Linux-Misc Digest #399, Volume #24 Mon, 8 May 00 07:13:03 EDT
Contents:
webserver
Re: How do I split a Linux partition to install Win95? (Eric)
Re: redhat 6.1 install woes (Christoph Kukulies)
Re: Diamond Viper 770 Ultra (Lim Kian Tee)
Re: webserver ("Tom")
Re: computer viruses on LINUX (Munge)
Loopback device ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IRQs - can someone give the definitive answer please? (Dave Thompson)
NFS Problem ("Peet Grobler")
S3 Display error with X11 ("Peet Grobler")
Re: Need to find my IP address ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need to find my IP address ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sendmail: Faster than a speeding bullet? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
netscape 4.72 crash on redhat 6.2 (Fill in your full name)
Re: CPU Info (Geoff Short)
Re: EEpro100 with 2.2.14 kernel isn't detected? (unknown)
1.7M floppy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: diskcopy (Bastian)
Re: Sendmail: Faster than a speeding bullet? (Matt)
Intel Etherexpress 100 Mbit Ethernet card support (suddenly gone) (Christoph
Kukulies)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: webserver
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 08:30:08 GMT
I have a computer and I want to make it a webserver for my friends.
whats software would I need to make it like one of those hosting sites you
sign up for?
like, to have the control panel and ftp access only to your area and
everywhere?
im lost and i dunno where 2 begin
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I split a Linux partition to install Win95?
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 07:39:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I installed Linux on a new 8GB HD and now I need a few of my old Windows apps.
> I did not create a FAT32 partition on the HD at the time of my Linux (Red Hat
> 6.1) installation. How do I create a FAT32 partition for Win95? I ran fdisk,
> but did not see any obvious way to create a new partition. Choosing the n
> option tells me that there is no space for creating a new partition.
Might be somewhat problematic and I would advise to back up your current
data before doing anything.
If you have multiple partitions, it's easy, mv all directories/files
from a partition you want to remove to one you want to keep, update
fstab accordingly (ps. don't remove you're / partition, that might give
a lot of problems) best would be to remove /home or /usr
If you have one partition you could try to get ext2resize to shrink your
partition. Never used it myself though.
> On a side
> note why can I not run fdisk from bash? I had to use csh.
Run it from bash al the time, but you must be root to run it
>
> If I have to reformat the whole drive and start from scratch then I'll do that,
> but would rather not.
Good luck,
Eric
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.1 install woes
Date: 8 May 2000 08:40:44 GMT
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Christoph Kukulies wrote:
:>
:> Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : Christoph Kukulies wrote:
:> :>
:> :> I tried to install RH 6.1 on a P90 ASUS PCI/P54SP4 board, 64MB,
:> :> 2 IDE (M-2.2 GB Maxtor, S-2.1 GB Quantum FB), ELSA Victory Erazor,
:> :> Intel Etherexpress NIC.
:> :>
:> :> Nothing fancy, as one can see.
:> :>
:> :> Installing runs fine, I install a minimum system, on root
:> :> partition of 2192 MB (or something like that), 350 MB swap on second IDE.
:> :>
:> :> But when I reboot first time I just can see the letters LI
:> :> (obviously from LILO) and then stop. Nothing anymore. I can only
:> :> CTRL-ALT-DEL.
:> :>
:> :> Tried this now three times, even with IDE Normal mode.
:> :>
:> :> --
:> :> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:>
:> : In principle, the installation should have created a boot
:> : floppy for you. (If it didn't, reinstall but use the
:> : upgraded Anaconda installation floppy images from the RedHat
:> : Errata or a mirror site. Actually, you could probably just
:> : choose the upgrade option if you have already installed.)
:> : Boot from that and use fdisk to
:> : show your partitioning. For IDE disks,
:> : fdisk -l /dev/hda
:> : fdisk -l /dev/hdb
:> : will exhibit the partitioning information. That way we can
:> : tell if you have encountered the 1024 cylinder limit.
:>
:> It's working! I had adjusted the disk types once again in the BIOS and
:> found that if I chose LBA mode with the same geometry as the dmesg probe
:> output said (523/128/63) it suddenly worked. Phew, strange.
: It is not really strange. What was true was that there was
Strange in so far that it did not work in the first place, when I edited
the NORMAL IDE mode to the <1024 cyls geometry. It worked only when
I switched to LBA mode afterwards.
: an inconsistency between what the BIOS reported the geometry
: to be for the purpose of running lilo and what lilo expected.
: Changing the setting in the BIOS fixed that.
:>
:> Anyway, I don't need a boot floppy and can now turn to kernel compilation.
: Make a boot floppy anyway (if you don't have one) with mkbootdisk.
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 17:09:22 +0800
From: Lim Kian Tee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Viper 770 Ultra
Hi!
A big thanks to all of you for your helpful suggestions. After many
hours
and sleepless nights, I finally called it quits and bought myself Redhat
6.2. This newer version has driver support for my Diamond Viper 770 and
I
am now ready to embark on my new exploration into the new world of
Linux!
Not all my sleepless nights are wasted as in the process of trying to
manually configure my display card I learned many things: -
1. Where to look for helpful informations in the Linux community.
2. How to use the text editor Emacs (basics).
3. Why Linux is sometimes unable to provide us with certain hardware
drivers - to keep Linux free, as I understand it.
4. How to run linux in command mode other than X window, etc. etc.
Once again thank you to all you knowledgeable people in the Linux
community.
Kian Tee
Kian Tee
Lim Kian Tee wrote:
> Help! I installed Linux 6.0 on my Athlon system and upon booting up I
> got a very large image screen. I have since found out that the reason
> for this is because Linux 6.0 does not support my VGA card. The latest
> Diamond card supported by Linux is Diamond Viper 550. Is there anyway I
> could overcome this?
>
> I am new to Linux. If I want to install an application, e.g. star
> office, how do I do it?
>
> Kian Tee
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From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: webserver
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:12:28 +0200
With Linux you have all you need. There is apache as webserver and there are
several ftp-servers. You have just to install and configure them. I
installed both at home. There was no problem.
If you want your webserver in the www you should configure a firewall. With
the firewall i can't give you a help. I never installed one 'til now.
Greetings Tom
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a computer and I want to make it a webserver for my friends.
> whats software would I need to make it like one of those hosting sites you
> sign up for?
> like, to have the control panel and ftp access only to your area and
> everywhere?
> im lost and i dunno where 2 begin
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: Munge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: computer viruses on LINUX
Date: 8 May 2000 08:48:03 GMT
MerefBast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi. I am looking for information to compare the susceptibility of various
: operating systems to computer viruses.
: I am particularly interested in references for factual information about the
: kinds, nature, and number of security holes, as well as the number of actual
: viruses, worms, and Trojan Horses for each operating system.
Take a look at Phrack #56, "Shared Library Redirection via ELF PLT
Infection". If don't know where to find Phrack, I'll enlighten you
http://www.phrack.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Loopback device
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 09:22:51 GMT
I am trying to use a program that uses a /dev/loopN device, however I
get - Unable to find free /dev/loopN loopback device.
Can anyone explain what a loopback device is and how I enable them
Thanx!
--
Steven Coutts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Dave Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IRQs - can someone give the definitive answer please?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 09:43:56 GMT
I never find that I'm using both serial ports, so free them up by
turning them off in the bios.
Dave
Michael Powe wrote:
>
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> >>>>> "public" == public <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> public> All, I have gone around and around the IRQ issue for years
> public> now and I keep reading and seeing different answers to the
> public> same question: The PC architecture allows for eight
> public> expansion slots but has a very limited number of IRQs
> public> free. Once you take out the real time clock IRQ, the
> public> serial lines (COM 1 and 2), keyboard, cascade, two for IDE
> public> and the parallel printer, along with a modem, the diaplay
> public> adaptor, sound card, games controller and the floppy disk
> public> (etc - get the pciture?), you're normally left with, at
> public> best, IRQs 10, 11, 12 and maybe 6 or 7.
>
> The PCI bus allows for shared IRQs, which feature is implemented
> through busmastering. Shared IRQs are a mixed blessing. Some cards
> will demand their own IRQs. Sometimes the BIOS and/or the OS will
> pile up items on an IRQ while leaving others free -- this seems to be
> a fairly common event in Windows 2000. In addition, some sound cards
> will silently take an IRQ without informing the OS.
>
> Newer boards will share the IRQ of the first PCI slot with the AGP
> slot and the IRQ of the last PCI slot with the first ISA slot. This
> is why 3com recommends against putting their cards into these slots.
>
> mp
>
> - --
> BOYCOTT AMAZON http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html BOYCOTT AMAZON
> "Public opinion's always in advance of the Law." -- Galsworthy
> Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.admin
Subject: NFS Problem
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:40:43 +0200
Hi there.
I've read through the NFS howto, and successfully setup my box for it
previously. I had to re-install Linux on it, since then I can't get it
working.
eth0 device : NE2000 Compatible NIC
rpc.portmap is running.
When I manually type (as root) :
rpc.mountd --> I get the response :
"mountd[689]: unable to register (mountd,1,udp)"
Same with rpc.nfsd, I get the following:
"nfsd[690]: unable to register (nfsd,2,udp)"
I can telnet to this machine, ping works, thus, the network is up & running,
but, I can't get nfs to work. /etc/exports contains the right stuff, what's
wrong??? Anybody help please!!!
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: S3 Display error with X11
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:43:25 +0200
Here's the situation:
I have a S3 Trio3D AGP display card. The S3 X-Server does not support the
chipset.
Which server should I use, or what should I do?
I've read through the S3 howto, nothing. Is it because my card is AGP?
I've tried the following:
S3 Generic
S3 Trio 32
S3 Trio 3D
Super VGA
VGA 16
Intel AGP 2D/3D
The only one working is VGA16 in 320x200 mode, but that's ridiculous.
Anybody has the same problem?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need to find my IP address
Date: 8 May 2000 01:57:33 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>
>You don't seem to understand that having the source code is far better than
>having documentation. In the proprietary world, you need documentation simply
>because the source is not available, so people cling to the myth that
>documentation is essential. Documentation isn't for dummies, it's for people
>without source code. It's not an elitist assumption that developers can
>understand source code.
>
interesting discussion.
I think we need to be more clear what we mean by documentation.
There are in general two levels of documentation, one level that
describes the high level design of the program (architecture,
components interactions, main data flow etc..) and then, for
library type of software, a lower level of documentation that
describes the API as seen by the client of the library.
The first level is important to have, and can be in separate document.
In the open source world, I noticed that level of documentation
is somewhat lacking, although it is improving. I guess programmers usually
prefer to write code than to write documentation (I am one of those
weired programmers who enjoys writing doftware documentation as
much as coding :)
Yes, the API level of documentation, can be found by looking at
the code itself, but if you are going to do that, then the code
needs to be well documented as to the API. I've seen many code,
where there is no documentation at all that describe the function
calls. Not even a single line that describes what the function is
supposed to do.
There are also tools similar to javadoc (also for C/C++) that will
generate API docs from the source code automatically. May be
those can be used to help with this.
I happened to prefer to document the API first, in a separate document,
before the implementation, this way, the API is already documented
before I start coding. Of course, as one does more coding, the API
might have to change, and the API document, would need to remain in
sync with the code. But that was never a problem really, unless the boss
wants the code working first thing monday morning !
One advantage of having the documentation in the source code, is that
the documentation is not lost or separated from the code, this is
what a system like javadoc is the best of both world. You can have your
cake and eat it too ;)
Nasser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need to find my IP address
Date: 8 May 2000 02:05:52 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>Herein lies one of my biggest complaints about the Linux development
>environment: there should be no reason why an application programmer must
>rely on undocumented "catch-all" calls to accomplish simple tasks. The
>"man ioctl_list" page is a complete waste of time-- it's hopelessly out of
>date and only contains the argument type for each command without any
>explaination of where, why or how each should be used.
I agree that man pages need to be updated. The problem it seems that
it is hard to keep them in sync with the code development. It should
be the task of each programmer to make sure the man page is up-to-date
for their program/tool/command before making a new sw release. There should
be a defined process setup as to how to do this in the open source
world.
btw, does anyone use 'info' any more?
Nasser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sendmail: Faster than a speeding bullet?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 10:23:11 GMT
Hi, I'm running Redhat 6.0 on a dual PIII 700Mhz 512meg RAM, 9 GIG SCSI
h/d.
My problem is that I have over 100,000 emails to send each morning and
sendmail doesn't quite manage so well.
I've currently got a self written daemon that queues the emails and
sends them in 5 batches of 50 emails. Meaning that I have up to 5
sendmail processes running parallel.
What I want to know is - is there any way that I can tweak sendmail to
running faster - or is there another program that could send email
faster?
Many thanks.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Fill in your full name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: netscape 4.72 crash on redhat 6.2
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:59:55 GMT
Hi,
When I open a new message in the messenger of netscape
communicator 4.72 (this is the standard version of netscape
in redhat 6.2) and open my address-book; click a adress and
then click the "to" button..... netscape crashes!
Does anyone else have seen this problem?
Any suggestions?
Jan
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From: Geoff Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU Info
Date: 8 May 2000 10:31:38 GMT
Bruceh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Thanks for the feedback. I'll just:
: set CPU_CT= `grep "processor" /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l`
... or grep -c "processor" /proc/cpuinfo
Geoff ;-)
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============================================================================
Ever sit and watch ants? They're always busy with Geoff Short
something, never stop for a moment. I just [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't identify with that kind of work ethic. http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~geoff
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From: unknown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EEpro100 with 2.2.14 kernel isn't detected?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 10:49:33 GMT
On Mon, 08 May 2000 04:47:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Strock) wrote:
>
>I downloaded and built a 2.2.14 kernel (replacing the standard kernel shipped
>with RH 6.0). I applied one patch from John Hardin so that I could use my
>laptop to connect to my pptp server through the Linux box (from an NT client
>laptop).
>
>Well, when I compiled the kernel, I select the EEPro and the 3c90x (my second
>NIC). Everything compiled, no errors. When I reboot and go into the newly
>built kernel, it doesn't detect at eth0 is a EEPro. It thinks that the 3c90x
>card is eth0 and that there is no eth1. Everything still works great if I
>reboot into the RH 6.0 kernel (which is 2.2.5-15, I believe).
>
>Where did I go wrong? Anyone have any helpful guidance?
>
>Email replies appreciated.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mike Strock
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You may have to put the irq and io ports in the lilo.conf
That's what I had to do to get my SMC Ultra and eepro10 to work
together.
--
Unknown
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 1.7M floppy
Date: 8 May 2000 18:52:54 +0800
How can I mount a 1.7M floppy ?
I run "ls /dev/fd*"
and get these
/dev/fd0 /dev/fd0H360 /dev/fd0h360 /dev/fd1D720 /dev/fd1d360
/dev/fd0D360 /dev/fd0H720 /dev/fd0h720 /dev/fd1H1440 /dev/fd1h1200
/dev/fd0D720 /dev/fd0d360 /dev/fd1 /dev/fd1H360 /dev/fd1h360
/dev/fd0H1440 /dev/fd0h1200 /dev/fd1D360 /dev/fd1H720 /dev/fd1h720
There is no fd0*1772. Is it a kernel issue ? Do I need to re-compile the kernel?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: diskcopy
Date: 8 May 2000 10:56:20 GMT
On 8 May 2000 13:46:58 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have a small linux distribution in a floppy disk.
>I want to create a disk image from this floppy disk, and then reproduce the linux
>distribution to other floppy disk.
>
>How can I do that ?
man dd
Bastian
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail: Faster than a speeding bullet?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 11:59:15 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm running Redhat 6.0 on a dual PIII 700Mhz 512meg RAM, 9 GIG SCSI
> h/d.
>
> My problem is that I have over 100,000 emails to send each morning and
> sendmail doesn't quite manage so well.
>
> I've currently got a self written daemon that queues the emails and
> sends them in 5 batches of 50 emails. Meaning that I have up to 5
> sendmail processes running parallel.
>
> What I want to know is - is there any way that I can tweak sendmail to
> running faster - or is there another program that could send email
> faster?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
You failed to mention the speed of you internet link.
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel Etherexpress 100 Mbit Ethernet card support (suddenly gone)
Date: 8 May 2000 11:03:21 GMT
After rebuilding a kernel with fddi support I suddenly find
my Intel Etherexpress 100 Mbit card (eth0) no longer supported.
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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