Linux-Misc Digest #912, Volume #23 Tue, 21 Mar 00 05:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: trouble (Steven Feil)
Re: SOLUTION - Corrupt file system (Rick Miller)
Re: virgin sources and linux (John Hasler)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Matt Chiglinsky)
newbie - trying to install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
newbie - trying to install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!! (Lewis Ingersoll)
RE : Which one to pick ("Philo")
free reports memory being used (jafgon)
Re: fetchmail socket error (matthew neil garman)
Re: RH 6.0 Viper V770 : Screen Resolution (Walter Luffman)
Re: Used to boot; now doesn't. Says "LI" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: free reports memory being used ("David ..")
Re: newbie - trying to install ("David ..")
Re: Linux ISP ("David ..")
Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch! (Steve Lamb)
txt file size ("dave fleet")
Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!! (Brad)
Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course. (Brad)
used space on my tape (Stefan Cyris)
Re: used space on my tape (Martijn Brouwer)
'lilo' w/IDE & SCSI (was Re: Used to boot; now doesn't. Says "LI") ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Steven Feil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: trouble
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:30:53 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> for some unknown reason when I try 127.0.0.1 I get 'Netscapes network
> connection was refused by the server 127.0.0.1. The server may not be
> accepting connections or may be busy. If I try http://localhost, I get
> directed to a page explaining the DNS server may be broken. It says to add
> an A record to the DNS tables. What does that mean? Where are the tables?
> Please?
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
in your /etc/hosts file you sould have the folowing line.
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
if you are tyring to network a few computers it's easer to setup and
copy /etc/hosts files than to set up DNS. If you are trying to network
100 computers it's a diferent story. You should read linux network
administration at http://www.linuxdoc.org . If you get "DNS server may be
broken" when you attempt to connect to a computer via the Internet, contact
your ISP for correct configuration info.
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From: Rick Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SOLUTION - Corrupt file system
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 05:45:29 GMT
Idar Tollefsen wrote:
> The rule of thumb is of course always to have the latest version.
> I had upgradet my e2fsprogs with the latest RPM I could find for
> it, but as it turned out, that wasn't new _enough_.
heh...RPMs are never new enough, in my experieince. They are usually
a few beta releases behind and sometimes a few major versions behind. I
have decided that instead of using RPM, I download and compile the source
code.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: virgin sources and linux
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:49:55 GMT
Conway Yee writes:
> Top on the list is Debian. Can anyone tell me if they use virgin source
> code in compiling?
What do you mean by "virgin source code"? Debian source packages include
pristine upstream sources: so, I believe, do Red Hat source packages.
However, Debian packages, like Red Hat packages, are patched to varying
degrees to bring them into compliance with policy and adjust them to work
smoothly with the rest of the distribution.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Chiglinsky)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 21 Mar 2000 05:57:25 GMT
On 21 Mar 2000 00:24:58 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Despite starting on a Mac and falling in love with BBEdit, (the *one*
>thing I miss about Macs,) I now use vi (not vim) exclusively, and when
>I sit down at a Mac, moving the cursor by mouse is almost unbelievably
>uncomfortable. I'm torn: ultra-slick GUI or ultra-powerfull keystrokes.
>Ah well, can't have everything.
For me, the best reason to use a non-GUI interface (sorry Mac users) is
not having to move my arms, being suspended in a state of utter stasis
with only my fingers and eyes moving. ;)
Now if only I could get that neural key recognition working...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: newbie - trying to install
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 05:45:26 GMT
I am trying to install Red hat 6.2
I am booting from floppy, and soon after that it asks me to
install "driver floppy"......
I have tried my normal Video and CD-ROM driver floppies... but
nothing !!
what is it looking for ???
could someone please help ....
thanks
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: newbie - trying to install
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 05:45:50 GMT
I am trying to install Red hat 6.1
I am booting from floppy, and soon after that it asks me to
install "driver floppy"......
I have tried my normal Video and CD-ROM driver floppies... but
nothing !!
what is it looking for ???
could someone please help ....
thanks
Tony
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Before you buy.
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From: Lewis Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!!
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:05:13 -0800
Martin wrote:
> When installing RH 6.1 on my system after the LILO configuration has
> completed upon rebooting my system I get the 10101010... string running
> accross the screen. I then have to boot into DOS and "fdisk /mbr". I have an
> IBM Deskstar 20.5GB drive with 2 partitions of 10GB running Win 98 and a 4GB
> Quantumn Fireball running Linux. I did not have any probs with LILO before
> the IBM drive was installed.
>
> Any help on how to get around this problem will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Martin
I had alot of problems with lilo. I've overwritten my MBR, gotten the 1010101,
and got stuck with LI waiting for the LO. I have a 6 gig and 10 gig
HD and am doing alot of installing and checking things out. I have just
switched to using loadlin.exe. It is very simple to use and I think I can
experiment without all the complications of LILO. I can usually get to the C
prompt without problems. I have copied a vmlinuz file from each of the boot
images. They are on the boot disk used to install(either floppy or cdrom) When
I copy to the c: I label them vmlinuz, vmlinuz1, so I can test different
versions or kernels. So far it seems less complicated that LILO.
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE : Which one to pick
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:05:47 -0000
As a user of Red Hat 5.2 and 6.0 I would give them about a B rating.
Hopefully others will give you feedback... but my first attempt at Linux was
with Red Hat 6.1 but I found too many bugs.
I have been watching these news services for several weeks now and have
noticed that those using Mandrake are often asking good technical questions
and not mentioning any problems with the operating system itself.
Philo
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From: jafgon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: free reports memory being used
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:39:38 -0500
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Greetings,
I'm using RH6.1 on a P266 w/ 128MB RAM. After a complete reboot and
login I run free and it reports that 120 MB of my 128MB RAM is being
used. This can't possibly be true because I can fire up
Blackbox...Communicator and play an mp3 with Xmms all at the same time.
Any idea's as to what the problem is? Thanks in advance.
Jafgon
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Greetings,
<br>
<br> I'm using RH6.1 on a P266 w/ 128MB RAM. After
a complete reboot and login I run <i>free </i>and it reports that
120 MB of my 128MB RAM is being used. This can't possibly be
true because I can fire up Blackbox...Communicator and play an mp3 with
Xmms all at the same time. Any idea's as to what the problem is? Thanks
in advance.
<p>Jafgon</html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (matthew neil garman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: fetchmail socket error
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 06:50:43 GMT
Robert Klemme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>hi there,
>
>did you try to ping the pop / imap host? this sounds like a network
>connection problem and not a fetchmail problem to me.
No, I didn't try to ping it, but... In my original post, I didn't say
that I typically use my school's dialup connection and run fetchmail,
where my mail is downloaded from my school's mail server.
I was home for spring break and using my parents' dialup connection, and
trying to download from my school's mail server when I got the fetchmail
errors. Now that I'm back at school, and once again using the school's
dialup, everything has returned to normalcy.
I'm guessing that my school may not allow POP or IMAP connections from
outside its domain. I'll investigate further.
Thanks,
Matt
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From: Walter Luffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.0 Viper V770 : Screen Resolution
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 07:26:21 GMT
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:05:18 GMT, "KellPro Mail - Micah"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I installed RedHat 6.0 Kernel Build 2.2.5-15 and the screen is so large
>that I cannot do hardly anything because of it spreading things across the
>virtual desktops. The part I don't understand is that linux detects my
>video card as a Diamond V770 and allows me to set the screen resolutions I
>would like to have. But it always comes up the same size. I have
>reinstalled 3-4 times already and don't seem to be getting any closer.
> I am running: Tyan s1590s, AMD K6/III 400, Viper V770 Non-Ultra,128Mb Ram,
>Princeton EO40 (In RH monitor list) and Dual Booting w/ Win95.
>
>Ctrl+Alt+( + or -) did not help any remained the same size. I am running a
>V770 and the RH install detected it as such. Also since everything is so
>huge the screens extend into the "virtual desktops" making it nearly
>impossible to do anything or read things. I am currently using Gnome but
>have KDE and the rest of the enviroments installed. I would like to get all
>of them working.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Micah
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>P.S. If you can tell me how to tell X not to autostart. I can do things from
>the console can't I? (as far as modifying files and stuff).
>
Did you, by any chance, set X at a lower resolution than the RedHat
installer recommended? That was the case when I had this problem. In
my case, Redhat recommended 1280x1024 but this resulted in an image
that was much too small (especially text) on my 15-inch monitor so I
reset it to 800x600. Unfortunately, I did not uncheck the boxes for
1280x1024 and 1024x768.
I fixed the problem by opening a console window, running Xconfigurator
(note that the first letter is capitalized) in text mode, and manually
unchecking all resolutions except the one I wanted to run. Not quite
as satisfying as upgrading to a 19-inch monitor, but much less
expensive. <g>
___
Walter Luffman, wluffman at earthlink-dot-net Medina, TN USA
I am feeling especially ept, ane and sipid today.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Used to boot; now doesn't. Says "LI"
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 07:15:16 GMT
Update on this...
I finally got to a shell with the SCSI driver loaded (got toms rtbt working
after going back to work and picking up the floppy drive for my laptop).
I've re-run lilo on the root disk (/dev/sda1) several times, and it hasn't
made any difference. I do notice that lilo says "Warning: /dev/sda1 is not
on the first disk," which I don't think it said before. But the system is
obviously finding the disk. It just isn't able to completely boot from it.
Any other ideas?
TIA
sean
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: free reports memory being used
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 02:18:36 -0600
Nothing!
Linux uses memory differently than windoz. When it needs physical mem it
will swap to free physical mem.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie - trying to install
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 02:22:39 -0600
For RH 6.1 the driver floppy is available at:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.1/images/i386/
gdth-driver-disk.img
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux ISP
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 02:25:13 -0600
You don't have to have an ISP that caters to linux to get online.
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Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:43:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ralf Arens) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>You can compile different versions of Vim. gvim is compiled with Gtk+
>and Interpreters for Perl, Python and Tcl (and several other
>features). vim is compiled without interpreters but with the other
>features, e.g. syntax-highlighting, cindent, autocmd, viminfo.
He showed vim, not gvim. Mine does syntax highlighting, no interpreters.
--
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: "dave fleet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: txt file size
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:05:16 -0800
Does anyone know the limit of text files upon a Linux (Apache) server?
I an writing data to a txt file on the server, but am worried about should
the file become too large.
--
*****************************
Han Fleet
Programmer
AvaterraUK
www.avaterra.com
www.vzones.com
www.juiceuk.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!!
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:13:17 +1100
I had the problem with the machine hanging on 'LI'. After several hours of
reading I found the 'lilo -linear' command. Something do to with big drives I
think.
Try to get your system booted with a boot disk and run that command and see if
it works.
I am no means an expert on this and my solution may be the wrong one for you
problem. I suggest you do some reading as well.
Brad
Martin wrote:
> When installing RH 6.1 on my system after the LILO configuration has
> completed upon rebooting my system I get the 10101010... string running
> accross the screen. I then have to boot into DOS and "fdisk /mbr". I have an
> IBM Deskstar 20.5GB drive with 2 partitions of 10GB running Win 98 and a 4GB
> Quantumn Fireball running Linux. I did not have any probs with LILO before
> the IBM drive was installed.
>
> Any help on how to get around this problem will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Martin
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From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course.
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:03:47 +1100
Bob
Thank you, thank you.....
linux single root=/dev/hdXXX initrd=
This worked. What a beauty. I got in, ran lilo, and all is well.
Can I buy you a beer??? :-)
Thanks again
Brad
Bob Tennent wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:35:33 +1100, Brad wrote:
> >
> >
> >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!
> >
>
> First, try booting from the boot disk by entering
>
> linux single root=/dev/hdXXX initrd=
>
> (where XXX should be replaced by whichever partition you have / on)
>
> Bob T.
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From: Stefan Cyris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: used space on my tape
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:49:01 +0100
hiya
I'm using tar to backup my harddrive on tapes. The problem is that I
can't check the used space on my tape. I can't find any options in tar
manpage :(
Is there an utility to get this data ?
thanx
Stefan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martijn Brouwer)
Subject: Re: used space on my tape
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 00 09:49:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefan Cyris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm using tar to backup my harddrive on tapes. The problem is that I
>can't check the used space on my tape. I can't find any options in tar
>manpage :(
>Is there an utility to get this data ?
Better to use afio with tob script for backups to tape: it combines
compression with save storage. More info in the docs of afio.
Bye,
__________________________________________________
Martijn Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 'lilo' w/IDE & SCSI (was Re: Used to boot; now doesn't. Says "LI")
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:36:51 GMT
So, it seems to be evil to run 'lilo' with my IDE disk plugged in if I'm
planning on booting from a SCSI disk. If I unplug (or disable) the IDE disk,
boot up, run lilo, shut down, re-enable the IDE disk and boot back up,
things work fine. If I don't disable the IDE disk before running lilo,
I hang at 'LI' on boot (booting from sda, SCSI ID 0 on an Adaptec 2940).
I assume there's an appropriate option in lilo.conf to fix this, but it
wasn't apparent to me by reading through the docs. Could someone point
me in the right direction? Having to disable a disk every time I want to
upgrade the kernel is annoying to say the least.
sean
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