Linux-Misc Digest #294, Volume #24 Thu, 27 Apr 00 14:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Aiee, firewall kernel panic. (The Raven)
Re: linux connection to DSL (Dances With Crows)
Re: RH 6.1 install says not enough memory (Hal Burgiss)
cdrtools-1.8.1 released (Joerg Schilling)
Re: Beeps when booting? (J.M. Paden)
Re: LILO and 1024-Cilinder limit ("Peter T. Breuer")
MP3 "walkman" and Linux support (Peter Simons)
I can't execute shell script ("ChoongHwan Lee")
DNS and mail server (Yongfeng Luo)
Re: How to patch for ATA66 /Slack 7 ? ("Mark Allen Earnest")
Re: XFree86 4.0 rpms (Martin Sanborn)
Re: LILO and 1024-Cilinder limit (Leonard Evens)
Re: RH 6.1 install says not enough memory (Leonard Evens)
RedHat 6.1 Lockup (William Hamish Bell)
Re: Logical Volume Manager for Linux? (Michal Jaegermann)
Nested directory structure problem ("Tomaz Leskovsek")
speech recognition (John Hunter)
Want Specifics On Linix ? Try Here ("SEATTLE")
Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED - gzip/gunzip (Chris Lowth)
Re: Newbie question on installing linux (Wolfgang Fritz)
Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU? (valencia)
Re: I think I have been HACKED!!! (brian moore)
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From: The Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aiee, firewall kernel panic.
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:02:35 GMT
I have been trying to build an ipchains based firewall with RedHat Linux 6.0
through 6.2 for some time. The firewall works great with all of my testing
until I actually put it in place on our network with some 200+ people going
through it. When it has its panic attack, the message looks somewhat like
this:
/etc/init.d:# Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
address 0000005c (much debugger stuff) Aiee, killing interrupt handler Kernel
panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In swapper task - not syncing
Although I know a bit about setting up linux systems and firewalls, I know
very little about debugging a kernel panic. I am trying to build this
firewall on a Dell OptiPlex 560/L, which is a P-60 with 16MB RAM. This
should be a sufficient machine as our current firewall that I am trying to
replace is only a 486/33 running Debian 1.3, and although horribly out of
date, it is stable. I started originally with RedHat 6.0 and have been
applying updates as available, Kernel is currently 2.2.14-5.0. Everything
seemed to be stable with me and a few others using it for a gateway, but soon
after I switched IPs with our primary firewall it crashed. After trying
numerous things and still getting crashes, I built a new machine on an
identical P-60 with RedHat 6.2 and still I got crashes. Everything on the
new machine was stock, right off of the RedHat 6.2 CD, except for my firewall
rules. I have also tried substituting a pair of older SMC Elite Ultra
ethernet cards for the pair of 3 Com Ethernet III cards to no avail. The
crashes do not seem to be particularly load based either. They have happened
in the morning, afternoon and evening, even though our network load usually
follows a basic bell curve throughout the day. I am quickly running out of
ideas, and my supervisor doesn't really want to allocate a faster machine as
our current firewall runs fairly well on a 486/33. Any help would be
appreciated as I am getting quite frustrated and quite past my projected
completion date. Thanks in advance.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: linux connection to DSL
Date: 27 Apr 2000 12:14:07 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:30:12 GMT, nick santilli
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I want to configure my new linux box to connect to the internet via my DSL
>connection. (and then use the linux box as a fileserver on my in-home
>network)
>
>I can take care of the in-home network portion by myself (at least I am
>pretty sure I can), but was wondering if anyone out there knows how to set
>Linux up through DSL??
ITYM "Set Linux up so that it can see the DSL connection and use it."
This can be very simple or really tough, depending on the details of your
setup. If you have an external DSL "modem" that has a standard Ethernet
output, just connect the Ethernet plugs using a regular cable. If you
have a static IP address, "ifconfig eth0 $IP_ADDRESS netmask $NETMASK
broadcast $BROADCAST_ADDRESS up" and you're in business. If your DSL
provider uses DHCP, just run "dhclient eth0" or "pump eth0" and you're in
business.
things get trickier if you have to use PPPoE.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/ADSL.html may have useful info.
A lot of internal DSL "modems" are Lose9x-only. Beware.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 install says not enough memory
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:16:01 GMT
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 22:19:21 +0800, Graham Daniell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to install Redhat 6.1 on a PC with a Pentium 100 processor,
>32 MB EDO RAM, 256k cache, a 4 MB video card and a 3GB HDD with 2GB free
>space.
>
>Each time I install, it comes up with a message saying I don't have
>enough memory, and drops from Graphical install mode to text install
>mode. After the install, I find that startx and Xconfigurator are not
>installed.
>
>It seems that RH 6.1 thinks I don't have enough memory for graphics, but
>it is MORE THAN adequate for Windoze, so why not for Linux?
>
>Can anyone give me a clue why this is happening?
32M should be plenty for installation. You might try 'linux mem=31M' at
the first prompt you get on installation to try to force the issue. You
might also look to see if there is a 'memory hole at 16M' in the BIOS
settings, and turn that off. This gives Linux fits.
You can always go back and install the XFree packages off the CD, and
run the configuration yourself.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.publish.cdrom.software,de.comp.hardware.laufwerke.brenner,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: cdrtools-1.8.1 released
Date: 27 Apr 2000 16:24:55 GMT
Please switch to the mkisofs version from this packet, it includes significant
improvements and bug-fixes compared to all prior versions.
Cdrtools is a boundle of:
- cdrecord (a CD recording program)
- cdda2wav (an digital CD audio extraction program)
- mkisofs (an ISO-9660 filesystem image creator)
- mkhybrid (an ISO-9660/HFS filesystem image creator)
- several diagnostic programs for ISO-9660
- devdup dump a device or file in hex
- isodump dump a device or file based on ISO-9660
- isoinfo analyze or list an IDO-9660 image
- isovrfy verify an ISO-9660 image
- readcd (a stripped down version of scgskeleton)
may be used to read data CD's, to write to DVD-RAM
and to copy Solaris boot CD's
is ready for download from:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrtools/cdrecord-1.8.1.tar.gz
The announcements and changelog is in:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrtools/AN-1.8.1
The web page is located on:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
Crtools compiles on:
SunOS 4.1.3 or later: sparc.
Solaris 2.3 or later: sparc and x86.
Linux: x86 sparc sparc64 ppc strongarm and alpha.
NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD: x86 sparc alpha amiga and m68k
SGI IRIX: mips
HP-UX: hppa
AIX: rs6000
OSF1: alpha
BSD/OS (BSDi): x86
SCO Openserver 5.x: x86
SCO Unixware 2.x: x86
SCO Unixware 7.x: x86
NeXt Step: mc68xxx x86 and hppa
Apple Rhapsody: ppc, x86
Apple MacOS X: ppc
OS/2: x86
VMS: *VAX
BeOS: x86
Win95: x86
Win98: x86
WinNT: x86
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling
URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.M. Paden)
Subject: Re: Beeps when booting?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:22:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Magnus =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F6rlin?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I run RedHat 6.2 on my Dell laptop and the beeps are very loud. How can
>I switch it off? What is the name of the device that makes them? I don't
>want my mashine to create any sound, under any cicumstance.
Get a copy of the following HowTo:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Visual-Bell
Regards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason."
--T.S. Eliot
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and 1024-Cilinder limit
Date: 27 Apr 2000 16:23:55 GMT
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:48:34 GMT, Michael Kelly
: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
:>Hi Peter. I wasn't really aware of this before. What you're saying
:>is if I don't want a separate partition inside the 1024 and had like
:>a FAT32 with Win9x on C: all I have to do is copy the kernel and
:>some boot files to the FAT32 partition?
: As long as the FAT32 partition is entirely under 1024 cylinders, you'll be
: OK... but read on.
Exactly, and much better done than I would have done it, so you can
have the last word! (I would have made a small file in the fat32
partition and mounted it loopback as ext2 so that it could contain
the device files in /dev, and /boot and /etc, then run /sbin/lilo
-r to it).
: Nope. Mount that FAT32 partition under, say, /mnt/win , and copy vmlinuz
: to that partition. The lilo.conf would be like:
: map=/mnt/win/lilo.map
: boot=/dev/hda # NOT hda1.
: image=/mnt/win/vmlinuz
: root=/dev/hdXY
: You CANNOT install lilo into the bootsector of a FAT32 partition; it will
: cause Lose9x an immense amount of grief. Therefore you must put lilo into
: the MBR. The lilo.map and vmlinuz files must not change their positions
: on disk, which could happen if you run DEFRAG.EXE. Change the MS-DOS
: attributes of lilo.map and vmlinuz to include "hidden", "system", and
: "read-only" to prevent this from happening. If lilo.map or vmlinuz get
: moved, you must re-run lilo or you will be unable to boot the system.
: This might help some folks out, but it might be better to just use
: LOADLIN....
I.e. add
[linux]
shell=c:\loadlin.exe c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro
to your windows config.sys! Plus the [menu] section that
points to it ...
[menu]
menuitem=dos,Dos boot
menuitem=linux,Wahaay! Linux
[dos]
blah
[linux]
as above
Peter
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From: Peter Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MP3 "walkman" and Linux support
Date: 27 Apr 2000 18:28:30 +0200
I am toying with the idea of getting one of the portable MP3 players
as, for example, offered by Sony. Unfortunately, these beasts require
some special software to actually upload MP3 files into the memory --
and that software is available for Windows only. Does anyone know
whether appropriato software is available for any of those MP3 players
for Linux? Or whether I can run the Windows software using VMWare?
-peter
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From: "ChoongHwan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I can't execute shell script
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 01:31:20 +0900
I downloaded a script for bash or sh, and tried to execute.
But, an error occurred like 'command not found' or 'cannot find that file'
(because the message is not English, I don't know the exact message in
English.)
I've no idea about that error.
Permission is proper (755), and PATH is exact.
So, I typed like this,
#! /bin/bash
echo "Hello world"
exit 0
and named it as abc
And execute ./abc
but, error occurred like that. I think my short script has no illegal
statement, and actually it works well in another system.
(Surely, /bin/bash exists. and this shell is registered in /etc/shells)
What makes that problem? Please help me...
Thank you for reading.
ChoongHwan Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Yongfeng Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: DNS and mail server
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:49:51 -0400
I want to setup a mail server using my linux box. Do I have to have a MX
record in my DNS server ( I already have a A record in my DNS server for
my box).
Please help
Yongfeng Luo
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From: "Mark Allen Earnest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: How to patch for ATA66 /Slack 7 ?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:52:32 -0500
ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernels/people/hedrick/
Where XX is your country code (ie us for United States)
Mark Earnest
~~~~~~~~~
Systems Programmer
OAS-SysArc
Penn State University
In article <GvNM4.39288$004.79259@news02>, "Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> can you please give me the addy as to where i may find the ata66
> controller patch? thank you, nick
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From: Martin Sanborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 rpms
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:15:46 -0500
Kerry Cox wrote:
> caused a lot of things to break. Has anyone had any success in
> installing XFree86 on their own Linux machine using the RPMs? And if
> so, would they be willing to share their experience?
In my case, all the RPMs from rawhide seem to be ok EXCEPT for
XFree86-4.0-0.x.i386.rpm. This package is broken. I've tried both the 4.0-0.6
and 4.0-0.8 versions, and neither work. I think the error is akin to "cpio:
error file handle broken" or something of the sort.
I plan on installing the binary packages from xfree86.org that correspond to
the files contained in XFree86-4.0-0.x.i386.rpm. Specifically, these are
Xman.tgz, Xmod.tgz, Xbin.tgz, Xlib.tgz, and Xetc.tgz. I won't install the
others since the rest of the XFree-4.0 RPMs (fonts, board-specific server,
docs, devel, extra libs) are all OK.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and 1024-Cilinder limit
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:18:16 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> Frank Elsner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Cobra wrote:
> :> Can I get past this limit by installing LILO in the boot sector instead of
> :> the MBR? And after that installing a boot manager which then executes LILO?
>
> No.
>
> : According to
> : http://www.freshmeat.com/news/2000/04/26/956756732.html
> : the limit no longer exists.
>
> To be exact, it doesn't exist in the new lilo v24.1 IF your bios supports
> certain calls. But then it never existed in any sense that I have been
> able to credit as a stopper anyway. What was the big deal in putting
> the boot image below 1024 cyl, or in using a different loader (e.g. dos)?
>
> Peter
RedHat has a description of what to do somewhere on their
web page. See
customer.support.redhat.com/rhoaprod/plsql/xxrh_know_pkg.srch2?p_id=175
Looking at this again, I don't quite see how it would work
since it requires copying your /boot partition to your (mounted)
Windows partition and making a symbolic link. But maybe what
happens is that when you run /sbin/lilo it uses the symbolic
link to determine the absolute address of what it will actually
load. For this method to work, in principle you wouldn't
need to have the entire Windows partition below cylicner 1024.
You would just have to be sure you could put the kernel and
associated files below that limit. You can also mark those
files under Windows so they won't be moved by defrag. I
don't know if it is possible to put files in a specific
location under windows, but because of the existence of
programs like dfrag, it seems it should be possible. In
any case, on a relatively new system with a large Windows
partition, there should be no problem locating ten MB or
so below cylincer 1024.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 install says not enough memory
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:24:06 -0500
Graham Daniell wrote:
>
> I am trying to install Redhat 6.1 on a PC with a Pentium 100 processor,
> 32 MB EDO RAM, 256k cache, a 4 MB video card and a 3GB HDD with 2GB free
> space.
>
> Each time I install, it comes up with a message saying I don't have
> enough memory, and drops from Graphical install mode to text install
> mode. After the install, I find that startx and Xconfigurator are not
> installed.
>
> It seems that RH 6.1 thinks I don't have enough memory for graphics, but
> it is MORE THAN adequate for Windoze, so why not for Linux?
>
> Can anyone give me a clue why this is happening?
>
> Graham Daniell
> Perth, Western Australia
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible it is complaining instead that you don't have
enough disk space?
I have RH6.2 running on a laptop with 32 MB of memory. I've
installed RH6.1 on machines with less memory than that.
If it is really disk space it is complaining about, it could be
that you have a lot of space unused, but it is not actually
available for installing Linux. If you have Windows on your
machine, the first step is to resize the Windows partition
and make sure you delete any other partitions which might have
been created. The Linux should install in the free space.
If this does not seem relevant, perhaps you could give us
some more detailed information. But I assure you I've installed
Linux many times on similar machines without difficulty.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: William Hamish Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.1 Lockup
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:07:06 -0500
Hi,
On the 20th of April I installed Redhat 6.1 from a mirror site:
www.kernel.org/. I followed the installation of the workstation and
everything appeared to work correctly. Starting Gnome I tried to scroll
one of the newly appeared Gnome windows. This caused my computer to lock
up. In fact the lock up was so serious that it prevented the sshd daemon
from allowing a remote login. Having experienced this three times in a
row. I decided to throw away gnome and switch to fvwm. fvwm has been
working well all apart from netscape. Occationally I scroll a netscape
frame or try to directly access a previously visited web page and my
machine locks up. If only there was a core file. This at would at least
point the finger at the source of the trouble. Does anyone have any
hints or should continue until the next kernel update comes out?
Thanks and Best Regards,
Will
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michal Jaegermann)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Logical Volume Manager for Linux?
Date: 27 Apr 2000 17:12:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm currently a Unix administrator for a major corporation. We have
: an HP9000 running HP/UX using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to
: administer multiple hard drives into a single volume.
...
: Bottom line is... Is there such a program that exists for Linux that
: can do volume management?
It is called LVM and has an interface patterned after HP/UX (with
a permission).
If you will visit ftp.XX.kernel.org (substitute for XX your country
code, "us" for example) then you will find something like
linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.15pre20aa1.bz2 These patches
already include kernel LVM support for a corresponding kernel (get
2.2.14 sources, patch them with patches from
linux/kernel/people/alan/2.2.15pre/ to the current level and apply
2.2.15pre20aa1 on the top of it; configure and compile).
You will still need LVM tools but Configure.help tell you where
to get them.
--mj
p.s. It is nice when mail to an administrator for a major corporation
does not bounce with:
The message that you sent was undeliverable to the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (user not found)
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From: "Tomaz Leskovsek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Nested directory structure problem
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:16:08 +0200
Hi!
We have a web based web site construction tool. And we are having some
implementation problems. Looks like our nested directory structure that we
are using is causing system problems to our hosting provider.
For example: if your site name is tagtag.com\james then all your data is
stored in a directory structure \sites\j\a\m\james\ ! So we have 36
subdirectories under \sites (-, 0,...,z) and all of them have 36
subdirectories and all of them have 36 subdirectories. And next level is
user directory.
This structure is causing a lot of problems. Not to the file system, but to
some of utilities, like disk quota calculation.
Do you see any possible solution? A limit of subdirectories in directory on
Linux is around 65000 if I am not mistaken. We would like to somehow go
beyond this limit, so that we would be able to have many more user
directories accessible using URL like www.domain.com\user.
If this is not the right place to ask such a question, could you suggest
one? Thanks!
Regards,
Tomaz
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Subject: speech recognition
From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Apr 2000 12:25:13 -0500
I am looking for speech recognition in linux. I understand IBM has
released the ViaVoice SDK API, but I'm not sure this will be useful to
me unless I want to write an application around it. Has anyone done
so? Are there speech recognition systems which work in emacs?
Thanks,
John Hunter
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From: "SEATTLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Want Specifics On Linix ? Try Here
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:27:40 GMT
Http://home.att.net/~aubreyb
Click the Linux Link
HTH
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From: Chris Lowth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED - gzip/gunzip
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:28:13 +0100
Sounds like a "ulimit" problem to me. I also use g*zip to handle multi-gig
files, without problem on Caldera 1.3, Redhat 6.0, 6.1, unixware 2.1.3.
Chris.
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I know this is not a linux problem, but I thought someone might have an
> idea on how to fix this. It is using the gnu gzip/gunzip tools.
>
> thanks
>
> ----------------
>
> I'm in urgent need of help. We have several d/l's coming from our
> mainframe system. These files are gzipped on the mainframe. The size
> of the files gzipped are between 200meg and 1gig. This translates to
> multi-gig files (possibly upto around 80gigs/file) after unzipping.
>
> The problem:
>
> When we try to run gunzip, it will run for a while and then state "File
> too large". We checked, and the largefile option is turned on for the
> mount on which we are working. Therefore, we concluded that the
> problem is with gzip/gunzip. Does anyone know of a workaround?
>
> Unfortunentally, it is not possible for the files to be broken down any
> further by our mainframe folks. Therefore, we must find the solution
> on the sun side.
>
> Thanks for any ideas
>
> wax_man
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
--
>From Chris Lowth
---
My Real e-mail address is (roughly):
chris
<AT> lowth
<DOT> com
(Silly over-parnoid anti-spam measure)
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From: Wolfgang Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie question on installing linux
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:55:56 +0200
"Al @Work" wrote:
>
> Phil Mossop wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am thinking of installing Linux (probably Mandrake) on to my system. I am
> > currently running Win98 with 3 relatively same size partitions, C: D: and
> > E:. I am thinking of making E: for Linux and keeping the other two for
> > Win98. I do not want to totally remove Windows (just yet), but want to be
> > able to choose which OS to use at startup.
> >
> > Some questions:
> >
> > 1. Do you think there are any conceptual problems with this?
> >
> > 2. I have an nVidia TNT2 32Mb graphics card and have heard of some problems
> > with this under Linux. Will I be in for any surprises if I don't actually
> > want to play 3d games just yet, but just get Linux running on my system?
I have this card. It works without problems here (but also don't use 3D)
> >
> > I am relatively new to Linux and Unix on a PC, but have a decent back ground
> > in Unix with X-terminals.
> >
> > TIA
>
> Phil,
>
> In addtion to Peter's comments, I suggest that if you have the budget
> resources that you install LINUX on a seperate hard drive. That way you
> can play with it all you want to, uninstall, reinstall, try things out,
> etc. without any possible damage to the Win98 system. Plus, when you
> decide to pull the plug on Windows, you can simply pull out the hard
> drive, etc.
>
>
I suggest that also. So you can leave your W98 drive untouched. Don't
install a Linux bootlader at first install, create a boot floppy instead
(that's usually recommended during the installation process) and boot
with it until linux is running. Then you have access to the tons of
documentation and can decide what boot strategy you want to use. I like
the LOADLIN. This bootloader is installed in the W98 file system and
avoids all the problems beginners have with the classic linux loader
LILO.
If you cannot install a second drive, you can use drive E: for linux,
but you have to repartition the drive (see Peter's posting). That makes
it more complicated, but the other things concerning booting apply as
well.
You can take a look at the linux documentation project (LDP) at
http://www.linuxdoc.org
In the HOWTO section you find information on installing linux on a W98
PC.
Wolfgang
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From: valencia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:21:59 -0500
Joseph Dale wrote:
> Felice wrote:
> >
> > unless You know Italian or spanish You won't
> >
> > Tandem Guy ha scritto nel messaggio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >Thanks. Also it's nice to know I'm not the only one reading
> > >comp.os.linux.misc in the middle of the night :)
> > >
> > >Joseph Dale wrote:
> > >
> > >> Tandem Guy wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > So, how do you pronounce GNU?
> > >>
> > >> like "nu", but with a "g" or "guh" in front.
> >
> > Felice
>
> Well, I only know French, English, German, C, Java, Lisp, Scheme, HTML,
> and MIPS assembly language, and I'll bet you can figure out which one I
> use for everyday discourse (it ain't MIPS).
>
> So, please enlighten us!
Whoa! That's a lot of languages!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I think I have been HACKED!!!
Date: 27 Apr 2000 17:48:33 GMT
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:02:30 -0400,
Kerr Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian
> moore) wrote:
>
> > Most likely you were being probed just like any system online all the
> > time gets.
>
> Hmmm, would these be some kind of automatic probes or just individuals
> playing around.
Usually they go for a /24 network at a time. Occassionally there are
probers who do things like look at the 'nntp-posting-host' on Usenet
messages and check to see if there's an open news swerver on that
machine. (My personal experiments show that it takes less than 24 hours
for a spammer to find an open news server when I change my configs...
people will be downloading pr0n from it within a couple of hours.)
It happens a lot.
> > Go through inetd.conf and comment out every line if you don't know what
> > it
> > is or why you would run it.
>
> Yeah, my dist came with everything commented out intially. I have only
> turned on the few things I need for the LAN.
Good. My experience with some is that they like spreading their legs on
the net and then people wonder why they got cracked. (Especially the
'power users' who get the "is this a workstation or server" question and
think 'server' sounds more powerful, so they install tons of junk.)
> > Then use ipchains to nail it all down past that point and not as critical
> > as killing all the junk, but that's more of a black art... see the
> > ipchains HOWTO.
>
> Ok. Hey, thanks a lot for responding. I'm glad there are people like you
> who are willing to take the time.
It keeps me busy while figuring out just why some dork keeps playing
with SNMP around here, despite having very little success (okay, so I
drop his packets on the floor, so even if he knew the community string
it wouldn't do any good... but he keeps trying anyway).
--
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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