Linux-Misc Digest #497, Volume #24 Wed, 17 May 00 06:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Error: no space left on device ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Nico Coetzee)
Re: STAROFFICE HELP... (Charles Philip Chan)
Re: HELP! How do I create multiple users? ("Johnno")
Re: WYSIWYG web page generator (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Linux in Sun network (Bert De Knuydt)
Re: Separate HDD for swap? (James Stevenson)
Help: Kernel Panic ("bear")
Re: add a second root-account (Jaume Guasch)
Re: How can red dos partition in Linux ("bear")
XFree86-4.0 rpm installation (Silviu Minut)
Re: QPOP-Error (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Error: no space left on device (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Help: Kernel Panic (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: XFree86-4.0 rpm installation (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: XFree86 4.0 rpms (Silviu Minut)
File table overflow ("Andreas Moroder")
Linux Distribution ("Kay W�chter")
Re: 'Welcome' email for new users (sleddog)
Re: Linux Distribution (Andrew Williams)
Re: How can red dos partition in Linux (Andrew Williams)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Error: no space left on device
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:01:24 GMT
Recently my installation of RedHat has been producing the error:
no space left on device
when I'm trying to gzip files etc
'df' reports:
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda1 1988924 1007227 878883 53% /
/dev/hda2 1997067 290263 1603587 15% /home/clients
/dev/hdb1 6079051 2417588 3346591 42% /home/www
'df - i' reports:
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree %IUsed Mounted on
/dev/hda1 516056 58607 457449 11% /
/dev/hda2 516096 6750 509346 1% /home/clients
/dev/hdb1 1574912 73303 1501609 5% /home/www
looks like loads of free space/inodes to me
I've tar+gzip+copied+deleted about 2gigs of files off the machine,
rebooted. Still the same error message "no space left on device"
Even as root I get the message.
[Large] Log files are still being created though for the websites on
the machine, so there obviously is room for files.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Chewie
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:25:53 +0200
From: Nico Coetzee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Mongoose wrote:
> Hello,
> I am attempting to start a college project and have two of my
> ideas already being worked on. So I wanted to know what other people
> had for suggestions for linux projects? I was thinking of something
> along the lines of a project that would help promote the use of linux.
> What is something that most people could use? Something that could
> make a good 1 year R&D project?
DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY LEVEL SCHOOL
If we can get Linux used in schools, it will have a good effect on
general use in about 5 to 10 years from now.
Think About IT!
Wish List:
* Multimedia CD-Roms on School Subjects
* Multimedia Encyclopedia CD-Roms
Cheers,
Nico
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: STAROFFICE HELP...
From: Charles Philip Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 May 2000 03:55:56 +0500
>>>>> "Tux" == Tux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi guys... Is there a way to start individual Star Office
> programs without going through the Star Office desktop... I
> would like to have a link to Star Writer on my KDE desktop...
> I'd like the link to open Star Writer only, not the Star Office
> desktop, which is starting by default on my machine...!!!
> Thanks...
Unfortunately, no :-(, everything have to be started from the
desktop. The desktop is one of the most controversial thing about Star
Office and have generated many heated debates. This is also the main
reason why I dumped Star Office.
Charles
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From: "Johnno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: HELP! How do I create multiple users?
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:43:04 GMT
"Nicollette Swanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I create multiple users (400 in this case) automatically?
> I have a spreed sheet with all the users details that I would mail merge
> into the script.
> I'm using Linux Redhat 6.1
If you had a text file containing one username per line, you could do the
following from the command line as root:
for x in `cat users.txt`; do adduser $x; done
Try it first using a few usernames.
Of course, you'd then need to set the passwords...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG web page generator
Date: 17 May 2000 01:49:13 -0700
>Well, well, well,
>I can't believe some of these replies... Linux needs to be a lot more
>friendly to use before it will grow out of the childish mentality that it is
>somehow a purest ideology driven OS, for Geeks.
You can safely ignore usenet. The only thing the act of Usenet posting
does is create a stupid discussion about the validity of WYSIWYM HTML
editors. Which is pointless.
I remember when the big Linux discussion was whether end-user secratarys
could use TeX to edit documents. This was in the days before they did the
original Caldera port of WordPerfect 6 to Linux. While the usenet posters
were acting like idiots, saying "But, of course, Ms. End secratary can use
TeX", the people at Caldera were making sure that Word Perfect was getting
ported to Linux.
One group accomplished nothing, another group did something to make Linux
a little easier to use for the end user.
That said, the various commercial office suites all have HTML support.
Applix has this support, as does WordPerfect (even WordPerfect 6.0 had
HTML support), StarOffice, etc.
- Sam
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From: Bert De Knuydt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux in Sun network
Date: 17 May 2000 10:57:38 +0200
"Cyril Y. Nickonorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I'd like to integrate Linux systems in Sun network
> (Sparc machines running Solaris) and the main problem
> is Sun automounter maps. Is it possible to use them in
> Linux?
Hello,
Yes, no problem whatsoever. We've been doing this since about 3 years.
> Thanks beforehand,
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nitsjewo,
Bert.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Stevenson)
Subject: Re: Separate HDD for swap?
Date: 16 May 2000 23:59:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
i was thinking of doing that once except i ran into a small
problem with the old disk performance and they cannot swap quick enough
so it was still faster to have the swap on the main drive
cya
JAmes
On Tue, 16 May 2000 22:28:22 GMT, Scott Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Silly question - I'm assembling a few Linux boxen, and I have a
>handful of small (~100MB) IDE drives lying around I've been unable to
>find a use for or get rid of. How sensible/feasible would it be to use
>one of them in each machine as swap space, instead of using a partition
>on the main drive? If so, any suggestion as to where on the IDE
>channel(s) it oughta be?
>
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From: "bear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: Kernel Panic
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:06:55 +1200
Hi,all
I face a big trouble with my RedHat Linux 6.0.
I try to install StarOffice in my Linux. The StarOffice Readme tell me I
must upgrade my glibc libaries. So I follow the readme step:
You can also install the glibc2 libraries manually. Go ahead in the
following way:
1) Unpack the glibc2 libraries required, i.e., in the /tmp directory:
cd /tmp
tar zxvf glibc207.tar.gz
2) Remove a library loader (ld-linux.so.2) of a possibly still existing
older
glibc2 version
NOTE: the warning mentioned above in the installation via Shell Script
applies also here!
rm -f /lib/ld-linux.so.2
==============================
3) Copy as root the runtime Linker in the /lib directory
cp /tmp/glibc2/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
===================================================
But after I do 'rm -f /lib/ld-linux.so.2', my god! I can not do anything
again. No command I can use! It's impossible to do the command 'cp
/tmp/glibc2/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
'! So I have to turn off my PC. When the LILO runing, Linux display the
follow error:
Kernel panic: No init found Try passing init = option to kernel
Then the PC freezen in there. I know it is lack of 'ld-linux.so.2', so how
can I fix my Linux? I don't want to reinstall my Linux :(
Thanks!
Bear
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From: Jaume Guasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: add a second root-account
Date: 17 May 2000 11:03:26 +0200
Alexander K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>
> i need another root account. not a sudo-thing, but an account that has
> 100% root privileges.
> so i figure the way to go about is to have another account with UID set
> to 0, correct?
>
> so i type: useradd root2
> then: passwd root2
>
> then i edit the /etc/passwd file and set root2's UID to 0.
> plus i set the homedir to /home/root2 and the shell to /bin/bash.
> i set /home/root2 to mode 700.
>
[...]
In Linux (and other unices) the important data is the UID, not the login
name. That is, if you have two users:
UID : 100 LOGIN : USER1
UID : 100 LOGIN : USER2
these two users ARE THE SAME. Making this is an ERROR. This can lead to
unexpected behaviour, e.g. which would be the home?
The proper thing to do would be to have another user in the administration
group (e.g UID: 1 GID:0 ) although I don't know exactly which privileges would
inherit this account.
As I understand (of other articles in this thread) you are afraid of messing
the /root directory. Well ... there is nothing special with this directory,
just make a backup. The only things that could prevent you to login are:
-Deleting the directory
-Messing the .login (or .profile or other initialization files)
But you can still win root access, loging in as a normal user and making
su
(instead of su -). This command does not read the initialization files, so you
can gain root access. If you mess up you /etc/passwd file, and cannot login as
root or normal user, neither will you be able to login as "root2". All you can
do is boot in single mode, or from a diskette, and repair the /etc/passwd file.
Having a boot diskette is always a good thing to do, but it is certainly
necessary if you are experimenting with the system.
Regards,
Jaume
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From: "bear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can red dos partition in Linux
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:09:55 +1200
Hi
Could you tell me how to install the kernelsupport of the filesystem I want?
Thanks
Bear
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You have to install the kernelsupport of the filesystem you want. Then you
> can use the mount command on the partition where you have installed
Windows.
> I don't know if it works with RedHat. But in SuSE it works since version
6.1
>
> Tom
>
> "bear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:8ftg89$3i6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,all
> >
> > I have a HD which install Windows 98, Windows NT and RedHat Linux 6.0
How
> > can I read the file in the Windows98/NT in Linux?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Bear
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XFree86-4.0 rpm installation
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 05:16:12 -0400
I'm trying to satisfy the dependencies for XFree86-4.0. Among many other
things, it requires libncurses.so.5.
However, trying to install ncurses-5 breaks dependencies for a whole
bunch of other packages, most notably util-linux, which provides crucial
system programs, such as login and fdisk. These packages require
ncurses-4.x.
How does one go about this? Would bad things happen to me if I force
ncurses-5? If it wasn't for the login program, I'd give it a try myself.
Has anybody tried this?
I'm running RedHat6.0 (but now it is close to 6.2 probably, due to
continuous upgrades that I make). Oh, did I mention it's all about rpms?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: QPOP-Error
Date: 17 May 2000 02:24:07 -0700
>-ERR POP authorization DB has wrong mode (0777)
Well, where is the POP authorization DB and what are its permissions?
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Error: no space left on device
Date: 17 May 2000 02:28:11 -0700
>Recently my installation of RedHat has been producing the error:
> no space left on device
>when I'm trying to gzip files etc
Two suggestions:
* You may have quotas
* Run 'strace gzip -9 foo' and see what it is trying to do when it
gives you the 'no space left on device' error.
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Help: Kernel Panic
Date: 17 May 2000 02:30:21 -0700
>But after I do 'rm -f /lib/ld-linux.so.2', my god! I can not do anything
>again. No command I can use! It's impossible to do the command 'cp
>/tmp/glibc2/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>'!
Yep. You just successfully hozed your system.
You need to reinstall Linux. I personally suggest install RedHat 6.2,
whose Glibc library is up to date and StarOffice compatible.
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0 rpm installation
Date: 17 May 2000 02:31:46 -0700
>I'm running RedHat6.0 (but now it is close to 6.2 probably, due to
>continuous upgrades that I make). Oh, did I mention it's all about rpms?
rpm --nodeps foo.i386.rpm
- Sam
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 rpms
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 05:33:41 -0400
How did you install it without breaking dependencies? XFree86-4 requires
libncurses.so.5 but if you install ncurses-5
you break a million packages, including util-linux, which contains login,
fdisk, more, etc. Did you use --nodeps?
Jeff Volckaert wrote:
> I just installed the Xfree86-4.0-08 rawhide RPMS on top of the
> experimental Bero RPMS and all is well with my Matrox G200 & mystique
> cards (dual monitor).
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From: "Andreas Moroder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: File table overflow
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:03:50 +0200
Please HELP,
I got the error "File table overflow".
It's not clear to me if it is a memory problem or if there are to many files
open
( Probably it is ENFILE )
I looked into file_table.c and it looks like there is too few memory. Is
this true ?
This machine has plenty of memory.
What can I do ?
Thanks in advance
Andreas Moroder
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From: "Kay W�chter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Distribution
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:54:37 +0200
Hi folks, can anybody help me to choose
a good Linux distribution? I heard about so
many of them! Which one is the best,
Red Hat? SuSE?....
Thank you
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sleddog)
Subject: Re: 'Welcome' email for new users
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:58:21 GMT
On 16 May 2000 18:51:44 GMT, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 15 May 2000 22:52:11 GMT, sleddog wrote:
>>How can I set things up so that a 'welcome' email message is sent to a
>>new user when I create the account?
>>
>>RH 6.0 mail/news/file server, no X.
>
>Like someone else said write a script.
Thanks for your comments. Problem is my script-writing abilities are
embryonic.
>This new user has to login at some point, have the login script
>check if a particular file exists, and if not sends that user
>the welcome email message.
Users are accessing shares from Win workstations, using mail or web
browsing, but are not logging in via telnet, etc. Accessing a share via
Samba requires a login, but I guess I just don't understand how I can tie
a script to this.
>... or even have
>a cron job compare the user list with another list of all the
>ones who have been sent welcome messages, if the two lists
>differ, then it sends out a welcome message to the new items
>on the list.
Cron I am beginning to get the hang of. But how do I output a list of all
users ('users' give me those currently logged in)?
>If I remember correctly when you set up a
>new user they get a welcome message of sorts anyway, you
>just need to edit that message to say what you want it to
>say.
Don't know about this... only the 'message of the day' which is sent when
a user logs in at a terminal/telnet screen (?) But my users won't be
doing this.
Again, thanks for the comments. I'll keep reading....
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sleddog
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Distribution
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:05:16 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I find SuSE easier to configure than Red Hat, the downside to that is
that SuSE has one central configuration utility (Yast) so you do not
really get to learn how things are really configured.
Trotzdem, es macht alles *viel* einfacher!!
"Kay W�chter" wrote:
>
> Hi folks, can anybody help me to choose
> a good Linux distribution? I heard about so
> many of them! Which one is the best,
> Red Hat? SuSE?....
>
> Thank you
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can red dos partition in Linux
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:11:00 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you ever made your own kernel? You should not have to (the
necessary stuff is normally compiled in) but . ..
mount -t vfat /dev/hdax /mountpoint
(hdax is the address of a Win98 partition, /mountpoint is where you want
to mount it)
mount -t ntfs -r /dev/hday /mountpoint
(hday is your NT partition). Update support for ntfs is experimental
and dangerous so I recommend the -r option.
The next step is to put this stuff in /etc/fstab. Enjoy.
bear wrote:
>
> Hi,all
>
> I have a HD which install Windows 98, Windows NT and RedHat Linux 6.0 How
> can I read the file in the Windows98/NT in Linux?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bear
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