Linux-Misc Digest #969, Volume #23 Mon, 27 Mar 00 10:13:03 EST
Contents:
Remote terminal ("Peet Grobler")
Re: Ditto Max Configuration? - More Info (Jeremy)
Re: Can Linux be setup to host web folders? ("Sandy Dunlop")
Partitioning Problems (noel)
Re: sound turtle beach montego? (Derek Colley)
Re: "random" Process Upon Boot (Lew Pitcher)
Re: sound turtle beach montego? (Brad Ford)
Re: Real player 7 on SuSE (6.2) (Philipp Maier)
Re: Can I use linux??? (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Newbie Q : Allowing user to exec /sbin/shutdown (Steve)
Re: hosnames in title var of Xterm (Steve)
Re: Newbie Q : Log a user's activity (Steve)
LILO doesn't find my NT Partition (Eric Rountree)
Re: find and grep ? ("James Stevenson")
Re: No bootable cdrom (w/ Mandrake 7.0) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to turn X window autostart off? (Richard Cobbe)
RedHat 6.2: zoot-doc.iso? (Richard Cobbe)
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Remote terminal
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:38:54 +0200
Sorry for flooding the newsgroup, one last question.
I want to connect to my Linux machine with a MS-DOS machine running a
terminal emulator on COM1. How do I run a process on the Linux machine to
monitor the port, and start the terminal session?
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From: Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ditto Max Configuration? - More Info
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 07:01:43 -0600
Hi!
I got the Ditto Max drive to talk, but it still will not work. Below is
what I get in my dmesg file, but first my configuration -
- conf.modules -
alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_base=0x200 ft_fdc_irq=0x03 ft_fdc_dma=0
isapnp is configured as base 0x200, irq 3, dma 0
when I try to use my tape drive, it reports it cannot find it's position.
Also it seems that ftape does not see it as a ditto max drive.
- dmesg -
ftape v3.04d 25/11/97
(c) 1993-1996 Bas Laarhoven ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(c) 1996-1997 Claus-Justus Heine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020 floppy tape drives
Compiled for Linux version 2.2.5-15 with versioned symbols
[000] ftape-init.c (ftape_init) - installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware
drive ... .
[001] ftape-init.c (ftape_init) - ftape_init @ 0xc490604c.
[002] ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #1 @ c351bf20, dma area
@ c0640000.
[003] ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #2 @ c351be80, dma area
@ c04a8000.
[004] ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #3 @ c351bde0, dma area
@ c04a0000.
[005] ftape-calibr.c (time_inb) - inb() duration: 1282 nsec.
[006] ftape-calibr.c (ftape_calibrate) - TC for `ftape_udelay()' = 425
nsec (at 20479 counts).
[007] ftape-calibr.c (ftape_calibrate) - TC for `fdc_wait()' = 2433 nsec
(at 2559 counts).
zftape for ftape v3.04d 25/11/97
(c) 1996, 1997 Claus-Justus Heine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
vfs interface for ftape floppy tape driver.
Support for QIC-113 compatible volume table, dynamic memory allocation
and builtin compression (lzrw3 algorithm).
Compiled for Linux version 2.2.5-15 with versioned symbols
[008] zftape-init.c (zft_init) - zft_init @ 0xc492aca8.
[009] zftape-init.c (zft_init) - installing zftape VFS interface for ftape
driver ....
[010] fdc-io.c (fdc_config) - fdc base: 0x200, irq: 3, dma: 0.
[011] fdc-io.c (fdc_probe) - A previously undetected FDC found.
[012] fdc-io.c (fdc_probe) - Treating it as a 82077AA. Please report
partid= 130.
[013] fdc-isr.c (fdc_isr) - unexpected stray interrupt.
[014] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_get_drive_status) - error status set.
[015] ftape-io.c (ftape_report_error_R999edffd) - errorcode: 31.
[016] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_log_vendor_id) -
============ unknown vendor id ===========
A new, yet unsupported tape drive is found
Please report the following values:
Vendor id : 0x8885
Wakeup method : Colorado
And a description of your tape drive
to the ftape maintainer
==========================================.
[017] ftape-io.c (ftape_report_configuration) - TR-3 tape detected.
[018] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_init_drive) - post QIC-117B drive @ 250 Kbps.
[019] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_calibrate_data_rate_R82bcf52a) - Highest FDC
supported data rate: 187 Kbps.
[020] ftape-io.c (ftape_report_configuration) - TR-3 tape detected.
[021] ftape-io.c (ftape_set_data_rate) - Rate change failed!.
[022] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_calibrate_data_rate_R82bcf52a) - set datarate
failed.
[023] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_init_drive) -
ftape_calibrate_data_rate_R82bcf52a(qic_std) failed: -5.
[024] fdc-io.c (fdc_result) - fdc not ready.
[025] fdc-isr.c (handle_fdc_busy) - Probably fatal error during FDC
Result Phase
drive may hang until (power on) reset :-(.
[026] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_enable_R7ec0d5d4) - ftape_init_drive() failed:
-5.
[027] zftape-ctl.c (_zft_open) - ftape_enable failed: -5.
[028] zftape-init.c (zft_open) - _ftape_open failed.
when I try to write, this is what I get -
[063] ftape-rw.c (determine_position) - ftape_report_drive_status:
0x24.
[064] ftape-rw.c (determine_position) - ftape_report_drive_status:
0x24.
[065] ftape-rw.c (determine_position) - ftape_report_drive_status:
0x24.
......
......
[090] ftape-rw.c (determine_position) - ftape_report_drive_status:
0x24.
[091] ftape-rw.c (ftape_start_tape) - panic: location not known.
[092] ftape-rw.c (determine_position) - ftape_report_drive_status:
0x24.
......
......
[122] ftape-rw.c (determine_position) - ftape_report_drive_status:
0x24.
[123] ftape-rw.c (determine_position) - ftape_report_drive_status:
0x24.
[124] ftape-rw.c (ftape_start_tape) - panic: location not known.
[125] ftape-rw.c (ftape_start_tape) - failed to reposition.
[126] ftape-read.c (ftape_read_segment_fraction_Rc87f4ed7) - Error:
segment 0 unreachable.
[127] ftape-read.c (ftape_read_header_segment_Ra2b14b3c) - header
segment damaged, trying backup.
[128] ftape-io.c (ftape_report_error_R999edffd) - errorcode: 2.
[129] ftape-io.c (ft_check_cmd_restrictions) - Fatal: tape removed
or reinserted !.
[130] ftape-io.c (ftape_command_R799305e4) -
ft_check_cmd_restrictions(command) failed: -5.
[131] ftape-io.c (ftape_seek_head_to_track) -
ftape_command_R799305e4(QIC_SEEK_HEAD_TO_TRACK) failed: -5.
[132] ftape-rw.c (ftape_start_tape) - failed to reposition.
[133] ftape-read.c (ftape_read_segment_fraction_Rc87f4ed7) - Error:
segment 1 unreachable.
[134] ftape-read.c (ftape_read_header_segment_Ra2b14b3c) - no readable
header segment found.
[135] zftape-read.c (zft_read_header_segments) -
ftape_read_header_segment_Ra2b14b3c(zft_hseg_buf) failed: -5.
[136] zftape-write.c (check_write_access) - zft_read_header_segments()
failed: -5.
[137] zftape-write.c (_zft_write) - check_write_access(req_len,
&volume,&zft_pos,zft_blk_sz) failed: -5.
[138] fdc-io.c (fdc_result) - fdc not ready.
[139] fdc-isr.c (handle_fdc_busy) - Probably fatal error during FDC
Result Phase
drive may hang until (power on) reset :-(.
[140] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_disable_R7b52f04b) - == Non-fatal errors this
run: ==.
[141] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_disable_R7b52f04b) - fdc isr statistics:
id_am_errors : 2
id_crc_errors : 0
data_am_errors : 0
data_crc_errors : 0
overrun_errors : 0
no_data_errors : 0
retries : 2.
[142] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_disable_R7b52f04b) - ecc statistics:
crc_errors : 0
crc_failures : 0
ecc_failures : 0
sectors corrected: 0.
[143] ftape-ctl.c (ftape_disable_R7b52f04b) - tape motion statistics:
repositions : 1.
Anyone have an idea????
Jeremy
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From: "Sandy Dunlop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can Linux be setup to host web folders?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:13:14 +0100
i think he means a web server. i think maybe thats what 'web folders'
does in win98 although i've never tried it myself.
Larry, have a look and see if you've got a /home/httpd/html directory
and put the stuff in there that you want to make available on the net.
Do you have apache? if not try http://apache.org - its what I use for
making things available for download.
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: > I would like to use my linux box as a file server through the web
via
: > web folders. Can this be done? What packages would this involve? I
: have
: > samba installed and working currently.
: >
: > -Larry
: >
: >
:
: i must admit i don't know 'web folders'?
: is there any reason not to set up a ftp-server?
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From: noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partitioning Problems
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:30:07 GMT
For the past few months, I've been struggling, unsuccessfully, to install
Linux on my computer which currently runs Windows 98. My problem is with
the partitioning process which is prevented from happening by virus
software on my PC. I have uninstalled Norton AntiVirus from my computer
and turned off the BIOS' virus checker but I am still prevented from
applying the partitioning process when the PC reboots to start the process
outside the Windows 98 environment. I appreciate you don't know what
software there is on my PC but do you know of any way that I can find out
what is causing this problem when the computer reboots and how I can stop
it?
Thanks a lot
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From: Derek Colley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound turtle beach montego?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:37:17 +0100
Hi there,
I have this card - came installed on my Dell Dimension xps R450 - and the
standard sound drivers do not support it. There is limited support for this
sound card if you get the proprietory OSS drivers (http://www.opensound.com).
Rgds,
Derek Colley
netSimple Ltd
http://www.netsimple.co.uk
Mecky wrote:
> Hi,
> is there a possibility to get the "Turtle Beach Montego" PCI Sounddevice to
> run in kernel 2.2.10?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: "random" Process Upon Boot
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:39:39 GMT
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:35:43 GMT, "Buck Turgidson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me why RH 6.1 would start this process by default upon boot?
>I'd like to stop it to save memory, but don't want to disable something.
>Them man page gives no clues as to why it'd be started.
>
>" The random() function uses a non-linear additive feedback
> random number generator employing a default table of size
> 31 long integers to return successive pseudo-random num-
> bers in the range from 0 to RAND_MAX. The period of this
> random number generator is very large, approximately
> 16*((2**31)-1)............ "
>
>
You've quoted the man page for the random() function from the libc
library, not a man page for the "random" program. AFAIK, "random" is
specific to your installation; it certainly doesn't appear on my
Slackware installations or in their man pages.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant
Toronto Dominion Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Brad Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound turtle beach montego?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:26:01 +1000
Mecky wrote:
> Hi,
> is there a possibility to get the "Turtle Beach Montego" PCI Sounddevice to
> run in kernel 2.2.10?
Mecky
Is the Turtle Beach Montego an Aureal Vortex type of card? I have the Storm
Platinum Aureal Vortex and just tonight i got sound working in Linux Redhat
6.2 beta. The driver I got was from www.freshmeat.com. The file has the
driver for the Turtle Beach Montego (8820 based) sound card in it, among
others.
I think this may be what you are looking for. Go to 'freshmeat' and type
'Aureal' in the search box.
Good luck.
Brad
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From: Philipp Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Real player 7 on SuSE (6.2)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:02:36 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roberto Maria Avanzi Mocenigo wrote:
> Anyone succeeded, there is no hope ?
Yes. SuSE Linux 6.1 - it works perfectly well, even integrated smoothly
into KDE and Netscape...
PM
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I use linux???
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:32:33 -0500
"D.Weitz" wrote:
>
> Our church has a 486 with a 500 meg hard disk that was donated. All os
> have been deleted from the machine. I can't use Windows on it and while
> I could install DOS and use Dos-based Wordperfect and Lotus I'd rather
> use linux if it would be practical. My other problems are that this
> machine has no CD. I probably could install a modem but haven't got a
> browser -- I'm not sure but I might be able to find an old Dos version
> of Procom Plus but I'm not at all sure about that. I was wondering if an
> older version of linux would be a way to start. Any recommendations.
> Thanks very much.
> Dave Weitz
>
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> Before you buy.
Linux will work fine, including having enough room for an office
suite like Star Office or K-Office. You can get Linux installed on it
by several routes: The slackware distribution has disk images for
floppies, you can download/transfer those images to floppies on another
machine. If you can borrow a couple of NICs, you can install via NFS
from another Linux/Unix machine with the required cdrom drive and with
NFS enabled. You can also install over the parallel or serial links,
but I don't know of any distribution that sets this up for you
"automatically". You can temporarily move a CDROM into the machine for
the install. If you go this route, you need to have the CDROM set as
"slave" via the dip-switches on the drive and the HD set as "master" if
you use the same IDE port.
If the machine has small memory (say, 8 MB), you may find running
Xwindows slow. In this case, look for a small, fast GUI rather than a
pretty, elegant GUI. RAM and HD space are more of a limitation than the
486 speed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Newbie Q : Allowing user to exec /sbin/shutdown
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Mar 2000 14:02:45 GMT
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:22:09 +0200, Peet Grobler wrote:
>Hi.
>
>When running /sbin/shutdown now, the machine tells me:
>"Need to be root to shutdown"
>
>The file permissions was set by root to rwxrwxrwx, so anybody should be able
>to run it, not??
>
>Still doesn't work. Only root can shutdown the system.
>
>I seriously need to allow another user to shut down the system.
As root do:
# chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown
As the user logout and log back in again then try shutdown -h now
Have a look at Config-HOWTO on my distro it's in the directory
/usr/doc/HOWTO it answers many of the types of questions that
you are answering.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: hosnames in title var of Xterm
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Mar 2000 14:02:49 GMT
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:08:12 +0100, Neil wrote:
>Hi
>
>In Suse linux, tcsh is configured in such as way as to display hostname and path
>in the title bar of Xterms.
>
>Is there a way to do this in bash for remote systems ? I've trawled around all
>the usual places but to no avail.
I can get it to sort of work by using -n ${PWD} as in the example below,
$ xterm -bg 'black' -fg 'green' -n ${PWD}
The only problem with this is it doesn't change when you change directory, it
only gives the directory from which you open the xterm.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Newbie Q : Log a user's activity
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Mar 2000 14:02:48 GMT
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:47:46 +0200, Peet Grobler wrote:
>Is there a way to log a single specified user's activities? Like all the
>commands he enters and the output he gets?
If you're that paranoid don't give them login access.
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From: Eric Rountree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO doesn't find my NT Partition
Date: 27 Mar 2000 09:32:19 -0500
Hello to all.
I've added Red Hat Linux 6.1 to my IBM Intellistation, which had
previously been running only Windows NT Workstation 4.0. Now I cannot
boot NT. LILO does not have an entry for my NT partition. My NT
partition is still there (I confirmed this with Partition Magic), but
I need to tell LILO that it's there.
I haven't been able to find what I need in the FAQs. Can anyone out
there offer a suggestion?
Thanks.
Eric
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From: "James Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: find and grep ?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:25:46 +0100
Hi
the find|xargs does work if you dont have any spaces in the filenames
you could use
find -type "*html" -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep string
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Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 21:09:27 +1000, "Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >How do I give the output of something like
> >find . -name '*html'
> >to grep so that I can search through the contents of all the found files.
>
> find . -name "foo.*" -print | xargs grep "stuff"
>
> grep -li is handier since it gives you filenames and in not case sensitive
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: No bootable cdrom (w/ Mandrake 7.0)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:48:48 GMT
>I have tried to use this program rawwritewin.exe to make the
> disk but I keep getting an error, Failed data 16!
I have gotten this error also. I tend to like the DOS rawrite.exe.
Copy the image file and the exe to a directory, open a command box,
change to the directory, and run rawrite-it should prompt you for the
rest.
Hope this works. Bodge
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to turn X window autostart off?
From: Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:22:24 GMT
Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 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.
> >
> > Regards
> > the newbie
>
> try "linuxconf"
>
> Or read the documentation :-)
While I'm all in favor of RTFM as a solution strategy, I wouldn't actually
know where to find this in "The Docs<tm>". And I've been using Linux for 4
years now! Where could one find the documentation for runlevels and their
meanings, and other init-related stuff?
I ask not so much for me, because I've picked most of this stuff up
(through osmosis, it would seem), but because I'd like to be able to point
people at a specific resource for questions like this.
Thanks,
RIchard
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Subject: RedHat 6.2: zoot-doc.iso?
From: Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:28:34 GMT
Morning, all.
I just got a RH 6.2 release notice and thought I'd check it out. Since I
have DSL and a CD-burner, I was planning on sucking down the
ISO images and burning them myself. One question, though -- the
appropriate directory (at least on the sourceforge mirror) contains the
following files:
ncftp .../redhat/redhat-6.2/iso > dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 369 Mar 26 05:16 ls-lR
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173 Mar 26 05:16 ls-lR.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 608845824 Mar 10 00:20 zoot-doc.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 671881216 Mar 9 18:39 zoot-i386.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 627785728 Mar 9 18:42 zoot-sparc.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 594044928 Mar 9 18:41 zoot-srpms.iso
Most of these are obvious, but what's zoot-doc.iso? Even with DSL, a 600M
download still takes a while, and I'd rather not bother unless I really
need it.
Anybody try this one out?
Richard
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