Linux-Misc Digest #919, Volume #23 Tue, 21 Mar 00 23:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: block-major modules (Thomas Zajic)
Re: User password required to reboot (Alan Burns)
Re: Pacbell DSL setup problems (Matt O'Toole)
Re: Can't Download Tar Files (Jan Schaumann)
Re: Netscape woes: Bus error (Andrew Purugganan)
Prevent X autostart on RH 6.1 ("Scott Bate")
Re: Salary? ("James T. Dennis")
Re: Solved: Problems logging in at ISP (Bill Unruh)
Re: Red Hat Linux 6.2 & XFree86 4.0? (Tom Williams)
Re: HELP: installation of PostgreSQL (Andreas Hinz)
background (Andrew Wong)
Re: RAMdisk Installation (jpkarrer)
Re: Prevent X autostart on RH 6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS (L J Bayuk)
linux directory (apriltale)
Re: Salary? (Stewart Honsberger)
How to turn X window autostart off? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to turn X window autostart off? ("David ..")
Re: 'lilo' w/IDE & SCSI (was Re: Used to boot; now doesn't. Says "LI") ("Michael
Westerman")
Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: txt file size (Don Knott)
Re: txt file size (Don Knott)
Re: installation problem ("David ..")
Re: linux directory (Jan Schaumann)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: block-major modules
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:12:12 GMT
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:06:58 -0500, Yan Seiner wrote:
> What are these? And where can I find a comprehensive list of what
> these are?
>
> Mar 21 16:24:05 aphrodite modprobe: can't locate module block-major-8
> Mar 21 16:24:06 aphrodite modprobe: can't locate module block-major-72
> Mar 21 16:24:21 aphrodite modprobe: can't locate module block-major-22
FAQ: 'less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt'
'less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt'
HTH,
Thomas
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From: Alan Burns <aburns@!SPAMTRAP.ebicom.net>
Subject: Re: User password required to reboot
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:20:10 -0600
In article <8b89b1$itt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Brian Moore) wrote:
>>>Normal users are not supposed to do that.
>>
>>How do you know what his users are supposed to do?
>
> He may be referring to one of the default gnome installations where if
> a user wants to shutdown, he/she has to give password, but in the xdm
I just meant that he was being a bit presumptuous by assuming to
know what the original poster's users should and shouldn't be
doing on the system. Obviously, there is some need for users to
be able to shut down, or the question wouldn't have been asked.
That's not helpful at all. A better answer is, "Here's how to fix it....."
and not, "You don't need that." That's the kind of answer one might
get from Microsoft. :-0
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From: Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pacbell DSL setup problems
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:35:20 -0800
Rluby wrote:
> FWIW I have Snet DSL in Ct. ( Another SBC Co.) I found a different PPPoE
> client which works OK at roaringpenguin.com. I've got RH6.1 .
> Give it a try!
I did. I can't believe how easy it was to get up and running! Simpler
even than modem dialup with kppp, Windows DUN, or anything else I've
ever used. Why Pacbell continues to mess with that Enternet crap is
beyond me. Thanks for the tip, and happy surfing!
Matt O.
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't Download Tar Files
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:33:48 -0500
Binyomin Kaplan wrote:
>
> Can anyone think of a reason why an http download of a tar
> file on a computer running windows would change it in some way,
> making it unusable? I have a computer without a modem running
> linux. Sometimes I download files for it on the windows computer,
> and it doesn't seem that it was ever a problem to then
> use the files on my linux computer, but now I don't seem to be
> able to untar the files. Winzip doesn't seem to be able to do anything
> with them under Windows either.
Maybe file-naming conventions on Winblows interfer?
Just save as foo.tar or foo.tar.gz (ie, short name), and it should
work...
-Jan
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Jan Schaumann
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Berlioz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: Netscape woes: Bus error
Date: 22 Mar 2000 00:15:05 GMT
kev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: After keeling over and dying (nothing unusual there ;), I tried to start
: Netscape up again, but it just died whenever I brought up a Messenger
: window (browsing seemed OK). To find any error messages I tried starting
: it from the command line with "netscape-communicator -messenger", and it
: just died instantly with "Bus error". I was forced to reboot to make
: Netscape work again :o(
: How can I avoid this error?
i had the same thing until i was advised to include the 100dpi (or was it
75dpi, i don't remember now) in Netscape's fontpath. i didn't ask for an
explanation but it sure did the trick. Still hate Netscape, though
--
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Registered linux user no. 164098-88940
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: "Scott Bate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Prevent X autostart on RH 6.1
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:42:09 +1100
Dear Sirs & Madams,
I have only just go X to start at all but when it does (on startup of Linux)
there is a box in the centre of screen and the locks PC locks up. I think it
is because I have created a bad XF86config file by choosing incorrect
settings in XF86Setup.
Does anyone know how to start up Linux without the automatic starting of the
X gui, considering that I cannot get into a character-mode login prompt at
all now?
Scott.
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From: "James T. Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: 22 Mar 2000 00:44:11 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8a3bka$sje$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> R.E.Ballard ( Rex Ballard ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>| The typical rate for UNIX administrators with a college degree
>| and 1 year of experience is around $30K-$40K, depending on where
>| you live.
> That may be the most important part, like real estate: "location,
> location, location"
>| If you can establish yourself as a "star performer", your company
>| will do whatever it takes to keep you around. If you make your boss
>| look good, make your organization look good, and make your company
>| look good, they will want to make you look good.
>|
>| A "star performer" can easily get offers of six figure incomes from
>| multiple organizations. Your employer knows this. Hopefully, they
>| will see that you are worth more to them as one of their employees
>| than as someone working for a competitor, a supplier, or a customer.
> I don't think you will get that money anywhere but in a large city, at
> least as an employee vs. contractor. And smaller companies can be more
> flexible, providing telecommute days, extra vacation, travel or other
> benefits instead of money. Don't knock quality of life, there's a reason
> why people in NYC and LA have weekend places :-(
In the silicon valley typical junior sysadmin rates are
currently about 60-70K per year. Advanced sa's are
pulling down 80-90K base.
However, those are just base salaries. I know one SA
that just retired from Netscape with a couple of million
in diversified investments. He got lucky, but he was also
smart --- he stuck with it, didn't sell off all his shares
as soon as he could, worked hard for about five years there,
and he spent quite a bit of energy learning about and
engaging in investing, tax management and financial planning.
Who knows. I might make that yet.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To:
nl.comp.os.linux.overig,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Solved: Problems logging in at ISP
Date: 22 Mar 2000 01:03:36 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dani=EBl=20H=F6rchner?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
]Hello all,
]I posted a message about having problems with logging in at my Internet
]Service Provider (ISP) last sunday. I found the cause for the problem:
]setting a nameserver address to 0.0.0.0 to indicate a dynamically
]assigned DNS IP address doesn't work with my ISP. I emailed the helpdesk
]of my ISP and they replied that I should use the IP addresses they gave
]me (in their email), because 0.0.0.0 doesn't work.
It means that their ppp server is very broken. Are they really assigning
your a permanant IP address? Is this via telephone modem or is it ASDL
or cable?
Anyway, they should fix their ppp. BUt they won't.
or
]Thank you all for your replies.
]Kind regards,
]Daniel Horchner
]PS. Setting a nameserver address to 0.0.0.0 is something I read in a
]book that was bundled with my copy of Red Hat Linux 6.0. This should be
This is the accepted method of asking the remote computer to supply you
with an IP address.
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From: Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 6.2 & XFree86 4.0?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 01:17:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ' Is the next release of Red Hat Linux going to have XFree86 4.0
integrated?
>
> Check with Red Hat. It may be included as an option. SuSE 6.4 will
> have it as an option, but will use the stable XFree by default.
>
> If you are truly brave, you might just grab the source and build it
> yourself ;-) I did this last night with the latest GCC. It built and
> installed. Now will it build a program that runs?
>
> --
> David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
> NRA Member | a hoploholic.
>
> http://www.packetphone.org/
>
> The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching
> train.
>
Which version of gcc did you use? gcc-2.95.2 or a recent snapshot?
Peace.....
Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Subject: Re: HELP: installation of PostgreSQL
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:24:32 GMT
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:30:23 GMT, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>1. The ./configure program says it can't detect what my machine is (--
>
Try 'uname -a' which among others states your release.
Then try eg.: ./configure i686-linux
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Andreas Hinz
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From: Andrew Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: background
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 01:32:24 GMT
How to set up background in xwindows (not in gnome)
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From: jpkarrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: RAMdisk Installation
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:55:13 -0700
check the kernel source docs for info on setting up ramdisks- it's not
to hard.
I think what you should do is mount your hard disk read only, because
that is what you need to protect. If the power goes off and stuff in ram
is lost, no biggy. You'll loose current data, but the system should hold
up fine. So anything that needs r/w, put on ramdisk. Using a separate
swap partition should be ok.
You'll need to put something in your startup scripts to establish the
necessary ramdisks files on startup- i.e. copy r/o /var to r/w /var on
ramdisk.
good luck,
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Prevent X autostart on RH 6.1
Date: 22 Mar 2000 01:56:37 GMT
Scott Bate wrote:
>
> Dear Sirs & Madams,
>
> I have only just go X to start at all but when it does (on startup of Linux)
> there is a box in the centre of screen and the locks PC locks up. I think it
> is because I have created a bad XF86config file by choosing incorrect
> settings in XF86Setup.
>
> Does anyone know how to start up Linux without the automatic starting of the
> X gui, considering that I cannot get into a character-mode login prompt at
> all now?
>
> Scott.
In /etc/inittab change the line:
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
Reboot...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS
Date: 22 Mar 2000 02:35:39 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I have a basic printing question with Linux. I am running Slackware 7.0
>and am trying to set up a DeskJet PLUS. I have read all the
>tutorials/HOWTOs, but they describe how to get lpr working. I am
>wondering how I can get /dev/lp0 to work.
>
>I have read on other postings that you should be able to do "cat
>file.txt > /dev/lp0" and it prints something. I can't even get response
>to it.
>
>This isn't a problem with the printcap or with lpr, but I'm wondering
>about how to set up /dev/lp0 and parallel ports in general.
>
>I did read through the parport howto, and got some response by loading
>some of the parport modules, but that is a bit over my head, and was
>wondering if someone could help explain some of this to me. (:
Slackware 7 has a startup file (/etc/rc.d/rc.modules) which will
by default load the modules if needed for the parallel port. For
reference, they are: parport parport_pc lp
So you shouldn't have to worry about the modules for /dev/lp0 support.
When you say you "can't even get a response from it", what exactly happens?
If it hangs, I would make sure the printer is OK, cable is good, and it
isn't sharing an IRQ with something else. Does the BUSY light (or whatever)
on the printer blink? Also check /var/log/messages to see if the system
logged any errors there.
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From: apriltale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux directory
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 02:30:07 GMT
i can find the file ./.wine/wineserver-localhost.localdomain/socket using
gnome search tool
but i don't know how to open or delete the file "socket"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 03:09:46 GMT
On 22 Mar 2000 00:44:11 GMT, James T. Dennis wrote:
> However, those are just base salaries. I know one SA
> that just retired from Netscape with a couple of million
> in diversified investments.
Strikes me that most people in the computer industry are making their money
that way. They get stock options, and wait for them to mature. Of course,
the salary is often enough to live on (if you work hard for it), and the
stock options give you a little cash for your future.
I talked to one CISCO engineer who said that by 40 years of age, he'd retire,
as would his wife, and he'd be "comfortable" for the rest of his life.
> Who knows. I might make that yet.
We all might, it's just a matter of time and energy for a lot of us :>
I'm just at the pre-entry-level yet, but soon...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: How to turn X window autostart off?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:40:31 +0800
Sorry, i know i should read the documentation first but could someone
tell me how to turn the autostart to X window when logging into Linux?
I'm using RH6.1.
Thank you
Regards
the newbie
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to turn X window autostart off?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:33:01 -0600
vi /etc/inittab
And change this line:
id:5:initdefault:
To: id:3:initdefault:
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'lilo' w/IDE & SCSI (was Re: Used to boot; now doesn't. Says "LI")
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:51:54 +1000
make sure lilo installs to the mbr of the right disk.
Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> You need some explicit drive assignments in lilo.conf. When you have
> both hda and sda, there is sometimes confusion because those scsi cards
> patch the bios, and different ones use a different sequence of IDE vs
> scsi drives. That is the 0x80, 0x81 things.
>
> man lilo.conf
>
> then search for bios= or disk=
>
> Neil.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 03:40:52 GMT
> Slackware 7 has a startup file (/etc/rc.d/rc.modules) which will
> by default load the modules if needed for the parallel port. For
> reference, they are: parport parport_pc lp
> So you shouldn't have to worry about the modules for /dev/lp0 support.
>
> When you say you "can't even get a response from it", what exactly
happens?
> If it hangs, I would make sure the printer is OK, cable is good, and
it
> isn't sharing an IRQ with something else. Does the BUSY light (or
whatever)
> on the printer blink? Also check /var/log/messages to see if the
system
> logged any errors there.
Hey, thanks for the response. When I said that it wasn't responding, I
meant that when I did "cat file.txt > /dev/lp0" nothing happened. It
went through, didn't hang, but the printer didn't even budge.. no
lights, nothing.
I'm pretty sure the cable and printer are working, I'll double check
though.
So you're saying that "normally" I should have to do anything to get
parallel ports working? I should be able to plug it in and do "cat x >
/dev/lp0"?
Thanks for the help,
Luke
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From: Don Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: txt file size
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 03:30:28 GMT
Linux 2.2 can handle 2 gig files.
dave fleet wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
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From: Don Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: txt file size
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 03:30:28 GMT
The current 2.2 kernel supports 2 gig files. The upcoming 2.4 kernel
supports larger sizes.
dave fleet wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
>
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installation problem
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:48:42 -0600
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.1/images/i386/
gdth-drivers-disk.img
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux directory
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:05:23 -0500
apriltale wrote:
>
> i can find the file ./.wine/wineserver-localhost.localdomain/socket using
> gnome search tool
> but i don't know how to open or delete the file "socket"
open:
vi .wine/wineserver-localhost.localdomain/socket
remove/delete:
rm .wine/wineserver-localhost.localdomain/socket
-Jan
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