Linux-Misc Digest #318, Volume #24 Sun, 30 Apr 00 17:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: RH Linux dist on CompUSA brand PC? Anyone? (Leonard Evens)
samba does not join domain ("Axel_Greiner")
Re: where is com5 in Linux ? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Winlinux 2000 (CB)
sb line and linux alsa driver problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Counting hard disks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
fdisk | LILO | reformat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: crontab hates me (peter pilsl)
Re: fdisk | LILO | reformat ("David ..")
Re: fdisk | LILO | reformat ("Robert L.")
Re: Linux ps (Galen Menzel)
Re: Good Contact Manager for Linux ("Matt O'Toole")
Difference between set and export? (Karsten Wutzke)
Re: Linux & FreeBSD UFS (Files Invisible) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel compile results in HD: unable to get major 3 (Nobody)
Can someone tell me how to disable shadow passwords? (redhat 6.1) ...EOM (marge
schott)
Re: Difference between set and export? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: lost link - Windows 98 on linux (Yan Seiner)
Re: Can someone tell me how to disable shadow passwords? (redhat 6.1) ...EOM ("Peter
T. Breuer")
OpenLDAP Question (Ken Williams)
Re: Good Contact Manager for Linux (Colin Holywell)
Re: Good Contact Manager for Linux (Christopher Browne)
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH Linux dist on CompUSA brand PC? Anyone?
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:55:31 -0500
David Sisk wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I'm looking for a new PC, and CompUSA's "Work" line of custom-built PC's
> looks like it might be a good deal. I want one that can run WinNT and Linux
> (dual-boot). Their "work" line is certified to run NT, but not Linux,
> although most of the hardware they use looks like it's pretty-much
> name-brand standard kind of stuff. Has anyone had any luck with these for
> Linux, specifically the latest RedHat distribution?
>
> Or, is their another brand that someone would recommend for both NT and
> Linux?
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> David C. Sisk
> Need tech info on Oracle? Visit The Unofficial ORACLE on NT site at
> http://www.ipass.net/~davesisk/oont.htm
> Like original modern rock? Listen to song samples and buy a CD at
> http://www.mp3.com/disparityofcult
> Raleigh music compilation! All $$$ go to NC Food Bank.
> http://www.mp3.com/whisper2ascream
Try for example the RedHat hardware compatibility web page.
It should tell you about specific motherboards, video boards,
etc. Unfortunately, it does tend to be somewhat out of date.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Axel_Greiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: samba does not join domain
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:12:52 +0200
Reply-To: "Axel_Greiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I connected a linux-box to a windows-NT domain, the tcp/ip setup is
working fine, the samba V2.05 works fine.. When I want to join the
domain with the command: smbpasswd -j <domain> -r <Server> I get a
message containing following:
+++++++++
change_account_trust_password: failed to change password
unable to join domain <domain>
++++++++++++
Can anybody help?
Axel
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Axel Greiner
X-Floc D�mmtechnik-Maschinen GmbH
Riedstr. 5/1, D-71272 Renningen
Tel. / Fax: 07159-9278-23 / -24
www.x-floc.com, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where is com5 in Linux ?
Date: 30 Apr 2000 18:06:39 GMT
Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I just installed a new pcmcia ethernet/modem card in my
: laptop. Ethernet worked fine right out of the box.
: In Win98, the modem is listed under com5. What do I link /dev/modem to
: in linux to make it work? tty's stop at /dev/ttyS3, which I belive is
Nothing.
: com4.
You are confused about the nature of /dev/foo. These are just names.
You can make as many of them as you like. Even the major/minor numbers
are not always vital .. in the case of the serial driver, they're just
names too. You can hook any irq and ioport to any of them. Man
setserial and read the modem and serial howto.
"com5" usually indicates a winmodem. If a modem was detected by the
serial_cs driver, cardmgr will have linked one of you /dev/ttyS* names
appropriately.
Peter
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From: CB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Winlinux 2000
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:30:05 GMT
Need help setting up netscape. Has anyone setup netscape to connect to
internet using dialup connection thru modem in Winlinux 2000. I would
sure like to know what steps to follow.
Thanks CB
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: sfnet.atk.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc
Subject: sb line and linux alsa driver problems
Date: 30 Apr 2000 21:48:13 +0300
I feel utterly stoopid, help me:
I have sb live 1024 or whatever plugged. I did install alsa 0.57 or something.
Everything else is fine except two things:
1. in /var/log/messages it is said
kernel: snd: card is out of range (0-0)
when I insert the driver
2. no sound is heard when I say "mpg123 foo.mp3".
I have tried with different mgp123 thingies, including alsaplayer, I am
positive that I have said "unmute" and I have set "volume" to some value
in all possible items available with "alsamixer". When I try play sounds
no error messages is displayed, interrupt count at /proc/interrupts
does get increased for device EMU10K but no sound is heard.
Here is my conf.modules:
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1
options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_dac_frame_size=64 snd_adc_frame_size=64 snd_index=0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
and yes, I did that thing that creates more files to /dev provided with
alsa-driver. Everything looks good from /dev/asound but no sound is heard..
I've only tried with PCM thingies, not midi, synth or else, only PCM.
what am I doing wrong?
--
Antti J�rvinen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"concerto for two faggots and orchestra"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Counting hard disks
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 19:06:03 GMT
scsi cd's are scd? not sd? so they wouldn't show up.
But another thing to look at would be the
the source for fdisk, when I do a fdisk -l it lists all partition
info on all disks weather mounted or not.
So this program does what you are looking to do.
Myself I do it the old fashion way, I leave my case open and look.
Robert
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:55:29 +0100, "Chris West"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need a way of counting the number of hard disks installed on a machine.
>I am currently attempting to open each of /dev/hd* and /dev/sd* in
>read/write mode and counting the number of successful opens but I believe
>this will also include CD writers.
>How can I just count the number of hard disks?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: fdisk | LILO | reformat
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 19:12:29 GMT
I have an Intel-based box, with a basic IDE drive which I successfully
partitioned to run as a dual-boot system - Win98 on the C: partition,
Linux 6.0 (Redhat) on the extended DOS partition, LILO boot. For a
variety of reasons, I'd like to reformat the drive, and take Linux off
the drive (I run it at work now on a different machine, but need this
old drive 100% DOS/Windows).
However, when I fire up FDISK, I can't seem to delete the extended DOS
partition on which Linux is currently residing. Nothing seems to work.
I haven't tried fdisk /mbr - is that what I need to do?
Any advice appreciated...thanks!
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From: peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: crontab hates me
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 19:07:49 GMT
In article <mcXO4.40725$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Running fetchmail without options starts the fetchmail daemon and keeps it
> running forever. So every 10 minutes you try to start a new fetchmail
> daemon, but only one fetchmail daemon can be running at any given time.
> Thus your "amonther foreground fetchmail ..." error. If you use the form:
>
no !!
fetchmail without any argument runs and terminates after finishing the
job. fetchmail -d starts the daemonmode.
There is definitely no fetchmail running between the 10 minutes !!
I get the mail obviously from the crondaemon, but which crontab causes it
to do so !?
thanks anyway
peter
--
pilsl@
goldfisch.at.at
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk | LILO | reformat
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:19:22 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have an Intel-based box, with a basic IDE drive which I successfully
> partitioned to run as a dual-boot system - Win98 on the C: partition,
> Linux 6.0 (Redhat) on the extended DOS partition, LILO boot. For a
> variety of reasons, I'd like to reformat the drive, and take Linux off
> the drive (I run it at work now on a different machine, but need this
> old drive 100% DOS/Windows).
>
> However, when I fire up FDISK, I can't seem to delete the extended DOS
> partition on which Linux is currently residing. Nothing seems to work.
> I haven't tried fdisk /mbr - is that what I need to do?
>
> Any advice appreciated...thanks!
With the Linux installation boot disk go through the install up to the
partitioning section. Once there delete all the linux partitions if you
used Disk Druid to do this then choose the back button and save changes
when asked. Then reboot with a DOS/windoz disk in A: and format the
drive.
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "Robert L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk | LILO | reformat
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 19:31:21 GMT
Use the Linux fdisk program, not the MS one. MS don't know what ext2fs is.
Do the same thing as you want to install it, when you can use fdisk ( or any
other ) delete the partition.
A better way to do is Partition Magic. You can do what you want with this
prog. But is not free.
you can uninstall lilo with this command
lilo -u
( do "man lilo" before, it might be the wrong parameter )
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit dans le message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have an Intel-based box, with a basic IDE drive which I successfully
>partitioned to run as a dual-boot system - Win98 on the C: partition,
>Linux 6.0 (Redhat) on the extended DOS partition, LILO boot. For a
>variety of reasons, I'd like to reformat the drive, and take Linux off
>the drive (I run it at work now on a different machine, but need this
>old drive 100% DOS/Windows).
>
>However, when I fire up FDISK, I can't seem to delete the extended DOS
>partition on which Linux is currently residing. Nothing seems to work.
>I haven't tried fdisk /mbr - is that what I need to do?
>
>Any advice appreciated...thanks!
>
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From: Galen Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux ps
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:37:17 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Man ps? The "w" option?
Great! Another one of those wacky linux "features". Thanks, Peter.
galen
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Reply-To: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good Contact Manager for Linux
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:45:28 -0700
"root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does Anyone know of a Good Contact Manager for Linux?
> I am looking for one with most of the features of Outlook 98.
> This is really the main reason I contunue to use Windows
> It must be X based.
I wish I could help you. I'm in the same boat. I'm quite dependent on Act.
I haven't found anything for Linux that even comes close. Even if someone
does produce something for Linux, the chances of it being any good are
pretty slim. There are jillions of these programs for Windows, and most of
them really suck, even though they all claim to do the same things. There
will probaby be something included with Corel Office, but if it's anything
like previous versions of Info Central, forget it. (I really like Sidekick,
though.)
I'm thinking of creating my own app from a database/spreadsheet program.
But I don't know how successful I can be, and it would be an awful lot of
work.
If anyone is interested in developing this kind of thing, look to Act,
Sidekick, Goldmine, or Maximizer for inspiration. I've tried 'em all, and
these are the ones worth bothering with. The devil is in the details, so to
speak, and the authors of these programs come closest to getting it right.
It it weren't for the contact manager issue, I'd probably be able to wipe
Windows off my drive. I could probably even survive without Word or Excel
(to read the endless email attatchments people so mindlessly send.)
Matt O.
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From: Karsten Wutzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Difference between set and export?
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:00:41 +0200
Hi all!
I've just asked that question in one of the German newsgroups, but all I
have received so far was "man bash" Shell Builin Commands, which is like
not having answered at all. Since I'm quite new to Linux and managed to
screw up my environment PATH variable with set and export, even at
startup the PATH var is NOT recovered, so I'd like to know how to fix
that again, or better what I probably did wrong. It's pretty annoying
not being able to issue an ls command. Of course, I can set the PATH env
var, but that is annoying as well. OH, it is the KDE konsole and xterm,
too.
Thanks for any answers other than "man ..."
Karsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux & FreeBSD UFS (Files Invisible)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:06:08 -0600
In article <8ecnlg$h3r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Why can't I see the files in a UFS (FreeBSD filesystem)
> after mounting it. e.g.
>
> The linux side of the house can mount the device as
>
> mount -t ufs /dev/hda[n] /bsd-mount-point
>
> but linux cannot see ANY OF THE FILES.
>
> Anybody have some suggestions?
>
See the mount(8) manual page, in particular the description of the ufstype
option. I believe you need to something like
mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda[b] /mount-point
HTH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nobody)
Subject: Re: Kernel compile results in HD: unable to get major 3
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:08:15 GMT
Okay, it seems I had compiled the floppy as an IDE device and that was
causing problems... fixed that. Now it boots. Then I found that my
ethernet cards won't work in it. I had compiled the NE drivers
directly into the kernel. I assume that my previous settings in
/etc/conf.modules will not set the IRQ, etc for the cards. How can I
set this in the Kernel instead of loading the module?
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:15:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nobody) wrote:
>When I boot 2.3.99 I get "HD: unable to get major 3 for hard disk". I
>thought at first I had neglected to compile in an IDE driver, so I
>recompiled with all optional IDE and HD drivers to no avail.
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From: marge schott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can someone tell me how to disable shadow passwords? (redhat 6.1) ...EOM
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:11:51 -0700
can someone tell me how to disable shadow passwords in redhat 6.1?
Thanks.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Difference between set and export?
Date: 30 Apr 2000 20:08:37 GMT
Karsten Wutzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've just asked that question in one of the German newsgroups, but all I
: have received so far was "man bash" Shell Builin Commands, which is like
: not having answered at all. Since I'm quite new to Linux and managed to
That's a perfectly good answer, so what's your problem with it? If you aren't
specific about the reading problem you have here, you can't expect us to help you
with it. Which word do you not understand? "local"? "global"? "option"?
Set and export aren't even vaguely comparable. You are asking for the
difference between apples and oranges.
Set is for various modes of the shell. Export is the declaration format for
global variables. That's all. I'll quote you the man page so you can tell us
what you don't understand:
set [--abefhkmnptuvxldCHP] [-o option] [arg ...]
-a Automatically mark variables which are mod-
ified or created for export to the environ-
ment of subsequent commands.
-b Cause the status of terminated background
jobs to be reported immediately, rather
than before the next primary prompt. (Also
see notify under Shell Variables above).
....
The only one of these I use is "set -x" !
Look, just try it:
bash$ set xxx=1
bash$ echo $xxx
bash$ xxx=1
bash$ echo $xxx
1
bash$ sh -c "echo \$xxx"
bash$ export xxx=1
bash$ sh -c "echo \$xxx"
1
bash$
: screw up my environment PATH variable with set and export, even at
: startup the PATH var is NOT recovered, so I'd like to know how to fix
: that again, or better what I probably did wrong. It's pretty annoying
: not being able to issue an ls command. Of course, I can set the PATH env
: var, but that is annoying as well. OH, it is the KDE konsole and xterm,
: too.
: Thanks for any answers other than "man ..."
You won't get any others from me, because the man has the right answer.
For more details, look at the chapter on the bourne shell in books on unix.
Peter
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lost link - Windows 98 on linux
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 16:33:12 -0400
Thanks! I searched all over the place for windows for linux, etc.
etc....
I must not have held my mouth right....
--Yan
Jon wrote:
>
> I searched deja and I think I found what you are looking for. It is called
> Win4Lin. go to http://www.trelos.com/ and they have a little bit of info on
> it.
>
> Yan Seiner wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >There was mention here a few weeks ago of a product for linux that would
> >allow installation of WIndows 9x under linux. Not vmware, but a
> >user-space program that would allow the installation of windows and
> >require a windows license.
> >
> >It was priced at about $47 if I remember right.
> >
> >I can't find the link, bookmark, or mention anymore.
> >
> >Please help!
> >
> >--Yan
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can someone tell me how to disable shadow passwords? (redhat 6.1) ...EOM
Date: 30 Apr 2000 20:21:53 GMT
marge schott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: can someone tell me how to disable shadow passwords in redhat 6.1?
pwunconv (and man pwunconv, shadow, etc).
Unless RH have done something funny, that is. It's possible.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: OpenLDAP Question
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:39:17 GMT
Is it right to have three processes running when I run slapd?
760 ? S 0:00 /apps/ldap/libexec/slapd -f
/apps/ldap/etc/domain.net/slapd.conf
764 ? S 0:00 /apps/ldap/libexec/slapd -f
/apps/ldap/etc/domain.net/slapd.conf
765 ? S 0:00 /apps/ldap/libexec/slapd -f
/apps/ldap/etc/domain.net/slapd.conf
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From: Colin Holywell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good Contact Manager for Linux
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:49:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, root
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does Anyone know of a Good Contact Manager for Linux? I am looking for
> one with most of the features of Outlook 98. This is really the main
> reason I contunue to use Windows It must be X based.
>
> Thanks
>
Sure! It is called Evolution; it is for Gnome and is a Outlook clone. I think the
only way to
download it is from their CVS as it is not done yet. Check it out at:
http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Good Contact Manager for Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:53:29 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Matt O'Toole would say:
>"root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>> Does Anyone know of a Good Contact Manager for Linux?
>> I am looking for one with most of the features of Outlook 98.
>> This is really the main reason I contunue to use Windows
>> It must be X based.
>
>I wish I could help you. I'm in the same boat. I'm quite dependent on Act.
>I haven't found anything for Linux that even comes close. Even if someone
>does produce something for Linux, the chances of it being any good are
>pretty slim. There are jillions of these programs for Windows, and most of
>them really suck, even though they all claim to do the same things. There
>will probaby be something included with Corel Office, but if it's anything
>like previous versions of Info Central, forget it. (I really like Sidekick,
>though.)
>
>I'm thinking of creating my own app from a database/spreadsheet program.
>But I don't know how successful I can be, and it would be an awful lot of
>work.
>
>If anyone is interested in developing this kind of thing, look to Act,
>Sidekick, Goldmine, or Maximizer for inspiration. I've tried 'em all, and
>these are the ones worth bothering with. The devil is in the details, so to
>speak, and the authors of these programs come closest to getting it right.
>
>It it weren't for the contact manager issue, I'd probably be able to wipe
>Windows off my drive. I could probably even survive without Word or Excel
>(to read the endless email attatchments people so mindlessly send.)
Presumably it would be found insulting to suggest GNOME Card as an option?
Your comments of "creating app from db/spreadsheet" suggests a thought;
Applix's "SHELF" is an open-source framework for building applications.
They include a sample application, a Palm Desktop package.
See: <http://www.applixware.org/>
--
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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