Linux-Misc Digest #26, Volume #25 Sun, 2 Jul 00 19:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: newsreader for Linux? (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Re: Compare Win 2000 to Linux Red Hat 6.1 in temperature (Richard Steiner)
Re: newsreader for Linux? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: dial up ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Nice utility to write bootdisks in Windows 9x/NT4/2000 (nobody)
Re: Wrong major/minor number ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: NFS delay problem. (Charles H. Chapman)
Re: Mail and Web server - Any Distributions more secure than others? (Alex Lam)
linux programming doubt (Felipe de Alvarenga Leite)
Re: Student learning Java ("1$worth")
Re: hdparm kills filesystem (David Efflandt)
Re: Start boot service as different user? (David Efflandt)
Re: dial up ("David ..")
Windows Media Player for Linux??? (Dennis)
Re: Website hosting (David Efflandt)
Printer driver ("Todd Lasman")
Re: Windows Media Player for Linux??? (Erik de Castro Lopo)
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (David Efflandt)
'sendmail' is hanging on bootup.... (Hendrix)
Re: Wrong major/minor number (Steve Emmett)
Re: 'sendmail' is hanging on bootup.... (Michael Nadler)
Re: Wrong major/minor number (Steve Emmett)
Re: linux programming doubt (Bjoern Frantzen)
Re: 'sendmail' is hanging on bootup.... (Bob Martin)
Re: 'sendmail' is hanging on bootup.... (Akira Yamanita)
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (Cliff Pennock)
Re: Windows Media Player for Linux??? ("David ..")
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Subject: Re: newsreader for Linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 20:14:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Is there a newsreader available for Linux? I get the news files via UUCP
> would like to read them in Linux instead of DOS. Thanks.
>
> Regards...John
Gnus(in XEmacs) and Leafnode.
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] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,tw.bbs.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Compare Win 2000 to Linux Red Hat 6.1 in temperature
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 15:07:22 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Heriberto Babilonia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>Unless you are using FrameMaker or Corel Office for Linux I don't see the
>"real" use for this OS... at least for the time being. There are no
>"real" software packages for Linux, other than those two I mentioned,
>and to be sincere I don't see the need for a new OS
StarOffice is certainly a real application suite (I've used it on my
OS/2 setup for over three years, and my employer is using it now on the
Solaris workstations), and there are a number of other Linux packages
that are quite capable.
Linux is hardly limited to desktop use, however. I use it here as my
firewall OS on an otherwise nearly-useless 486 box, and I also use it
as a file server OS (sharing drives via nfsd and Samba). Windows 2000
would be worthless in the former instance (it likely wouldn't even boot
on a 20MB 486), and would be vastly overpriced in the second.
>All in all, I would not switch from W2K.
Nor would we expect you to, at least if W2K is managing to provide a
working solution for you.
That said, however, I suspect that many of us who use Linux have vastly
different priorities and requirements than you do.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
The Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: newsreader for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 20:38:28 GMT
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 12:42:13 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a newsreader available for Linux? I get the news files via
>UUCP would like to read them in Linux instead of DOS. Thanks.
slrn here.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dial up
Date: 2 Jul 2000 16:55:31 -0400
Dr. Darren M. Crotchett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using Mandrake 7.1. I'm having trouble communicating outside of my home
> network. Using kppp, I can connect to my ISP without a problem. I stay
> connected until my ISP finally disconnects me (about 20 min). My problem
> comes when I try to view web pages. My browser can't find them. I tried
> telnet and ping. Neither one works.
It sounds like you haven't got the DNS IP addresses set correctly. Check
with your ISP for what they are.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (nobody)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Nice utility to write bootdisks in Windows 9x/NT4/2000
Date: 2 Jul 2000 20:55:33 GMT
Hi all,
I just would like to let you know I found I nice utility to write bootdisks
in Windows 9x/NT4/2000. It's called 'Diskwriter' and can be
found at:
http://www.daansystems.com (at Free stuff).
N. Obody
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Wrong major/minor number
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 16:57:03 -0400
> when I execute
>
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> i received the error
>
> mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number.
>
> I'm assuming I've munged the floppy device and have to use MAKEDEV to
> reconstruct it. The question is how do I go about doing just that?
rm /dev/fd0
MAKEDEV fd0
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From: Charles H. Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS delay problem.
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 17:01:31 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jacek M. Holeczek wrote:
> Quite often one edits a file on the server, saves changes, and then
> compiles the source on another machine. The "make" often fails to see that
> the source code file was changes. Usually it takes up to some 20 seconds
> for the machine that mounts the filesystem with the source code file to
> notice that it was changed (I can do "head my.file" and see that for a
> quite long time the contents is not "updated", while directly on the
> server it is).
>From "man nfs":
noac Disable all forms of attribute caching
entirely. This extracts a server perfor-
mance penalty but it allows two different
NFS clients to get reasonable good results
when both clients are actively writing to
common filesystem on the server.
Chuck
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From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mail and Web server - Any Distributions more secure than others?
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 14:24:26 -0700
Ashley Heath wrote:
>
> Are any Linux distributions more secure than others or better suited for use
> and Web and Mail servers?
> So far I have looked at Suse and Redhat, but any recommendations welcome.
>
> TIA,
> Ash
Either FreeBSD or SuSE. (Especially if you want SMP, both have
excellent SMP and hardware supports than most others. And
installation for both are a breeze. A brain-dead, boring
event.)
Alex Lam.
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From: Felipe de Alvarenga Leite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux programming doubt
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 18:27:17 -0300
Hi ppl
I need to know how i can find the name of a file if all i have is the
inode of that file... Im trying to do a lseek, but i dont have the file
descriptor, only the inode...
Please reply directly to my email address...
Thanx!
Felipe
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From: "1$worth" <"1$worth"@costreduction.plseremove.screaming.net>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: Student learning Java
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 22:35:12 +0100
I'd also recommend JBuilder 3x but make sure that you have at least
128mb otherwise things get painful.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: hdparm kills filesystem
Date: 2 Jul 2000 21:39:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 16:56:33 +0100, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I ran "hdparm -c3 -m16 /dev/hda", and the harddrive worked fine, in fact
>it even worked faster. However, when I rebooted, I got the error message
>
>EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,6)):ext_check_descriptors: Inode table for
>group 0 not in group (block 131072)!
>EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
>Invalid session number or type of track
>Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
>
>I am now unable to use linux, even from the rescue disk. Is there any
>way to get my filesystem back?
Its hard to tell if this is a cause or coincidence with some other major
drive problem. What kind of drive is it and were you within its
MaxMultSect limit? The hdparm manpages do give a bold warning in the
section about the -m option, and under BUGS?
I have used hdparm -c1 -m8 for years on WD Caviar drives without any
problem. I did have a Maxtor that trashed itself within a week and a WD
Caviar that I didn't notice had bad sectors until it was 3/4 full, but
those were mechanical problems and were running Windows at the time.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Start boot service as different user?
Date: 2 Jul 2000 21:46:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 16:47:55 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an Oracle database that needs to be started as the
>user 'oracle'. How can I make this happen at boot time? I know how to
>make a process run at boot time, I just need to know how to make it run
>as a different user. Thanks.
man su
However, I have not figured out how to get su to inherit the user's
environment AND run a program. So I change to their home dir, set their
normal PATH and then run the program as them:
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/efflandt
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/efflandt/bin
/bin/su -c /usr/bin/vncserver efflandt
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dial up
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 16:33:31 -0500
"Dr. Darren M. Crotchett" wrote:
>
> I'm using Mandrake 7.1. I'm having trouble communicating outside of my home
> network. Using kppp, I can connect to my ISP without a problem. I stay
> connected until my ISP finally disconnects me (about 20 min). My problem
> comes when I try to view web pages. My browser can't find them. I tried
> telnet and ping. Neither one works. However, I can telnet and ping my own
> network. I am using a resolv.conf file that is a copy from another distro
> who's dial up works. What could I be overlooking?
>
> Darren
Try this to see if it works.
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Then try to connect and see if you can browse.
If it doesn't work then you can change the 1 to 0 and re-run command to
turn it off. Or wait til the next reboot which will not load it unless
you do one of the steps shown below.
If it works then add that line to the end of /rc.local and you won't
have to re-enter it after each boot of the system. If your system uses
/etc/sysctl.conf then you need to add the lines below to it instead of
/rc.local
# 0 Disables, 1 Enables, packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
You might also use "netcfg" to be sure your network and gateway are
configured.
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Windows Media Player for Linux???
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:54:35 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Many of the internet radio stations I listen to us MS, so I went to the
MS site to see if they have a UNIX/Linux client. Heck, I couldn't find
Media Player anywhere - maybe they changed the name. Does anyone know
if there is a version for Linux, or a program that will read the Media
Player's data stream? Seems that these internet radio stations don't
want to do Linux.
Dennis,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Website hosting
Date: 2 Jul 2000 22:00:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 02 Jul 2000 10:45:43 EDT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 09:20:40 -0500, Steve
><<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>>Looking for a book or source on how to put up a website where
>>multi-users can have their own website ie: www.xxx.com/~user, where they
>>can upload to their allocated space and CHROOT to their directory only.
>
>Read the documentation for Apache, paying particular attention to the
>UserDir option in the configuration file. If that's set as "html", then
>anyone requesting http://blah.com/~me will get directed to /home/me/html/
>.
>
>For the chroot behavior you desire, put the usernames in the
>file /etc/ftpchroot (check docs on your FTP daemon; this is correct for
>in.ftpd but may not be for others.)
>
>You'll want to turn on disk quotas too.
I am on 2 systems that do that. They chroot ftp, refuse telnet access,
yet I can see anything on the system I have permission to see from CGI.
Although, CGI runs as the user, so it is easy to hide any CGI related
scripts (chmod 700) or data (chmod 600) from prying eyes.
If he wants everything chroot including telnet and cgi running on the
webserver, it is a bit more complicated than that. Basically all
necessary binaries and libs have to be duplicated or linked to the users
home dir. I wouldn't want to be on such a system because I help people,
and you cannot help other users if you cannot see anything, even if they
want you to.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: "Todd Lasman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer driver
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 15:03:32 -0700
Anyone know where I can find a Linux driver for my Epson Stylus Photo 700?
Nothing on the Epson site for this.
Thanks.
Todd
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows Media Player for Linux???
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 22:11:54 +0000
Dennis wrote:
>
> Many of the internet radio stations I listen to us MS, so I went to the
> MS site to see if they have a UNIX/Linux client. Heck, I couldn't find
> Media Player anywhere - maybe they changed the name. Does anyone know
> if there is a version for Linux, or a program that will read the Media
> Player's data stream?
No, but I'm working on it :-).
Erik
--
+-------------------------------------------------+
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+-------------------------------------------------+
"We reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough
consensus and running code." -- Dave Clark (IETF 1992)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Date: 2 Jul 2000 22:34:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Cliff Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've posted this on other newsgroups before, but nobody seems to be able
>to answer my question so I'll try in this newsgroup too...
>
>Hardware: Celeron500, 128 Mb Samsung 15.3Gb UDMA mode4 HDD, SiS5513 IDE
> controller.
>Kernel : 2.2.16, patched with ide-2.2.16.20000630
>BIOS : Detects the harddisk as PIO4 and UDMA4
>hdparm : 3.9-1, params: -d1 -m16 -c1 -A1 (even tried -X66)
> (for some reason, after installing 3.9-1 my hdparm
> manpages were gone)
>
>Enabled SiS5513 support in the kernel, including CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO
>(yes, and even recompiled and installed the new kernel :) ).
>
>hdparm -t /dev/hda gives me on average 8Mb/s (slow!)
>hdparm -T /dev/hda gives me on average 17Mb/s (waaaaaaay to slow!)
Are you sure that nothing else (like KDE) is accessing your hard drive? I
don't know what your particular drive is capable of, but I would expect
it to fall between these ranges:
P100 box running AMD K6-2/400 66 MHz bus, WD Caviar 2.1GB, hdparm -c1 -m8:
/dev/hdc:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 4.82 seconds =26.56 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 12.78 seconds = 5.01 MB/sec
PIII 500 laptop w/100 MHz bus, IBM DARA 9GB, no hdparm settings:
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.92 seconds =139.13 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.18 seconds =12.36 MB/sec
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: 'sendmail' is hanging on bootup....
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 19:56:57 -0230
Hi guys,
I read a message awhile ago about 'sendmail' hanging at system
bootup... Someone posted a solution, but I've forgotton what it was...
Anyone having this problem now?
I don't think I made any changes to the system at all... One minute it
was working fine, the next 'sendmail' would hang for 2-3 minutes when I
bootup...
Sincerely,
--
Trevor Penney,
A+, Network+ Certified
======================
"That's alright, I still got my guitar"...
-James Marshall Hendrix (11/27/1942-09/18/1970)
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From: Steve Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Wrong major/minor number
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:40:27 -0500
Andrew
Sorry, but thats it?!
Thanks
"Andrew E. Schulman" wrote:
> > when I execute
> >
> > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> >
> > i received the error
> >
> > mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number.
> >
> > I'm assuming I've munged the floppy device and have to use MAKEDEV to
> > reconstruct it. The question is how do I go about doing just that?
>
> rm /dev/fd0
> MAKEDEV fd0
--
Steve
=========================================
Steve Emmett
=========================================
"A mind that is stretched to a new idea
never returns to its original dimension"
=========================================
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From: Michael Nadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 'sendmail' is hanging on bootup....
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 15:44:59 -0700
I think sendmail hangs because your network interface is down. Its
requests have to time out before the boot up can continue. I would like
to know the "solution" however.
Hendrix wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I read a message awhile ago about 'sendmail' hanging at system
> bootup... Someone posted a solution, but I've forgotton what it was...
> Anyone having this problem now?
>
> I don't think I made any changes to the system at all... One minute it
> was working fine, the next 'sendmail' would hang for 2-3 minutes when I
> bootup...
>
> Sincerely,
> --
> Trevor Penney,
> A+, Network+ Certified
> ----------------------
> "That's alright, I still got my guitar"...
> -James Marshall Hendrix (11/27/1942-09/18/1970)
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From: Steve Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Wrong major/minor number
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:52:44 -0500
Andrew
Just tried it and am still getting the major/minor number error.
If you have any trouble shooting suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing.
Thanks
"Andrew E. Schulman" wrote:
> > when I execute
> >
> > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> >
> > i received the error
> >
> > mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number.
> >
> > I'm assuming I've munged the floppy device and have to use MAKEDEV to
> > reconstruct it. The question is how do I go about doing just that?
>
> rm /dev/fd0
> MAKEDEV fd0
--
Steve
=========================================
Steve Emmett
=========================================
"A mind that is stretched to a new idea
never returns to its original dimension"
=========================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bjoern Frantzen)
Subject: Re: linux programming doubt
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 00:55:19 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Felipe de Alvarenga Leite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need to know how i can find the name of a file if all i have is the
>inode of that file... Im trying to do a lseek, but i dont have the file
>descriptor, only the inode...
As far as I know, there is no way to do what you want without traversing the
whole filesystem. And if it was possible, which of the many filenames should
be returned to you in the case of hardlinks?
--
Bj�rn Frantzen
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 'sendmail' is hanging on bootup....
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 22:59:03 +0000
Hendrix wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I read a message awhile ago about 'sendmail' hanging at system
> bootup... Someone posted a solution, but I've forgotton what it was...
> Anyone having this problem now?
>
> I don't think I made any changes to the system at all... One minute it
> was working fine, the next 'sendmail' would hang for 2-3 minutes when I
> bootup...
>
> Sincerely,
sendmail is trying to resolve your hostname at startup. Put a fully
qualified domaine name for your host in /etc/hosts file, that's like
yourhost.yourdomaine. Also the domaine name can be assigned in the
sendmail.cf configuration file. Of course if you don't really need
sendmail running you can just turn it off.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 'sendmail' is hanging on bootup....
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 22:56:59 GMT
Michael Nadler wrote:
>
> I think sendmail hangs because your network interface is down. Its
> requests have to time out before the boot up can continue. I would like
> to know the "solution" however.
Sendmail tries to resolve the hostname and waits until it times
out. Add your hostname to /etc/hosts and make sure that "hosts"
is first in /etc/hosts.conf like this: "order hosts, bind"
If your hostname is "somehost.fakedomain" then /etc/hosts should
have:
127.0.0.1 somehost.fakedomain somehost localhost
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From: Cliff Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 01:04:22 +0200
David Efflandt wrote:
>
> Are you sure that nothing else (like KDE) is accessing your hard drive? I
> don't know what your particular drive is capable of, but I would expect
> it to fall between these ranges:
>
> P100 box running AMD K6-2/400 66 MHz bus, WD Caviar 2.1GB, hdparm -c1 -m8:
> /dev/hdc:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 4.82 seconds =26.56 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 12.78 seconds = 5.01 MB/sec
>
> PIII 500 laptop w/100 MHz bus, IBM DARA 9GB, no hdparm settings:
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.92 seconds =139.13 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.18 seconds =12.36 MB/sec
No, nothing else is accessing the harddisk (X is not running). I've got
another system, a C550 with a PIIX4 controller and a Quantum 13Gb
harddisk and I get 120Mb/s and 22Mb/s.
This is the output of hdparm -iv /dev/hda:
/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 1861/255/63, sectors = 29897280, start = 0
Model=SAMSUNG SV1533D, FwRev=ML100-45, SerialNo=0189J1FN149870
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=34902, SectSize=554, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=472kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=29897280
IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
This is part of my /var/log/messages:
kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
kernel: ide: Assuming 66MHz system bus speed for PIO modes
kernel: SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
kernel: SIS5513: chipset revision 208
kernel: SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
kernel: SiS620
kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio,
hdb:pio
kernel: hda: SAMSUNG SV1533D, ATA DISK drive
kernel: hdb: GCD-R580B, ATAPI CDROM drive
kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
kernel: hda: SAMSUNG SV1533D, 14598MB w/472kB Cache, CHS=1861/255/63,
UDMA(33)
kernel: hdb: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.09
kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
- Cliff
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows Media Player for Linux???
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:49:24 -0500
Dennis wrote:
>
> Many of the internet radio stations I listen to us MS, so I went to the
> MS site to see if they have a UNIX/Linux client. Heck, I couldn't find
> Media Player anywhere - maybe they changed the name. Does anyone know
> if there is a version for Linux, or a program that will read the Media
> Player's data stream? Seems that these internet radio stations don't
> want to do Linux.
Could you use Real Player instead??
Media player may be bundled with windoz or IE.
Real player use to work the same as media player but knowing M$......
well you know the rest of story.
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