win" were
e> installed successfully.
e> When I reboot I get the lilo prompt as usual. I can boot linux
e> fine, but when I try to boot windows, the system prints "Loading win",
e> then freezes. I know linux can read the disk because "fdisk /dev/sda"
e> reports the correct information: a single bootable NTFS partition.
e> I've tried changing "other = /dev/sda1" to "other = /dev/sda".
e> Then, lilo reports "Error loading operating system", but still does not
e> boot windows. I've also tried adding "table = /dev/sda" to the end of
e> the file, but this has no affect.
e> Here is a list of relavent hardware, for what it's worth:
e> Epox EP-6VBA (motherboard)
e> Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra / Ultra W SCSI controller
e> Quantum Fireball ST4.3S SCSI
e> VIA Bus Master IDE controller (builtin to motherboard)
e> ST51270A (IDE disk)
e>
e> How can I boot lilo from the primary master IDE such that I can
e> choose between Linux on the same drive or Win2000 on the SCSI?
e> Please email me any responses. Thanks.
e>
e> Eric Levy
e> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
e>
e>
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From: cll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux keeps crashing...? (long)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:53:01 +1200
>
> If you believe any of the following:
> 1. You need more ram if you have more disk space
> 2. Linux needs more than 128mb of ram to function "correctly"
> 3. Having too little ram can cause sporadic *lockups* in linux
>
> then take your linux system and format it, and go back to windows.
> Apparently you're still stuck in the Microsoft mentality of "If
> I don't throw tons of money to soup up my system with more hard-
> ware than I should EVER really need, that'll make it more stable."
>
> Linux functions within its constraints, unlike windows; and I'm
> sorry, but NO lack of resources should EVER cause a linux system
> to lock up completely.
>
> Moshe
>
>
except I had terrible trouble with Linux locking solid when I first
started. It seemed to be my hardware -- specifically, Intel LX chipset
motherboards.
Now I run Abit BE6 -- an Intel BX motherboard, and it simply doesn't
crash, lock up or do any other spectacular thing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: rcp/rsh examples
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:58:20 GMT
Hello Koos,
>Do I recall correctly I already answered your post?
If you did I'm afraid I missed it ...
>It is vital that you get running "rsh somemachine ls" first.
OK, I'll get back to the docs, thanks for the suggestion.
Cheers,
Andy.
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