Linux-Misc Digest #10, Volume #25 Sat, 1 Jul 00 17:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: LILO + NT_Bootloader 5 (Leonard Evens)
Re: How to uninstall sendmail from booting sequence!! (Leonard Evens)
Re: IDE CD Burners OK? (Robie Basak)
Re: newbie questions ("David ..")
serial terminal on RedHat 6.2 (Konstantinos Agouros)
Linux Resource (Cory Rauch)
Re: IDE CD Burners OK? (Duane)
Re: How to make a copy of a start up disk. (Duane)
Does RealAudio 5.0 work with kernel 2.2.12 (or later)? (Barnet Wagman)
Re: VMWare question (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Re: newbie questions (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Re: pppd Daemon fails (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Re: Where Can I Find Pico Source Code? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
hardware serial numbers (Dmitri V)
Powerchute and diald (john doe)
Re: How to uninstall sendmail from booting sequence!! (Floyd Davidson)
Re: hardware serial numbers (Dances With Crows)
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO + NT_Bootloader 5
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 12:51:41 -0500
Leonard Lin wrote:
>
> If someone is able to answere me that question, it would be very great.
>
> Problem is:
> I tried to make a multi boot compuputer with NT5 and Linux.
> As far as I know. NT-Bootmanager is not able to boot LILO. Except you
> copy the lilo into a file,
> and add that file as new Boot-entry in the NT-Boot manager.
> But I want to evade that file entry.
> I've got a home computer on which lilo is installed in the MBR.(as
> usually)
> and the lilo boots-up the NT-Bootmanager which is on /dev/hda1.
If you put lilo in the master boot record, and you can thereby
boot both Linux and NT, you have nothing to worry about. The
reason for using instead the NT boot manager is that with NT version
4, if you put the lilo boot loader in the master boot record,
that would usually make it impossible to boot NT. But if you
don't have that problem, there is no reason to do it.
> That works wonderful. It's just so, that NT-installer installed the
> NT_Loader automatically. Into
> /dev/hda1 without any handwork. I nead something similarly on by second
> PC. How could I repreduce
> such a configuration like that.
> LILO->NT
> or NT->LILO(/dev/hdb1)
> I think the best way is to set up the NT-Loader into /dev/hda1 but how
> can I manage that?
It is not clear just what you want to do. But if your version of
NT can live with the lilo boot loader in the master boot record
of the first disk, you should not have any problem with putting
Linux on the second disk. I don't know about putting NT in the
second disk, but that would really be an NT problem. Lilo should
be able to get you there, and if NT can handle the rest, it will
work.
Your description is a bit confused. Perhaps you should say just
exactly what you want to do.
> Or an other solution without that lilo-dump-file
>
> Sincerely. thanks in advance.
>
> Leonard Lin
>
> PS: If possible send a copy to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
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>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to uninstall sendmail from booting sequence!!
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 12:53:04 -0500
Arun Mahajan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've installed Linux for the first time and while experimening I think i
> disturbed some settings and now it stops for a quite long time when it has
> to start sendmail services at the time of booting. Is there any way of
> removing this service from the boot?
>
> regards,
> Arun
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
Try using /sbin/chkconfig. Look at its manual page to see
how to use it.
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: IDE CD Burners OK?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 Jul 2000 18:31:32 GMT
On Sat, 01 Jul 2000 08:49:51 -0700, Bob van der Poel said:
>
>Time to spend a few more dollars on my system...and I want a CD burner.
>I don't have a SCSI card on the system just now, so I'm wondering if the
>IDE burners are going to be okay under Linux? Any recommendations or
>warnings appreciated.
My one works fine - it's a Mitsumi 4804TE (IDE). You need to put SCSI
emulation in the kernel so that cdrecord can see it, but this isn't
much of a problem, especially if the main reason you want the IDE
drive is cost.
After the SCSI emulation is functioning, it just behaves like a SCSI
writer.
Robie.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie questions
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 13:28:32 -0500
Ron Nicholls wrote:
>
> RedHat 6.2 enlightenment and gnome are running.
>
> I saw sndconfig load during install but cannot run it or find it .
> Locate turns up a sndconfig,au and midi but nothing I recognize as a
> binary, so I have no sound.
You might try "setup" as root at a command line then choose Sound
config
> My mouse pointer is an "X" when over the desktop and the windows, is
> this a function of the
> theme and bachground I chose. ( ice and gradient ).
I had the same problem. I installed enlightenment and it went back to
normal. I don't use enlightenment I just have it installed.
> One more thing , at one time my mouse would cross into and switch too
> the next desktop if it ran into the
> edge. Where is this function enabled /disabled.
I fyou are using gnome it is in the gnome configuration tool in the
"windowmanager/run configuration tool/desktop" section
In helix-gnome it is in the:
"gnome configuration tool/workspaces/Edge Flipping" section.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros)
Subject: serial terminal on RedHat 6.2
Date: 1 Jul 2000 11:40:50 +0200
Hi,
on SUSE-based systems I used agetty to get a serial terminal console running.
With RedHat it is not included, before I start to search on how to do this by
hand, has anybody a tip on how to do this the 'easy' way?
Konstantin
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Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
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"Captain, this ship will not sustain the forming of the cosmos." B'Elana Torres
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From: Cory Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Resource
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 15:11:13 -0400
OSFAQ.com is a new Operating System and Programming Technical site
looking to expand. Please check it out and add a link.
http://www.osfaq.com
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE CD Burners OK?
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 11:19:24 -0700
Bob van der Poel wrote:
>
> Time to spend a few more dollars on my system...and I want a CD burner.
> I don't have a SCSI card on the system just now, so I'm wondering if the
> IDE burners are going to be okay under Linux? Any recommendations or
> warnings appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
They work fine, although getting them installed and setup sometimes
requires a bit more effort then most other devices. It depends on your
distro, newer ones sometimes make it a lot easier. I have seen a number
of posts on problems with Ricohs - but that is definitely not a
scientific survey. My Maxtor 8/4/32A has performed flawlessly - no
coasters yet (I have plenty of AOL disks for that purpose).
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: How to make a copy of a start up disk.
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 11:41:11 -0700
rez wrote:
>
> On 20 Jun 2000 08:22:15 EDT Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> >dd if=floppyimage of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
> >No magic in the bs=18k, that just makes it go a bit faster. This makes a
>
> Faster than bs=1440k ? Why?
> Can you tell me how bs=, if I copy hda to hdc? TIA
>
If you are copying disks (since you are using dd, I am assuming they are
identical disks) you can just do:
cp /dev/hda /dev/hdc
Works just as good, takes fewer keystrokes. I would boot into single
user mode first. If your computer and disks are capable of 32 bit DMA,
make sure to enable that, or the copy could take a VERY long time.
Copying a fast 20G disk this way with 32 bit DMA accesses enabled took
me 35 minutes - that is a sustained transfer rate of 10 MB per second.
Without 32 bit DMA, that time would likely be a couple of hours.
If the disks are not identical, you might want to reconsider using
either dd or cp.
As for blocksize (bs) in dd, I would definitely expect bs=1440k to be as
fast or faster than bs=18k, though I doubt by much. And I can't imagine
it would make much difference on a floppy. In my experience, bigger is
better, though eventually with diminishing returns.
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From: Barnet Wagman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does RealAudio 5.0 work with kernel 2.2.12 (or later)?
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 14:27:40 -0500
Does RealAudio actually work with Linux? All I get is error 38. I've
written
to RealAudio but their stock reply is not helpful.
I'm using kernel 2.2.12-20 (Redhat 6.1), with Netscape 4.61 (which
shouldn't matter).
My system does not have a firewall (I'm using a simple dialup modem ppp
connection
to the web). I've tried various connection speeds and all the transport
options:
with "HTTP only" I get error 19. With all other transport options, I
get error 38.
This is my first attempt to use use sound with Linux, so perhaps I'm
making some
silly error.
Thanks,
Barnet Wagman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS please cc me directly with any suggestions.
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Subject: Re: VMWare question
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 19:54:24 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Skj�ldebrand) writes:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It has option in VMware windows to enable sound device.
> > ALL sound cards that work with OSS will work under VMware at sb quality.
>
> That was the entry I was looking at. It was all greyed out.
> I at last noticed I was always looking at the tab when the vm was
> running. I chose that when it was off and was able to install sound.
> When restarting my virtual Win2K there still was no sound but managed
> to install by the usual means in Win2K.
>
> Further experimentation showed that I can play my music CDs. The
> pinball game crashed though. As did subsequent restarts. I'll play
> around with this a bit more.
Finally.
It appears that I get to play music CDs in Win2K. Game sounds are
non-existant. My guess is that this is because the Linux Aureal OSS driver
is a beta driver which doesn't support games yet. Would it be natural
for the virtual SB-driver to take support from the host sound driver?
--
Martin Skj�ldebrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sys admin, web designer, tech writer
Hungry? Visit http://www.bahnhof.se/~chimbis/tocb
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Subject: Re: newbie questions
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 19:54:25 GMT
Ron Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> RedHat 6.2 enlightenment and gnome are running.
>
> I saw sndconfig load during install but cannot run it or find it .
> Locate turns up a sndconfig,au and midi but nothing I recognize as a
> binary, so I have no sound.
/usr/sbin/sndconfig
(Mandrake 7.1 YMMV)
> My mouse pointer is an "X" when over the desktop and the windows, is
> this a function of the
> theme and bachground I chose. ( ice and gradient ).
That's quite normal. At least over the desktop. Some themes may change
how the cursor behaves I think.
> One more thing , at one time my mouse would cross into and switch too
> the next desktop if it ran into the
> edge. Where is this function enabled /disabled.
You can do this in your Xconfig file - No virtual or somesuch somewhere.
I'm not sure about the syntax. I don't know if it is doable from Gnome.
M.
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Martin Skj�ldebrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sys admin, web designer, tech writer
Hungry? Visit http://www.bahnhof.se/~chimbis/tocb
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Subject: Re: pppd Daemon fails
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 19:54:26 GMT
"Dewayne Motte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> I have read all I can and still have not got an answer. When I try to
> connect using Kpppd dialer I keep getting an error message that says pppd
> daemon failed. Can anyone help?
We need more info to be able to help.
Can you connect as root?
What does the debug window say if you turn on logging?
M.
--
Martin Skj�ldebrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sys admin, web designer, tech writer
Hungry? Visit http://www.bahnhof.se/~chimbis/tocb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where Can I Find Pico Source Code?
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 19:58:31 GMT
Hello, Jan and blowfish!
Thanks much for replying to my email! I really appreciate it!
In article <WlI65.10510$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It was Thursday, June 29, 2000 9:04 AM that [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke the
> words:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am looking for pico source code to study how pico works. Is there
> > anyone know where I can find it? Thanks in advance!
> >
>
> pico is part of pine:
> http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/availability.html
>
> -Jan
>
> --
> Jan Schaumann
> http://www.netmeister.org
>
> Love cannot be much younger than the lust for murder.
> -- Sigmund Freud
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Dmitri V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: hardware serial numbers
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 17:05:52 +0300
Hello,
Is it somehow possible to retrieve (programmatically, of course) the
manufacturer's serial number of the hard disk or some other devices?
What I have in mind is, of course, piracy protection - if I can get the
s/n of the hard disk, I can more or less insure that the program is used
on this particular machine only.
I am sorry, that my message is not compliant to Open Source spirit, from
which Linux has grown, I really appreciate it, but there may be certain
situations when some data *must* be protected from copying...
Thanks in advance.
Yours,
Dmitri
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john doe)
Subject: Powerchute and diald
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 20:52:19 GMT
I have just installed an APC UPS on my Red Hat Linux server, and it's working
fine. This server shares my dialup internet connection to the other PCs on my
home network. However, whenever I bring up the PowerChute software, it causes
diald to connect to the internet, and seems to be polling that connection
every 3 or 4 seconds. Why? And does anyone know how to prevent this? I've
watched the ethernet activity with tcpdump, and there's no local traffic that
would cause the dialup connection to begin. If I watch the packets queue on
diald with dctrl, it shows UDP traffic updating every 3 or 4 seconds. When I
shut down xpowerchute, the udp connection begins to expire, so I'm convinced
that PowerChute is the culprit. I've gone through the various control
settings on PowerChute, and removed any reference to ttyS1 (my modem port),
and restarted the daemon, but this hasn't helped.
Anyone have a suggestion? Thanks in advance.
-Bill
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to uninstall sendmail from booting sequence!!
Date: 01 Jul 2000 12:14:05 -0800
Arun Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've installed Linux for the first time and while experimening
>I think i disturbed some settings and now it stops for a quite
>long time when it has to start sendmail services at the time of
>booting. Is there any way of removing this service from the
>boot?
Better yet would be to fix the problem that makes sendmail take
forever to start, eh?
Sendmail is trying to do a DNS lookup on whatever the hostname
is, and the timeout is something like 3-4 minutes. If you
configure /etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts correctly, it will
find things quickly.
First, run "hostname" and see what it thinks your host is named.
If what you see is not what you want, you will have to figure
out how your particular distribution sets the hostname at boot
time. Use the "grep" command in /etc/rc.d or /etc/init.d or
whatever the appropriate directory is to find where that
happens. One common way is to have a file /etc/HOSTNAME, which
has one line that is the hostname.
Once that works, make sure that there is an entry in /etc/hosts
for that name. If you have no ethernet interface you can use
either a dummy interface or the loopback interface. Then
be sure that /etc/host.conf looks like this:
order hosts bind
multi on
The significant part is that "hosts" comes before "bind", which
will cause a DNS query to be satisfied first from the /etc/hosts
file and only attempt a networked DNS server lookup if it is
not found in /etc/hosts.
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: hardware serial numbers
Date: 01 Jul 2000 17:03:06 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 01 Jul 2000 17:05:52 +0300, Dmitri V
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Is it somehow possible to retrieve (programmatically, of course) the
>manufacturer's serial number of the hard disk or some other devices?
# hdparm -i /dev/hda on my machine gives, among other stuff,
SerialNo=WD-WM6281120438
Check the hdparm source to find out exactly how they did that.
>I am sorry, that my message is not compliant to Open Source spirit, from
>which Linux has grown, I really appreciate it, but there may be certain
>situations when some data *must* be protected from copying...
"And von Neumann divided the Abstractions into 2 parts, and these parts he
called Data and Code." Assembly language on the x86 makes a sharp
distinction between data and code segments, and similar protection
mechanisms exist in other modern processors. The GPL is all about free
code, not necessarily free data, so don't worry too much there.
Although if they want to copy/pirate your stuff, they *WILL*. Not to
mention that you'll be SOL when the hard drive your code is keyed to
breaks, unless you put in an (exploitable) entry point....
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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