Linux-Misc Digest #228, Volume #24 Fri, 21 Apr 00 21:13:03 EDT
Contents:
what type of redunency does linux offer? ("Henry Su")
Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU? (James Silverton)
Modem Set Up (Denny Mejia)
KDE and GONE (billy)
Re: Lynx ftp never works ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: Saving Real Audio Streams (Robert Jelinek)
Re: RPM problem (Peter T. Breuer)
Re: Saving Real Audio Streams (Robert Jelinek)
Re: DBF Databases for Linux? (Christopher Browne)
Re: Saving Real Audio Streams (Robert Jelinek)
Re: System Commander 2000 vs. Partition Magic (Dave Pelletier)
Re: DBF Databases for Linux? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Lynx ftp never works (Peter T. Breuer)
A strange warnin... (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith)
Re: Linux is Hard to Use: part 3 (stoney)
Re: Linux is Hard to Use: part 3 (John Hasler)
Re: grow inodes: inode-max limit reached error. (Robie Basak)
Re: Window Managers
Re: USR modem setup (Rob Clark)
Re: Problem: lpr spool directory on NSF mounted partitions (Tronn
=?iso-8859-1?Q?W=E6rdahl?=)
problem using /bin/login (me)
Re: Knews (Rod Smith)
Force fschk next reboot? (Ken Williams)
bash_profile setting ("Buck Turgidson")
Re: bash_profile setting (Michael Kelly)
Re: Knews (Michael Kelly)
Re: bash_profile setting ("Buck Turgidson")
Re: Linux is Hard to Use: part 3 (brian moore)
Re: neighbour table overflow kernel messages (brian moore)
Re: KDE and GONE (Simon Lemieux)
Re: Problems with Login - Need help (Matthew Rudderham)
Re: VFS messages spamming (Michael Kelly)
Re: KDE and GONE (Christopher Browne)
Re: VFS messages spamming ("Reid Sutherland")
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From: "Henry Su" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: what type of redunency does linux offer?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:16:07 -0500
short of clustering service, is there a fairly economical way for linux
redunency?
being that a hard drive failure will take the longest to recover
(install/update kernel, install/update whatever features, recomplile
kernel......), what i am looking for is something like norton ghost or
imagecast or some sort of drive compression/restoration utility.
any pointer will be greatly appreciated.
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From: James Silverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 18:17:24 -0400
Edwin Chacon wrote:
>
> it is GUHNEW
>
> Tandem Guy wrote:
>
> > So, how do you pronounce GNU?
Oh, I agree but, if you ever get the chance, listen to the Flanders and
Swann song "I'm a Gnu". I think their records are still available and
they pronounce it "guhnoo" more or less the same as you!
Jim.
--
James V. Silverton
Potomac, Maryland.
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From: Denny Mejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Set Up
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 06:30:07 GMT
Hello,
I am using Mandrake Linux 7.0. I am new at this Operating System, so I
would like you to help me. I am trying to set up my modem which, is a
USROBOTICS 56k Voice INT V4.9.1. Device ID 5685. when I am using Mandrake
I log in as root, then I type minicom and it tells me initializing modem
please wait. But then again nothing happens.
I would like you to tell me how can I set this modem manually. I want to
know how to set up the IRQ's, the I/O , baud, and so on.
Thank you,
Denny
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From: billy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE and GONE
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:30:05 GMT
hi:
Can anybody tell me which one of these two better? KDE or GONE desktop?
Why?
thank you
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lynx ftp never works
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:39:11 GMT
Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why going to ftp sites with Lynx barely ever works? It
perhaps you need to specify a proxy for ftp (http and ftp are different
services).
the readme that comes with lynx suggests that you ask here:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: Robert Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Saving Real Audio Streams
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:48:24 GMT
Bill Putney wrote:
> Is there a way I can save streaming real audio content to my hard drive as
> .ra or .wav files, so I can play them back later? This would be extremely
> handy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Bill
When you save the .ram or .ra file it will contain an address. Produce a new
Page where you can click on something that points to this address you got
from the file. But click with "SaveLink as" or the middel button! Then the
real-Audio-Stream will be saved as a local file - and you can play it as
often asyou like.
This is the best solution for files that come too slow to see them online ;-)
Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Subject: Re: RPM problem
Date: 22 Apr 2000 00:54:00 +0100
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Thanks for all answers - especially this above. It's really too bad, I
: tried the "--nodeps": not only the app didn't work, but I couldn' remove
: it, because it was "not installed" !!! Now I have only to look for
: "rpm2tgz"...
It's on mw slack 7.0, in /usr/bin. According to the package list,
it comes from the "rpm" package.
If you're going to make a habit of this, get and install "alien".
Any archive site, especially debian.
Peter
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From: Robert Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Saving Real Audio Streams
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:49:03 GMT
Bill Putney wrote:
> Is there a way I can save streaming real audio content to my hard drive as
> .ra or .wav files, so I can play them back later? This would be extremely
> handy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Bill
When you save the .ram or .ra file it will contain an address. Produce a new
Page where you can click on something that points to this address you got
from the file. But click with "SaveLink as" or the middel button! Then the
real-Audio-Stream will be saved as a local file - and you can play it as
often asyou like.
This is the best solution for files that come too slow to see them online ;-)
Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: DBF Databases for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:54:05 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Matt Friedman would say:
>Are there any databases for Linux that use the DBF file format? Are
>there any that have X GUIs, or that can have an X [or KDE] Gui
>bolted-on?
>
>I work over three platforms [Linux/Mac./Win], and I'd like to use my DBF
>files on each.
See the URL below for a lit of software on Linux that "groks" DBF
format...
--
"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal
skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study:
Duh." -- Conan O' Brien
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/xbase.html>
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From: Robert Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Saving Real Audio Streams
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:49:54 GMT
Bill Putney wrote:
> Is there a way I can save streaming real audio content to my hard drive as
> .ra or .wav files, so I can play them back later? This would be extremely
> handy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Bill
When you save the .ram or .ra file it will contain an address. Produce a new
Page where you can click on something that points to this address you got
from the file. But click with "SaveLink as" or the middel button! Then the
real-Audio-Stream will be saved as a local file - and you can play it as
often asyou like.
This is the best solution for files that come too slow to see them online ;-)
Robert
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From: Dave Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System Commander 2000 vs. Partition Magic
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 18:59:39 -0400
Don't know about System Commander, but Powerquest has just released a W2K
update for Partition Magic (v5.0.1 I think)
DP
TBrown wrote:
> My mistake. I asked the wrong question.
>
> I meant to ask which partition management tool works best with Win2k
> (which I am currently running). While I am at it, I hope to install linux
> as well. Any thoughts about PM vs. SC2k? Will there be any problems
> between linux and w2k?
>
> Thanks for the help.
> TBrown
>
> John Hong wrote:
> >
> >
> > "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > >Partition Magic is a partition management tool, not a multi boot
> loader. To
> >
> > That is incorrect. Partition Magic is not only a partition
> > management tool, but also a multiboot OS loader. All one has to do is
> > install the Boot Manager feature of it.
> >
> >
>
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: DBF Databases for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:59:09 GMT
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:23:22 -0400, Matt Friedman <@total.net> wrote:
>Are there any databases for Linux that use the DBF file format? Are
>there any that have X GUIs, or that can have an X [or KDE] Gui
>bolted-on?
>
>I work over three platforms [Linux/Mac./Win], and I'd like to use my
>DBF files on each.
I can't give you specifics, but DBF is a rare bird on Linux/Unix.
Everything is SQL. If you know Clipper, you might check out Flagship,
which is supposedly Clipper 5.3 compatible. Also, I saw an announcement
the other day of Xbase for Clipper (check linuxtoday or freshmeat). I
assumed this is the Xbase++ that is/was a 32-bit Clipper compatible
effort. There is (was?) a Unix version of Foxpro, that I've heard
reports of this running on Linux with much tinkering. I don't have any
firsthand experience with any of these, so grain of salt.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Subject: Re: Lynx ftp never works
Date: 22 Apr 2000 01:01:55 +0100
Ken Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Can anyone tell me why going to ftp sites with Lynx barely ever works? It
: just sits there after "Making connection with whereever", then I try it
: normally with normal ftp and it goes fine. Happens all the time on all kinds
: of different servers.
Works every time for me. Care to give particulars?
Peter
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A strange warnin...
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 01:01:25 -0100
Greetings,
I would like to know the meaning of the message "Warning: locale not
supported by the C library" that appears EVERY time I launch any
application.
Thanks for any answer.
--
Beno�t Smith
Just A Rhyme Without A Reason
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From: stoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is Hard to Use: part 3
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 18:59:50 -0400
"Eric Y. Chang" wrote:
>
> Linux is Hard to Use: Part 3
>
> Linux new user (NU) installation usage profile.
> Expert comments are marked EX.
Hilarious! Thank you for this!
Stoney
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is Hard to Use: part 3
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:11:08 GMT
> Linux is Hard to Use: Part 3
1) Buy a pc with Linux preinstalled from one of the many vendors of such.
2) Buy a copy of Windows from the one and only vendor of such.
3) Using only the software on the Windows CD, install Windows as a second
OS on the Linux machine.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: grow inodes: inode-max limit reached error.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 21 Apr 2000 23:26:57 GMT
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:20:30 -0400, Reid Sutherland said:
>I run a small shell service and now after about a week and always after cron
>jobs by my users, I'm getting this error (which pretty much makes the
>machine not usable): "grow inodes: inode-max limit reached". It looks like a
>person's crontab job is opening up WAY too many files or soemthing over the
>course of time. How do I prevent this from happening?
See the Quota-HOWTO at linuxdoc.org.
>
>Debian 2.2 unstable - 2.2.14+lids+ow2
>
>Thanks
>
>-reid
>
>
Robie.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Window Managers
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:30:05 GMT
Constants wrote:
>
>
> I installed Mandrake 7.0. I chose to install KDE, GNOME, and all the
other
> window managers. Now I just want KDE, GNOME, and enlightment. What is the
> best way to get rid of the other window managers? Do I just Kpackage?
>
>
That would work just fine ... I think most of them are just a couple of
packages each if that.
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Subject: Re: USR modem setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:41:29 GMT
[re: 5687 installation]
Just to add to the previous response-- if you have the 5687-02
(jumperless) version, you need to use isapnptools. See the PnP-HOWTO and
Modem-HOWTO for details.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html <-- Linux/modem compat. list
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From: Tronn =?iso-8859-1?Q?W=E6rdahl?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Problem: lpr spool directory on NSF mounted partitions
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 01:48:34 +0200
Maybe your DC mounts a read only filsystem
Tronn
Marco Cavadini wrote:
> On my diskless workstations I have printing problems with a spooling
> directory in /var/spolling/lpd/printer.
> /var is mounted via NFS (root over NFS....)
>
> This is what I get in teh sooling directory.
>
> -rw-rw---- 1 bin lp 0 Apr 21 09:47 cfA096muggio
> -rw-rw---- 1 cavadini lp 469 Apr 21 09:47 dfA096muggio
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9443 Apr 21 09:11 filter
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 188 Apr 21 09:11 general.cfg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Apr 21 11:24 lock
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 345 Apr 21 09:11 postscript.cfg
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 28 Apr 21 11:24 status
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 146 Apr 21 09:11 textonly.cfg
>
> The cfAOxxxxxx file seams to be badly closed or something like this.
>
> There shouldn't be permissions problems. If I move the spooling
>
> directory to a locally mounted partition (/tmp/spool....) everyting
>
> works fine.
>
> Marco
>
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>
> Dr. Marco Cavadini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> TChip Semiconductor SA Phone: +41 91 605 11 49
> Via Cantonale 35a
> CH-6928 Manno
>
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 02:16:08 +0200
From: me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: problem using /bin/login
here's the problem: when i try to login to my machine, it prompts for
and accepts the
username, and then, without even asking for a password, it says: "Login
Incorrect" eg.
localhost login: root
Login Incorrect
I cant even log in as root. there's nothing wrong with my passwd, group
or shadow files because i use them on my main RH6 system. What i'm
trying to do is create a root disk. everything except this seems to
work.
anyone know what the problem is?????
thanx
ali
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Knews
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:56:05 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Beno�t Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> I have just installed Knews, and I am trying to launch it: the window
> appears, but I only get the message "Connected to server; reading active
> file..." (.newsrc-<myNewsServer> ?). And it never ends up with it !
> Please could someone give me an explanation for this ? Thanks in advance
> for any answer.
The first time you launch Knews, it normally tries to download the entire
list of newsgroups. This can take a while, particularly on a conventional
dialup modem account. If you've got an external modem, you can check to
see if there's network traffic. If not, there are network-monitoring
utilities, or you can just do "ifconfig" several times in a row to see if
the number of packets on the appropriate interface increment.
You should definitely check the Knews documentation to set the options to
have it download the newsgroup list file once and then save it to disk,
else it'll do that every time you start it. I've forgotten what the exact
options are, though.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: Force fschk next reboot?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:58:57 GMT
How to do I tell my system to check the file system on next reboot? Isn't
there something I can change on the superblock that tells the mounter to scan
it first? Or change the max number of reboots to have expired?
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From: "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bash_profile setting
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:10:17 GMT
I have the following defined in .bash_profile to set my prompt. It works
great, except it doesn't change as I cd around the box, so it is obviously
useless. I used the same parameter on my RH5.2 box, and on an AIX (korn
shell) at work with no problem. But it doesn't work with RH 6.1. Any
ideas?
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bash_profile setting
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 20:22:32 -0400
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:10:17 GMT, "Buck Turgidson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have the following defined in .bash_profile to set my prompt. It works
>great, except it doesn't change as I cd around the box, so it is obviously
>useless. I used the same parameter on my RH5.2 box, and on an AIX (korn
>shell) at work with no problem. But it doesn't work with RH 6.1. Any
>ideas?
>
I suggest you check your Purity Of Essence since I don't see that you
posted any prompt string. :-)
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Knews
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 20:20:38 -0400
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:56:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod
Smith) wrote:
>You should definitely check the Knews documentation to set the options to
>have it download the newsgroup list file once and then save it to disk,
>else it'll do that every time you start it. I've forgotten what the exact
>options are, though.
Once I run it the first time to get the active and description files
then I always start it with a one-line script so I don't do it again.
I use
knews -active -descriptions +fill &
as my script.
The +fill is *very* important or else it won't save all the groups
to disk. If you set the option to scan for new groups when it
connects, and when new groups are found, just hit the "update"
button so they'll be added to the total list of ngs. I found it good
to check "all groups" before you hit "update" until you get used
to using knews to make sure there's still the whole bunch of ngs
there, so that you don't forshorten your list again. Once you get
the hang of it it's not bad at all.
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bash_profile setting
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:25:17 GMT
Sorry. Forgot the actual command parameter. It is:
export PS1="[\u $PWD] $"
Buck Turgidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:J56M4.27046$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have the following defined in .bash_profile to set my prompt. It works
> great, except it doesn't change as I cd around the box, so it is obviously
> useless. I used the same parameter on my RH5.2 box, and on an AIX (korn
> shell) at work with no problem. But it doesn't work with RH 6.1. Any
> ideas?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Linux is Hard to Use: part 3
Date: 22 Apr 2000 00:25:26 GMT
On 21 Apr 2000 22:04:18 GMT,
Eric Y. Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robie Basak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : On 21 Apr 2000 16:50:08 GMT, Eric Y. Chang said:
> ...
> : >forever when it tries to boot. Also, I cannot boot Windows.
>
> : Eh? Redhat doesn't destroy Windows, even 5.2 doesn't.
>
> : >EX: Oh yes, the old lilo
> : >010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010... bug.
> : >You did make a boot disk? Why did you want to go back to Windows
> : >anyway?
>
> : No such thing; if you want to critisize, try finding a real problem.
>
> Actually, I have never personally witnessed this during an install,
> but I have seen the results so many times that I believe that there
> is something wrong. Apparently, the new user installs LILO, and
> forgets about lilo -u, saving the MBR, etc. Then, upon rebooting
> the computer, all the 01010101010... comes out. The CD-ROM is
> incapable of booting Windows. And an improperly prepared boot
> floppy cannot boot Windows either. Once lilo on the MBR fails, you
> will have to restore the MBR. The humorous thing is that this is
> almost always discovered when Linux fails to recognize either the
> video card or the network, sending the helpless user running back
> to Windows. Again, I have little experience with this, since I
> do not dual boot.
I've seen it.
I have a SCSI system except for a fat IDE drive for MP3's and my local
Debian repository. LILO sees the IDE drive, thinks its smart and says
"oh, gosh, I see IDE here, so I'll read Linux from the second drive,
since the first must be that IDE thing..."
Except it's not... the 'SCSI BIOS' renumbers the drives, and the first
drive is the scsi drive...
The 01 means:
0x01 "Illegal command". This shouldn't happen, but if it does, it
may indicate an attempt to access a disk which is not supported by
the BIOS. See also "Warning: BIOS drive 0x<number> may not be
accessible" in section "Warnings".
ie, LILO tells the IDE drive "hey go read this block from the second
drive" and my BIOS says "huh, I don't know about any IDE stuff, I've got
this nifty scsi drive you can talk to, though...."
The fix in my case was to tell LILO to stop thinking it was clever:
disk = /dev/sda
bios = 0x80
That tells LILO that despite what may be 'normal', it should address the
scsi drive as the first drive, not as the second.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: neighbour table overflow kernel messages
Date: 22 Apr 2000 00:29:36 GMT
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:39:58 GMT,
Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi! I'm usgin RedHat 6.0 w/ a custom 2.2.14 kernel and glibc-2.1.3.
> The system has been working fine for a long time and recently I've
> started noticing "neighbour table overflow" kernel messages in
> /var/log/messages. Coincidentally, the Apache 1.3.12 server running on
> the box is NOT accessible. It starts just fine and binds to both IPs
> (it's a multi-homed machine) on port 80 fine, but when I try to connect
> using "lynx" on the Machine itself, I get a "Cannot connect to host"
> message and "lynx" terminates.
Do you have a loopback interface defined?
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: KDE and GONE
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:33:33 GMT
> Can anybody tell me which one of these two better? KDE or GONE desktop?
FVWM2 !!
> Why?
It's got no fancy windows, no useless animations, no nothing, just plain peace!
But, if you prefer a Windows like interface I would suggest Gnome...
Simon Lemieux
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From: Matthew Rudderham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with Login - Need help
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:30:07 GMT
Robie Basak wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 16:30:14 GMT, Matthew Rudderham said:
> >Hi,
> >I just started running linux about a week ago, and love it.
> >I am running Linux Mandrake 7.0 on a Pentium III - 450, 128mb RAM.
> >I've run into a problem with my login though. When a user logs in the
Bash
> >shell which is default doesn't seem to beoperating properly. After the
> >user logging in enters their password, the following line is displayed:
> >/bin/bash: dircolors: command not found
> >When the user tried for example to execute /bin/ls or another command
the
> >following is displayed:
> >/bin/bash: dircolors: command not found
> >/bin/bash: id: command not found
> >/bin/bash: tty: command not found
> >(Note running ls from an directory other than /bin will not do anything
> >(bad command returned) so I assume paths are not being set).
> >This only happens with accounts I've setup, and not the root account.
> >Onlogin with root I do get one error:
> >grep - command not found
>
> Strange. Try typing 'alias' and see what comes up.
>
When I type alias it produces:
alias cd..='cd ..'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias d='ls'
alias df='df -h -x supermount'
alias du='du -h'
alias l='ls'
alias la='ls -l'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias ls='ls --color=auto -F'
alias lsd='ls -d */'
alias md='mkdir'
alias mv='mv -i'
alias p='cd -'
alias rd='rmdir'
alias rm='rm -i'
alias s='cd ..'
I forgot to mention, I've already reinstalled the bash RPMs to no avail
- Matt
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VFS messages spamming
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 20:23:55 -0400
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:56:56 GMT, Alastair Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
What's your /etc/fstab file?
Do you have the option for your cdrom
set to noauto?
Mike
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-- Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: KDE and GONE
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:46:32 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when billy would say:
>hi:
> Can anybody tell me which one of these two better? KDE or GONE desktop?
>Why?
People seem to prefer the KDE file manager to anything equivalent
presently available for GNOME. Klyx is more functional than AbiWord,
the GNOME "word processor." And there's certainly a lot of "hype"
about KOffice.
On the other hand, Gnumeric is vastly more functional than anything
documented about Kspread, and KDE has no equivalent to DIA.
- If you look at the "hype" on _both_ sides, whether at the rosy picture
of KOffice, or of GNOME's "Nautilus" and "Evolution," you can conclude
whatever you like.
- If you believe one side's hype, and not the other's, you will obviously
conclude the superiority of the "hyped" system.
- If you disbelieve in _both_ sets of hype, you can conclude whatever you
like.
Net conclusion: No unambiguous answer.
--
"Many companies that have made themselves dependent on [the equipment
of a certain major manufacturer] (and in doing so have sold their soul
to the devil) will collapse under the sheer weight of the unmastered
complexity of their data processing systems."
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: "Reid Sutherland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VFS messages spamming
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 20:39:16 -0400
Something is attempting to access your cdrom. Now I'm not sure of a way to
disable this. You may want to find out which program is doing it and shut it
down if you don't need it. Like a CD player applet for gnome or
enlightenment.
Alastair Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I'm running RH 6.2 on a Sony PCG-F340 laptop. My kernel ring buffer
> keeps getting filled with apparently harmless messages from VFS:
>
> ...
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> ...
>
> The device in question is the CD-ROM drive. I only receive these
> messages if there is no disc in the drive. If I have a CD-ROM in the
> drive - even if it is not mounted - no problems.
>
> Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
>
>
> --
> Those who are mentally and emotionally healthy are those who have
> learned when to say yes, when to say no and when to say whoopee. -- W.S.
> Krabill
> Alastair Neil
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