Linux-Misc Digest #843, Volume #24 Sat, 17 Jun 00 22:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Mandrake 7.1: is it fixed yet? (David Steuber)
Re: Cable Moden Setup Questions (Akira Yamanita)
Rescue disk without rdev? (Grant Edwards)
Re: Colorado Backup (1400) (J. Otto Tennant)
Re: CGI script doesn't execute (Akira Yamanita)
Re: Linux using up 256 Mb??? (Grant Edwards)
Re: spontaneous read-only mailbox folders (Michael Mueller)
Re: pppd dies unexpectidely with Kernel Bug (Michael Mueller)
Re: Accessing a printer via network on a system running windows 98? (Adam Schuetze)
download + install Linux (Robert L)
Re: Annoying oddities after kernel compile... (David Steuber)
Re: Modem Config. Problem using Kppp (John Todd)
Problems using kppp as a normal user with RH 6.2 (Silviu Cojocaru)
Disk Druid max. size (Garel)
Re: Problems using kppp as a normal user with RH 6.2 ("Doug")
Re: Disk Druid max. size ("Doug")
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1: is it fixed yet?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:00:00 GMT
Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' The question remains if it's actually necessary to do a spindown ?
' An actual spindown/spinup causes a lot of wear and tear by itself on a
' disk.
For standard disks in most computers, I would agree. I may even agree
wrt ATA disks in laptops. The ATA disk has much smaller platters and
doesn't rev up that quickly, so there may not be a wear and tear issue
with start/stop cycles as there is with the 3 1/2 inch platter drives.
I wonder if Toshiba has any info on the subject.
--
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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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Moden Setup Questions
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:04:07 GMT
Java__Cat wrote:
>
> My provider is Mediaone of New Hampshire and I am unsure of
> any login info that is needed. I am trying to gather this info
> from them but thus far they have not been very helpful. I am
> using SuSE Linux 6.4. I have my LAN card working and I can start
> it up by doing an #rcdhclient start then I do an #rcdhclient stat
> and it says that it is running or something like that. I try to
> connect to the internet and I have a few messages pop up that
> basically say that I can not connect to the a site. I do an
> #rcdhclient stat and it says that it is disabled. I am guessing
> that there is something within my connection config. that is
> causing my to not be able to connect.
> Any Ideas?
What's in /etc/resolv.conf?
After you bring up the interface, what does "ifconfig" show?
What's in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0?
If you've configured the NIC to use DHCP, you shouldn't have
to do anything manually. It will usually state that it
failed to bring the interface up if it didn't obtain an IP
address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Rescue disk without rdev?
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:28:40 GMT
I rearranged the drives/cables in one of my Linux boxes (we'll
call it A) [you can skip this part] because I need the mounting
brackets out of machine A to install a new IDE disk in machine
B so that I can take the old IDE disk out of machine B and put
it in machine C, so that I can take the SCSI disk out of
machine C and put it in machine D.
Anyway, I ended up with a non-booting machine A because the
drive order changed. Which I expected. No worries.
When I couldn't find my resque disk, so I shoved in
tomsrtbt-1.7.<something>, since I've always heard it was
cooler-than-cool.
It started up nicely and has more stuff than one would expect,
but it doesn't have rdev! Yikes, that's about the 5th most
important think you can put on a rescue disk after a shell, a
text editor, mount, and fsck.
Doesn't anybody else ever need rdev when fixing up a broken
installation, or am I the only one who gets himself into those
situations?
I know I've got a resque image around somewhere....
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I guess it was all a
at DREAM... or an episode of
visi.com HAWAII FIVE-O...
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Subject: Re: Colorado Backup (1400)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Otto Tennant)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:29:29 GMT
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>"J. Otto Tennant" wrote:
[... stuff deleted ...]
>Just what kind of Colorado Backup drive do you have? Linux
>can probably read SCSI drives (although there was some difference
>of opinion as to whether or not the Colorado SCSI drives are
>really SCSI drives in a recent discussion in this newsgroup).
>Linux can also read the Colorado IDE drives.
It is a tape drive from a Gateway system which has since
been gutted. While I haven't opened the box (I don't do
hardware), I think it hangs off of the floppy disk
interface.
>But if the data was put on the tape by another OS, you may
>have difficulty ecoding the data. The usual Linux utilities
>probably won't work. You may be able to do a direct byte
>by byte copy with dd, but you would then just have a disk
>file which you also couldn't decode.
Exactly. My guess is that the Colorado backup tapes
are in a proprietary format. They were written by
Colorado Software running under W95. I'm trying
to retrieve them using either Linux or OS/2; and
I am beginning to think that it is a hopeless effort.
(I have yet to try installing the Colorado Software
in an OS/2 DOS session.)
Thanks for your reply.
--
J.Otto Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CGI script doesn't execute
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:31:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've tried days but my CGI script doesn't work. I have Apache V1.3 and
> RedHat 6.2 and I
> want to make it running with the scripts of OpenSales AllCommerce. I
> tried different ways but instead of executing the script, the browser
> display the script on the screen.
>
> I am a newbie. Any help are very appreciated.
>
> Here is my httpd.conf configuration (Section virtual host only):
> <VirtualHost 192.168.0.1>
> ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> DocumentRoot /home/httpd/os_allcommerce-1.0.1/
> ServerName localhost
> ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log
> TransferLog /var/log/httpd/transfer_log
>
> AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi
> AddType text/html .shtml
> AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/os_allcommerce-1.0.1/cgi-bin/
>
> #Allow access to the site
> <Directory "/home/httpd/os_allcommerce-1.0.1/">
> Options ExecCGI FollowSymlinks
> AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi
> AllowOverride all
> Options Indexes Includes FollowSymlinks
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> #disallow access to the administrative portions of the site.
> <DirectoryMatch
> "/home/httpd/os_allcommerce-1.0.1/(DOCS|bits|conf|crons|data|...)">
> Options None
> Order deny,allow
> deny from all
> </DirectoryMatch>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> And here is one warning in my error_log file:
> [Fri Jun 16 16:44:04: 2000] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] script not
> found or unable to stat: /home/httpd/cgi-bin/om
You're showing the virtual hosts definition but the script you're
executing is in /home/httpd/cgi-bin. What's in the
<Directory /home/httpd/cgi-bin> section?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Linux using up 256 Mb???
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:39:34 GMT
In article <0tQ25.4101$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr. Guillermo A. Morales
wrote:
>Hi, I just installed Red Hat 6.1 on my PC (Pentium III, 256 Mb of RAM).
Good on ya!
>I logged on, played with my new Linux system for a while, then
>I typed the command "free" and I was told that Linux was using
>almos all the available RAM and had used some memory from the
>Swap file too!!!
Sure it's using your RAM. That's what it's _there_ for. Tell
you what: pull out all but 64M and mail it to me. That will
keep your Linux system from using all that RAM. ;)
>I think there's something going on here. Could anybody please
>tell me why this is happening
Linux will use all of the RAM available. Anything not used for
programs will be used for disk cache and buffers. Processes
that aren't active will get shoved out onto swap so that the
RAM can be used for other things, like programs that _are_
active and to cache files that are being used.
>and how to fox it?
It most probably doesn't need fixing.
Look closely and the memory usage and see how much of it is
being used for a disk cache and disk buffers:
[root@localhost lib]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 63008 61284 1724 18580 6176 41460
-/+ buffers/cache: 13648 49360
Swap: 136544 5008 131536
OK, I've got 64M and 61M is used. That sounds bad since I'm
not doing much, but look at the second line.
49M is used for disk cache and buffers, and only 13M is
actually being used up by programs (mostly just X which is up
to 9M at the moment).
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! QUIET!! I'm being
at CREATIVE!! Is it GREAT
visi.com yet? It's s'posed to SMOKEY
THE BEAR...
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From: Michael Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: spontaneous read-only mailbox folders
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 00:53:06 +0200
Hi adam,
you wrote:
>
> >Sounds like your POP3/IMAP daemon died and left a lock file preventing
> >itself from writing to a mailbox file while reading from. You should
> >then also check the RedHat site for updates fixing security problems
> >imposed by the daemon(s).
> >
> I see. Do you know how I could remedy that?
If you are not going to locate and fix the bug within the daemon by
yourself you should get hold of the updates from RedHat. Most
implementations should notice stale lock files on there own. If yours
does not you will have to remove them by hand.
Malware
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From: Michael Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: pppd dies unexpectidely with Kernel Bug
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 00:48:08 +0200
Hi Denis,
you wrote:
> I'm using kernel 2.3.43 with pppd 2.3.11. It was working fine for a long
> time, but for 3 to 4 days, I'm unable to log to Internet at the first
> try. Some of my ISPs are never reached.
It is your own fault to use a oldish hacker kernel.
> Jun 17 22:54:54 yoda chat[1131]: -- got it
> Jun 17 22:54:54 yoda chat[1131]: send (^M)
> Jun 17 22:54:54 yoda chat[1131]: timeout set to 10 seconds
> Jun 17 22:54:54 yoda chat[1131]: expect (~)
> Jun 17 22:54:54 yoda chat[1131]: 33600/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS^M
> Jun 17 22:54:57 yoda chat[1131]: ^M
> Jun 17 22:54:57 yoda chat[1131]:
> Jun 17 22:54:57 yoda last message repeated 23 times
> Jun 17 22:54:57 yoda chat[1131]: *** DANUP ISDnet ***^M
> Jun 17 22:54:57 yoda chat[1131]: ^M
> Jun 17 22:54:57 yoda chat[1131]: ^M
> Jun 17 22:55:04 yoda chat[1131]: alarm
You configured your chat script to wait for the character ~ which is
never received. Due it runs into the timeout of 10 seconds as marked by
the "alarm".
Malware
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Schuetze)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Accessing a printer via network on a system running windows 98?
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:45:39 GMT
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:24:20 GMT, "Dr. Guillermo A. Morales"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Could anybody please tell me how to setup a linux system (I use Red Hat 6.1)
>to use a printer connected to a PC running windows 98 in a network LAN?
>
>Please copy your answers/suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use printtool.
Fire it up, add a SMB printer, and then fill in the blanks.
Its the same type of config as for a regular printer, except that
(afterwards) you'll notice that your printcap entry will show
lp:/dev/null:\ instead of /dev/lp0. This is done, so that your
printer doesn't try to print locally. The print job is filtered by
the redhat print filters, and these print filters connect to the print
machine via smbclient.
You'll need to know the windows machine name (\\<insert name here>),
the group, user, and password (if you have passwords setup on your
network printers). Fill in all the blanks, choose the correct input
filter from the menu system, and you're all set.
The only extra thing you need to do, when printtool is done, is check
the /var/spool/lpd/<insert printer name here>/.config file.
Make sure the correct password, user etc.. are filled in. I've
noticed that printtool doesn't properly fill in these items. It seems
to put the first part of the line in, but doesn't properly insert the
correct values for the variable.
Hope that helps,
Adam
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From: Robert L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: download + install Linux
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:50:38 GMT
I want to install Mandrake on my Linux system. I have 2 system on
internet, one with windows (9.6 Gig ) and one with Linux (5 Gig).
I want to download the full Mandrake on my windows system, and install
mdk using ftp.
Here's 3 reason why i don't want to use known ftp server.
1) I'm using PPPoE for internet, the network image don't suported it.
2) Even if my connection is fast, it may not be very stable. ( from 20
to 100 K/s )
3) I have a small fast Lan ( 2 computer using 100 mpbs ethernet card )
and i can install it rapidly without download.
Is it posible? ( my windwos is configures as 192.168.1.3 )
Which file should i download? ( iso or the Mandrake directory )
Thanks.
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Subject: Re: Annoying oddities after kernel compile...
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:59:58 GMT
MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' I recompiled the kernel for my workstation leaving out the NFS server
' service, but when I boot up I see "nfss FAILED" (or something to that
' effect). Evidently, Linux is attempting to start this service even
' though it was left out of the kernel. How do I correct this problem?
Actually, I think Init is trying to start this service. Check your
inittab and see if you can track down the script that starts nfsd.
Then you can comment it out or whatever is appropriate for your
distribution.
--
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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From: John Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Config. Problem using Kppp
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:11:24 -0700
Modem busy can be an IRQ conflict. Check dmesg file (in /var
/messages) to see where linux finds it, and when it shows busy, do
cat /proc/interrupts to check IRQ's.
Modem locked simply indicates the presence of a lock file in
/var/lock . It will be called "modem" or "modemlock" ; you can delete it.
17 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Mink
>
>I'm having the same problem. I know mine is not
>a winmodem. I have an old USRobotics External
>14.4 kbs modem. I did the same thing you did,
>set it to ttyS0. It keeps saying Modem is Locked.
>
>So how do I unlock it? That's the question.
>
>Jason
>
>In article <8hlmvn$1th$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Mink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Mink wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hey All - When querying my modem using
>Kppp, I get a message saying,
>> > > 'Sorry modem is locked'. My modem is an ISA
>US-Robotics 56K. The device
>> > > is set to use ttyS0. I'm running Mandrake
>7.02. I've tried to use ttyS1,
>> > > ttyS2, and ttyS3 as well, only to get the
>same message for all 3 saying,
>> > > 'Sorry, your modem is busy'.
>> > >
>> > > What is my little modem up to?:-)
>> > >
>> > > Any help would be most appreciated. - mink
>> >
>> > IS this modem a winmodem perchance? Or you
>might need to use the
>> > setserial command to reassign IRQ/serial port
>to the modem.
>> >
>>
>> Well, it's not a winmodem for sure, unless I
>was duped by the store. I
>> think I should reset the serial, but I'm not
>sure which irq or port to
>> use. The card itself has no jumpers to set. I
>think maybe I should try to
>> use Linux Plug-N'-Play. What do you think?
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Before you buy.
>>
>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: Silviu Cojocaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems using kppp as a normal user with RH 6.2
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:30:03 GMT
I have a very starnge problem.When I try to use kppp as a normal user an
input request pops up asking for the root password... after I fill in the
password correctly the system tries to run kppp but somehow kppp is killed.
Here are the messgaes I get:
AUDIT: Sun Jun 18 03:33:33 2000: 1062 X: client 14 rejected from local host
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
Kppp: cannot connect to X server:0
Tahnks for reading this...please help me,
Silviu.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Garel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Disk Druid max. size
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:30:05 GMT
I tried using my 8.4 Gb for my Linux red hat, but when I used DD for my
harddisk using about 7 Gb and the balance on Swap but it cannot detect as
it is too large. What is the maximum to use as I only can use contiune but
the swap is too small. How should I increased that? I tried edit but still
cannot amend the swap.
Please help
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems using kppp as a normal user with RH 6.2
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:33:48 +1000
"Silviu Cojocaru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a very starnge problem.When I try to use kppp as a normal user an
> input request pops up asking for the root password... after I fill in the
> password correctly the system tries to run kppp but somehow kppp is
killed.
> Here are the messgaes I get:
> AUDIT: Sun Jun 18 03:33:33 2000: 1062 X: client 14 rejected from local
host
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Kppp: cannot connect to X server:0
> Tahnks for reading this...please help me,
> Silviu.
>
http://www.kppp-archive.freeserve.co.uk/console.html
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From: "Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk Druid max. size
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:36:03 +1000
"Garel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I tried using my 8.4 Gb for my Linux red hat, but when I used DD for my
> harddisk using about 7 Gb and the balance on Swap but it cannot detect as
> it is too large. What is the maximum to use as I only can use contiune but
> the swap is too small. How should I increased that? I tried edit but still
> cannot amend the swap.
>
You need to make a small boot partition below cylinder 1024.
ie RH recommends about 16Mb for /boot
You should then be able to use the rest of the drive for /
Regards,
Doug
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