Linux-Misc Digest #56, Volume #25 Thu, 6 Jul 00 13:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Root can't take ownership of file (Robert Surenko)
adding SCSI tape drives to red hat installation (Myra Hager)
LS-120 Drives and Linux
Re: <newbie>Shell script? change filenames in a directory?</newbie> (Dave Brown)
Re: Does the Korn shell run on Redhat ? (Dave Brown)
Re: adding SCSI tape drives to red hat installation (Grant Edwards)
Re: PPP from ISP (Bob Hauck)
Re: Rebuilding rpm database (Praedor Tempus)
Re: ANSI Colors in a C program under Linux... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: full duplex for intel_pro_100+ NIC? (dd)
gtk-config problems, headers dont match libraries ("max barwell")
Re: Script to dial/redial ISP til connected? (John Hasler)
Re: newsreader for Linux? (Alex Fitterling)
Network Printing from an HP Jet Direct Box ("Bruce Acomb")
Re: Netscape news (Mike Frisch)
Re: fonts problem in Netscape (brian moore)
Re: LS-120 Drives and Linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: lilo and vga=... ("Samuel Irlapati")
JOIN THE INTERNET SHOPPING REVOLUTION 7175 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Easiest to install? (Jonathan Brimsfield)
Re: Clearing MBR (Rod Smith)
Re: LTWinmodem work with Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: samba + printer (Rod Smith)
Re: Clearing MBR ("Mark M.")
Re: Network down after beeping 3 times (Josef Drexler)
Re: Root can't take ownership of file ("Marc Thompson")
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From: Robert Surenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Root can't take ownership of file
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 14:22:37 GMT
Marc Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings,
> All at once, five of my RedHat Linux machines can no longer run 'make
> whatis'. The error is 'permission denied.' I, as root, cannot take
> ownership of the affected file. It's as if the system doesn't believe I'm
> root.
> The current file permisions are 644 owned by root, group root.
> The only change to the system(s) is that I pointed them to a new NIS server.
> Any ideas? Will fsck fix this?
> Thanks in advance,
> Marc Thompson
NIS and NFS both do funny things with root. Does the file actually exist
on your machine or on another?
Try 2 things, first move the file locally and see if it works, then make it
owned by another user
(or play with "worlds" permisions)
> --
> ---------------------------------------
> Marc Thompson
> BOPS, Inc.
> Austin, TX
--
=============================================================================
- Bob Surenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- http://www.fred.net/surenko/
=============================================================================
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From: Myra Hager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: adding SCSI tape drives to red hat installation
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:24:23 GMT
I need to add 2 SCSI tape drives to a red hat server. I am used to
the SCO command mkdev tape to view, change, or add scsi tape devices.
I have looked at linuxconf and mknod and neither of these seems to be
what I need. Can someone please point me in the right direction to do
this. Thanks.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LS-120 Drives and Linux
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:30:05 GMT
Please, Does anyone know how to set up a LS-120 Imation Superdisk to
work under Red Hat Linux Ver. 2.2.14-5.0? When I try to mount it, I get
the message drive doesn't exist.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: <newbie>Shell script? change filenames in a directory?</newbie>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 Jul 2000 10:33:32 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vilmos Soti wrote:
>Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> I've got a bunch of files in a directory and I need to change the case of
>>> those which begin with an uppercase 'M' to a lowercase 'm'.
>>
>> for i in M*; do mv $i $(echo $i | tr M m); done
>
>The problem is that it will change not only the initial M's but also
>any subsequent M's in the filename.
>
>Vilmos
True... so that could be fixed by changing the $() statement to:
$(echo $i | sed 's/^M/m/')
if that's really what's wanted.
But the second solution provided has another problem which "on-the-fly"
scripters should be aware of: be careful in using "ls" to create a
list of filenames. "ls" is often aliased to something, maybe to
provide colors or add the "-F" option. When that's the case, the output
of "ls" includes all the color-control characters, etc. One possibility
is something like $(\ls), where the backslash will prevent the substitution
of the alias.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Does the Korn shell run on Redhat ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 Jul 2000 10:41:47 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex wrote:
>Aron Felix Gurski wrote:
>I did a full installation Red Hat 6.1. It come with Korn
>
>/usr/bin/ksh
>
>Hope this helps.
Actually, pdksh is a subset of the Korn shell. Many features
are not implemented. If you need a real Korn shell,
David Korn has a website (www.kornshell.com) which has links
to a Lucent server from which you can download a "free, personal
use" copy of the Korn shell for Linux.
(There's also a nice html manpage for Korn shell on D.K.'s web page.)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: adding SCSI tape drives to red hat installation
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:45:41 GMT
In article <8k28ap$325$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Myra Hager wrote:
>I need to add 2 SCSI tape drives to a red hat server. I am used to
>the SCO command mkdev tape to view, change, or add scsi tape devices.
>I have looked at linuxconf and mknod and neither of these seems to be
>what I need. Can someone please point me in the right direction to do
>this. Thanks.
Set the address switches on the tape drives.
Plug them in to the SCSI controller.
Turn them on.
Boot the system.
The tape drives will be /dev/st0 and /dev/st1.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I have a TINY BOWL in
at my HEAD
visi.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: PPP from ISP
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:50:35 GMT
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 07:05:17 -0700, Marcm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I got my USR external modem working in Linux Redhat 6.0 with "minicom" and
>now I want to make a connection with my ISP and get an IP address.
>(now a bunch of cryptic characters appear here. After about 30 seconds the
>line drops and says NO CARRIER).
>QUESTION: What is the ISP expecting when I type in PPP,
PPP frames. That's what they're sending you (those cryptic
characters). But you aren't responding, as you are not running ppp on
your end, so they drop the line after a while.
>"PPP". What is expected at this point?
That you start ppp (/sbin/pppd) on your end. The easier way to do this
is to use Red Hat's ppp config tools rather than going via minicom.
Set it up to do PAP and it'll handle all the logging in and such for
you.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rebuilding rpm database
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 09:54:06 -0600
"Lonni J. Friedman" wrote:
>
> Praedor Tempus wrote:
> >
> > "Lonni J. Friedman" wrote:
> > >
> > > Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > > >
> > > > OK, in trying to fix a major problem I have been having with
> > > > rpm on my Mandrake 7.1 system, I have lost the packages.rpm
> > > > database file that lists all the packages installed on my
> > > > system.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a method for regenerating packages.rpm? I have
> > > > tried "rpm --rebuilddb" but this doesn't work. It sits
> > > > there for a while, APPARENTLY doing something, but in the
> > > > end, no database is generated/regenerated.
> > >
> > > How long is "a while"? I've seen rpm DB rebuilds take upwards of 10
> > > minutes on large systems.
> >
> > What I DO have instead of "packages.rpm" is a directory:
> >
> > /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.1676
> >
> > Within this directory are these files:
> > Basenames Group Packages Requirename
> > Conflictname Name Providename Triggername
[...]
>
> Something is very wrong on your system. I've rebuilt the rpm database
> in the past, and never had problems like these.
>
> Perhaps you could try creating a dummy database, packages.rpm, that is
> rwx, and then rebuilding again.
I don't want to hear(read) that. I have considered copying my laptop
packages.rpm file over to my desktop system - they ALMOST have all the
same rpms installed - and using that as a basis for rebuilding. Would
that work? Would there be any advantage/disadvantage to doing this vs
creating a dummy packages.rpm?
praedor
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI Colors in a C program under Linux...
Date: 6 Jul 2000 15:54:34 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: questions about color and graphics in "comp.lang.c" they send me
: elsewhere and say that it is compiler specific...??? I do not agree
They should say "OS specific". Clearly it's nothing to do with C or
C++. Just put the appropriate ansi string sequences in your fprintf
statements, or use a library (ncurses?).
Peter
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From: dd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: full duplex for intel_pro_100+ NIC?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 11:02:21 -0500
Thanks for the tip.
Mike Frisch wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:07:32 -0500, dd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >How do I set my intel_pro_100+ NIC to 10mb full duplex? (connect via
> >cross over cable)
>
> Assuming you're using the driver as a module, trying adding
> 'full_duplex=1' to your /etc/conf.modules:
>
> options eepro100 full_duplex=1
>
> I think that'll work with this driver.
>
> Mike.
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From: "max barwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: gtk-config problems, headers dont match libraries
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 04:04:42 +1200
I recently tried to install a new program, and when I ran ./configure, I
got this error
checking for gtk-config... /usr/bin/gtk-config checking for GTK - version
>= 1.2.2... *** GTK+ header files (version 1.2.7) do not match
*** library (version 1.2.8)
no configure: error: Cannot find gtk-config
I am assuming that the libraries were updated when I installed Helix
Gnome, since gtk+ and glib 1.2.8 come with it. But if so why did it not
update the headers? I am sure I have seen people with this problem before,
so hopefully someone can help. I am running Redhat 6.2, kernel 2.2.16, and
xfree 4.01.
thanks in advance Max
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Script to dial/redial ISP til connected?
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:16:28 GMT
You don't need a script. Just give pppd the option 'persist'. It will
then try ten times before giving up. If you want it to keep trying forever
you also need 'maxfail 0'.
man pppd.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Fitterling)
Subject: Re: newsreader for Linux?
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:27:48 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Fitterling wrote:
This is a Test-msg...
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From: "Bruce Acomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network Printing from an HP Jet Direct Box
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:30:35 -0500
Hello everyone,
I am running Caldera Open Linux e-Server 2.3 in a production environment, &
I am having trouble printing from network printers on a Jet-Direct box.
I've got 2 HP Laser Jets (one's a 4000N, the other a 4Plus) on one
Jet-Direct box, & 3 Okidata 390 printers on another Jet-Direct box. I've
created the printers using both COAS and the Lisa utility. No matter how I
seem to edit the /etc/printcap entry, whenever I print to any of these
printers, it only prints the last page of the document. Below are the
entries from my /etc/printcap file. FR3 is the HP LaserJet 4000, FR5 is the
HP LaserJet 4Plus (both on the same Jet-Direct box), and FR1 is one of the
Okidatas on a different Jet-Direct box. I've edited these entries many
times, and the result is the same; I only get the last page to print out.
Also, whenever I send different jobs to the same printer, the first job will
print out twice, while the second job won't print at all. I have to stop &
start the LPD daemon several times between print jobs for the 2nd job to
print out. It seems as if the first print job is cached somewhere, so that
when you print the next job, it just reprints the first job from wherever
it's cached.
fr3:\
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\
:lp=131.222.30.3%9100:\
:br#576600:\
:rm=131.222.30.200:\
:rp=text2:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/fr3:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/fr3/filter:
fr5:\
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\
:lp=131.222.30.200%9100:\
:br#57600:\
:rm=131.222.30.200:\
:rp=text1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/fr5:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/fr5/filter:
fr1:\
:lp=131.222.30.198:\
:br#57600:\
:rm=131.222.30.198:\
:rp=fr1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/fr1:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/fr1/printfilter:\
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've got a case open with Caldera tech support, but so far they haven't been
able to solve the problem. I can print to these printers without a problem
from my main Unix production server (System V - MP-RAS 3.02). As I've said
before, all I'm sending over is text. There's got to be a way for Linux to
handle this kind of problem, without resorting to 3rd party
applications/packages.
Any & all help is appreciated. I'm testing the feasibility of migrating our
main Unix server to Linux; we need to be able to print to these printers.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Bruce Acomb
Database Administrator
Newton Manufacturing Company
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 515-791-4115
Fax: 515-792-6261
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: Netscape news
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:28:34 GMT
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 21:43:32 -0500, Andrew N. McGuire
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Not necessarily. I have seen the same behaviour before, through no
>fault of my own ( afterall I am limited by the interface ). I suggest
Interesting. I've been using Netscape for news off and on for several
years now and it has never done that to me. Guess I'm just lucky :-)
>I 'cured' it. We do sadly need another browser in the Linux community,
>or at least Netscape needs a major overhaul. I hope that that the final
>release for Netscape 6 is better than the preview.
I've been using the nightly builds since M16 and things are looking
up. In fact, I am now seeing decent stability (ie. doesn't crash every
other page) and most pages render properly.
Mike.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: fonts problem in Netscape
Date: 6 Jul 2000 16:31:25 GMT
On 5 Jul 2000 17:51:12 GMT,
James Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The fonts in the Netscape browser are messed up. They are either very
> > small or don't display the correct fonts. How can I rectify this? If I
> > need to install the proper fonts, what are they and how to get them?
>
> You can also modify the netscape.ad file and add it to your .Xdefaults.
Yep, and specifically the value to change is this one:
! There are 7 font sizes, 1 thru 7. The default font is 3, and the others
! are based on this. The default increment is 20%, which means that the 4
! is 20% larger than the 3, the 5 is 40% larger, and so on.
*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 20
Adding 'Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05' to your .Xresources
(or however you want to do it) makes a HUGE difference. Someone should
slap Netscape folks around for the HUGE default increment.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: LS-120 Drives and Linux
Date: 06 Jul 2000 12:37:59 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:30:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Please, Does anyone know how to set up a LS-120 Imation Superdisk to
>work under Red Hat Linux Ver. 2.2.14-5.0? When I try to mount it, I get
>the message drive doesn't exist.
This is in the FAQ and documented on http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ . To
mount an LS-120 volume, first you need to know where the device is
attached on the IDE chain--master on controller 0 is hda, slave there is
hdb, master on controller 1 is hdc, slave there is hdd. Then put a
formatted LS-120 disk into the drive, and enter
# mkdir /mnt/ls120 (only do this once)
# mount -t vfat /dev/hdX /mnt/ls120
...presto.
--
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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From: "Samuel Irlapati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo and vga=...
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:22:05 -0400
I have had a similar problem. On booting with lilo you could give the option
'vga=794' or any other number. Except with the new test2 kernel it just does
not work. I get a blank screen and it does not seem to do anything after
that. Now I just leave it on the normal vga mode. But I would like to get a
finer resolution on boot up. Anyone with answers?
Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
> i installed the 2.4.0-test2 kernel with framebuffer support. know i want
> to change the graphic mode (on booting).
> i read the lilo-howto and help -> they say to add vga=ask to the
> lilo.conf should ask me on bootup which vga-mode to use - but it doesn't!
> so is there anybody u know what i've forgot or where to get a vga-mode-
> list to try a vga=xxx perhaps ?
> fejf
>
> --
> the backup of my harddisk only takes the half time it
> did yesterday. i started to pipe it to /dev/null
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Brimsfield)
Subject: Easiest to install?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:47:21 GMT
Hello,
Which flavor of linux (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SUSE,
Slackware, etc...) is the easiest to install? I am
looking for a standard installation that would have
clients and servers for telnet, ftp and other networking tools
plus a complete C and C++ compiler set.
Is there a flavor of Linux where one does not have to go hunting for
rpms or whatever after installation?
I just want to be able to stick a CD in the drive and choose the options
I want and get all of it installed in an automated format and just
start using it afterwards. I do not want to find incomplete
installs requiring software searches.
Is such a distribution available for linux?
Thanks,
JB
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Clearing MBR
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:58:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Benjamin Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Did you try a "fdisk /MBR" ? This should reset your MBR, I think...
Just to clarify, you issue this command from a DOS boot floppy that
contains FDISK.EXE. (A Win9x emergency floppy qualifies as a DOS boot
floppy.) Caldera's DR-DOS/OpenDOS includes this functionality as a menu
item within FDISK, and OS/2 uses FDISK /NEWMBR to do the same thing, if
you happen to have any of these OSs on floppy. If you have no DOS boot
floppies at all, check out FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org).
>> I recently attempted to install Redhat 6.2 on a WinNT box
>> and, well things didn't go exactly according to plan and I
>> ended up with a broken linux installation and no NT (there
>> wasn't anything on the machine anyway). My problem is how do
>> I reset the MBR so I can start from scratch? Lilo seems to
>> have taken up permanent residence and insists on booting
>> straight into the failed linux install. Even if I try and
>> re-install NT from floppys when I get to the first reboot
>> lilo sends me straight back into the failed linux. What can
>> I do?
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LTWinmodem work with Linux?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:47:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered in comp.os.linux.misc:
>
> >In article <8jq5ed$h64$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Has anybody ever gotten an LTWinmodem to work with Linux?
> >> (Mandrake 6-point-something). Looks like I'm SOL
> >> --
> >
Todays your lucky day. All HOWTOs are in http://www.linuxdoc.org
The one you're looking for is
www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Winmodems-and-Linux-HOWTO.html
> Would you mind posting the link?
>
> Thanks,
> Ted Schuman
>
>
--
Don't e-mail your response
Post it right here, but if you must, I'm also at
annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: samba + printer
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 17:01:29 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Maik unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi!
> i�ve installed my printer as a network-printer with samba. It works
> fine, but with every print-job there is first a sheet printed showing
> the owner of this print-job. I don�t want that!
> It must be samba who produces this first sheet.
Why do you think it's Samba that produces this first sheet? AFAIK,
there's no Samba option to create a cover sheet. This feature is
normally controlled in the /etc/printcap file, by the :sh: parameter.
Type "man printcap" and then "/header" to find the relevant manpage
entry.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Mark M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Clearing MBR
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:01:24 -0700
Yes. I have safely done "fdisk /MBR" on my NT Workstation system after
having gotten a boot virus. It didn't harm NT. However, after doing the
"fdisk /mbr" I then had to copy the "ntldr", "ntdetect.com", boot.ini, etc
back onto the hard drive using an NT boot diskette prepared on another
workstation, (I can't remember why ... it might have been because of
something else I did, but does not harm if you need to recopy them). If you
need to copy boot.ini from another machine then ensure you edit it first to
contain the correct ARC path for your boot partition and drive ID, etc.
Mark M.
MCSE
Benjamin Morin wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Did you try a "fdisk /MBR" ? This should reset your MBR, I think...
>
>>
>> I recently attempted to install Redhat 6.2 on a WinNT box
>> and, well things didn't go exactly according to plan and I
>> ended up with a broken linux installation and no NT (there
>> wasn't anything on the machine anyway). My problem is how do
>> I reset the MBR so I can start from scratch? Lilo seems to
>> have taken up permanent residence and insists on booting
>> straight into the failed linux install. Even if I try and
>> re-install NT from floppys when I get to the first reboot
>> lilo sends me straight back into the failed linux. What can
>> I do?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Jeremy.
>>
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From: Josef Drexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.admin,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Network down after beeping 3 times
Date: 6 Jul 2000 16:57:36 GMT
And Lo! It was upon the 04 Jul 2000 that S P Arif Sahari Wibowo said unto the world:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> My linux box acts strangely. Sometime - after not using it awhile and the
> screen already blacken for sometime - it suddenly beeps 3 times, and after
> that I found that the network of that box is down: I cannot establish any
> network connection to the machine. It will stay that way until I touch the
> keyboard: it gives a beep, the screen came up, and the network came up
> also.
I have exactly the same problem. Please tell me when (if) you find a
solution.
It definitely is the power management; when I run apmd, I get a log entry
about "Event 0x0002: System Suspend Request" just before the system goes
away.
I've disabled all the power management features in the BIOS as far as I can
tell (it's a rather old system: P200, QDI board, Award BIOS), but it didn't
have much effect. I've definitely disabled "suspend mode", though, by
setting it to "disabled". I'm not sure why it's still happening.
> The apmd module is shut down, so I don't think that is the cause. Any idea
> what is the cause of this?
Not loading apmd will still make it possible for the BIOS to put the
computer in suspend mode. With apmd you're supposed to have slightly more
control. At least with kernel 2.2.15 there supposedly is an option to
prevent the system going in suspend mode in the apmd_proxy file, but that
doesn't seem to work either.
Any other suggestions would be very welcome.
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From: "Marc Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Root can't take ownership of file
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:01:02 -0500
Robert,
Thanks for your reply. The file does exist and it is exported from a server
under which I have control. At the source machine, I am unable to chmod the
file and unable to chown the file to root. However, you're reply is right
on the money.
I recently changed the no_root_squash option so that my export server
doesn't respect the root account of other machines. Good security, but it
makes it impossible for my cron jobs on the other machine to run 'make
whatis,' which is the file they don't own.
Thanks for your on-the-money answer,
Marc Thompson
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Marc Thompson
Network Administrator
BOPS, Inc.
Austin, TX
Robert Surenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:NC095.239$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Marc Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Greetings,
>
> > All at once, five of my RedHat Linux machines can no longer run 'make
> > whatis'. The error is 'permission denied.' I, as root, cannot take
> > ownership of the affected file. It's as if the system doesn't believe
I'm
> > root.
>
> > The current file permisions are 644 owned by root, group root.
>
> > The only change to the system(s) is that I pointed them to a new NIS
server.
>
> > Any ideas? Will fsck fix this?
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Marc Thompson
>
> NIS and NFS both do funny things with root. Does the file actually exist
> on your machine or on another?
>
> Try 2 things, first move the file locally and see if it works, then make
it
> owned by another user
> (or play with "worlds" permisions)
>
> > --
> > ---------------------------------------
> > Marc Thompson
> > BOPS, Inc.
> > Austin, TX
>
>
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> - Bob Surenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> - http://www.fred.net/surenko/
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