Linux-Misc Digest #372, Volume #24 Fri, 5 May 00 19:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Saving Real Audio Streams (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Amazing Email Conundrums (Henry W Meyerding)
Re: Qmail Queue (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Driver for Panasonic/MKE CDROM? (Sam E. Trenholme)
what changed my /tmp's write permissions? (Neil Zanella)
Re: anonymous ftp problem ("Contact")
Re: Amazing Email Conundrums (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: what changed my /tmp's write permissions? (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Driver for Panasonic/MKE CDROM? (JEDIDIAH)
cron stderr question (Ken Williams)
Re: Linux Windows Managers (Rock44)
Re: cron stderr question (David Efflandt)
Re: Howto use a funtion in a struct ???????? (Alex Chudnovsky)
Re: Superblock corrupted :( (TuNixGut)
Free EJB app server for linux ? ("Michael Zill")
continued from linux.x (root)
Re: Free EJB app server for linux ? (Kim Christiansen)
Re: what changed my /tmp's write permissions? (Hal Burgiss)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Subject: Re: Saving Real Audio Streams
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 19:54:08 GMT
You should check out the SoX package.
http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/sox.html
In article <CjqP4.92$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
William Putney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks! I tried it out and it works. Now my problem is this: vsound
> creates a .wav file with a frequency of 11025Hz. I would like to encode
> into .mp3 to save hard drive space, but the 2 encoders I've tried (lame
> and bladeenc) don't like that frequency and want something along the lines
> of 32, 44.1, or 48kHz.
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From: Henry W Meyerding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Amazing Email Conundrums
Date: 5 May 2000 13:25:20 -0700
It is amazing to me that with all the agony and hair pulling, some IS
manages I hear are discussing doing without external email entirely.
Nobody seems to realize that it this virus stuff is just a symtom of a
broken product (ie Exchange/Outlook) and that you need do nothing other
than get rid of those products and replace their functionality.
None of the press say anything like that, naturally.
So much for a free press.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Qmail Queue
Date: 5 May 2000 13:44:12 -0700
>I've configured a Mail Server: QMAIL.
The best place to get questions like this answered is on qmail's mailing
list, or to look at qmail's web page:
http://www.qmail.org
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Driver for Panasonic/MKE CDROM?
Date: 5 May 2000 13:55:21 -0700
[Summary: This person has an old pre-IDE soundblaster CD-ROM drive. He
was able to perform a RedHat install with the CD-ROM, so it is one of
the vender-specific CD-ROMs that Linux supports.]
Try inserting the kernel module for this CD-ROM by hand:
cd /lib/modules/$( uname -r )/cdrom
insmod sbpcd.o
Try other kernel modules if that one does not work.
- Sam (Who should get a 1GHz Pentium III/Athelon to install Linux on)
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what changed my /tmp's write permissions?
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 18:29:18 -0230
Hello,
I've had some scripts running for quite a while now that have lines
similar to the following line:
set command [exec /bin/cat commandfile]
These worked fine until just about yesterday and now I cannot figure out
why they don't work any more: here is the error message I get etc...
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
$ pwd
/home/nzanella
$ /bin/cat commandfile
ls
$ tclsh
% set command [exec /bin/cat commandfile]
couldn't create error file for command: permission denied
%
So what is this error file stuff? All MY files are readable...
Another thing: I notice that my locate command no longer works on
my Red Hat Linux 5.2 box:
$ locate cat
locate: /var/lib/locatedb: Permission denied
$ ls -l /var/lib/locatedb
-rw------- 1 root root 0 May 5 04:02 /var/lib/locatedb
# df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda5 87795 74050 9211 89% /
/dev/hda1 430656 2176 428480 1% /dos
/dev/hda8 300047 97144 187407 34% /home
/dev/hda9 204913 14 194317 0% /tmp
/dev/hda6 2478610 1779751 570719 76% /usr
/dev/hda7 2281503 1868499 295070 86% /usr/local
# ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxr-x 3 286 wheel 12288 May 5 14:41 /tmp
Hmmm...
I did not do this to /tmp . How did this happen? /tmp is no longer world
writeable!
# ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwx 3 286 wheel 12288 May 5 14:41 /tmp
That's better!
Huh, now my scripts work fine!
Let me update the locate database...
# /etc/cron.daily/updatedb.cron
(minutes later)...
$ locate cat|less
/bin/cat
/bin/zcat
[snip]
Now, the issue I am trying to bring up is the following:
There must be a redhat script that somehow chmods the permissions of
/tmp under certain (still unknown to me) circumstances. I am sure that
some of you have had this happen to you as well. Can anyone explain this
strange phenomenon? I suspect it has something to do with cron.
Note: this happened to me already at least four times over a fairly long
period of time. I never bothered to bring this up before since doing
a manual chmod a+w /tmp as root is not a great deal of trouble but
still.
Regards,
Neil
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From: "Contact" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: anonymous ftp problem
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 04:59:53 +0800
you must also install the anon ftp rpm package with the wu-ftp package to be
able to allow anonymous ftp login's
Tat Ho wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Bob Hauck wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:33:23 -0700, Christopher Fonnesbeck
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >I am trying to set up an anonymous ftp server on my Linux machine, using
>> >wu-ftp. However, when users try and log in anonymously, they are asked
>> >for a password, rather than their e-mail address.
>>
>> What happens if they just enter their email address? Here's what my
>> wu-ftpd does:
>>
>> [hauck@lab hauck]$ ftp localhost
>> Connected to localhost.
>> 220 lab.codem.com FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1) Wed Jan
>> 7 01:03:55 MST 1998) ready.
>> Name (localhost:hauck): anonymous
>> 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
>> Password:
>>
>> If I give an email address as my password it logs me in as anonymous.
>>
>> --
>> -| Bob Hauck
>> -| Codem Systems, Inc.
>> -| http://www.codem.com/
>
>I too am trying to setup "annoymous" ftp access on my system but without
>success. The problem
>is I just do not get the line that says "Guest login ok..." after entering
>"annoymous" to the user
>name prompt. Do I need to setup a login account "guest"? If yes, then what
>should it look like in the "/etc/passwd" file?
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>T.L.Ho
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Amazing Email Conundrums
Date: 5 May 2000 14:05:17 -0700
>It is amazing to me that with all the agony and hair pulling, some IS
>manages I hear are discussing doing without external email entirely.
I have a better solution:
Have two kinds of email. One for the outside, one for the inside. People
are required to read mail from the internet proper with a plain POP3
client, such as Eudora or Netscape. People can read mail from fellow
employees using Microsloth Lookout.
Of course, you really want to disable Javascrip in HTML if you use
Netscape as a mail client. I have seen security products marketed using
pages which require javascript to read. Look at some of rsa.com's web
pages to see what I am talking about.
It seems people get too caught up in meaningless features to pay attention
to more important features, such as security and stability.
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: what changed my /tmp's write permissions?
Date: 5 May 2000 14:10:10 -0700
>There must be a redhat script that somehow chmods the permissions of
>/tmp under certain (still unknown to me) circumstances. I am sure that
>some of you have had this happen to you as well. Can anyone explain this
>strange phenomenon? I suspect it has something to do with cron.
Well, I have not had this happen in RH5.2.
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Driver for Panasonic/MKE CDROM?
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 21:10:29 GMT
On 5 May 2000 13:55:21 -0700, Sam E. Trenholme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[Summary: This person has an old pre-IDE soundblaster CD-ROM drive. He
> was able to perform a RedHat install with the CD-ROM, so it is one of
> the vender-specific CD-ROMs that Linux supports.]
Bughat was never too good about effectively supporting sbpcd.
[deletia]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: cron stderr question
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 21:20:57 GMT
How can I append all messages to one file and append all error message to
another file for a cron job?
0 17 * * fri /scipts/backup 2>&1 >> /var/adm/error.log >> /var/adm/cron.log
Or, if that won't work, will
0 17 * * fri /scipts/backup 2>&1 >> /var/adm/cron.log
log everything to cron.log including error messages that came from stderr?
Thanks.
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From: Rock44 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Windows Managers
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 21:30:20 GMT
George Bell wrote:
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> I started Linux on my computer about a year ago with Redhat. Then I
> became disgusted with it and got rid of it in favor of SusE. I am much
> more satisfied with the SuSE distribution, but I was dissapointed that I
> could not find the same kind of window manger I found with the RedHat.
> I think it was the Afterstep, it had a dark grainy background and a wide
> "toolbar" attached to the right of the screen. Is this merely an
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> and point me where to find it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: cron stderr question
Date: 5 May 2000 21:46:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 05 May 2000 21:20:57 GMT, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I append all messages to one file and append all error message to
>another file for a cron job?
>
>0 17 * * fri /scipts/backup 2>&1 >> /var/adm/error.log >> /var/adm/cron.log
Looking at 'man bash' I believe it would be:
0 17 * * fri /scipts/backup >> /var/adm/cron.log 2>>/var/adm/error.log
Assuming that is how you really spell your 'scipts' dir.
>Or, if that won't work, will
>
>0 17 * * fri /scipts/backup 2>&1 >> /var/adm/cron.log
>
>log everything to cron.log including error messages that came from stderr?
That would work, I guess, but the usual way is:
0 17 * * fri /scipts/backup >> /var/adm/cron.log 2>&1
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Howto use a funtion in a struct ????????
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 22:25:34 GMT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 5/5/00, 12:55:10 AM, "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote=20
regarding Re: Howto use a funtion in a struct ????????:
> Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : On 5/3/00, 3:53:57 PM, Bonny Gijzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regar=
ding
> :> I want to use a function in a struct :
> No you don't. Please use the right words. It's less confusing. You wan=
t
> to PUT a function in a struct. Well, look at the kernel source, where =
this is
> done everywhere.
> :> struct _Appstruct
> :> {
> :> char *Name;
> :> void SomeFunction();
> You mean
> void (*SomeFunction)();
> :> }
> :> Then I could use :
> :> App->SomeFunction();
> :> I know this is possible in a class, but I'm using C so ????????
> : Nope. It is not possible in C. That is what C++ is for. In C++, BTW,=
> Balderdash. Pigs ears. And I suppose the kernel doesn't exist?
Peter,
Let me explain myself.
What YOU mean ( pointers to functions, as members of structures ) is=20
INDEED possible in C.
Now what HE has written, is clear (as one may suppose) example of C++=20
code, and the phrase "it is possible in the class" ( refer to the=20
quotation ) means that he really MEANT function members of structures, =
which is the feature of C++/etc.
> Peter
Regards,
Alex Chudnovsky
e-mail : chale
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From: TuNixGut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Superblock corrupted :(
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 21:59:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:30:03 GMT, Nick
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> > Is there any other way to fix a corrupted linux partition, other
> >than using fsck? When i was installed Mandrake 7.0 after
installation
> >proceess directories was corrupt.
>
> What does that mean? Exact error messages are a *LOT* more helpful
than
> "directories was corrupt".
>
> >I ran fsck on the partition (/dev/hda6)
> >but I got the following:
> >fsck.ext2: Attemp to read block from filesystem resulted in
> >short read while trying to open /dev/hda6
>
> This error message occurs when you try to run fsck on a swap
partition or
> a partition that doesn't have a filesystem on it. Re-check the
output of
> "fdisk -l" and make sure you are fscking the right place here.
>
> --
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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.
>
I have exactly the same problem after - please feel free to giggle ;o) -
accidentially altering /etc/mtab instead of fstab and inserting - at
least it seems like - an invalid entry.
After that the system hung up, when it tried to unmount the filesystems
on system shutdown. So I had to turn the computer off without having
linux shut down regularly.
When I tried to reboot the system the last 2 kernel-messages
were "Filesystem not cleanly unmounted - Check forced", which ends
with "PASSED" status!!! and "Trying to remount Root FS ReadWrite",
which writes out "OK" and after that hangs up!
When running fsck from rescue disk i have the same output as Nick, i've
tried several other programs...
Since i have no man-pages on my rescue disk and - the way i crushed my
system should show that i'm not very familiar with linux - i dont have
many syntaxes in mind, there may be lots of other ways to try to rescue
my data.
OK, fdisk -l didn't list ANY logical drive on my second partition -
which cannot be ( at least not all ) missing, since I can boot Win2k
from one of them. So I just guess, that's the information fdisk -l
should write out maybe! ;o)
Well, debugfs shows about the same message as fsck ( i dont have it in
mind exactly - but if it will help you to help me, i will look up of
course ).
At the end, just try mount it tells me "wrong FS or bad superblock".
Any idea how I can undo these changes to mtab?
THanX a lot in advance!!!!
Uwe Bernitt
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From: "Michael Zill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.beans
Subject: Free EJB app server for linux ?
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 00:17:06 +0200
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: continued from linux.x
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 18:23:21 -0400
>Also, I am deathly afraid of upgrading my RedHat 6.0 to 6.2 for fear of
losing much
>information and for the time and effort that will have to go into it.
>> ...sounds like a Win 3.1 to Win 95 install, or a Win 95 to
Win98
>> install. This would be a compelling criticism of Linux (if
true)
>> if you were comparing it to BeOS or MacOS.
>> It's a feeble remark in comparison to WinDOS.
>I also do not know of a way to backup the entire system. It is no
problem backing up Windows.
>There are many utilities writtten to do it. Are there any with
Linux? Microsoft makes it as painless as
> possible.
>> Yeah, right. That was another thing that annoyed me about
Windows.
>> Wanna back up everything on Unix? Just copy the damn files
somewhere.
>> Buy a commercial utility if you can't handle tar or a cd
burner.
[deletia]
>> Partition things right & backup /etc and you can just plain
blow
>> the OS away and reinstall it with little if any impact.
I would like to upgrade to 6.2 or maybe even try Slackware, Debian or
one of the other thousand distributions. In order to do this you must
back up files and at this point I disagree with you about only having to
copy /etc and BOOM you done. That is so wrong!! What about the
kernal!! and all the applications/server/compliler/local
programs/configurations of servers and such that are set up at the
time. You don't find ALL of this in the /etc path!! There is so much
more to backing Linux. Are you prepared for your hard drive to choke
and still be able to get back where you were. If so how are you doing
it?
I am having difficulty backing up my current system. Idealy I want my
backup to be bootable. I have been unable to achieve this. You see, if
Windows crashes you at least have an avenue to access possible fixes
with the safe mode. If Linux crashes you can't boot up into anything.
You have to revert to a rescue disk set which a lot of know how to use.
hoffy
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From: Kim Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.beans
Subject: Re: Free EJB app server for linux ?
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 23:36:45 +0200
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> Is there any free EJB application server for Linux available ?
Check the following link, should be a few candidates for you :
http://www.flashline.com/Components/appservermatrix.jsp?sid=957132931828-3274494502-151
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: what changed my /tmp's write permissions?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 22:55:31 GMT
On Fri, 5 May 2000 18:29:18 -0230, Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>There must be a redhat script that somehow chmods the permissions of
>/tmp under certain (still unknown to me) circumstances. I am sure that
>some of you have had this happen to you as well. Can anyone explain this
>strange phenomenon? I suspect it has something to do with cron.
>
>Note: this happened to me already at least four times over a fairly long
> period of time. I never bothered to bring this up before since doing
> a manual chmod a+w /tmp as root is not a great deal of trouble but
> still.
Never had this happen thru all 5.x and 6.x versions.
PS--Permissions on /tmp should be 1777. This includes the 'sticky bit':
drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 2048 May 5 18:51 /tmp
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