Linux-Misc Digest #657, Volume #24 Tue, 30 May 00 21:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sound Volume (Ruediger Otte)
Re: ide-scsi - How ignore IDE Zip drive? (Ruediger Otte)
Inserting partitions into one large / partition (The Darkener)
Re: Windows98 FAT32 partition (Rod Smith)
Re: Inserting partitions into one large / partition ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: PNG to GIF (Nicholas Murison)
Re: Mounting Linux partition under Windows (Rod Smith)
Re: Minicom Access-Problems! (John Todd)
libXm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (David Colson)
Re: C, C++ Documentation? (Dale Wilcox)
Re: *****Starting Linux***** (Garry Knight)
Font specified in font.properties not found (Peter Bismuti)
Voive Mail in Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to work with minicom? (Robert Glass)
Loop Device (TKH)
how do I point netscape aPOP3 server? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: Loop Device (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: Loop Device (Dances With Crows)
Re: Problem with Zip IDE drive (Dances With Crows)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (bb@bb)
Where did that Zany Tarred File Go? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Icreasing Apache URI buffer? (John Jacques)
Re: Using Linux/IPChains instead of commercial firewall ("Andy Nelson")
Re: Loop Device (John McKown)
Re: Diskdruid kills other HDs? (David Efflandt)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruediger Otte)
Subject: Re: Sound Volume
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:15:20 +0200
In article Sound Volume,
Beno�t Smith writes:
> Greetings,
>
> I tried several mixers to set the sound volume. But each time I reboot,
> this one comes back to its default level.
>
> Is there a way to set the volume I want as default ?
>
> Thanks for any answer,
>
> --
>
Hello.
I think it's best to start a mixer every time when the sound-modules
were loaded by the kernel:
/etc/modules.conf
[...]
alias char-major-14 mad16
post-install mad16 /usr/bin/aumix -w80 -p10 [...] (many options)
[...] ^^^^^
This should be replaced with the name of the module for
your soundcard.
R�diger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruediger Otte)
Subject: Re: ide-scsi - How ignore IDE Zip drive?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:28:19 +0200
In article ide-scsi - How ignore IDE Zip drive?,
Ken Pratt writes:
>
> I have an IDE CDRW and am using the ide-scsi kernel module so that the
> cdrecord command can access the CDRW (using the SCSI interface) and
> "burn" CD's. This works well. However, the ide-scsi module also grabs
> my IDE zip drive. I do not want this because the SCSI translation
> provided by the ide-scsi module does not support the eject function. Is
> there a way to get the ide-scsi module to ignore my IDE zip drive short
> of changing the source code and recompiling?
>
Hello.
I don't know how you tell the kernel to use the ide-scsi-driver for your
cdrw-drive. I use a simple kernel boot-option: 'hdd=ide-scsi'
R�diger
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Inserting partitions into one large / partition
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:34:07 GMT
Can anyone point me in the direction of any documentation on how to
(un-destructively) create multiple partitions from a single root ext2
partition? I want to create a seperate /usr, /home, /var, (blah blah
blah) partitions, but when I originally set everything up, created only
one root partition for everything.
Thanks!!
- TheDarkener
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Windows98 FAT32 partition
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:42:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Is there a way to mount a FAT32 partition and maintain the long file names?
>>
>> File type should be vfat, not umsdos
>
> Unfortunately what you then give up is the ability to set file
> permissions. I'm not sure why, but apparently there's not yet a FAT
> file system type that allows both long file names and file permissions.
> If there were one I'd be glad to use it.
You can't set ownership and permissions on a file-by-file basis, but you
can do it on a mount-by-mount basis by using additional mount options:
- uid=xxx sets the user ID to xxx, where xxx is the number associated
with a username.
- gid=xxx sets the group ID to xxx, where xxx is the number associated
with a group.
- umask=xxx sets the bits that are to be REMOVED from the permissions
for a file. For instance, umask=0 ensures that all users will have
full read, write, and execute permissions in the directory. umask=022
sets it up so that the highest permission will be 0755 -- the owner
(uid=xxx) will have read/write permission, but all other users have
read-only permission.
All of this is not good enough to do a lot of Linux-specific stuff, but
it's fine if you just want to be able to easily move files back and
forth between Linux and Windows under any arbitrary user account; just
set the permissions (particularly the umask) appropriately.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Inserting partitions into one large / partition
Date: 30 May 2000 22:44:17 GMT
The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can anyone point me in the direction of any documentation on how to
: (un-destructively) create multiple partitions from a single root ext2
: partition? I want to create a seperate /usr, /home, /var, (blah blah
You can't. By definition you have to destroy the / partition.
The best way to do this is to pivot around another partition as /.
I.e. create a 64MB partition, fill it with / stuff, and link into
/usr and /home on your big partition. Adjust fstab and lilo.conf
and reboot with it as root. Now play some more ..
It's hard to see how you can avoid backing up some stuff temporarily.
: blah) partitions, but when I originally set everything up, created only
: one root partition for everything.
Peter
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From: Nicholas Murison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PNG to GIF
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:42:15 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Penpal International wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> For some while I've made graphs in PNG-format with GD. But now I want to
> publish some of theme on the internet, but most browsers don't support
> PNG yet. I also can't create GIF files, because that function was
> disabled on ALL libraries, apps, etc, etc because of someone has a
> patent on it. Now I try to find an app for linux which can convert PNG
> to GIF. Does anyone knows something which can do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank de Bot
>
> --
> Penpal International
> http://ppi.searchy.net/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The GIMP lets you do that.
--
Nicholas John Murison
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't mess with penguins
Registered Linux User #153895 http://counter.li.org
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Mounting Linux partition under Windows
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:47:02 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8h0uq3$jqf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
BuDMaN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey all,
>
> I know I can mount Windows partition on Linux using VFAT filesystem but
> I want to do the opposite now. How can I do that? I want to mount it on
> the same machine so I guess I can't use Samba for that, right?
As others have said, Explore2fs
(http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm) lets you
transfer files, but it's not really transparent. The closest you'll come
to transparent access is from fsdext2 (http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/)
for Win9x. It's presently read-only, though. If you use VMware to run
Windows under Linux, you can also use Samba and Windows networking to
mount Linux partitions for read-write access from the VMware-run version
of Windows.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: John Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Minicom Access-Problems!
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 13:57:44 -0700
Ensure that you have write permission on the directory,
" /var/lock "
On Tue, 30 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have problmes to use Minicom with normal User-Rights. I allways get
>the Message:
>
>"Cannot Create lockfile. Sorry"
>
>Can sombody help me?
>
>Regards Kai
--
_____________________
The lap of Linuxury
|<de in RH6
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:51:05 -0800
From: David Colson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.x,linux.motif.clone.lesstif
Subject: libXm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Hi,
I just installed lesstiff-0.91.0 (source) on my slack 4.0 kernel 2.2.6
system.
Ran the make install. However, when I do an ldd "filename" on the
program that requires
this library, i get
libXm.so.2 => not found
there is a slink in /usr/local/lib/ to the real file which is located in
/usr/local/LessTif/Motif/lib
as shown below
bash# ls -l libXm.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 May 25 21:45 libXm.so.2 ->
../LessTif/Motif2.0/lib/libXm.so.2
/usr/local/lib is in my /etc/ld.so.conf file. I also tried running
ldconfig but that did not help.
I also added /usr/local/LessTif/Motiif2.0/lib to the /etc/ld.so.conf
file then running ldconfig
but with the same results.
Any Ideas what I am doing wrong. BTW the make install uses libtool to
install the shared library
Thanks
Dave
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:50:05 -0500
From: Dale Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: C, C++ Documentation?
Dale wrote:
Try www.cprogramming.com
Dale
Andreas Kahari wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> jwaggoner.AT.charter.net wrote:
> > If this is off-topic please advise which newsgroup would be best.
> >
> > I am using RH linux 6.1 and would like to learn more about
> > programming in C/C++. I have found several good tutorials, but I am
> > looking for a listing of the available library functions and their
> > descriptions. I also would like to look at a how-to about socket
> > programming.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
>
> You will find the manual for the GNU C library at
> <URL:http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.0.6/html_chapter/libc_toc.html>.
> Theres a chapter in there about sockets too.
>
> Then see <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/onlinedocs/> for online
> docs on GCC (includes both 'gcc' and 'g++' and 'cpp' etc.).
>
> All online GNU manuals are at
> <URL:http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html>. Bookmark that page!
>
> /A
>
> --
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> # All junk e-mail is reported to the
> # appropriate authorities, no exceptions.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Garry Knight)
Subject: Re: *****Starting Linux*****
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:12:18 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>when i log in as either my username or "root" i get the '$' or the '#'
>depending on how i log in. ('root' or my username), anyway what command do
>i put in after the '$' or '#' to log in to the linux OS???
If you've got as far as the $ or # prompt, then you've effectively
logged into the Linux OS. Or, at least, to the shell. You can now type
in commands.
If you have a desktop or window manager installed, such as KDE or Gnome,
you can type "startx" (without the quotes) to start the graphical
environment.
I suggest you get hold of a good book on your particular distribution of
Linux, or alternatively, "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh, et. al.
>if someone sends this responce to my e-mail i will eternally be thankfull
>and luv ya forever......thanks..............
Um... I'll pass on that one!
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: Font specified in font.properties not found
Date: 30 May 2000 23:22:35 GMT
I'm getting the following error message:
Font specified in font.properties not found [--zapf
dingbats-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
How can I fix this?
THanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Voive Mail in Linux?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 23:28:30 GMT
Hi,
I have just begun work on a project(as an undergrad. working for a
Prof.), that involves a voice mail system, which can answer the
phone(through a voice modem), record a message, and then send either a
notice or the message itself to an email address. What I would like to
know is whether there is any open source software for Linux that already
does this or parts of it? If so I would greatly appreciate it if the
readers of this message could point me in the right direction. Any help
on where I could find resources pertaining to this issue would also be
of immense help.
Thanks,
Vamshi.
PS: My apologies if I am posting this to the wrong forum.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Glass)
Subject: Re: how to work with minicom?
Date: 30 May 2000 23:07:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If memory serves, I had to add myself to the group "dialout" before I could
use minicom.
Cheers,
RG
--
Robert Glass
Military historian, film buff, and (alas) Minnesota Twins fan
Remove "harlech" from my address to reach me by e-mail
2. exc�s
exclure la raison, n'admettre que la raison.
--Pascal, Pens�es
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Subject: Loop Device
From: TKH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:53:52 -0700
Linux supports this kind of special block device called the loop
device, which maps a normal file onto a virtual block device.
This allows for the file to be used as a "virtual file system"
inside another file. Losetup is used to associate loop devices
with regular files or block devices, to detach loop devices and
to query the status of a loop device.
I have been playing around with this driver. I would like to
know why is there such driver and when and why would such a
driver be useful?
Thanks for the time.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: how do I point netscape aPOP3 server?
Date: 30 May 2000 23:51:02 GMT
I have an IP address for our POP3 mail server and I'd like to learn how
to use Netscape for reading mail and Newsgroups, how can I set it
up so I can send and receive email?
THx!
~
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Subject: Re: Loop Device
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:03:37 GMT
TKH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Linux supports this kind of special block device called the loop
> device, which maps a normal file onto a virtual block device.
> This allows for the file to be used as a "virtual file system"
> inside another file. Losetup is used to associate loop devices
> with regular files or block devices, to detach loop devices and
> to query the status of a loop device.
>
> I have been playing around with this driver. I would like to
> know why is there such driver and when and why would such a
> driver be useful?
>
> Thanks for the time.
<snip>
For example, you can create a iso filesystem image to burn using a cd
writer but before doing so, you can actually mount that image and see
if everything looks okay.
Another example is how somebody created a Linux filesystem image file
on a Windows partition and allow people to play with Linux without
repartitioning their system. I think this is called WinLinux or
something.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Loop Device
Date: 30 May 2000 20:14:16 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 31 May 2000 00:03:37 GMT, Prasanth A. Kumar
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>TKH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Linux supports this kind of special block device called the loop
>> device, which maps a normal file onto a virtual block device.
>> I have been playing around with this driver. I would like to
>> know why is there such driver and when and why would such a
>> driver be useful?
>
>For example, you can create a iso filesystem image to burn using a cd
>writer but before doing so, you can actually mount that image and see
>if everything looks okay.
Also, you can create a big empty file, make a filesystem inside this file,
mount the filesystem, populate it, umount it, then encrypt the file in
some way. There are some kernel patches you can apply in order to have
encrypted filesystems within files and access them semi-transparently.
Those "business card" rescue CDs you may have heard about use the loopback
device too; most of the CD contains a filesystem that is mounted via
loopback in combination with gzip-like compression.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Problem with Zip IDE drive
Date: 30 May 2000 20:16:10 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 31 May 2000 00:52:40 +0400, Cyril Y. Nickonorov
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I've got a problem with my internal IDE Zip drive. When I read data everything
>goes ok, but when I write to Zip, files become corrupted (checksums don't
>match).
>Maybe this is a DMA problem?
>I use RH 6.0.
This is a known problem with kernel 2.2.5's handling of ZIP drives.
Update your kernel and the problem will go away.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: bb@bb
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: 30 May 2000 16:27:33 -0700
In article <8h0lk5$b9b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>b) Bridges cost *money*, not just time.
I guess then it is true what they say about linux. it is free for those
whose time is worthless.
Time is money. Are you so worthless that your time is worth nothing?
bb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Where did that Zany Tarred File Go?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:11:48 GMT
hey all. a quickie:
thanks to help from this nwgrp, i tarred and feathered the Netscape 6
beta with the tar xzvf filename.tar.gz command. but, where, oh where can
Netscape 6, the executable be?
thanx in advance.
dave
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From: John Jacques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Icreasing Apache URI buffer?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:35:02 GMT
Hello, cuurently our web server allows for up to 7,400 characters to be
submitted with a GET method. beyond this, the server responds with an
error page that the URI is too long because the URL contains more
characters then the server can handle.
How can I increase this to any size I choose? I do not want to use the
PUT method.
Thanks
John Jacques
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Andy Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.firewalls
Subject: Re: Using Linux/IPChains instead of commercial firewall
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 02:07:48 +0100
I had the opposite experience, and found ipchains quite intuitive.
have you tried writing the chains against networks rather than interfaces?
I set up a series of chains :-
lan-web:
lan-dmz:
frm-web:
frm-dmz:
etc, then run through the chains depending on source, and destination ip,
with a couple of rules to exclude the wrong ip on each interface.
I have used ipfilter on Solaris, and find it more of a pain to configure.
Andy
Lincoln Yeoh wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Fri, 26 May 2000 10:14:18 +0100, "Jim Turnbull"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>We are considering using Linux/IPChains for servers that need to be
accessed
>>from the Internet. We need to have something that will do some kind of
>>stateful inspection and also be an application proxy. Is there any reason
>>that we shouldn't rely on Linux (we have someone who can configure this
>>pretty well)?
>>Also, why, if Linux is that good, are products like Checkpoint Firewall-1
>>selling so well, and available for Linux as well?
>
>I am trying to set up a firewall which uses ipchains (plus app proxying).
>
>I found ipchains to be very primitive and rather inconvenient to configure
>for my purposes.
>
>I had to have custom input rules for each of my interfaces- to block
>strange stuff like source = 127.0.0.1, 0.0.0.0, 255.0.0.0, 224.0.0.0, etc,
>and to control direct access to my firewall interface addresses.
>
>I also had to have custom forward rules for each interface to interface
>pair, PER direction! (This was because I had to control access to other
>hosts as well, and I also required NAT.)
>e.g. 6 chains!
>eth0->eth1
>eth1->eth0
>eth0->eth2
>eth2->eth0
>eth1->eth2
>eth2->eth1
>
>Then I also had to have custom rules for output, this was just a minor
>issue.
>
>So for each host and port you want to allow you may find you have to
>configure FOUR separate chains. e.g
>input to eth0 interface
>eth0->eth1
>input to eth1 interface
>eth1->eth0
>
>You can simplify things slightly by passing through certain stuff
>automatically, but this is still very yucky.
>
>I am also currently having difficult getting "ipmasqadm portfw" to work-
>I'm trying to redirect a TCP port on my eth0:1 to a host:port in eth1.
>
>And what I found annoying was when I telnet to my eth0, Linux uses lo as
>the source address. This was counter intuitive to me, I expected it to use
>eth0.
>
>And for some reason it still doesn't seem to be directed- this may be an
>error of mine tho. I was assuming eth0:1 will be lumped together with
>"--interface eth0" by ipchains. I will try to confirm if eth0:1 is actually
>different from eth0.
>
>If you want to pass ftp through to a DMZ server it's not going to be nice
>going.
>
>The only place where there's any inkling of automatic statefulness is for
>NAT'ed packets. For no NAT packet filtering, there's no stateful stuff.
>
>I wish that it could be as easy as
>external=eth0
>internal=eth1
>internal=eth2
>permit tcp connections from all_external:anyport to webserver:80
>(and it will automatically allow replying ports)
>permit ftp connections from everyone:anyport to ftpserver:21
>(and it will automatically handle PORT style stuff).
>
>IPfilter looks promising but it doesn't run on Linux 2.2 kernels. I suppose
>I could switch to FreeBSD/OpenBSD (ipfilter built in), but then there are
>other issues - not sure about hardware compatibility etc- colleague had
>problems installing FreeBSD :(.
>
>Well I guess I'll just put up with this mess till ipfilter arrives on a
>release level Linux kernel.
>
>Of course I must say that some commercial firewalls are just as crappy if
>not more so. But I've seen some decent ones.
>
>Cheerio,
>Link.
>****************************
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>lyeoh at @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: Loop Device
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:44:44 -0500
On Tue, 30 May 2000 16:53:52 -0700, TKH
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]>Linux supports this kind of special block device called the loop
]>device, which maps a normal file onto a virtual block device.
]>This allows for the file to be used as a "virtual file system"
]>inside another file. Losetup is used to associate loop devices
]>with regular files or block devices, to detach loop devices and
]>to query the status of a loop device.
]>
]>I have been playing around with this driver. I would like to
]>know why is there such driver and when and why would such a
]>driver be useful?
]>
]>Thanks for the time.
I use it for one main purpose. I use mkisofs to "premaster" things that I
want to burn onto a CD-R. mkisofs creates a simple Linux file. Now, I want
to check that I really got everything that I wanted. So I use the loop device
to mount this as if it were a CD. I can then check things out better.
In the past, I used it for a really strange reason. I have a 2Gb partition
which contained my /home directory. Due to a problem, I was forced to install
Windows on this machine. But I didn't have any free space. So I used "dd" to
copy the entire partition to a file on another filesystem. I was then able
to use the loop device to mount my "home" directory. When I was able to
stop using Windows, I simply used "dd" to copy the file back to the original
partition. So it's an interesting, but probably not very efficient, way to
have one filesystem within another filesystem, at least temporarily.
Other reasons would be to test a new type of filesystem. Instead of needing
to dedicate a partition to this new filesystem type, just create it in
a "normal" file and use the loop device in order to access it.
Just some thoughts,
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Diskdruid kills other HDs?
Date: 31 May 2000 01:00:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 30 May 2000 18:30:17 GMT, Peet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am using diskdruid during install (Mandrake 6.5 or RH6.0) to install
>Linux on a second hard drive (slave /deb/hdb). I have Win98 already on
>/dev/hda (vfat) which diskruid recognizes and displays in it's menu.
>
>After setting up all partitions for Linux on /dev/hdb will diskdruid
>reformat also the master hard drive vfat (/dev/hda) and destroy all data
>i.e. Win98 ?
If you blindly use server install in RH and accept all automatic settings
it would wipe out all drives. But if you select specific partitions, it
should not bother any others. Not sure about Mandrake since I already had
partitions set up for it and selected only those.
>If so, how can I install Linux on a slave drive without affecting the
>master drive?
Yes. I have installed RH 6.1 a number of times without affecting any
other partitions and just installed Mandrake 7 without affecting any
others either.
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