Linux-Misc Digest #6, Volume #25 Sat, 1 Jul 00 06:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: 64 MB RAM shown instead of 128 (Andreas Kretschmer)
Re: X-server unable to get started - but it's set to start on boot! ("white blood
cells")
Re: whereis kerneld on RH 6.2? (kc)
Re: Atari-Harddisk (Wolfgang Fritz)
Re: Realaudio/vsound (Ben van Mol)
Linux Server Security ("Scippie")
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From: Andreas Kretschmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 64 MB RAM shown instead of 128
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:01:10 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I try the free command, the memory shown is only 64 MB whereas I
> have 128 MB. I am running kernel version 2.2.14 Linux Mandrake 7.0.
> Is there anything I can do about it.?
You must append in your /etc/lilo.conf:
append="root=/dev/hda3 mem=256M teles=0x0180,5,0,2,isdn0"
^^^^^^^^
(This is a line from my /etc/lilo.conf.)
hope that help you, with best regards
Andreas (Germany)
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From: "white blood cells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-server unable to get started - but it's set to start on boot!
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:17:02 +1200
Cheers. That works.
"David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> white blood cells wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I have a problem in that I edited my XF86Config file after configuring
the
> > X-server, but now when I boot into Linux the screen never comes up. I
did
> > set it so that the X-server starts on boot, and now key combinations
such as
> > Ctrl-Alt- F1-F6, Backspace don't work. The only thing I can do is
> > Ctrl-Alt-Del. Can anyone suggest another key combination, or how to
prevent
> > the X-server from starting?
>
> At the lilo prompt enter "linux 3" this will take you to a text console.
> You can reconfigure X and then use startx to see if it will work. If you
> want to disable X at boot time until you get it configured the do this:
>
> vi /etc/inittab
> change the "5" in the line below to a "3" write the change and quit.
>
> id:5:initdefault:
>
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> ID # 123538
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From: kc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: whereis kerneld on RH 6.2?
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 03:34:12 -0600
Its been replaced with kmod. See:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/kmod.txt
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Holmes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed RedHat 6.2, and I can't find kerneld. It's not listed in the
> rpm contents for modutils, and control-panel complains of not being able to
> find it. Because it's not there anymore.
>
> Anybody know what this is about?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim Holmes
>
>
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From: Wolfgang Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Atari-Harddisk
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 09:42:40 +0200
Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> > Atari used FAT for their floppy format after all...
> Hmmm but I have trouble mounting atari-formatted disks. I have to format them
> under dos to be able to read them on both machines
>
That's the case with disks formatted under older Atari TOSes (1.4). They
set a byte in the boot sector different than DOS, but never used that
byte themselves. So you were able to read DOS formatted disks with the
Atari, but not vice versa. Later versions of TOS eliminated that
problem.
You can access old Atari disks with mtools under linux (see man mtools).
Wolfgang
> > / | \
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From: Ben van Mol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Realaudio/vsound
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 09:40:07 GMT
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
> Ben van Mol wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to convert a realaudio-stream to a wav-file with vsound.
> > Therefor I entered the following command:
> >
> > vsound -f output.wav rvplayer http://url_to_ram-file
> >
> > Normally this should work, but I get this error
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/vsound: /tmp/vsound18446.ioctl: Unknown file or directory
> > sox:Can't open input file '/tmp/vsound18446.raw':Unknown file or
> > directory
> >
> > Does anybody have an idea what those ioctl files do, or how I can get
> > rid of this error?
>
> I'm the current maintainer of vsound so I'm probably the person
> most qualified to answer this :-).
>
> The way vsound works is the capture all open/ioctl and write calls
> to /dev/dsp. The ioctl calls do things like setting the sample rate,
> number of channels and number of bits per sample (ie 8 or 16). Vsound
> captures these ioctl calls and saves them to a file /tmp/vsoundXXX.ioctl.
> The data that is written to /dev/dsp gets captured in a file called
> /tmp/vsoundXXX.raw.
>
> When the real player finishes, the vsound program uses the sox
> program to construct a WAV file from the raw data, using the
> information in /tmp/vsoundXXX.ioctl to set sample rate etc in the
> WAV file.
>
> Now to your problem. It looks like the .raw and the .ioctl files
> are not be created. Is it possible that your /tmp partition is full
> and hence these files cannot be created?
>
> I'd also be interested in knowing what version of vsound you are
> running (vsound --version).
>
> Finally, you should have a look at my vsound page:
>
> http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/vsound/
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
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> Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "He who writes the code gets to choose his license, and nobody
> else gets to complain" -- Linus Torvalds
Thanx for your quick respons,
I managed to work around the problem by installing the realplayer 7
instead of the 8 beta, and I installed the patch available on your site.
It still doesn't work with rvplayer, but with realplay everything runs
ok.
Thanx again,
Ben
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From: "Scippie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Server Security
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 08:30:06 GMT
Hello,
I have a cable-connection to the internet and I installed a computer with
Redhat Linux 6.2 to make that internet work on more computers. I also share
some directories and I have a telnet & ftp server running.
I don't work on that computer, it stands there, alone in a place where even
I almost never come. So I don't use it to surf or anything, just a server...
Now my question is... can anyone that has my IP number hack the machine ?
(please don't prove it, you probably already know my IP number), and what
can he mess up ?
I never log in on the computer locally, just sometimes (for a couple of
minutes to manage the shares) via a telnet session.
Anyway, I've run Win2k server on that computer (P200MMX,64Mb) and it sucked
! 10 minutes to boot, 3 times a day reboot, ... . Now I run Redhat on that
computer and guess what ????? No reboots since placement in the cabinet,
booting in 2 minutes, and I noticed that my HUB has much less network
congestions... Is this just a thought ? Or does Linux handle the network
better ?
Thank you,
Dirk.
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