Linux-Misc Digest #30, Volume #25 Mon, 3 Jul 00 07:13:02 EDT
Contents:
uid ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: no fat32 in RH6.2 ?! (Matthew Matchura)
Re: uid (Akira Yamanita)
Re: Help:Problem Installing RH6.2 from Harddisk (Dex)
1-floppy distrib with ntfs support ? (Ashitaka)
Re: Setting the Password Length (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: hardware questions (brian moore)
specific put command ("kana_krishna")
what is this failure? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: no fat32 in RH6.2 ?! (Doc Shipley)
Re: kppp amd redhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Windows Media Player for Linux??? (Erik de Castro Lopo)
Re: -Patition table damage - (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
s.n.a.f.u. 1b-i (Uncle)
Re: Gnome vs KDE (Thomas Skogestad)
Re: -Patition table damage - (Rick Matthews)
Re: Gnome vs KDE (Thomas Skogestad)
Re: floppy in DOS format ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What is foobar, or foo bar, or whatever...?? ("Main News")
repeat over several lines (Ian Mortimer)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: uid
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 08:01:26 GMT
Hi,
I'm trying to untar a file.
I'm getting error messages like: Cannot chown to uid 200 gid 100:
Operation not permitted
how can I solve this issue?
thank you
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Before you buy.
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From: Matthew Matchura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: no fat32 in RH6.2 ?!
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 01:13:46 -0700
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to mount my Win98 partitions in RedHat6.2 and, to my
> biggest surprise, I was told that the kernel does not support fat32.
> (Mandrake7.0, that I used before, supported it). What should I do?
>
> Thanks
>
> WRoot
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Sounds like maybe support for the 'vfat' partition type might not be
compiled into your kernel. I am running RH 6.2 here, and it was built
in at install. Also, fat32 is NOT a valid partition type on Redhat (at
least no RedHat dist I have ever used), but instead is called vfat .
The last time I used a Mandrake distribution was 6.0 and I recall it
being named the same, though they may have aliased it to another.
Try entering "mount -t vfat /dev/hd** /[your mount point here]".
Replace the ** with your device, of course, and see if that solves it.
--
Matt M
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi,
<p>I was trying to mount my Win98 partitions in RedHat6.2 and, to my
<br>biggest surprise, I was told that the kernel does not support fat32.
<br>(Mandrake7.0, that I used before, supported it). What should I do?
<p>Thanks
<p>WRoot
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<br>Before you buy.</blockquote>
Sounds like maybe support for the 'vfat' partition type
might not be compiled into your kernel. I am running RH 6.2
here, and it was built in at install. Also, fat32 is NOT a valid
partition type on Redhat (at least no RedHat dist I have ever used), but
instead is called vfat .
<br> The last time I used a Mandrake distribution was
6.0 and I recall it being named the same, though they may have aliased
it to another.
<br> Try entering "mount -t vfat /dev/hd** /[your mount
point here]". Replace the ** with your device, of course, and see
if that solves it.
<pre>--
Matt M
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uid
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 08:19:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm trying to untar a file.
> I'm getting error messages like: Cannot chown to uid 200 gid 100:
> Operation not permitted
Do "ls -l filename.tar" replacing filename.tar with the proper
filename of course. It will probably show "200 100" where the
user ID and group ID should be.
Do "chown user.group filename.tar" so you set it to whatever
user and group you belong to. You probably need to be root
to do that. If you want to extract it as a regular user,
just use the user ID and group ID of the user you want to
use to extract the file.
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From: Dex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help:Problem Installing RH6.2 from Harddisk
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 04:27:00 -0400
Homer Jay wrote:
> > I spend much time downloading the entire
> > RPMS and base directory of RedHat6.2.
> > I am sure the directory structure is correct
> > as what RedHat demands. The boot disk
> > does work, and I encountered the problem
> > when the setup program was gonna reading
> > the package informations, it got a signal 11
> > and aborted. It does not give any more
> > information. I would like to know what
> > can this problem be caused by.
>
> The sig11 can indicate bad ram or, far less often, a bad motherboard.
> You can download memtest86 to thoroughly test your RAM. If it is good
> then something else is happening. If the motherboard is bad I would
> guess you'd get other problems as well and I hear that this is very
> rarely the cause anyway. I suggest two things:
> 1) Verify all the files are the correct size. FTP was not designed
> to download multiple files. Strangely, we _all_ use it for that
> anyway. (You'd think we'd have come up with a better way, but nooooo.)
> 2) Check you ram with memtest86.
> You will want to write a shell script or download a utiltiy to check
> the file sizes for you. Doing this yourself would just take way too
> long. You might also try turning off your cache memory. I.e., from
> GCC-HOWTO:
>
> In short, it's the pickiest RAM tester
> commonly available. If you can't duplicate the bug --- if it doesn't
> stop in the same place when you restart the compilation --- it's
> almost certainly a problem with your hardware (CPU, memory,
> motherboard or cache).
>
> You could try pulling some of your memory to see if it works then,
> but the memtest86 should detect any problems and make that unecessary
> (unless a prolem _is_ found). You might try checking redhat's
> bugzilla archive. I located a problem with installation that way
> once. I hope it works out for you.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Aren't there better answers to these questions? Many users have installed
other OS's w/o a bad ram problem. I know those systems are kluding, but to
tell someone that the OS isn't smart enough to come up with a workaround
ins't a very good solution to his problem.
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From: Ashitaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 1-floppy distrib with ntfs support ?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 10:34:30 +0200
I'm looking for a one-floppy distrib with ide hd support and also
ntfs format support. Any suggestions ?
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting the Password Length
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 08:39:50 GMT
Robert Love wrote:
[snip]
You heard about the practical joker who responded to "Password" with
"penis".
The computer responded "Sorry, password too short."
Have fun... that's the main reason for using Linux.
> --
> =============================================================
> | Support Signature Minimalism |
> =============================================================
--
******* Stanislaw ********
Monolog - one person talking to himself,
dialog - two people talking to themselves.
-Shaike Ofir-
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: hardware questions
Date: 3 Jul 2000 08:43:27 GMT
On 2 Jul 2000 19:14:07 -0600,
Ben Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am presently designing a relatively high end Linux system, and I have some
> questions about various hardware support.
>
> Most of my hardware I have used before and know it's supported, but some I
> have not been able to find if it's supported or not.
>
> I am leaning toward a Asus K7V Athlon motherboard which has support for
> UDMA 66. Is UDMA 66 support in 2.2 kernels, or do I need to use a 2.4
> pre release kernel? I would like to use the full capabilities of my
> UDMA 66 drives.
2.2 kernels support UDMA66.
> I also see that UDMA 100 is out now. Does Linux support or have plans to
> support this? The only motherboards I have seen so far that have UDMA 100
Linux supported UDMA 100 the day the spec was announced.
> are Abit. I have never used any Abit boards. What is the quality of Abit
> boards?
Dunno, I prefer ASUS. Abit certainly isn't a bad brand: lots of the
usual Linux hardware vendors have systems with Abit boards.... of
course, then you'll have to find UDMA-100 drives...
> I would like to use a newer Soundblaster card, either a PCI 512 or
> Soundblaster Live!. Neither Soundblaster's site nor opensound.com says
> there is currently support for either of these cards. Has anybody been
> able to use either of these cards under Linux successfully?
I use a PCI128, which works fine with ALSA.
> I am planning to buy a Matrox G400 video adapter. This comes in single and
> dual head models. With the dual head, 2 monitors can be used in a split
> screen fashion. I really don't have a need for this, but am curious if
> XFree86 supports or plans to support this?
Singleheaded, the G400 is very well supported. XF86 4.0 will do dual
head support, but since it also breaks things like DGA (they changed how
DGA worked between 3.x and 4.0, and until my games support the new
method, I see no reason to change), I haven't looked to see if that
support is ready yet.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: "kana_krishna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: specific put command
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:44:05 +0800
How do I use the put or mput command to transfer files that have been
updated for certain date or few days back .
Example , if I want to randomly put a few files or a folder and only update
certain files that have recently been updated like 1or 2 days before .
Please help , thanks .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: what is this failure?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 08:49:09 GMT
On start-up (RedHat6.2) I get:
modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/opl3.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/opl3.o failed
What is opl3 anyway and how can I fix it?
Thanks
Wroot
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: no fat32 in RH6.2 ?!
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 09:15:28 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to mount my Win98 partitions in RedHat6.2 and, to my
> biggest surprise, I was told that the kernel does not support fat32.
> (Mandrake7.0, that I used before, supported it). What should I do?
Try vfat instead.
--
Doc Shipley
Network Stuff
Austin, Earth
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: kppp amd redhat
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 09:22:48 GMT
The message connecting to 0:0 sounds like an X-server problem not kppp.
As a temp fix try typing
xhost + localhost
and then on the next line typing kppp.
If this fixes the problem you could add that line to your login script
(.login or .bashrc or whatever shell you use) but it's better to try
and mess around with your .Xauthority file (not editable by hand).
There's tonnes of back-postings in in deja.com about this.
In article <8jlsmh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, I just installed RH6.2 update-2 on my machine (KDE option
with GUI
> intallation) and the first thing I've noticed is thakppp can only be
run by
> root.When I try to run kppp as a user it compalins that the server
refuses
> to connect to 0:0 or something to that effect. As far as I can see
there is
> no permissions problem kppp is 777.
> Does anyone know how to fix that?
>
> Thanks,
> -----
> Ramin Sina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.concentric.net/~rsina
> The state of education in this country would have been
> in much better shape had we emphasized less prayers in
> schools and taught more mathematics in churches and synagogues.
>
>
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows Media Player for Linux???
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 09:33:06 +0000
Richard Steiner wrote:
>
> Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> spake unto us, saying:
>
> >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.
>
> I thought Microsoft had gone so far as to patent the data format and
> actively discourage other developers from writing compatible software.
This patent does not protect the format outside of the US.
Erik
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+-------------------------------------------------+
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Peter F. Curran : Microsoft. Still delivering a text editor with
Win95/98 that can only open a max 64K file, despite being on
a machine with an 8Gig HD and 64M of ram....
G Cook: Perhaps, but Notepad is still the most functional program
in the whole suite!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: -Patition table damage -
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 09:58:47 GMT
"Lotto Alessandro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>(
>I have already write at this newsgroup for the same problem:
>--VFS: Unable to mount root-- Help!
>but i think that the damage at the partition table is fundamental.
>)
>
>I have used from win95 the utility "esplore2fs" to view the ext2
>filesystem (hda3).
>When I tried to copy a large file (18Mb) from linux in win95 with
>explore2fs i had a system crash
>due to insufficient space in /dev/hda1 (explore2fs work very well, all this
>is my fault)
>
>I have do great damage at the partition table.
>
>fdisk says:
>- all the partition has different physical/logical endings:
>- all the partition does not end on cylinder boundary
>- partition1 overap partition2, partition3, partition4
>- total allocated sector 1952874772 greater than the maximun 4124736
>- etc etc .....
>
>I can boot in win95 but i can't boot in my linux partition.
>
>My computer has:
>- 2G
>- 32Mb
>- AMD 166
>- Win95 (1G)
>- Linux RedHat 6.1 (1G)
>
>My computer has 4 partitions:
>- /dev/hda1 Win95, FAT32 (O.S. partition)
>- /dev/hda2 Win95, FAT32
>- /dev/hda3 Linux Native
>- /dev/hda4 Linux Swap
>
>
>For recover the partition table ?!?
>Thank'you.
You can get Findpart at http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm
do in a Windows DOS box:
findpart all +fat fp.txt
and post the content of fp.txt in a follow-up to this message.
It can be a BIOS setting problem, but it might be better not to touch
anything until the nature of the problem is known.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Uncle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: s.n.a.f.u. 1b-i
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 10:18:02 GMT
Hi everyone.
I'm working on a sysadmin utility
called s.n.a.f.u. (stands for Slippy
Network Admins ofFsck Util) and its
aimed at making the monitoring of logs,
activity, hardware activity, and system
status a little easier for folks doing
a lot of their admining on the cmdline,
not in X.
It also provides quick(er) access
to system confs for editing and system
logs for viewing. And there are few
extra misc scripts in there as well.
I'm a looking for folks to giveit a
try and maybe some feed back as well.
Anyone interested in it can swing by:
http://www.geekcave.net
s.n.a.f.u. is an open source project
and developer input is welcomed
thankfully. Comments, suggestion,
code, flames, etc. can be emailed to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Uncle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.geekcave.net
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From: Thomas Skogestad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Gnome vs KDE
Date: 03 Jul 2000 12:18:42 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* The Darkener
| I wouldn't limit yourself to those 2. Try Blackbox. Try Enlightenment.
| Try Afterstep, IceWM, and Windowmaker.
These are window managers. The original poster was asking about desktop
environments, of which KDE uses KWM as a default, but can be used with
some others. The KDE FAQ claims that it works with Blackbox and Window
Maker. http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/kdefaq-9.html#ss9.4
And Gnome I think uses Enlightment.
See the KDE FAQ:
2.4 Is KDE a window manager?
No, KDE is not a window manager. While KDE includes a very sophisticated
window manager called KWM, KDE is much more than that--it is a full-blown
Integrated Desktop Environment (IDE).
KDE provides a complete desktop environment, including a file manager, a
window manager, a help system, a configuration system, uncountable tools
and utilities, and an ever increasing number of applications, including
but not limited to mail and news clients, drawing programs, a PostScript
and a DVI viewer and so forth.
http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/kdefaq-2.html#ss2.4
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Subject: Re: -Patition table damage -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Matthews)
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 10:20:45 GMT
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>if you have written down the partition-boundaries on paper (which is
>a wise thing to do, although hardly anyone ever does this) you can
>restore the partitions with the use of fdisk.
'Splain how this works, please?
--
Always remember:
<http://mysite.directlink.net/matthews/smiles/started.htm>
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From: Thomas Skogestad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Gnome vs KDE
Date: 03 Jul 2000 12:27:22 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* The Darkener
| I wouldn't limit yourself to those 2. Try Blackbox. Try Enlightenment.
| Try Afterstep, IceWM, and Windowmaker.
These are window managers. The original poster was asking about desktop
environments, of which KDE uses KWM as a default, but can be used with
some others. The KDE FAQ claims that it works with Blackbox and Window
Maker. See http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/kdefaq-9.html#ss9.4
I'm not sure what would happen if you were to use KDE with some other
window manager, perhaps you'd lose some functionality, maybe the panels
and the ability to dock programs there.
I think Gnome uses Enlightment, but that might be changing. I don't use
Gnome, but I have the libraries innstalled so that I can run Gnome
programs. (This is not really a problem for the end user, but more of a
problem for devolopers: should they develop for KDE users, Gnome,
something else, not at all, stay with NT?)
See the KDE FAQ:
2.4 Is KDE a window manager?
No, KDE is not a window manager. While KDE includes a very sophisticated
window manager called KWM, KDE is much more than that--it is a full-blown
Integrated Desktop Environment (IDE).
KDE provides a complete desktop environment, including a file manager, a
window manager, a help system, a configuration system, uncountable tools
and utilities, and an ever increasing number of applications, including
but not limited to mail and news clients, drawing programs, a PostScript
and a DVI viewer and so forth.
http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/kdefaq-2.html#ss2.4
KWM allows me to press ctrl-esc and get a list of all programs I'm running
(not like top, but like good... old Windows 3.x), are there other WMs with
this ability?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: floppy in DOS format
Date: 3 Jul 2000 06:48:41 -0400
Bryan Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> mount a floppy
> I am a Windows user and am learning how to use Linux. I now need to copy
> files between my Win 98 machine and Linux machine. My only transport
> mechanism is floppy,
The /etc/fstab file has a default for the mount. Usually set for Linux
disks. If you want to mount something else, you have to specify:
1: The type of file system (and that has to be supported, either in the
kernel or with a module and hopefully the kernel is compiled to
auto-load needed modules).
2: Where to mount.
Assuming you have support for vfat (win9x) disks available and have the
directory /mnt/floppy (where you want to mount the floppy) and the disk
drive is fd0, try:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
There is a manual page on mount.
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From: "Main News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux
Subject: Re: What is foobar, or foo bar, or whatever...??
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:47:49 +0100
Hi again all Fubarians!
A new expression is starting to gain popularity here in the UK.
CUBAR
Cu*@ed up beyond all recognition!
I think it stems from the Rodger Mellie Profanasuras!
Andy
moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Joachim Feise wrote:
> >The Jargon File, aka The New Hacker's Dictionary defines it here:
> >http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foo.html
> >
> >Richard wrote:
> >>
> >> F*&%ed Up Beyond All Recovery - FUBAR
> >>
> >> Hendrix wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi foobarians,
> >> >
> >> > I've heard so many linux sites, books, and even email messages that
> >> > contain this phrase...??? What the heck is foo bar...???? The
weird
> >> > thing is that it also makes its presence in the movie "Saving Private
> >> > Ryan", but they never define the term... Hmmm..... Ha...
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > --
> >> > Trevor Penney,
> >> > A+, Network+ Certified
> >> > ----------------------
> >> > That's alright, I still got my guitar...
>
> FUBAR: Fucked Up Beyond All Repair!
>
> --
> moonie ;)
>
> Registered Linux User #175104
>
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From: Ian Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: repeat over several lines
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:07:28 +0000
Hi all,
how do I repeat a command over several lines in vi ?
eg. I want to insert a <li> tag at the beginning of 110 lines without
resorting to .j.j.j.j. etc.
Rgds,
Ian.
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