Linux-Misc Digest #596, Volume #24 Thu, 25 May 00 11:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Error Questions! (Ben Chausse)
Re: Can't run Netscape?? (Joachim Schneider)
Adaptec 19160 ("Chris West")
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (Mark Wilden)
Re: How can I get ksh as a login shell ? (peter pilsl)
Re: How much ram does seti need to run (Francois Labreque)
xf86config Question ("Sukumar Thirunarayanan")
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (David Chase)
Re: Run a Java program at Startup. (Robert Heller)
Re: Linux Login Logo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can Link To My ISP, But Link Drops Out (mike)
Unable to login on ANY account! (Kool Breeze)
Re: Linux books (Rod Smith)
NFS between Solaris and Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: init rc5.d mechanism (Thomas Luzat)
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From: Ben Chausse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.samba,comp.protocols.smb,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Error Questions!
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:01:28 GMT
Hi there !
Every time I start Samba 2.0.7, I got this error messages :
[] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(537)
write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket (563)
write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 4: ERRNO = Broken pipe
[] lib/util_sock.c: send_smb(751)
Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting
Do you have any idea why ?
P.S. : The server is one Debian 2.1 with the kernel 2.2.15 and the
client is Win98.
Thanks so much ...
Ben ...
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From: Joachim Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't run Netscape??
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:06:54 +0200
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It was exactly the same with me, if I recall it right, it was a file ndebug
under /tmp
Joachim
"Brian E. Seppanen" wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, hoffmyster wrote:
>
> > If this file was not correct wouldn't I also be having this problem as root?
> > I am not having this problem as root as you can see by my username. I am
> > getting out with Netscape just fine as root but not as a normal user or when
> > I su root out of the normal user. When I use Linux I really need to stop
> > having to be root to do certain things, like this. Those prior messages I have
> > been sending as Rick Hoffman was with Windows.
> >
> Try starting netscape with strace, i.e.
>
> $ strace netscape
>
> look for the point where it fails and see if you can decipher why. I was
> getting a bus error with my normal user account, but not root.
>
> The reason (Get This!) a plugin was writing a TEMP file and only root was
> allowed to write to it. chmod a+w and all was well in wellville.
>
> Your mileage may vary :) Try it though, its very enlightening.
>
> Brian E. Seppanen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Chris West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,comp.periphs.scsi,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Adaptec 19160
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:12:20 +0100
Does anyone know if there's a Linux driver available for the Adaptec 19160
SCSI card?
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From: Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:13:27 +0100
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> And I'll tell you something else .. there is no regression suite for
> the hardware they're driving either :-). Those chips change
> arbitrarily, and break in new and interesting ways at every minor
> redesign or component change.
That's just another argument in favour of test suites, then. That way,
when the hardware changes, you can identify the change with the test
suite, instead of wondering whether it was your latest change that broke
the code.
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From: peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I get ksh as a login shell ?
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:24:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jose-luis.fdez-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hi,
>
> I have a RH 6.1. The default login shell is bash, but I want ksh as a
> login shell. I writed the '/etc/passwd' file to get this, but it haven't
>
> comman-line editing. If I press 'Esc + K' the term shows:
>
> ^[k
>
> instead of repeat the last command. How can I solve this problem ?
>
so your problem is how to edit passwd ?
peter
--
pilsl@
goldfisch.at.at
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:30:44 -0400
From: Francois Labreque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How much ram does seti need to run
Stewart Honsberger wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 May 2000 16:30:07 GMT, Julian wrote:
> >how much ram does seti need to run on Linux?
>
> Sorry I can't come up with a definitive answer, but this is what "top"
> reports for the Seti@Home process;
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 280 seti 19 19 13804 13M 236 R N 0 80.6 14.2 2636m setiathome
>
> Now that I look at it, it seems to take up quite a bit more memory than I'd
> like it to. I'm running with 96M of RAM, currently, and I don't think a
> dedicated process, text-only, with its output quelled, should use quite so
> much memory.
You should read up on the types of calculations it does. All things
considered, 14.2 MB is not much. It could possibly be rewritten to save
all its FFTs to disk and reread them over and over as it is doing
computations, but your hard-disk would probably melt or spin out of its
casing. This is not a gimmicky little program, there's some serious
crunching going on in there!
--
Francois Labreque | The surest sign of the existence of extra-
flabreq | terrestrial intelligence is that they never
@ | bothered to come down here and visit us!
attglobal.net - Calvin
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From: "Sukumar Thirunarayanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xf86config Question
Date: 25 May 2000 14:07:04 GMT
When I first ran xf86config after installing i740 driver it askes me for
the Video Card, I selected the wrong one but when I ran it next time so
that I can select the right one. The video card selection screen didn't
come up. I did the following
1) linked /usr/X11R6/bin/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/XBF_i740
2) Changes to: 1024x768 800x600 640x480 in Display Section. Then add a
line just before the Display subsection to force the color depth you want:
DefaultColorDepth 32.
But now my screen is going beyond my monitor viewable area.
Can anyone one help fixing this problem?
Thank You
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: 25 May 2000 14:12:30 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
:> And I'll tell you something else .. there is no regression suite for
:> the hardware they're driving either :-). Those chips change
:> arbitrarily, and break in new and interesting ways at every minor
:> redesign or component change.
: That's just another argument in favour of test suites, then. That way,
: when the hardware changes, you can identify the change with the test
: suite, instead of wondering whether it was your latest change that broke
: the code.
Unfortunately, you wouldn't know even with the test suite. Was it you?
Was it the rest of the kernel? Was it a bad chip? Is it a bad batch of
chips? Will it change back again next week? Was it the mobo? Was it
a timing problem (that's happened several times, when the kernel
has changed the definition of "nano_delay()"). Is it that the change
has broken the test suite? Not the driver?
You cannot control the variables as you would like.
Peter
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Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
From: David Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:14:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ermine Todd wrote:
> However, legacy issues will be with us forever - case in point: one of the
> limiting factors on the size of the solid rocket boosters in the space
> shuttle was the (thru a moderate concatenation of history) width of horses
> behinds.
The horses' behinds part is true, but not in the way that you think
it is. One reason that the SRBs were built the way that they were
was because they were built in Utah, not Alabama as originally
proposed (just a barge-trip away from Canaveral). I think I recall
that this would also have avoided the need for the segmented design
of the boosters, which (in hindsight) was not such a good thing.
However, elected horses' behinds from Utah felt that their state
would be a better choice.
If you want a reference for this, you'll have to go digging through
copies of Aviation Week from the late 1970s. It was discussed there,
at least once.
--
David Chase -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NaturalBridge Inc. -- http://www.naturalbridge.com
BulletTrain bytecode compiler -- when you can't wait for performance
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Run a Java program at Startup.
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:18:45 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows),
In a message on 24 May 2000 22:45:39 EDT, wrote :
DWC>
DWC> On Thu, 25 May 2000 10:25:12 +0800, Eric
DWC> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
DWC> >Would you please to teach me how can I run a Java program when Linux
DWC> >startup ?
DWC> >If Java program is a non-stoped program(infinite loop program), can it
DWC> >run ?
DWC>
DWC> Yes. All Unix systems have something called "backgrounding" a process,
DWC> which you should read up on. You start a process in the background by
DWC> appending an & to the command line. For example, typing
DWC> netscape &
DWC> into an xterm window will start netscape, then leave the xterm usable for
DWC> doing whatever. If you'd just entered "netscape", then the xterm would
DWC> block until you quit Netscape.
DWC>
DWC> >Normally, I run my Java program in Terminal as "java myProg".
DWC> >What can I do if I want to run it in background when Linux startup ?
DWC> >Please teach me ?
DWC>
DWC> You probably don't want to run your program when Linux starts up. You
DWC> probably want to run the program every time you log in to an X session,
DWC> and the way you do this varies with your window manager. A sure way of
DWC> starting a program upon X login is to put the command line in ~/.xinitrc
DWC> immediately before any "exec" line. You'd have something like:
DWC>
DWC> java myprogram &
DWC> exec $WINDOWMANAGER
Unless the program is a console program and is something the SETI@home
or some server program or something. In which case adding a pair of lines
like:
touch /var/log/myprog.log
java myprog </dev/null >>/var/log/myprog.log 2>&1 &
to the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
Will do the trick.
DWC>
DWC> in ~/.xinitrc . KDE provides a directory called ~/Desktop/Autostart where
DWC> you can put shell scripts which will be executed upon KDE startup.
DWC>
DWC> If you want this program to start up every time you log in to a text
DWC> console or xterm, you'd put the "java myprogram &" line in ~/.login
DWC> (tcsh) or ~/.profile (bash). HTH...
DWC>
DWC> --
DWC> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
DWC> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
DWC> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
DWC> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
DWC>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Login Logo
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:23:46 GMT
I don't know why they (redhat i guess) set it up like this but
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local it resets the /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net
files. Change the rc files to either regenerate your custom issue or
just zap the lines that create the issue files and they will not be
modified upon rebooting.
Cheers!
Ted
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Federico Czerwinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi there!!!!!1, thanx for replaying!, well, i've edited the issue
file, it
> has a lot of simbols and i dont know what!, well, the point is that i
could
> change it succefuly, with colors and more......but when i rebooted,
> everything became as it was!!!, i mean, the default massage!, What do
i do?
> I spent almost 2 hs figuring out what symbols i had to change! =0),
well,
> how do i keep it?, thanx a lot!!!!!
>
> Federico
>
> Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 06 May 2000 23:30:10 GMT, Federico Czerwinski wrote:
> > >Hi there!, well, this one is short. I just wanna know where i can
get
> more
> > >"Linux_Logo", for the login, you know, that ASCII penguin. Or how
can i
> > >make them? can i put anything else in the login? Thanx!
> > >Thanx a lot.
> >
> > The linux_logo program simply creates an ANSI (or ASCII, depending
on the
> > command line option used), which is typically re-directed to your
> > /etc/issue (local logins) and/or /etc/issue.net (remote logins).
I'm sure
> > you could use a standard ANSI editor to create an ANSI login
message, or
> > just edit the issue* file(s) by hand to create a unique ASCII login
> message.
> >
> > The issue files can come in handy for disclaimers and warnings
about all
> the
> > nasty things you'll do to people if they break into your system. :>
> >
> > --
> > Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
> > Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
>
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can Link To My ISP, But Link Drops Out
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:45:48 -0400
Hi,
for some reason I can't get kppp to work
so I am trying to troubleshoot the problem. It can dial the modem
and connect to my isp and then after a while the connection drops.
I decided to try for a test, to use minicom, and then give
an in line command in the shell to start pppd after I have logged
in with minicom. I am monitoring the output via tail -f
/var/log/messages. The following message is what I get before or
just after I connect or get disconnected from my isp:
registered device ppp0:
The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I
couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it us an IP
address hostcomputer PAM_pwadb[925]: (login:)
sessions opened for user by root by Login(uid=0)
My computer I called hostcomputer. What does this message mean
and how should I proceed?
Thanks
Mike
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From: Kool Breeze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unable to login on ANY account!
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:58:30 -0400
I have had a RH6.1 IPMASQ box up and running on BellSouth DSL for
about 3 months. I recently upgraded to RH6.2 and everthing was fine.
Yesterday I tried to telnet in under my normal user account and was
not allowed (Invalid login). IPMASQ is still working just fine.
I went to the console and was no longer able to login as root or ANY
of the 10 user accounts I have.
I was able to get into single user from boot via: LILO Boot: linux 1
>From there I tried changing passwords for root, my normal account and
a new account that I created to no avail.
The passwd program was changing /etc/shadow each time, but no user
could log in.
Finally, I cleared out all the normal user account passwords in
/etc/passwd and ran pwconv to update /etc/shadow.
Now the ONLY way I can log in is via an Xterm session as a regular
user (null passwd). I can SU from that xterm session.
/etc/securetty has the normal (tty1 - tty8) and there is no
/etc/usertty.
Can anyone help me with this?
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Linux books
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:59:00 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8girej$nse$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong) writes:
> Most of the books I have seen are mainly for the
> beginner/intermediate types who want to install and config Linux. I was
> wondering if there were any that go beyond that, say,
> intermediate/advanced that go into the use of Linux and other stuff like
> that.
For more advanced information, you normally have to go into books that
cover specific aspects of the system -- for instance, a book on Samba, a
book on Apache, etc. If you've got something specific in mind, please
elaborate. I've also got recommendations for various types of Linux books
on my web page:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/books/
This page most directly focuses on my own Linux books, but towards the
bottom there are links to broader recommendations in specific areas.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NFS between Solaris and Linux
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:50:49 GMT
I have Solaris 7 and Linux box.
I would like to share the directory of Solaris box to the linux box.
Here are what I've done:
on Solaris:
1) start portmap, mountd, nfsd
2) edit /etc/dfs/dfstab as
share -F nfs -o ro=linux /dir
3) shareall
on Linux:
1) mount -t nfs solaris:/dir /mnt
I found that the remote directory can be successfully mounted,
but when I list the directory /mnt with "ls", I can't find any files
in the directory, Why?
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Before you buy.
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From: Thomas Luzat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: init rc5.d mechanism
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:09:27 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 May 2000 12:32:48 +0200, "Ez-Aton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It is built on the idea that there shouldn't be one init script that runs
>all, but there should be a special script for every service.
>in /etc/rc5.d you will find symbolic links that point to /etc/init (where
>the scripts reside) with a starting letter (S or K) and a number.
The installation from www.linuxfromscratch.org uses /etc/init.d, is
this a common modification to the standard?
>Unfortunatley, there are few disadvantages, but I will not discuss them in
>this letter, since it is meant only to explain the mechanism of init.
Maybe you'd write another letter which lists the disadavantages as I'm
interested... :-)
Thomas
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