Linux-Misc Digest #136, Volume #24 Thu, 13 Apr 00 07:13:02 EDT
Contents:
only root can startx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Which backup software to use? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: only root can startx (Andreas Kahari)
Re: only root can startx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Bloody clock is an hour fast (Bill Simpson)
Re: only root can startx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: only root can startx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Why my KDE keeps polling my CD-ROM? (Mei)
Re: pcmcia-cs-3.1.13 on kernel 2.3.99-pre3 (Mei)
Re: Summing Up File Sizes (Jason)
Re: how can i get my apache server support Java servlet? (Stefan Cyris)
Re: Bootdisks, rdev, and root filesystems...aargh! (Martin Kahlert)
Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix) (Heiko Recktenwald)
LILO stops at LI (Henry)
Re: Can't ping after changing from coaxial to 10baseT (Andrew Williams)
Re: [FLAME] Re: monitoring users (Jason)
Re: help with ftp (Andrew Williams)
Re: SuSE 6.4 (Andrew Williams)
Re: LILO stops at LI (Andrew Williams)
Re: encrypted password?? (Andres Soolo)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: only root can startx
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:06:35 GMT
Hi there,
My problem is that I can only run xwindow if I'm log in root... I think
that's a permission problem but I don't know where to search. Can you
help me?
Thank you
Allan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Which backup software to use?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:33:50 GMT
I don't know how much you want to learn, but I would truly suggest
learning how to use the tar program. Yea its cryptic, but you can write
scripts, and have things happen automatically (perform backup at 3:00 am
and such) using cron (Ok I admit you can use cron to schedule about
everything) but here is the ticker. These fancy backup programs are
usually difficult to impossible to use if you actually have a hard drive
failure! It is so nice to be able to boot from a diskette gain access to
your backup media (for Me its a cd) and know how to use mount and tar
to recover your system and using lilo to remake your MBR. No not as
slick as many backup [Programs] but that kind of backup will be a
savior when the hardware fails. (Or root user types rm -rf /usr instead
of rm -rf usr when he/she wanted to remove the tempoary usr dir in the
/root filesystem :)) Just some food for thought
jollyroger
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Buzanits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a SCSI-DAT drive and look for the optimal software for making
backups of
> my Linux-Box (SuSE 6.3).
>
> I have figured out that there is amanda, cpio and star. But I'm sure
there are
> several other free tools out there. Can anyone recommend a special
tool?
>
> Performace while backup is not the goal. It is just important to be
able to
> recover any special file from the tape as quick as possible. And to be
able to
> store several backups on one tape.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Peter Buzanits
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------
> DI Peter Buzanits
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://peter.buzanits.at
> AOL-Messenger: aim:goim?screenname=Buzanits
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>
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: only root can startx
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:34:05 GMT
You should possibly read section Q.E14 of the XFree86 FAQ at
<URL:http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/>. What distribution of the OS are you
running? Debian GNU/Linux is doing something different from e.g. Red
Hat.
/A
In article <8d42mk$r48$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> My problem is that I can only run xwindow if I'm log in root... I
think
> that's a permission problem but I don't know where to search. Can you
> help me?
>
> Thank you
>
> Allan
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: only root can startx
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:38:58 GMT
I have Redhat Linux 6.2 i386 with KDE
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:06:36 +0100
From: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bloody clock is an hour fast
This has always been a problem of mine too. Is the way to proceed as
follows?
1. use date to set system time and date
Right now in UK I am on daylight savings time but I guess I should
subtract one hour? E.g if current time is 10am I should say it is 9am?
(Because I set clock ahead one hour when moving into daylight savings
time, "real" time is an hour earlier)
2. tzset
Not sure how to do this!
I don't know when daylight savings starts/ends
I don't know the name of the daylight savings time zone (I am in UK).
3. hwclock -utc -systohc
to keep hwclock on utc time and linux will convert to localtime (which I
just set using tzset)
Thanks for any help!
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: only root can startx
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:56:31 GMT
You are not being very specific. Have you just installed you distro, or
did you try to install from scratch? If that was the case make sure that
you ran the preinstall.sh before extraction and postinstall.sh
afterward, I think that deals with things like permissions. If you could
provide some more info on what you have done to get as far as you have
would be more helpfull.
jollyroger
In article <8d42mk$r48$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> My problem is that I can only run xwindow if I'm log in root... I
think
> that's a permission problem but I don't know where to search. Can you
> help me?
>
> Thank you
>
> Allan
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: only root can startx
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:02:26 GMT
Thanks but ... You talk to me in chinese... (distro, scratch...)
I don't know this things. Sorry
Allan
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From: Mei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Why my KDE keeps polling my CD-ROM?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:14:23 +0200
Reply-To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if anyone can help. I notice whenever i switch from GNOME
> to KDE, my KDE would keep polling my CD_ROM drive (the LED keep blinking
> every few seconds). Does anyone know what's wrong and how to remedy
> this? This does not happen in GNOME. I'm using RH6.1 with a pentium 90
> with 48M ram and over 10gig of harddisk.
Have you the kde cdplayer running at the start?
Ciao Mei
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From: Mei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pcmcia-cs-3.1.13 on kernel 2.3.99-pre3
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:20:39 +0200
Reply-To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sean Harding ha scritto:
>
> pcmcia-cs-3.1.13 doesn't seem to compile with kernel 2.3.99-pre3:
>
But 2.3.99 has already pcmcia support. I think you don't need pcmcia-cs
package. You only need to configure the kernel and to enable the pcmcia
drivers you need.
Ciao Mei
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From: Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Summing Up File Sizes
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:22:32 GMT
Floyd Davidson wrote:
> >
> >ls -l | awk '{sum+=$5;print sum;}'
Result: 72324012
In case you were wondering, this is taking the entire number from the
column where the size is located and adding them together
incrementally. This is the result that I expected to see.
> $ du -s
Result: 90132
I have no idea where this came from, its nowhere near the same number
as listed above. The only thing that I can think of is that it is
including the subdirectories and adding the sums of those together to
come up with a total. Also, this number is much lower than the one that
is expected.
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From: Stefan Cyris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: how can i get my apache server support Java servlet?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:18:17 +0200
hi
Try to compile apache for yourself and don't forget to include tomcat (
http://jakarta.apache.org/) . For me it works much better than
serlvets-module.
cya
Stefan
Bonn wrote:
>
> i have the jsdk, but i don't know how to make my Linux supoort it.
> any suggestion? thank you very much.
>
> pls also send me a mail:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> regards
> bonn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Kahlert)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Bootdisks, rdev, and root filesystems...aargh!
Date: 13 Apr 2000 10:30:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Anders Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> bob smith wrote:
>>
>> Take a look at this how-to, linux from scratch how-to, found at:
>> http://www.linuxdocs.org/LDP/LGissue49/misc/beekmans/LFS-HOWTO.html
>> Really great.
Use this instead:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux-From-Scratch-HOWTO.html
Bye,
Martin.
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From: Heiko Recktenwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 03:40:07 +0200
> With Word for Linux, Excel for Solaris, and Quicken for FreeBSD there
How is Wordperfect ?
> 3 Microsoft will keep selling products. Within a month of
> releasing its Windows 2000 professional-level OS in
> February, Microsoft reported it had sold more than 1
> million copies. Though the Linux freeware OS is gaining
Selling things is ok as long as it is fair.
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From: Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO stops at LI
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:30:04 GMT
Dear folks
I've Redhat 6.1 installed as a partition on a HD, sharing with Win95. It
works fine during the "LILO boot:", where i can choose
between "windows"(win95) and "linux" until i use Partition Magic to reduce
the size of my redhat partition. I was trying to transfer some empty space
within the main redhat partition (not the swap linux swap partition) to
the Windows partition. The notebook then stops at "LI" whenever i try
booting up the machine again.
Looking through the postings yield no result as no one seems to face the
same problem as me, though suffering the same fate. I do not have any
backup of my data or any info on those /dev/hda..etc info.
I do not know how to create a boot disk to get ito Windows again, except
the Windows created one, which when i tried, gets me to A:\. However i
couldn't get into Win95 again fom C:\. The error message i got was "VFAT
device initialization faied. A device or resource required by VFAT is not
present or is unavailable. VFAT cannot continue loading. System Halted."
Can anyone kindly help me please? I don't really understand the other help
files.
Henry
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't ping after changing from coaxial to 10baseT
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:37:50 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
possibility 1 - your cable is not a crossover cable (a cable used to
connect two machines is wired differently to one used to connect a hub
and a machine)
possibility 2 - cable is just plain bad
possibility 3 - there is some jumper or firmware setting that means your
nic is still trying to communicate via coax.
Assume possibility 3.
NGHIENHA wrote:
> I have two TCP/IP networked computers which worked flawlessly
> until I change from 10base2 (coaxial) to 10baseT (twisted pair).
> From the Linux 5.2 machine I can no longer ping to the other
> machine but pinging to itself is ok on both ends.
> The Linux box keeps issuing following message:
>
> eth0: transmit time out, Tx-status 00 status 2000 Tx FIFO room xxxx
>
> I tried different combinations of the ifconfig command something
> similar to:
>
> ifconfig eth0 10baseT up
>
> and reboot the machine but it still reports 10base2 instead of
> 10baseT and I can't ping to other machine.
>
> Can somebody help me out with the problem ?
>
> Thanks,
> John
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From: Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [FLAME] Re: monitoring users
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:39:26 GMT
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, J. C. wrote:
> >In article <8d2d1n$1kh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Kahari
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >: What is so dangerous with your workers viewing politically incorrect
> >: things from the web or send politically incorrect emails to eachother?
> >: Do *you* decide what's correct and what's not?
> >:
>
> >You're missing the point. When you work for me, I have an absolute
> >right to monitor both your time and your use of my equipment. Your time
> >belongs to me, subject to the terms of your contract with me, or to the
> >collective agreement I may have signed with your union. I have a right
> >to know what you're doing with that time, and to decide whether your
> >use of that time (that I'm paying for) is appropriate to my needs.
> >Likewise, I own the computer you use, and I have a right to decide how
> >you use it. That's it, that's all. If you don't like it, you quit.
> [...]
>
In this case, as a system administrator, I would quit the job that you
are giving me, inform every person at the place of employment by
standing outside the office, on the sidewalk with a picket sign saying
why I quit and encouraging others to do the same. I would also inform
the local media that youre spying on your workers with the purpose of
"controlling your employees" and inform them that I will be forming a
protest to your questionable work ethics. Eventually you will either
loose buisiness because you have no one working for you, or your clients
will leave because "some disgrunteled system administrator" is picketing
your company for questionable ethics.
>
> I guess I would quit and apply for a job at the company I work for
> now. It is a great company and I consider myself being very lucky to
> have gotten the job here.
>
> If things should go out of hand though I'd see the point, but then,
> I think, the problem is not a technical one anymore anyway and a
> solution is going to be a wee bit more demanding.
>
On the other hand, using programs such as the one listed above are
useful especially in a trouble shooting environment where you can
(instead of relying on what the user is telling you) actually view the
screens, and keystrokes of the user so that you can properly trouble
shoot the issues at hand. There are various programs to do this under
various operating system. VMS for example has the MONITOR functions,
IBMs have viewsessions, even SCO has some monitoring softwares. Used
the in the proper fasion, these things are perfectly acceptable. Used
as stated above is an invasion and would be about the most dispicable
thing that a company could do to you.
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with ftp
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:41:38 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
possibility 1 - your machine is set up as to not allow network access as
'root'. A sensible precaution.
possibility 2 - I think the ftp daemon (?) is normally started via inetd
and your inetd is set up as to not permit this.
FTPing in as non-root should help you work out what is going on.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have inherited a linux system, where I cannot send a file via ftp
> (logged onto the linux system)to another system. However, I can receive
> files from other systems using recv. I have checked the security on the
> other system and it does allow people to upload files. The message I
> get on the linux box is "Acess is denied". I am logged on as root and
> the file is being tranasfered to a winnt 4 server.
>
> Please help, I am also new to Linux but have worked with SCO Unix for a
> copule of years
>
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.4
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:46:45 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SuSE releases have a distinctive look and feel. If you find a review of
6.3, just assume that they have updated the software to the newest levels
and fixed some bugs in yast2.
I am still waiting for mine to arrive - I am in Germany but want the
English version and it was not in the post yet as of yesterday.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Aron Felix Gurski wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anybody found a review of SuSE 6.4.
> >
> > Yup, here:
> > http://www.pro-linux.de/berichte/print/suse64.html
> >
> > --
> > -- Aron
> >
> > NB: To reply by e-mail, remove "spam-block." from my address.
> > - - - - - - - - - - -
> > If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, then
> wake him
> > up.
>
> Thanks but how about an English version. :)
>
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO stops at LI
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:04:54 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There appear to be two problems here.
1 - you need to boot Linux from a floppy (or the install cd-rom) and re-run
lilo. Once you do that, I assume that Linux will boot normally.
2 - Dos thinks your Win filesystem is screwed. Either Dos is correct (ouch,
big problem) or your Dos version does not know about the fat32 filesystem. I
suppose you could use dos's fdisk to set your Win95 partition as
active/bootable.
Henry wrote:
> Dear folks
>
> I've Redhat 6.1 installed as a partition on a HD, sharing with Win95. It
> works fine during the "LILO boot:", where i can choose
> between "windows"(win95) and "linux" until i use Partition Magic to reduce
> the size of my redhat partition. I was trying to transfer some empty space
> within the main redhat partition (not the swap linux swap partition) to
> the Windows partition. The notebook then stops at "LI" whenever i try
> booting up the machine again.
>
> Looking through the postings yield no result as no one seems to face the
> same problem as me, though suffering the same fate. I do not have any
> backup of my data or any info on those /dev/hda..etc info.
>
> I do not know how to create a boot disk to get ito Windows again, except
> the Windows created one, which when i tried, gets me to A:\. However i
> couldn't get into Win95 again fom C:\. The error message i got was "VFAT
> device initialization faied. A device or resource required by VFAT is not
> present or is unavailable. VFAT cannot continue loading. System Halted."
>
> Can anyone kindly help me please? I don't really understand the other help
> files.
>
> Henry
>
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From: Andres Soolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: encrypted password??
Date: 13 Apr 2000 11:01:19 GMT
Calvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As the file /somewhere/passwd need a user name and a encrypted password
> separated by a ':'. I just don't know how to get the encrypted password. If
> i just type in the password straight forward into the file, it doesn't work.
Use the crypt() library function. Probably the easiest way is by perl:
$ perl
print crypt ('password', 'salt'), "\n";
^D
sa3tHJ3/KuYvI < this line is perl output
$
Here 'password' is the password you want to crypt, 'salt' is so-called
salt. It should be picked randomly everytime you create a new password,
as described in the crypt(3) man page, and doesn't influence the
password in any way, only it's encrypted form.
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