Linux-Misc Digest #750, Volume #24 Thu, 8 Jun 00 11:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help->PC can't boot =~( (traveling_man@[N.O.S.P.A.M]waywardson.com)
Re: Newbie with networking questions. Please help! (Bernard Chandler)
Re: Linux Sound Spikes (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Newbie with networking questions. Please help! (David Hostetler)
Re: What distribution is most popular? (Gerald Willmann)
Re: size of *.mov (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Modem, Soundcard, and Zip Drive Problems (Jonathan)
Locale C library warning (Andrei Zmievski)
Re: Can't Install Ethernet Card after Linux is already Installed (Dances With Crows)
Timestamp discrepancy (Mike Jackson)
Re: how to make samba work (Dances With Crows)
Re: Can't Install Ethernet Card after Linux is already Installed (Leonard Evens)
Re: Is there a free CVS mirroring tool I can use? (David Steuber)
Re: Open Source Windows Based X Server? (David Steuber)
Re: newbie ? for suse 6.2 (David Steuber)
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From: traveling_man@[N.O.S.P.A.M]waywardson.com
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard,tw.bbs.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Help->PC can't boot =~(
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:12:30 GMT
The three main reasons for beep codes:
1) Bad/Loose Ram
2) Bad/Loose Video Card
3) Bad/Loose CPU
You could be a victim of chip creep or a power surge.
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From: Bernard Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Newbie with networking questions. Please help!
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 09:05:01 -0500
"Edward J. Smiley Jr." wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to network some computers I have. They are listed below:
>
> 1. Celeron 333, 256MB RAM, 18GB HD, running Linux
> 2. Toshiba P133 Laptop, 32MB RAM, 2.1GB HD, running Windows 98 and Linux
> 3. Sun Sparcstation 20, 128MB RAM, 4GB HD, running Solaris 8
> 4. Pentium 200, 64 MB RAM, 10GB HD, no OS at this time
> 5. Numerous 386 and 486 with 16 MB RAM and small HD's < 500 MB. (A lot
> of people say that these make great little servers, do not really need
> to network them if not necessary.)
>
> First of all, which one should I use as the server?
>
> '1' is my powerhouse that I use all the time. '2' I just use for when
> I travel. '3' is not really being used for anything at the time, but I
> want to keep Solaris 8 on it. So that leads to another question...
>
> Should I use Solaris or Linux for the server? I am posting this to
> both Solaris and Linux NG's.
>
> I would like to use a cable modem. Is it possible to have this on the
> server and have access to the modem from all the other computers?
>
> Finally, I need a good book (or link, FAQ, How-to, anything) on how to
> set up a home server. I am having a lot of trouble with what I am
> reading on the web. I have a few books (Unix Networking Clearly
> Explained and Comer's Internets and Networks), but they seem
> confusing. I have been using Linux for a few years, so I am not a
> Guru. I have minimal experience at Solaris.
>
> Sorry for so many questions, but I need to start somewhere.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> --
> Ed Smiley
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <remove NOSPAM>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <--Please Reply here!
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Linksys EFAH05W EtherFast 10/100 Auto-Sensing Workgroup Hub 5-Port
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000030068/webviator/102-3380548-8682544
Product Description
The EtherFast 5-Port 10/100 Auto-Sensing Hub from
Linksys is
the quickest way to build or expand a Fast Ethernet
network. Each port automatically detects and
negotiates 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps connections (dual speed
per port). You can mix 10BaseT and
100BaseTX hardware on the same hub without using a
switch or any additional network hardware.
The EtherFast 5-Port 10/100 Auto-Sensing Hub is perfect
for small workgroups interested in
expanding as their networking needs grow. You can
easily connect to other hubs and switches by
using the shared uplink port. When all ports on the hub
are running at 100 Mbps, the uplink port
becomes capable of sending data up to 100 meters (328
feet) at a blazing 100Mbps.
Don't try making one a server. When you programing in C, there is nothing
faster than using pointers because nothing moves. The same is true of unix
you want to leave the programs and data that is being used on the system
that uses it the most. There is no lan faster than not moving. Of course the
system that is used the least is best to use as print resources and or
backups.
If this is not a closed network you may want to read this first:
Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072121270/webviator/102-3380548-8682544
let us know how it is going.
--
Bernie Chandler
http://www.nationwide.net/~bernie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Linux Sound Spikes
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:15:06 GMT
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:14:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm running Red Hat 6.2 and Gnome/WindowMaker. I've successfully set-up
>my sound card. However, a peculiar thing is happening. Whenever a
>sound is emitted after a period of silence, the speakers "spike" at the
>beginning of the sound. By this, I mean that they emitting a short
>cracking sound. If sounds are immediately emitted afterwards, no
>cracking sound is observed. Once a period of silence (on the order of
>seconds) has elapsed, emitting a sound once again causes this spike at
>the beginning.
>
>Any ideas? I have a similar set-up at home which doesn't do this, so
>I'm thinking that perhaps it's just the speakers.
I'll bet that your sound support is configured as dynamically loadable modules,
loaded under the control of modules.conf (or conf.modules ;-) ).
If so, then the 'spike' you hear is the module being loaded and initialized on
first use. The dynamic loader notes a 'last used' time on each module, and
dynamically unloads modules that aren't used for a specific duration. This means
that although your sound modules are loaded at startup, they can be unloaded
sometime after.
When you finally go to play a sound, the dynamic loader has to reload the
modules, and the modules have to reinitialize the soundsystem. It's this
re-initialization that causes the sound spike.
A sure cure for this type of problem is to statically load modules like this.
Use modprobe to load the sound modules in your /etc/rc.init scripts, and they
stay loaded. You only get the sound spike at system startup, and clean sound
forever after. The drawback is that the modules stay loaded, even when they are
not used, taking up resources that could be better used by other modules.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')
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From: David Hostetler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Newbie with networking questions. Please help!
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 09:05:32 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
" "3" is not really being used for anything at this time, "
How about using it for something? Of course if you want to use it for
something and do not want to work on your gateway then I would..
How about putting that Pentium 200 to use? you could run the snot out of
that thing and sitll keep up on a small network. Of course you will need to
set up SAMBA on it if you want the Windows OS to access the network... I am
curious. How well does Win98 run on a 133?
Of course you COULD do something cool like set up a cluster of those
386-486 boxes... but that is just for cool factor.
As far as which should you use for the server OS wise... I would say Linux,
but then again I am biased (and admit it...). Of course you could download
the x86 version of Solaris 8 if you are comfortable with Solaris, I just
prefer the admin tools under Linux.
Just don't ask me how to print. I still haven't figured that one out...
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What distribution is most popular?
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 07:17:47 -0700
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Michael Daly wrote:
> This still worked fine, was able to configure XFree86 3.3.6 even
> though it couldn't find a driver for my Dell monitor.
a monitor driver ??? there are no drivers in linux (only modules) and
certainly no monitor drivers. Had you installed Debian or Slack and gotten
X to work you wouldn't be writing such things.
Gerald
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: size of *.mov
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 07:19:56 -0700
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Baton wrote:
> I want to serve mov files (qt apple) through http but I do not know how
> to find out what is the size of the picture they are going to show. I
> need this information for embed tag (height and width). Can somebody
> help me ? Maybe someone has ready script (any language) ? I would
> apprieciate every piece of help.
why don't you simply play them to see? Or can't you under linux? In that
case you better shouldn't serve them.
Gerald
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem, Soundcard, and Zip Drive Problems
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:06:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Eisenberg) wrote:
> Hello. I apologize for not looking into this more, and hopefully this
> isn't too much of a ignorant question, I just am in a rush to get
> everything working. I have the Corel Linux 1.1 Version and the modem,
> soundcard, and zip drive all do not work. I have a US Robotics
> V.90/56K Modem, my soundcard is a TBS Montego II, and the zip drive is
> just an iomega 100 one. I just would love to get all these three
> things up and running and life would be a lot easier concerning this.
> Thanks for all the help. Take Care. Paul!
>
>
The TBS Montego may not be supported since it is not listed in the sound
card matrix, but you might try the alsa-project for sound support <A
href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">here</A>
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Before you buy.
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From: Andrei Zmievski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Locale C library warning
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:13:14 GMT
I upgraded to RedHat 6.2 and now when I try to run Acrobat Reader or
xterm from my gnome-terminal I get this warning:
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
Any ideas how to fix this?
-Andrei
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Can't Install Ethernet Card after Linux is already Installed
Date: 08 Jun 2000 10:27:34 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:07:54 GMT, William Wueppelmann
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>That has nothing to do with the card; you don't have ping installed/in your
>path if that's the case. Though it is a bit strange to not have it
>installed as part of a default.
>
>>When we do ifconfig -a we get:
>>lo Link encap: Local Loopback
>>inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
>>UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTO:3924 Metric:1
>>ne.c no PCI cards found. use "io=0xNNN" value for ISA cards
>>How do we designate the io="0xNNN"?
Edit /etc/conf.modules using your favorite text editor,
naturally. Somewhere in that file, add the lines
options ne io=0x300 irq=3
alias eth0 ne
...no need to reboot either, just run /sbin/init.d/network start (that's
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start for Redhat folks.) Of course, this won't
work unless the card is truly NE2000 compatible--most cards that claim to
be are, but there have been problems with very cheap clones.
>You should be able to use modconf (modconf is a standard Linux utility,
>isn't it?) to create the correct entries for your Ethernet card.
Nope, no modconf here in SuSE 6.4. vi and conf.modules, OTOH, are in
every installation.
--
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: Mike Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Timestamp discrepancy
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 09:29:42 -0500
We have two Dell boxes that came preinstalled with Red Hat 6.1. On one
of the boxes there is a discrepancy between the timestamp given to a
files creation and the system time. If we do a 'date' or a 'hwclock
--show', the time returned is local time, as desired. However, if we
create a file using 'touch' the timestamp on the file is GMT (local time
+5). We have tried timeconfig to no avail. Any help? Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: how to make samba work
Date: 08 Jun 2000 10:34:33 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 12:48:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<8ho4lv$r3v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Hi, I am new to linux, so maybe this is a stupid question. I want to
>know, how to make Samba work so that I can access other PCs on the
>network available just like Network Neighborhood in Win 95/98. PLease
>also provide info whether this would require any other utility or samba
>is enough.
>
>I have red-hat linux 6.2 installed with Samba package.
http://www.samba.org/docs/
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html
The samba package installed should have everything you need, and SMB
filesystem support should be compiled as a module. Read the man page for
"smbclient" and try using that bare-bones program to connect to Lose9x/NT
boxen first. If that works OK, you should be able to mount remote drives
with the mount command, like so:
mount -t smb //NetBIOSname/sharename /mountpoint
--
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: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't Install Ethernet Card after Linux is already Installed
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 09:42:19 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello, we have RH 6.2 & installed a ISA Ether16 LAN card after we
> already installed the OS. We turned off Plug & Play via the card's
> setup utility, which says it is i/o base address: 300 and interrupt
> number 3. When we re-boot the machine, we can not even ping: bash:
> ping: command not found
> When we do ifconfig -a we get:
> lo Link encap: Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTO:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> When the system is shutting down, it says:
> ne.c no PCI cards found. use "io=0xNNN" value for ISA cards
> How do we designate the io="0xNNN"?
>
> When the system is starting up, it says:
> Bringing up interface lo
> Bringing up eth0 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2..(too fast to read)..
> Delaying eth0 initialization
>
> We are still booting from the boot disk that created the OS
> installation; do we need to make a new disk since we added an ethernet
> card or is there a way to add the card without re-installing the OS?
>
> Cheers,
> rt
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I would guess your system is trying to use the module for your
previous ethernet card. You need an entry in /etc/conf.modules
of the form
alias eth0 XXXX
where XXXX is the appropriate module for your card. You also
need the module for this card to be in /lib/modules/<some_no>/net
where it will have the form XXXX.o.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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Subject: Re: Is there a free CVS mirroring tool I can use?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:59:59 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Zaitcev) writes:
' > I can't seem to get to freshmeat today. What I would like is to
' > mirror the anoncvs.kde.org CVS repository on one of my local servers.
' > How can I do that? I would also like to put other stuff in the same
' > CVS repository ( in other modules ) so that I have only a single CVS
' > server to access when I want stuff from CVS.
'
' cd /local/repo
' cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/their/cvs co somemodule
' cd /home/david
' cvs -d /home/repo co somemodule
This doesn't seem to do what I want :-(
If there isn't a mirroring tool, perhaps I ought to write one myself.
Although from reading the CVS info file, it wouldn't be able to do a
true mirror. The best I can hope for is to read the CVSROOT/modules
file, and then co each of the modules and import them.
But how to deal with the & modules? How to deal with 'no longer
pertinent' files?
I've got other things on my mind. It would be nice to use an existing
tool. There must be one. Sh can do the simple exercise of getting
the modules. However, to deal with the CVSROOT/modules file, I would
use Perl.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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Subject: Re: Open Source Windows Based X Server?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:59:59 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
' XFree86 does have a makefile for Windows, unfortunately it's a WinNT
' build and the doco from XFree86 makes it sound a little on the flaky
' side.
That describes Windows to a T ;-)
If you can't find what you are looking for ( I know XWin32 is not open
source ), you may well have to hit the XFree86 source. I would be
really surprised if no one has done a free X server for Win32.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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Subject: Re: newbie ? for suse 6.2
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 15:00:00 GMT
Mike_the_poopball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' I have two hdd's in my linux server. I was wondering how i can (or if)
' mount the second hdd. I want to mount it and then point apache to it so
' I can run the webserver off of the second hdd.
man mount
man fdisk & mkfs ( if the disk is not already formated )
Apache has lots of docs, but I haven't read them yet.
You can create ( just an example ) a directory called
/usr/local/websites and use it for the mountpoint of your second hd.
In /etc/fstab you would add this line:
/dev/hdb3 /usr/local/websites ext2 defaults 1 2
Don't do something silly like deleting /usr/local/websites/lost+found!
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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