Linux-Misc Digest #351, Volume #24 Wed, 3 May 00 14:13:03 EDT
Contents:
ISDN while writing a CD (Bernie)
qmail config - hard error / host's canonical name ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Question about Gnome editors (Duane)
Re: backspace probrlem (William Putney)
Re: Reinstalling Linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: Installing PCI (non-winmodem) modem (Nassar Carnegie)
Re: Installing PCI (non-winmodem) modem (Nassar Carnegie)
Distributed file system (Random)
Re: IRQs - can someone give the definitive answer please? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: IRQs - can someone give the definitive answer please? (Dallas Times)
Re: best location to load parport.o and parport_pc.o (Yan Seiner)
Re: how to delete useless email ("Gregory G. Woodbury")
Re: Question about Gnome editors (Dances With Crows)
Re: how to delete useless email (Steve)
Re: The Best Man Page in the Internet? (Steve)
Re: qmail config - hard error / host's canonical name (Steve)
Re: Reinstalling Linux (Steve)
Re: su - (Steve)
Re: Permission Problems w/ Star Office and WordPerfect (Steve)
tar: "cannot readdir" on samba-mounted directory ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Boot Disk Problems? (Buddy)
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From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN while writing a CD
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 15:58:55 GMT
Hi there,
I've got a question and maybe a problem as well :-)
I've installed a Sony CRX-140E CD-rewriter (ATAPI) and it works
perfectly without any problems. I spotted cdrecord's fifo-display and I
wondered how an internet connection would influence the writing process.
So I simply pinged to a remote host to trigger my ippp interface. The
strange thing was that I didn't get an answer from the remote host. I
was able to ping the local network (through ethx) but there was
absolutely no response from the internet (ipppx) during the writing
process.
I'm using a passive ISA Fritz Card on an PIII 500. Do I have a
performance problem ? Would an active (B1) card do any better?
Any idea ?
Thanks in advance
Bernie
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: qmail config - hard error / host's canonical name
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 15:55:42 GMT
When I launch qmail-config, I get :
"your hostname is ns1.mailclub.fr
hard error
sorry, i couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS.
You will have to set up control/me yourself."
The DNS is not on the Linux machine.
I had a look at the qmail-config file, and the "hard error" error coms
from the "dnsfq" command.
What the "dnsfq" command do ? (I have found no man page and help on it).
How can I solve my problem, and how do I set up config/me myself? (what
should I write in it).
Thaks a lot for answering me .
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question about Gnome editors
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 16:14:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kerry Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bracy wrote:
> >
> > Why are Gnome editors so slow? I've tried gEdit and GXEdit, and in
both of
> > them, I can type out a full paragraph before either of them displays
a full
> > sentence. Is there some way to edit the buffer sizes in these?
Maybe a
> > config file to edit? Can't seem to find one, and there are no
options in the
> > menus.
> >
> > Is there another Gnome editor that's nicer? I'm looking for
something that's
> > simple and easy-to-use, so please don't recommend vi or emacs, I'm a
newbie
> > and am still learning how to use those. :-)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Bracy
>
> You might want to look at Nedit. I like it a lot and the latest
version
> works great for coding. You will have to download the latest lesstif
> library as well. Grab the rpms for both from off the RPM repository
> page, http://rufus.w3.org/ or look through Freshmeat for the source
and
> homepage.
> KJ
I agree that nedit is a GREAT program. But I would recommend not using
Lesstif for it. Much of Lesstif works well, but the text widgets still
need some work.
Fortunately, http://www.nedit.org/ has a Linux binary statically linked
against a real Motif library (don't know how they arranged the licensing
for that!).
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: William Putney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: backspace probrlem
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 16:27:27 GMT
I had a similar problem and had some success by running the command:
xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
-Bill
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Wed, 3 May 2000 00:19:24 -0400, yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>I have a problem with the backspace key it doesn't work properly as
:>matter of fact it doesn't do anything when I hit it, although it works
:>fine when I switch to Windows OS.
:>
:>*I have red hat 6.1*
: http://www.ibbnet.nl/~anne/keyboard.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Reinstalling Linux
Date: 03 May 2000 12:30:25 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 03 May 2000 17:12:01 -0300, Alexis M
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I need to reinstall my Redhat system, since some things are broken
This is almost never necessary.
>My partitions include a /home partition, where I have all the user data
>My question is, how do I retain user file permissions and ownership,
>since I am reformatting the root partition?
Huh? Whatever's on the partition you format will be utterly wiped out. I
suggest not formatting /home. The files on /home will retain their old
UIDs and GIDs; you just need to make sure these IDs match up with the
right users in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/groups. There shouldn't
be any other files you'd need to change.
Definitely make backups of those files. Shoot, back up the whole
directory tree under /etc since you've probably customized a number of
things. I would back up /boot too if you've created a custom kernel, and
also /usr/local if it's not on its own partition.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: Nassar Carnegie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing PCI (non-winmodem) modem
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 16:30:03 GMT
If your using a PCI Modem, chances are is that it is a winmodem. Your best
be is to look at the Number on the back and check the winmodem
compatibility list on http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Sean wrote:
>
> I have a US Robotics Internet Gaming Modem, I just recently switched from
> Windows 98 to Red Hat Linux 6.2 Standard. I'm desperately seeking
drivers
> for my PCI modem. The modem itself has a controller on it so it is not a
> Winmodem. I saw a post on another sitethat it isn't a wiinmodem and
would
> not support the rpm files made for PCI winmodems. If you have the
drivers
> please send them to me. I would be verrrry grateful.
> :)
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
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From: Nassar Carnegie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing PCI (non-winmodem) modem
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 16:30:03 GMT
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >I have a US Robotics Internet Gaming Modem, I just recently switched
from
> >Windows 98 to Red Hat Linux 6.2 Standard. I'm desperately seeking
drivers
> >for my PCI modem. The modem itself has a controller on it so it is not
a
> >Winmodem. I saw a post on another sitethat it isn't a wiinmodem and
would
> >not support the rpm files made for PCI winmodems. If you have the
drivers
> >please send them to me. I would be verrrry grateful.
> >:)
>
> A modem does not need drivers. If it needs drivers then it is a
> winmodem. Some modems have minimal hardware on them but are still
> winmodems. I do not know about this one in particular. Check with
> http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Random <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Distributed file system
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 16:37:59 +0000
What are the "stable" Distributed file system that can be use under
linux ?
Thx
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQs - can someone give the definitive answer please?
Date: 03 May 2000 12:34:12 -0400
Dallas Times <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> <snip>
>
> > less one required for the cascade (bringing 8 to 15) and less another
> > due to legacy FPU exception brain damage. this makes 14 possible.
>
> Original PC architecture IRQ UART had 8 interrupts. They rerouted IRQ2 to be the
> input from a second IRQ UART bringing the total to 15 when they went from XT to
> AT architecture. Newer boards (mainly Pentium type) have a 16 interrupt UART,
> but lecacy software still designates IRQ2 as cascade, so IRQ2/9 (which is 2nd
> UART cascade to IRQ2) is no longer the cascade(shared) IRQ, IOW, they are now
> separate IRQ's.
> BTW -IRQ 1 is not FPU exception brain damage, it was for adding an FPU processor
> to a CPU architecture (XT/AT) that did not have FPU available. The brain damage
> was because of faulty design in specific Pentium CPU's. The FPU IRQ is still
> needed to kick-in the FPU-specific part (which is still designed as
> segregated/separate CPU functions even though it's inside the CPU
> chip package).
yes, you seem to have the details better than i. thanks.
still, we are left with 14 interrupts.
> > The PCI 2.1 spec says all PCI devices should be able to share IRQs. PCI
>
> > > has exactly 4 (count-em FOUR) INT# lines on the bus (INTA#-INTD#),
> >
> > let me get this straight, iow if you've got 5 pci cards, *something*
> > *has* to give. right?
>
> PCI only has 4 cards per PCI controller. In order to get 5 PCI cards, you have
> to add a second PCI controller (which is what the AGP slot for video cards
> does). Since it's now on a second controller, you can share interrupts easier
> (you know which controller is interrupting)
yes, i've got 8 PCI slots on this motherboard and two PCI
controllers. i don't have any AGP.
> > btw what is the penalty for this? i've got a pair of scsi controllers
> > sharing an interrupt. they seem perfectly happy. is there any
> > performance loss? if so, is it negligible?
>
> If you're using (ex.) AHA-2xxx scsi cards, then only 1 software driver is
> loaded, so the interrupt sharing penalty is minimal. It's usually more of a
> penalty to have a scsi card and a NIC (for example) sharing the IRQ (both get
> real busy real fast, so you have to figure out which driver get's the
> interrupt).
i've got a pair of symbios 8751sp cards (sym53c8xx driver). by
shuffling them around i can have the 2nd SCSI card IRQ overlap either
the 1st SCSI controller or one of my NICs.
would it be better to keep shuffling until it overlapped the video card?
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
edlhp
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From: Dallas Times <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQs - can someone give the definitive answer please?
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 11:50:25 -0700
(Anyone feel free to jump in since I'm a little fuzzy (~15 yrs) about the
older interrupt stuff)
When the origianl XT was designed, it was only an 8-bit system, the IRQ's
and the bus were designed around this:
<------ any interrupt
|
<-to CPU --+--
| 0 | timer
| 1 | keyboard
| 2 | (later, HDC)
| 3 | serial #2
| 4 | serial #1
| 5 |
| 6 | FDC
| 7 | LPT
-----
When the AT came out, it was 16-bit, so a workaround had to be designed
(since they still used the 8-bit IRQ chip):
<------ any interrupt
|
<-to CPU --+--
<--------- | 0 | timer
<--------- | 1 | keyboard
<--------- | 2 |----- cascade from controller #2
<--------- | 3 | | serial #2, serial #4
<--------- | 4 | | serial #1, serial #3
<--------- | 5 | | SB popular sound card
<--------- | 6 | | FDC
<--------- | 7 | | LPT #1
----- | ---------
| | |
| ----- |
<-------------------- | ---| 8 | RTC |
----| 9 |------
<---------------------------| 10 |
<---------------------------| 11 |
<---------------------------| 12 | (later) PS/2 mouse
<---------------------------| 13 | FPU (separate CPU)
<---------------------------| 14 | HDC #1
<---------------------------| 15 | (later) HDC #2
-----
FPU was actually a separate CPU chip designed for number-crunching floating
point operations. Pentiums came standard with the FPU designed into the same
CPU chip, but is still accessed as a separate chip using an IRQ.
When the Pentium came out, it was now 32 bit, and the IRQ controller was
upgraded as well to a programmable IC (PIC):
( not REALLY the hardware setup, but for explanation purposes this should be
the approximate design)
<------ any interrupt
|
<-to CPU --+--
<----------| 0 | timer
<----------| 1 | keyboard
<----------| 2 | (still used as a cascade in software)
<----------| 3 | serial #2, serial #3
<----------| 4 | serial #1, serial #4
<----------| 5 | sound
<----------| 6 | FDD
<----------| 7 | LPT1
<----------| 8 | RTC
<----------| 9 | video card
<----------| 10 | NIC
<----------| 11 | SCSI
<----------| 12 | PS/2 mouse
<----------| 13 | FPU
<----------| 14 | HDC #1
<----------| 15 | HDC #2
-----
BTW - brain-damaged FPU is found only on some Pentium chips.
Game controllers (joysticks) don't use interupts. Older printers didn't need
interrupts because they were REALLY slow compared to the systems they were
plugged into. The main reason for interrupts were for hardware that did
functions that required immediate processing (i.e., sound, timers, disks,
modems, etc.). Printers can be assinged an IRQ, but not needed since the
printers are the bycicle to the computer's ferrari in terms of speed.
Instead they can use a technique called polling where the computer just
checks every once in a while if the buffer is empty/full and needs to be
dumped/refilled.
The PCI bus is designed for 32-bit operation, and the PCI controller was
designed with only 4 cards per PCI controller. Multiple PCI controllers can
be found in the system (which is what you see with AGP video cards), so
interrupts can be shared between controllers. Now instead of seeing IRQ#,
they set IRQA-D (4 interrupts per controller), and the PIC assigns IRQs to
the controller, not the PCI card.
One gotcha with this setup is that some cards DEMAND that they initialize
first, so if a SCSI card is installed with a NIC, you may need to check
(sometimes by trial and error) which card needs to be initialized first in
order to share IRQ's on the same controller.
There is some other stuff that went into the design, but that's the main
setup with x86 architecture interrupts. Motorola chips (aka Apple) I'm not
sure about since I haven't worked with those chipsets much.
- Ken
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best location to load parport.o and parport_pc.o
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 11:54:46 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Modules can be loaded as required; kmod and/or kerneld does it. It's
magic.
--yan
Leonard Evens wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was wondering what is the best location to load the parallel port
> > driver (parport.o and parport_pc.o)? Currently I am doing it in
> > rc.sysinit just after it loads the soundcard drivers. Is there any
> > reason for putting it in an alternative place?
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> I can't figure out where this module is loaded under RedHat 6.X.
> I've also not been able to figure out where some other things
> are loaded. I've checked everything in /etc/rc.d and
> /etc/rc.d/init.d. What am I missing?
>
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Gregory G. Woodbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to delete useless email
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 13:01:50 -0400
It will be no problem. Once the users are "gone" the mailbox in /var/spool/mail
can be deleted without creating problems. If more mail arrives for the "gone"
user and the mail system doesn't reject it, the mailbox will simply be created
as necessary. Its a good idea to look at /var/spool/mail occasionally and
look for system account or other mail files that are getting too big.
bbyeung wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I got some messages in the /var/spool/mail directory that are
> for 'deleted' users. Just wonder whether remove the unwanted files by
> simply deleting them would cause any problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
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--
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SysAdmin group OAO NIEHS ITSSC
work phone:919 361 5444 x404
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Question about Gnome editors
Date: 03 May 2000 13:14:53 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 03 May 2000 16:14:20 GMT, Duane
<<8epj89$97o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I agree that nedit is a GREAT program. But I would recommend not using
>Lesstif for it. Much of Lesstif works well, but the text widgets still
>need some work.
>
>Fortunately, http://www.nedit.org/ has a Linux binary statically linked
>against a real Motif library (don't know how they arranged the licensing
>for that!).
That sort of thing (statically linking apps to Motif and then distributing
them for free) is explicitly allowed by the Motif licensing pieces. The
grand plan was to get users hooked on their widgets, then make developers
pay for the ability to use those widgets. Why do you think Netscape is a
huge static binary? Well, it's statically linked to Motif...
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: how to delete useless email
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3 May 2000 18:18:21 GMT
On Wed, 03 May 2000 15:30:12 GMT, bbyeung wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I got some messages in the /var/spool/mail directory that are
>for 'deleted' users. Just wonder whether remove the unwanted files by
>simply deleting them would cause any problem.
If the users accounts no longer exist then who'll miss the mail messages?
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
5:22pm up 6 days, 19:23, 3 users, load average: 1.28, 1.33, 1.26
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: The Best Man Page in the Internet?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3 May 2000 18:18:20 GMT
On Wed, 03 May 2000 15:10:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi All:
>
>I'll frequently need to look up man page while surfing. Would you mind
>sharing you favorate sites for man page?
Don't know what you mean. At the command prompt I type "man" and then
the name of the command that I'm interested in such as "man ifconfig"
to find out all about ifconfig.
--
Cheers
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%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
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or http://start.at/zero-pps
5:22pm up 6 days, 19:23, 3 users, load average: 1.28, 1.33, 1.26
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: qmail config - hard error / host's canonical name
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3 May 2000 18:18:22 GMT
On Wed, 03 May 2000 15:55:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>When I launch qmail-config, I get :
>
>"your hostname is ns1.mailclub.fr
>hard error
>sorry, i couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS.
>You will have to set up control/me yourself."
>
>The DNS is not on the Linux machine.
>I had a look at the qmail-config file, and the "hard error" error coms
>from the "dnsfq" command.
>
>What the "dnsfq" command do ? (I have found no man page and help on it).
>
>How can I solve my problem, and how do I set up config/me myself? (what
>should I write in it).
You could try putting something like
order hosts, bind
in your resolve.conf file, this tells the box to look at the hsots file
before checking with the DNS server as you won't be on line to the
DNS all the time.
Also check out the qmail man page there might be some more info in there
about this sort of problem. The DNS-HOWTO might also be of use to you,
on my distro it's in the directory /usr/doc/HOWTO/
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%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Reinstalling Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3 May 2000 18:18:23 GMT
On Wed, 03 May 2000 17:12:01 -0300, Alexis M wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I need to reinstall my Redhat system, since some things are broken, and
>it's easier to reinstall than to fix (after all it's been running
>non-stop on my PC for over a year now).
>
>My partitions include a /home partition, where I have all the user data
>etc.
>
>My question is, how do I retain user file permissions and ownership,
>since I am reformatting the root partition? If I just copy /etc/passwd,
>/etc/groups and /etc/shadow, is that enough? Or am I missing something
>here?
A rebuild sounds a bit drastic, tell us whats wrong and it may not be
such a big deal.
--
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%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: su -
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3 May 2000 18:18:25 GMT
On Wed, 03 May 2000 13:40:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>When I su to a user with there environment (su - username) I am getting
>an error message stating:
>/dev/pts/2: Operation not permitted
>
>But when I just su to the user (su username) I don't get this error
>message. In both cases I am su'd to the user, but in neither case am I
>using the users envronment. Any ideas?
I've just had a play with this and su -l username seems to work fine
for me on RH 6.0.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Permission Problems w/ Star Office and WordPerfect
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3 May 2000 18:18:24 GMT
On 3 May 2000 09:18:52 -0700, jason denton wrote:
>I have both Star Office and WordPerfect 8 installed on my linux machine. When
>running as a standard user both programs will complain that I do not have
>sufficent permissions to write and sometimes read programs in my home
>directory. Pico, emacs, etc have no such problems, and Star Office will
>actually get the file written even though it claims to be unable too. I have
>been unable to find an explaination in the docs. Anyone have any ideas?
Maybe when you did the install and while still logged in as root you thought
you'd create the directories where you were going to store the data before
you forgot.
Check the permissions in the directories that you're writing to, you may
find that they belong to root. If they do belong to root do the following
while logged in as root.
[/home/yourusername]$ chown yourusername the_name_of_that_directory
[/home/yourusername]$ chmod u+rwx the_name_of_that_directory
That should do the trick, but your problem may be something more deep
rotted than that, if so read the instalation instructions again and
make sure that there isn't something you've missed.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
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or http://start.at/zero-pps
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.samba
Subject: tar: "cannot readdir" on samba-mounted directory
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 17:20:36 GMT
I'm getting this really bizarre error message from tar:
# tar -cvf foo.tar /odin_e/Sites/Organizations
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
odin_e/Sites/Organizations/
tar: /odin_e/Sites/Organizations: Cannot readdir: No such file or
directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
The strange thing is that I can tar other directories on
the same share just fine:
tar -cvf foo.tar /odin_e/Sites/Custom
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
odin_e/Sites/Custom/
...
This is how I mounted /odin_e:
mount -t smbfs -o username=foo //odin/e /odin_e
Any ideas why this could be happening? Note that smbtar works fine,
(!) but I'd like to lump this in with the rest of my backup.
-Jonathan
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From: Buddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Boot Disk Problems?
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 10:33:10 -0700
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I am a green Linux user. Therefore, I thought it would be a smooth process.
(Not the case.) Any how, the disks are complete. When I try and boot PAM is
not recognizing the password or users. These are the messages I receive:
PAM_pwd['#'] : check pass; user unknown
PAM_pwd['#'] : Failed Log in 1 from (Null) For user, User not known to
the underlying Authentication Module.
Thanks for your help. If you have any insight on this particular issue it
would be highly appreciated.
Ron Gibson wrote:
> Buddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated with conviction:
>
> > I'm running Linux 2.0.35. I am in the process of creating a bootable
> > floopy with Yard-1.18. I can't seem to get the PAM devicces to run
> > propperly. When I log on the disk is not recognizing my password.
> > Please, help if you can.
>
> I don't know if these will help you but I used to use Yard and for some
> reason along the way, it stopped making disks that would work (as I
> upgraded, etc).
>
> I now build my own. Had too after every rescue-creating utility would
> fail. If you're configured to use Yard you have everything in the
> kernel to build a custom set, AFAIRemember.
>
> The BOOTDISK-HOW-TO is fairly easy to follow with only a few bumps in
> the road.
>
> Hint, if you don't want to use vi, PICO is small and uses the standard
> libs.
>
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ: 56576008
> Home Page: http://home.netcom.com/~rgibson/index.htm
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I am a green Linux user. Therefore, I thought it would be a smooth process.
(Not the case.) Any how, the disks are complete. When I try and boot PAM
is not recognizing the password or users. These are the messages I receive:
<br> PAM_pwd['#'] : check pass; user unknown
<br> PAM_pwd['#'] : Failed Log in 1 from (Null) For <i>user, </i>User
not known to the underlying Authentication Module.
<br>Thanks for your help. If you have any insight on this particular issue
it would be highly appreciated.
<br>
<p>Ron Gibson wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Buddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated with
conviction:
<p>> I'm running Linux 2.0.35. I am in the process of creating a
bootable
<br>> floopy with Yard-1.18. I can't seem to get the PAM devicces to run
<br>> propperly. When I log on the disk is not recognizing my password.
<br>> Please, help if you can.
<p>I don't know if these will help you but I used to use Yard and for some
<br>reason along the way, it stopped making disks that would work (as I
<br>upgraded, etc).
<p>I now build my own. Had too after every rescue-creating utility
would
<br>fail. If you're configured to use Yard you have everything in
the
<br>kernel to build a custom set, AFAIRemember.
<p>The BOOTDISK-HOW-TO is fairly easy to follow with only a few bumps in
<br>the road.
<p>Hint, if you don't want to use vi, PICO is small and uses the standard
<br>libs.
<p>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<br>ICQ: 56576008
<br>Home Page: <a
href="http://home.netcom.com/~rgibson/index.htm">http://home.netcom.com/~rgibson/index.htm</a></blockquote>
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