Linux-Misc Digest #580, Volume #24 Wed, 24 May 00 08:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: What are SMTP commands (Aschwin van der Woude)
Re: Distribution "for" CD-urning w/ IDE? ("Juergen Ritter")
Re: resume download program (Matt)
Re: Xterm with transparent background ? (Steve)
Re: What are SMTP commands (Steve)
Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany
(Steve)
Auto start a Java program when booting. (Eric Chow)
Re: rosa (Steve)
Re: msie 5 for unix on linux (Steve)
Re: How do I install sofware, must I use yast2 ?? (Steve)
Re: Hanging problem in Linux (Rafael)
setting up a standard text editor ("Carsten Arnold")
Linux hangs (Rafael)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (Full Name)
Determining interactive shell mode (BASH) ? ("Dirk K�ser")
Segmentation fault - "talk" program (Hampus Klarin)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Maciej Golebiewski)
synchronise hardware and cmos clock ("Carsten Arnold")
Re: Moonlight3D ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
how to include new apps in startmenu ("Ian Malliques")
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (David T. Blake)
Re: setting up a standard text editor (Koos Pol)
Re: UIDL for pop3 servers under linux (Uwe Brauer)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (Michael Hofmann)
Re: Auto start a Java program when booting. (Steve)
Re: gnome problem... (Steve)
problems with mkisofs (Alexander Roalter)
DDS-4 Seagate tape drive problems. (Raymond Blum)
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From: Aschwin van der Woude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What are SMTP commands
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 09:30:02 GMT
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, and is used for
communication between Mailservers (MTA). There are several rfc's about SMTP
and its features check out:
http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/in-notes/rfc/files/
lhha wrote:
>
>
> Hi everybody,
> Please tell me about SMTP commands .
> Thanks for any help.
> Ha Le
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "Juergen Ritter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Distribution "for" CD-urning w/ IDE?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:33:56 +0200
Hi,
I have some kind of the same trouble with Mandrake 7 and my Ricoh MP 9060. I
deleted all automounts and kudzu. After all of this I was able use my cdwriter
with XCDRoast. But the strange thing is the configuration of XCDRoast. I can
select the cdwriter correctly. As CD-Reader for Data-CD's I can select my other
cdrom-drive (ASUS CD???). But For CD-Reader for Audio-CD's I can only select the
cdwriter! So what's wrong here? I really can play Audio-CD's only(!) with the
the cdrom, not with the cdwriter.
Any hint's? Long time ago I tried to configure a system with almost the same
hardware using SuSE Linux. After a new compilation of the kernel everything
worked fine!
Bye
Juergen
"Dave Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <_HVT4.1350$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >One problem I have with mandrake is that each time I boot up, it detects
> >the cdwriter (HP8100) but then tries to detect new hardware and tells me
> >that it has been removed from the system. If I ignore this, everyhting
> >seems to be OK, and the drive is detected correctly by cdrecord.
> >- Richard Kimber
>
> It's probably kudzu getting confused by seeing an IDE device, then finding
> a "SCSI" device due to the emulation. It seems to me that kudzu is a
> waste of time, and ought not be run at boot time. (You can remove it
> with ntsysv.)
>
> --
> Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: resume download program
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:44:34 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Any 'command-line program' which can ressume the file download in case the internet
>link was lost ?
>
> I tried 'wget -c' but it cannot work when the source is a http server ( instead of
>ftp server ).
>
> Thx 1st
Try 'ncftp'
Matt.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Xterm with transparent background ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 May 2000 10:54:53 GMT
On Wed, 24 May 2000 03:43:01 -0400, Max Heijndijk wrote:
>Hello there,
>
>How do I run an xterm with transparent background ?
Rxvt will do it: http://www.rxvt.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: What are SMTP commands
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 May 2000 10:54:54 GMT
On Wed, 24 May 2000 06:34:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>Please tell me about SMTP commands .
>Thanks for any help.
>Ha Le
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transport Protocol, tell us what
package you're using and what you want to do with it if you
still havn't found the answers by reading the man pages eg.
(man sendmail) or other documentation such as FAQs and
distribution notes and instalation instructions. The HOWTOs
are also very useful, you might have them on your HD in
usr/doc/HOWTO and usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/ and if not then goto
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ and d/l the latest version of
the documentation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 May 2000 10:54:54 GMT
On 24 May 2000 08:38:28 GMT, Jeff Silverman wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Somebody tried to send my /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files from my server to their
>account in
>germany. I am not sure how they did that part, but they did. However, my hacker is
>incompetent and
>he botched his own e-mail address. Imagine my surprise and astonishment when I got
>my own files in
>the mail! I looked in the maillog and I can see where the messages went out. I
>checked wtmp -
>found nothing there, and nothing noteworthy in /var/log/*, either. The Email address
>the guy used
>is [EMAIL PROTECTED] if that means anything to anybody. I think
>he's in germany because the remote mail daemon said:
What you're talking about sounds like a "Cracker" not a "Hacker".
Check this link http://www.netmeg.net/jargon/
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From: Eric Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Auto start a Java program when booting.
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:14:32 GMT
Hi,
How can it start a Java Program(it is a unlimited looping Java program)
when Linux start up ?
If the command that I run my Java program in xterm is "java myDaemon",
how to set this program to be started automatic when Linux Startup ?
Best regards,
Eric
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: rosa
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 May 2000 11:34:10 GMT
On Wed, 24 May 2000 09:39:35 +0000, Ian Mortimer wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Does anyone know if rosa (email prog) is available for Linux - I used to
>use it on HP-UX and found it quite reliable.
Never heard of it, but if you get the source you can probably compile it
so that it works on linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: msie 5 for unix on linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 May 2000 11:34:11 GMT
On Wed, 24 May 2000 06:30:05 GMT, h8te wrote:
>i know there is msie 5 for unix, but does any one know if i can use it in
>linux , i dont think im the only one who has found msie 5 for unix on the
>microsoft site, am i? well any way if you know send mail to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's defeating the object a bit isn't it? Download the Unix version and
see if it'll run on your system, you deserve all the trouble you get.
Some people just don't have a clue.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: How do I install sofware, must I use yast2 ??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 May 2000 11:34:11 GMT
On Wed, 24 May 2000 09:42:12 +0200, Rick wrote:
>Most of it is solved....Yast looks exactly the same as yast2 in my case.
>There is no difference SuSE told me that yast has a commandline interface
>instead of a GUI .
>Software that i installed using yast2 .........where is it...?...the
>software is not listed in the applicationlist
>Rick
Lets say you installed Pine using yast, after the install goto the command
line and type pine and see what happens. This was just using pine as an
example, usually it'd be a good idea to have a look at the man page before
diving right in and executing the command (man program_name).
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Hanging problem in Linux
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:38:31 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So what is your suggestion , I should change kernel? If yes, which one I
should choose
i586 or i686 in my situation. But I don't think it could help. The hardware
is not so new I am using so it should not be problem with kernel
Rafael
"David .." wrote:
> Rafael wrote:
> >
> > My Linux (Red Hat 6.2, kernel 2.14 and 6.1) hangs. I run on the same
> > computer Windows 98 and it works without hangings.
>
> There is a new kernel.
>
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/updates/6.2/
>
> --
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
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From: "Carsten Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setting up a standard text editor
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:22:16 +0200
Hi there,
I�m using Suse Linux 6.0
How can I change the standard editor of my system to my prefered editor.
For example, when i run "crontab -e" to edit the actual users crontab file,
"vim", a vi clone is used. Where do I set the variable for the system
standard editor, so that every user gets this setting?
Carsten
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Linux hangs
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:40:22 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My Linux (Red Hat 6.2, kernel 2.14 and 6.1) hangs. I run on the same
computer Windows 98 and it works without hangings. I would like use
only Linux on this computer but I can't. It hangs (freeze), the reset
button could not restart computer (black screen). I have to turn power
of. Please help me. What could be the reason.
I have:
AMD K6-3 400 Mhz running on 100Mhz bus ( 4x100)
S3 868 (2Mb) graphic PCI card
128 Mb Ram ( 2x64 Mb)
HD IBM GXP 27GB ( Linux on hda2 (boot- below 1024) and hda6 and swap on
hda7)
Screen Nokia 447M
When I changed bus speed to 95Mhz ( 4x95) i stop hanging. But next day
I add additional PCI network card and it start hanging again. Than I go
down to 83 Mhz bus speed and it seems to not hang. But what is the
problem , with Windows 95 , 98 and NT I can run eaven in overclocked up
to 450Mhz with bus speed 112Mhz.
What kind of the problem it could, is it related to Linux, or to
hardwareor other problem. Somebody should now this?
Please help!
Addotional information:
I had Linux with the same hardware, but with other motherboard and 486
120Mhz, and it worked perfect.
Please send answer to my email too
Rafael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Full Name)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:53:05 GMT
Any serious administrator who reads this thread would have to discard
Linux as a bad joke.
The more I read the more I believe Linux advocates are nothing more
than children who have found a new toy to play with.
On 22 May 2000 03:26:53 -0700, steve@howdy wrote:
>
>any one can give a link or have information on how can one
>enter a bug report if they find a problem in the linux OS?
>
>Is there an official site setup so one can do that? if not,
>how does one report a bug in linux? is it distro specific?
>I see rhat have a bug report page
>
>http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
>
>But if one has a bug in kernel, is that the place to
>report it? btw, I did not see such a thing on Suse web site.
>
>looking at http://www.kernel.org I did not see a place
>to report a bug.
>
>I think there should be one place to report bugs for linux. The
>way it is now seem confusing. How do people enter bug reports
>against other OS's such as windows? (not a window user so I do
>not know).
>
>regards,
>steve
>
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From: "Dirk K�ser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Determining interactive shell mode (BASH) ?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:47:00 +0200
Hello,
I'm looking for a way to determine for BASH (from within .profile)
whether the shell is started in interactive mode.
(In CSH this could be accomplished by:
if ($(?prompt)) ...
)
The purpose is to suppress the execution of some simple user
dialog in .profile if certain jobs are started for a user
account via
> su - $THE_USER -c $THE_COMMAND
Thanks for reading
Dirk
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From: Hampus Klarin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Segmentation fault - "talk" program
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:55:56 +0200
Hi, a RH6.1 machine here has apparently decided it does not want to run
the "talk" program anymore.
All it says is "Segmentation fault" and another user also got an error
message like "Segmentation fault/ core dump" but he deleted it before I
had a chance to check it out. Feels like I've looked everywhere but I
can't find anything. From what I've been able to find about segmentation
faults it's got to do when a process tries to write in memory that isn't
allocated for it, the thing is we're not running low on memory. The
machine isn't a proper server but I've checked out the processes and
it's nothing too memory-hogging in there.
So does anyone know what the problem is and what can I do about it? Help
would really be appreciated.
/EHK
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From: Maciej Golebiewski <[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
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:58:20 +0200
David Steuber wrote:
> Do people really have trouble with ./configure, make, make install?
> It has _never_ been a problem for me. Maybe I am just lucky. Even
> though I changed my compiler, libc, and libtools.
How often the makefiles provide the "uninstall" target, too? Or at least
a script for un-installing? Otherwise, over the time and number of upgrades
to newer versions comprised of different files, you're accumulating
"abandoned"
files.
RPM is not perfect but it is quite OK. It's just that the guys creating rpm
not always can get the dependencies right. Personally one of my favourite
query options in rpm is -q -f to instantly get the name of the package
"owning" a specific file. I love it.
Maciej
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From: "Carsten Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: synchronise hardware and cmos clock
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:00:47 +0200
how do i synchronise my hardware and cmos clock?
carsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Moonlight3D
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:56:54 GMT
In article <8gegjf$s18$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Gerard Milmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BTW, what happened to www.moonlight3d.org?
I don't know it. I try to get some informations, but up to
now i've got no response :-(
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From: "Ian Malliques" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to include new apps in startmenu
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:07:30 +0200
I'm newbee to Linux. At home I have Red Hat 6.2 on ext2 partition (3.2MB)
and 64MB for swap (it exists besides Win2000: fat32 fs); I have several
problems. I installed sketch (vector drawing program) and python, of course,
but every time I want to start it up, i have to type:
/usr/bin/sketch
Is there any easier way to run this program? Is there any way to put a link
to him in "start menu" (as under Win9x/Win2k).
Thanks for any help:))
Ian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David T. Blake)
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
Date: 23 May 2000 13:07:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David T. Blake) writes:
> ' Section 3b) (on modifications to QT)
> ' When modifications to the Software are released under this
> ' license, a non-exclusive royalty-free right is granted to the
> ' initial developer of the Software to distribute your modification.
>
> The right is non-exlusive. That means everyone can get that right. I
> think TrollTech is just trying to prevent forking of the Qt library
> here.
No, they are ensuring they can continue a revenue stream based
on contributions from outside the company. They will take your
modification and include it in QT Pro.
> As I said previously, if you don't like the Qt license, you can
> create your own library. There is no one to stop you. You can
> also use one of the other available libraries.
I was not arguing I should create a library. I was not arguing
against QTs right to use whatever license they like. I was
arguing that people should think twice before referring to QT
licensing as substantially free or "open source". The right to
fork is absent, the right not to have your contributions included
in proprietary works (such as QT Pro) is gone, and QT gets a copy
of EVERYTHING that even links to their code, even if it is not
publicly available.
--
Dave Blake
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koos Pol)
Subject: Re: setting up a standard text editor
Date: 24 May 2000 11:08:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 24 May 2000 12:22:16 +0200, Carsten Arnold
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hi there,
|
| I�m using Suse Linux 6.0
| How can I change the standard editor of my system to my prefered editor.
| For example, when i run "crontab -e" to edit the actual users crontab file,
| "vim", a vi clone is used. Where do I set the variable for the system
| standard editor, so that every user gets this setting?
|
| Carsten
Apparently you haven't read the manpage for cron. The short answer is there.
The long answer an be deducted easily (hint: man bash. Look for --noprofile)
Koos Pol
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From: Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UIDL for pop3 servers under linux
Date: 24 May 2000 12:36:33 +0000
John Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello
>
> > Does anybody know about a mail tool under Linux, which
> > deals well with the UIDL feature for pop3 or imap servers.
>
> > Emacs VM, fetchmail, fetchpop and kmail either flush the messages or
> > keep them and then again receive them, which is not what UIDL should
> > do. Why on the other hand does Netscape deal well with those severs?
>
> Fetchmail does what you want with the UIDL feature. I use it, and only
> get one copy of mail which is left on the server. You do have to
> request it in the .fetchmailrc file (keyword "uidl"--I put it after the
> words "protocol pop3") or on the command line ("-U" or "--uidl"). RTFM.
>
Sorry my experience is difference: I wrote via Netscape Messenger a
mail to a pop3 server I am using, this server is quite new and running
not sendmail but Netscape mail. Now fetchmail did this
fetchmail nfssrv.mat.ucm.es --user oub -p pop3 --uidl
Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
1 message for oub at nfssrv.mat.ucm.es (959 octets).
reading message 1 of 1 (959 octets) flushed
oub@sunma2:~
12:29 >mail
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
"/var/spool/mail/oub": 1 message 1 new
>N 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 24 12:29 39/1311 "test of uidl"
& x
oub@sunma2:~
12:29 >fetchmail nfssrv.mat.ucm.es --user oub -p pop3 --uidl
Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
fetchmail: No mail for oub at nfssrv.mat.ucm.es
Indeed fetchmail deleted the mail on the server!
Sending the same mail to the server and using Netscape to ret rive the
mail (option: leave mail on server).
Netscape, left the original on the server, retrieved a copy the
mail, but only once!
So this is precisely the idea of UIDL and it seems it does not work
for me here. I am very curious to hear more about your configuration
and version of fetchmail.
Uwe Brauer
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From: Michael Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:12:18 +0200
Full Name wrote:
>
> The more I read the more I believe Linux advocates are nothing more
> than children who have found a new toy to play with.
Yes "Full Name", and a good one too. Certainly more fun to play with
than Windows.
Children... well, us children do some of the computer work way more
efficiently than those WinKids ever get the chance to. No Blue Screens
here.
BTW, do yourself a favour and learn how to qoute.
Have fun,
Michael
--
Disclaimer: this message was written with Windows because my employer
forces me to.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Auto start a Java program when booting.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 May 2000 12:22:58 GMT
On Wed, 24 May 2000 10:14:32 GMT, Eric Chow wrote:
>Hi,
>
>How can it start a Java Program(it is a unlimited looping Java program)
>when Linux start up ?
>
>If the command that I run my Java program in xterm is "java myDaemon",
>
>how to set this program to be started automatic when Linux Startup ?
Here on RH6.0 I put stuff like that at the end of rc.local which is in
/etc/rc.d I also add a comment which says what it does (if I'm not running
the command every day I may forget what it does), and add the date to the
comment so that when you're looking at logs when something starts going
wrong you know what date you added the new startup feature.
--
Cheers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: gnome problem...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 May 2000 12:23:00 GMT
On 24 May 2000 01:49:17 GMT, Sylvain Louboutin wrote:
>I must have done something wrong, but here are the symptoms:
>
>(Running Gnome and Enlightment on RH 6.1)
>
>when logging in as a user, the GUI takes forever to come up, things
>work fine though, but then I cannot log out (the thing hangs there,
>after having removed the Gnome panel, but I can open a terminal window;
>and I have to su as root and kill gnome-session by hand; there might be
>a better way...); when logging in as root, everything works fine and a
>lot faster (which is a bit weird I must admit).
>
>Any idea of where I should start looking?
I had a similar problem to this a few months ago, I went through the
.gnome directories in my home directory and renamed them one at a
time and found which one it was that was causing the trouble, but
I can't remember which one it was.
.gnome <-- Either this one or
.gnome-desktop : definetly not this one.
.gnome-help-browser
.gnome_private <-- This one
Try CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to get out of X when it fails like that, you might
even find that it's just because it hasn't closed netscape down properly
or something. Do a ps -e to see if there are any netscape processes
running, you man need to su to root to kill them.
--
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
11:40am up 6 days, 19:45, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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From: Alexander Roalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with mkisofs
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:36:55 +0200
On my system with a recent version of mkisofs (from the cdrecord 1.8.1)
I always
get the same error when mastering larger directories (with more than
50-60 files in
it): Some files do even not appear in the listing, others are there
twice or more
times. The Image size is correct, so I guess the correct data is put
into the
image, but the TOC seems to be wrong.
I just tried all possible combinations of the -T -J -r switches for
mkisofs, but
also when removing all the switches I got a corrupted image.
Usually I create my archives with this command line:
# mkisofs -J -T -r -v -o /usr/cdmaster/cdrom.iso /usr/local/moviedb/
... an example to compress the moviedatabase located in
/usr/local/moviedb.
But when doing this, two larger direcories do not really appear as they
should.
Most of the files have long names, but there are also short names in it,
and both
of them appear several times in the directory listing.
Does anybody know why mkisofs has this behaviour ?
Thanks
Ro-ee
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From: Raymond Blum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: DDS-4 Seagate tape drive problems.
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 07:52:10 -0400
Hi (sorry for the possible repost, I never saw it appear on the
newsgroup)
Two problems I am looking to solve, sort of a "low-grade" EMERGENCY ...
I have to recover files from a backup tape that was made on a VA-Linux
box on DDS-4 tapes.
1) I have a couple of PCs running RedHat Linux 6.1 and 6.2. I have the
tape drive (a Seagate) that made the backups and am hooking it up on my
SCSI chain. Linux can see the drive and can use it to read DDS-3 tapes
just fine so I do not think that there is a SCSI
chain/cabling/termination problem. But when I put in one of the DDS-4
tapes that were created on this drive "mt status" on the drive tells me
"density 0x26 unknown density for this mt" and I can rewind/eject the
tape but if I try to read the tape I get an IO error.
The drive is SCSI-3 (?) 68 pin. The SCSI controller in my machine is a
SCSI-2 (HD50) connector.
2) So... I hooked it up to a VA--Linux box that has the same (68 pin)
SCSI controller. I can write to the tape but any command to read the
tape, including "mt status" hangs. I can not kill the process (i.e. the
"mt" command) but if I pull and reseat the SCSI terminator on the drive
it will SOMETIME release the process that is accessing the drive.
Is there something I have to do to use the DDS-4 tapes on the standard
RedHat 6.x distributions? Is the "unknown density" the reason for my IO
Errors?
Does anyone have a clue about the weird lockups on the VA-Linux box? I
booted the same machine with a DOS diskette and ran some Seagate
diagnostics that do read-write tests and the diagnostics say that the
drive is fine.
TIA
---Raymond
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